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Cpl Foster USMC
Brutor Vanguard
Minmatar Republic
239
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Posted - 2013.09.29 16:01:00 -
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first, 3 things..
1) Ace Combat : Infinity was pushed back till Nov-ish..
2) NBA 2k comes out Tues and I prob won't play much of this for a while
3) I don't expect my Minmatar Heavy for a while
so, had tons of SP and Isk and itchin' for a dogfight....I spec'd into Assault Dropships looking to fill that need...
in two days i haven't had a decent dogfight yet.....worse still is that a the few peeps I've seen up there fly back into their redzone to avoid the fight....
so, I ask, where are all these hotshots I been reading about...?...
cause I ain't seen one yet....and I got a crappy dropship... |
Hellkeizer
The Avutora Complex
122
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Posted - 2013.09.29 16:04:00 -
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They left with EoN. or are hiding from forge guns |
Adelia Lafayette
DUST University
Ivy League
336
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Posted - 2013.09.29 16:05:00 -
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Too busy slapping people with my exile fitted starter medic to pay for my expensive habit. |
Mac Dac
Wraith Shadow Guards
215
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Posted - 2013.09.29 16:08:00 -
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honestly av is enough of a problem so when i see another dropship its way too much avoiding missiles and av so i just recall. |
Cpl Foster USMC
Brutor Vanguard
Minmatar Republic
239
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Posted - 2013.09.29 16:09:00 -
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Mac Dac wrote:honestly av is enough of a problem so when i see another dropship its way too much avoiding missiles and av so i just recall.
Thanks for your honesty....
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DUST Fiend
OSG Planetary Operations
Covert Intervention
6504
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Posted - 2013.09.29 16:16:00 -
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I hate that assault dropships are the only dropships even close to being playable.
I don't want to fly my dropship to shoot ****, I want to fly it to transport troops and rep allied vehicles...you know....like in ALL the official DUST videos....
Fml smh
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Cpl Foster USMC
Brutor Vanguard
Minmatar Republic
239
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Posted - 2013.09.29 16:19:00 -
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and we have too grind for a month to get back what we can lose in a match.[/quote]
i'd tell you a secret, but i'd get banned....
but it's literally staring you in the face.....really... |
Fire of Prometheus
DUST University
Ivy League
484
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Posted - 2013.09.29 16:25:00 -
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I think I know ur secret but I will not use it because I believe it's an exploit....but hey that's a matter of opinion....provided we are talking about the same thing |
Cpl Foster USMC
Brutor Vanguard
Minmatar Republic
242
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Posted - 2013.09.29 16:30:00 -
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I've already said too much...Amarrian Shock Troops are knocking on my door.....I must go now...remember my name.... |
Naedeus
DUST University
Ivy League
174
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Posted - 2013.09.29 16:30:00 -
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The last dogfight I was in... I was flying a crappy Viper with absolutely nothing fitted on it and I lured an enemy assault dropship towards my ground team who had AV.
Needless to say, the poor guy lost four of those... and I'm sure they were expensive. |
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Fire of Prometheus
DUST University
Ivy League
485
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Posted - 2013.09.29 16:31:00 -
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Cpl Foster USMC wrote:I've already said too much...Amarrian Shock Troops are knocking on my door.....I must go now...remember my name....
Lol that would be my amarrian police squad  |
DUST Fiend
OSG Planetary Operations
Covert Intervention
6507
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Posted - 2013.09.29 16:31:00 -
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Naedeus wrote:Needless to say, the poor guy lost four of those... and I'm sure they were expensive.
700k for a badly fitted one, so yea, sounds costly >_< |
Cpl Foster USMC
Brutor Vanguard
Minmatar Republic
242
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Posted - 2013.09.29 16:31:00 -
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Naedeus wrote:The last dogfight I was in... I was flying a crappy Viper with absolutely nothing fitted on it and I lured an enemy assault dropship towards my ground team who had AV.
Needless to say, the poor guy lost four of those... and I'm sure they were expensive.
that is some good Squad work....well done.... |
Cpl Foster USMC
Brutor Vanguard
Minmatar Republic
242
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Posted - 2013.09.29 16:34:00 -
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DUST Fiend wrote:Naedeus wrote:Needless to say, the poor guy lost four of those... and I'm sure they were expensive. 700k for a badly fitted one, so yea, sounds costly >_<
wow....worse than I thought...mine is 538,000.... |
DUST Fiend
OSG Planetary Operations
Covert Intervention
6507
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Posted - 2013.09.29 16:36:00 -
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Cpl Foster USMC wrote:DUST Fiend wrote:Naedeus wrote:Needless to say, the poor guy lost four of those... and I'm sure they were expensive. 700k for a badly fitted one, so yea, sounds costly >_< wow....worse than I thought...mine is 538,000....
The frame alone costs you almost 500k what do you have fit on there, all militia mods? >_< |
Mac Dac
Wraith Shadow Guards
217
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Posted - 2013.09.29 16:37:00 -
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Cpl Foster USMC wrote:
and we have too grind for a month to get back what we can lose in a match.
i'd tell you a secret, but i'd get banned....
but it's literally staring you in the face.....really...[/quote]
if its not "get good" and is legit. send ingame mail. |
Seeth Mensch
Damage Core corp.
The Superpowers
33
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Posted - 2013.09.29 16:37:00 -
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I take every dogfight chance I get. However, there's usually a forge gunner sitting on the tippy top of some tower waiting for that one moment... |
Mac Dac
Wraith Shadow Guards
217
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Posted - 2013.09.29 16:45:00 -
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Cpl Foster USMC wrote:DUST Fiend wrote:Naedeus wrote:Needless to say, the poor guy lost four of those... and I'm sure they were expensive. 700k for a badly fitted one, so yea, sounds costly >_< wow....worse than I thought...mine is 538,000....
1.5mil a piece.
-__- |
Fire of Prometheus
DUST University
Ivy League
487
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Posted - 2013.09.29 16:46:00 -
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Sheez, my ADS is about 759k isk....the only MLT thing on it is the MLT afterburner |
Dunk Mujunk
RestlessSpirits
D.E.F.I.A.N.C.E
148
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Posted - 2013.09.29 16:47:00 -
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Foster, if you are itchin' for some dogfighting to tide you over and have a Playstation 2 (or emulator), try and get ahold of Airforce Delta Strike. It leans more toward arcadey action, with main mission objectives like flying down the barrel of 3 massive cannons (to destroy their targeting systems or something), destroying a giant cargo lift as it heads from earth to a space station, or flying into a giant subway system to destroy enemy ground forces.
It actually has a pretty decent story told in an RPG/Anime style that has you conversing with the pilots in your squad between missions. The characters are all hand drawn (it appears) and the game does a pretty good job of getting you involved in all 8 characters individual stories. They even have story segments for the main enemy pilots (shown after missions, before returning to the hangar). That is, of course, if you want to get into the story. If not you can skip it all together and go right into the missions. Pretty much any dialogue you see can be skipped over.
There are a total of 3 squads. 2 of the squads have 3 playable pilots, and 1 squad has 2 playable pilots. The game contains mostly real aircraft (somewhere around 149 flyable planes I think), and each character is able to purchase aircraft between missions. One squad is a dedicated Air to Air squad, on squad is Ground Attack, and the last squad is made up of a VTOL guy, a guy who is all about pure speed, and a guy that only flies old prop planes. For the most part, each characters available planes are completely different from the other characters (other than some cases of 1 char having an F-15 D and another having an F-15 E, and things like that).
Once you beat the game, you can start a New Game +. This gives you the opportunity to attempt to purchase all aircraft, use newer, more powerful aircraft on early missions, and it lets you explore the 3 different endings (the story is the same for most of the game, but at the very end the story arch splits into 3 and offers unique missions depending on the pilot you choose). As I said, it is more arcade than simulation, but if you set the controls to Ace (or hard, or something like that), it becomes fairly realistic as you have to constantly manage your speed and your air brake to be effective at dog fighting. The arcadeyness comes from the setting (at some point you end up in space).
All in all, it is an old ass game that doesn't look terrible, but you won't be amazed by the graphics either. If you love aerial combat games and are just looking for something to tide you over until a later date, check this out. It can't be more than 5 bucks at Gamestop (if they have it). |
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Dust Junky 4Life
Intara Direct Action
Caldari State
11
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Posted - 2013.09.29 16:50:00 -
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Cpl Foster USMC wrote:
and we have too grind for a month to get back what we can lose in a match.
20mill a day |
Beld Errmon
Evocatius
897
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Posted - 2013.09.29 16:52:00 -
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Mac Dac wrote:Cpl Foster USMC wrote:DUST Fiend wrote:Naedeus wrote:Needless to say, the poor guy lost four of those... and I'm sure they were expensive. 700k for a badly fitted one, so yea, sounds costly >_< wow....worse than I thought...mine is 538,000.... 1.5mil a piece. -__-
You know you only need to put the proto launcher in the front, don't waste your isk on the ppl that are too stupid to get out of the dropship and cap (aka gunners)
OP I love a good dogfight, but in all honesty they are kinda pointless, you need near 100% accuracy with your missiles to down another ADS before the reps kick in again, well not really, but still 2 good ADS pilots can spend the entire match slapping each other in the sky before they eventually F up and crash into each other :D |
Our Deepest Regret
Algintal Core
Gallente Federation
278
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Posted - 2013.09.29 17:05:00 -
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They're all playing Ambush where they at least have a chance to contribute. |
Darth-Carbonite GIO
Dust2Dust.
Top Men.
178
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Posted - 2013.09.29 17:43:00 -
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At a million+ isk a pop, I usually only bring out my assault dropships when I know the field is clear of railgun tankers and killjoy forge-gunners.
That said, dogfights against skilled pilots have resulted in some of the most fun I've had in Dust. Keep searching for a worthy opponent.
Now I need to go find more isk |
THUNDERGROOVE
ZionTCD
185
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Posted - 2013.09.29 18:08:00 -
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Hellkeizer wrote:or are hiding from forge guns
This, any dog fight I've been in either one of us ends up getting shot down by a forge or rail
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Duran Lex
Amarr Templars
Amarr Empire
317
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Posted - 2013.09.29 18:19:00 -
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Cpl Foster USMC wrote:first, 3 things..
1) Ace Combat : Infinity was pushed back till Nov-ish..
2) NBA 2k comes out Tues and I prob won't play much of this for a while
3) I don't expect my Minmatar Heavy for a while
so, had tons of SP and Isk and itchin' for a dogfight....I spec'd into Assault Dropships looking to fill that need...
in two days i haven't had a decent dogfight yet.....worse still is that a the few peeps I've seen up there fly back into their redzone to avoid the fight....
so, I ask, where are all these hotshots I been reading about...?...
cause I ain't seen one yet....and I got a crappy dropship...
I loved Ace Combat as a kid, as i grew older it became rather stale and repetitious in its series, so i lost interest.
I never understood the attraction to sports games. Can't say much more on that.
Yep, don't expect it for awhile. I've been playing for close to a year now and they haven't released anything new for the Heavy since i started, unless you count the new armor mods that are practically useless for the Heavy.
I haven't seen any ADS battling in the air for the past few weeks myself actually.... I always enjoy providing the victor with a congratulatory blue orb. |
fdsertyuui8
Kinsho Swords
Caldari State
0
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Posted - 2013.09.29 18:46:00 -
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Dust Junky 4Life wrote:Cpl Foster USMC wrote:
and we have too grind for a month to get back what we can lose in a match.
20mill a day
DAMN...!!!...i'm only doing 8.5 mill a day.... |
Sir Snugglz
Red Star.
EoN.
107
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Posted - 2013.09.29 18:52:00 -
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Love hunting for other derpships... haven't lost a fight yet... but normally I just ignore the derpships shooting at me and continue killing mercs.. till they get annoying and jump at them with a vengeance. |
Cpl Foster USMC
Brutor Vanguard
Minmatar Republic
243
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Posted - 2013.09.29 21:15:00 -
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DUST Fiend wrote:Cpl Foster USMC wrote:DUST Fiend wrote:Naedeus wrote:Needless to say, the poor guy lost four of those... and I'm sure they were expensive. 700k for a badly fitted one, so yea, sounds costly >_< wow....worse than I thought...mine is 538,000.... The frame alone costs you almost 500k what do you have fit on there, all militia mods? >_<
yes....I may have some isk saved up, still doesn't mean I like to lose it..... |
Vyzion Eyri
The Southern Legion
The Umbra Combine
1355
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Posted - 2013.09.29 21:41:00 -
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I fly logistics dropships, and generally avoid other dropships (both friendly and enemy) because they seem to magnetise towards mine and go all suicide bomber on me. Never seen an assault DS try shooting at me yet, but then again I don't go looking for it.
Hotshot pilots should be in the title. If you're a hotshot DROPSHIP pilot, that doesn't necessarily mean you're an ace at aerial combat, but more an infantry deployment expert. |
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