as a part time scout, i can say that cloaks are not OP at all.

i say this because i have been spotted, killed, and chased by many people while i have been cloaked and they can clearly see me running away or towards them.

people who QQ about scout are just blind and cant see anything without there crutch active scanner, or they just can be situationally/enviorementally aware of their surroundings.

sure scouts have 1 second to shoot before complete decloak, but that is probably our best element of suprise. if we had to wait one second to decloak and pull out our gun then that would give the enemy that one second to kill us and it doesnt even take a second to kill most scout that arent proto scout suits.

the cloak shotgun scouts use shotgun because any other weapon would take to long to kill you and would 8/10 times end up getting us killed.

one of our best and new roles as a scout is harrassing the enemy team, and if there are enemy scouts on the other team then we will most likely keep killing the non scout or hunt down each other for fun and practice.

there are many ways to see a scout while cloaked, you just need to pay attention in doing so.
-no matter what a scout has to move at some point and they are doing it 99% of the time so its only common to stand still if they are hacking or hiding or even waiting to counter attack someone.
-we are totally invisible you idiots, i can easily see a scout 50m out with no trouble because we all show shimmers in the space we occupy and its totally obvius if a scout is there or not.
-if you ADS you will most certainly see something identifing that something is there or your reticle will turn red.

if you think being a scout is cheap and fun then you are direly wrong.
-my most common scout fit is easily 10k-20k a pop and is very costly to fit the few modules i can manage to fit.
-at the least your scout will be atleast 7-13k if your mostly using basic modules.
-remember that most scout suits cost more than your suit does so be happy every time you kill a scout with a cloak on it.

the scout has been only slightly UP for a while and its finally time that the scout uses its time to shine to its advantage.
before this build we rarely ever used shotguns because it was pointless in using something that glitches and was nearly impossible to land a good shot while strafing like crazy. no matter what cloaks are cloaks so your just going to have to deal with it and have better eye sight or other wise you'll just let scouts get too close too you.

also we will always get close to kill you because we always or most likely will just flank you and kill you from behind so expect them to be on your flank rather than on you sides or front view.