As much as I loved the 1.9 update , it gave a terrible meaning to running scout.

As we see 80% less when cloaked so we have no idea if we have to face some enemies.
So when some enemies randomly pop up in front of us we ALWAYS lose ? Why you may ask ?
Because it takes more than a second to decloak to try and defend ourselves. We are always dead by the time we decloak as the scout runs with a sliver of health. We can't do what our name says , what our role is for !
let me give you the definition of a scout :
To spy on or explore carefully in order to obtain information; reconnoiter.

So now , if we want to spy , we have to run without the cloak , so we are not careful and have no chance of surviving if we are spotted. We can not accomplish safely or effectively our role of providing our team enemy positions 24/7.

So what are the consequences of this , you may ask ?

1- Growing number of SG scouts on the field.
It is one of the only ways running scout is still useful for the player.Not because of the suit but because of the good rate of fire on an high alpha damage weapon. Noob friendly I may call it , but even the players from corps like FA run it.

2- Slayer scouts aka light assaults
Players using these suits dual tank it the most and take advantage in gun fights of their small hitbox, passive scans and dampening.They can achieve high eHP like regular assaults, while having better regen of their health.
The role is not full filled and breaks the other role that is assault.

My proposed solution

So we know that the problem with scouts is that they can't fulfill their role correctly of scouting.
I propose to remove one of the two problems it has now : EWAR or Survivability ( decloak time )

You can give back the scouts cloaked EWAR scans while maintaining the long decloak delay ( could be even .5 seconds longer ). This way we can run safely EWAR suits.

The other way would be to remove the cloak delay to make it like and instant deccloak.This would solve nothing as scout slayers could run around cloaked this time . So best solution would be above !


If you agree or support what I say in this post, please take a second to like this post and leave your thoughts on this below.
I really feel that we need to fight to balance and get the most fun role in the game fun and viable again.

This could bring the old good scouts back and we could maybe see more nova knifers on the field .

Thanks for the read !
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