EWAR scout: vs EWAR Assault:

I can see more

See farther

Remain invisible

Faster

Smaller hit box

Same DPS

More equipment

Bricktanked scout vs bricktanked Assault

The scout still:

Sees more

Sees farther

Remains invisible

Faster

Smaller hitbox

Equivalent DPS

Same eHP

More equipment

All skill of course.

But as everyone knows the biggest problem with the game is assault dropships of course. Now they're OP.

People are crying because they don't have a thing called Situational Awareness.
It's unfortunate. Scouts shouldn't have been nerfed this much

Well, the brick tanked scout does not have the same eHP, just similar, but your point still stands: scouts are still vastly superior to assaults.

To be honest, I don't get all the cry about the cloak. The cloak doesn't make the scout class OP IMO. Its the complete lack of effective counters to a scout's ewar capabilities that make it crazy OP. The only way to see anything more than a mildly dampened scout is to run a scout suit.

A logi with 4 complex precisions mods can't see a mildly dampened scout on their passive scans and logis have the best scan precision of the medium and heavy suits. Considering logis have base HP closer to scouts than assaults, the logi would likely have less HP than the scout.

Sneaking up on units that are engaged in a fire fight is easy to do if you do not show up on their passive scans. I've done it in an assault suit with no dampening modules, my dampening skill only at 4, and no cloak. Even though I was using non-OHK weapons like the flaylock/smg and my gun game is meh at best, I still could fairly consistently come out of matches with positive kdr.

Running a gal logi with active scans is not actually an effective counter because the cool down, and limited range leaves massive spatial and temporal holes and scouts get warnings when they are actually scanned. Active scans in non-gal logis are useless (I prevent scans in my logi suit with no dampening modules equipped; I evade simply because I have dampening to lvl 5).

So, all of this means that a gal or cal scout can run one dampening module and brick tank their HP to the lower HP range of an assault, and still not be seen. Amar/min scouts would need to run two complex dampening modules to be invisible, but if the logi ran only 2 complex dampening modules, one dampening module is enough. You'd be a fool to use your cloak when you are close to them because that is the only thing other than the kill screen that would alert a solitary player of your presence.

Two players? EITHER: OHK the first -> second player starts to react because they heard your shotgun/knives -> OHK the second, OR: drop 1-2 RE and OHK them both.

Three players? EITHER: Drop 1-2 REs and OHK them all, OR: OHK the first -> second and third player starts to react because they heard your shotgun/knives -> OHK the second -> use superior speed and small hit box to engage in a fire fight with the third or run away, OR: pull back -> wait for one of them to split from the group -> see steps for single player engagement.

Don't get me wrong here: there is still skill in delivering the OHK. However, the completely unbalanced ewar tips engagements massively in the scout's favour.

Yes the scout should be feared like any other suit in the game

Not long ago, Ghost ran a heavy with an Amarr scout decked with precision mods in tow.

If I given the current situation, if I were to even attempt to approach that situation, I would need to decloak, and be inactive long enough for Ghost to have turned around and gunned me down.

With EWAR so significantly tied to cloaks, it is much more than a risk/reward situation. I don't know who has what when entering an area. If I am lazy and assume that its all heavies and scouts with no precision, then I end up in a situation where everyone knows where my squishy suit is.

Not to mention the Min Assault that was able to take me out from 9 m away because I happened to run in front of him coming out of cover outside of any building or built up area.

I am damned if I do, damned if I don't. If I use cover because of how easily it is to spot "invisible" cloaked scouts, I limit my own field of view. If I use cover like I should, I have zero ability to avoid heavy/medium suits out and about. In fact, last time I was out transporting, I did it old school and did not activate my cloak, and took the very long route.

The ONLY thing it is good for is avoiding being lit up on someone's tacnet. For everything else I find it useless.