Not true. I have a Scout with a Shotgun and an Assault with a Shotgun...the Scout is magnitudes more efficient...the Assault is just too slow to close in. If you want to kill an AR with a Shotgun, you HAVE to flank. Run around some cover to get them from behind or the side, while they are distracted. You can't really do this with an Assault. And if the AR sees you while you're still not close, you're dead, regardless of what suit you wear.

Exactly. The really funny thing is, the assault suit has enough extra CPU/PG (as well as extra fitting spots) to actually make up for AND EVEN SURPASS the scout suit in sprint speed and STILL have more CPU/PG and higher HP.

Scouts = Stealth...

They were nerfed because of the proliferation of hit detection abusers in the last build, rightly so.

They are now the invisible warriors they were always supposed to be, off the radar, deadly sabatours.

Beware.. players will soon get to grips with these demons...

Auto detonate RE's on roads, fast hack, profile dampners, sensor enhancments and what's that... oh! It's a Nova Knife sticking through your chest....

Sneaky stealthy buggers... mark my words, mark my .... ugh... what's that.....?

I ran with both a scout and an assault suit today, giving each one 50 suits til I dropped to zero. What I found is that the scout suits speed bonus over the assault can be completely disregarded, I raced a buddy of mine today. I was in scout, he was in assault and both of us were carrying assault rifles. By the time a ran out of stamina I was only a few meters ahead of him.

The only real advantages I found in the scout were I higher jump and slightly better turning speed( which does make a difference when it comes to sniping or using the shotgun in close quarters imo). Unfortunately I can't test the effectiveness of the dropsuit signature between the scout and the assault, but I assume it does make a difference when going around corners or being seen from a distance.

Overall in my opinion the scout suit doesn't have enough of an advantage over the assaults hp until we get more stealth mods in. I can preform all the scouts tasks when it comes to flanking, sniping, and cqc with the shotgun while I'm in an assault to the same effectiveness, and I even have a higher chance of survival when I'm detected.

Again though there is still more to come and we will have to see if the scouts match the other suits when cloaking comes out. I recommend other people to run an assault and treat it as a scout suit to see what there opinion on it is, maybe you will come up with something different than me. At has been stated by ccp that the scout will balance itself out with more maneuverability than other suits, but sadly I do not see it.

Playing with am Amarr Scout now.

I am seeing that I have enough speed to disengage a firefight. but not enough speed to stay in one. that of course, would be the Strafing speed nerf.

so if I go head up with someone, it is mostly flee or die, or at least flee to a better position to get the jump on him.

I've escaped near-certain death several times on this map by sprinting and knowing the terrain.

I feel dirty using the AR in my scout suit, but it's the far and away best weapon in the game at this point.

haven't had a good chance to try out the Nova Knives, haven't yet gotten close enough to someone.

Ya they are. I am hoping for some improvement with any bonuses they will have to stealth mods an electronic warfare, but not to good of an improvement, always want to avoid the gaze of the nerf hammer overlord.

And the heavy had a swarm launcher... People still realized it was stupid to play that way. I have been rocking a heavy suit and I can still strafe effectively against people who can't aim, so to me it just sounds like a broken game mechanic was just fixed and the scout suit wearers are up in arms like some of the tank drivers.