Vyzion Eyri
The Southern Legion
The Umbra Combine
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Posted - 2013.12.04 23:53:00 -
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Wait a week after the 1.7 hits before spending any SP.
It will be painful and the temptation will be strong, but wait and watch. Take a step back and keep a cool head, let yourself get pubstomped, try out some of the FW matches, watch how grenades and MDs work after the explosive fixes, observe how people are adapting to the changes to shield tanking.
After playing DUST for a full year now, I like to pretend that I start to see patterns emerge about the game and community, at the very edges of my consciousness, like those moments where you lie down on your bed and a beam of light from the rising sub pierces through your curtains, and illuminates countless motes of dust. You lie there, and you imagine you see the grand scheme of the individual specks, where there is actually nothing but chaos.
I am proposing to you, new players, and for you teachers out there to spread the message, that it is unwise to both attempt to find the grand pattern OR let yourself be swept away by the excitement of the new build.
There is one (1) exception. If you are spending points on something you truly enjoy. If that is the case, go for it.
If you are unsure of what path you want to take, of what road leads to the destination you want to arrive at, hold off for a while and observe. You can learn so much from that guy who killed you with the new Combat Rifle, but failed to account for its weakness in close quarters and took a mouthful of shotgun pellets. You can learn so much when you watch people accidently kill each other in Faction Warfare because they got accustomed to insta-win grenade tosses without accounting for friendly fire.
Tl;dr? Well then maybe this message isn't for you.
If in any doubt after watching and learning from the mistakes of others after a week, join the channel "Learning Coalition" (without the " " marks) and I am sure there will be people there willing to assist you with choosing the right or safe path. Oh, and DUST Uni is there to help too.
"When nothing is going your way, go out of your way to do nothing."
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Vyzion Eyri
The Southern Legion
The Umbra Combine
2186
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Posted - 2013.12.07 01:45:00 -
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I agree, I'll probably go straight into the Combat Rifle Operation III as well, but mainly for the vehicle users who are deciding to drop vehicles entirely to go into infantry, waiting might be wise. I personally don't know how anything will turn out though.
"When nothing is going your way, go out of your way to do nothing."
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