I'm setting this up as NOT another lame attempt to recruit people into a corp. Most established players are happy in their corps, but those of us who are scouts are pretty rare. We need a support group for our poor gimped class

I must admit my main has switched over to Winmatar Logi because of the utility it provides in PC, but my alt will be running around stabbing people in pub matches.

What's the name I looked for scouts united no channnel

"Scouts United"

The time has come for Scouts to unite! Though we are unloved by CCP, we still make our presence felt on the battlefield. Now it's time to teach the rest of New Eden the power that is the Scout! Behold our speed as run circles around your attempt to track us Behold our grace as we jump over your poorly aimed bullets, following that up with a perfectly placed shotgun blast to your face! Behold our stealth as we knife you in the back! Wait, you can't behold that, because you are DEAD! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

So yea, anyways. I'm not on Dust right now so if someone else would like to take the initiative and make this channel, feel free.

Channel Name: Scouts United (gay? best I could come up with)
Requirements: You don't need to be a scout, but you must embody the scout mentality of speed, agility, and stealth.

The channel does exist and we have had as much as 8 people in it at a time (some famous!)

I think 8 scouts is the entire scout player base lol

Count me in... once I get my livingroom back lol

bump because scouts are awesome.

I think 8 scouts is the entire scout player base lol

Cure me of my ignorance. Is a Scout's life really that terrible in New Eden? I ask because I considered becoming one myself.

well, its not terrible, just very hard and frustrating, but the scou life increases your skills, hahaha, well serious now, its pretty hard and we are underpowered in every sense, but there is a reason why scouts are the best players on dust, and no other class has a code, if you meet another scout on the battlefield and both have nova knifes, a duel is upon you, and death or victory are the only way to end the duel, you need to be dedicated and have love for sneaking and stealth, if you dont, dont bother, you will be dissapointed

Cure me of my ignorance. Is a Scout's life really that terrible in New Eden? I ask because I considered becoming one myself.

Exactly. If you like being very tactical in terms of where you can move, what you can do, then it's fun. If you like needing to really choose your fights and opponents, it's fun. If you like dying a lot... wait, let me try again: if you like managing a small number of hitpoints and fighting at a disadvantage, it's fun. If you like running fast as hell and getting behind enemy lines for some guerilla warfare, it's fun.

If you like having a good KDR, not fun. If you like running head-on into engagements, not fun. If you like being a brutish fighter, not fun.

Fun or not, is it terrible? Well, it's hard. Craptastically hard.... and frustrating. And be prepared to die, a lot, and probably not get very many revives.

LOL!! After reading this post, I'm actually interested. Sounds like it would fit my playstyle

LOL!! After reading this post, I'm actually interested. Sounds like it would fit my playstyle

It can be fun, and when it is, its really fun, but other times its frustrating.

Like clearly hitting that guy over and over with your Shotgun and he only loses a quarter of his shield, or being insta-killed by HMGs.

I finally got my ADV Knives last night, but I'm doing terrible with them

I was trying to knife people out of their LAVs.

Haha! Well, good show... it is always nice to have another scout!

My suggestion, to really try it out, is to give it a go with either a Gallente Militia light suit, or a Minmatar militia light suit.

You will be down 1 low module for the Gallente (you will have 1H/1L) relative to the standard suit, and down 1 high for the Minnie (you will have 0H/2L) but as a scout that extra module isn't going to really make much difference in giving you a taste of what the life is like as a scout. I typically (75% of the time) run Militia Minmatar light suits, and maybe 25% of the time a Standard Gallente.

Plenty of good scout threads out there; Shotty's is a good place to start:

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=90055&find=unread

I was trying to knife people out of their LAVs.

do scouts ever scout?

I'm going to skill into that, just to have that little toy. I heard it's really useful for yourself rather then the team. The protos have a lot of variants, that's what I like.

I don't always scout, but when I do