Give scout the ability to place camera/radar

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  1. Opie

    Opie Member

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    Just seems to make sense to me. Take away cameras and radars from engi and give them to the scout to place in his adventures crawling around map.
     
  2. -=]Kane[=-

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    A fully build camera or a buildable one,
    and if, how2 build? Pressing E or autobuild or Binocular merged with calculator
     
  3. Opie

    Opie Member

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    Decrease its build time, and e-build. That would not be hard to change.
     
  4. arklansman

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    Or just TF2 sentry-style autobuild.
     
  5. Killing Machine

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    or yeah tf2 build
     
  6. Dubee

    Dubee Grapehead

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    me likey.. E build or even just place fully built would be fine aslong as they stay as easy to kill as they are now... Also maybe enhanced senses could make cams/radars glow thru walls or something.

    Another thing to change.. The binocs.
     
  7. -Mayama-

    -Mayama- MANLY MAN BITCH

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    What I dont get is, why remove a feature from one class
    to force people to play a almost useless class. So people
    start to scream "we need a scout" just because of one tool.
    Or with other words they bascially scream for a idiot bitch
    that places them a camera.

    EDIT: I still think combining scout with rifleman and removing hide
    would make a better class than just move features from one class
    to the scout.
     
    Last edited: May 6, 2010
  8. PreDominance

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    Engies should still be able to place them. Just scouts can do it faster.

    Maybe as a scout levels up, the range increased? :?
     
  9. Ikalx

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    Well, I can't agree with a rifleman who can easily clear out a barracks having saboutage as a helpful tool.
     
  10. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    I agree with Mayama on the scout camera part. It just means people will be forced to go scout for the sake of placing cameras.

    One thing I'm not 100% sure about is if enhanced senses only works for the user (which is what I believe) yet some people think that it works as a mobile camera. Even if it doesn't, that may well be a better option.
     
  11. Dubee

    Dubee Grapehead

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    A camera or radar secretly placed in an enemies main base can be extremely helpful. Now what if that camera/radar also gave you points for anything that was killed while being spotted by it..

    I think this is a great suggestion for a future scout. But yeah, combining the rifleman/scout could be a quick and simple fix. But I kinda like the idea of a ninja type class with a katana and wall jumping abilities who can collect info and relay it to the team.
     
  12. flasche

    flasche Member Staff Member Moderator

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    id like to see hide gone and enh.senses scouts as mobile short range cameras (with engi still having theirs)

    but whatever, noone gives a shit anyway. i should stick with trolling pickled, thats way more fun :D
     
  13. Killing Machine

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    hide is very essential...
     
  14. Pope_Homeless_XIII

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    My idea is to turn the scout cam-radar (a two-in-one) into a thrown object that is able to stick to any surface, but it only lasts for around 3-5 minutes before it burns out. Could be funny turning an enemy or an enemy vehicle into your own mobile radar. I guess the repair pad & armory can be used to remove it should it get stuck to a vehicle or person.
     
  15. flasche

    flasche Member Staff Member Moderator

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    must ...
    resist ...
    flaming ...
    ARGH

    edit:
    fixed
     
    Last edited: May 7, 2010
  16. vlamnire

    vlamnire Member

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    We should first decide what the Scouts main role is before we add suggestions like this, which may have been stated before but the question is; Do we agree, for the most part, on the role set?
    I agree with Mayama that this one ability shouldn't be implemented just yet. In my opinion, we cannot implement one idea at a time for the Scout; we have to get several together and redefine the Scout at once and then make minor tweaks.
     
  17. Killing Machine

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    you just suck at scout thats why u hate it :P

    But seriously this is how you get ninja raxes that win a game. I know theyr annoying but hell what can you do. Mortar is much more annoying when not playing the commander.
     
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  18. flasche

    flasche Member Staff Member Moderator

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    if you say so ...
     
  19. Kittamaru

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    Make scouts have Cameras that work for infantry AND vehicles, BUT require Line of Sight to function.

    Keep engies as x-ray cameras / radars that detect outside LOS
     
  20. 0yv47

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    /Support.
     

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