My playstyle could largely be referred to as "Homicidal bulldozer" or "Vehicle-seeking missile."

Mine was low-risk, effective, and to me, fun. A lot of people might not have liked it though because it largely avoided combat.

Fitting was a minmatar scout with a mass driver, SMG, uplinks, cloak, triple myofibs, a codebreaker, profile damp, and whatever else I felt like throwing on.

For the most part, I would stick to the edges and low-traffic areas of the map, keeping track of where all the fighting was, and cloaking whenever I crossed wide open areas.

I would look for unguarded or lightly guarded objectives and CRUs, ninja my way over, then stealth hack them. If someone was in my way, I would use stealth, mobility, and a little bit of psychology to my advantage to get the element of surprise and either OHK them with melee while my cloak is up (triple myofib roids), or get a couple of direct hits in with my mass driver. Had to be careful because I had no eHP to play with.

While I moved between points, I would use my myofibs to get on odd ledges and platforms nobody could otherwise reach, and throw an uplink up. Though I usually prioritized uplink safety over being close to an important area.

I usually would end up with few kills, fewer deaths, but lots of WP.


What I meant by using psychology was kindof playing with people. Cloak up and wait where I knew they wouldn't look (on top of CRUs, for instance), or I would lead them in circles around something before changing direction on them. Of course, my passive scans helped me cheat a little there because I would know if they turned around as well.

Always loved scouts for **** like that: your lack of eHP leaves no margin for error, but if you know how to use them, you'll never get shot in the first place.

I remember chasing your tank around in my Minja suit for the whole game at one point. Didn't care about the point. I wanted to kill the bob damn it.

Imagine if you had diarrhea and had to find a toilet quickly in a foreign city. That's how I played.

Also, nearing the end of the the game I seemed to just realize I play scout very aggressively almost too aggressively.

I feel like that was usually the case with scouts: the majority of shotgun scouts should have just been running around in an assault suit with kincats.

It was always my philosophy that the most effective way to fight was to tank HP, win 1 v 1 confrontations with your superior HP, then avoid combat for a little bit to regen, then repeat. That was why I usually preferred Shield Extenders over Rechargers/Energisers, and Plates over too many reps. I used to hardly ever run reps, instead preferring the mix the Reactive Plates gave you. It's also the reason why for a long time I ran a Minja that had just under 500 eHP. Say what you want about it, but it was effective.

Might as well play a damped assault at that point.

I took the immortal merc thing seriously and basically went berserker sentinel for most of the game. When playing in pubs the only reason to bust out better than cheapass was for dealing with the occasional stomper or vehicle. And never use anything but free fits

didn't much care how much money I lost.

I played to win

I have frequent flyer miles on shooting blues for the funzies