How about a hard cap on scout suits allowing them to only equip one "traditional" armor plate, much in the same way we can only equip one cloak module. Reactive and Ferroscale plates would be exempt.

So if they wanted to stack max EHP, they would be limited to one complex armor plate and three complex ferroscale plates (396 armor for 147 CPU & 54 PG).

On a Gal Scout, that'd mean you'd have max 791 EHP, but doing so would leave only 178 CPU and 21 PG for weapons/grenades/equipment.

Huge stacking penalty for HP modules on scout suits.

1st module: 100%

2nd module: 50%

3rd module: 25%

4th module: 12.5%

5th module: 6.25%

Thus would highly disincentivise using more than one extender and one armor plate per suit, without making it impossible to HP tank a scout suit.

What would that mean for the other Scouts? I'm interested...

Did you even play this game for the first 1-+ years of its existence? Armor was absolute crap, and people proved that it was multiple times with math. Only recently has Armor become good.

That was then and we don't live and play a game that's in the " then " , this is the now and something needs to be done about how it is " now " .

No I didn't and just have been playing for 6 to 7 months but that doesn't mean that I don't have to deal with the " here and now " .

That doesn't disprove what the current conditions are at the moment .

Go do the math for " now " and try to crap on someone else who " hasn't played as long as you have " because that means that they know nothing about Dust 514 or what's going on with the current state and conditions of the game .

Nice chest pounding .

I was just at the zoo over the weekend where I seen some animals doing the same thing , while throwing poo .

Thanks for trying to make me feel small , to bad it didn't work .

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How about rolling back the movement speed penalty on regular armor plates to previous values (3,5,10%)? .

Just HP modules on scout suits. Only Plates and Extenders. Maybe not Ferroscales...

If brick tanking is a problem, excessive HP stacking should be discouraged/penalised, but it should be done for all suits.

Remember before 1.8? Back then brick logis were the problem. I also seem to recall a lot of complaints in general about stacking armour on shield suits and widespread dual tanking of all suits.

The REAL solution is more modules, especially High modules. The choice between tank and gank is all there is. Now that EWAR stacking is a thing, you see a lot of scouts trying it out. But those guys have 300-400 HP.

Hacking should be reworked for starters. Since when is 2+ people at one computer terminal equal to faster hacking? Instead of standing there like a moron doing nothing except holding square, it should be a minigame. The faster you complete the minigame, the faster you hack. Mods make it easier. Given enough skill in hacking (or a brand new skill branch?) you could also firewall your own team's terminals. First hack the firewall, then hack the terminal. Now you have a population of people, scouts and logistics especially, stacking hack mods instead of HP.

This is just an off the wall example. The answer is more choice. Trick the scouts into using other mods besides HP mods. And even if you DO run into a 1000 EHP brick realize that he's (a) slow as molasses, (b) unable to see scouts, (c) probably shows up all over active scanners, (d) still has less EHP than a brick assault.

Nah. I don't care for this no matter if it's armor or shield. Scouts should be able to brick tank. The true issue is the cloak if you're pointing your fingers at anything. Just make it so that the scouts still have to sacrifice fitting for it(Don't they get a 75% reduction? Change it to 50%). Cloaking should be an option not a go-to for everyone.