Commandos are funny. They're the easiest prey for my ScPs.

Well, nova knives are superheated to the point of being capable of melting/cutting through armour.

On the scout with an assault rifle thing, do you even charge bruh? Try using the non-assault variant and hit them with a charged shot. Guarantee you'll like what you see.

To be fair, I am sure your logi has more eHp than your commando (@850).

I run Amarr commando with laser and AScR.
I am a rare specie. We are few.
I do well and do some kills. I am not very skilled player but still I do 10-20 kills.
My commando has 250 shield and 600 armour.

I am flanked by a sout with shotgun and he kills me in 2 shots maximum. He kills my galente logi with one shot.
I don't complain because the shotgun range is short. He uses his scout skills to flank me unseen (with cloak no need of any skills).
if I see him firs often I killed him. I wish he kill me in 3-4 shots (I am a commando damn it) and wit 2 shots for the logi.

A scout with Nova knives kills me in one hit. How axactly knives will penetrate and kill a commando in one hit? logi or assault OK, but commando is suppose to be a heavy suit (very slow).
Still I can accept it even I am not convinced it shoud be the case.

At last a scout with an assault combat rifle face me directly (not flanked) and kille me bofore I drop his shields. Few time in a row. I see him clearly he strafes very fast. I tried him with AScR and with AR (both skills maxed). This now is very wrong. a scout facing commando is killing him for les than a blink???
even a full proto scout facing a basic commando face to face in a medium distance shoud not stand a chance. Otherwise the game is TOTALY BROKEN.

now is the scout a scout or a very fast assault???

I can accept assault to kill commando face to face as it is ment to kill. this is his main role to kill. also commando. commando is havier and assault faster.
But scout vs commando??? Are you kidding me???

The combat rife is OP and espacially the assault combat rifle. This is a fact.
but is there also something wrong now with the scouts? I thing yes.
The worst game I've played was agains a full team of scouts and we had scouts logis, assaults and heavies.
That means no need of other roles when there are scouts.
now hey are very effective assaults and logis.

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Nova Knives have literally no range; you can only do damage within 1 meter and you can easily back pedal that and avoid getting killed. Furthermore NK are really only good for Minmatar scouts who get the damage bonus. You say shotguns are fine for their purposes of flanking and effectively taking you down however the NK are just the same, it actually takes more work because they ahave to get within 1m , and therefore the reward is greater, 1 slash will drop every player except for heavies (commandos not included). Also if a scout gets close to you with NK unnoticed, you basically deserve to die, or at the mercy of the scout.

Scouts are the god suit of 1.8

My main concern are not the knives but a stright facing scout with a Combat rifle.

But also the knives - I speak about a commando who is a heavy suit. I am OK with the logi.

Without reading what has been said already:

Your commando has less than 800 eHP, so you're in line with tanked assaults or logis. If you now demand that it should take 3-4 shotgun shots to take you down the shotgun becomes irrelevant. What about "real" heavies with 1000-15000 HP? They would then need 5-8 shots. A commando's melee would do the same amount oft damage. That's just ridiculous

On Knifes: to kill someone you habe to get in range (1m). If someone manages to do that the kill is deserved. Knifers can easily be avoided by just strafing and backpedalling like crazy.

The scout you encountered face2face may have been a caldari. Sometimes there are some issues with their hitbox (or the lag in general) which makes Thema pretty difficult to kill.

The CR is a bit OP. A slight damage reduction or a change in their effectivity against shields/armor could bring them in line. But I have to say that the rail rifle is pretty equal to the CR, only the plasma rifle seems to be broken. Another fact is that most people stack armor plates, making the CR and RR even more powerful due to their bonus in damaging armor

Commando with LR plus AScR or AR is a pretty bad build for mid range engagements. You have less HP than a tanked logi, a massive hitbox, and you've wasted the advantage of two LR slots by fitting a peashooter (AScR/AR).

So yes, you will lose to better mid range builds. A tanked scout with ACR is one example, a gallente logi with RR another, an Amarr commando with twin ScRs yet another.

Either use your build as it is supposed to be used (lasering from 100metres, with AScR only a last resort - though really you should swap it for ScR) or come up with a build that better suits your playstyle.