I like Scout because his mobility. He’s not a tank up close but can pack a punch quick and leave with minimal damage when you get good at it. First few melee strikes, ambushes, you’ll think its not worth it, you probably had bad timing/call/info. His specialty is range we all know that. The bow, its power, timing, all take some getting used to, especially that blinking red dot reticle ( I dislike it so much) but once you get the hang of it, learn that standing/crouching still makes you completely invisible so you can shoot arrows and they panic because they will never guess unless one person is dedicated to spotting the red tracer of the arrow flight, then you learn not to spam arrows.
You got range, capable melee (I think its fine to run the combi on this guy, though I would like to run the sword or club but they just can’t get the job done right now.) A smaller health pool is a nice trade off to me.
I run the lense perk, energy cell and observant.
Ideally I would like to swap energy cell for cooling sync but cooling is bugged and doesn’t work, many have tested it.
Lense perk is so I can hit hard under pressure or on tanky guys or team who like to hold each other’s buttcheeks all game.
Observant is for when things get hectic and I wanna keep track of people while constantly moving tree to tree and flipping back and forth with thermal and normal and catching the guys who think they’re slick with mudding in firefights and trying to run off.
My hunts that wipe a team, I usually break them down over time. I harass them, voice chat people often cuss me out or even ask why I’m not trying to melee or get close.
That tells me that people are so ready for berserker rushes that any other style or mixed range style catches them off guard badly.
Hunts that don’t succeed or I get killed its often highly coordinated teams, that have spotters and are running OBJs fast as fuck and the time is my enemy.
I dont often get killed as I try not to put myself in melt range of 4 man teams. I have very often gotten shredded by good am my need to down a guy.
Most of this translate to hunter as well but more melee focus.
If war club gets better I wanna run that melee weapon and also try it with beefy boy