Garrett Blacknova
Codex Troopers
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Posted - 2014.04.05 05:45:00 -
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If you're not prepared to watch your back, bring someone to watch it for you, or we will stab and shoot you there.
Cloaks aren't a win button, and certainly not against Heavies.
You can barely sensor-tank any Heavy suit up well enough to detect an undampened and untrained Light with passive scans, and while a Commando can technically bring an Active Scanner and pick up some less sneaky Scouts that way, it's not the ideal approach.
Without a cloak, Scouts are primarily only visible to Heavies when the Heavy is looking at the Scout. With a cloak, Scouts are still visible if the Heavy looks in their direction. As such, the Scout only needs to be seen to be countered. If you're dying to a Scout before you see them, you have nobody to blame but yourself.
Shotguns have NO range. You can easily kill a Shotgun Scout before they can hit you. All you need is - as mentioned before - awareness of your vulnerabilities and a willingness to LOOK AROUND. |
Garrett Blacknova
Codex Troopers
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Posted - 2014.04.05 06:15:00 -
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Thurak1 wrote:From my experience as a scout the cloak is nearly an instant win and k/d padder pretty darn good for inflating my wallet also.
I have a fit that costs me less than 10k and i get (for me) an amazing k/d ratio every time i use it. I have never put any points into being a scout and i have played them in the past generally when getting redlined to drop uplinks for better position. So expert scout i am not. I dont think i would really call myself much more than a novice scout.
With a cloak and militia shotgun though i tell you it sure is easy to get headshot kills. So yea i would argue that the cloak is pretty darned close to a win button.
I also have no points in profile dampening so i imagine that anyone with points in detection can see me on passive.
When you use the cloak and approach within someone's field of view, THEY CAN SEE YOU.
If they're not alert, you're not getting a win button, you're punishing their lack of awareness.
If you aren't visible on their screen, then YOU DIDN'T NEED THE CLOAK.
Try modifying your fitting. Add a Nanohive, Repair Tool, Injector, Uplinks - whatever. Doesn't matter. Use the same loadout other than the replacement for the cloak. See how well you still do.
Scouts got a lot of other improvements coming into 1.8 - the cloak isn't just for Scouts, and it's FAR from the only viable fitting for one. I run a Shotgun Scout on my main account, and I've had 5:1 K/D when playing it as a killing suit. I'm still yet to equip a cloak on any suit I've used in the game.
Seriously, TRY IT. Run with a non-cloaked suit. If you're competent, you'll probably be able to see pretty quickly that while cloaking is useful, it only allowed you to punish players who screwed up. |