Illuminaughty-696
Omega Risk Control Services
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Posted - 2013.03.05 22:46:00 -
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I run mostly assault, but I have some scout fits. I just don't have the tempement for shotguns so have fitted an AR and remote explosives on mine. I've increased the scan range and strength, while reducing my own signature profile. I do okay.
The speed allows me to hit and run. if people see me, I disengage, come from a different direction, and reengage. I love to lure people into remote explosive ambushes as well, plus protecting objectives or choke points with RE's is great. The extra scan strength and radius makes me a real scout, able to tell people where the enemy is. I see cherries the second they hit the edge of my radar and often before that (for the little arrow things).
I've also walked around in a group of reds laying down remote explosives, before running away and detonating them. They either failed to look at the radar or I never popped up on it. Speed, again, allowed me to sprint away when one did finally see me, duck behind a corner, then blow the explosives. Boom.
Once I finish getting my assault to where I want him, I'm going to start training up my scout again. Scout is all I used to play during the old E3 build. People thought they were broken back then, so I swtiched. Now everyone complains they are too weak, yet with crappy scout gear I do okay. It's about play style.
Too many people seem to think scouts should be able to rush in right alongside the assaults. The only way to make that even kind of viable is as a shotgun scout (in which case, as the OP suggests, you're not really a scout). Try being in a squad, fitting scan boosters and signal dampeners, and scout out the enemy, calling in their position and strength to your squad. Then, when your squad attacks head on, you engage from the enemie's flank or rear. That's a real scout imo.
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Also, I can often get to spots other suits can't, engaging the enemy from an angle they weren't prepared for, or retreating over terrain they can't. Fit some nice sprint boosters now and you can really jump, man. I've hopped over walls no other suit could and laughed as I ran away. |