If this becomes a thing I'm going to flush points Into caldari and gallente assaults annd demonstrate loudly why anyone who thinks HMGs arr the "best killers" is a godamn idiot with no imagination.

I've been using the sentinel suits since chromosome and they have GLARING and OBVIOUS weaknesses that assaults can exploit and capitalize on.

But because EHP>all to this community anything more complicated than "run at him and hold the trigger down!" Is a little higher difficulty than most of you are capable.

The number of times I've had some dumbass try to gunslinger me down at 10 meters is mind boggling. Then they come here and ***** that the HMG is OP. This has been the pattern since closed beta.

Every cqc objective in this game has areas where you can get an elevation advantage that is outside Hmg Optimal and well within any rifle's.

You can pin a fatty inside his objective and make him helpless to blueberries, and if you happen to be ace with a laser rifle you can make anyone's life hell, not just shield suits..

Also scouts aren't the only mad bombers. I'm very familiar with every single spot you can drop RE on fattiea. I have been killed that way all the time in my maxed sent suits.

You don't even need to master the frisbee.

Patience has an amazing effect when combined with the assault suit.

Playing at 40m + pretty much neuters fatties and almost every hiding spot has a place where you can take free shots at them from outside HMG optimal.

Playing a sentinel constantly kind of makes me ridiculously familiar with how fatties die.

No RE are not the most common method. Its almost always getting ganged up or someone who refuses to close and instead finds a better angle.

So it is post like these that show me people prefer to hang on to their OP crap than to talk about balance.

I love how you guys don't come up with any argument at all, and of course there is absolutely no admitting that scouts... as they are right now, are completely broken.

For instance, check out the underlined bit... it is so one dimensional it isn't funny. This basically boils down to "wanting to have your cake and eat it too."

Anyway, most of the rebuttals I am reading sound exactly like the responses I got from tankers about broken swarms, or CR users after they came out, or Logistics before the nerf. "Don't nerf my OP stuff" is what it boils down to. I can pretty much guarantee that the same people defending scouts right now defend the rail rifle, defended vehicles in 1.7, and defended logistics pre-nerf.

CCP has the metrics and I am positive they reflect that scouts are far and away the most popular suit among players 10+ mil sp (those who know the game works.)

To sum up, the OP details a method of fixing ewar, where scouts can still be the very best at any one category of ewar, but not all of them at the same time while still being versatile, you know kind of like logistics used to be (best at many things at the same time).