muhahaha, Jolly Roger is a beast huh?

*Sigh*
I need to spec into ARs or ScRs. All these new maps favor mid-range combat. From the complete hate of snipers to the very long distances from one installation to another. There is just no way I can run around with a shotgun or sniper rifle.
Even the Research facility favors the AR. With long (20m+) hallways that are 2 person wide, even without aim assist you just shoot down the middle and guarantee hits.

Math for Appia:

45.00 dB - Light-Frame
33.75 dB - Scout Level 5 (-25%)
31.73 dB - Profile Dampening Level 3 (-6%)
26.97 dB - One Basic Dampener (-15%)

^ Beats 28 dB Proto Scanners

Note: I'm not running dampeners all that often; haven't bumped into too many proto scanners on the field as of yet. Generally load up a match with a preferred fitting, then switch to dampened fitting if/when scanned. Did this against Marauder's AE killsquad earlier today. A red-dot whipped out a proto scanner which picked me up until I switched to a loadout with one basic dampener. I'm at dampening Lvl(3) which suggests the above math is accurate.

(I don't have video capture software anyway....)

Has anyone else noticed that occasionally enemies are invincible for a few seconds after spawning at a mobile spawn point? I unloaded 6 ****** rounds into a heavy with no damage done. Another instance a blue heavy and I were clearing an area when a red heavy spawned. Both me and the blue heavy died with almost no damage done to the red. There was no-one else in the area and I had just destroyed the mobile point when the red heavy became visible. I think this is nearly coincidence that both instances happened with heavies but possibly a glitch?

I use heavy suits more often than scout suits, so I should probably be removed from this list for the time being. Truth be told, I'm having some difficulty adjusting to the scout class. It might take me a while to get good enough.

I'm convinced scouts are essentially the Velociraptors of dust 514.

You have my condolences!!

I hope you didn't sink too much SP into the suit and/or other 'scout' skills yet, if you are not liking it. However, in my opinion it's something you need to go "all in" on to make work. Every patch I have to find a new way to play scout to stay alive. I kind o f wish I had just specced into a medium frame suit with a good sidearm / AR and could get some kills and have some fun.

It's taken me a week just to adjust to 1.4. I think I'm finally starting to do okay again.....

but a few AR bullets hit and I'm DONE, instantly.

Beware the Duvolle. Insta-kills scouts at zero to one-hundred meters.
Speed, armor, firing first, evasive maneuvers ... all irrelevant.

Beware the Duvolle. Insta-kills scouts at zero to one-hundred meters.
Speed, armor, firing first, evasive maneuvers ... all irrelevant.

Math for Appia:

45.00 dB - Light-Frame
33.75 dB - Scout Level 5 (-25%)
31.73 dB - Profile Dampening Level 3 (-6%)
26.97 dB - One Basic Dampener (-15%)

^ Beats 28 dB Proto Scanners

Note: I'm not running dampeners all that often; haven't bumped into too many proto scanners on the field as of yet. Generally load up a match with a preferred fitting, then switch to dampened fitting if/when scanned. Did this against Marauder's AE killsquad earlier today. A red-dot whipped out a proto scanner which picked me up until I switched to a loadout with one basic dampener. I'm at dampening Lvl(3) which suggests the above math is accurate.

I base my fits off the same math and have no problems with scanners though I have to use 1 complex dampener to beat the proto scanners since I only have lvl 3 scout m/g and not sure if profile is rounded to nearest whole number or if a 27.54 with only enhanced dampener beats 28.How nice it would be if the info screen on fittings included profile, precision, range, and weapon damage the way it does for everything else.

Thank you for touching base, Canaan. You are counted as brother among our humble ranks.
We look forward to your return, should our beloved light-frame find favor in future builds.
Best of luck in your future travels; your contribution to our cause will not be forgotten. o7

- Shotty GoBang

You have my condolences!!

I hope you didn't sink too much SP into the suit and/or other 'scout' skills yet, if you are not liking it. However, in my opinion it's something you need to go "all in" on to make work. Every patch I have to find a new way to play scout to stay alive. I kind o f wish I had just specced into a medium frame suit with a good sidearm / AR and could get some kills and have some fun.

It's taken me a week just to adjust to 1.4. I think I'm finally starting to do okay again.....

Why would you use the Carthum Assault? If I wanted an SMG I would use an SMG. I found out a while ago that Assault pistols are really not worth it like the other Assault Weapons are.

Yeah, I originally put it on there because there's no breach proto pistol but in future when we're doing a proto stomp day I'll just use my trusty TY-5 instead. I found I'd gotten so used to the ROF of the breach that I wasn't even making use of the assault ROF anyway!

Nothing beats the ishukone SMG though

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.

I dislike ADS because I lose FOV and movement flexibility, so I only ever hipfire. The annoying thing is that with the aiming changes it seems harder to get those headshots (with AA on or off), so most of the time I see myself taking down the shields with the pistol and finishing them off with the SMG - it really is a beautiful combo. The only difficulty is the range, especially with the breach pistol having less than the other variants.

edit - and yeah, hate getting killed by ARs at 100m whilst at full sprint.