Wel i do snipe from time to time but I use a minmatar advanced logi with three enhanced dampners and complex damage modifiers, a uplink and a hive.

Niuvo, I ran the adv gall suit tonight. I actually had some success tonight dropping the kat and replacing it with the enhanced stamina. I was strafing like crazy all over the place while running away when I got caught in a bad situation. Seems few people are using stamina so chances are they will not be able to keep up with you over distance. Add to that the strafing is crazy fast right now so those with bad aim will more than likely miss.

Great playing with you guys...we had some very intense fights tonight!

I might have to branch out to a shotty.

But I love my Ishnok Assault Sub so much!

The smg's ready if you ever want to run again

This thread is more like a scouts only hangout full of tips, politics, and scout related discussion. kind of like a scout barbershop where we get nova knife shaves and talka bout hotties. CCP isn't welcome here

Just had a match where I went one on one with an SMG/NK scout (something like Dana...?) - he spotted me with my pistol and pulled out the knives from about 20m away. I'm guessing the idea was that I should also pull out knives and have good ol' scouty knife fight... only, I don't run knives; I run pistol/SMG; so I just shot him in the face. I'd feel bad but I run gal scout, so assuming I'm carrying knives is pretty dumb.

no joke with the hitscan weapons, increased range, and the fact that meters are treated like feet for some odd reason speed tanking can be a harm rather then a help

Got an advanced scout last night. Had to get lvl 3 light frame too to get my scout. And went to lvl3 smg with lvl 3 sharpshooter. Spent 1.1 million. I have 1.1 mil left I'm gonna hold onto til next update at least. I'll take some time and think about what mods I want to invest in past basic. If you guys have any more thoughts on this let me know. Had a great game last night going 18/9/9 with advanced gal scout. Md smg and flux. Sg is in the gun rack til it's fixed

I realised the other day that it's not the weakness of the scout that gets to me alot of the time (even though it's annoying as hell), it's the faulty equipment.

remote explosives/proximity mines

nova knives

shotty

active/passive scanners

are all on the fritz don't care bout my KDR so I wouldn't mind dying so much if i could use my gear to relyably fight back and score some kills ya know?

thoughts?

Personally, I find HMG's to be the worst, I always try to avoid heavy's with them. Second would be AR due to the sheer number of users, third would be MD, for the same reason as the AR. Anything else I don't really get killed by, except snipers when I do something stupid

I would say yes to the valor because it gets the gallente scout bonuses. makes for a good free suit and full free fitting if you also have all the milita blueprint mods to go with it.

Shotty, Yes I am in fact a Sniper Scout.

I normally do not post on here. This is due to the fact that I have not experienced the decline in performance on the battlefield most of you have. All of that changed in the last two day after running my first PC battles.

I only had 2 kills in 4 PC battles. My observations are as follows:

It's not hat we are not fast enough. The problem is the other suits are too fast. It is extremely hard to line up a shot from a sniper rifle and hit your target. Not to mention you have to hit your target at least three times in order to get a kill. I consider myself to be pretty good shot, but my performance was ridiculous.

We all know our suit needs help. Unfortunately, for us to be better at what we do, other suits need to be taken down a notch. I am of the opinion that this will not happen. There are too many non-scouts that would raise absolute hell if their suits get an adjustment in order to help us out.

I will always be a Scout. Unfortunately, I will probably not get to experience PC like I do in the pubs. So, they only thing I can do for my corp is win ISK in the pubs and donate back to my corp for use in PC. This is not what I want my role to be. I do not have to have 15 Kills per match to be an effective team member. However, a .33 KDR does no one any good and is useless.

So, I will sit and wait for things to change. Hopefully for the good and maybe someone will let me play in PC to gain more experience no matter how worthless I will be to their team.

Keep your head down,
Kodho

Yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaahpeople are going to be ****range has now gone to priority 1 need anther 150,000 sp to get at least Adv lvlyeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
this is my specialty

dont forget our silencers

so I've been using shotguns alot more since they fixed it enough for me to kill things with and I'll be honest: I've been kamikazeing it alot more for the lawls (and I use REs so it's twice as bad lol)

yesterday in a PC me and another scout on my team were running, got to the objective they had a scout with the same suit as me, we both saw him I killed him but my teammate killed me because he thought I was him

i feel bad for ya guys as i cut through your paperthin HP pool with my profiency 5 duvolle and double complex damage mods -.-

I don't know if people don't use Adv or higher active scanners in matches but I've only been successfuly scan once in my pro gal scout with lvl 3 Damp the funny thing was I was surprised and scared at the same time when it happen I was WTF I got scaned

I'm running gallente passive scanner scout from CBT, i'm sure i know better than anyone about scouts, scanning range & precision ... i think i'm the only crazy person than runs shotty proto scout with only scan mods - no biotics, no HP mods, etc :)

EDIT: Best result was 22\1, last 12\0.
EDIT2:
shotty scout p. scan
spotted sniper siting on the hill 750-800m away, forced me to cross map to kill him :D
and i spotted him with railgun tank, not with sniper rifle scope

Dang it, Cyrius :p
Caught me moaning on coms about ARs.
Loved the hate mail.
You guys always have this much fun?

I think since 1.4 my K/D has decreased, my knives have had been useless and assaults are now even more OP. I've been really considering switching to assaults... no deleting DUST.

The AR-514 Life Cycle

1) CCP reviews numerous requests to balance the automatic assault rifle.
2) CCP is assured by AR users that the weapon is perfectly fine as is.
3) CCP observes AR performance spikes across all combat metrics and engagement ranges.
4) CCP reports that they are closely monitoring the AR situation.
5) Rebalance is postponed, as to avoid irritating the competitive playerbase.
6) AR proliferation increases, as folks seek to survive and compete.
7) Rebalance is postponed, as to avoid irritating an ever-growing playerbase.

Can't blame him for bending to CCP's will.
Pyrex called it early on. 1.4 is all about eHP and ARs.

Though I'm having loads of fun, trying to be like J0lly R0g3r :-)

RE Fitting (~25k)

---

DS: Adv GalScout
HI: 2 cmp shield extenders
LO: 1 bsc dampener, 1 enh card reg
PW: BPO Shotgun
SW: BPO SMG
EQ: Remote Explosive
GR: M1 Locus

---

- Shotty

PS: Did I mention I'm losing CQC fights left-and-right to ARs?

At that distance I thought I was going to get away.

Gek-38?

I do hate SMGs because I am a gallente scout so they pack the hurt against my huge majority of armor. And thank god some one else realizes how damn great the TY 5 is. I love it's hipfire accuracy and POWER!!!!!

I wonder what people think when they were killed by a scout with a super pistol.

Nice!

Count me among the scouts. I'm new to Dust, (4.5 million SP and just under a month playing.) I run a scout more than 50% of the time and will run it more as I skill into it more and develop more skills. One things for sure, as long as I play Dust, Scouting isn't a thing of the past. Killing proto snipers behind the red line is as good as 10 regular kills in my book, even if it calls for suicide. I like the thought that a sniper can't feel safe once he gets close to the line, primarily because of us.

I am addicted to hearing that headshot sound.

Currently running a SG/SMG, working toward SG/knives. 2,548 lifetime kills
And counting.

i can just imagine you sitting back in your chair, sipping your cup of green tea, thinking,"we did well...we did well..."

I need to go to sleep. I got to go to school in like 7 hours

See ya gent's on tomorrow.

My clone will probably get a haircut, or go back to throwing knives at the dart board. (all while I sleep. Dang Clone gets to have all the fun).

By the way, Since this is a Bar/Barbershop, Am I wrong to think that our suave bartender keeps pictures of all the departed scouts on the wall somewhere? At least we have something to drink to. So long brothers. You will be missed.

It's gonna' be a fun run. (Scouts honor)

Thanks for the welcome. Here's to many good battles in the future, and, if I see one of you and turn the other way, it's out of respect, not fear. If you shoot me in the back, well... Once bitten.

If I fail to turn the other way, it's only because I was consumed with blood lust and didn't even stop to look at the name.

Now, off to the back alleys and shadows of New Eden.

Go ahead and add me shotty, Ive been running scout suits almost exclusively now. Could be fun to see what happens to my KDR since I am coming from a gal logi.

Good to have you. For a bunch of bastard rogues, everyone in the scout community seems pretty cool.... to each other at least. When we are not posting bounties on other mercs....

I'm tempted to just switch to AR, since that's practicably all I use on my scout now :(... don't gi--------- uuuuuugh gooououuooooo AR 514...

(I mean AR assault, not just AR)

I've not played dust for more then a few hours in the past few days, who wants to bet I sign in tonight and get butt pounded?

Why not 3/3 for Minmatar and 2/4 for Gallente?

If they're gonna change it, why not ask them to balance the count against mediums?

Assault mk.0 - 5/2 (7)
Assault gk.0 - 3/4 (7)
Assault ck.0 - 4/3 (7)
Assault ak.0 - 3/3 (6)

Logistics mk.0 - 4/4 (8)
Logistics gk.0 - 3/5 (8)
Logistics ck.0 - 5/3 (8)
Logistics ak.0 - 3/4 (7)

^ We all pay the same price per proto suit (57,690).

Faffing Fuss Thread!
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1328225

Somewhat drunk and full-blown annoyed about EZ-Mode.

For those that didnt see the cpm notes

Faction warfare event, I don't think many if any of my corp plays for gallente. So I'm gonna be hitting up the scouts united channel like crazy. Just sayin.

I'm so sick of the damn AR how the **** does a plasma weapon hit at that kind of range?

And this after they nerfed the SG range which is also a plasma weapon

it's a problem with the player base whose behavior is encourage by CCP's (unintentional) lowering of the TTK and making builds other than eHP tanking less effective.

So I managed to Nova Knife a moving LAV driver tonight... highlight of my dust career thus far. I really wish I was able to capture video on my PS3 or I would have shared the moment. Got his gunner right after the vehicle rolled to a stop too

This is crazy, this thread has been posted since 2013.06.27 20:28.
2,225 replies,
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1,779 likes
Contributions from/involving most scout/benched scout community

And yet not a single CCP entry? If there was ever thread to indicate a need for change or to send some reassurance/"scout love" updates to the community it would be here. We now have slightly less visibility due to 1.4 so thumbs up to that, but when are we going to get the much needed rest of the love? As good as Min Assault is to my now-recuperating KDR, I am a scout and that is the gameplay I just can't have right now and for the last 3 builds... has anyone heard any news about this yet?

How are you guys staying soooooo positive? I want in on your secret...

Enemy wanted to hack it, had someone there... I ran in, and knifed em, and ran out, almost without stopping.

30 seconds later, someone ELSE tried to hack it.
Ran in, did a knife drive-by, and ran out again.

I officially gave up trying to do things right and play with NK, electronics nods, speed modes, plasma cannon....

I threw away my active scanner, I put on a bunch of shield and armor mods, got my ehp to over 500, equiped dual assault SMG, turned AA back on and started rushing red dots. My KDR went from about 0.5 to 2.0 immediatelly and I was getting a dirty amount of assists. And that's with pretty garbage personal automatic weapon skills - I never played with AR and my tracking skills are poor.

To me this have proven even further how unbalanced the game is. It's all about eHP and automatic weapons (i.e. who can be the best assault - assaults, logis, or wannabe medium frame scouts).

I don't know why CCP can't wake the Eff up. it all could be different if they only wanted to try. It's not so difficult to increase the base stats for electronics, speed and stamina on scouts; give electronic mods a real boost, increase range on NK. Instead they are just too afraid to touch anything because they are afraid that their COD AR core is gonna cry a river and leave to play Black Ops. I am pretty disgusted by the present state of the game.

ofc the only thing keeping me in DUST gets pushed back... now (if the cal assaults let me) I'm going to cry in my corner deleting DUST.

Mine is 509 ehp, i tested a troll fit the other day like this

Shotgun specialist duvolle
1 enhance shield extender
4 complex plate
Allotek nonohive

You got 756 armor and have good rep with the proto rep hive, you have the speed of a cal logi with good stamina and been sneak has a scout + radar radius, you got more armor than the ehp of an proto caldari assault racial with 4 complex shield extender
You just dont feel like a scout so slow!! insanee in city and garbage outside i think Roner will be able to try this suit today he just needed 20k sp last night to get the complex plate

Just out of interest, if this is the case, what would you then consider a scout?

-Turret Creepers
-One-Hit-Wonders
-Sidewinders

No.

I agree with knight of 6. I would normally consider a Scout to be a fast and highly mobile. They would also be lightly armored or shielded and have stealth capabilities. Usually, with hit and run or hard to use but almost always one hit kill weapon(NK's). Weapons of choice currently being Nova Knives, Shotguns, SMGs, Pistols. Though I have come to the conclusion that this is all useless. An Assault or Logi can do anything we can do except better. The only advantage we DID have at one point was going really fast and being hard to hit. That got taken away with Aim Assist and suddenly the Assault Rifles are one shot killing me from almost Sniper distances.

Its downright revolting right now how bad we are off right now. I can't even force myself to log on a play for the past week. I'm losing interest and not sure I even really want to log back on and play to be honest at this point.

Crazy idea here What if nova knifes were like remotes? And I dont mean throwing it I mean the whole L1 R1 thing. IF they put the lunge in the NK it would be cool that I could be used by L1(as it is currently not used) and R1 for normal attack.

L1= lunge(stabing motion), greater range, can charge, 2 second delay after use to start new attack ,only 1 knife used.
R1= doble knives, can charge, can slash without delay, no range added

What are your thoughts?

Rough going out there for me today. Unlocked the lv.2 Gallente scout suit and tried to play in my customary "lurk in the shadows and shotgun-to-the-head unsuspecting Reds"; it didn't go very well. I'm fine with one or two reds trying to enter my web, but damn, these squads in FW lately have been running rampant. Not a good feeling to see the radar light up with five or six reds approaching! That said, I try to stay hidden as long as possible and hope to catch a few them in an RE blast, then hope for the best as the rest come after me. Obviously, some maps are much better for practicing this style than others...

Oh, and let's not forget when my team fell by the wayside as the reds pushed towards our one objective, and I was suddenly dealing with two or three infantry closing in from in front and each side, and two very angry tanks with blaster turrets beelining right for me. Next time, at least offer some Vaseline!!!

Yes, I use them in PC on occasion, usually assigned to Uplink Management.

When I use them, I use them like traps, placed on my escape route from an objective. Draw fire or hack then draw the defenders through my escape route. It is the best way for scouts to handle the other suits in PC because we just don't have the eHP to deal with multiple enemies. Against your corp, the average HP seems to be around 1200, which is perfect for REs.

The role that I've slotted myself in to is, as I've said, Uplink Management. Gal-Scouts are great for this role, just equip some passive scanning gear, speed, and proto uplinks of choice. I have a suit with each of the proto links and cycle through them depending on which are up or down. We can get to hard to reach places, find enemy links, and stay away from the enemies defending the area. Cutting the supply lines has won several PCs. Not a lot of WP or glory in the job, and it has a rather high casualty rate, but such is the life as a scout.

Me confused whats this for

yeah.
i did that recently with the lowly 200m quantum basic level scanner.
short lightup time, but fast cooldown time as well.
So, I sat 30-40m back behind the Domination objective, and our side still saw the enemy coming from 100m away.
They must have despised all the
YOU HAVE BEEN SCANNED
YOU HAVE BEEN SCANNED
YOU HAVE BEEN SCANNED

spam.

Muha-hahahaha....

Great games with my fellow scout squads today!

Niuvo, Sleepy Zan, Ozarow, Protected Void, think I am missing a few but good times all around! I felt like a total newb using my pistols.... it was like week 1 of Dust all over again....

Great times! Saw some very good kills... whoever took out that heavy on that platform with a remote explosive, jumping and detonating it mid air....

SWEET.

I'm officially coming back to the scout community, nothing but dragonfly suit til I skill up my gallente scout

just two corrections:

1) I rarely run squad, I'm OP enough as I am. I only do so at past midnight just to chill with friends
2) I only recently used proto in pubs for FW event - now that's it's over I'm back to ADV gear, so you don't have to worry about the Boundless reigning terror on you anorexics.

I do deploy several strategies in pubs since I run solo - LLAV being the most effective obviously. Take that out and you'll find me in logi suits placing uplinks in key locations so I can quickly jump back to my fatty and fight where I'm most effective.

If you find me without my car - you better keep distance. Even in mid-range combat I mostly come out the victor with my HMG, which many heavies have declared me a hacker over. I've never met a scout since Sleepy Zan in chrome whose been able to take me 1v1 without some kind of help. So it'll be fun for me to see you nutrient starved scouts trying to down me.

But I do have bad games - I can't do anything about terrible blue berries.

Problem I see is most scouts want to get in close... and that's what I want them to do too. Lol

Shotty, take me off the list. I'm deleting DUST and don't expect to come back until this comes out on the PS4.

alright, I'll stay and suffer till we get buffed.

If proximity chat was ever added I'd run around everywhere with this playing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU7EHKFNMQg (Warning, turn down your volume before clicking)

Gotta go fast!

Ear **** my enemies, then kill them!



It'd be like the Jaws theme, but a lot less sinister, when an enemy hears that, they know I'm coming!

So I had a question for everyone in a Scout suit or at the very least "looking forward" to becoming a Scout:

Which suit will you be running and why?


*Winter Expansion*

Time's running out on this! Gotta sign up for a team in the next24 hours I think, if you're gonna participate!
What happened to the banter about the "top scouts" fielding a team? Did that happen?
If not, any of you A1 guys wanna jump in and take over lead position for team 4 Teh Lulz?

For the Honor of Scouts! o7

Scouts united.... Against morons on YouTube. Lol

Shotgun hit detection's especially terrible today. Missing 50% of shots on target. Again.

So just to confirm - range amps definitely do have stacking penalties. With 4 complex on my gal scout I definitely couldn't pick people up at ~90m.

This thread is too big.

As a fat boy I can say I have been raped by at least 1/2 the guys in the Tier 5/6 category...

Lag in PC sucks

hate you all, diaf

Can't silence laser beams

Grats on the proto, and hope the new corp treats you well.
As for guarding objectives, you are safe when they are under your teams control, they do not give you away. They share intel with the team that controls them, and uncontrolled ones don't share with anyone. I could be wrong though, i tend to hover at the edge of my radar, or patrol through varied routes between two objectives. If we have the lead and majority of objectives I'll run through scan range of an enemy one to lure them in and wait for them to come through the predictable paths into my RE

Congrats on the new corp, Niuvo. I also like using the passive Gallente scanning, but man it's hard to do this on anything less than the gk.0, as to be effective you need to dedicate at least 2 low slots and so forget the armor, reps, stamina or speed!!

Good News!

The Uprising Scout is safe from extinction, even if a Respec was offered prior to Dev Hugs :-)
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1443663#post1443663

Long-story-short, we'd lose 10% to 15% of our Brothers; a far lower figure than expected.
The projection will likely lower further once our CQC toys wreck face better.

Thanks a bunch to all who participated in this little thought experiment.
You guys are inspiring. o7

- Shotty

PS: I wouldn't have switched :-)

Have a Quoke.

Spawned start-of-match as the ambush sacrifice ... no friendlies, surrounded by reds..

Can someone remind me why this game is worth playing again?

Don't forget the Devs chiming in to tell us Aurum comes from Iceland...

lol, ouch. that's why it's yellow (gold) color display :p

Personally I like the idea of making cloaking an active module based ability, as opposed to equipment. I think that other suits will have a lot of complaints if they can't cloak, but having cloaking as a scout-only ability seems appropriate to me, provided it is done correctly and isn't OP.

Personally, I'd go with this even though it is a more complex concept that CCP would be less likely to implement. It seems like a better idea to me.

EVE Time: 2013.11.07 01:20
Playmode: Ambush

Decided to queue for a quick solo Ambush before dinner.
Entered match underway vs Nyain San pubstompers.

Knew I was in for an arse-kickin' so I ran my tankiest Scout fit:

Scout GK.0 (~112k isk)

---

HS: Cmp Shield
LS: Enh Plates (x3), Cmp ArmRep
PW: K5 Specialist
SW: M209 Assault SMG
GR: Core Locus
EQ: A-19 Scanner

---

Shields - 153
Armor - 512
Movement - 5.06 m/s
Sprint - 7.44 m/s

---

Figured I'd play extra sneaky.

Flanked hostiles. Snuck up behind Call-Me Lipton.
Emptied entire clip of M209 into back of his head while moving into Shotgun range.
I'm dead before firing second shotgun blast.
His Duvolle AR and ridiculous HP were too much for me to assassinate.

Flanked hostiles again. Snuck up behind Kaizuka Sniper.
Changed tactics. Cooked Core Locus. Hit him nice and perfect.
Moved in with Shotgun as he spun around trying to find me.
He spots me as I close in and fire first blast ... he jumps backwards.
I'm dead to Duvolle AR fire before he hits the ground.
His Duvolle AR and ridiculous HP were too much for me to assassinate.

Sometimes I hate this game.

A Scout does everything right, just to be boned by an increasingly easier EZ Mode.
I shouldn't have to armor tank my Scout to drop something I sneak up behind.
The fact that we currently have to is utter bullkittens.
The fact that I lost these two fights -- even after defiling my fit -- is disgusting.

This should never have happened. This "QQ" post should not exist:
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=119859&find=unread

Marauder, when was the last time you even used a Scout suit?

I use sidearm damage mods for the SMG, and I find that the bonus actually helps the knives alot. You can tap shot almost anything outside of super tank heavies and med frames

I want to know how many scouts out there run with precision, range amplifiers on their fits constantly and do wonderfully in matches like me (including PC but that depends on who i'm fighting).

All hail AR-514.

Shotty, just here to let you know, I will probably be joining the the Scout Registry. I'm currently skilling into the Gal Scout, I'm only lv2 atm, but it will probably be my primary focus until I have proto.

I'm not sure yet if I'll be using it enough to qualify for the required 50%, but I have been enjoying my Dragonfly quite a bit (although, not without a small hit to my KD). Add me now if you want, I've been using mostly the Dragonfly for the past few days and plan on continuing. I'll have a verdict once I get a chance to run the Gk0 for a while.

I kinda like the black-on-black with green eyes.
Like Death rendered Greedy.
Or Night-Vision.

On the topic, how 'bout some dimly light maps from time to time?
Seems its always daylight when I'm forced to cross a field.

I'll probably have plenty of Minmatar LP Items when the time comes.

Just give me a weird trench coat and I'll be your Minnie Arms Dealer! :D
Whuddya buyin? Whuddya sellin?

The only time I specifically remember fighting Mr. Mustard was back during the flaylock fotm. I was running around in a min std light with two assault scram pistols at the orbital artillery outpost and found Mustard running a flaylock. We went back and forth around the resupply depot for a minute or two. Mr Mustard finally darted to that wall area on the outside. As I chased him, he sprinted out and jumped into the air. I managed to kill him with a mid-air headshot and he got me with his flaylock.

Mr. Mustard (who I had the privilege of getting stomped with in a pub match last night) is responsible for the most memorable death I've ever had in this game...

I was running my old Minnie medium suit back in the day, before I had really committed to the way of the scout...

Went to jump a second story railing in order to go down and cross the street (in one of the big indoor bases) so I could flank some enemy reds...

He apparently caught up to me after I'd jumped over the railing and clipped me with his knives in mid-air. I hit the street dead. Didn't even have a clue what happened (or that he was even there) til I saw him land on the street beside me and go speeding off...

Been a fan of his work ever since

Had a blast last night with all you scouts, both with and against. I used footage from the matches last night in this: http://youtu.be/LGF5vYKLP4A

Warning: lots of scout on scout violence as I ramble on about defending objectives. Not for the weak of heart.

edit: After rewatching, why the kitten is that Amarr Assault as fast as I am? I only catch up because he turned around :(

I always wanted to ask, what controller set up do you guys use?

Had a blast last night with all you scouts, both with and against. I used footage from the matches last night in this: http://youtu.be/LGF5vYKLP4A

Warning: lots of scout on scout violence as I ramble on about defending objectives. Not for the weak of heart.

edit: After rewatching, why the kitten is that Amarr Assault as fast as I am? I only catch up because he turned around :(

Does anyone else think that the whole Black Eagle event is centered around CCP collecting data on how underwhelming the scout class is?

Brothers!

Looks like we'll be getting a large payday coming up with the Vehicle Respec:
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1513116#post1513116

Many of the the cars, tanks, birds, turrets and modules we've collected in salvage ...
All converted to Isk!

Greetings gentlemen/ladies

Is this where the sharply dressed rougues of cunning and wit hang out?

If so I have come to join your ranks. Just switched over to the scout suit from my Gal Logi. Loving it so far, no need to look up my kdr or total kills Shotty, the amount of scrolling required to find me at the bottom of the leader boards would probably break your DS3. I'm working on improving my aim by actually aiming (drastic change of pace after 5 months of panic firing my AR) and my ability to stay below the radar so I can properly introduce people to the business end of one of my pistols. Hopefully one day you will be able to add my name to the registry. Until then I will be on sporadically flying by the seat of my pants, and looking good doing it. o7

Rocks, paperclips, fallen dropsuit parts, used nanite injectors.... LAV hubcaps.... I'm sure we could make it all work if we needed to! I'd gut someone with a paperclip after meleeing them to death just to humiliate them.

I'm sitting usually around 280-290 ehp myself, kudos to you guys who run below 300!

I managed to kill a heavy who tried to ride up on me in his LLAV and HMG with my pistol and knives. I immediately drove his logi lav into the redline.

So last night I skilled up to lvl 3 knives because I was just messing around with lol fits with some corp members. We did a whole match with knives. Keep in mind I am one of 2 scouts in my corp. And I have to say they were tons of fun. I just might have to go to proto knives and run fits like moody does. Anyone want to teach me the knifing ways?

Question to the Ninjas:
Do the Advanced and/or Prototype Knives hit hard enough to be used by Gallente?

Wait... I just noticed...

Ishukone knives got NERFED?!?!?!

They only do 200 now. I thought they used to do 300!
Gah!

OK so I'm kinda getting addicted to knives and was wondering if anyone had advice on fittings/tactics. Currently running the advanced minmatar scout.
High slots: 1 complex and 1 enhanced shield extender.
Low slots: 1 basic plate and 1 enhanced cardiac reg.
Primary weapoin: TT3 assault sp
Side arm: ZN knives
Equipment: remote explosives.

Tactically I am running the knives similar to how I run my shotgun but a bit more causious. I avoid all direct contact and take off if spotted (usually). Sometimes I can't resist killing an ar user with my pistol. Any general advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the nova knives advice guys. I'll probably play around with the various fits suggested and see what I like best.

In other words, you're trying to use this thread as a way to organize scout protostomping.

Shame on you.

Hey Shotty, if you can delete me off the Scout Leaderboard. I'm deleting my characters and Dust. Good luck guys, dont give up Scouting and for my students in : R)NIN, god speed to you all and hoped my training improved your insight for being a Scout. Adios.

It looks like stuff in the LP store will be require both ISK and LP to purchase, so for sure I'll probably be playing a lot of pub matches to make sure I don't start bleeding ISK from FW combat and loyalty store purchases. Overall though, I'm looking forward to the FW changes.

I need to find a good FW gallente channel, anyone know of one? I got the Minmatar one already and it seems pretty well populated so I'm happy with it.

Hey Scouts,

All this talk of cloaking devices has me excited. My brother has been playing on my account recently, since he's back in the state for the holiday season, and I've let him sink some of my SP into Gal-Assault 1. I've been tempted to use his fittings, seeing as he has a much greater margin of error between him and death with all of that sweet, sweet EHP.

Still, I remain a scout, and perform best with my Adv scout fits. I'm really hoping that we see some significant gains soon, and the cloak seems promising. I feel a scout with a RR can stay mobile and quickly obliterate enemies from range without ever being seen. A cloaked sniper is just frightening to think about.

Is there any other encouraging news on the scouting front? I need some things to hope for while I watch my brother survive CR blasts and waste my ISK/SP on his assault trappings. The urge to play assault for a bit is pretty high, since he's using my SP on it anyway.

I need scout hope!!!

-Gh0st

No worries, not going to do it until i ave a feel for a few other tricks.
I may just stay in the sockets, but it gets so boring sometimes.

I think we have to fix tank spam ourselves
I say we just kill them all

Thought all RE's packed the same punch. (?)

with proto, technically, max damage is 7500. you can have 5 active.

trick with non-proto, is to pre-scout around for nanohive or supply depot near your target. you can only carry 3, but have 4 active.
So, drop 2, resupply, then drop 2 more.

6,0000, oh yeah.

Situation normal. All ****** up....

And... you're still attacking me (while ironically claiming you're not attacking me. Impressive)
Both by making false claims about me, and now implicitly naming a class of forum users after me, that you are saying should be ignored.
That is most definitely insulting.

The false claim, fyi, is that I "go onto other threadS, and declares he speaks for most scouts".

ONE time I did that. And it wasnt by me declaring explicitly, "I am now a representative of all scouts" or anything.
I made a statement of guesswork about "most scouts", based on my own personal observations about frequency of use of weapon types for scouts.
Other people spoke about their own differing views. Based on that, I have already acknowleged that my observation could have been off, as far as the "most" claim.

Arrange a squad of 6 people with the plasma cannon, do an ambush, then you will forever be enamored with the weapon. It will become your pub-match weapon of choice.

Every kill with a direct hit will be worth seven deaths from the sheer joy it brings

I came to a realization today. I thought about what suits I would spec into after I got my Cal scout... and realized I only wanted the other scouts. The other suits hold no interest to me. (Still want speeders and MAVs though)

*sigh*

... CCP better get to revamping the scout suit soon. My patience is wearing thin.

On it. /me gets poking stick.

Well you'll need to dry the forums out because there's so many tears...

Holy Cananites Batman!

I just thought of a viable scout role

+6% Light Weapon Range per level

It would bring back the scout sniper

Miminum range for a sniper rifle is 150m. Unless you plan to quick scope or favor your sidearm more.
The failures of the sniper rifle are why I have a scrambler rifle. The charge shot on that does more damage than a charged sniper rifle in optimal range and does about equal damage from about 120m out.

And seeing how it does more damage than a shotgun... yeah, way to ruin my favorite weapons Amarr tech

35. They are stronger than a handheld ADV scanner. And this is a Militia level module.

ugh. ran into the focused scanner. was pulled out in PC just for me. invalidated my scout build entirely .

Well, I don't drink and go on the forums anymore and I despise a certain person a little less. I'm also not going to call people names, as LogiBro warned me about that already. So pretty much my posts will get less fun -lol no I'm just going to make my flame posts on Cass and serious posts on appia-

Stil not sure if event is good or bad....

Scout have to use nova knives....while med frames can use all other weapons. Seems again like we get crapped on....plus look at those isk bonuses per kill.....seriously....10 million isk.

Got a lot sitting and a lot I want to do with it come 1.8GǪ the siren call of shenanigans says spend it on the PLC max that outGǪ all of it.
Trying to resistGǪ

Damn right! With my banjo and Mississippi Queen....

Can you say overkill.

When I was in a thread with Hans I pleaded that CPM should stress a slight increase in TTK and he agreed that was his goal.

If they do this reduction plus increase survivability of all suits (except Logis and Min Assault) then they may push things too far in the other direction. Proto and sentinels will become even more beastly.

I also think aim assist, net code and terrain traversal play into TTK so much more than the raw damage. When the game works right and you are moving fine and can hear your surrounding and see enemies you usually can have decent firefights. A little bit of lag or the sound drops and people dont appear on your tac net and its a crapshoot. I also told him that.

lol, I still have the holographic charizard from 4th grade

Just had one of my best matches yet.
Went 30/3 with knives and REs. Unfortunately, all 3 of my deaths were when I tried to hack the same point and someone spawned behind me...

This talk about plasma, energy, etc makes me think of a random idea to bounce off you guys.

What if charged nova knives emitted an energy wave from the swipes that gives them slightly extended range when charged, to deal with backpedallers?

That is true, but since I have proto PLC, I need to keep the hope up.

What about shotty? Its great. I am kind of enticed to spec into it.

Shotty + SMG or shotty + MSMG.

Can the mass driver really be used as a shotty? If so, it would be fun since you can pop in and out of cover quickly (fast speed) and pwoop the reds to death.