As it currently stands, we are all too familiar with scouts running the show on the battlefield. It is far too easy to become invisible, hide from radar and tank your suit out with both speed and HP all at the same time. This is why I'm proposing two suggestions to reward tactical builds for scouts, as well as dicincentivizing other abusable builds.

1) We've all seen it, the 1000 HP GK.0 scout with a Boundless Combat rifle who is a ghost to all but dedicated glass cannon scout hunters. It's far too easy to run around with a plethora of extenders and/or plates on a scout and still remain invisible on the radar.
Increase can profile with plates and shield extenders according to meta level.

2) Most suits running complex precision mods still cannot locate even BPO scouts who are cloaked.
Increase scan profile when cloak is activated (reducing own passive scans while cloaked optional)

Both of these changes would drastically disincentivize poor fitting choices, as well as giving an increased incentive towards EWAR modules.
I'll be honest, I've only been scouting since the cloak became a thing, but I've seen first hand how abusable the suits can be with how flexible and carefree some scouts are becoming on the field today. I want to see the suit thrive in its natural environment, being the ninja/intel masters on the battlefield, without becoming invisible bruisers in head to head engagement.

I can get behind increasing profile with shields but not for armor because it isn't lore friendly. What I can get behind is decreasing cloak time with stacked armor since it requires more stress on the cloak field generator because more matter to cloak.

Nerf overall Scout CPU/PG and then bonus/rebate CPU/PG for EWAR modules only.

I don't really feel like that is the solution. What needs to happen is a massive overhaul of the ewar mechanics. Other threads are actively discussing this so I won't get into it here but it is the scouts relative invisibility that makes them such a pain. Once you spot them even brick tanked scouts go down easily.

As it currently stands, we are all too familiar with scouts running the show on the battlefield. It is far too easy to become invisible, hide from radar and tank your suit out with both speed and HP all at the same time. This is why I'm proposing two suggestions to reward tactical builds for scouts, as well as dicincentivizing other abusable builds.

1) We've all seen it, the 1000 HP GK.0 scout with a Boundless Combat rifle who is a ghost to all but dedicated glass cannon scout hunters. It's far too easy to run around with a plethora of extenders and/or plates on a scout and still remain invisible on the radar.
Increase can profile with plates and shield extenders according to meta level.

2) Most suits running complex precision mods still cannot locate even BPO scouts who are cloaked.
Increase scan profile when cloak is activated (reducing own passive scans while cloaked optional)

Both of these changes would drastically disincentivize poor fitting choices, as well as giving an increased incentive towards EWAR modules.
I'll be honest, I've only been scouting since the cloak became a thing, but I've seen first hand how abusable the suits can be with how flexible and carefree some scouts are becoming on the field today. I want to see the suit thrive in its natural environment, being the ninja/intel masters on the battlefield, without becoming invisible bruisers in head to head engagement.

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We've all seen it, the 1000 HP GK.0 scout with a Boundless Combat rifle who is a ghost to all but dedicated glass cannon scout hunters.

Please show me a fit like this.

As it currently stands, we are all too familiar with scouts running the show on the battlefield. It is far too easy to become invisible, hide from radar and tank your suit out with both speed and HP all at the same time. This is why I'm proposing two suggestions to reward tactical builds for scouts, as well as dicincentivizing other abusable builds.

1) We've all seen it, the 1000 HP GK.0 scout with a Boundless Combat rifle who is a ghost to all but dedicated glass cannon scout hunters. It's far too easy to run around with a plethora of extenders and/or plates on a scout and still remain invisible on the radar.
Increase can profile with plates and shield extenders according to meta level.

2) Most suits running complex precision mods still cannot locate even BPO scouts who are cloaked.
Increase scan profile when cloak is activated (reducing own passive scans while cloaked optional)

Both of these changes would drastically disincentivize poor fitting choices, as well as giving an increased incentive towards EWAR modules.
I'll be honest, I've only been scouting since the cloak became a thing, but I've seen first hand how abusable the suits can be with how flexible and carefree some scouts are becoming on the field today. I want to see the suit thrive in its natural environment, being the ninja/intel masters on the battlefield, without becoming invisible bruisers in head to head engagement.

I appreciate you making a fairly reasonable points, and agree with some things, but not necessarily others.

I agree tanking is somewhat of an issue. I have heard Rattati speak to possibly give light suits alone a unique penalty to regular plates. I have also heard discussion of making the bonuses scouts have affect only mods, so as to increase the need to actually have them equipped to get any benefit from them. As it stands, just having dampening to lvl 5 gives scouts a significant advantage.

I disagree with the notion that cloaks are the devil. There are certainly issues, and they have been exploited, but given the significant weaknesses scouts have, being unscanned is imperative.

One legitimate problem with cloaks is the ability to so quickly use equipment or items in the middle of decloaking, particularly Alpha weapons like the NKs and Shotguns. And while I would like to eventually have a one second delay between decloak and equipment/weapons use, there is a large problem in the way. That of the sprint bug.

If you have tried scouting for any period of time, you are probably familiar with the slowing down that happens when trying to do a lot in a short amount of time, particularly trying to use a weapon from sprint, or change/use equipment etc.

Until this gets fixed, I could not advocate for a delay after decloaking because then scouts would not only have to deal with the delay, but the inability to maneuver, find cover, escape etc. during the delay.

TL;DR I agree with the notion that non tank (particularly armor plate) mods should be incentivized, but not necessarily with your plans on doing so.

I don't agree with reducing cloak EWAR advantages, though there are problems with the cloak that need fixing.

Unless they're strafing at full speed of 8+M/s.

Ferros can make scouts near impossible to hit with a DS3.

As for the OP,that would be fine if it was limited to light suits.
But would screw over all others badly.

The simplest solution would be to make the Ion pistols charge shot OHK any light suit regardless of tank.
Ions would then have a purpose instead of just being a failed shotgun.

Scouts survive with speed. Double movement penalty for stacking armor.