It's time to experiment with hunting!

Changing the cloak allowed me to start experimenting with builds and assemblies again, trying to move away from the existing meta resist + bag + ranged damage. Spoiler: Dawn Range is still in the build, but what’s missing is the BOW!

I want to present you my build in the current state of the game

As you can see, I completely abandoned the bow on my scout, instead I use a PC with the “Adjusted Lenses” perk, now FT can track you in the direction of shots and the laser, this perk removes the need to hide the laser behind the texture every time which greatly simplifies tracking and gives you a lot more direct hits. Scout’s overload recovery is so very fast and the accelerated recovery perk allows you to get out of overload just at that time while you change position. Damage perk because … because it’s damage!

As for the weapons, I don’t see the point NOT to use the disc now, it is too good with some practice, colossal damage and quite frequent cunning, the second I chose a spear for the scout. Why? Because his throw fucks any class that hesitates, gets dirty? a spear. Shooting you with a rifle on the hill? A spear. TRYING TO JUMP ON THE HANGAR AGAIN? A SPEAR! Considering the scout’s huge stamina reserves, you manage to kill a person and retreat exactly at the moment when reinforcements run up to him.

In general, I VERY recommend this build, if you do not arm yourself with it on an ongoing basis, after all, I know that the scout is … specific, then at least try it. Use the cloak to the maximum, if it’s hard for you, you can replace the accelerated recovery with a large bag.

Have a good hunting.

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Same here man, gonna also dedicate equal playtime in both fireteam and predator…

So far i will be testing fireteam only… so far i’ve been melting preds that think cloak now makes them fully invis close range.

They usually melee rush or camp from distance and we end up doing missions and then kill them at Exfil :P

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I played about 20 games in this build and I often have a case when I make the last kill at low health by throwing a spear at a guy who is already clinging to the cable)

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I have the most success with the scout as I can’t dig the mobility enough 😁

Definitely like how you can implement the stealth aspect of the game now with the new cloak too. I’m running:

Long jump
Adrenal
Energy cell
Elder sword
Bow

I can’t help not use the bow, that thing is so great for any situation and I’ve got some narly shots with that killer 😎

Totally man! Since the new update I stay mainly in the trees and stalk FT for good 10 mins reather than just going for gold whenever I can (and get melted in the process XD) This cloak change made me play more as a stalker/hunter than rageing killing machine. I think every one will benefit from this change

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I’ve been testing builds out as well. I currently have two scouts, one has long jump, adrenal gland, and medic, with bow & elder sword. The other has dithered lense, cooling syncs, and the faster energy recharge and I will mainly use him for the PC like I use my JH but more mobile.

I ran it on patch day… swapped downrange for height advantage

U can lay down some running plasma shots with minimal dmmg taken

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Yeah they deal like 20-30 damage per shot right… which if u look at it this way is not too much lmao…

Fireteam mission is to exfil and not to fight pred XD

Their fault they are out on the open

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