A few of us here over at CCP were wondering how many of you are either former or active members of the military.

One of the things that I've found to be really fun is to run into players with formal military training. I might be completely in the wrong, but I've always felt that it's almost an unfair advantage when playing war-themed games! :P Those of you may not know but I previously served in the United States Navy! I wouldn't say that it particularly made me any better at fitting my Dropsuits, but definitely helped in other aspects, such as respecting the power of organized militia and organized play!

Okay enough about my opinion, I want to you know yours! Where did you serve? What in regards to video games (specifically DUST514) do you think your training (or extensive military knowledge) gives you an advantage in instant matches, Planetary Conquest skirmishes or Factional Warfare conflicts. Are there any disadvantages?

Even if you're not a military or former military member, have you played with or made friends with them? Did you notice anything interesting or specific about that experience?

Thank you so much in advance for sharing your story!

A few of us here over at CCP were wondering how many of you are either former or active members of the military.

One of the things that I've found to be really fun is to run into players with formal military training. I might be completely in the wrong, but I've always felt that it's almost an unfair advantage when playing war-themed games! :P Those of you may not know but I previously served in the United States Navy! I wouldn't say that it particularly made me any better at fitting my Dropsuits, but definitely helped in other aspects, such as respecting the power of organized militia and organized play!

Okay enough about my opinion, I want to you know yours! Where did you serve? What in regards to video games (specifically DUST514) do you think your training (or extensive military knowledge) gives you an advantage in instant matches, Planetary Conquest skirmishes or Factional Warfare conflicts. Are there any disadvantages?

Even if you're not a military or former military member, have you played with or made friends with them? Did you notice anything interesting or specific about that experience?

Thank you so much in advance for sharing your story!

USMC 1983-1987
2nd Marine AirWing
Ground Support Equipment Hydraulicsman

A few of us here over at CCP were wondering how many of you are either former or active members of the military.

One of the things that I've found to be really fun is to run into players with formal military training. I might be completely in the wrong, but I've always felt that it's almost an unfair advantage when playing war-themed games! :P Those of you may not know but I previously served in the United States Navy! I wouldn't say that it particularly made me any better at fitting my Dropsuits, but definitely helped in other aspects, such as respecting the power of organized militia and organized play!

Okay enough about my opinion, I want to you know yours! Where did you serve? What in regards to video games (specifically DUST514) do you think your training (or extensive military knowledge) gives you an advantage in instant matches, Planetary Conquest skirmishes or Factional Warfare conflicts. Are there any disadvantages?

Even if you're not a military or former military member, have you played with or made friends with them? Did you notice anything interesting or specific about that experience?

Thank you so much in advance for sharing your story!

Shipmate :)

IT1 here. xrate from AT. Bet you can guess what I push the most as a comms guy. But the old AT in me will have me throw my 2 cents in on the boards with regards to ewar.

What was your rate Mintchip? Or were you one of those Os we love so much.

i hate that word almost as much as the lazy Os we had.

ossn to osc 8 year... worse chief on board and made fun of by everyone.

Are you saying you made OSC in 8, or are you talking about a Goat f**ker everyone hated.

I just took the asvab and scored a 96. I am going into the Airforce and waiting to go to meps then basic training.

I just took the asvab and scored a 96. I am going into the Airforce and waiting to go to meps then basic training.

U.S Chair Force 1998-2002. Command and Control operator. My experience has not helped me in any way be a better Duster. Though, if there were a command suit... Perhaps I could command and control!

US Navy Veteran, fixed airplane electronics and ran around like a chicken with his head cut off on the flight deck, at night. Scary place I'll tell you.

VFA 27 With CAG -5 Aboard USS Kitty Hawk
VFA 97 on special detachment duty (something about a marine general making a bet with a navy admiral...)
VFA 102 x2 (training from F-18 hornets to rhinos)
FRC-W Lemoore.
Reserves (about 6 more months to totalling 12 years of service)

As far as how my knowledge learned in the navy and how it applies to Dust 514 is not as well rooted as the ones I have about Eve Online. So many other games talks about war this war that and yet most fail to realize, war is hard, war is expensive, and war is easy to break. Eve Online captures this perfectly and I have yet to see any game come close to this aspect, not even Planetside 2's gradious massive battles.

Dust 514 captures some of the spirit, for example the satisfaction of destroying expensive equipment knowing that you may set that guy back several matches. Losing your own said expensive equipment is just as hurtful. While Dust 514 is still growing I hope it will start to capture more of 'true war' from logistics to real people morale needs, from intel nets to cyno nets to bullets verses brains.

As for my own gameplay experiences... I think my navy mentality training is hurting me a bit. I take a bit too long looking at the situation and not doing enough responding at times.



Lol Kadina airmen being beat red was priceless.

11 year member of the chair force. 2M0X1 here, the biggest thing for me is that I follow directions to a tee when I'm in a squad. No real combat experience on my part. My only deployment I was in the back towing and loading JDAMs, which might explain why I take to Logi...in the rear with the gear.

US Navy Veteran, fixed airplane electronics and ran around like a chicken with his head cut off on the flight deck, at night. Scary place I'll tell you.

VFA 27 With CAG -5 Aboard USS Kitty Hawk
VFA 97 on special detachment duty (something about a marine general making a bet with a navy admiral...)
VFA 102 x2 (training from F-18 hornets to rhinos)
FRC-W Lemoore.
Reserves (about 6 more months to totalling 12 years of service)

As far as how my knowledge learned in the navy and how it applies to Dust 514 is not as well rooted as the ones I have about Eve Online. So many other games talks about war this war that and yet most fail to realize, war is hard, war is expensive, and war is easy to break. Eve Online captures this perfectly and I have yet to see any game come close to this aspect, not even Planetside 2's gradious massive battles.

Dust 514 captures some of the spirit, for example the satisfaction of destroying expensive equipment knowing that you may set that guy back several matches. Losing your own said expensive equipment is just as hurtful. While Dust 514 is still growing I hope it will start to capture more of 'true war' from logistics to real people morale needs, from intel nets to cyno nets to bullets verses brains.

As for my own gameplay experiences... I think my navy mentality training is hurting me a bit. I take a bit too long looking at the situation and not doing enough responding at times.



Lol Kadina airmen being beat red was priceless.

USS kitty hawk?

I assume you are a yank I am sorry I mean an immigrant? That doesn't sound very yank like. Normally its "Blah blah PATRIOT!!!! MAXXX POWERR blah"
Or perhaps -
"USS FREEDOM LIBERTY" or some other nonsense like that :P

Fellow Tron, even the same platform. I heard horror stories about the ****** kitty, I was on the same keel, but mine had 8 reactors instead of the shower fragrancers. Even though we were on different coast, we probably know some of the same people.

Naw the Kitty Hawk was in class of her own brood consisting of herself and two sisters the Connie and JFK, it would have been called the Constellation Class but connie caught on fire and Kitty beat her out the docks.

Food was horrible but same can almost be said of every carrier about. Water was okay unless a fuel pipe busted, it was better than the red water from AU to the point we didn't bother drinking that and resorted to processed water products such as colas.

As for diesel boat she did fairly well, I mean she outlasted both of her sisters and a few nuclear carriers. As for accidents our rates were about the same as the fleet and rarely blamed on equipment failure though we have a few big ones, including one wire snap and loss bird. True though that you could probably take paint thinner to her and sink her that way. Last I heard she's retiring to some reserve yards there are folks still wanting her to be a museum as being the longest modern serving ship in the navy; an impossible fate for the recently retired USS Enterprise. Decommissioning her reactors would gut her completely unrecognizable. Nothing to fret the legacy will continue as the newest scheduled carrier is going to continue the name. The damn WW2 Enterprise was beaten from one side of hell to the other and almost participated in every major fight back then.

That doesn't sound very yank like. Normally its "Blah blah PATRIOT!!!! MAXXX POWERR blah"
Or perhaps -
"USS FREEDOM LIBERTY" or some other nonsense like that :P

1989 - U.S. Army MOS 11C 4.2 inch morterman.

1990 - 1995 United States Marine Corps - MOS 0311 Infantryman and some other ones.
1990 - 1992 Philippines
1993 - 1995 Camp Lejeune, NC

I have been the Project Leader for the PC Game Mod called Point of Existence which ran on top of Battlefield: Vietnam and Battlefield: 2 and as the head Military Advisor originally to the team. My call sign back then was =LORD=Hathcock. ... Used to be involved with a competitive gaming clan that played the Mod Desert Combat and was part of the leadership team for them.

Being in the military I believe has given me an edge on some as it pertains to teamwork, getting people organized, communicating and teaching others "how" to communicate when in battle....when a team mate states they have a tank near them...is it friendly or hostile? Location of said tank, and direction it's going, type and status of that tank...etc. I know I'm not the best when it comes to being a top kill/death ratio player but most of the matches that I do play with a squad of players I will rank in the top 3 because of getting points for being a team player...being a Logistics player providing healing, ammo, drop links, etc...

Semper Fidelis,

MrSneaky1971a
Director of the Strong Armed Bandits Corporation
Fighting within the Public Disorder Alliance

Strongarmedbandits.blogspot.com

Ahhh, SALUTE reports. I think I'm going to do a video about how to use those in-game.

US Army from 1997-2006, Two tours Iraq, OIF l OIF lll

88M, 50 cal gunner convoy escort

USS kitty hawk?

I assume you are a yank I am sorry I mean an immigrant? That doesn't sound very yank like. Normally its "Blah blah PATRIOT!!!! MAXXX POWERR blah"
Or perhaps -
"USS FREEDOM LIBERTY" or some other nonsense like that :P

Well, my corporation (SMERG) formed in EVE in late 2007 after a bunch of guys from my unit (3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment) got back from our second tour in Iraq. We had quite a few of us all banding together, TOTAL noobs, trying to be "mercenaries" in the ruthless world of EVE Online. There was Fightback, Shhaazam, Lowlanderbean, Rakkinechew, Dr1ftw00d, 8inferno8, P-rez. We ended up recruiting a few guys we met online that happened to be in the Army, Tiwatz, Reg'nar, etc etc, and we would bust each other's balls about the branches we were in.

I still have a ton of former and active duty guys in my corporation, along with some of those silver-spoon college-kiddy bastards, but sadly most of my old unit buddies have moved on to other games or otherwise dropped off my radar. It's always awesome to recruit a guy in Dust that has some form of military background, even if I sort of find myself rapidly becoming the old dude that used to be in and can't entirely relate to the active duty guys in their first enlistment anymore lol.

i hate that word almost as much as the lazy Os we had.

ossn to osc 8 year... worse chief on board and made fun of by everyone.

I realize you had to spout out your envy, but that was an aircraft carrier named after Kitty Hawk, NC. Go google it and gain some knowledge as to why you are so ignorant. I guess you could have done that first, but you really had to post what you did, huh?

A few of us here over at CCP were wondering how many of you are either former or active members of the military.

One of the things that I've found to be really fun is to run into players with formal military training. I might be completely in the wrong, but I've always felt that it's almost an unfair advantage when playing war-themed games! :P Those of you may not know but I previously served in the United States Navy! I wouldn't say that it particularly made me any better at fitting my Dropsuits, but definitely helped in other aspects, such as respecting the power of organized militia and organized play!

Okay enough about my opinion, I want to you know yours! Where did you serve? What in regards to video games (specifically DUST514) do you think your training (or extensive military knowledge) gives you an advantage in instant matches, Planetary Conquest skirmishes or Factional Warfare conflicts. Are there any disadvantages?

Even if you're not a military or former military member, have you played with or made friends with them? Did you notice anything interesting or specific about that experience?

Thank you so much in advance for sharing your story!

just a thought ccp.

would it be helpful to you for us ex military to provide information on how we worked within our specific areas of the military. nothing that is not already available on the net but basically our own personal experiences and views and how we process a battle and how dust could be made better by incorporating these specific features into the game.

how we work as a team on the ground, how we incorporate vehicles into a fight. when, where and how specific weapons are used and for what purpose (not all weapons are designed to kill alone). when to defend and when to attack. how we manipulate the enemy into doing what we want and not falling for their ploys instead. how we communicate vital information.

all this information could go a long way to improving the squad/team play of dust rather than just bigger better weapons and suits and overwhelming force.

CCP you have a wealth of military experience and knowledge from many different countries at your disposal. you only have to ask

you could set up a military panel

Yeah, better be already available info. I could otherwise see how China would welcome a
game development that might allow them to be privy to American/European classified info on tactics and equipment.

I realize you had to spout out your envy, but that was an aircraft carrier named after Kitty Hawk, NC. Go google it and gain some knowledge as to why you are so ignorant. I guess you could have done that first, but you really had to post what you did, huh?

A few of us here over at CCP were wondering how many of you are either former or active members of the military.

One of the things that I've found to be really fun is to run into players with formal military training. I might be completely in the wrong, but I've always felt that it's almost an unfair advantage when playing war-themed games! :P Those of you may not know but I previously served in the United States Navy! I wouldn't say that it particularly made me any better at fitting my Dropsuits, but definitely helped in other aspects, such as respecting the power of organized militia and organized play!

Okay enough about my opinion, I want to you know yours! Where did you serve? What in regards to video games (specifically DUST514) do you think your training (or extensive military knowledge) gives you an advantage in instant matches, Planetary Conquest skirmishes or Factional Warfare conflicts. Are there any disadvantages?

Even if you're not a military or former military member, have you played with or made friends with them? Did you notice anything interesting or specific about that experience?

Thank you so much in advance for sharing your story!

USMC Combat Engineer SGT. 2003-2007 - Multiple combat tours.

How does this benefit me in Dust 514?





Flanking.... Flanking everywhere.

Southeast Ga. Former Missile technician USN. As far as dust is concerned great outlet for ptsd

Aussie infantry mid 90s

Playing this game is like going to war with a bunch of pogues, most run around and just do weird things, e.g. stand around smoking a durry when an objective is around the corner.

How does my training help. Playing seldom and as a logi for me it comes down to more common sense, where is a good place for an uplink, and where to dump a hive. Basic tactics, like the enemy must capture point A so defend downstream of a bottle neck. Things I had to unlearn, fear is no longer a weapon and stupid things like being able to accurately aim while running and jumping is a joke and the one thing i find most odd is shooting someone with a mounted weapon vs a hand held weapon seems to be about the same.

When comms work!!! *** HELLO CCP *** and the squad actually uses it productively the game is much more miltiary like, but only in the fact that is essentially sandboxy and the exact same thing could be said for any shoot-em-up type game with comms

Fear is still a weapon, stay away from tanks, etc. A sniper can still discorage you from being in a certain area etc...
But yeah, it is pretty much playing with POGS with no concept of flanking or avenues of approach lol