Nosid Katona
HavoK Core
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2014.01.17 08:26:00 -
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I usually see a thread like this and just keep moving; however for the past two weeks I've been training friends of mine to play and I've had to pay more attention so I can give them advice on how to improve. Now I don't know how many of you train newbies, either ones that are your friends or people you just met, but it is extremely painful right now for newbies even more so then usual.
I usually tend to only get frustrated at DUST when I lag excessively, experience a game breaking glitch, or have immense amounts of bs death I.E. Spawning in and dying immediately, the entire enemy team using the same OP weapon, or getting sniped and not being able to get revenge or counter snipe because the enemy is in an unreachable location and/or head-glitching. (I don't mind being sniped; in fact in most games I myself prefer to snipe, however DUST sniping offers me no challenge nor a thrill when i kill or am killed, so I don't do it.)
Onto the point, now that I have been training newbies I'm forced to pay attention and notice when my team is getting stomped by full teams of proto, tanks, when our blue dots are inept, and when Scotty gives my three-four man squad of myself and three complete newberries the finger, putting us against two experienced squads who proceed to welcome my friends too New Eden. I usually do fine when I'm not going AV to try and scare a tank off for a couple seconds so my newbies can get in some practice, but I watch them getting trashed and there isn't much I can do about it.
I've been here since closed beta; I have had my share of beatings in New Eden and come out stronger and more prepared. The difference between my situation and my newbies is I had the chance to fight back, learn from watching more skilled players, and the opportunity to evolve with DUST as it grew. There were no unwinnable battles for me before 1.7 outside of PC and if I lost I took it as a lesson and worked to improve; however this update has thrown that completely out the window and now i find myself in one-sided battles that seem to be happening more often each day. To be honest it is more the fault of matchmaking then anything else but our current version of tanks isn't helping any. I myself wanted tanks to get a buff, they were in a bad place and needed help just like alot of things in DUST, but this isn't exactly what I had in mind nor is it any better then how unbalanced it was pre 1.7, it is just in the opposite direction.
To make a long story short tanks are making my newbies cry and I am running out of CONCORD approved tissues and once those are gone I fear my friends will not stay too enjoy DUST for very long.
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