Welp, if anyone did went to destiny or even titanfall, make a corp/guild w/e there and name it Scouts United, then we can rebuild where we left off.. I hope to meet up there as we all did here. Sticking here as long as I could for now

o7 there is mjolnir shotgun waiting for you here in asgard fellow shotgunner. May we see you soon in the hallowed halls of scout history dear shotty. You have done much for your fellow scout kin and kept the spirit of the shotgun alive, may your next endeavor be a good one.

*double barreled salute!* o7

While we wait and hope for some scout protest to take shape, for now, why not temporarily change the name of a thread you've started, in tribute.

Don't forget to bump.

check out "the elders" .....

just say'n.

I will stick this it out here.
If I go to Destiny I will look for the Barber PoleGǪ
I am far to stubborn to give up yetGǪ
I have Logi's to knife

Brothers,

The Scout Registry / Killboard will be officially closed as of December 9th.

* Rankings and Killcounts will be frozen as of the close of 1.6.
* Delta Kills / Delta KDR has been removed.
* Pending and Future Applicants will not be added.
* Future Ranking / Kill Count updates will not be applied.

It has been an honor to serve you, and I wish you all the best of luck in your future endeavors.

Sincerely,
Shotty GoBang

My Hero! o7

Annie advised me of your wishes some time back.
I intend to play Dust, though less frequently.
So I will gladly return your mantle, or pass it onward, as you see fit.

It was an honor, sir. Though you must know:

Once pure and unblemished,
Jane's mantle I have stained,
With the blow-back and char,
Of many Core Locus Nade.

1) Those still playing will still be using this thread as long as the game exists and Scouts are a role

2) I'd like the thread renamed in a few weeks, so everyone can learn that shotty has retired from running the thread. like "Scout's Watercooler" or something more creative with the same meaning.

1) Those still playing will still be using this thread as long as the game exists and Scouts are a role

2) I'd like the thread renamed in a few weeks, so everyone can learn that shotty has retired from running the thread. like "Scout's Watercooler" or something more creative with the same meaning.

Absolutely. You guys pick the name.
"Closest Shave in New Eden!"

I hadn't planned on a whole retirement spill ... not my style. You can count on me popping in from time to time. Just in case 1.7 blows as hard as I think it will and I opt out altogether ... you guys deserve an explanation in advance.

Just wrote this up for IWS ...
He seemed to think "Shield Recharge" was my primary motivation for being peeved.
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1565670#post1565670

Why does this thread say it's closed? wtf?

goddamit I will read the last few pages later. Can't we start a new thread? I wanted to link to my raging in the 1.7 patch notes thread

Aeon Amadi showing more of his tunnel vision approach to the game: https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1565426#post1565426

It sucks - but is fully understandable - that Shotty's decided to close the killboard. It also sucks that there were no scout hugs in 1.7 - although I was pretty sure they wouldn't come until all scout suits are released anyway.

I'm hellbent on not letting it get to me, though. I've chosen to be a scout precisely because it's hard to play. I enjoy having to stay on edge all the time. Not that I don't think we should get some buffs beyond a token scan range increase, mind you. I also enjoy using something out of the ordinary. ARs and medium suits make me yaaaaawn.

I've been a full time scout since a couple of weeks into the open beta. I fiddled around with a logi for two weeks, got bored, tried the various roles accessible to me and promptly fell in love with the fast pace and high risk. I sucked at it, but built up some decent skills in the weeks leading up to Uprising 1.0. Then results were poor again for a while as I got used to the newly nerfed - and subsequently re-nerfed - scout suit. For the past two months I've been doing quite well for the most part. Not proto-logi-duvolle-AR well, but typically a match KDR of 2-5, killboard placement 6th or better.

I was worried most of my success could be attributed to my using the scrambler rifle as my main weapon, which, of course, is very powerful. Besides, since everyone and their cousins have started using them now, they've lost a bit of their shine. So, I've recently taken up SMG + NK + Remotes for city maps and other areas with decent cover. I already have a lot of SP invested in SMGs, but NK is at advanced, remotes at level 1. This took a bit of adjustment, but I'm doing pretty well. I generally post the same amount of kills as I do with the ScR, die a couple of times more than I'm used to. Plus it's damned fun.

Aaaaanyway, I'm rambling, so:

TL;DR: I refuse to give up. I'm a stubborn bastard, and the lack of scout hugs makes me all the more motivated to find ways to outsmart medium frames and ARs. Whenever the scout hugs do arrive, I'll be a ninja assassin monster

EDIT: I'm all for organizing a protest. Mass suiciding out of the MCC in cheap scout fittings or mass petitioning with an agreed upon, polite text are my two favorite suggestions.

The scout is definitely not underpowered in anyway.

I am using the scout in the same way as you, have scout builds with scrambler rifles and ARs, and some with shotgun and plasma canon. It all depends on the map and how the red team are on how best to work as scout.
It would be suicide to stick with cqc weapons such as shotgun in open maps when most reds are running close together with long range scrambler rifles. I have found a scout with the tactical AR or tactical scrambler is a great mid range sniper in some of the open maps.

I am having a blast with the scout suit even in protostomping matches. This suit is just much more versatile than the pro gallente logi suit I also have. I am not getting as much warpoints as with the logi suit but it is just so much more fun, got CEOPyrex twice with my scout yesterday and he was using the imperial scrambler. Once with dragonfly and second time in my proto scout. The scout is definitely not underpowered in anyway.

EDIT: I'm all for organizing a protest. .

Dont base suits on pubmatches.

The Scout suit is the worst type of suit in the game. Even Commando's are better at this point.

We scouts should all be celebrating in pure merriment. Isn't the latest patch just great, We can only look up for now on. Why you ask? Well it couldn't get any more F***ing worse for now for us.
Once your on the bottom of the heap there's only one way to go and that is up my friends, it can't get any worse or can it?

You just continue to play commando suits, I will stick with the scout suit no matter what you say. And for your information, the major part of the Dust players are only playing pub matches. However it would be nice to know the scout was viable in PC matches which I have no way to verify.

And I am happy you are not using the scout suits, the less scout suits on the field the better I perform. I only fear other scouts that I cannot pickup on my passive scanning.

You new around here brother? Im a scout and a dam'd good one at that. Im just saying, scouts are the weakest suits in the game by far.

Probably newer than you, joined Dust in January when it become open beta. I can only speak for myself, I get higher kdr by playing scout than with my proto gal logi. I cannot get the same amount of warpoints as with my logi, this is on the same character with the same core skills comparing these two classes. My kdr is only 1 but managed 6-7 running proto scout for the winter carnage event and even ended up with a positive isk balance.
This would have been impossible to archive for me with the proto gal logi. I am running sole most of the time and survivability is much higher as a scout than a proto logi against stacked proto squads.

I will anyday pick my scout over my logi if I am going for kills. Again this is from personal experience with the fps skills and playstyle I have. You can analyse it however you wish, I will keep me scout, you cannot take the scout away from me