A Scout’s Tale: Facing the Soldier
The scout is a fast and nimble little class, who’s goal is to get in, get out, and NEVER stop moving. One of his most difficult enemies? The soldier.
From a Distance
The trick when rushing up on a soldier as a scout is to keep moving (you’ll end up hearing that quite a bit in this article) and think carefully enough to dodge his rockets. From a distance the scout can run circles around a soldiers rockets. In this scenario you are probably best if you whip out your pistol and try and get solid hits against the soldier. While strafing and dodging you can pepper him with your shotgun, but he’d be foolish not to just retreat and find some health (and with as much damage as you are doing from a distance he’ll probably only need a little health bottle). If you want to execute a kill from a distance, your best option is to rush up on that soldier and get good solid hits with your scattergun.
Rubbing Noses
When you get up close and personal with that soldier, odds are he’ll shoot his rockets at the ground in front of him (because he’s much more able to withstand the splash damage), when he does this you will be popped up in the air flailing wildly. If you dont’ do anything that soldier will juggle you around until your dead. The best way to get out of this is to remember you have a double jump! When he pops you up in the air and is waiting for you to come down, use your double jump to get some quick strafe action and get some distance between you and the soldier, grab some health, and try and spring a trap on him.
“Boink” Report
To get a bat kill on a soldier can be pretty difficult. The only leg-ups you have are that:
- Soldiers usually damage themselves when trying to kill an enemy up close
- As a scout you are significantly faster than the solder
What does this mean? Get up close with the soldier, try and stay above his head (using your double jump). This MAY work. Honestly, the best way to get a bat kill on a soldier is to get the jump on him and hope for a crit. It can be done, but boy is it hard. The scouts advantage is that he is so quick he can take enemies by surprise and keep them guessing or (best case scenario) surprise them into screwing up big time.
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In my opinion when trying to take down a soldier as scout going in close is rarely your best bet. It’s simply to easy to hit scouts out of the air from close range as a solly and you don’t really stand a chance once you taken one rocket from anything less than medium range, your really just a shotty hit off from death.
Agreed. The Boink Report is just some tips on getting bat kills, and unfortunately you have to be close to get em. I’ve also found that if you can get him to shoot 4 rockets at you, some up close shotgun blasts before he can reload more than two rockets will do the job.