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Caldari natu, caldari. way beyond our price range.

Tried to stick with the CQC Scout for the longest time but all it did was keep my ISK levels (and KDR) in the negative.

The role doesn't have anything to it that is Scout specific. Heavy's have access to Heavy Weapons - the only dropsuit that has access to them. Scouts need Cloaking to be specific to them to give them an edge that no-one else has.

Except we already have lower Scan Profile, higher Scan Precision and better Scan Radius than every other suit out there, and some of the best speed out there as well.

Focus slightly less on CQC, and slightly more on SCOUT, and you'll do better.

Speed is not high enough, barely more than an Assault Type-II.

But my best counter argument to your defense of them is that ALL Scan Profiles can be completely circumvented by 'Visual Confirmation' (aiming down the sight at the target) REGARDLESS of the person's Precision. I have been fighting against this since day one as it very easily defeats the Scout's primary defense. Combine that with the fact that Active Scanners are being implemented, there is going to be a very big disparity in the CQC Scout's usefulness when his primary defenses are so easily circumvented.

Edit to clarify: I feel that you should not be able to perform a 'visual confirmation' unless your Precision would normally beat their Profile. Otherwise, the system is bunk.

Stop walking in front of enemies and claiming that it's stealthy? Worked for me.

Hahaha! +1 to you! He has a point. Those I kill never see me coming. Whether by RE or shot in the back from my shotty. Raise your dampning. It helps a lot. Not every one checks. in skirmish hardly. ambush, sometimes cause they don't want to get flanked.

Dropsuit Command 5 + Sensor Dampening 5. Does not stop a Sniper from giving his entire team a visual confirmation. At best, visual confirmation should only alert your squad.

Dropsuit Command 5 + Sensor Dampening 5. Does not stop a Sniper from giving his entire team a visual confirmation. At best, visual confirmation should only alert your squad.

Uhhhh... it already does that? If you're not in a squad, nobody who IS in a squad will see the targets you light up. If you are in a squad, nobody outside your squad will see the targets you light up.

I think it SHOULD light you up for the whole team, but CCP apparently agree with you. And yes, this has been thoroughly tested and confirmed.

If you're still getting spotted, then you're sneaking up on the wrong targets while they have someone watching their flanks. Maybe you should go after the sniper first, so he's not spoiling the surprise?

Alright - cool - I'm wrong. The Scout is completely fair and balanced.

S'why we see Proto Scouts with Proto Shotguns all over the place.

Edit: In case you didn't get it ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ that's obvious sarcasm.

I'm not saying they're completely fair and balanced.

I'm saying they're a lot closer to it than you can see, because you're not playing the role correctly, and are complaining that people are outplaying you. There are problems, but the problems you're seeing are more because of your own mistakes than because of flaws in the design.

Go play a match, be it skirmish or ambush, without a squad. Whenever a Scout (or any player for that matter) just randomly pops up on your minimap directly behind you - come back and say that again.

I play on my own quite often.

I see a lot of players in the "No Squad" bracket, from whom I'm getting information fed to me. I also have well-trained scanning skills, and usually run as a Scout, so it's pretty rare for anything but another Scout to get into Shotgun range without me noticing, even when I'm not fitted for scanning. My Logi and Assault builds (on other alts) are less scanning-focused, and unless the other guy screws up, I don't usually see CQC Scouts until too late. And as a Heavy, I need someone watching my back, or I need to constantly be looking around just in case, because if I don't, I die to a sneaky Shotgunner.