Ydubbs, Arn't you too busy steamrolling faces in a tank to fret over a nerfed suit?

The fact that shared scanning can piggy back off of a caldari so that a squad of heavies can know the locations of all players but the most hidden squishy gallente scout, at which point the heavy can spin 360 using his HMG after any shotgun blast and kill the squishy galente no problem.

Sounds like imbalance to me.

It's about time that another dropsuit received a decent precision bonus. If knowing is half the battle, then cal scouts have had a ginormous advantage over every other suit in the game. Now they have some competition.

~friendly but smug~ Eat it

The bonus is being given to the Amarr because it makes it a useful suit.

The cal scout will still be the best suit in the game for slaying.

The cal scout will still be the best suit in the game for slaying.

The fact that shared scanning can piggy back off of a caldari so that a squad of heavies can know the locations of all players but the most hidden squishy gallente scout, at which point the heavy can spin 360 using his HMG after any shotgun blast and kill the squishy galente no problem.

Sounds like imbalance to me.

The cal scout will still be the best suit in the game for slaying.

I think there's a lot of . . .
Giving precision to the Amarr is just lack of foresight. There are only so many possibilities on how it can work out.

A) you can give the suit a bonus like the Caldari currently have at 5% per level to which the suit doesn't have enough High Slots to act as a Scout hunter or you can give a much larger bonus, like 8% per level and for most of the time they won't need to run precision enhancers

B) You can give the suit a bonus to the efficacy of Precision Enhancer modules, that has 2 results. Either the bonus is so low, a Caldari scout will still have more precision or the bonus is 17% per level and with 2 modules the Amarr Scout will be able to do what the Caldari needed 4 modules to do before.

EWAR is a system that is all-or-nothing, this is either going to make the Amarr Scout useless, the Amarr Scout OP, or the Gallente Scout OP.

There just is no balance you can find with any set of numbers when you're giving a precision bonus to a suit with only 2 high slots

Not really.....the only decent thing about the suit will be shield regen. There is no clear advantage to caldari scout suits.

So the caldari scout is the only suit in the game that has shared scans? I think not. Moving the scans to a suit with more low ends will increase what can be scanned distance wise. Typical caldari scout build would have two precision, two extenders and maybe 1-2 range amps.

Then why are they rarer than hen's teeth in PC?

The only thing that the cal scout is best at is passive scanning -- which has little applicability except as a long distance flanker -- and even that advantage is about to evaporate after hotfix Charlie (i.e. the Amarr scout will have the same bonus).

The gal scout can also, through the use of his low slots, evade even the best cal scout's scans.

PCs are full of gal scouts and heavies...because they are really the best suits for slaying.

So the caldari scout is the only suit in the game that has shared scans? I think not. Moving the scans to a suit with more low ends will increase what can be scanned distance wise. Typical caldari scout build would have two precision, two extenders and maybe 1-2 range amps.

450+ shields, best shield delays, best regen rate, small hitbox, great cpu/pg, two equipments slots, second fastest suit, resistances against the most popular weapons (hmgs, combat rifles, rail rifles)

Caldari scout doesn't have any resistances to weapons.....you can't be this out of touch.

Typically, but not always.

Minja and Amarr can't hide from a fully precisioned cal. Plus, I think as it stands they also have a range bonus. The combination of those 2 AND shared scans is insane. It is a problem.

Cal had to take a hit in order for Minmatar and Amarr to have a purpose.

Shields do, and caldari have the most shields

I wish for scouts the primary skill was for the module itself not the incorporated in the suit itself. Let Caldari keep precision..then they HAVE to use the precision module keeping their tank low, same will Gal their main tank will be kept low, Amarr with range...but it might be a bad idea cause that causes problems with the minnie cause they have no tank...

your joking right? please tell me your joking. Literally all the best slayers use the cal scout

your joking right? please tell me your joking. Literally all the best slayers use the cal scout

Shields do, and caldari have the most shields