Your Scout suit has a much larger Scan Radius than the other suits, letting you detect enemies much farther away. When you are walking, not sprinting, your Profile size is teeny-tiny. By training up Dropsuit Operations and Profile Dampening, you can make it even smaller. By fitting Profile Dampeners, you can get even smaller.

Sprinting increases your scan profile signature?

Stealth, Scanners, and Speed are your advantages.

Paper-thin Armor and Shields are your disadvantages.

Your Scout suit has a much larger Scan Radius than the other suits, letting you detect enemies much farther away. When you are walking, not sprinting, your Profile size is teeny-tiny. By training up Dropsuit Operations and Profile Dampening, you can make it even smaller. By fitting Profile Dampeners, you can get even smaller.

This means that if you move smartly, you can sometimes walk right through the heart of the enemy by using corners and cover to stay out of line-of-sight. It's hard, but doable.

Because you can run so fast and so long, Scouts also make good speed capture agents to quickly cover ground, place Drop Uplinks, and capture objectives before the enemy can.

..If only my team ever used the damn Uplinks! I swear I'm the only one who ever takes advantage of them.

This, this and this. I've only been playing for a week and I've already gotten the hang of what it means to be a Scout, though I prefer to use the Tactical Assault Rifle for the first life, then switch to the Shotgun in case anyone catches up to me. I like to lure them and blast them on the face with my boomstick. Also, after familiarizing myself with the maps on Skirmish, I've created strategies. Initial tactics that allow me to capture 1 or 2 nodes and deploy a Drop Uplink on a concealed area so my team can strike inside enemy lines and surprise them. "Shock and awe"....If only my team ever used the damn Uplinks! I swear I'm the only one who ever takes advantage of them.

Yes, shotgun is usually the second option for a non-sniper scout, added with the mass driver. The loadout I use involves the scout Type-II suit. The drawbacks of the suit is the slightly slower running speed and no sidearm weapon slot, but the better armor and two equipment slots make it the perfect suit for an objective oriented shotgunner. With the use of a specialist shotgun, I can run around with remote explosives and an uplink, along with a basic codebreaker and profile dampener. It is simply an awesome loadout, as you can sneak past enemy lines nearly unnoticed, hack the objective and just wait for them to try and retake it, only to blow them up with your REs.

It does require skillpoints invested on circuitry and light weapon useage to make the CPU low enough for it to be a valid loadout, even with the specialist shotgun. I still recommend it personally, and it really kicks ass when you run with a full squad.

And as a small tip, when people are shooting at you after you've hacked the null cannon and planted a remote explosive, run away with your remotes equipped. Not only will you run faster- as equipment increases running speed slightly and increase your chance of survival, you can still detonate your remotes if you go into unconcious state(the state in which you can still be revived from). I've scored several kills and probably defended many null cannons with this tactic.

]Good write-up of this great loadout. If anyone is looking for a proper scout loadout, here you go.

Drop uplinks only work for your squadmates - if you're the only guy in your squad, you're SOL.

...That explains a LOT.

IMHO the logi suit makes a better sniper suit than the scout suit.

Is there any point to playing in a scout dropsuit if you aren't keen on sniping? What are the advantages/drawbacks? What would you use as a weapon instead?

Why? What makes it for noobs?

edit: I saw some n00b suggest type-II scout suit, the armor variant. This is bad. If you use this, you are bad too.

Type-II scout suit