Good point.

For the record, I based my statement on the impression I have, that "most scouts" use one or more of
(pistols, knives, SMG)
on a regular basis
Yes, obviously there are shotgun users ;) but "they" tend to be quite happy with SMG on the whole as well. You'd only be stuck without shotgun when you wanted cloak.
ANd I know you like pistol almost as well ;D

mollerz dodged the question, so I dont expect a reasonable answer from him. But I'd be curious if you or other scouts were asked by CCP, "would you rather have cloak stuck in EQ slot, or light weapon slot" (and those were the ONLY choices, no finesse of any kind), which you would prefer.

I'd be interested in seeing this as a proper poll. Thing is, I'm not sure the best way to run it. Putting it in the general forum would probably get flooded by annoying medium-suiter spam.

How does the Plasma Canon fair against Vehicles?

You'll need to find a really stupid or heavily wounded Tanker.
Appia's had decent luck; if I recall correctly, it takes just under one clip.

Wonder if i go Plasma Canon, and keep my damage tactics if the extra range from the PLC would let me get the ones who runGǪ
I have a pile of SP that was going to go to Hacking level 5GǪ but i may spend some on the Plasma Canon just to feel it out.

Unless Appia says that's stupid, then I may reconsider, before i do it anyway

(for me at least) its hard enough to hit a vehicle directly at 50m. When standing still.
Trying to hit it at 100m, while it's deliberately moving at high speed trying to get away? Almost impossible I would think, unless you manage to corner it in some sort of alley or confined space.
ie: one stupid enough to come into a city without a fast exit lane.

If they're that dumb though, would be easier to first scare them with the PLC... and get them to run into a pre-laid RE trap.

How does the Plasma Canon fair against Vehicles?

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

3 REs on the back of a tank. They can't see you. You have to flank around. Maybe the pro REs will see some use.

If you fight for gal, you can get the Fed. PLC. I like using it. I hope to get someone right in the kisser.

3 REs on the back of a tank. They can't see you. You have to flank around. Maybe the pro REs will see some use.

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

With pro you can add one more remote. You can carry 4 so max damage is 6,000hp

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.

What do most scouts do when they run out of ammo in an Ambush and no one has nanohives + there are no supply depots? Suicide-Melee brawl till death? Run around looking for a vehicle to hop in?

Because man I ran out of ammo in my pistol and laser rifle today and was genuinely screwed. There was nothing else I could do. I found an uplink and meleed it for the 5 wp but other than that I felt completely naked. Scout melee = San Francisco Slap

What do most scouts do when they run out of ammo in an Ambush and no one has nanohives + there are no supply depots? Suicide-Melee brawl till death? Run around looking for a vehicle to hop in?

Because man I ran out of ammo in my pistol and laser rifle today and was genuinely screwed. There was nothing else I could do. I found an uplink and meleed it for the 5 wp but other than that I felt completely naked. Scout melee = San Francisco Slap

Lol, this haappened to one of my corpmates in 1.6 and Richiesuite2 got him cornered but refused to kill him, just warning shots to his sides anytime he moved. Went on for like a minute before the game ended and then Richie sent him a message saying he's his b!tch now lol!

What do most scouts do when they run out of ammo in an Ambush and no one has nanohives + there are no supply depots?

What do most scouts do when they run out of ammo in an Ambush and no one has nanohives + there are no supply depots? Suicide-Melee brawl till death? Run around looking for a vehicle to hop in?

Because man I ran out of ammo in my pistol and laser rifle today and was genuinely screwed. There was nothing else I could do. I found an uplink and meleed it for the 5 wp but other than that I felt completely naked. Scout melee = San Francisco Slap

Ambush

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What do most scouts do when they run out of ammo in an Ambush and no one has nanohives + there are no supply depots? Suicide-Melee brawl till death? Run around looking for a vehicle to hop in?

Because man I ran out of ammo in my pistol and laser rifle today and was genuinely screwed. There was nothing else I could do. I found an uplink and meleed it for the 5 wp but other than that I felt completely naked. Scout melee = San Francisco Slap

^ There's your problem.

Why anyone plays ambush, I'll never understand. It is such a horribly designed gamemode.


As for the ammo issue, if the logis are being misers and there are no supply depots then I suicide. I run cheap fits so I don't lose much and it's faster than annoying people till they drop a nanohive.

chances are you only have one shot.

Be on the look out for "Random Suicides" ...

Randomly died by Suicide while setting a Rally Point via overhead map.
Randomly died by Suicide while in Redline with count-down time remaining.
Randomly died by Suicide after returning from Redline (count-down no longer displayed).

... haven't had this problem before; perhaps bad luck or something else was changed.