Matticus Monk
Ordus Trismegistus
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Posted - 2014.07.17 23:35:00 -
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As a full-time scout since beta I would be very happy if cloaks were removed.
To be honest, they take some of the elemets I enjoyed out of the game. The cat and mouse, the skill to sneak and the heart pounding fear you get when trying to thread the needle to that high value target while avoiding his squad and not tipping anyone off to your presence before you get your kill shot.
Scouting now is more fun to me in my minja which can't fit a cloak because I still have low skills in that suit.
I get that a lot of scouts like them, and I want my bro's and sis to be happy, but I never really liked the idea.
I'm not convinced they are as a big a problem as the shared scans or armor tanking though. Those are WAY bigger issues in my mind and I hope charlie will clean some of that up.
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Matticus Monk
Ordus Trismegistus
2146
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Posted - 2014.07.18 00:15:00 -
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Clone D wrote:Bradric Banewolf wrote:Leadfoot10 wrote:p.p.s. Calvin, you still running primarily solo? If so, I suspect that may be, at least in part, why you're taking a bit of a hard line on cloaks. I think you'll find that if you're in a good squad with a good gal logi or passive scanning cal scout, you won't die nearly as much to cloaked scouts. That doesn't mean there's no problem, because there is, but rather that you may be getting the short end of the stick, so to speak, because of running solo (if you're still doing that). You're right, but one shouldn't have to be forced to employ a particular scout type to combat a single thing in the game?! Yes, the cal scout IS the immediate fix right now, but that shouldn't be the end all be all should it? IMO, we need to open ewar up to other dropsuits! Why not have an assault suit with intense scan precision bonuses? This whole "ewar is for cal scouts" developer mentality has got to go.
This is tricky.
I don't think one suit should have it all. It is totally ridiculous that scouts can tank massive HP with greater speed, smaller hitboxes and vastly superior EWAR (and the cloak).
But, I don't want to see Medium suits with EWAR capabilities riviling scouts, racial bonuses to slaying type stuff, more CPU/PG than scouts (which they should have, not sure if they do now since I'm not a medium guy), and higher number of high/low slots per tier than scouts. Moderately improved EWAR would be fine... perhaps similar to current logi ewar stats but I'm against anything beyond that.
If we're shooting for balance, that is.
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