Oooooh, you're such an e-badass, I bet your name in real life is John Connor. When the machine Uprising comes you can lead the human race to victory based on your mad warfare skills developed by playing Dust and reading the Art of War (Readers Digest, Abridged version), twice.

So you might take this wrong way but you shouldn't...

Sometimes it isn't the game that needs balancing.
It's that your skill level is lower than other peoples.

I'm not trying to be a **** , but I hear complaints all the time about, gear, lagging, weapon balance, and fits towards the enemy.
I confront the enemy and they have tremendous skill.

I know some players exploit any advantage they can, but it's not the majority.

Some players are badasses.

Honestly, I enjoyed pre-cloak shotgunning more than our current shotgunning. I can't speak for all scouts, but in my opinion stalking players was more fun when it was 100% "skill" based. Not to imply that the cloak is "skill-less", but it is considerably easier to close the gap with a cloak.

I find using our new EQ slot for RE/nanohive combos much more fun and useful than using it for a cloak. It works better with my playstyle.

I personally don't have a huge issue with cloaks. They could use careful tweaking, but irrational nerfs will do more damage than good. This is something the community in general has still not learned.

Then there is the lack of skill required in using a rail rifle. I setup two fittings - identical except for the weapon - standard rail rifle and standard combat rifle. My kill ratio for rail rifle was/is easily 3x higher than with the combat rifle.

No, he doesn't. I do fairly well solo.

He needs to figure out how to choose his fights. If you see certain corps stacked on the opposite team, leave. If you're not having fun, leave. Joined a late match on the losing side? Leave.

It's not that hard. I do it all the time.

All that really proves is that you are better with the RR. The RR has a much lower RoF a lower DPS and only a slightly better range than the CR leaving the CR as the more powerful weapon in a vast majority of situations. Only in the 95 m plus ranges is the RR the better gun. Glad you finally found a weapon that suits your play style.

As I neglected to include all of the info I used to compare the two weapons, your surface level analysis might be correct. I do not agree with your analysis though, based on my larger level of info.

Thank you for the comment though.

What larger level of info? My argument is based upon the actual stats of the weapons, almost two years of experience as well as testing both weapons on alts with created to only skill into the two weapons (so there were no other supporting skills clouding my observations). How does your own hugely unquantified and completely subjective opinion even come close to countering what I have posted? What "larger level of info" do you have that I and the rest of the DUST514 community don't have access too?

Pity that as a newbie you won't have the SP to equip those counters until you grind for 6 months.

How many people have been shot in the back or side from a Shotgun? This requires no skill from the player only a cloak.

I tried brick-tanking a cloaked shotgun scout. I died a lot.

Guess these dudes got more skill than me.

He does have a point, though. Assuming he's using a medium frame, he would not have seen a scout running behind him on his radar, nor would he on his frontal view (obviously). This enables the scouts to place a shot or two behind their target.

What the cloak does, is give a broken amount of dampning to your dB so you can hide from scanners fairly easily. As for hiding from your eyes, well, that's a different story. I'll say that the medium was moving for example's sake. If the Scout was moving IN FRONT of the medium, there might've been a chance of the medium spotting him, but losing track if the Scout goes behind an object, rendering him out of sight. The medium would not know where the Scout would come out of next. Now, if the Scout was standing still, chances are very slim that the medium would spot him. You need to be very focused and have a good enough television to notice the difference between the background and the invisibility shroud.

Point is, if the Scout stayed out of sight and shot him in the back, that meant he knew how to get there and how to avoid detection with or without cloak.

I hate that people are using the shotgun now I been shotgunning back at when uprising came out and there were a few shotgunner back then, but now they are made me hate my favorite weapon