Everyone fears a scout in CQC. Either with a shot gun or nova knives.

They may die a lot but hey are also great killers.

I fail to see why they are considered underpowered.

What are you saying needs to be buffed on them?

I just want to say, absolute ripping matches Jolly, Tyjus, and Prophet, as well as Vyzion and Reav should they read up on scouts. Great fun.

Also, what is the scout community's opinion of Scouts who use controversial and "unscoutly" weapons, like me. I use the Breach AR and MD and I'm surprised I haven't gotten personal flak for it.

No currently ferroscale and reactive are garbage compared to regular plates

That's what I figured, but I thought Igniteable was talking about how suits would be in 1.8. Then I got really confused ( ._.)

A dev somewhere said they were thinking of a 20% reduction to light weapons. People responded that it should be limited to the 4 rifles, not AV and Alpha weapons

@ Ivan
You sound like you are not in favor of a universal damage drop. You are correct; it'd be bad for shotgunning. I'm confused :-)

Scouts aren't meant to do well. They're meant to give "loners searching for significance" something to do besides getting in the way and ignoring comms.

Off Topic :-)

Proposing to the girlfriend in a couple hours.
Closed on our first house this morning.
Ordering takeout Chinese for dinner in the new place.
I've hidden an engagement ring inside a Fortune Cookie.
She has no clue whatsoever :-)

Wish me luck!

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Rigging Fortune Cookie:
Dampen a papertowel, wrap around fortune cookie, insert in microwave for 30 seconds.
Dough will soften. Open existing folds, insert new message (or ring), reform folds.
Be fast. It starts to harden within 15 or so seconds once removed from microwave.

I wondered if shotty coincidentally ordered chinese food and arranged his particular way to propose because it was the chinese new year, or if it was coincidence lol.

Loved Shogun and Axis and Allies. Good board games

Game night with the family often went to the Game of Life. Monopoly always ended in a fight lol

Pokemon.... musta been too old we never played it. Magic the gathering on the other hand. And yes i was the best DM at AD&D

My first computer was a Commodore 64 and it was AMAZING.

Games all day! I love sports but watching them is boring.

Update for those who aren't at parties and writing a paper?

Protostomped by a bunch of rookies
They're tied for lowest average age to win a superbowl with the Miami Dolphins back in the 70's.

What you just described is a day in the life of the lazy graduate student.

You get into the lab and decide, "nothing ever works, **** these western blots, better go play on the forums"

So in a sense you get paid to forum warrior. Every now and then you might duck off and do something sciency but that's pretty rare. However, the non-denatured absolute ethanol is a nice perk too. (just kidding...........or am I?)

Okay fine, occasionally you get to do things that are actually interesting/cool.

Like working with the causitive agent of the _____ _______ that killed over ____ of Europe's population back in ______. *redacted* .......yep security clearance is a *****. Can't even talk about what I do......

Honesty time, I've used that. My girlfriend hates it as she says that I smell like a street pimp when I use it.

Speaing of which, does anyone else still have those HEP modules?

Once you hit 100m passive scans that scan at ADV level or higher, every slayer will want you in their squad.

It's just like having the old wall hack back (except justified, as the scout class will actually SCOUT the enemy team.)

Now if only we got intel points for it......

do it just like active scanners. if 5 people scan and the 6th gets the kill. the killer gets 50 and everyone else gets 15

If only we had a trash can in our cell until they give us player market to sell it on.

I heard the term barbershop and decided to talk about beards. I don't have one in real life, but I like to think my in-game character has a 3 foot long beard. I'm the Albus Dumbledore/Charles Manson of heavies.

aside from the fact that having 1 more channel would cause me to dc/freeze/etc i can't have scouts united open. Really haven't squaded up with anyone in "Nos Nothi" channel other than Drift

Bang on solid advice.
I will back up what you say by affirming it all, though I have only seen people use Heavies, it seems to match whatever info you have gathered

I haven't murder taxied in oh so long. XD Well not in a heavy suit anyway. I'll be running heavy till event is done, unless I see a ton of bad heavies on the other team and I might be cashing in with my scout.

I hate trying to catch up here.

Just a question about the board - I've been playing since the last time my merc had her funny walk, I'm only invested in Gal scout.

I get that there is/was a constructive point to the board, and im not going to pretend I play/ed an active part of th scout community (or that Im a good scout) but I can't help thinking its a bit weird that it/was also the only way to determine who was scouting before 1.8 was announced...

Like those films about Vampires/Werewolves/Aliens whatever - where apparently you have to register with proclaimed authority because of the sheer nature of being what you are.

And as for suffering...weren't scouts OP in beta?

This all comes across as a bit bitchy - love you guys really.

Right now all scouts register their name here as proof that you have indeed been a scout before the scout FOTM situation hits with 1.8.

I'll be darned if I'm going to get lumped in with a FOTM crowd for at least the third time.

I'm thinking about the shotgun, as I tend to every now and again. I love my scrambler pistol/SMG combo but I'm worried that in 1.8 I won't be able to kill heavies with them at all, even with a 5 second jump on them because I'll have to reload/switch weapon before I'm able to finish them off. I can't reliably get pistol headshots enough of the time, so my advanced breach TY-5 with 2 damage mods will only be doing around 200 base damage before taking into account sentinel resistances. If I'm going up against whichever heavies get 15%/10% resistance to lazors I'm reckoning on it taking an entire pistol clip to take them down, by which time I'm already dead because they turned around in 0.1s or their teammate did.

My SMG might be alright, once I take the shields down, but we still don't know what nerf they're going to be getting - damage, I'm guessing.

So the only other alpha weapon I'm realistically considering is the shotty (open to other suggestions but I outright refuse to go rifles). So, those in the know (mathppia I'm looking at you [:blink:]), based off currently available stats and the assumption that the shotgun stays as is in 1.8, will SGs be viable to take down heavies in 1.8? Which heavies get bonuses against plasma weapons? Actually, while we're doing this, which ones get bonuses against lazors? Theoretically, how much tank will those heavies be able to fit and so how many shotgun blasts will they be able to take if I land full damage every time?

[wow, this a pretty tech heavy post]

Answer to the green pill: It's highly doubtful I'll have enough skill points for proto biotics of any kind, at the moment I've got 0 in biotics.

Answer to RE's: No, not really, I just wasn't sure what to put there, so I just put them there, that was a primary reason for sharing it really, to see what suggestions about it may pop up.

If you want to scan mediums far away, guess which suit is the best? Gallente XD

2 complex plates, 2 range amplifiers, 2 precision enhancers.

Dont really need damps if youre running with a squad. Sticking together > other scouts.

I think that would be better if running in a pack of Medium Frames but going for the Guardian points, leaving your sentinel buddy as the only one scanned invites hunters with passive or active scanners to put their guard down and you can kill them as they come in. With a slow moving or stationary partner I think stealth is way better.

After reading all this discussion, I was struck by the realization that we are finally getting closer to a place where any number of fits are much more viable than in previous builds, i.e. its no longer just tanking and damage mods.

Not only that, but it seems that any number of fits are valid as well, and that the game is getting to a place where we are always going to have disagreements on what is best simply because we all have different styles of play and skill levels. There was even a sighting of

When you look back, and see how we were so gimped in the past that there was a consensus for the most part about what needed to be done, I think it speaks volumes to where this game might head.

Maybe I am finally seeing a light at the end of the tunnel.