You should be more worried about the BRICK TANKED FOTM Scouts

Why would anyone worry about slow scouts?

I guess I'll brick tank one and see what all the fuss is about, but all of my scout fits from Dragonfly to gK.0 are proper shild tanked scouts, as it should be.

So its faster and cloaked while having an extra equipment slot like a scout should be
Only bad players tank scout suits, if you cant kill them then your bad.

Fixed.

2 and 3 are redundant, the fourth is false if the 2 and 3 are true, and the fifth is only accurate in 50% of the possible brick fits.

Biscuit I'm going to say that you need to go on simply because that post was so awful that you need to redeem yourself.

If you can't see a scout running toward you, then you really need to use your eyes more than the scanner. I know, I know, it's going to be a tough transition from the "You have been scanned" tell-all days of yore, but seriously, unless a scout is just standing there, cloaked, not moving at all, they're incredibly easy to spot. The shimmer makes then stand out like crazy. Aim your weapon at the shimmer and fire. I know you'll have to use your eyeballs and brain more, but hey, it's a small tradeoff.

I think some people are getting overly defensive against your posts and are afraid to ask the question 'why would you play 3/4 assaults over a brick tanked scout?'.

Assaults need a buff.

And maybe scouts need to trade EHP for something ewar related - I think the technical limit on speed has messed up a crucial aspect of differentiating/balancing lights against meds

Now I wait to get flamed by people who will assume I'm a med frame because I dared to suggest something is up with scout/assault balance.

Hey, all apologies for my part. I got caught up in the scout = invisible death thing earlier on and I guess your posts were read, at least by me, out of context.

I get what you're saying, but I wonder how much of this is simply due to the newness of the new scout slots + the shiny new toy that is the cloak. Right now it's a whole new thing. Assaults may be jumping to scout to test things out and finding they can get the drop on a lot of people much easier than with an assault---currently. What happens when the player base adapts? I play scout so I watch for scout tactics. Keeps me safe, generally at least from scouts. We've been so used to straight up assault AR/AR conflicts that anything different is a huge contrast. So assaults are converting to play a perceived superior assault role, through the scout suit. Players are doing so to either to take part in the advantages that they see or just to screw around with something new. So what comes when some players get tired of it all and decide to spec and gear strictly into scout hunters? Cal scouts turning on cloaked scouts for the challenge may actually bring some balance back. Scouts could be the balancing solution for... well... scouts! Those cloaked scouts may (ya, or may not..sure) get frustrated being sniffed out and revert back to their tried and true method of killing.... including hunting non-cloaking scouts. I just typed scouts a lot =\

I dunno. You have points, but I really think a lot of this is FoTM chasing. Once a few players adapt and counter that will only cause a new ripple effect. Maybe some adjustments are still needed. Sit tight and let's find out? I'm actually excited by it all.

A bit off topic, I am curious of the 2 equipment slot thought process. Scouts get a bonus so OK sure, so scouts are using cloaks now. Stealth for what? Getting behind lines to re-hack? We don't need another equipment slot to help with that. Camping objectives? No need for a second slot there either. Dropping uplinks I guess? Gets us in a little easier, I suppose, to then switch over for a drop, then cloak back out or something. If not, then why the extra slot? Why not either cloak OR uplink. If that's the point of it then why not just make it its own unique slot like the grenade. With it being a second slot, the cloak to me seems more an afterthought novelty without a real role. As has already been noted, scouts were already doing without cloaks what scouts are doing now with. There's just an arse-load more of them playing with the new toy.

Just feels odd to me. Then again, who the hell am I? lol.

- me.