DUST Search - Prediction: Scouts are going to become FOTM (It feels weird as **** to type it)

Maken Tosch wrote:

IgniteableAura wrote:

Really you think scouts will be FOTM? Especially since heavys are getting 15% dmg reductions to the primary dmg dealing weapons to their tank type. I see heavys with >1500hp already. Add another 15% on top of that....

I think all the different suits will have a nice role to play. Scouts will have way less dmg projection and HP than all the other suit types. You will be sorely disappointed if you have never played scout and you spec into it, thinking it will be OP. We still have less HP, less CPU/PG than any other suit class in the game.

It may sound scary to face a scout with 500hp in shields but a flux nade will give them 80hp and a long delay to get it back. I don't think they will be OP. There will actually be interesting game mechanics to employ now instead of stack a single mod and proto weapon.

All I can say to those wanting to flip over to scout. Good luck and welcome to hard mode. The current scouts will let CCP know if we are OP. We don't want it to be FOTM or OP.

Spot on.

Veteran scouts will be the ones to truly tell if the suit is OP or not after the changes. Not some inexperienced noob who is trying out scouts for the first time.


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Lorhak Gannarsein 1248	Posted - 2014.01.20 07:05:00 - [1] - Quote Maken Tosch wrote: IgniteableAura wrote: Really you think scouts will be FOTM? Especially since heavys are getting 15% dmg reductions to the primary dmg dealing weapons to their tank type. I see heavys with >1500hp already. Add another 15% on top of that.... I think all the different suits will have a nice role to play. Scouts will have way less dmg projection and HP than all the other suit types. You will be sorely disappointed if you have never played scout and you spec into it, thinking it will be OP. We still have less HP, less CPU/PG than any other suit class in the game. It may sound scary to face a scout with 500hp in shields but a flux nade will give them 80hp and a long delay to get it back. I don't think they will be OP. There will actually be interesting game mechanics to employ now instead of stack a single mod and proto weapon. All I can say to those wanting to flip over to scout. Good luck and welcome to hard mode. The current scouts will let CCP know if we are OP. We don't want it to be FOTM or OP. Spot on. Veteran scouts will be the ones to truly tell if the suit is OP or not after the changes. Not some inexperienced noob who is trying out scouts for the first time. wait what? I'm pretty sure that we were saying this about tanks from the beginning (If you want, I'll see if I can dig up some of the early discussion of fittings, although I think most of it was done through other channels than the forums). The writing was on the wall - the massive buffers from stacked hardeners, the enormous DPS buffs... The only thing that wasn't buffed was blasters, ironically, though their hit detection was drastically improved. Then all the newbies started using it. Admittedly, most of them would have described it as 'good' and 'fun', but in the context of 'inexperienced noob', that's basically the same thing. God, I remember cussing out so many people who were crying about the tank changes... We're not all Taka and Spkr. Basically, what I'm trying to say is this: If the scout is OP, it'll be the inexperienced noobs who tell us. It'll be groups like Nyain San, like Mottanai. There are a few veteran tankers saying 'no, this is fine'. We'll see. Happily printing ISK with permahardeners and MLT blasters. Just let me get a couple mil more before nerf, CCP!