What is the point of the Scout Predator?

#1

I don’t care what anyone says that class is useless!!! Just run the Hunter class with whatever weapons you would in the scout class at least you will be able to withstand the bullets you’re going to take in the trees shooting the now nerfed Plasma Caster and Bow when you’re spotted because you will be spotted no matter what…lol And if your “prey” I use that word very loosely make it to the Ex-Fill…Good Luck Pal 100 chance they are escaping and there is nothing you can do about it…lol

BTW 10 min wait for in-between matches now after the patch…looks like I’ll playing the game less after a patch that made it “better” be careful what you wish for lol

#2

The point was that you can outrun knife bois in second wind.

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#3

There’s another thread just posted about how great scout is lol.

#4

Faster stamina regeneration and bigger pool (many leaps).
Thermal vision is free energy wise, it doesn’t consume it.
It is a fast mobility predator and has a lower frame (smaller hitbox).

Scout is my main.
I prefer to have no health that is hard AF to deplete due to mobility compared to tons of hp but I’m constantly filled with bullets due to being a huge, slow target…

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#5

Scout is my main class and I honestly find him the strongest out of all of them simply for his speed. I dont need to worry about being shot if the enemy cannot hit me. Its the perfect class for hit and run gameplay and now with the patch we can actually bring motion trackers or audio decoys (what I use). Scout is only weak in melee but if you just use the netgun and pick your melee moments well you will be fine. Have currently only lost twice today and once was a self destruct that took out the remainder of the team. Its hardly a useless class.

#6

I swear I wanna like this class I swear I would love to just be stealthy and shoot and hop from tree to tree and all that…but it just seems pointless when the hunter is just as good for that…

#7

Actually, if you want to be that shot from far… better use Hunter.
I prefer my scout up close and personal, using ranged weapons from close range, leaping from roof to roof, being an annoying fly they can’t get rid off, while I slowly chip off their health bit by bit.

I’m not one of those greedy pred players, who “Oh noooo… I can’t no longer 1 hit people with caster… ;(((( PRED SUCKS NOOOOOW” or zerker with combistick going melee only and dying 5 seconds later, coming to these forums and spamming with “predator suckssssssss so weeeaaaak… nerf parrying!!!1”.

Scout is excellent if you want to be close by the FT, engage in fire fights and still come out alive, quickly heal on a pig, get back to the fight in less than 20 seconds.

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#8

no offense but do you see how that doesn’t make sense? the point of the scout is to not be that close to the fire team… If i wanna be close I will just be Hunter!! that literally my point of the post lol

#9

Actually there is no benefit of scout over other classes at range. Your mobility is you asset so he’s not incorrect. As long as you’re outside of melee you’re still range.

#10

The point of the Scout Predator is…to kick ass and take names. The Scout is f’ing awesome. I haven’t died in two days playing as the Scout. It’s even better now thanks to the patch 😁

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#11

The scout predator is trash, I keep on shooting so many plasma charges on the fireteam and I can not get one fireteam down. And even if the scout predator is faster and able to jump from far distance I still get firetam members catching up to me somehow? I use the plasma pistol and I still can’t kill 1 fireteam member with a full clip. Just recently when I fire my shots directly at fireteam they were not taking any damage. Illfonic needs to buff the ranged weapons, especially when the scout predator uses it. It should boost the scout predators damage when it uses ranged weapons.

#12

That is your problem, If you don’t want to get some advice

I run scout all the time (on occasions I will go for Elder) and Its my favorite class. Have 80-90% win ratio with this class. I have 3 builds for it, one is a range scout, other two are melee scouts. With rigth perks they are unstopable.

#13

Hahahah. Making a thread with a question as title. First sentence “I don’t care what anyone says…”

Then put your time elsewhere instead of making a discussion thread if you don’t want to discuss…
xD

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#14

If you don’t care what anyone says then why post? I play mostly FT and can tell you a good scout is a real threat. Hard to hit. Can’t chase them down easily in 2nd wind. Ability to leap in, cause damage and leap out instantly.

You can’t play hunter style with a scout just as you can’t play zerker style with a hunter.

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#15

Scout is amazing now, very good for sniping

#16

^ This guy is right between brave and crazy. I like that

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#17

Scout with long jump, dithered lense, and light bender with disk and elder sword is hysterically fun to play. Plasma caster all day for downs. Disk to get the do good team mates trying to rez. Elder sword for hit and run. This is my Elder build but honestly I think it’s even better with Scout. He’s so God damn fast and with long jump simply untouchable.

#18

Stamina > Health imo

#19

Just because you or some do not know how to use a class, doesn’t make it useless. It just makes it useless in your hands. 9/10 if shit don’t work it’s due to user error. If you think hunter is so much better then just use that instead of playing the scout. In my opinion scout is probably the best in my hands, whilst I suck with Zerk. Do I say Zerk sucks? Nope. If you play a scout properly utilizing constant mobility and hit and run tactics, you will be scary to that fireteam. The moment you linger in a spot, is the moment you are asking for your shit to get rocked, even if you have the superior vantage point.

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#20

In short to horribly handicap you and to be a bad class in general