......So that when you do see where they are you can blap them faster than an Amarrian slipping a slave collar and a wild Minmatar....

A sliding progession of sound levels determining visibility on radar vs dampening would be better, (just like MAG!) but definitely the right idea

i've only been gone for two weeks and you're in general tso's alliance? umm anyway

theres a game called Metroid Prime Hunters that was a FPS that you aim both your gun and the direction you move with the stylus on a touch screen

in that game there is a cloaker that is very balanced. his name is Trace and he can only turn invisible when he stands still and either has his sniper weapon equipped or is in "alt form"

just like a scout he is more susceptible to damage than the other hunters. but the problem with Dust is scouts can be invisible because scanning plays a much larger role than in MPH and the scout doesn't have to do anything except wear the right dropsuit fitting to be invisible. and Trace doesn't really have a shotgun or even much of a use for one, and the "shotgunner" in that game is always completely visible and can freeze you in place if he charges it up and shoots at almost point blank range.

now here's the thing. there is basically no "heavy" in that game because instead of that, Samus Aran the protagonist is basically OP because she can pretty much fire swarm launchers at infantry (that fly much faster.)

Games like this, Star Wars Battlefront, and most of the other generic shooters don't really have a heavy or scout class that's as formidable and powerful as in Dust. Basically all there is are Assault classes and an extremely toned down version of a Scout.

So that's where you're getting the impression of the assault class from in the first place.

I agree that having players profile dampening reduced by firing weapons is a great idea but it isn't going to get into the game anytime soon. Legion perhaps? It would, as the previous post pointed out, require a client side update and a massive amount of coding. I don't think Dust is getting the Dev time to make that happen currently.

On the other hand I don't think that this is the only way to make assault suits more viable. Yes, scouts are hard to spot when damped and cloaked but that doesn't make them impossible to see. I regularly kill cloaked/damped scouts and get killed when cloaked/damped in my scout fit. Making assault suits faster and buffing their hp will have a noticeable impact on their effect on the battle field.

This is not to say that I think the proposed changes to assaults will make them perfect. Far from it I think the assault suits primary bonuses still need a rewrite. Excepting that larger change though, which would be harder to balance, the current proposed assault changes are a step in the right direction.

Well if you are all alone in an assault suit, you kinda deserve to get SG in the back. I think a good HP buff like Rattati suggested will do the trick. Assaults really aren't that far off, I still use mine. In fact, its the only suit I have proto and have been quite successful in PC with it.

Your right if your running solo as a assault you deserve to get shotgunned. But let's think about the guys who only specced assault and that's all they can run. Your telling me they shouldn't feel comfortable running solo?

i've only been gone for two weeks and you're in general tso's alliance? umm anyway

theres a game called Metroid Prime Hunters that was a FPS that you aim both your gun and the direction you move with the stylus on a touch screen

in that game there is a cloaker that is very balanced. his name is Trace and he can only turn invisible when he stands still and either has his sniper weapon equipped or is in "alt form"

just like a scout he is more susceptible to damage than the other hunters. but the problem with Dust is scouts can be invisible because scanning plays a much larger role than in MPH and the scout doesn't have to do anything except wear the right dropsuit fitting to be invisible. and Trace doesn't really have a shotgun or even much of a use for one, and the "shotgunner" in that game is always completely visible and can freeze you in place if he charges it up and shoots at almost point blank range.

now here's the thing. there is basically no "heavy" in that game because instead of that, Samus Aran the protagonist is basically OP because she can pretty much fire swarm launchers at infantry (that fly much faster.)

Games like this, Star Wars Battlefront, and most of the other generic shooters don't really have a heavy or scout class that's as formidable and powerful as in Dust. Basically all there is are Assault classes and an extremely toned down version of a Scout.

So that's where you're getting the impression of the assault class from in the first place.

Just give them 2 light slots, and give commandos a heavy slot instead of the light one, its not as if commandos or op or anything, other than for av

In Battlefront that depended on the special class. Each Faction had a special class in which the Seperatists had that rolling drone that was essentially a heavy, it had rapid fire with temporary invulnerability.

Metroid Prime isn't anything like this genre of game.