Iron Toast
Tronhadar Free Guard
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2014.08.01 19:21:00 -
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As a new player (who loves the game btw) it's taken me about 2 months and 3.6M SP (ADS) + 2.0M SP (Try all light and heavy weapons) + 1.4M SP (Amarr Assault) just to figure out how I like to play, how to kill most things at least occasionally (I still cannot solo kill a Sentinel with a rifle!!!), and how to die a lot.
I really wanted to be my vision of an assault, which was to burst through a door guns blazing... and died a lot trying in medium suits. I now mostly run militia and standard Minmatar and Caldari light suits with some heavy suits for extra eHP in certain situations.
Some things I've learned:
Every suit / vehicle has something that is good at killing it. Everything is very good at killing militia suits - particularly those that are alone.
Don't stop moving.
Strafe - show video of effective strafe techniques.
Hide behind cover. Peek out to shoot. Find your next piece of cover and run to it - yes, even if there isn't anyone there.
Sentinels should be considered invulnerable to your rifle.
Turn around. Do it again.
Tacnet is only effective on light suits. HAVs, LAVs, and other drop suits will sneak up on you. Turn around and look.
Listen - if you hear a vehicle and it's not on tacnet it's the enemy.
Get a mic, it's really worth it.
In ambush always bleed out - think about how you were killed - if the spawn was camped wait a little before spawning in again.
Setting your ADS sensitivity to 0 can help you learn to aim if you have trouble targeting. Turn it up in increments of 5 when you are successfully targeting enemy clones.
Faction warfare earns loyalty points that allow you to obtain better gear that has lower skill requirements.
Watching videos of good players is much more helpful than reading tactics for me. Link videos from very good players showing how to effectively use each weapon (Destructive data mining winners?), how to drive vehicles, etc.
Make finding people easier. Maybe have a few public channels that are pre-set-up with different themes? Possibly Corp recruitment and Instruction. I have found a few people to play with, but this requires a significant bit of time that I'd rather spend playing. Many of the squad finder listings have names that put me off. Award WP or some other bonus for adding squad-less people in a game. Or automatically create squads of the squad-less. Anything to make it easier to be a team.
Thoughts on battle academy:
I went through 3 times and the 2nd two times I tried not to earn WP. I practiced flying. I practiced aiming at heads. I practiced strafing.
The tutorials should be spaced out a little more. Run several battles - earn X WP or kill Y clones. Create a fitting with a new weapon and dropsuit type.
Add a tutorial on running a squad and using the squad commands.
Add other achievements (even in a suggested text list with no rewards:
Kill X clones with Y gun.
Have X clones spawn from your uplink.
Earn X WP from triage.
Revive and fully repair the armor on X clones (requires 2 equip slots).
Kill X cloaked clones (may not be many cloaks in battle academy).
Land a dropship on top of a building.
Land a dropship on a clone.
Run over X clones with a LAV.
Earn X WP damaging vehicles with each AV weapon.
Kill X clones with a grenade.
Consider locking parts of the skill table or limiting the possible level until graduation.
Possible other graduation criteria:
Joined a corp.
Consistently in the the top 4 spots (and/or avg > 4 K/D or 2000 WP/game over last 6 games [?? Not sure what the right numbers are, but I feel they should be relatively high to indicate that they are better than the newest starting players]).
Option to enter and leave under X SP.
P.S. If the star map does anything other than look cool it should say somewhere.
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