Doin time for the team o7

Interestingly, i suspect someone is going to hate REs even more soon

That's two guesses
You have one more

That NK SCOUT is going down! Bomb him , stab him , shotty him, run him over and drop ship squish him!
Can't believe he reported Oz..... Well I can actually, gave it to him pretty hard haha

Yeah, he's starting to **** me offGǪ..i doubt he's an NK scout, as all he talks about is how underpowered tanks are

He's some awful player in The Phoenix Federation that wanted to join AE.....but said he didn't have a Proto suit.

It's that guy's alt for the Shinobi event.

makes senseGǪ.idk why anyone would wanna join those big corps personallyGǪ.get a tight little corp like mine, were super close knit

That NK SCOUT is going down! Bomb him , stab him , shotty him, run him over and drop ship squish him!
Can't believe he reported Oz..... Well I can actually, gave it to him pretty hard haha

I just wish NK Scout ran skirmish more often so I could run into him. Ambush? Blech...

Official statement on charge multiplier is still a mystery but people have been saying it x2.25

LOL! That's epic, man! Thanks for taking one for the RE weilding scouts... I swear, RE's are so very fine. It's just that people are so dumb about walking into them all the time. I swear.... like lemmings.

As for the pistol and rifle DPS.... yes, the pistols are beast, for sure. No doubt about it. I don't land headshots consistently against moving targets though, and find myself running short of ammo and range quite frequently when dual-wielding them.

I am looking forward to the new range in 1.8 but I'm not going to perma-gimp myself, as much as I like running them as often as I can.

The truth is that Appia is right about light weapons in that they are superior in many respects. I wish it wasn't the case and sidearms could compete within their range but even if you've got aim and can get the DPS out of the pistols, you still don't have: total ammo count, damage per clip and range. Or something a lot of precision shot specialists like: ADS zoom. Pistols suck for that. Every other weapon I've tried is better. I got a headshot today at 50+ meters, but honestly - it was pure luck.

It's just way smarter for most folks to grab a light weapon if you go up against some heavy competition.

And I've got every pistol skill maxed, except for fitting optimization - which is only L4.

I measured it explicitly and posted the results, just a couple weeks ago. After a certain person complained they are as powerful as shotguns.
Numbers said: they're not :)


It's x3.5 for full charge, as I recall.

The SMG is a different picture altogether. It's aim is truly awful but it's RPM is so high that spraying hip fire semi accurately whilst jumping around can actually work. However, unless the target's very low on health, there's just no point outside of 20m, which because of the stupidly awesome power of all rifles and comparable accuracy at close range, 20m is dead scout territory.

All that said, I don't think either need to be more powerful than they currently are and even if the SMG does get nerfed (a little), hopefully the nerfs to (some) rifles will mean it's still balanced (that's a lot of hope!). What I do agree with on Monk's side though, is that sidearms should have much lower fittings costs than ALL light weapons and especially ALL rifles. At the moment the gap, especially between SMGs and CRs, is too small. What I consider my main advantage going sidearm only is that I have extra fittings room for modules - take that away and it wouldn't be worth it. The only reason I haven't switched to CR is pure stubbornness and hope that one day this'll change.

What's really gonna hurt is when in 1.8 all assaults get a 25% reduction to fitting weapons and logis get a 25% reduction on equipment and both have the same slots they have now, so even if they do get their PG/CPU nerfed right down to compensate, they can easily counter that with CPU/PG mods and be able to fit ANYTHING.

I plan on starting to join squads after 1.8 hits. How do you play in scout squad? Do you run in a pack or just squad up so everyone is in same game?

I stay as far away for my squadmates as possible. Though I do this regardless of what suit I use and who I play with. Because the whole match you're really just competing with each other for kills and WPs.
In my book, teamwork is each player taking an objective and holding it by themselves. It's been how I played since closed beta. lol.

1 (or 2) scout/s can very effectively hold certain objectives. Mainly, the ones with defined avenues of attack and mostly enclosed spaces. With remotes and a shotgun I can keep most people off an objective unless they come as a 4-5+squad swarm. Then it gets dicey...

Helps if you're set up with nanohives and some uplinks on the objective as well.

On the other hand a scout swarm is deadly in its own right. It works most effectively as a team of two though. One distraction and one person nailing the red dot from the side. Switch and repeat.

On the other hand a scout swarm is deadly in its own right.

I was on the wrong side of a Scout Swarm yesterday
J0LLY
Moody
OZ
Matti
And More
Pretty sure the whole other team was Scouts

That is my main gripe really - range vs fittings. It really doesn't matter how much power any sidearm is because they're all more or less useless beyond 30m. This will change a little with 1.8 but the range gap to the rifles will still be significantly substantial, especially for the SMG. Pistols I'm not really fussed about because they have greater range and cost more fittings for it.

It's official, I am finally a Scout!!!

I just got my Scout Dropsuit considering I put all my beginning points to Biotics Upgrades and other stupid things before finally getting my Scout suit today!!

I also did great with my Shotgun Scout so I'm happier than a ************!

It's official, I am finally a Scout!!!

I just got my Scout Dropsuit considering I put all my beginning points to Biotics Upgrades and other stupid things before finally getting my Scout suit today!!

I also did great with my Shotgun Scout so I'm happier than a ************!

I measured it explicitly and posted the results, just a couple weeks ago. After a certain person complained they are as powerful as shotguns.
Numbers said: they're not :)


It's x3.5 for full charge, as I recall.

HOW DID WE LET QUIL GET THE #10000 POST!?!?!?

Also, I'm rather disappointed it didn't have anything to do with being the 10K post.

I think I missed a major chunk of some discussion.
What's the beef with Quil?