Ghost Hyperhex
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Posted - 2015.09.06 11:32:00 -
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Loran Stalkii wrote:
Drop Suit: 'NEO' Scout A-I
Primary: Breach Assault Riffle
Secondary: Breach Scrambler Pistol
Grenade: Locus Grenade
Extra: Basic Cloak Field, Uplink
2 Basic PG's 2 Basic CPU's
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As you can see from above this is a pretty pricey dropsuit
to purchase in large units, so I am open to suggestions and constructive criticism on this load out.
To be fairly honest, I see absolutely no way that this suit is pricy (Don't waste your AUR on NEO suits.... please). My "pricy" suits cost around 150k -200k (+300k-500k if it has my officer weapons) each.
Now to the main point. New players using scouts is a very big gamble. Eventually you're going to get into very "No scout friendly" maps or games. Maybe everyone of your friends wants to try Ambush and you get some big open maps. Being a scout there puts you at a big disadvantage.
I'm not necessarily trying to turn you away from scout but I want you to realize playing a scout is a certain type of style, not like the other roles that are pretty straight forward, and you don't have a lot of health so you will have to run away a lot. Once you come to the conclusion, "I hate being scout", then you will have waste a ton of SP. Also Amarr scout is more or less a small assault/scout hunter suit. The real sneaky scout and [in my opinion, the best!] scout is Gallente scout if that's the playstyle you were looking for. Gallente scout is the dampened scout that hides under all the scans, the one that all the scouts try to play around..... The feared scout that is the only scout able to get under the Duvolle Focused Scans!
Now as for your fit. Instead of just telling one, I'm going to help you help yourself.
If you have to fit PG and CPU upgrades on your scout suit, you're doing something wrong. So get rid of the cloak field which is the obvious reason.
tbh, good scouts who use cloak fields only do so when shotgunning, nova knifing or doing other tasks that are more or less "Get in, kill stuff, and get out". So if you were thinking of using that a lot, you have the wrong idea of scouting. Cloak is a smooth escape tactic where you run and "parkour" out of a dangerous situation, then cloak in a corner or cloak when the enemy can't see you so you can keep running away (and feel badass).
As was stated before, don't use the cloak field until you're a proto scout (-45% of the cpu and pg cost of the cloak for lv 5 scouts). It''ll be a waste of space and make the rest of your suit weaker. Also basic scouts are weak because basic ferroscale plates/reactive plats (The two plates a scout should use) give a really low amount of health and basic armor reps give very little help. (Pay attention, I'm telling you which lows you'll be using).
Your equipment 99.99% of the time should consist of at least one uplink. You can place them in locations when the enemy team is slaughtering your team, that will cause your teammates to flank them from behind or get away safely. Scouts are what get teams out of the redline most times.
Your equipment choices consist of Active Scanner, Uplinks (this is fantastic!), Nanohive, Cloak Field, Remote Explosives, or Proximity Remote Explosives. Any combinations of those equipment choices are up to you *Pushes the Uplink in your face*.
Light weapon and sidearm are up to you but you want to do a lot of damage fast. (I used to use the CR mostly, occassionally the AR, other times Shotgun or Dual Wield Sidearms :D). So pick something comfortable. I'd advise against the BrAR because it shoots slow (I'm aware of the high damage). My prefered scout sidearms are either Scrambler Pistol of any variant or a Bolt Pistol.
Nowadays, your high slots might be Myos (Oh my....). But your choices are shield extender, precision enhancer (to hunt other scouts), dmg mod (I'd say stay away from these..... unless Dual Wield Sidearms!), or myo. Choice and combination all up to you.
Now the main roles of Each Race's Scout. They are but not limited to
Amarr - Hunting other scouts, small tanked assault, getting to good uplink spots quickly, flanking, tanked as an assault but faster strafe than assaults.
Caldari - Hunting other scouts, heightened passive scans, solo scout, small shield tanked assault, intel on battlefield via passive scans.
Gallente - Espionage as the most dampened scout, holding points and instilling fear, flanking, taking objectives and protecting until the objective is hacked, scout hunting, sexy shotgunning
Minmatar - Speed Hax and counter hax, slicing through dropsuits with nova knives as if they were wind, holding objective and clearing rooms **However do note that this scout is the weakest in terms of ewar, as in you have to sacrifice a lot of HP (relatively speaking) to combat other well equipped scouts, so DO NOT make this your first scout and only dropsuit. You'll have a hard time**
Choice is yours
The rest you can figure out or pm me in game. Remember, it'll be a tough role at first but if you think you like it, then go for it. I just advice getting a medium dropsuit to fall back on when you don't feel like being a scout (Other than frontline starter fit).
Happy Hunting.
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When my dropsuit is broken and rusted off, I'll pick up the pieces and blanket the fallen. I am Ghost Hyperhex
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