DUST Search - Cloak nerf.

Zirzo Valcyn wrote:

Kristoff Atruin wrote:

It really isn't just the permacloak bug that is the problem. Scouts are making logistics suits, which are some of the most expensive in the game, not viable to run. I'll be in the middle of my squad repping someone when I'll notice a shimmer without a blue tag on it. I'll aim, start firing and then...pow...one hit kill from a shotgun (and I run a pretty beefy tank most of the time). Then the scout decloaks, runs 20 feet and cloaks up again. Now if anyone tries to hunt him down, he OHKs them from around a corner and repeats the whole process. Logi players are just being being farmed over and over and over.

I'm seriously considering putting down my rep tool and joining the scout herd, because it's the only way I'll ever get any WP in some matches. The first night of 1.8 I thought logis were going to be just fine, now I'm not so sure. I've lost isk hand over fist since day two of this patch. All the WP now belong to scouts and tankers. Can't even keep an uplink alive in some games because at least half of the other team is cloaked scouts.

he's visable while running 20 feet you should have shot him then


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Kristoff Atruin Subdreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore 1986	Posted - 2014.03.28 17:59:00 - [1] - Quote It really isn't just the permacloak bug that is the problem. Scouts are making logistics suits, which are some of the most expensive in the game, not viable to run. I'll be in the middle of my squad repping someone when I'll notice a shimmer without a blue tag on it. I'll aim, start firing and then...pow...one hit kill from a shotgun (and I run a pretty beefy tank most of the time). Then the scout decloaks, runs 20 feet and cloaks up again. Now if anyone tries to hunt him down, he OHKs them from around a corner and repeats the whole process. Logi players are just being being farmed over and over and over. I'm seriously considering putting down my rep tool and joining the scout herd, because it's the only way I'll ever get any WP in some matches. The first night of 1.8 I thought logis were going to be just fine, now I'm not so sure. I've lost isk hand over fist since day two of this patch. All the WP now belong to scouts and tankers. Can't even keep an uplink alive in some games because at least half of the other team is cloaked scouts.
Kristoff Atruin Subdreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore 1986	Posted - 2014.03.28 18:14:00 - [2] - Quote Zirzo Valcyn wrote: Kristoff Atruin wrote: It really isn't just the permacloak bug that is the problem. Scouts are making logistics suits, which are some of the most expensive in the game, not viable to run. I'll be in the middle of my squad repping someone when I'll notice a shimmer without a blue tag on it. I'll aim, start firing and then...pow...one hit kill from a shotgun (and I run a pretty beefy tank most of the time). Then the scout decloaks, runs 20 feet and cloaks up again. Now if anyone tries to hunt him down, he OHKs them from around a corner and repeats the whole process. Logi players are just being being farmed over and over and over. I'm seriously considering putting down my rep tool and joining the scout herd, because it's the only way I'll ever get any WP in some matches. The first night of 1.8 I thought logis were going to be just fine, now I'm not so sure. I've lost isk hand over fist since day two of this patch. All the WP now belong to scouts and tankers. Can't even keep an uplink alive in some games because at least half of the other team is cloaked scouts. he's visable while running 20 feet you should have shot him then They don't run at the direction that the squad of heavies / assaults are firing in, they come in from the side or behind. I catch them on the side of my screen while I'm checking the flanks, but they're not sprinting so staying on target is hard. Something amplifying this is not having aim assist to lock me onto a hard to see target. They slow to a walk and start stutter stepping, which makes it nearly impossible to get a second shot on them most of the time. I have killed a few, but usually they're so well tanked that after 3 shots with a combat rifle I still haven't touched their armor. Listen, I really don't have a problem with a nearly invisible scout walking up and blowing my head off. What I have a problem with is the utter impunity they can do it with. It doesn't matter how many people are standing around, he'll get around a corner and be gone like a puff of smoke in the wind. This means that guy can farm the logis for an entire match. That role has gone from a way to make piles of isk if you're a smart player to a bonfire you throw isk into. Walking into a fairly tightly grouped up pile of reds and opening fire should be more of a suicide mission, unless you get really lucky. The only defense is another scout with maxed out scan precision.