We all know that multiple buffs and nerfs at the same time ofthen leads to breakage. Hence the old TAC AR buff, then the nerf, Flaylock etc, etc...

I am very much against the idea of removing an equiment slot, the whole idea of having the ability to move unseen and placing an uplink "behind enemy lines" is for me the ultimate of scouty team effort.
I do however think that the current scout suit should be toned down a notch, And yes, I'm a scout myself, exclusively.

So I suggest:

Change the cloak fitting skill bonus from 15% per level to 10% per level.

This is in fact not such a small change as you might think. In actual numbers we're talking about an increase in fitting cost of:

Basic : 40 CPU 8,75 PG
Enhanced : 57,75 CPU 12,25 PG
Proto: : 82,5 CPU 17,5 PG

This will definately weaken the scout suits, you can still pop up unseen and do all the good old fashioned backstabbery stuff, with a shotgun if you like. But it will cost you more to have that ability. You might have to use lower tier health modules/weaponry or indeed swap a module out for a CPU or PG enhancer, dependant on your fit naturally.

Ewar moduels are still very cheap to fit you know....

I think its wrong that the scout suits have the highest speed, best pasive E-war, the ability to be cloaked (cheaply) and IMO too much HP all at the same time. This I think will nerf the scout suits somewhat without completely breaking them....

That is silly at lv 1 scout you already can't fully fit the suit with cloak. The cloak and db are not the problem the problem is they don't have to pay for those advantages in any way sure they have lower ehp, but you don't get shot at as a scout unless you fail and if you do your smaller hit box/speed more than makes up for it. I would like to see them give them the hit box of med suits and make them side arm only that way they are less likely to insta gib you from range and can be killed effectively if caught.

Edit: I currently primary no cloak sidearm scout

Sure,you can give the light suits the hit box of medium suit. Right after you give the medium suits the hit box of a heavy.

And to the heavy the hitbox of the MCC.

I appreciate where you are coming from, but I disagree with the assessment.

I don't think the cloak, in and of itself, is the problem.

I think armor plates, and the ability of Gal scouts to use them most effectively of the scouts with less of a sacrifice may be an issue, particularly when they are also able to have that invisibility as well.

I also dislike being able to use weapons while still decloaking. I would like to add a bit of a delay, but the existence of the sprint bug is too significant a burden to be adding delayed action after decloak.

Considering how hard it is for newer scouts, which I think are the hardest role for a newbro to want to skill into, I think enhancing the fitting costs of a cloak is unnecessary at this point. Also there is the consideration that unless dampening is already skilled and being used, you just have a red chevron over your head while cloaked.

I would like to see several other changes happen first before I could get on board with this being a solution.

Still doesn't fix bricked up scouts with no cloak.

I never run a cloak, I run 600HP with hives and remotes and two complex precisions on my ck0...

I agree and I would say that the cloak bonus needs to go up and CPU/PG for scouts needs to go down.

How dare you motherf*cker armor tank the CalScout?

Ferroscale=0% speed penalty

still armor tankin m8

Remove the light weapon slot, make it so Scouts only have two sidearm slots?

We all know that multiple buffs and nerfs at the same time ofthen leads to breakage. Hence the old TAC AR buff, then the nerf, Flaylock etc, etc...

I am very much against the idea of removing an equiment slot, the whole idea of having the ability to move unseen and placing an uplink "behind enemy lines" is for me the ultimate of scouty team effort.
I do however think that the current scout suit should be toned down a notch, And yes, I'm a scout myself, exclusively.

So I suggest:

Change the cloak fitting skill bonus from 15% per level to 10% per level.

This is in fact not such a small change as you might think. In actual numbers we're talking about an increase in fitting cost of:

Basic : 40 CPU 8,75 PG
Enhanced : 57,75 CPU 12,25 PG
Proto: : 82,5 CPU 17,5 PG

This will definately weaken the scout suits, you can still pop up unseen and do all the good old fashioned backstabbery stuff, with a shotgun if you like. But it will cost you more to have that ability. You might have to use lower tier health modules/weaponry or indeed swap a module out for a CPU or PG enhancer, dependant on your fit naturally.

Ewar moduels are still very cheap to fit you know....

I think its wrong that the scout suits have the highest speed, best pasive E-war, the ability to be cloaked (cheaply) and IMO too much HP all at the same time. This I think will nerf the scout suits somewhat without completely breaking them....

TL;DR

i say we break scouts compleatly and nerf them into the ground so no one wants to play scout.. and then we rebuild scouts from the ground up so they cannot be the OP FOTM sonuvabitches that they are.

Edit. in all seriousness.. we need to nerf PG cpu and slots on them.. make them a "lite" version of a heavy suit as it were.. very limited slots so they are forced to choose one direction of the 3 or 4 currently possable