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Posted - 2014.04.04 05:18:00 -
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I've been playing a dual side arm wielding Commando for the event, and as there's only the ScP for Amarr side arms, I'm wielding dual ScPs. I just don't have the time to get 750 kills, so I had to go for the 350.
I loved the ScP before, but with the event I had to not only negate all the bonuses of the Commando suit, but get used to a new firing rhythm. I was quite worried.
The one ScP I've had on my since the beginning of the event is the Breach. It hasn't changed, and I played with it like a year before, so I had to get used to it again, but it's great for long-range engagements because with it's high alpha, you're still delivering good damage past your optimal. I use it for CQC sometimes too, depending on what my target it.
The second sidearm I've switched a few times between the burst and the assault. Back when I first tried the burst I had a terrible time with it, so I thought it was garbage. This event has warmed me back up to it, as it has a high rate of fire and it's burst spread when hip-fired allows for the give that's needed in CQC fights. It can also be good at mid-range because when ADS'd there's no spread, so all three shots go right where you want them. Before this event, I was "lol, burst" but now I'm "Hmm, burst." *head nods of approval.* I once had a fight with a medium suit where I was backpedaling to cover while firing a salvo from the burst ScP and the first shot killed the med suit, the second implanted into his corpse, and the third went straight into the head of some poor scout who had tried to knife me from the side but missed because I was backpedaling. His terrible timing brought his melon right into the path of my third shot. Lol'd for a bit at that one.
I tried the assault as well and while it's not the laser-spraying death machine I once knew, it still has a considerably higher RoF than the base variant and takes some getting used to as well. In the end, I chose the burst for my CQC and the breach for my long-range.
TL;DR - I was worried going into this event that the ScPs wouldn't be up to snuff, but even with the huge drop in RoF, I'm having about a 70% success rates in fights wth my waddling, pistoleering Commando.
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Arx Ardashir
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Posted - 2014.04.04 06:19:00 -
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LT SHANKS wrote:
Hell, I got 800 kills from my ScPs in the last week and a half, so they can't be all that bad.
800 kills? Over how many hours? Are you playing mostly in a squad, and/or doing cloaky scout ambushes?
I've only gotten 245 kills using a dual ScP Commando over about 24 hours of play since the event began.
Amarr Master - All Amarr Dropsuits at lvl 5.
Ghosts Chance's hero for 3/1/14.
A manu dei et tet rimon.
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