taxi bastard
jihad taxi co.
180
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Posted - 2014.08.04 08:35:00 -
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the commando suit is probably the least used suit in game and i have just started using it. Previously i played 100% mini scout and enjoyed it but it started to get stale so i have been using my SP's to unlock all mini suits at the advanced level. what i did find surprising is that the mini assault really is quite nice at lvl 3 using an advanced suit, UP? maybe maybe not i certainly did not do bad it and i am not an assault player. the scout like speed suited my play style but i did feel vulnerable against vehicles as i had no way of fighting back or evading them. Next i tried the mini heavy and compaired to its peirs it looked week and compaired to my dren sentinal it was certainly lacking, though putting a kinkat on the advanced suit was amusing, it certainly was sub par.
Finally i tried the mini commando. At first i thought it was awful being unused to not having the situational awareness of a mini scout with 2 complex precision enhancers. at level 1 with only 2% damage bonus, the hit box of a sentinal suit and the EHP of a gallente meduim militia frame i thought the whole mini heavy line was looking like a mistake, how wrong was i!
At first the only redeeming feature of the suit was that i could carry a swarm launcher on it aswell as a combat rifle. I love AV and being limited to a side arm on the scout was a pain to say the least. At this stage it seemed like a sub par assault which was a bit more versitile so i thought meh ill try hard mode as i like a challenge. bellow is my basic fitting
Basic mini commando
combat rifle
CBR7 swarm launcher
complex light damage mod
advanced armor repair
nanohive
375 sheilds
325 armour
being a solo player for 90% of my time in dust, i had to learn at first that really this suit excels at support and with the suit skill at 1 you don't have too much reason to beat an assault 1v1 assuming you have the same skill level. having little confidence i started to do something which i almost forgot how to do, follow the herd almost as if i was in a squad (shudders at the thought). keeping slightly back the 7% extra damage (2% suit 5% damage mod) was showing its use on the CR, when the LAV's came in they were soon dispatched or left to flee. Yes drop ships were not falling out of the sky by the dozen, but i was keeping the lads on the ground safe and providing there was not a tank spam i was starting to rack up a few tank kills.
What surprised me was that i was still at the top or near the top of the scoreboard at the end of the match every match. i was hacking alot less and not using my scout i was getting no points for my uplinks. Beyond that i was not actively tank hunting with proto swarms and AV grenades which gets me alot of WP's. Ok i was getting less WP's but not as much as i feared and all this is a 20k suit (my scout suits cost 30-50k a pop). In the last week i continued to pile my SP's into the commando and after getting the suit to 2 and playing more i started to see my results improve some what (+9% damage is nice), beyond that it was good fun being able to do so much with just 1 suit and set up.
what used to annoy me as a scout when doing AV is when the incompetent tanker who can't kill you jumps out of the tank in his heavy suit and wipes you out in no time with your 300 EHP and side arm. when they started doing that to me in the commando it was them dying more often then not. I think they did not expect to see the CR and it brought a smile to my face. the same was true of people shooting me when swarming. if i took a bit of damage and the tank was at range you have plenty of time to change weapon, slay the infantry player and get back to tank busting. how could you not love such a thing.
Before i finally got the advanced commando suit i had my best game yet by a reasonable margin. i got 25/9 in a basic commando suit at level 2 with the above set up, which does not sound so great. But i got 4240 WP killing 2 ADS, 3 tanks lots of LAV's and a fair amount of infantry. we lost pretty heavily but the suit managed to keep us on the map and we managed to hold one point for the whole game. the next highest score on our side was 1250. yes some times i did get a little help on the vehicles but in all honesty we only had sporadic additional AV.
I finally got the advanced commando and my light weapon damage has gone up again, now both my swarms and CR have about +15-16% damage with this set up and the reload bonus is starting to become noticeable.
advanced commando
combat rife
CRB7 swams
2x's complex damage mods
1 enhanced armor repair
nanohive
375 shields
235 armor
30k IIRC
only done a couple of battles and the opposition was not great but i got 12-2 and 18-1 with good WP's, killed quite a few proto suits 1v1 aswell to add some icing on the cake. +4% more damage to go and 10% reload, along with improving the proficiency and reload of the weapons and its got me really excited about dust again. i know its a suit that best suits squads, and maybe ill squad once again as SG scouts are a nightmare . i am certainly not the best player out there, but i am far from awful and if your relatively competent i suggest going commando and see how rewarding the extra versatility and damage is. the mini commando imo is the best mini suit compared to its peers from other factions.
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Repe Susi
Rautaleijona
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Posted - 2014.08.04 09:33:00 -
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Good for you. When you have your Minmatar Commando skill @ 5, expect to wreck faces with CR.
When going (std/adv) Commando, I use one Kin Cat instead of armor repair and KD/17-R repping hives.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. ~ Isaac Asimov
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