The guy that kicks in the door and hits hard and fast

In trying to figure out the role an assault suit should play, many people are missing out the key feature behind what an assault is and just suggesting skills based on what they think an assault is or what they would like the suit to do.

So in order to really define the role, I think it would be a good idea to try and define the word as a community. Try and be as succinct as possible, with no copy/paste from dictionary.com (please). Also try not to suggest skill bonuses, although I realise that this may be your only way of demonstrating what best reflects the word in Dust.

To me, the word means GÇ£attackGÇ¥. Whether through physical or mental force. The words GÇ£pressureGÇ¥ and GÇ£agressiveGÇ¥ come to mind immediately as well as images of soldiers storming the beaches of Normandy or the Battle of Berlin. From this I feel that assault suits should be the go to suit when pressing an objective, skill bonuses for which we can figure out once we have defined the meaning.

Thanks for your time guys, make this a good one.

Cannon fodder.

Distractions.

Purveyors of the zerg rush.

Easily knifeable.

On a serious note, they should be the jack of all stats, the quintessntial infantry unit. Mobile enough to get into position, enough firepower to kill opposing units, but requiring more than one truly shine.


I feel like they should have a bonus to their damage based on how many friendles are in their proximity. Some like 2% per friendly, capped out at 10% (five friendlies=full squad=10% bonus damage) promoting concentrated team effort and squad based tactics.

front line attacking force the tip of the spear. so you would need a suit that has good firepower some speed and able to regain HP fast. so maybe thats why the scout is the new assault because they have all the traits you are looking for in an assault suit i think they should be more recon less assault.

In trying to figure out the role an assault suit should play, many people are missing out the key feature behind what an assault is and just suggesting skills based on what they think an assault is or what they would like the suit to do.

So in order to really define the role, I think it would be a good idea to try and define the word as a community. Try and be as succinct as possible, with no copy/paste from dictionary.com (please). Also try not to suggest skill bonuses, although I realise that this may be your only way of demonstrating what best reflects the word in Dust.

To me, the word means GÇ£attackGÇ¥. Whether through physical or mental force. The words GÇ£pressureGÇ¥ and GÇ£agressiveGÇ¥ come to mind immediately as well as images of soldiers storming the beaches of Normandy or the Battle of Berlin. From this I feel that assault suits should be the go to suit when pressing an objective, skill bonuses for which we can figure out once we have defined the meaning.

Thanks for your time guys, make this a good one.

What if you gave assault suits the following.

Utility weapon Slot: A specially designed slot able to hold AV weapons, a grenade, or knives.

This would give Assault suits a truly assault worthy specialization, able to field a sidearm, a light weapon, AND an AV weapon or a knife or another type of grenade. This would increase their versatility by enabling them to do something no other suit can do. Field three weapons or two weapons and two types of grenades.

EDIT: While still preserving the role of the Commando to hold two light weapons. Maybe the commando would need a grenade slot to balance this out.

They would have to add a useful AV weapon then as I think a forge gun would be OP on an assault suit and that is the only good AV weapon at the moment.

The Assaults are fine, the issue is there are certain suits like the gallente scout that got over buffed. And Commandos pay for their double light weapon and slightly more ehp by being slow moving fat suits. Sentinels with a Light weapon still generally out perform commandos. There being no useful AV light weapon is part of the reason why most commandos are unnecessary and are just non-competitive fun builds. Logi suits shouldn't be able to have more ehp then an assault suit as well.

Assaults are fine, just everything else needs a little tweaking around them.

You don't balance by changing everything else, you change the odd one out. If everything else is the odd one out then explain to me what you think GÇ£odd one outGÇ¥ means.