You are indeed fitting it improperly.

If you're going to fit extenders, fit complex. Otherwise fit damage mods. It's one of the only suits you can justify it on.


You're not a sentinel, you're an assault with more offensive potential than defensive potential. Geographical positioning is your ally. You are not meant to soak up hits, you're meant to dish them out. So make sure cover is doing work for you.

Why don't you try strapping some kincats onto it?

KinCat, armour rep and damage mods.

Combine that with at least one assault CR and you'll always have fun with this suit. Just don't go running into the frontlines like you're an Assault or Sentinel.

All commandos are hard too run, definitely the hardest in the game IMO. Granted as someone (I think it was Prometheus) pointed out to me, you can't really run it as an assault. You need a squad, for solo play the suit is garbage. In my case I can definitely say most of my Calmmando deaths come when I am outnumbered or I get cocky with my ARR and try to do some more in close fighting.

Then definitely stick a comlex damage mod on instead of an advanced shield extender, the 33 extra hp aren't gonna make any difference anyway whereas the 5% damage mod on this suit definitely will... I love my Mini Commando in certain situations, try to put at least K2 nanohives on there too, they're very useful if you get in an advantageous and elevated position.

I remember you!
You killed me like 2 times with the MD when i tried to sneak up on you in my scout suit in dumb ways.
I finally got you when i gave up on the shotgun and used the SMG instead, but i had to wait until you were shooting at someone else with the CR, because in an earlier attempt you could hear my flux grenade cooking and got away.

Your awareness is great, but you were apparently running solo and moving like an assault.

My best experience in commando is staying in a place with a nice view, and only move to a new position when strictly needed, hopefully using a vehicle.
Staying low profile is also important, so supportive fire and quick kills are essential, being among blues in a safe location is the best.

With an advanced suit, I usually run two advanced weapons, normal nanohive, and complex repper. I have been debating complex extender+Adv recharger, or complex extender+complex dmg mod.

The suit is easy to die in, particularly for the slow speed. only one extender and the recharger embraces the from cover or with a squad philosophy of the suite.

I assume there is a stacking penalty with the complex dmg mod and the suit's racial dmg bonus (and weapon proficiency), which makes me wonder what the value of the complex dmg mod is if it gets penalized to a much lower value. if I'm wrong on that stacking penalty, then this a good option.

As far as weapons, i have been loving the MD + LR combo. No racial dmg bonus on the LR, but taking down shields and some armor until the person takes cover and then killing them in cover with the MD splash damage has worked well. I always play alone, so this only works well if I keep my distance and everyone is distracted and no scouts come after me. Otherwise, I die as often as I kill (or worse).

The other (obvious) weapon combo I use on an adv suit is proto SL and basic CR. I have a MD/CR fit to maximize the dmg bonus, but I have barely tried it because I love the MD/LR combo so much. the lack of aim assist on the LR has me thinking I should switch to KBM for the easier mouse aiming, but the learning curve of switching to KBM when I have never played a FPS using that method is very, very steep. I tried 2 matches using KBM and found aiming more accurate by the second match, but I was so mind-boggingly unable to perform even basic movement that I died relentlessly.

Because you think you can soak up hits like a sentinel, that is not the commando's thing. It is indeed like a medium frame with more offensive capabilities.

No, people should play what wins.