To any new players picking up scout, just remember that when working with a team its not your job to waste your ammo dealing with the horde. You can assassinate key targets(spitters, menace, etc) and maneuver behind enemies to get to their weak spot. So don't feel bad if your kill count isn't high, that's not your objective.

"flair gun is an accuracy bonus. If you team mates can see what they're shooting, they can shoot it" you assume a lot about both mine and my teams aim in that comment...

For a long time I've also been using the Momentum upgrade for the grappling hook. But I've graduated to Bypassed Integrity Check and never looked back. Bringing the cooldown from 4 to 3 is HUGE as it sometimes allows your grapple to come off cooldown while you're still in the air. I know that little speed boost after grappling is satisfying, but you're a scout. You'd rather be grappling than running. Give it a try.

WOW. The “you are Tarzan, not a harpoon” is absolutely game changing advice for a new Scout. Thanks so much for the excellent video!

You can also use the grapling gun to stop you from taking fall damage! It's usefull when you need to get to lower platforms fast either to rescue someone or just bring your objectives back faster.

I find it interesting that Scout is seen as the beginner class. When I tried it out when I started playing, I felt like it had a high skill floor and high skill ceiling.

I always thought scout was the best solo class because of how fast he got the objective done Now I'm seeing just how easily I can get overwhelmed lol

A scouts job in a nutshell is to ping things for the driller, ping things for the engie, grab all the seed balls, get the eggs, lit the area and to be the first at the escape pod as an insurance to complete the mission if all dwarves are neck deep in trouble

to me the scout is the red herring class. It FEELS easier to play at first, but its not. I actually view it as one of the harder ones to play at higher difficulties because if you dont know how target prioritization works or how to grapple w/o taking periodic fall damage you will die very quick. Scout can kill any bug super fast but thats the key point, any BUG not BUGS. I see scout players get swarmed so much because they try to shoot their way out of a bind and yeah that just doesnt work lol. This is a team game and a lot of people forget that, but the scout is the one class that absolutely cannot play like hes alone when he isnt. For the most part he needs to ignore hordes and rely on the digger or engineer to mow the numbers down while he takes out the bastards on the ceiling raining down crap or ignoring the fight and getting all the Nitra for ammo drops, since running out of ammo and no nitra is the WORST THING EVER lol. "I'm not so much of a scout but rather the guy that makes this mission possible"

You have 900 lvl, wow!

Really great video. As a Scout player myself with 300+ hours logged, I feel that it is one of the easier classes to pick up as a novice (once you learn the ropes of the grappling hook), but the _hardest to master._ The fact that you don't have the weapons to deal with the big swarms that appear every five minutes on Haz 4/5 missions means that you have to always be thinking strategically and possess lightning-fast reflexes. No big, death-dealing guns or big-boom grenades to save you. Just fast movement and finding the high ground (hi, Anakin!).

Bro please post more videos. Your solo and team deep dives are really entertaining. There’s not enough good DRG content creators on KZfaq. And your scout gameplay is unmatched and great to watch.

Great video, thanks. I started with engineer and loved it, but my friend and I decided to level some alts to get my rank up a bit and once I got 8 or 9 levels in scout I realized its way more attuned to my kind of playstyle.

Nice guide. Something to note though, is that the clip size upgrade for the flare gun is a +1 to max ammo. If you take this with 1 ammo upgrade, you get an extra flare per resupply (9 vs 10)

very good guide 10/10 would touch pp again

I have nearly prestiged my beloved driller twice. I drill, you know? Plays and digs, digs and plays. I'm going to roll a scout, though. Thanks for keeping your commentary in edit with the visual examples you offer. Excellent tutorial! /subbed :D Rock and Stone, brothers and sisters!

Solid Scout guide! I am looking forward to your Engineer and Gunner Class guides!

Wish I watched this 3 days ago when I started with the scout haha Very helpful video, learned alot. Can't wait to apply it in game

Big fan of the commented clips, they're very informative in a way that just talking about this stuff isn't really enough for.

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0:00 Intro 1:17 Deepcore GK2 2:10 M1000 3:23 Seconary Weapons (Jury Rigged Boomstick & NUKs) 4:43 Mobility Tools (Grappling Hook & Flare Gun) 5:16 Grappling Hook 9:37 Flare Gun 11:24 Grenades 13:20 General Scout Gameplan 14:38 Gameplay Demonstrations 17:55 Scouts role in the team

As a beginner miner & scout, this content is super helpful. Thank you!

Tip for solo that is really helpful as scout If you order Bosco to dig a nest, he'll dig straight to the egg and carry it towards you. This is really helpful. He can also do this with large ore items. I believe he will also build and repair things for you if you order him to. Let Bosco do the heavy lifting for you while you do the fighting. Bosco is my best friend.

Thanks for the help I got the game yesterday and you helped a lot

scout was the first class i used and these skills just came in to me naturally since i keep usin scout i keep start discovering efficient way to use grappling

LET THERE BE LIGHT BRUDDA! ROCK N STONE!!

dope vid man 🤝

With the explosion on reload for your dualies, it's easy to clear large waves in a clip. Just hit each bug about twice and in reload they die whne grouped

Great content! just started playing DRG and this is fuckin' gold! Rock n Stone brother!

Great video as always! 14:30 Though I must say I cannot agree with scout being the hardest to solo, due to the reduced enemy spawn group size and reduced enemy health. Scout is clearly the weakest against swarms and groups, but when the hordes are reduced for balance it is almost like the scout's major weakness is gone. From recent experience scout soloing H5 swarms waves is surprisingly easy, compared to a normal 4 player game... where the scout is quite helpless and have to move a lot more just to avoid and let the other players deal with the tight packs of enemies

Scouts are like medics. I usually play the engineer and I can’t tell you how many times I was saved by scouts that can just get out of any sticky situation. Scouts are truly essential for every mining team.

great videos man. keep it up

5:50 bypassed integrity check perfectly fits with the perk born ready. Last tier upgrade of sacrificing the 5m for 0.5 sec cooldown does wonder. You can zip around hordes on haz 5, kiting them easier either for you to kill them by yourself while they struggle to turn around or your teammates themselves can. So it is optimum and is perfect for high level plays.

Bypassed integrity check is hands down my favorite, but I can see Momentum being useful. Also, the upgrades you indicated for the flare have the added bonus of giving you one extra flare at a resupply because the game rounds your odd number of flares up.

Scout was the first class I promoted, and I’d say that for basically every weapon of his you want at least ONE mod to be dedicated to increasing spare ammunition, ALWAYS. It’s makes fighting those 2 ton dreadnoughts much easier.

Honestly I find just popping one flare is more than enough for all but the most massive chasms. The team doesn't really need crystal clear vision so much as a noticable improvement to their standard flares. And it means you dont need to use the rapid fire mod and can conserve ammo.

I'd say bypassed integrity check is the best mod for the grappling hook but i never used safety first and i definitely see the usefulness of momentum, i just prefer Bypassed IC, nice vid btw.

"easiest to stay alive with" Well hmm... then why do I always die with scout haha. Honestly I end up killing myself more than the enemy with scout. I tend to survive the best with driller honestly.

Heyyy new mic sounding nice

Man this game has the best community

great vid

Been binge watching your videos, personally the gunner is the newb friendly class for my scatterbrained ass lol. If my friends/teammates aren't keeping tabs on me while casually talking, I'm so distracted by the talking I'm often and easily a mile away from everyone else 😂

your guides and videos helped me so much..sup... R+S

I love using the voltaic stun sweeper on a horde of grunts, even if I could kill them normally it’s just so satisfying

Found scout best with lowest cooldown. You have other options like armor upgrades and hover boots perk for fall damage and can re-grapple most times. M1000 and juryrig accommodate the scout's kite/reposition tactic with a focus on high power crit shots and crowd control shotgun upgrades. Pheromone is much more broadly useful than cyro grenade buying precious time and opportunity to reduce immediate threats

I never knew the nukes had a shadow debuff! That explains so much!

Power attacking a wall is super cool. I hadn't even considered that.

14:38 also as solo you can let bosco pick up eggs for you ( assuming that this feature is available at the time of recording ) so what i do I point bosco to the egg and he digs it and pick up the egg and bring it outside while i focus on defeating enemy mobs. i always play solo too

Pheromone canisters are actually getting a buff next update! Not sure they will be as good as they were before the nerf but it seems like they should at least be more consistent.

The Deepcore GK2 starter primary weapon for the scout has since been buffed and is an incredibly solid weapon to use. Its very good if you can hit your headshots every now and then. That said, I still think the M1000 is better, but don't feel you have to switch to the M1000 as soon as possible.

Thanks for the guide, just started the game and it's very helpful!

I love the scout... He has a scouter 😉😎... "it's over 9000!!!"

Thanks pal.

I do think the assault rifle has it's place in the Scout's arsenal as a sort of all-purpose weapon. As you said, it's effective at most ranges, does reasonable damage and has a decent enough ammo pool. I feel like it's the superior weapon for soloing, since it's got the ammo pool and firing rate to deal with swarms without relying on Bosco to do most of the work... but in a team it just makes you a gunner that does less damage but has more access to weak points. It's main issue is that the scout's job is to focus on priority targets, and while it does that well enough the M1000 just does it so much better, and has more utility in it's mods and overclocks.

0:31 POV boolo is just so funny

I think it's rather interesting seeing how each class handles a swarm on their own. Scout picks them off slowly while moving around as much as possible, driller makes a tunnel (at least usually some kind of defensive dugout) and funnels them into his attacks, engineers cover a wide area and kite while tossing out attacks and letting their sentries attack, and gunner just tanks it while throwing out shields and sustained dps.

Was totally lost.. Till i found you!

Baller.

Great video! Off topic but what's the paint job you're using in this video for your armor?

Hey axis, when you pickup the extra magazine size, it means you get one extra flare. So when you start, you have 4 in the mag (instead of 3) and 15 in reserve. Just FYI.

I started playing with driller because flame throwers are cool but had trouble with mobility so I swapped to engineer and fell in love played him for 75 levels non stop but want to get all classes to 1 star so I tried scout his so fun if you main engineer and have never given scout a try do it you'll love the mobility

A good Scout player is a major asset to the team, they can provide lighting to spot and also mine ores high up out of reach, Scout can zip around combat taking out dangerous enemies and is very good at kiting bosses for other classes to focus on dealing dmg. Not to mention big dmg potential with thing like double barrel overclock build.

Could you explain 18:30 tip more? I always fall down after doing it and take some hp damage. And it requires atleast 1 (or often more) tries to get into the nook. Is it possible to get into it on the same try as i dig the nook into the wall or i always need to fall down and try again?

Do you plan to make a guide for the engineer and gunner?

fire rate boost on the flare gun is very nearly useless. The one extra flare from increased mag size is infinitely more valuable

I find the base momentum is plenty and opt for CDR on the grappling hook

As a scout on ps4 so far I've been the one with either the most kills or second most. While having either the highest or lowest mining while playing casually(Sometimes I just feel like either mining or killing but if someone points at something for me I'll do it). I dont touch the stuff on ground level as much. I go ahead and light the caves and point at stuff ground lvl unless if its nitra or mission objective. I'll point at things up high to a engi to TRY to get them if it's a bad angle to grapple to shoot down a platform. Other than that. I'm proud to be good with scout. Oh and I play my scout as if hes a scout/sniper/medic. I'm the first ahead to light the way. Snipe the big bois with m1000 and if anyone goes down I'll get to them fast as possible with field medic perk fully upgraded. Most revives one round was around 11 to 14

Though this is an older vid tutorial on the Scout. It's still very, very useful nevertheless for me.

i love to see. so much. if im going to be playing such a beautiful game i want to see it and see what im doing. scout is my best boy, driller is my second. i love the flamethrower SO MUCH but i get SO FRUSTRATED cause i cant see ughhhh !!! then i go back to scout and im like i missed being spider man and SEEING. honestly im more of a casual player and play haz 1-2 solo and i wish there was like a mode that wasnt so dark. it is like my biggest problem with this game. i just want to see ): thank u flare gun . i order resupplies just for flare gun all the time. lol

Scout is best！

What's the armor cosmetic ure using in this, I literally only just started playing drg. Was never interested till I tried it for the first time the other day. Wondering how to get better looking armors and make it stronger

For Karl!

U know its a shame many ppl dont play this game

My fav build for scout is the crossbow with the bouncy bolts overclock and m1000 any build tbh shoot a guard or slasher and kill 3 more grunts with the bouncy bolts and while it's stunned switch to the m1000

ROCK AND STONE!!!!

Anyone who played Mindcraft knows the struggle of low light slow movement (w/ out enchantments). But I mean... flair gun and a grapple, yes please!

what keyboard switches do you use? they sound very clean and not too loud. Also amazing and very informative video!

Nice video Axis, have you made a Gunner class guide? I can't seem to find one in your videos.

With Elephant Rounds mod you can make the Gunner Reveolver deal 160dmg in one hit =) Thats inZane

With the nukes, you can actually single fire now. Its super hard, but if you do a super small tap, you can, indeed, shoot one bullet.

pheromons is a best chance to revive teammate. Frost grenade haven't enough time for that case.

"scout is the easiest to survive with" me dying 10 times to fall damage in every mission:

as scout, you do mining, lighting and elite sniping. its your job to get Nitra, hard to reach minerals, and to be medic when teammates go down.

2 years later, I feel like the scout is the best solo as a new player, the flare gun is amazing, the grappling hook lets me navigate caves without waisting time to dig, the rifle and bookmstick can be weaved in with power attacks to deal with major threats and the bonus speed of the rifle with it's pinpoint accuracy allows me to deal with priority targets and keep myself safe at all times

I got the grapple upgrade that makes you travel faster and had to turn it off because I kept overshooting my distances and flying too far

Bro, I just like being discount Spiderman

SCOUTS JOB: 0. Leave no dwarf behind Everyone shares this duty, but scouts survivability means you often become the one who must prove it. That said, if there is no way the whole team can make it to the pod, your responsability may change to become preventing a failed mission. 1. Nitra Above all, you should mine any nitra you see. Everyone relies on you for that, because you are the most suited. You are also expected to mine other things like norkite and special minerals, but nitra is your sworn duty when you pick scout. 2. Light up the caves. Your mobility tool only benefits you, but to compensate your utility tool is invaluable for the team. Learn to use light efficiently, and you will get objectives faster, and everyone will be better at killing bugs 3. Take down the baddest bugs Spitters, menaces, to an extent pretorians and opressors, and otger major threats. You gotta learn the whole priority order and allways focus on the top of the list. If your team is doing alright keeping the grunts at bay, you can even ignore them and instead focus your attention on looking and listening for the troublesome bugs. 4. Scouting... wait, why is this so low? By scouting I mean swooping ahead with superior mobility, pinging important stuff so the party knows what to expect. This is however risky, and the returns are limited, so if you want to stick with the party probably do so, nobody wants to trek halfway across the map to revive a careless scout, and suddenly the party needs you. You should swoop around bigger caves though, to ping objectives.

"Easiest to survive with" Not me as a greenbeard scout, shattering my knees and ankles every time I grapple, then switching to driller because the steady embrace of dirt around me is comforting and easily defensible

Why do u have the medic perk? Does it do something in solo that i dont know?

can you do a video that's all about gathering minerals as scout without an engineer? i feel like the scout is weaksauce without platforms.

i fucking love you

Dude, my grenades display as 1/1. I've been playing for 3 days and thought scout only had IFG until you showed me the other two.

That moment when you realize that Scout is basically Doomguy Lite.

Also look for platforms that engineer placed

"improves your teammates accuracy" me with a Hawkeye turret and lok1:

I myself prefer to play scout with the assault rifle and boomstick. Rifle is mostly to assist against hordes, strip some armor for easier time to hit weakspots and the boomstick with mining axe and faster power attack mod is greeeeat combo for demolishing large amount of health from big bugs. Just grapple behind, boomboom and whack, grapple away. I never found myself needing more ammo calls than most of hte folks. Might be because when dealing with horders, I don't focus where gunner or driller is already, but more of thin the horde or drop fliers or some nastier backliners. Also, short controlled bursts. But I'd never use scout for solo. I'd go with my main boy, the flamer and drill

Soooo I’ve been accidentally playing the hardest class in solo this whole time. Huh

The other thing you need to do as a scout is light shit up! Use those flares baby!!!

I honestly think people who plays scout are not "beginners". In fact I think they are the ones who's the most skillful. I'll say I'm quite biased because I'm a scout main lol. But if played correctly, a good scout player will never let their grapple hook go on CD, movement is key, plus being vigilant and aiming for web, spitters, ranged spiders is also very important as a scout player. Don't forget, they are also responsible for the vision and light of the team. All in all, scout is a very important and amazing class.

What armor set it that it looks sick.