The scout suit is pretty worthless at this point. If you're going to run as a sniper, might as well be a logi or an assault. Scouts don't really excell at anything.

once they fix the filtering effects snipers are going to be called "OP i can't see where they are."
calling it now, as scouts slowly drop their profile to ridiculous levels all you will see is assault suits dropping to the ground.

i took one look at the un-modified damage of the level V sniper rifle and knew that people were going to be going right into it as soon as they finish dropping their profile.

I get the feeling that the scout suit was designed with cloaking in mind. Right now it doesn't really have such a good role. It is garbage for sniping in, and its ability as a front-line infantry suit doesn't seem to be so hot. I am left wondering what its niche is meant to be, although I assume it was intended to involve cloaking.

I've specialized in Scout so far.

Ask old time beta testers.

I've never been seen out of one with this character after finding out which fit my style ini july..

Now scouts aren't meant to tank stuff, but they are way to easy to hit in gun fights with sideways movement, and to use speed to get out, you have to turn your camera to sprint out. and when you do that, the new hit detection makes it death.

It's really lost its touch, although it's touch was enhanced before with bad hit detection.

If the low signatur profile is low iam going to guess stealth this would also be buffed by the cloaking keep that in mind when balencing, in my opinion the scout is not designed to go head to head with the assult its designed to dispence a cold calculated serving of bullets to the back of the targets head.

I agree (head to head isn't for the scout), but at 350 or 400m, a scout with a sniper rifle should win. Anything mid to short range, no. But at long range a sniper scout should win, but right now they don't.

Oh yeah i agree a sniper rifles effective range in modern day is at least 1000m and it does one thing very well putting one big bullet very percily onto one spot, while i will admit a 1000m shot is not easy to pull of it has been done, But as some people say about the AR has too much range iam not sure i agree in reality a AR can hit further than these ARs can but the ones we have now are the close range weapon type so maybe they are right, but i think the bigger problem the snipers have against AR is that ARs dont currently have recoil which effectivly meens we can fire full auto and anti snipe that is not right while a skilled AR marksman can hit at ranges the AR is shooting every one is currectly a skilled marks man because you dont need to compinsate for anything about the gun yet.

I also think that the tac net system needs a redesign so its manual and that people who provide the "intel" get points for it that is where scouts with their array of advanced sensors and sensor dampeners would shine and would be as vital a role as a logi especialy if they had stuff like jammers/scramblers to mess up hostile tac net then the cqc scout would have a part in a squad other than where the hell is he gone?

+1 for almost useless scout. I run logi or assault now to fulfill the same roles. Speed and got detection need to be fixed. Scout now = fat ninja.

Yeah, I think that's my greatest complaint here. The scout suit has no role. Every other suit does.

Scout suit to snipe? Nope, assault is better. Scout suit to hack objectives? Nope, assault suit is also better because it's slightly slower yet can actually fight back (not paper thin). Scout to run around in cqc? Nope, heavy assault or plain assault is better. Scout for support/revive? Nope, Logi is better with revive and more CPU/PG for drop uplinks and nanohive.

I just want to know what CCP sees as the role for the scout, because I can't find one.

Yeah, I think that's my greatest complaint here. The scout suit has no role. Every other suit does.

Scout suit to snipe? Nope, assault is better. Scout suit to hack objectives? Nope, assault suit is also better because it's slightly slower yet can actually fight back (not paper thin). Scout to run around in cqc? Nope, heavy assault or plain assault is better. Scout for support/revive? Nope, Logi is better with revive and more CPU/PG for drop uplinks and nanohive.

I just want to know what CCP sees as the role for the scout, because I can't find one.

...But as some people say about the AR has too much range iam not sure i agree in reality a AR can hit further than these ARs can...

Just occured to me does CCP intend to put skill bonuses on suits like they do on ships in eve, a scout could have racial sniper rifle damage +5% to damage per level and maybe stability this would make it better at sniping than a assult for sniping? It would probably have like a bonus like a cover op ship for cloacking devices making it the base line of covert suits with others varients of assult and logi having covert ablitity maybe the Teck 2 or 3 varients?

To put it simply, the scout has more disadvantage than advantage. You get a minor increase in stealth capabilities and an almost imperceptible increase in speed, but you have to trade out a significant amount of HP, CPU, PG, and even lose some fitting space to get that tiny bump.

I've played almost entirely scout for about 3 months now, and even paid for the merc pack almost solely for the Dragonfly, but I won't touch it now.... there's just no logical reason to justify using that piece of junk.