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Cyzad4
Blackfish Corp.
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Posted - 2014.03.17 17:43:00 -
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Saw a promo vid online somewhere, looked interesting so I applied to closed beta.
Figured out pretty much everything on my own, never even bothered playing in a squad till like 2 months ago lol.
Welcome to you're "DOOM"
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low genius
The Sound Of Freedom
Renegade Alliance
1369
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Posted - 2014.03.17 17:44:00 -
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7 days after they announced dust 514 at e3 I started playing eve online. |
Luna Angelo
We Who Walk Alone
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Posted - 2014.03.17 17:50:00 -
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I had read about it, of course, but didn't try it till I found it on the PSStore. I'm, like, ok, free game, I like.
I like the atmosphere and have really cool friends. I enjoy it, most of the time.
As for who helped me, there is a guy named milo cordelli. He was recruiting and I randomly joined his squad. This was when I was using the cam mic, rather than an earpiece. Anyways, I digress. He taught me so much about this game once I joined We're Owl Exterminators, a now defunct corporation. Pvt Numnutz taught me to fly, I was taught to snipe by another, and milo and Hiku Seijuro taught me how to be ground-pounder. And I used to be a shocktrooper for them. As the Assault/shotty scout, I typically protected the hackers.
On a side note, my first dropship was destroyed by milo.
I don't need luck, I have ammo.
Wolves don't lose sleep over the opinions of sheep.
CEO of We Who Walk Alone
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howard sanchez
Sanchez Cartage llc
874
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Posted - 2014.03.17 17:56:00 -
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Went to Iceland for Fanfest in 2011, saw DUST coming. Got closed beta invite in May 2012.
Dust is my first fps and I was looking for something less twitchy and more tactical.
Stayed this long because of my personal history with and core belief in CCP
I continually question both my sanity and perception of reality regarding that last statement.
CCP have such a diamond here, but it is so very rough and they are not inspiring great confidence in thier ability to polish it well.
I was here before corporations but list Zion, Dust Uni and many others on my list of wanderings.
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Denak Kalamari
Intaki Liberation Front
Intaki Prosperity Initiative
1298
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Posted - 2014.03.17 18:24:00 -
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Let's see if I start rambling here.
My interest in scifi predates far back before December 1st 2012 when I first downloaded DUST, two years before in a small gaming community in the MMO racing game Need For Speed World. Back then I was just a young kid with a lot of free time in my hands, am eye for writing and MMOs to try. Back in this community I was introduced to Star Trek, which led me to downloading Star Trek Online right after it became F2P.
I stuck with it for a three years, and through it I joined another community within STO, and a few of the friends I had acquired there were talking a lot about SWTOR which was going through its closed beta tests in the summer of 2011. I joined that, and by that time I was just hooked into scifi MMOs and hungering for more. Through my contacts in SWTOR and STO I was prompted to try out EVE Online. I only downloaded the trial and stopped it at that due to lack of money, and not really understanding anything. From EVE however, I heard of DUST 514.
In the autumn of 2012, I bought a PS3 of my own and began looking for games to download for it, and DUST 514 popped up. I had seen some trailers and teasers before, but this time I really started looking into it. So eventually at November 30th I purchased the Mercenary Pack and downloaded DUST the next day.
Back then I was really horrible until a friendly person from my NPC corp suggested I used my HK4M shotguns and Dragonfly BPO scout. I joined my newly discovered friend's corporation CrimeWave Syndicate, which mostly consisted of MAG veterans. There I was given some pointers on what to run with my scout suit, and my fits began to take shape.
Come spring 2013 and where both CW and DUST experienced a lot of changes, which ultimately made me part ways and find another corp. Around this time I started being a fairly good scout and started gaining some recognition on the forums. Fastforward to spring 2014, I'm now part of a roleplaying corporation as a veteran and elite-ish scout with over a year of experience under my belt.
But to stop the rambling and summarize:
1. I got DUST because I liked scifi MMOs and shooters, where DUST 514 joined both together
2. I kept playing for the friends I got and the lore and the roleplaying opportunities it presented
3. I was initially given a few pointers on what to use with my, but beyond that I've figured things out myself or used the forums for guides.
Rambling finished.
Grahisha of ILF // Writer of Thoughts of a Clone Soldier // Latest entry published Feb. 10th
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Baal Omniscient
L.O.T.I.S.
D.E.F.I.A.N.C.E
1160
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Posted - 2014.03.17 18:54:00 -
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About 2 years ago I got burned out on MAG and spent some time hopping from RPG to RPG waiting for a good shooter to come out. When I heard about Dust 514, I spent every waking moment scouring the internet for a closed beta code. I finally got one towards the end of Replication. I was drawn in by it's scope and potential, and it's the community that I found once I got here that has kept me around.
My talents were forged in the fire of closed beta where every other game was stacked with Imperfects, Betamax, Burgezz, SVER. It was the constant battles against Regnyum, Zitro, xprotoman, Quickgloves, Axel Steiner, Grimmers, Bloody QC, etc, etc, etc that stole my noobishness from me.
MAG ~ Raven
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843 Epidemic
BurgezzE.T.F
General Tso's Alliance
511
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Posted - 2014.03.18 13:09:00 -
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I actually started playing this game before I joined 843, however I hastily left the game (In the first 2 weeks of closed beta release) as well, it was ass. I returned to playing MAG where I met 843!
I rejoined Dust with my new tags and began my quest, I worked my way from member to Officer, and now to 4th in command of BurgezzE.T.F. Glad to be here, will never leave.
There are many things that helped me steer away from my noobish path. First was sticking close to my buddy Ultradeadly in closedbeta, who is also an 843 veteran, and later in Closed Beta we grouped up with then fellow 843 members Radar R4D-47 and Roborhino. Us 4 together worked as a unit, and post-reset in January were all high up on the leaderboards.
Honestly as dull as it sounds, all skill and prowess I have today comes from fighting top tier players and working with my clan!
ffs.
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Mr Retsof VI
Swiss Bank of New Eden
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Posted - 2014.03.18 13:14:00 -
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Hakyou Brutor wrote:Why did you start playing this game? Why did you keep playing? Who helped you become not so noob-ish?
1) bored + free game = ok
2) cause i'm stupid
3) nobody told me sh*t about this game, self-made Hundreds of Millionaire....
"War is money...if you have it, you win."
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dent 308
Subdreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
2563
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Posted - 2014.03.18 13:15:00 -
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Long ago I received a closed beta invite through my eve playing.
Ended up playing dust regularly and became the resident dust guy for my eve alliance.
Eventually took over the alliance dust project with a mandate to establish and maintain a corp.
Still going.
Hail Satan
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Ansiiis The Engineer
Mocking Bird Inc.
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Posted - 2014.03.18 13:19:00 -
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Heard about the game when it was in closed beta. Joined when open beta came out. Was quite bad, got a corp - nice squad play. Got mic and joine D-UNI. They taught me some things but I mostly developed a sense of kicking ass all by my self. After that I picked up some stuff from Seraphim members.
a secret forum alt.
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John ShepardIII
G0DS AM0NG MEN
D.E.F.I.A.N.C.E
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Posted - 2014.04.05 03:44:00 -
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I started playing the last 2 days of Chromosome. At first I was the nubbiest blue berry ever. I had a .17 Kdr and was just happy to get a kill. But eventually with me being a competitive gamer and always trying to be the best I started to play more serious. For a while it was just me and my brother xSir Campsalotx. Then we just joined random corps that had a lot of members because we were blue berries, and I joined hostile acquisition inc. it lasted a few weeks didn't really squad with them so I left. Afterwards I joined another corp randomly. It was Dark Legion, so I squad with them a lil and they are pretty cool people so I stay and eventually my bro joins. I stayed for a few months until the whole FEC thing started, and I joined AE to help fight in the war. I was there for about 4 to 5 months until me and my brother decided to follow our dream of making a corp which btw is G0DS AM0NG MEN. I kept playing because Dust is definitely different from other FPS games. I don't think anyone really helped me I mean at first I was a logi and my brother went heavy so I would rep him until I started getting better at shooting people, and now I'm not a logi at all.
To organize my 3 answers
1. I started playing because my brother told me about Dust.
2. I kept playing because uprising came 2 days after I started playing so the game improved a lot.
3. No one taught me, but me, myself, and I :)
CEO of G0DS AM0NG MEN
Join out pub channel G0DS AM0NG MEN :D
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Tectonic Fusion
1409
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Posted - 2014.04.05 04:26:00 -
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When I joined, I never knew about EvE, never seen a dust video, never asked for help, and never squaded up back in Chromosome. It was advertised, so I just tried it out. I liked it very much, although, I wasn't very good at the game. It was really cool to skill up, but I apparently got proto weapons and used militia suits and mods so I didn't have a very good time. Around 1.4 I actually got good (I started getting over 1k WPs per match). I never played the game extensively, but I did play it when I was bored. In 1.6 I really got into it (I was addicted). I have to say, the game has only gotten better. What really drove me to play this game was the concept. It felt different than just kill and kill, which seemed cool.
Solo Player
Squad status: Locked
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Garrett Blacknova
Codex Troopers
4899
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Posted - 2014.04.05 05:33:00 -
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A long, long time ago, in New Eden, I hijacked the brain of a Capsuleer (a.k.a my friend let me play on his account for a while).
I promptly decided that, as cool as it was, I didn't have the free time or patience to make the game worth the financial investment it would require to maintain my account. As such, I decided to keep an eye on the game as an interesting concept, but NOT to actually get involved more heavily.
Because I was following EVE, I heard about DUST quite early. I didn't go for the closed beta as soon as it was available, but I got in around the E3 build when they were phasing out Skirmish 1.0 - as rough as it was around the edges, it was pretty enjoyable. I quickly made some friends, and when they realised that I was more willing than most to risk my own survival in order to save a teammate (and their K/D), I had a couple of friends ask if I'd become a regular in their squad. Because I was still not convinced the game was worth spending money on, I declined, but when they found out my reasons, one of the squad members bought a Merc Pack for me (we've since become irl friends after it turned out he lived in the country).
After a while, my girlfriend saw me playing, and said "that reminds me of Battlefield" (meaning 2142, which she used to play on her parents' Mac). I got her to apply for the closed beta and she was lucky enough to get access for the following weekend. She, too, enjoyed the game, and wanted more. Because access to the beta was still limited at the time, I bought her a Merc Pack so she could get more time with the game, and ended up enjoying her exploits as a sniper almost as much as I enjoyed playing the game myself.
I've since lost touch with most of my original DUST friends as they've moved on, but I've made new friends along the way too. I've also had an amicable break-up with the girlfriend I got into the game, but now she has her own PS3 and we can play the game together instead of taking turns.
When I started out, I was rusty at FPS gameplay, but I had been playing the High Moon Transformers games a lot, and those third-person shooters gave me enough of a grounding to hold my own. As an avid reader, I was also willing to sit back and spend HOURS (literally) digging through the skill sheet to work out how everything works relates and works together. My girlfriend, uninterested in all the stats, simply got me to watch her play, figure out what skills she was using most and buff them, and also identify any weaknesses she could cover with the right skill training. Between us, we put together some relatively cheap Sniper fittings which she was able to use effectively (she's always been one of the good Snipers - even as far back as her first Sniper suit, she never tried redline camping). As time went on, she learned more about the game simply by watching me play, and by watching where I directed her while upgrading her own skills.
When CCP decided to give away free vehicles, I skilled into Swarm Launchers (which have remained a secondary role for me to this day), and my girlfriend decided to try out a Forge Gun (which she has stuck with to this day as well). We both still run our other fittings as well, but now we had AV weapons if we needed them. It wasn't until vehicles started to get heavily nerfed that I actually tried them out - and I enjoyed it when I was running a broken-nerfed Missile Sica, then later a Gunnlogi. I had the tankiest raw HP tanks in the game, and it was hilarious. I also ran proper fittings, but I found that simply having more raw HP than everything else on the battlefield was a good scare tactic against enemy tanks. Seeing me unhardened and losing HP so slowly put a huge dent in the enemy's morale for some reason. It's like they knew I could harden any time (I couldn't) but chose not to because I wasn't scared. Of course, my reckless terror tactics resulted in the occasional death, but that's fine too. My Sagaris was the only time I ever lost more than I made back in a half-hour of play, and only one of those ever died on me.
Around the time I picked up tanks, I also decided to try out the Shotgun - in most modern shooters, I was bad with such weapons, but I'd found that the semi-automatic "Scatter Blaster" in the Transformers games suited me, and the DUST Shotgun's performance seemed close enough to compare with it. It was everything I'd ever wanted, and has become a mainstay in my DUST arsenal ever since. The lack of range - particularly with me not bothering to train Sharpshooter skill back when it was the done thing - got me killed more than once, but it was devastating when I got in close and tore a victim's head off with it. I was already good at using my Scout suit to avoid detection and get around enemy positions, but now, I was almost always taking at least one of them with me before going down.
As time has gone on, Scouts have seen nerfs, and coming into 1.8, we've had a buff almost back to our former glory. Tanks have been nerfed, buffed, and nerfed again, and so has all that shiny AV weaponry. Various things have changed, and I've been here to see almost all of it.
My NPE was a massive portion of self-teaching, followed by visits to these forums where I learned a LOT from doing the same thing I did in-game - I read. I dug through so many threads. I don't know who to credit for most of my DUST knowledge, but I know that I paid attention to everyone, and tested the things I was reading. When I started noticing discrepancies between my testing and the advice other players were offering, I spoke up, and became a familiar presence here. I wasn't always correct, but when I was proven wrong, I was one of the rare ones who would accept my mistake and learn from it. I had a few times where I argued quite strongly about things only to later come back humble and apologetic after another round of testing.
And here I am. Still playing, still posting, still enjoying the game more for its potential than... |
Dunk Mujunk
RestlessSpirits
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Posted - 2014.04.05 05:49:00 -
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Same as many, I was bored of my game collection and I remembered that the abomination that is free to play gaming had sleezed its way onto PSN. I went to the online store and all they had was Dust and DC Universe I think it was. I went with Dust, but remembering old reviews by gaming magazines I didn't think i'd like it. Yet I was kept curious enough to bounce around from 2 corps and NPC. The NPC time was the worst by the way, think it was a week or 2, maybe 3. Then I got in with R1P, met some cool folks, found out how much of the community had migrated from MAG, and slowly fell in love.
Ahhh, good times.
Then the dirty b*tch known as Dust sh*t all over me, and has continued to do so on a monthly basis. If you ever see a news report
about some guy in a cardboard dropsuit armed with a remington 870 blowing up gas stations in the south eastern United States, my QQ has finally reached critical mass, and I probably won't be on for a while.
Switzerland is small and neutral. We're more like Germany. Ambitious and misunderstood.
Futurama
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RemingtonBeaver
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
589
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Posted - 2014.04.05 06:52:00 -
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Saw it in the PS store. It looked kind of cool. Wanted to see how FPS and RPG elements would be blended.
Joined PRO.
Met friends.
Left PRO.
Been in Molon ever since.
After years of HALO and COD it was amazing to be in a gaming community that at it's core is very intelligent.
More talking than screaming insults at each other. ..because talking **** in this game is much more subversive than insults.
We can pickle that.
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