You're a scout. Why do you need two?

Let the Logi carry the equipment, you just focus on your speed and your shotty.

Besides, what you're describing is a lone wolf scenario. Active scanner to warn you of baddies and an uplink to spawn back at your favorite camp spot.

This game attempts to look down at the lone wolf and give the teamplayers bonuses.

If you want to go out alone, you have to deal with the little equipment / limited ammo / 0 survivability. If you want to travel in a group, enjoy your reps / ammo / spawns / meatshields / communication / verbal abuse.

It's not lone wolf at all. The uplink is to get your team into position, not to get back to your camping spot. Scouts can't even camp, they have to be on the move at all times because of their low health. What I'm suggesting is making the scout more of a team player. Yes he would often travel alone because it's easier for enemies to spot groups, but he would still be working for the team and not himself.

While the intention is good, I can just see this becoming Sniper514.

This has been bothering me. I can understand why Assault only gets one because they should be more focused on killing, but for scout it makes no sense. They should have at least 2.

Here's why. Scouts have very low hit points, only a few shots and you're dead. They are not supposed to be engaging in much combat. So you're sneaking around all over the place and you get behind the enemies, now what? Scouts in real life carry a good bunch of gadgets with them, and in video games stealth gameplay is usually always accompanied with an assortment of gadgets. But scout can only carry one? The active scanner seems like it would be a scouts best friend, but if you carry that you can't really do anything. You just get behind lines and sit there. So a second equipment slot to carry an uplink would make sense.

Maybe there is some reason I'm missing, but it just doesn't seem very scout-like to only carry one piece of equipment around with you. Right now they are more hit-and-run assassins than scouts.

Was a scout sniper in real life bro, we carried a radio, range finder and a kit to make a hide site. Thats it.

Go on somewhere with that argument. THe only people who need equip slots are logi.

While the intention is good, I can just see this becoming Sniper514.

Yea because logis cant use snipers, right?

I'm not talking about scout snipers though. That's more of a marksmen anyways. I'm talking about the people who actually sneak into enemy bases and infiltrate and all that good stuff (which is what the current Scout specialization is supposed to be for).

I get your point and all, but balance is what worries me. Logis are the equipment dudes, I'd only be ok if it were proto scout suit.

Scouts give up the other equipment slots for more speed and high shield regen.

Logis give up speed for more slots.

Assaults are a middle ground. (1 equipment for a more tuned focus for combat)

Heavies are meaty tanks.

You have to live to your own little roles, You wouldnt be running so fast and be so undetectable with another equipment slot. (scan profile and all)

Also, where would you find the CPU and PG to fit it? Uplinks and Scanners are some of the more fitting intensive equipments you can use.

If i remember my stats correctly, a scanner and an uplink would take up 2/3's of a scout's PG. Let alone modules, weapon, and grenades.

in my eyes there are 6 types of freakin scout on this game!!!

flanker: a less common type carries drop uplink his own armor rep in low slot and uses shotgun and SMG or scrambler pistol goes around and slams into them while your team advances on your position closing the gap while the enemy is distracted

recon: goes through and spots enemies rarely ever used, carries shotgun or SMG's normally active scanner or droplinks doesn't actually fight just gets a spawn position and then watches for enemies while squad spawns in

blind spot rusher: does a form of flanking but shield tanks more often then not runs around into a blind spot and normally does a suicide run at the very last moment when the team is advancing to deal a crushing blow to the enemy while your team finishes them off at your expense.

sniper: umm... duh sniping carries nanohives and sniper rifle pre-patch used a type II scout

cost runner: tanks in a prototype suit with a powerful assault rifle normally stays near the squad and provides rushing, espionage, and sentinel support.

assassin: the rare knife runner kind of a lone wolf of sorts runs fast, fights hard, runs away faster, also uses shotgun and appears out of the sky and kills and disapears as fast as they could normally using a double backing technique

well that i my summary i have run all of them accept the cost runner but this is my summary so umm i think the specialty roles should have extra equipment slots... since there is so much SP cost for them >_>

You forgot the one who thinks he's an assault.

nope thats the cost runner :) some lest costly to run than others... making them less efficient