Why do you need a 2nd equip slot?

1. Gal scout to 5 - all scan skills to 5 - cloak -5 - I rarely use that 2nd equip slot except for stick on a frisbee RE because its easy

2. Cloak and RE - Win win for scouts, stick it on a dren BPO and go to town, if in doubt throw an RE

3. If one slot you have to choose between cloak and RE but RE shouldnt be thrown like a grenade and needs to be fixed to be dropped like a weight

In other words, being less invisible is not a job.

What?

I asked my girl the same thing. I can only use one....

Infiltration? Become invisible, pass behind the enemy and leave a spawn point behind them?

OP is right Scouts should have 3 equipment slots.

1. So this is the only answer which isnt cloak and RE and this answer is never used by a scout ever, i have never seen this done once

2. How many scouts would be fine with either 1 equipment slot or only allowing the RE on with no cloak or the cloak on with no RE, basically you can fit one but not the other, i would be fine with either

3. How many would be fine with RE dropping like a weight onto the floor/wall and cannot be thrown at all using any kind of fast movement or jumping? id support it

1. So this is the only answer which isnt cloak and RE and this answer is never used by a scout ever, i have never seen this done once

I use cloak to put uplinks behind enemy lines all the time, both in pubs and in PC. Do the same to get my team out of trouble should they we spawn trapped in Ambush, and sneak uplinks to high ground or sniping positions as first order of business if we're getting steamrolled.

If Uplinks aren't needed, I typically run cloak and an active scanner to paint hostile positions from behind enemy lines.

If the missions calls for a AV, I run cloak and either REs for sapping or a nanohives for swarming. Apart from AV, if I'm running REs, I'm using them to sabotage objectives post-hack or bust up the ridiculous heavy blobs which dominate current meta.


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2. How many scouts would be fine with either 1 equipment slot or only allowing the RE on with no cloak or the cloak on with no RE, basically you can fit one but not the other, i would be fine with either

3. How many would be fine with RE dropping like a weight onto the floor/wall and cannot be thrown at all using any kind of fast movement or jumping? id support it

OP is right Scouts should have 3 equipment slots.

sometimes they are the only way to beat the logi heavy pair (with difficulty)

Knife the logi, then knife the heavy. Problem solved.

Scouts need two slots.


Reason one:

Drop uplinks and scans


Reason two:


Cloak and scans


Reason three:


Cloak and Links


Reason four:


Any other combo they want, be it dual scans, dual links, cloaks and RE's. Get over it, based on the role, scouts actually need dual slots. Quit complaining about scouts please. Situational awareness keeps you from getting killed, and you will find scouts are way easy to kill when you see one rushing up on you. Pop, pop pop, down goes the paper scout, even tank scouts are paper. Think about it, a proto tank scout (ck.0) maybe 500 shields 200 armor vs. a proto tank assault (ck.0) 500-600 shield 400-600 armor. Tell me that one of these comparable meta level suits isn't easier to kill than the other. The scout at that point couldn't even have a cloak.

You do realize that the new Equipment Bandwidth will go a long way to making this a non issue right?

What does it matter if someone has 2 equipment items if they can necessarily use both?

...they are not hard to avoid, ...