Jaceon Pale-eye
DUST University
Ivy League
65
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Posted - 2014.06.01 05:12:00 -
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Lloyd Orfay wrote:Even then it's not viable to have easy stealth kill tactics. There are many many factors that someone can think of which make stealth not easy, and for a good reason.
It's not easy. You're just new at this game and, thus, like many newbros, you're terrible at it. Rail rifle damage is fine. You know what sucks? Your skill levels in Shields and Armor, not to mention Armor Plates and Shield Extension. You have relatively few hit points, even in a Sentinel suit, without high levels in those skills.
Even with high levels in those skills, you need Electronics and Engineering trained high to be able to fit the better plates or shield extenders.
The person who seemingly instagibs you with that rail rifle from so far away? He's putting himself at risk by aiming down the sights at you, which slows him dramatically and makes it easier for me, a knife-wielding scout, to run up on him and remove one suit from his inventory.
And that sneaking? To sneak up on you, I need skills trained in Scan Precision and Range. To avoid you picking me up before I'm ready for you to know about me, I also need to train skills in Dampening my own signature. I also need to fit modules that help with these aspects. You know what that means? It means I don't have armor plates buffing my hit points (and slowing my movement speed). It means I don't have shield extenders buffing my hit points because I need those slots for the mods that give me high enough damage to kill you and mods that give me good enough scan precision to see (most) of my enemies.
My shotgun? Its rate of fire is quite low. So unless you're standing still and presenting me an easy target, I have to be spot on when I attack because if I miss, now you know about me. And I have a total of 200 hp. Your HMG, or even your submachine gun, is going to annihilate me as soon as you know I'm there and turn to face me. Your fully automatic weapon just has to pass across me - meaning you can spray and pray and swing your aim across my body. The shotgun doesn't do that. The knives don't do that. My combat rifle with its quick 3-round burst, it doesn't do that either.
My cloak? You can see me just fine - if I'm moving. This means I have to make sure you don't see me even at the edge of your screen. If you see me coming, I'm dead. And I know it. Because there isn't a weapon in the game that doesn't instakill me or come very close to doing so.
And you know what, newbro?
I'm still coming. Because I know that when it comes right down to it, I'm better than you. My Dualshock 3, it speaks to me when your Militia Locus Grenade explodes 6 meters away because I saw it and jumped away. My headset, it's full of competent squad mates who tell me you've got them pinned down. They tell me roughly where you and your mates are, so I can flank your lazy ass and stab you in the neck with my ZN-28's. Twice if you're in a heavy suit. Of course, I'm dropping the logibro who's repping you first, because I'm smart - even if that means I have to fade for a minute and let you believe I'm gone.
I'm still coming because I know you and your team don't deserve to hold Alpha. Or Bravo. Or Charlie. Or any CRU or Supply Depot. Even the ones you think are safe. The ones in your redline. I'll suicide myself to hack them. And the railgun installation that pops your dropship as it's being deployed by the RDV. Or your Soma, or your Sica. Even your Gunnlogi.
I'm still coming because I don't care how much SP you have invested in the Sharpshooter skill for your favorite gun, the one that reduces dispersion and makes sure all your bullets land when you shoot at me. If I'm doing it right, you won't shoot at me. You won't see me until I'm running away from your corpse just before that kill screen pops up to tell you that you fell to my knives and that I was in a Minmatar scout suit.
I'm still coming because I can. Because I don't care about my KDR. Because my team DOES deserve to hold Alpha. And Bravo. And all the other points. And the CRUs. And the installations we didn't blow up from warpoints and to keep your team's tryhards from hacking them.
I'm still coming because I don't care how many times your teams Caldari scouts kill me (because they can see more than I can on the Tacnet - and when the Caldari scout in your squad sees me, you see me, too). Hell, I don't care if your Gallente scouts see me, either. |
Jaceon Pale-eye
DUST University
Ivy League
65
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Posted - 2014.06.01 05:13:00 -
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I'm still coming to double post like a boss in your QQ thread.
I'm still coming to place remote explosives on your tanks and destroy them, because AV is mostly fine and vehicles, while being overpowered in some aspects, are counterable. Especially tanks. It's just difficult. But I've already pointed out that I'm better than you, so I'm not worried about difficulty.
I'm still coming because I know someone has to get that first uplink in place behind your squad's position and nobody else can.
I'm still coming because I know that my teams heavies can't get into the bunker to hack the point unless I run in there three or four times and die just to get a remote explosive placed or toss a flux grenade to wipe out all of your squad's drop uplinks and nanohives, causing you to run out of ammo and no longer be able to deploy infinite reinforcements to keep my squad at bay. I'm still coming because I know I can get to, and hack, that objective while you're all too busy shooting it out with my squad to turn around and clear me off the point. I'm still coming because Serpentis Inquest, or Quafe, or some other corporation has decided they're willing to pay me ISK for killing you. I don't care why.
I'm still coming because valar ******* morghulis.
I'm Jaceon Pale-eye. I scout. I snipe. I stab. I shoot shotgun pellets. I let off high-caliber projectiles, three at a time.
I finish matches either even or negative on KDR, and still sit well up in the top ten on the leaderboard for warpoints at the end of the fight. Unless your team pisses me off. Then I finish positive on KDR.
And I've been playing less than three months. |
Jaceon Pale-eye
DUST University
Ivy League
66
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Posted - 2014.06.01 05:24:00 -
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Lloyd Orfay wrote:They are pretty easy. Everyone knows well that even with cloak you shouldn't stay out in open range, flanking with cloak is good. Only some players have scanners efficient enough to detect you even as a scout. I have used a shotgun in maps with small facilities you need to get into and the usual thing I do is catch people around corners or zig zag closer to them for a better kill, but when I can't do neither I will jump to align the shot with the player's head to kill them faster. It doesn't take a genius to make the most out of a shotgun and I don't think any less with a cloaked shotgun. Even if they are not moving you can either strafe the opposite way for better aim or in tandem with their direction, or even catch them by the side.
Try actually doing it with a scout suit and a cloak. Go ahead.
Try.
Then come back and tell us how many times you died to newbros in the Frontline suit shooting you twice with their scrambler pistols, if not for less than one second with their Militia Assault Rifle.
Miss once, and then come back and tell us how that cloak saved your clone.
(It won't).
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