Won't matter to me at this point. I recently ditched the cloak and started to knife people the old fashion way without it.

Good point, and this is how they make loot off aur respec s

OP post makes no sense.

You want to balance scouts (implying that you think they are imbalanced) by making every other suit weaker EXCEPT the scout (loss of the scout's info feed).

So, by that I assume that you feel scouts are Under powered and need a buff? ONLY scouts know where the enemy is and scouts themselves stay invisible yet with very high combat abilities.


I don't even....

in the hacker scenario you are still A near invisible, and B probably at the point have essentially the range of an assault so i wouldn't complain that if you want to hack whilst invisible you are brought back to normal levels for scan range...

Ignorant means lacking knowledge on the subject. I understand the subject. The problem (that you have) is that I don't agree with your reasoning.

Your are proposing a change that 'literally' is a buff to scouts as the problem with them now is not that they can see things -- but that they can see things and kill things (pretty much anything) with nigh impunity. If the scout couldn't slay everything then the ability to see things and communicate it to the rest of the team wouldn't be much of a problem (in my opinion.) The ability to slay everything is based on factors such as cloak, difficulty/impossibility of detection, and actual strait up front line combat efficacy due to hitbox/lag/brokenhitdetection.

You are attempting to further solidify the 'slayer scout' role which CCP is actively trying to reverse. That is my opinion. You may call it stupid because you don't agree (and if you don't want to look stupid yourself providing a rationale for your disagreement works wonders) but you can't call it ignorant.

That's an entirely fair argument. You make a fair argument about how scouts should also be able to kill. Notice I did not name NK or Shotties as problems. And as I stated before -- I don't mind the Ewar.

As many other posters have suggested, the binary nature of Ewar may be the issue. As for me I don't have a problem with it. Honestly I think the issue is with the survivability of the scout suit. All that Ewar is fine if the scout was a glass cannon. Ie. died easily. And honestly -- scout fits with low HP don't die as fast as a logi with the same HP. It's a speed/lag/hitbox issue. I think if scouts were more easily killed in a strait up fight the only problem would be the people who complain because they didn't maintain situational awareness.

I mentioned once before in another thread that I look over my shoulder a LOT now. And I sometimes catch scouts trying to sneak up on me. In that situation I should kill them. But so many times they speed tank the damage just strafing back and forth in a one meter area and none of my bullets hit. I find THAT the problem behind slayer scouts.

When a scout completely sneaks up on me I am entirely ok with it. That's my fault.

So essentially I would argue that the scout is able to slay more effectively than other classes.

The argument about scouts being able to share scans is interesting. But as I stated earlier, I consider that a buff to the other classes. Scouts themselves aren't any more or less effective at slaying because they help their team on scans. And that's the rub that people have had with scouts. They are arguably more effective than other classes at killing/living -- and while you make a fair point about shared scans -- it doesn't really address the problem in my humble opinion.

Also, to be fair, I am not a scout. Never have been. So I can only speak from the perspective of an assault.

Thread reported for being an insult to the intelligence of anyone who's played pc in the last 6 months.

Ridiculous line of bs is ridiculous.


Please allow me to solve all your problems with the cloak, your passive scan range and hacking:
NOTE *The following is borrowed from the feedback "scouts" provided to the community who have questioned the imbalanced design of scouts and by proxy, cloaking*



-> USE YOUR EYES<-








Sincerely,
Nerf scouts. With no delay.