I'm of the opinion that Dust should be balanced around PC, not pubs. Face it, most pub players are terrible. I'm not what I consider good myself and still crush the majority of pubbers. You don't see any real competitive games like DOTA or Street Fighter being balanced around the lower tier players, do you?

In PC, you don't roll around in one big blue ball like you do in pubs. Those of us left outside the city have to deal with Scouts, and we need something that help us with that effectively. Even those inside have problems with them as they run around destroying ground-level uplinks unseen and generally being a huge pain, murdering Logistics and Sentinels alike.

There's no point to listening for a decloak sound - by the time you hear it there's already a shotgun round in your back before you've spun around halfway. Good scouts will also continue strafing towards your back as you spin.

Yes, it is true that they sacrifice a fair bit of HP to do this, but at the same time they gain a nearly unbeatable element of surprise which, combined with a Shotgun of any grade, means death. It doesn't matter how much HP you have if you can kill your would-be opponent before he even knows you're there.