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You're the one ignoring your own point mate. Seriously, I wish there was a LOL button next to the Like button for me to use.

To paraphrase you:

- cloak changes broke scout role
- i'm a great player without the cloak
- I'm leaving coz scouts are broken without cloak and the game is generally crap

TTFN

The thing is :

We have now 2 new things that affect negatively the cloak
A 2 second (approx) DELAY while decloaking
A 3 second (approx) delay while changing to a weapon/item

One of them needs to be removed.

This is the ONLY effective counter to a scout suit's ewar. The heavy suit's high HP and damage resistance has huge number of counters to it when running a HMG:
- plasma cannon on any suit except a logi suit (on a commando this is an amazing counter)
- any heavy suit with a HMG
- any non-heavy suit with a range weapon out of a HMG's range (assuming
- shotgun/knives on a scout suit
- shotgun on any assault or commando suit
- REs on any suit

And a scout's ewar has only one effective counter:
- a squad member on each squad doing nothing but visually looking for a scout, which given the high HP of a tanked scout in many circumstances means them dying before they take out the scout and warning the squad members so they hopefully finish him off before he kills another squad member.

No tactic should have such limited counters. Ewar imbalance is more unbalanced than redline sniping. At least when someone redline snipes, I can counter snipe, or forge snipe. That is too few counters but it is still better than scout ewar.

Scouts should have to choose between having HP or being invisible. Currently they can have the best of both worlds. There are different ways of balancing this, but nerfing the cloak is not one of them.

Sounds like you suck at running scouts, and think that cloaking getting nerfed is actually a big deal..

Me, I never needed cloaks; I used scouts only as faster assaults with smaller hitboxes. It works. If you're going to leave because of this, bye-bye. A player that thought a module was the only thing making a class playable?

You won't be missed, trust me.

People on this thread talking about scouts when you see them on the battlefield rocking 900+ HP suits, smh.-

Raven? Pseudo? Adipem? Shotty? Void?
I'm almost certain that all of those named are better, and yes, I included me despite a lower KDR. (Old starter fit days.)

The scout is not a slayer class, it's a SCOUT class.

Go look up the definition of the word scout.

You could do something crazy, like I don't know... Joining a squad and... scouting for them? Maybe hack a point and toss an uplink?

Honestly, I think scouts should only have two side arms, be glad I'm not the one working on things at CCP.

To be fair, i do the same thing and don't use the cloak. But then you delve into a new problem where you're putting a new item into the game that is effectively useless and the skill on the scout class makes no sense cause noone will use it.

I kind of agree with OP only because it never really cured shooting while cloaked. Was just a bandaid
But too much whine for me from OP

From a non-scout perspective: un-cloak should not have animation, because people still see cloaked scout shooting at them.

From a scout perspective: i've learned to un-cloak a little before and the timing is almost fine, but the fix have a problem, sometime it does not change to weapon and you have to press again, that's annoying, but the timing is ok.

The greatest problem are for those who tank scouts, no more charging like bulls in front of the enemy, you can have a lot of HP but if the enemy see you, you are half dead, no more 99% chance of success.