Well aware, but the thing is I've come across matches lately where three quarters of the opposing team were using the assault class. When they're boosting like mad it's not something you can really defend against. One or two assault class users is not a huge problem or particularly unfair, but about eight to ten of them is pretty overwhelming, especially when they start sticking together and hammering your team.
Ok but then just pick another game with people that are serious about playing (were you in a clan?)
I wasn't but played regularly with the same people (of which I knew 3 from school)
Clearly you're very good. I tend to find it difficult to never die in any match, even if assaults are not around. Usually, after killing someone as a scout, they'll have a general idea of where you are and someone with a sniper rifle themselves or an M82 can take you out. You're never hard to spot if you're not cloaked; just aim for the red or blue lights in the distance.
And I die a lot in games, like 2 times for every kill I get but I always just run into a group and kill the ones that make it difficult for the other and I have a tendancy to run into saboteur traps and scouts think I'm a pretty easy target.
I didn't actually play MUCH as a scout but one of my friends did. The one I refer to as my scout, I was kinda like a vice-captain among my friends. The captain wouldn't come online very often, so. I'm more like a support fighter setting up turrets and quickly close in with boost to finish it someone of with the shotgun.
Well here the RPG element kicks in. A scout has to behave as a scout and not kill every target on sight. They're mostly to inform other members on your team about the movement of the other team. And only take action to prevent losing a point. And definitley has to switch places after a kill prefered with a guard (mostly saboteur so he could rig the entrance of the sniper hideout).
Saboteur goes on his way then.
Actually, I think the Scout class is a lot better balanced. Not only can it kind of cancel itself out - very often it can become a battle of the snipers, not to mention the basic assault rifle can also do some basic sniping, so you're never truly safe from getting picked off yourself - but the cloak is dissipated after one kill, it's very easy to figure out where you are afterwards and if you miss, you miss. There's no crosshair without using the scope either, which means if somebody knows where you are, you're going to have a hell of a time surviving if they get close. You could switch to the pistol, but that won't always save you. Then there's, like you said, air support, which I can attest to being a pain in the ass for a sniper.
Hence, the value of practicing non scoped kills. I'm rather good at them myself and if you're discovered just wait for them to show up in the building. Non-scoped works better at close range as you probably understand. Stay out LOS of snipers and splash damage from assaults while waiting. And a hint when killing someone with a grenade your cloack doesn't deactivate.
Really, each of these individual perks are not what what makes the assault class overpowered. You could split them up among classes and it would help balance against other classes. The problem is that they're all together. You could just remove the rocket launcher and put that with another class and the assault class would be much more palatable. It would even be fine if they still had the grenade launcher as an option, as while powerful, it does have it's downside. But adding rocket launchers to said class is just a perfect storm of cheapness.
Here's the problem though. You get enough guys in one game using them and the three rocket limit really doesn't amount to a hill of beans. Three or more guys always converging near your spawn point with rocket launchers is not something you can guard against. Dodging won't help, because there's several of 'em. Should you get one, they boost back up with a fresh load of rockets in seconds.
Can easily be countered with a tactician. Just throw spawn grenades => more places they need to guard eventually you'll break through. And while they're guarding they can't complete very much objectives can they?
I can never be a bad guy. Despite just being a game, I always feel bad when I try. When I'm not given a choice, I can handle it, because I'm bein forced to be that way. But when I can choose which side, I always end up being a white hat.
Same here
Edited by Torxe, 28 February 2011 - 08:57 AM.
