Can't seem to equip this scoop on my AWC anymore, yet a HF ship works fine. It doesn't say anything in the description of this being a HF only scoop.

Also, I've had this scoop equiped since I got my AWC yet all of a sudden it wont work now.

Help?

It's supposed to be Heavy Fighter, as it's actually intended for Berserkers (Sniper sucked major bawls when it came out). The Big Bird version iirc says Heavy Fighter.

However, I wonder what was the intention behind the Drone version of the scoop. Engineers don't have any worthwhile DPS based off their main ship since drones aren't affected by non-drone operation bonuses applied to your ship.

All descriptions on scoops are gone. They aren't removed, just visually gone. You can easily see this on any type of a Holding Scoop or Seeing Eye Scoop. The Bird Scoop has a heavy fighter lock tho, and I am very suspicious to how you had one equipped to your AWC in the first place.

I'm fairly sure I did.. however I'm having my doubts now

Yeah, I added something to the scoop stat string which broke other stat string stuff.

It's already been fixed for next patch.