As an avid Scout dropsuit user I find that as of right now, the Scout suit is inferior to the Heavies and Medium Dropsuits. They mainly rely on their speed to get anything done which can be quite effective. However, we scouts also rely on the lack of precision that enemies tend to have gotten since Uprising (I'm not bashing CCP, I love them they've made a phenomenally fun game with ENORMOUS potential, but right now that's just how it is) I was sitting on the main screen reading about scout suits and how they're specialized for speed, stealth, and assassination and that got me thinking of a way to maybe buff the scout suits and that's a cloaking mechanic. I'm not saying let a scout user be completely invisible 50% of the time. But maybe give them a piece of equipment that turns on a cloak(like the one that occurs during spawn protection but more visible so it isn't completely OP) for around 5 seconds for the Basic, 7 seconds for the advanced and 10 seconds for prototype. But it'll also have a drawback. Maybe they could drain your health as you keep it on. Or conversely, instead of it draining your health you can only have the cloak active if the equipment is in your hand.

Just throwing around some ideas, I hope maybe something like this gets implemented into the game to further enhance the "infiltrate, speed, stealth" role of the scout suit

Thanks for reading

Lag + scout suit + nova knives = instant death. Now you want to cloak them? wtf?

I know they have been saying for quite some time they will implement cloaking. I hope to god they never do.

They gave us active scanners for a reason.

Let me educate you about nova knife scouts. A basic scout with a nova knife won't one shot much of anything, even if the knife is charged. What makes nova knives so deadly is the melee is the most upgradeable damage in the game.

Upgrading the Minmatar scout suit skill gives +5% damage to nova knives per level. Of course those suits have the lowest total HP of any suit in the entire game, and cost more SP to train into than medium suits.

The other big upgrade is a module that goes into your highslot and buffs melee damage by 30-50%. Plus it's 10% more effective for each level you train it's skill, granting up to a 75% damage boost. And I know one of the prerequisites to even get that skill is level 5 in another skill.

So if you spend a ton of SP for a highslot module on the lowest HP suit in the game, which takes more SP to run than most suits, and you get that suit within melee range of your target, you can 1 shot them with knives that take 2 seconds to charge unless you shell out for the more expensive ones, which you probably need to one shot heavier suits anyway.

So if we added a cloaking module which would also probably cost a lot of SP, ISK, and a high slot, you're concerned this could be overpowered?

There are faster and cheaper paths to things that will get you kills easier. Like tanks.

I've seen plenty of well known fps use some form of cloaking and you guys expect it to break this game? wow.....

That's not a good counter. It won't help with the invisible snipers on the hills. Also say the scanners will only show the red markers above the cloaked enemies's heads, there are alot of instances where that wouldn't even be helpful. Its to early to tell how it would be implemented so ill hold my breath for now.

Let me educate you about nova knife scouts. A basic scout with a nova knife won't one shot much of anything, even if the knife is charged. What makes nova knives so deadly is the melee is the most upgradeable damage in the game.

Upgrading the Minmatar scout suit skill gives +5% damage to nova knives per level. Of course those suits have the lowest total HP of any suit in the entire game, and cost more SP to train into than medium suits.

The other big upgrade is a module that goes into your highslot and buffs melee damage by 30-50%. Plus it's 10% more effective for each level you train it's skill, granting up to a 75% damage boost. And I know one of the prerequisites to even get that skill is level 5 in another skill.

So if you spend a ton of SP for a highslot module on the lowest HP suit in the game, which takes more SP to run than most suits, and you get that suit within melee range of your target, you can 1 shot them with knives that take 2 seconds to charge unless you shell out for the more expensive ones, which you probably need to one shot heavier suits anyway.

So if we added a cloaking module which would also probably cost a lot of SP, ISK, and a high slot, you're concerned this could be overpowered?

There are faster and cheaper paths to things that will get you kills easier. Like tanks.

Lag + scout suit + nova knives = instant death. Now you want to cloak them? wtf?