no hotfix will magically fix the fotm suits people skilled into or their bricked builds a few hours into hotfix alpha...

Wait until players start dusting off their scanners, they we will see how things change.

Frist consider this in the hands of a dual wielding PLC, repped Galmando driving a BPO LAV and come back to me.

Cal scouts can scan each other and be easily scanned by active scanners. Cal scouts can easily scan brick tanked scouts.

Eventually, players will be tired of getting scanned by cal scouts and active scanners and the gal scout will start to be used more often.

I have proto cal scout and zero skills in gal scout but am thinking of cross training to gal scout as the dampening will be even stronger now as it will be more unexpected.

I believe you are incorrect.

According to the information I have Galente scouts will need one less dampener than other scouts to avoid scans in the majority of cases.

Today apparently.

I think Cat Merc has gotten into the cat nip.

A gal scout with 2 complex damps and a proto cloak can still get under a gal logi with focused scanner and a cal scout with four complex enhancers.

Gal scouts are still king of ewar because there is no counter when they are unscannable. There are several counters to the other scouts especially the cal scout since it now sucks the worst at dampening.

When a cloaked gal shotgunner can one shot a cal scout that can't detect said shotgunner, 40 seconds is a long time of being unscannable. And yes the gal could just throw on a third damp to remain unscannable indefinitely, however, my point was two damps and a cloak makes the gal unscannable, regardless of how long.

You are aware a proto Caldari scout set up for scanning is unlikely to have much over 300 hp?

On these two points you made, Caldari Scouts have always been the majority on the field, since 1.8 release. As far as shotgunners go, from what I read the delay went from 0.5 DOWN to 0.3, which means it was made LESS...

The smaller delay (from how I'm reading it) should have been made larger, from 0.5 to 1.0 or 1.5 seconds. 0.3 is so short it's close to OP.

This point is also true fit a fully dampened gal scout.

If he is unscannable, basic scout tactics like flanking, using uncommon routes and properly picking targets allows the gal scout free reign to ghost just about everyone in the game. If he picks when and where to attack, a lack of hp will not matter as his target will be dead.

In most situations where a scout doesn't pick the engadment a little more hp won't matter. So for a scout damping and speed is still better than hp. I have only played four games today and my 380 hp cal scout has been raping brick scouts, especially brick fit cal scouts as I use a ScR.

My adv cloak, single complex damp cal scout has also been scanned several times already and I believe "you have been scanned" will become a much more common sight for everyone except gal scouts.

Would the removal of shared vision balance that to some extent, do you think?

That'd be a good way to reduce CalScouts to useless.

That one merc giving you hell has 250 - 300 HP.
He's neither quick nor is he dampened.

Carry a decent Scanner. Or tell your Logi to pack one for you.
Drop your enemy's CalScout like you would a Heavy's Logi.



Now we're talking about HMG Heavies? I'm confused.

and buffed heavily with the rep increase. tbh overall i see it as a buff not a nerf.