One thing I've learned from many fps games. You can have all these great ideas ideas and stats down on paper, but in the end, how these ideas and stats translate on the actual battlefield is an entirely different story.

Those KDR whores will try and exploit whatever setup they can get away with and the truth of whether or not what was implemented was severely overpowered. The KDR whores will reveal the truth of it all.

I mean the term differently, though. A scrub is a player who is handicapped by self-imposed rules that the game knows nothing about. A scrub does not play to win.
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The scrub would take great issue with this statement for he usually believes that he is playing to win, but he is bound up by an intricate construct of fictitious rules that prevents him from ever truly competing. These made-up rules vary from game to game, of course, but their character remains constant.

The CPM held a discussion with both Remnant and Wolfman yesterday -- there's still a lot of discussion around this point so nothing's confirmed at all. The CPM in fact argued against removing sidearms from scouts - as they believe with the introduction of cloaking - it would be a healthy complement to be able to equip both Nova Knives and another weapon.

Just make a new scout with a new skin that doesn't have a side arm, call it a saboteur or something.

Problem solved.

The CPM held a discussion with both Remnant and Wolfman yesterday -- there's still a lot of discussion around this point so nothing's confirmed at all. The CPM in fact argued against removing sidearms from scouts - as they believe with the introduction of cloaking - it would be a healthy complement to be able to equip both Nova Knives and another weapon.

I don't think that the above thinking is broken at all.
A quick recap ...

Scouts were guilty of bullet weaving (taking advantage of bad hit detection) in Chrome.
For this sin, we paid steep price. Every aspect of our suit was nerfed. Seriously. Every aspect.

The left side of the equation was addressed:
Hit detection's fixed. Aim assist is on. Bullet weaving is gone. Speed tanking is dead.

The right side of the equation -- however -- remains unaddressed:
So Scouts have waited 8 builds for nerf reversal / reduction (a.k.a. Dev Hugs) which has yet to come.

Dev Hugs could've been another Hi Slot for Gallente or Lo Slot for Minmatar.
Dev Hugs could've been a huge boost to mobility, speed and stamina.
Dev Hugs could've been any number or combination of things.
But the Devs chose to Hug us with Cloak. It has been decided.

The Devs could've built cloak into the Scout Suit; Hugs delivered, equation solved, no debate.
The Devs chose against this option. We now have two crowds:

The pre-nerf crowd says the Scout should have to trade something valuable for their upcoming Hug.
The no-nerf crowd -- which includes Scouts -- says no quid pro quo. You would too in our shoes:

How exactly does CCP expect me to return the hugs if they cut off one of my arms in the process of said hugs.
- J0LLY R0G3R (Scout Registry, Page 353, Post 7043)

Seriously how does it gimp the suit? Logistics suit's (Amarr exception) Have been THE slayer suits for 8 months... and they have only ever had one weapon slot.

It doesn't ruin your killing potential in anyway. Having the extra equipment slot will improve the utility of a scout which is much more valuable then a secondary weapon incase of an emergency... Being able to run multiple equipment is a FAR FAR better choice for scouts then having an emergency backup weapon.

Even fitting the sidearms on already fitting challenged suits can be extremely hard let alone with cloaks coming out... freeing up this extra fitting requirements that are used somewhat rarely compared to main hand weapons would also be good for the class.

IMO, All scouts should have built in nova knifes but the whole Nova knife concept in DUST, is just done.... weird.

You're going to get so much negative comments on this, so I'll put it in friendly terms.

Tying one equipment to a suit is very limiting and defeats the purpose of the game. A well-placed Uplink is as beneficial as running a cloak.

Everyone wants two equipments to run a cloak and something else so they wouldn't have to sacrifice anything but CPU and PG to have fun with their new toy. That's what's broken, in my opinion.

Hit detection is hardly fixed. Bullets seem to travel around corners, I can't count the amount of times I have been shot through solid walls.
AA sucks and is the real band aid for hit detection.

you clowns, the bullets don't curve corners or dumb things like that. it's just lag between you, the server, and the other player. you've never played a console shooter on the internet without this happening. (MAG had some weird way of disguising it, though)

I still think there should be a Covert Ops class (current scout) and Scout class (single weapon, more Intel-based, 1 light weapon, 2 equipments).

This way everybody's happy.

I'm not sure where/if this was publicly posted - the conversation only took place yesterday in a CPM meeting with the Design team. :)

:: Turns to Scout ::
This man has a question for you. Would you prefer to have one decent suit or two watered down suits?

:: Turns to McReady ::
There's your reason. I'm sorry that you got stabbed.

Well it makes sense though when you think about it
A scout is supposed to be light yeah but whats light about hauling around a couple of guns and almost as much equipment as a logi

Inb4 "but mai armorz"