hit detection improved?

Aren't they supposed to be?

I've been using scout suits in my alt this build and I find them very useful in running behind groups of enemies taking out an entire squad with shotgun a sub machine guns.

IMO they still have their uses.

I use the speed upgrade and the profile dampener with dmg upgrades. Works out pretty well most of the time depending on the map.

In my experience, again it depends on the map. If someone sees me I would usually run for cover and stalk them again from a different direction.

It really feels like your hunting prey.

well we both can have a duel at hacking points then. That's one thing assaults can't do as good as logis. Except for the whole "take all the crap others need on the frontline (nanohives, droplinks, you name it) with you" part of course (I do admit, i have no idea how many slots assaults have for droplinks etc. but my guess would )

Then i'd also like to see you in an assault put up with a tank and after that infantry with the same build. Call me crazy, but i do believe heavies are better at busting installations / tanks with their inferno guns than assaults with their Swarm launchers. They are the bigger threat to infantry at least.

Regarding scouts: i use scouts in emergency situations, in case we get baseraped/camped/redlined/callithoweveryouwant, to fastly put a forward spawn droplink right in the back of the enemies. I'd really like to see you trying that in a run of the mill assault suit (i am talking about using blueprint grade scout dropsuits, with only one militia grade assault rifle, no grenades - it's basically a suicide suit). You'd most certainly get squashed in the process.

Wanting to get rid of all the other suits, because Assaults are better in . . . your average fighting encounter. . . makes you look like a KDR focused type of guy.

Some good comments made so far about scout use and balance. I would like to see increased base scan range and better scan precision. Possibly slightly increased walk/strafe speed. I would like to see scouts have a more valuable role in a squad instead of being confined to solo work only. Increased ability to add radar information for your local squad mates would be a great addition.

I do agree with this and like that the scout suit has more of an identity now. Other than the best ever CQC suit there ever was.

It almost seems like everyone just wants all the suits to be the same in the end. Scout suit is a specialist suit and is great for tackling certain situations during a match.

But it is not a great generalist suit that you can just throw on and use to slog it out on the front lines. It is not a utilitarian suit for boosting KDR in gun fights.

Hopefully signature profile, scanning, even stealth will play a more important role as we get into the game. Yes, you can fit logi suits so they move fast. But that is not the only benefit of a scout suit. In some situations it's better to be nearly invisible to your opponent than to be able to move fast.

Right now I have been using a scout suit with signature dampeners, a shot gun, and drop uplink for that first horrible spawn into ambush. I have found it to be the suit with the highest survival rate when spawning in randomly in ambush.

Edit* should add, besides heavy. Never really survive spawning right in front of a heavy in any suit. And I don't use the heavy suit myself.

And Edit* again... to me it just feels like I am not getting away with as much as I have been able to in the past. I've run a scout fitting in almost every build and did like that I used to be able to dodge bullets. Just seems like scout is not dodging bullets as much, anymore.