CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
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Posted - 2014.08.19 18:40:00 -
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Viziam1 wrote:Every match is the exact same, que up for a match and get you face kicked in the whole match by people who are running prototype gear and what players call officer weapons. I don't expect to lead the boards or anything but i would like to be able to play a match and have a fighting chance. I understand some of these guys have been playing for a couple of years and have the skills to run the best gear in the game, but where does that leave the new players. I spawn in and get shot once (twice if I'm lucky) and that's it. I see people that just want to hide in the red line and use a sniper rifle because i guess they are scared of getting there suit dirty, but that's a waist of time when your whole team decides to do that. Or they stay on the MCC and spin in circles. I guess that new players just have to spend there time getting their face kicked in and ask politely "Please Sir can I have some more".
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 Viziam 1, let me say that, instead of sounding like some sort of whine or rant, you have presented one of the best written expressions of a Newcomer's reaction to Dust that I remember reading ever. Many of us felt the same way, but didn't have the on-target words to describe it like you just did----I wish the professional reviewers out there could express Dust this way too (it's the best way to let prospective players know what they are in for  .
I am personally copy-pasting your statement to store on my computer for future re-reads.
I have respect for alot of the post responses here, and for many of the players I recognize,... but as far as a NEWBERRY strategy, a lot of their advice (a lot, but not ALL) is jumping the gun. It's meant well, but it's going to make your dropsuit head spin (with you still inside it).
Newcomer success can be staked against how many kills you make; or how many hacks and matches you help your side win, which gun you can get first...it doesn't matter yet.
What matters is that you can't enjoy shooting with your cool gun, or can't enjoy hacking and winning objectives, IF YOU CAN'T KEEP FROM GETTING KILLED SO DARN MUCH. Reducing your rate of death is the singular thing that helps you enjoy anything else you hope to do in Dust (whatever that anything else IS doesn't even matter yet...just STAYING ALIVE more).
(Admit it, Viziam, that's what would boost your pleasure rate 300% in this game---it's the same for all of us, LOL).
Do this by:
OFF THE GAME, you can...
--Read SOME of the good Newberry Strategy Guides that appear on this Forum (and a couple of other forums still around), for explaining how to walk around the battelfield with fewer deaths.
--Join Dust University, and follow their tips, ask their instructors questions, etc.
 These are good, but, CRAP-it, they take a lot of study-time instead of PLAYtime,... and I personally couldn't justify doing all this when it's supposed to be just a fun play-play game. Sorry, NO WAY. Viziam, you have to make your own personal decision about investing your time in the above solutions.
IN THE GAME, you can
--Join a Squad (the idea is that by sticking near to others, enemy will shot at them more and at you less... and you finally have time to watch what they do and imitate their actions).
--Join a Dust Merc Corporation (the idea is you get to spend more time preparing, organizing, strategizing with corp members, so each time you go to fight, you're a group with a game plan).
 This is the way DUST is supposed to work, but I am against both of these.... you don't NEED to do them. It's frustrating to repeatedly find yourself in a confused six-person blob who say they're a "squad" but wander off in five easter-bunny directions ever time the squad spawns on the map- ??. It's frustating to have to shop around. And Corps repeatedly bog down in "club politics" so much, you have to keep changing and shopping around for a Corp you can stay with. ...Sorry, guys, that's TOO much frustration for me, even from Dust.
I'm not saying don't join up with players--I'm just saying you DON'T need to "squad" with them---just learn to spot when groups of blue players are somewhere near you, and spontaneously hang close to them for safety. Even if they're strangers to you, just join in among them.
So if I don't much like any of the advice above, what advice DO I follow :
Viziam-1, Drop your pants and your snazzy weapon. Leave them in your living quarters. Go on the battlefield each match with just one of the free dropsuits w/ gun the game gave you. FREE.
Then spawn on the map and try every idea you can think of to sneak, duck, hide in among other players, tag alongside HAV, trick, grenade-fake, hitchike, hold up inflatable girl-doll in front of you as human shield, and hack a taxi your way around the map WITHOUT getting killed more than 4 times the whole match.
I know, it sounds like I'm telling you to be a whimp-coward, but I'm not. Most of us were being killed walking around loose, WAY more than being killed in a fair gunfight with someone, and I bet the same is happening to you (you just THINK proto's the cause) A good vet can walk the map without getting snipered at or gunfighting more than twice the whole match if she doesn't want to. I'm not that good, but practicing ways to do this DROPS your number of deaths way, way down.
And once you aren't getting killed nearly as much, you're very quickly free to learn and accumulate anything you want in this game.
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
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