Baal Omniscient
Qualified Scrub
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Posted - 2015.01.04 23:40:00 -
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Scouts were fine before, I had amazing fun with scouts back when there were only 2 of them. As for fixing them now, build the frickin' cloak into their suit, take away the other equipment slot, drop their CPU/PG and slots down to levels resembling the first scouts in Uprising and you have it made. They should be limited by their PG/CPU and layouts like every other suit. If they must lose a weapon, don't make it a type of weapon. Drop them to one weapon instead of 2. If you wanna instagank a guy with your new auto-aim knives, go for it. But you're not going to be able to defend yourself from a range. The only exception to that would be the Minnie scout, as it's lacking an eWar bonus it should keep it's extra weapon slot.
Basically force a scout suit to play within it's role. Fewer module slots means eWar OR extra health instead of both and lower PG/CPU means sacrifices to how much health you can run with decent weapons.
Scout PG/CPU was massively bumped up for cloak fitting and it was the whole point of the second equipment slot.
So, in short: Drop the sidearm slot or drop the equipment slot, then build in the cloak or give all scout suits a flat fitting cost reduction to cloaks so you can cut their PG/CPU to something reasonable, then cut module layouts a bit so they can't tank EVERYTHING.
Also, they have far better regen abilities than anyone else. Thought I'd point that out since you left it off your list. It is a very nice list though, very inclusive.
In closing.... Every suit is supposed to have a weakness. For heavies it's movement, eWar, regen (which is overcome through teamwork such as logis or rep hives) and hitbox. For mediums it is (and should be) a combination of all suits weaknesses but to a lesser extent; meaning eWar, hitbox, speed, eHP, etc. Scout's weakness is.... what again? Exactly. Short of being able to not carry heavy weapons, what is it that another suit can do better than a scout besides tank damage?
Until the scout is the glass cannon it once was I refuse to run more than my Dragonfly scout (and I do NOT have points in Gallente scouts). And I've been waiting a loooong time.
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