Reading through the tips & tricks and some of the other sprinkled posts on the scout, I've been trying to better my piloting skills as I've started to realize I've hit a wall in terms of my skill with the scout and having participated in many matches with some incredible scout pilots, I'm quickly realizing I'm doing something wrong.
I thought I'd start a thread to see if any of you more experienced/skilled pilots could weigh in on some sage advice on how to approach the scout and offer a record of what a newbie finds in his first few weeks.
Some of the obstacles I'm running against that I'm positive are my own doing are:
- Mini Flak Canon: I've read in the tips that this is a high-burst CQC weapon but in my short experience, I seem to be unable to make any headway in CQC fights.  My guess is my aim, circle-strafing and "calm" during CQC needs some work but I was curious if there's a known tip for using this weapon as it seems even in CQC, I feel my damage output is pretty small.
- Trees & Outfitting: Is there an optimal outfitting I should be using? I've tried to model after some of the tip threads here for my primary/secondary items (Detonator/Radar) and internals (repair, ammo, fuel gen). As well, I've gone mostly Movement tree with 2 points in the Defense dodge.
- Movement: I'm still struggling with the timing / cooldown of fuel & dodge as this is usually the largest reason I get myself in trouble is being overconfident in my ability to escape (read: bravado). Not sure there's a best practice for this other than learning the timing but I know that the first hard lesson I learned was that you can't fire during a forward boost. Pretty sure that's something that I have to continue to remind myself of.
(tl:dr: Request for Scout advice/critique for a newb)
Thanks!
Edited by Sethendal, March 25 2013 - 09:01 AM.

 

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