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    Scout specialist ... what are they in terms of lore?

    In my opinion, scouts are Tier 3 special forces.

    For those who don't know, special forces (at least in the U.S) are divided into 3 tiers:

    Tier 1: "The hand-picked best of the best"
    This group includes the good ol' legendary Seal team Six, and Delta Force, and Ghosts. Are extensively trained in virtually everything.

    Tier 2: "The selection pool"
    This group is for 75th Ranger Regiment, Night Stalkers, MARSOC, and SEAL and Boat Teams. Are trained and proficient in most fields.

    Tier 3: "The Try-outs"
    This group is for those who essentially just completed basic training for special forces. Basically all other lower special forces groups, usually attached to a regiment as a scouting team.


    Not only do I believe scout specialists are Tier 3, but the reasoning is that they DON'T have general training in everything like the Tier 1/2 SF groups.

    But they DO have access to a special [REDACTED]/[CLASSIFIED] receiver on the fax machine if they put their ID in, which I think is really cool.


    I don't know, what do you guys think?
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    Didn’t know scout got their own super secret fax recipient, that’s cool, but scout is by far the worst spec. Nothing like seeing a 1 hp lurker and having to wait for Christmas to come for your fire delay to let you shoot it (get pounced and killed in one ability rotation)
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    Thing is, ever since DEFCON got removed, Scout became a backline skirmisher class that had a 1% survival rate and often died or got capped faster, unless who plays it is a robusto straight from hell with a cloak macro and knows how to shotgun juggle their way out of situations.

    This spec is just hard to find a good way to play it. I honestly find most fun to play scout in HvH since the kit is DESIGNED for infiltration and countering human mobs. For dealing with xenos is harder, but not impossible (unless they're devoting their gameplay looking for you and inspecting every tile in their view looking for you).

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    scout and pyro are the best specs don't @ me
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    Quote Originally Posted by AlbertBlackwell View Post
    scout and pyro are the best specs don't @ me
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    Quote Originally Posted by c4xmaniac View Post
    Didn’t know scout got their own super secret fax recipient, that’s cool, but scout is by far the worst spec. Nothing like seeing a 1 hp lurker and having to wait for Christmas to come for your fire delay to let you shoot it (get pounced and killed in one ability rotation)
    nah scout is better than sniper but then again so is a pfc

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