DUST Search - Ooh you adorable scouts who don't know your role

Alternate Insano wrote:

TheD1CK wrote:

Alternate Insano wrote:

I was a 19D Cavalry Scout in the US Army. I have seen what real scouts do on a battlefield, and the wanna-be "scouts" in New Eden are no where close.

Your mission is to get in a squad and find enemies for your squad. Your squad comes and kills the enemies while you slip away to find more enemies for your squad.

It's so simple, yet, pretty much all scouts in this game get it wrong. This is easy to understand because CCP also doesn't understand what a scout's role is.

Scouts are not ninjas. They do not carry weapons like Nova Knives. I personally find NK scouts offensive to my former professsion.

Scouts are not CQCers. If you are engaging the enemy yourself, it's because you screwed up and they saw you.

Scout's main weapons should be their laser designator. Oh, that's right, CCP didn't include that mechanic, which is basically the ONE THING A SCOUT IS SUPPOSED TO DO. Why the F did you even include scouts at all?!?

God you guys suck at making video games.

Sorry buddy, your hopes of re-living the old military days through Dust514 are done Pirate

This is a sci-fi computer game, don't expect it to match up to your time in Military ....

Dust is not real-life.....

Yeah, I get that. I also have no interest in re-living my wicked awesome Army days with this wicked unawesome game. You see, laser designators were supposed to make it into the game. But they didn't. Why? It would be too easy to blow up AUR vehicles. This game only exists to sell AUR, so anything that could hurt sales will never make the cut.
But, rather than scrap scouts all together even they don't have an actual, specific only to them role, CCP kept them in anyway.

I mean, even -snipers- have a role in this game, i.e. shoot RR users.

What is it a scout can do that some other class doesn't already do better?