My fit for the A series scout is

2x complex extender
Assault rifle
SMG
Nano hive
Basic armor plate
Militia armor rep

8 kd so far with about 300 kills. The best part is when I run right inside the blob of Reds in ambush and then run away with barely any health.

A good Scout plays to the advantages they have instead of the advantages everyone else has.

Look back through my posts (and the ones here) for a better explanation of why Scouts are actually awesome in the right hands. It's not about luck, it's about knowing how the suit works.

And on my tank alt, I've run into a good DJINN player running as a Scout. My girlfriend's seen one too - not sure if it's the same guy or not, but against my girlfriend, the two of them had a few encounters and it was 50/50 as to which of them was going to still be standing.

My girlfriend is a Sniper more often than not. Quite a good one, too.

If she can keep Scouts at range, she almost always wins. If not, her SMG has something to say about it.

But her (heavily tanked) Assault suit was still struggling to hold up against a DJINN player in a Scout suit when they got inside her Sniper range.

And I'm not saying they're ALL good, or that they use Scouts often, just that I've seen it more than once.

I'm also trying to point out that the Scout suit isn't as weak as you're trying to claim, which was a more important point anyway. They have disadvantages, just like every suit does. They have more strengths than most people give them credit for though, and they're better than you seem to think based on your posts.

I use various Scout fittings, and while I run Shotguns more often on my Scout than any other weapon, I do the same with my Logi and Assault characters as well, so I can comfortably compare the performance of the suits while using the same weapons.

A Shotgun Assault is NOT as good for my playstyle as a Shotgun Scout. There are points in favour of using a Scout suit that the Assault either CAN'T match in any way, or has to sacrifice a LOT to match, and if you want to match several of the Scout's benefits with the Assault, you end up losing most of the Assault's usual advantages to do so.

I use them with SMGs and ARs with reasonable success. I'm not very good with ARs in DUST, but I can use them well enough on a Scout suit (better than I can use them on an Assault)

As a proto scout i can say that i wish I didn't spec into it, The suit is entirely not worth it due to the fact that it has the least cpu and health of all the suits combined with a 3high, 3low setup, and the small advantages it does have are insignificant compared to these drawbacks.