DUSTSearch ForumWatch http://dustsearch.com/ The alternative DUST514 Forum browser. en-us Tue, 9 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 DUSTSearch RSS Module v1.1 chribba@evemail <![CDATA[Cloaks and Assault Nerf Ruined This Game - by Scheneighnay McBob]]> https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2278547#post2278547 Functionally, they barely improved scouts, it just had a placebo effect causing more people to run scouts thinking cloaks make a difference.
The only difference cloaks made is more mediocre scouts.]]> Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:00:00 +0000 dustsearch/guid/1930934 <![CDATA[Cloaks and Assault Nerf Ruined This Game - by JONAHBENHUR]]> https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2278391#post2278391 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:13:00 +0000 dustsearch/guid/1930774 <![CDATA[Cloaks and Assault Nerf Ruined This Game - by Happy Violentime]]> https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2278332#post2278332
LOL no

I could hide before 1.8 by sticking 2 complex damps on my logi suit.

Rest of you too busy ballerina scanning and following the dots on tacnet to spot the bright yellow dude flanking you.]]> Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:01:00 +0000 dustsearch/guid/1930717 <![CDATA[Cloaks and Assault Nerf Ruined This Game - by Michael Arck]]> https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2278310#post2278310 OP FOTM wrote:
Michael Arck wrote:
The assault class was dead before the inclusion of cloaked scouts. That was a time when we leaving the "slaylogi" era. People didn't pick cloaked scouts to fill in a gap for assaults because of their "weakness". People picked scouts because they wanted cloaks and just played frontline with the role.

Yet outside of forums, people are still playing with assaults and their value is not diminished. The assault class just don't offer an attractive incentive in a world where gamers want certain incentives to play certain aspects of the game so you have fewer playing the role.


Yeah but assault was very popular and actually a viable option back then.


Didn't assaults have the shield extender bonus then? Then I remember CCP wanting to lower the TTK. I could be wrong but they also tinkered with the assault so that brick tanking on a assault couldn't be possible. Assaults were getting their butts handed to them to more shield eating weapons such as LR and SCR, more so SCR, since they could kill you so fast with that low TTK.

That's when the slaylogi came about. You could gain more WPs and kill like an assault. Plus brick tanking was golden on the slaylogi. It was a double win. But only for a short while though. Good times. I could go logi in a pub match and gain two OBs in a squad by myself.]]> Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:16:00 +0000 dustsearch/guid/1930693 <![CDATA[Cloaks and Assault Nerf Ruined This Game - by OP FOTM]]> https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2278298#post2278298 Michael Arck wrote:
The assault class was dead before the inclusion of cloaked scouts. That was a time when we leaving the "slaylogi" era. People didn't pick cloaked scouts to fill in a gap for assaults because of their "weakness". People picked scouts because they wanted cloaks and just played frontline with the role.

Yet outside of forums, people are still playing with assaults and their value is not diminished. The assault class just don't offer an attractive incentive in a world where gamers want certain incentives to play certain aspects of the game so you have fewer playing the role.


Yeah but assault was very popular and actually a viable option back then.]]> Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:00:00 +0000 dustsearch/guid/1930689 <![CDATA[Cloaks and Assault Nerf Ruined This Game - by RYN0CER0S]]> https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2278256#post2278256 And that is why they were nerfed.

GCCP Logic.]]> Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:46:00 +0000 dustsearch/guid/1930660 <![CDATA[Cloaks and Assault Nerf Ruined This Game - by Michael Arck]]> https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2278250#post2278250
Yet outside of forums, people are still playing with assaults and their value is not diminished. The assault class just don't offer an attractive incentive in a world where gamers want certain incentives to play certain aspects of the game so you have fewer playing the role.]]> Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:38:00 +0000 dustsearch/guid/1930659 <![CDATA[Cloaks and Assault Nerf Ruined This Game - by Reign Omega]]> https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2278237#post2278237 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:11:00 +0000 dustsearch/guid/1930645 <![CDATA[Cloaks and Assault Nerf Ruined This Game - by Venerable Phage]]> https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2278233#post2278233
Most of my fits have had a basic dampener on it as it makes your equivalent class blind to you. The main exception for me is my speed Minja who is just an advanced suit with 2 KinCats.

The cloaks can be devestating if used correctly and if anything cloaks do better with Dampeners as a floating red chevron is a great way to say place bullets in my noggin.

Scouts and heavies are in a good spot as are support logis as they reap repping bonuses and supply from supporting all the needy heavies.

Assaults and snipers need some love that is true.

Armour speed penalty should also apply to dampening too...]]> Fri, 25 Jul 2014 07:58:00 +0000 dustsearch/guid/1930641 <![CDATA[Cloaks and Assault Nerf Ruined This Game - by OP FOTM]]> https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2278225#post2278225
When we got the cloak, multiple things happened at once and it was overwhelming. Assaults lost their useful HP-based bonuses and Scouts that weren't Gallente lost their dampening bonuses. The cloak became an infantry slaying tool unrivaled in the entire game... assaults lost their useful bonuses and their new ones just forced them further away from the front line... and the loss of emphasis to dampening on scouts combined with the motive to use the cloak as a slaying tool... all these things combined have ruined the Assault class, and defaced the Scout class.

No one realized how important the Assault class was until it was nerfed into the ground. No one realized they were the backbone of this game. Instead we have scouts and heavies pretending to be the Assaults because they're gone.

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