Where did you read this?

So, in conclusion. They have nerfed the Caldari scout.

The nerf bat swings 360 degrees bro?! You mean I can't get in my tanked gallente scout with assault lvl armor, scout speed, a cloak mod, an amazing assortment of weapons ranging from nova knives and shotguns to every other weapon in the game but heavies, an extremely small hit box with lighting movement speed, and just go kill assault, logi, and heavy players indiscriminately 1 on 3??? ....... GREAT!!!!!!!

Cuz that wasn't CLEARLY OP?!?!?

First of all the gal scout is currently used by more than 50% of the scout community. This was pointed out by CCP. This means the remaining half of scouts are mostly cals, with some minny and few amarr.

So Cat's assumtion that current scouts are evenly distributed between gal and cal is wrong. Gal is the current majority.

Second, the dampening/cloak nerf will hurt all scouts but the gal will be least effected compared to the others. This change will likely produce an ever increasing use of scanners again.

And since a scanned scout is often a dead scout their will be a migration to gal scout, the only scout to effectively get under focused scanners.

Brick tanking a scout is stupid especially if you are constantly getting scanned. Being immune to scans is much more important than a few hundred hp. And as more players switch to the gal scout the cal scout will become even less useful because a cal scout cant scan a properly damped gal scout.

TL;DR. The gal scout is currently the most used scout (over 50%) and this trend will continue after hotfix alpha. In fact the gal scout will probably gain more users since it is least effected by damp/cloak nerf.

Refer to above comment ^^^^. I don't think it sunk in just yet chief lol! Also, if you were indeed "gallente assault by heart", you would be running it! Which tells me that as good as we are at running gallente assault. We have, apparently and without intention, run into the same damn problem?! What problem you ask? Scouts are OP! My solution was Heavy/Commando, your's counter scout. Running assault anything below proto level everything is ******* suicide without a full squad of seal team ******* six?! Shall we agree to disagree?

I agree there will be a reduction in gal, but I don't feel my minja was terribly hurt. I may have to invest in a proto cloak I wasn't planning on, but whatevs, I have been working on reducing my isk balance to 0 anyways.

I think you will see a large number of brick tanked scouts migrating back to a medium frame of some kind, which will add more variety to the game.


The only problem with this is that a cal scout can't see everything without everyone seeing you too. Anyone running range amps and not completely dampened will be able to pick up a cal before they come into a cal's range, which is plenty close to catch them unaware with a CR/RR/AR.

Besides, between the Gal and Cal scout, the Cal is the most easiest to kill once spotted, AR's, CR's and SCR's are a bane for them, mostly the AR when it gets some love in the future. And shotguns are mostly OHKO while the Gal scout can survive at least 2.

The issue I have now is that many scouts are equipped with ACR mostly caldari scouts. If this was the case caldari would easily would win if he were versing a gallente scout under these circumstances. Now that ACR being reduced and that 3% damage buff to AR, will change the whole play style. Obviously the caldari scout is in trouble since everyone is going back to AR and that's likely going to happen. But still the quick shield regen vs 1 hp armor rep still an issue.