DUST Search - Fix to equipment spam (probably not original)

Komodo Jones wrote:

It's true that there aren't many places to put uplinks that are out of reach for other players or at least difficult to get to, mostly a side effect of not being able to enter many buildings so all equipment is out in the open, and I don't see flux grenades really being the main cause of equipment spam, yes they destroy alot of equipment but the reason they destroy alot of equipment at once is because people put it all in the same place.

We all assumed this system was in place in the first place, someone had to tell us or we had to experiment to discover that you can put down multiple kinds of uplinks, so lets go back to this, what if this system WAS actually in place where you can't put more than 1 type of uplink out? What would change? You would separate your uplinks more put them in places that you would expect enemies wouldn't go and stumble on them, this was before scanners but scanners will soon be changing so that we can't see everything in a 100m radius anyway.

The reason I believe uplink spam IS a problem and not just a byproduct of several other problems (which I'll admit are present and do play a part and should be fixed) is because it allows any one person, 2 or 3 people for better results, to win the game for either side, if you can overload the opposite team to the point where they simply can't push you out, not because you're good but because you just got there first, that is a broken mechanic of the game.

It's like playing a game of king of the hill where the team on the hill can turn it into a mountain, it isn't a strategy it's taking advantage of another "win button" and collecting war points.

If other broken mechanics are fixed, so that this system could be allowed to function and that wouldn't make it horribly disproportionate again, then I don't see a problem with it, other than the fact that only 2 or 3 players per match are the ones actually using uplinks and if you're facing squads who all have them and can spam them anyway then your equipment will still be severely outnumbered with less of a way to counter it, but at least it will cut back, maybe make things like CRUs actually important.

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bogeyman m Learning Coalition College 65	Posted - 2014.02.07 18:19:00 - [1] - Quote Komodo Jones wrote: It's true that there aren't many places to put uplinks that are out of reach for other players or at least difficult to get to, mostly a side effect of not being able to enter many buildings so all equipment is out in the open, and I don't see flux grenades really being the main cause of equipment spam, yes they destroy alot of equipment but the reason they destroy alot of equipment at once is because people put it all in the same place. We all assumed this system was in place in the first place, someone had to tell us or we had to experiment to discover that you can put down multiple kinds of uplinks, so lets go back to this, what if this system WAS actually in place where you can't put more than 1 type of uplink out? What would change? You would separate your uplinks more put them in places that you would expect enemies wouldn't go and stumble on them, this was before scanners but scanners will soon be changing so that we can't see everything in a 100m radius anyway. The reason I believe uplink spam IS a problem and not just a byproduct of several other problems (which I'll admit are present and do play a part and should be fixed) is because it allows any one person, 2 or 3 people for better results, to win the game for either side, if you can overload the opposite team to the point where they simply can't push you out, not because you're good but because you just got there first, that is a broken mechanic of the game. It's like playing a game of king of the hill where the team on the hill can turn it into a mountain, it isn't a strategy it's taking advantage of another "win button" and collecting war points. If other broken mechanics are fixed, so that this system could be allowed to function and that wouldn't make it horribly disproportionate again, then I don't see a problem with it, other than the fact that only 2 or 3 players per match are the ones actually using uplinks and if you're facing squads who all have them and can spam them anyway then your equipment will still be severely outnumbered with less of a way to counter it, but at least it will cut back, maybe make things like CRUs actually important. Increasing spawn time on all uplinks (but not CRUs) would significantly reduce the incentive to spam them, would make life more precious (leading to more thoughtful play), make injectors and rep tools more valuable and make CRUs more important. Fixed.