Why take away variety? Sure, having cloaked brick tanked scouts is annoying. I've run into a few, the popular fit seeming to be a GK.0 with two complex plates and two complex reppers, or perhaps a dampener and a repper? (Around 500 armor) and generally two complex shield extenders, but I still spot just as many scouts with very low armor and shielding, and I know those are the ones still running their suits like scouts. But even for those who don't... it's their choice. I like to run a complex reactive plate on some of my fits, and I've even got a basic min scout (cheap fit for lolz) with an enhanced armor plate on it. I don't brick my suits, but I like having enough HP that if there's a sniper in the enemy redline, I can take a hit (Not a headshot, obviously) and not fall over, and a little extra makes it possible to react to unseen threats.

I've tried it both ways, bricking and complete balls to the one Ewar, and I enjoy a mix of both. Taking that option away from everyone because a few people are brick tanking their suits is silly. It'd be like giving CRU's the ability to instakill any enemy around them if they sat there too long because of spawn campers... Actually, that sounds kind of amusing...

And on a final note, this would severely limit the Amarr and Gallente scouts, while giving the Caldari free reign over the other suits, with the Minmatar following up right behind them.

Scouts might be able to tank, but assaults can now tank better and outperform scouts in engagements. Also, if two commandos lose to a single scout, short of an RE falling between them from the sky, they need to get good.

Why take away variety? Sure, having cloaked brick tanked scouts is annoying. I've run into a few, the popular fit seeming to be a GK.0 with two complex plates and two complex reppers, or perhaps a dampener and a repper? (Around 500 armor) and generally two complex shield extenders, but I still spot just as many scouts with very low armor and shielding, and I know those are the ones still running their suits like scouts. But even for those who don't... it's their choice. I like to run a complex reactive plate on some of my fits, and I've even got a basic min scout (cheap fit for lolz) with an enhanced armor plate on it. I don't brick my suits, but I like having enough HP that if there's a sniper in the enemy redline, I can take a hit (Not a headshot, obviously) and not fall over, and a little extra makes it possible to react to unseen threats.

I've tried it both ways, bricking and complete balls to the one Ewar, and I enjoy a mix of both. Taking that option away from everyone because a few people are brick tanking their suits is silly. It'd be like giving CRU's the ability to instakill any enemy around them if they sat there too long because of spawn campers... Actually, that sounds kind of amusing...

And on a final note, this would severely limit the Amarr and Gallente scouts, while giving the Caldari free reign over the other suits, with the Minmatar following up right behind them.

Scouts might be able to tank, but assaults can now tank better and outperform scouts in engagements. Also, if two commandos lose to a single scout, short of an RE falling between them from the sky, they need to get good.

Take away the abiilty for scouts do stack armor! Simple. You've just fixed the scout problem.

I mean seriously, where the hell do they put all that armor on that track suit? I'll wait......

It's simply not logical?! Now shields they can have, but the plates are ******** on the scouts?! They are supposed to be saboteurs and assassins not assault?! They have powerful weapons that go boom, bang, and slice things to ribbons! They don't need to be the frontline immovable object AND the unstoppable force do they?

Speed, invisibility, and versatility are there weapons! Leave the door kicking to the heavies and assaults. Before you complain about the armor is needed to stop log-trains I have already addresse the logi/heavy union on this here: https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=174375&find=unread

Let's get back to scouting objectives cloaked and damped up, seeing what your other roles can't, and clean assassination vids on youtube eh? You're whole "Tanked scout trip" has assaults on the forums asking for more precision and range, heavies wanting double the armor, and it caused the return of the logi-train smh?! (I was hoping i'd never see that simpleton tactic again) The assault buff was actually fair! It didn't make them completely unstoppable did it? It balanced a severely unused dropsuit class. Scouts will still be terrors, but seeing scouts take on two commandos, no cloak no mercy, is ridiculous?!

I implore you, great scouts of dust past, who know what it's like to be paranoid. Those of you who know what scouting truly is, and understand it's true art form. Please comment! Bless us with your skill, and wisdom!

Those fotm scouts need not talk?! o7

This would ruin Amarr scouts.
No.

I implore you, great scouts of dust past, who know what it's like to be paranoid. Those of you who know what scouting truly is, and understand it's true art form. Please comment! Bless us with your skill, and wisdom!