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IceShifter Childhaspawn
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2014.04.18 15:30:00 -
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Lovely day of brick scouts, r/e scouts, shotgun scouts, tanks and ADS spam. While fail defending a point and staring up at the dancing scouts under the protective fire of a blaster tank I made a striking observation.
Scouts are the what we used to call Assault. Tanks are what we used to call Heavy.
CCP wants Scouts to be the do-everything suit. They are better than assault suits or logi suits.
What then are the roles of the assault suits or logi suits?
I ask about the assault because I haven't seen any assault suit that wasn't a starter fit since 1.8 hit.
I ask about the logi because I never see them after the uplink spam in the first 30 seconds of the match.
I would ask about the sniper, but its the new free suit. Its what everyone does when the Proto is strong.
I would ask about the heavy, but its the only thing skirmishers can do to stop the scouts.
CCP Logibro is awesome.
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Joel II X
Dah Gods O Bacon
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Posted - 2014.04.18 15:43:00 -
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IceShifter Childhaspawn wrote:Lovely day of brick scouts, r/e scouts, shotgun scouts, tanks and ADS spam. While fail defending a point and staring up at the dancing scouts under the protective fire of a blaster tank I made a striking observation.
Scouts are the what we used to call Assault. Tanks are what we used to call Heavy.
CCP wants Scouts to be the do-everything suit. They are better than assault suits or logi suits.
What then are the roles of the assault suits or logi suits?
I ask about the assault because I haven't seen any assault suit that wasn't a starter fit since 1.8 hit.
I ask about the logi because I never see them after the uplink spam in the first 30 seconds of the match.
I would ask about the sniper, but its the new free suit. Its what everyone does when the Proto is strong.
I would ask about the heavy, but its the only thing skirmishers can do to stop the scouts.
Nope. Logi suits are still good. They're for supporting the team. They now do that more effectively.
You could've always tank a scout before, or carry a shotgun. I tried tanking with shotgun with ferroscales back in 1.5 and preferred my dampning and kincats.
I still play my shotgun scout since that's my main fit, but after running that for so long, I decided to spec into heavies now that the Gallente ones are out and let me tell ya... They're awesome. I love my Commando with AR and SG/PLC combo. It's a nice change of pace.
I only run logistics in a squad when I can be of some help to those who will actually use what I drop. |
Django Quik
Dust2Dust.
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Posted - 2014.04.18 15:53:00 -
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Logis and assaults will get their buffs when CCP gets around to doing them, like they should have in time for 1.8; we know there are stat and slot changes coming their way.
In the meantime - scouts can not out-perform logis in their role because they get no bonuses to logi equipment. Simply having 2 equipment slots does not make you capable of being useful with most logi equipment, inlcuding: uplinks, rep tools and scanners. Meanwhile, logis bonus also applies to cloaks like CCP said it wouldn't. Logis can still tank pretty darn well. Logis get low enough scan precision to be able to stack some precision mods and see nearby lightly dampened scouts. Logis are still very useful.
Assaults will get their buffs and then everyone using scouts as assaults will flock back because they'll realise they're better for the job.
The only reason you see so many people using scouts as assaults is because assaults didn't get the buff they needed to keep them better at assaulting than scouts. This needs to happen ASAP.
Dedicated sidearm scout - Watch out for that headshot
Scout community is the nuts
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