I'm at wit's end. Everything that I try to do with my scout suit either fails, or is a low-scoring, boring exercise in insignificance. I still like the scout for some masochistic reason, and I'm trying to suit up for effective fun. If one of you successfully scary scouts could slide me a family recipe, I'd greatly appreciate it. Keep it simple, I'm not bright.

Thanks,
OT

I'm at wit's end. Everything that I try to do with my scout suit either fails, or is a low-scoring, boring exercise in insignificance. I still like the scout for some masochistic reason, and I'm trying to suit up for effective fun. If one of you successfully scary scouts could slide me a family recipe, I'd greatly appreciate it. Keep it simple, I'm not bright.

Thanks,
OT

Stack speed mods about 2 of them and use stamina mod will make you fast and can get stamina back fast to jump more and keep moving fast. Will make you impossible for light and medium to shoot AR at you. Heavies however you are dead unless you can get behind them.

I roll an armor-tanked Gallente Scout.

-proto gallente scout suit
-1 complex armor repairer
-1 complex armor plating mod
-1 enhanced armor plating mod
-1 basic armour plating mod
-proto TAC AR (I don't wana hear it; in will use the TAC long after it gets nerfed. I prefer to engage enemies at medium range)
-proto SMG for CQC beastage

I've got 70 shields and 422 armor. The armor's weight slows me down more than your average scout, but I still easily outpace all other classes. Play it smart, stick to mid-range battles, fight one enemy at a time, etc. Do the obvious things and you can easily come out of every game with a KDR of 4.

I run hacking scout but haven't yet gone to proto because it's such an expensive suit that if you die 4 times in a game, you're not likely to make a profit (unless it's a PC battle).

I'm currently using the gallente adv light suit with 2 complex hacking mods and a std uplink. I rake in the WP on the hacks and those spawn points are really damn useful - when I get the lvl 2 uplinks today, I'll even be able to fit an adv scrambler/SMG (I run with both to save CPU/PG). This fitting leaves me enough room to have a couple of std shield extenders too, so a little extra protection.

If I ever see a game mode that provides more isk return (other than PC) the proto scout will be amazing and I'd go something like - 2 hacking mods, 1 speed mod, 1 stamina mod. The armor repping suit in the post above me sounds cool too.

If your not bright scout is not for you. The only way to play this class is to wear dampeners and sneak up behind ppl with a shotty or hide in the hills with a sniper riifle. With a shotty you flank and well, blow the back of their heads off. They wont see you with your complex dampener and if someones watching you strafe like a mad man, throw grenades and run away. Move on to the next group or try again

I run hacking scout but haven't yet gone to proto because it's such an expensive suit that if you die 4 times in a game, you're not likely to make a profit (unless it's a PC battle).

I'm currently using the gallente adv light suit with 2 complex hacking mods and a std uplink. I rake in the WP on the hacks and those spawn points are really damn useful - when I get the lvl 2 uplinks today, I'll even be able to fit an adv scrambler/SMG (I run with both to save CPU/PG). This fitting leaves me enough room to have a couple of std shield extenders too, so a little extra protection.

If I ever see a game mode that provides more isk return (other than PC) the proto scout will be amazing and I'd go something like - 2 hacking mods, 1 speed mod, 1 stamina mod. The armor repping suit in the post above me sounds cool too.

One build I've been playing with

-1 complex armor repairer
-1 complex armor repairer
-1 Complex speed mod
-1 complex armor plating mod

speed offsets the plate and some, 10 armor repair a second

also

-1 complex armor repairer
-1 complex armor repairer
-1 complex armor repairer
-complex speed mod

This one is fun you regen fast enough to tank fire while running

Scrambler rifles.Scrambler rifles solve everything.

Thank you sir, I'm going to have to try that out! I miss my speed.


I armor tank, so I get to laugh at scrambler rifle users to their face. They're more dangerous with their sidearm out.

As far as I am concerned scout is dead. I still run it because I hope CCP eventually fixes something. You can play SG scout but know this - you will do way worse than assault with a SG. You can snipe but so can everyone else, except you wont be able to tank countersnipers. You can try knives but for every kill that you score you will be killed at least ones by a back pedalling red dot laughing in your face (for those who use knives - you know what I am talking about). You can try scaning but logis will have less problems with it. Scouts used to have an advantage with scanning profile, range but now passive scanner is so badly broken it does not matter anymore. Bottom line: there is just nothing in this game that you would do better as a scout than other suits.

PS. If you really want to be successful as a scout you should start calling in the free LAV and run ppl over - this is the only viable scout tactic.

Also I think scouts should get 1 extra equipment slot and a bit more fitting, this could create a utility class outside the replenishing classes of logistics suits.