DUST Search - Nova Knifing

Maken Tosch wrote:

Vicious Minotaur wrote:

Today, I just had my first try at Nova Knifing in Dom (while being stomped on, no less). I was surprised at how it was not as difficult as I thought it would be.

I was using basic NKs ( no proficiency), basic Caldari Scout, approximately 300 eHP (at most), and NO cloak. Went 11:8. First time nova knifing. While being stomped on. All things considered, I was quite surprised.

I found that there was much margin of error in some scenarios (or was it just beginners luck?). While sneaking up on enemies w/ a RR, I completely screwed up, missed, got noticed, and did not have to abort ( like most Knifers recommend when you screw up). Just kept swinging as they flailed around with their super accurate-to-a-fault RRs.

To much fun. Will take Nova knives to proto, and Cal Scout to proto. Thanks, Million Clone Challenge.

You should have seen how bad knives were back in the early days.

Hit detection was crappy on an epic level, you always had to be within kissing distance to actually hit anyone, no cloaks existed, OHK-ing Proto heavies was a mission on its own, there was no suit available that gave bonuses to nova knife damage (Gallente Scout was the only scout suit at the time) at all, fog rendering problems made it virtually impossible to hide as a scout especially when cloaks didn't exist and the problem was only compounded by the existence of "Witch Mountain" when snipers dominated back in the days. In other words, it was hard mode for knifers on an epic level. If you were knifer back then and still are now, then you are a god among insects with the changes knives experienced recently because you've been through hell and back being baptized by the flames of trial and error.


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Pseudogenesis Subdreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore 477	Posted - 2014.09.17 14:41:00 - [1] - Quote Maken Tosch wrote: Vicious Minotaur wrote: Today, I just had my first try at Nova Knifing in Dom (while being stomped on, no less). I was surprised at how it was not as difficult as I thought it would be. I was using basic NKs ( no proficiency), basic Caldari Scout, approximately 300 eHP (at most), and NO cloak. Went 11:8. First time nova knifing. While being stomped on. All things considered, I was quite surprised. I found that there was much margin of error in some scenarios (or was it just beginners luck?). While sneaking up on enemies w/ a RR, I completely screwed up, missed, got noticed, and did not have to abort ( like most Knifers recommend when you screw up). Just kept swinging as they flailed around with their super accurate-to-a-fault RRs. To much fun. Will take Nova knives to proto, and Cal Scout to proto. Thanks, Million Clone Challenge. You should have seen how bad knives were back in the early days. Hit detection was crappy on an epic level, you always had to be within kissing distance to actually hit anyone, no cloaks existed, OHK-ing Proto heavies was a mission on its own, there was no suit available that gave bonuses to nova knife damage (Gallente Scout was the only scout suit at the time) at all, fog rendering problems made it virtually impossible to hide as a scout especially when cloaks didn't exist and the problem was only compounded by the existence of "Witch Mountain" when snipers dominated back in the days. In other words, it was hard mode for knifers on an epic level. If you were knifer back then and still are now, then you are a god among insects with the changes knives experienced recently because you've been through hell and back being baptized by the flames of trial and error. I've been knifing since Uprising : ^ ) specced into it as soon as I saw the minja's bonus. It was love at first sight. But yeah, I know the pain of running knives without a cloak, pre-buffs. I used to run them without another weapon back then too, JUST using knives. And to compound the problem, most people back then were decked out in all proto because everyone got refunded a bunch of ISK when Uprising hit. Those were dark times. Stabby-stabber extraordinaire