Scout (Classic)

Scout (Classic)
Basic Information
Type:	Offensive
Health:	75 / 125
Armor:	50
Armor type:	Light
Speed:	Very Fast

The Scout is a playable class in Team Fortress Classic. Like his Team Fortress 2 counterpart, the Team Fortress Classic Scout is the fastest and weakest class, both in regards to weapons and armor. His weapons are built around close combat and are not designed for long-range use. He is also the only class that does not possess one custom and one normal grenade, and instead has two custom grenades.

Basic Strategy

• Always keep moving.

• Report enemy activity.

• Call for assistance when needed.

• Move in unpredictable patterns.

• Make use of your special abilities.

• Take advantage of your speed with bunnyhopping, strafe jumping and Concussion Jumping.

• The Nailgun is effective against enemy Sentry Guns.

Special Abilities

Class Skill: Displays the status of each team's flag on capture the flag maps. Displays the status of each team's gas chamber keys on The Rock.

Abilities:

• Removes an enemy Spy's Disguise by touching him.
• Disarms Detpacks set by enemy Demomen when coming in contact with them.

Quake Console Aliases:

Alias	Effect
scane	Toggle detection of enemies with the motion detector.
scanf	Toggle detection of friendlies with the motion detector.
scan10	Use the motion detector with a radius of 250.
scan30	Use the motion detector with a radius of 750.
scan100	Use the motion detector with a radius of 2500.

Weapons

	Weapon	Ammo			Damage per hit	Notes / Special Abilities
		Type	Loaded	Carried
Weapon 1	Crowbar	N/A	N/A	N/A	18
Weapon 2	Single-Barrel Shotgun	Shells	8	50	4 - 22	Fires six pellets.
Weapon 3	Nailgun	Nails	200	N/A	9	Scout holds double the amount of nails compared to anyone else with nailgun.

Grenades

	Grenade	Grenades Carried	Damage Range	Notes / Special Abilities
Primary	Caltrop	3	9	Causes decrease in the enemies' speed.
Secondary	Concussion Grenade	3	0	Causes momentary disorientation.

Gallery

• 

  The new TFC Scout.

• 

  The old TFC Scout.

• 

  The QWTF Scout.

Update history

January 16, 2003 Patch (Classic)

• Fixed Scouts not being able to drop their cells.

See also

• The Scout in Team Fortress 2.