Dominus Fatali
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Posted - 2013.09.04 22:51:00 -
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zibathy numbertwo wrote:I'm going to be painfully honest. You are most likely had a negative K/D and couldn't aim worth sh*t in 1.3 if you think the aim assist is a good thing. It benefits the worst players and hurts the good ones. And I am not even that good, I only have... Like... 8k kills or something and have 12m sp~ (I'm not being specific because I'm at college right now and I don't really remember.) and I had a 2.05 k/d in 1.3. I now never lose 1v1s. 2 damage mods, all complex plates, 1 complex rep, win. Nothing beats me 1v1. I out dps and tank everything. It's no longer a challenge, but I cant 1v6 and win successfully anymore by bobbing and weaving because they all hit me 100% of the time. My scout CEO gets chokeslammed when fighting ARs cause he has so little health and they hit everyshot. Speed tanking is obsolete now. I cant outskill multiple enemies and 1v1ing isnt fun anymore.
I have used exclusively the AR, with an SMG sidearm. That's what I have on every fit, and now I have no counters. This is coming from someone who has only used the AR and has been playing since closed beta: ARs are OP now. With complex damage mods I win. Period. I dare anyone using anything other than an AR to beat me 1v1. I could probably headshot a heavy to death before his forge gun charges up. It's really, truly, awful. I want to stomp noobs running proto to pub stomp with a standard AR with pure skill again. :( I'm depressed, why would you do this to me, CCP? :(
Believe me kittens, being chokeslammed is no fun. The stealth buff helps a bit, but the fact remains that I still die from autolocked ARs before I can turn around. Plus, the difference in scan radii is negligible, it's too small to be of any real use. |
Dominus Fatali
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Posted - 2013.09.05 21:34:00 -
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Maken Tosch wrote:Jathniel wrote:I'll be Devil's Advocate here.
The aim assist is decent. This does in fact, help players that don't aim that well.
Which is good.
Aiming in DUST made you VERY sharp. I know I'm not the only one that developed aim in Dust, and then proceeded to go to games like BF3 and absolutely **** face.
At the same time, the aim assist puts everyone on POTENTIALLY equal-footing. So using cover, and being smart on ground movements is actually vital now.
1.3 and before a couple of ace players could just walk side-by-side in the open, and just kill every noob in their path, now those noobs are able to kill them.
By helping everyone's aim, the matches have been more fun.
You guys have GOT to admit that much. Getting a team of blueberries, that can actually hold their own, Aim Assist or not... Every match I have done in 1.4 so far, has been amazingly fun, and my faith in this game has been just that much more restored.
So much so, that I am now an EVE player as well.
At the time of this writing, I am using EVE's ingame browser on one monitor, and playing DUST on the other....
1.4 was a success, barring some bothersome bugs like not being able to deploy your full squad... and that will be fixed in a few days tops. Assuming you are correct, what about us scouts? I really don't mind the new aim-assist if CCP would have at least introduced the cloaking equipment or at least give the scouts a bonus towards sprint speed outside of the kinetic catalyzers or maybe give the knifers the ability to lunge just like the melee does now. If we had these features now, it's likely that I wouldn't be complaining this much and I would be happy to just stick to hiding as usual (as if I haven't done that already). But as it stands, without the features I would like to see available, hiding feels... like a prison now.
Call me crazy, but I am a firm believer in scout balanced achieved through the alteration of stats, as opposed to the addition of a deus ex machina such as cloaking. Increase scan range, buff speed and stamina, get rid of stamina regen delay, scaled melee rate, different stamina usage for jumping based on suit type. These would all be significantly easier (I think) to implement than cloaking, and would, in my opinion, put scouts on a more even playing field. |