Ok scouts, I'm about to post something funny that happened earlier today.
Ambush, Nyan san is in my team. I'm playing, but not really. I was just there looking around for things. You know I'm tired of the game as it is.

Of course the enemy is getting pounded. I keep travelling and enter the city with A, B, C. Inside of B a Medium Min. caugh sight of me. He was looking through the window. I was outside behind cover where I can peek at him and crouch for cover.

There he goes trying to kill me, so I play with him and I'm ducking and pop up, ducking and pop up. Very entertaining. Guy almost got me too, but I had the advantage and kept crouching to avoid fire.

Here's the funny part: when I pop up again I see him flying out the window due to a grenade! He was very distracted and he didn's see the enemy rushing his position. He actually flew out the window guys, it was funny watch.

P.S. At the end of the match the enemy team started to spawn by me, so I rushed in and knived two unsuspecting victims. Went 2/0 lol

-Sidewinders

Sidewinders is the best I've heard so far of the Fill Your Own's.
I like Jazz Scouts though....it's fresh

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Playing with a 3-man Scout squad is good for my K/D

Just had a bunch of great matches with Shotty, Ignitable Aura, and Eyemarkerwet.

GG's guys.

One for the board, Irian Locust, at 1.054 Scout-only kills.

Question- Is Obi Wan-Jacobi still scout?

Because I came across him these last few times and he was a Caldari Medium + SMG, a polar change from Shotgun Minmatar + Pistols. Obviously he still has scout stuff but just wondering if he's trodding elsewhere for good...might be the smarter thing to do in all honesty.

If my Scoutly-ness was called into question every time I ran a match in those other suits, this thread would mostly become debate over who is a scout and who isn't.

Yea sorry I had to jet after only a single game. Was on phone and was taking longer than anticipated.

Scout squads are awesome though. We usually cause a swift death to the enemies.

Ghost what's ur nova knife fit? Do you notice uncharged blades hit more frequently...or is that my imagination.

I trust our Brothers to keep us in the loop should they opt-out of the Scout Frame or use it secondary to another frame.
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Hmmm. Related theory: if you want to catch and kill a running enemy, it should actually be possible NOW, with the right workaround:
quit chasing his back... run up BESIDE him, then do an angled attack. Tricky, but if you can train youself, this should be... 90%? effective?
It will be subject to the latency between you and the particular server you are connected to.

This is somewhat similar to "leading" your shooting with a gun against a running target.
The angle you'll need to use, will be dependant on both your relative speed to your enemy, and your server latency. Since your enemy is going to be some small distance ahead of where he LOOKS like he is to you.

The extra tricky bit is that you need to run up beside him, but knife him before getting in front of him enough that you show up on his radar :-/

Then there's the whole thing about if he decides to do the anti-sniper wiggle and change directions randomly :-/
Most cases it'll be safer/easier to just shadow him until he stops somewhere.

I think it's a problem with latency. Your console view of things, is not the same thing as the server's view of things.
When you do an action, you think you're doing it in your view, but it actually is calculated for hit, on the server's view.
For chasing someone, I think part of the problem is that the client is doing collision calculations itself, rather than letting the server do it.

Attempted explanation: you're both running in the same direction, away from initial position '0'.
At some point in time, enemy is at position 10 in your view. You are at position 9.5.
you SHOULD have overtaken them, but your client calculates "I should be at position 10, but enemy is at the way. therefore, server, I am at position 9.5".

SO, after calculating the collision, your client tells the server "i'm at position 9.5". Trouble is, by then, miliseconds have passed, and enemy is at position 10.5
So, server view is that you are 1 unit apart, when you should really be only .5 units apart.
If knife range is only .5 units, then you miss.



Interesting "proof" of this;

I was running towards someone with knives yesterday. guy was standing still trying to shoot at me, or even moving towards me.
I did a knife, and killed him.. even though he seemed too far away at the time.
Reason: My view was not in sync with the server view: server had calculated that i was actually CLOSER to him than my client was displaying, so I got the hit/kill.


(For the curious: yes, I'm a programmer with experience dealing with network latency issues )



Hmmm. Related theory: if you want to catch and kill a running enemy, it should actually be possible NOW, with the right workaround:
quit chasing his back... run up BESIDE him, then do an angled attack. Tricky, but if you can train youself, this should be... 90%? effective?
It will be subject to the latency between you and the particular server you are connected to.

This is somewhat similar to "leading" your shooting with a gun against a running target.
The angle you'll need to use, will be dependant on both your relative speed to your enemy, and your server latency. Since your enemy is going to be some small distance ahead of where he LOOKS like he is to you.

The extra tricky bit is that you need to run up beside him, but knife him before getting in front of him enough that you show up on his radar :-/

Then there's the whole thing about if he decides to do the anti-sniper wiggle and change directions randomly :-/
Most cases it'll be safer/easier to just shadow him until he stops somewhere.

Quick question:
Do profile dampeners have a stacking penalty? I'm running a standard Gallente scout (level 1 bonus + level 1 dampening skill) and decided to give up one reactive plate (out of the two I had equipped) in exchange for the standard dampener, which should reduce my profile 22% in total. Considering the fact that I'm all but dead if I actually have to engage an opponent, is it worth giving up my other reactive plate for another dampener? It's not as though there's a huge difference between 100/200 EHP and 100/150 EHP!

Quick question:
Do profile dampeners have a stacking penalty? I'm running a standard Gallente scout (level 1 bonus + level 1 dampening skill) and decided to give up one reactive plate (out of the two I had equipped) in exchange for the standard dampener, which should reduce my profile 22% in total. Considering the fact that I'm all but dead if I actually have to engage an opponent, is it worth giving up my other reactive plate for another dampener? It's not as though there's a huge difference between 100/200 EHP and 100/150 EHP!

It doesnt matter whether they have a stack penalty or not. The important thing for you, is that with your current skillset, a single dampener will get you invisible to the beginner level scanners, but not the ADV scanners.
Furthermore, using two of them will, at best, get you to 30.25 profile.
That still wont get you invisible to ADV scanners.

Getting your suit up to level 2, and your dampening up to level 3, AND 2 basic dampeners, will get you clear of ADV scanners.
That's the smallest-SP path to beating those, I think.

Get both suit an damp skill to level 3, and you wont need any modules to beat the basic scanners. So try to do that as soon as possible.

The Generals corp is fighting for the Caldari. Just finished a match against 12 of them in full proto and officer gear.

If you intend to pursue Gallente FW rewards in 1.5, I suggest you prepare to compete at that level.

What kind of loadouts do people run for their low-powered slots? Do veteran scouts bother with armor/reps or do they focus on scanning/dampening modules?

The Generals corp is fighting for the Caldari. Just finished a match against 12 of them in full proto and officer gear.

If you intend to pursue Gallente FW rewards in 1.5, I suggest you prepare to compete at that level.