Just wait for Amarr logi's. You have no idea until then.

nothing in this game is more unbalanced then uplinks.

First my definition of unbalanced and overpowered in this case refers to something that is SO key to a win and SO powerful that anyone and everyone who can use them has to use them, and anyone who cant use it or wont use it should be benched.

in PC right now nothing compairs to uplinks

As an assault you should be carrying uplinks, no other equipment slot is useful enough to justify not carrying them

as a logi the only equipment that is justified is a scanner, the rest of your slots should be taken up entirely by uplinks.

as a scout your job is to bring uplinks or a scanner and hunt uplinks (not players)

as a heavy your job is to defend uplinks, and spawn in a different suit to place more uplinks when nessesary.

as a pilot your job is to place uplinks onto high ground and remove uplinks from high ground.

as a tanker your job is to railgun dropships to prevent them from putting uplinks on high ground and kill enamy railguns to prevent them from shooting down your dropships.


EVERYTHING else is secondary to uplinks and the entire metagame is devoted to them.



This is broken, this is OP. all your puny whining cabout marginal differences in weapon and suit effectivness cannot compaire to the OPness of uplinks.


that is all

RE's keep people from hacking objectives

The power of uplinks cannot be ignored.

"You gotta nanohive?"

"Nah, but I gotta uplink if you need to kill yourself and spawn in with replenished ammo"

The power of uplinks cannot be ignored.

"You gotta nanohive?"

"Nah, but I gotta uplink if you need to kill yourself and spawn in with replenished ammo"

Surely objectives are even more OP? They're basically like an uplink but with unlimited capacity, totally immune to damage, and best of all, if you control most of them for the game and don't get cloned, you win!

You win the stupidest OP thing ever award. Congratulation!

Uplinks mean nothing once they're found, which is easy with a scanner. They actually become more of a liability than asset once found.

Basically uplinks define the battlefront. If the fight is intense you die fast enough that a team who has to trickle in from far off spawn points gets picked off one by one. The force that stays cohesive wins.

That makes them essential, but not to the point everyone needs to carry them. An equipment focused Logi or two can place enough uplinks for the job. There's a definite point beyond which more uplinks yield little additional benefit.

im kinda amused that some people thought this was a joke... you guys really dont know how PC works do you?

I agree with you. Uplinks are more important to point defense than the Caldari nanite injector that restores 100% armor. Like someone said before me, the biggest problem is the way equipment limits are handled in DUST.

The way I see it, CCP set the maximum number of active uplinks at 3 so that there would not be any spamming. Therefore, no one player should be able to have more than three active uplinks at one time, three nanohives, or the maximum number of RE/Proxie active at one time, regardless of type. There should also be a team/global maximum on the number of active equipment on the field.

In my opinion, if there was a "Three active uplink" cap on uplinks, only the logis who bring four different types of uplinks for the purpose of spamming would be effected. The beauty is that having a suit with four different types of uplinks could still be effective. It would mean that while every other class has run out of deploy able uplinks (or uplinks that have been used up), a logi could still drop/replace uplinks to suit the changing battlefield. For example:

All Assault suits bring imperial uplinks to help push the front lines. A logi has all four types, and drops a quantum(?) uplink in a more defensible location so that the team has a 20 clone uplink to spawn on. The logi still has two "defensive uplinks" to place, but instead decides to put an imperial uplink closer towards the flank of some enemy push so that the assaults have a quick response time.

The great thing is that no other class would be any more limited that what they are now, save for the logi, and people would put a higher premium on keeping the logi alive. After all, they have the largest ability to shape the battlefield.

You win the stupidest OP thing ever award. Congratulation!

Uplinks mean nothing once they're found, which is easy with a scanner. They actually become more of a liability than asset once found.

ALL FPS IS CENTERED AROUND CONTROLLING SPAWNS!

Its that simple. Whichever team has control of the spawning wins the game.

Uplinks stay! They offer the crucial tactical skill that is in this game. Its called strategics.



DUST 514 is losing enough skill based mechanics every patch as it is. Leave this one alone. You're immaturity of FPS disturbs me.

Strategy? So FPS is for simple morons. Got it. Only the immature need apply. OP is too mature as I am for wanting more than that. CCP should not be so bargain basement but looks like that's where it's headed.

OP stop feeding the thumb jockey console kiddies.