Read this piece recently and agreed. http://dustmercs.blogspot.com/2013/10/sandbox-514-making-dust-matter.html#more

Uplinks in Dust are some of the most poorly designed items ever seen in a shooter. They are just too powerful and encourage spam rather than tactical gameplay.

I dont think they should show up unless I actually see one or its scanned, but 1) one uplink should be the max we can put down 2) they have to have a much higher CPU/PG drain. 3) preventing them from being too close to each other is a great idea. if I put one down within 50m of another the existing field should prevent it. 4) lower the amount of spawns 3 milita, 5 standard, 10 advanced and 15 proto.

hopefully they will really balance the cloak before adding it but it scares me looking how OP uplinks still are, so what else can be done to make uplinks better?

That makes a lot of sense. It could be the specialist variant with lower fitting costs. If they ever get around to giving Logis bonuses for equipment (like a reduction to fitting costs) you could always increase the costs of the others and keep the squad ones where they are now for use by assaults.

uplinks probly the most unbalanced part of this game still in and thats saying something. corps just spam uplinks around an objective and keep spawning there instead of using any tactics.

^THIS. It has destroyed all tactics..you win now by destroying their uplinks and spamming yours.

says the guy riding EONs nuts. but ur known as an OP whiner.......so I guess if u arent crying about it maybe I should reconsider.

ur alliance leader says different. Mavado Noriega has even admitted how bad uplink spam is.

if u like it because it helps u win or get most of your points from it, fine. but right now ur the guy saying uprising flaylocks are balanced.

because unbalance is unbalance whether its an item or weapon, bro. And please call me a scrub...dare you.

pretty sure he's one of the best snipers in the game. He's saying he's not a scrub....not that he's going to come 2 ur house, idiot.

How about you come up with an idea to make them more useful? "Uplinks are stoopid and I want moar SP for killing" is not a solution.

Incidentally, if whomever that was IS "one of the best snipers in the game" (or perhaps his alt is at least, tough guy, daring people to call him a scrub, how else is spkr supposed to interpret that, lol), what is his beef with uplinks? He wants people to have to run across open plains to be easy targets?

ur talking about flawed logic? please check what u wrote..any class except heavies can use uplinks too. the same way anyone could use flaylocks. logic fail trying to correct others.

nothing unless being able to spawn right on the objective on a 400m map second only to gun game when it comes to winning. It needs to be toned down so that tactics can better evolve.

like that Dust wont let people spawn on top of friendlies like BF but letting people drop 3 uplinks in target area almost just as bad.

I see that the thread has been derailed and nobody articulated precisely what problem is caused by "uplink spam" that any of these suggested limitations solve.

All I've heard is "I don't like them for some unspecified reason, so do X to them."

We can't begin to discuss the merits of any of these proposed changes if we don't know the issue it's supposed to fix, much less if we agree that the issue is really a problem.


Uplink placement IS a tactic. As a Logi I shape the battle by strategic placement of my uplinks. I decide where the front line is by where I put them, and that is often a decisive factor in the tide of battle. That takes much more time, risk, and thought than throwing a few in a pile and should be rewarded.

might suggest you look at our recent retweets from our twitter account. we polled relevant players from the game that are veterans and have been major players in PC among other things. https://twitter.com/NewEdenGNN

not one suggested uplink spam was not a problem, NOT ONE. moreso many of the suggestions were the same Prius made in the OP.

Nothing frustrates me more than going against a team with uplinks in places where only dropships can get to.