Coleman Gray
GunFall Mobilization
Covert Intervention
850
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Posted - 2013.10.21 01:58:00 -
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Quick Response: Don't get spotted, use stealth and attack lone wolves from behind while avoiding being spotted.
Long more detailed response:
I'm not a Nova Knifer. But I will offer you some wisdom I've learned from playing. If I see the nova knifer coming at me, he's a dead man/women. If that Knifer sneaks up on me, a backstab really hurts..hurts me to death.
So what I'm saying is, don't hope to be able to run around like all the rest. Bringing a Knife to a gun fight head on will only lead to the same conclusion, no matter how many times you charged at someone head on, that is the definition of Insanity right there, repeating the same thing and expecting differn't results. Best bet is to play as stealthy as possible, stick to in doors when possible, hide and keep, admittidly scanners have made life for Assassins hard, but not impossible. Don't aim for more than 10 kills a game at most. Pick your fights and targets, go for the lone wolves not the herds. Use a scanner, if you see one person nearby, use your intel to get behind him. If you see multiple people, either keep low or relocate, Remember, you don't want to be spotted, think of it as playing MGS on Foxhound agent mode, spotted, game over.
Even tho yes the Minja gets knife and melee bonus, I would go for Ginja if I wanted to try out nova knives, the scan bonus's do help give you that extra advantage over other suits and in helping keeping one step ahead. Yes scouts are weak and squishy, but their speed and mobilty is what your after, not their abilty to take bullets when spotted. Since your weapon choice puts you at a harsh disadvantage in a head on battle anyway, you don't really need HP since even if you run assault, you get spotted, your dead. At least scouts have the speed to make that get away to keep you alive in the times you are spotted, your abilty to move through terrain also helps alot. With a scanner you can know the enemy positions AND the way their facing. With the scouts speed and mobilty you can use that infomation to either single a target out and move to attack from behind or make the decision to fall back if needed.
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Coleman Gray
GunFall Mobilization
Covert Intervention
851
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Posted - 2013.10.21 02:14:00 -
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TranquilBiscuit ofVaLoR wrote:if a target is moving you CAN'T hit them, because the hit detection is so bad. you see their shields fluctuate, but NO health goes down. i'm not just blindly running at people. i've been scouting for months, so i know how to avoid confrontation. before 1.4, nova knives were amazing in skilled hands. it was inly when i mastered NKs that i got my KDR positive. as in i was going 20+/0-3 EVERY match. but none of that matters anymore because ccp managed to break the knives even more than they already were. it seems like everything WILL face the nerf hammer except for the AR. 
Don't worry I got a feeling AR's will be nerfed last so the people who rely on it as a crutch will think their actually good and then when the AR is balanced those players will fall so hard from grace all the pain, suffering and strife the rest of us have felt will be washed away by the flood of their tears. |