DUST Search - I just want to know; why is everyone ruining me with the same gear?

Mahal Daj wrote:

There could be a number of reasons:

1. Player skill: Dust rewards practice, it's a game of nuance
2. Team support: the player may have been supported by coordinated players
3. Passive skills: can increase everything from raw damage to weapon handling
4. Equipment: he may have been using damage mods or eWar
5. Practice: not just with the game, but with the specific fitting
6. Rout: the opposite of having a coordinated team, your team is simply not available to help
7. Target selection: an armor-strong weapon works best against Amarr and Gallente
8. A Logi: they can make a squad punch harder and faster
9. A Sniper: they can prepare a squad with info and weaken targets before engaging

Based on your description of the match, it's likely that they player was a high SP, long term player, with a squad of combatants, logis, and intelligence officers. They couldn't have gotten that many kills without restocks, which supports my theory.

Have patience, and you too will mount the summit of what you can do in Dust...


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Nathanes Blackfort Sinq Laison Gendarmes Gallente Federation 1	Posted - 2014.12.21 19:07:00 - [1] - Quote So, I'm not so bad at the game, I've gotten a lot better lately and I've started to get more into the game (in the past I made a lot of negative posts against Dust, I still find the community a little toxic but that's the same on every forum everywhere.) Recently I've been using the Breach and Tactical AR's (they just feel nice to use I suppose, I've done a lot of damage with them and actually done well for once!) and I've also started actually doing with with the starter dropsuits. What completely baffles me though is that I still manage to get into games where people have similar gear to me. This one guy just a few minutes ago, wielding what I think was either a Minmatar or Amarr Medium dropsuit, dunno which, along with an SB Rail Rifle. This guy is just melting everyone with that and a standard Submachine gun. I noticed a lot of players on my time were a mix of both standard to advanced gear, but this one guy went 22-0 or something, topping their team. Any clue on what the hell he was using? As much as it pains me to say his skill level was on pair of a damn aimbot, the guy barely missed, never died, etc. Still a total **** though. Either way, when I use the rail rifle it's just... worthless. I most often run out of ammo long before I can kill an enemy, and more often than not I can never, ever finish off an enemy especially at medium range. What's even more frustrating was I was damaging the Heavy's more than I was this one guy. How the hell did this guy have so much health?
Nathanes Blackfort Sinq Laison Gendarmes Gallente Federation 1	Posted - 2015.03.24 19:51:00 - [2] - Quote Leadfoot10 wrote: Some people just possess the fine motor skills and reaction time that makes the superior at FPS games. Your best bet against people like this are to out-think them -- engage them in a situation which tilts the odds in your favor -- by bringing a suit that matches up well against them, or bringing friends with the intent to outnumber them....engaging them from two directions typically gets the job done. Lastly, never underestimate the power of core skills (and weapon skills). What I mean by that is the starter suit of a player with the core skill tree (or any particular weapon) completely filled will be much more powerful than the starter suit of someone with 5m SP. This is nonsense though. On any other FPS/3rdPS my reacton times are top notch. I take a note to be as aware as I possibly can. Yet on this game I swear the game's mechanics can't keep up with my reactions, like CQC is just horrendous for me because the aiming is so clunky and the on-screen frames per second are so bad I can't hit enough shots. I don't have any friends that play this game because they all think it's trash lmao A lot of my skill trees are near max though. I haven't gotten it at max because... well I really can't stay on this game for any long periods of time. It gets insanely tedious and boring.
Nathanes Blackfort Sinq Laison Gendarmes Gallente Federation 1	Posted - 2015.03.24 19:57:00 - [3] - Quote Mahal Daj wrote: There could be a number of reasons: 1. Player skill: Dust rewards practice, it's a game of nuance 2. Team support: the player may have been supported by coordinated players 3. Passive skills: can increase everything from raw damage to weapon handling 4. Equipment: he may have been using damage mods or eWar 5. Practice: not just with the game, but with the specific fitting 6. Rout: the opposite of having a coordinated team, your team is simply not available to help 7. Target selection: an armor-strong weapon works best against Amarr and Gallente 8. A Logi: they can make a squad punch harder and faster 9. A Sniper: they can prepare a squad with info and weaken targets before engaging Based on your description of the match, it's likely that they player was a high SP, long term player, with a squad of combatants, logis, and intelligence officers. They couldn't have gotten that many kills without restocks, which supports my theory. Have patience, and you too will mount the summit of what you can do in Dust... I've been play this game for two years. Don't tell me to have patience. It isn't getting better, practice really doesn't seem to exist (I can't practice something that isn't my fault i.e shocking frames per second.) I'm all for some strategy and intelligence to an FPS but when people start applying it to something like Dust it just starts to bore me, when every player I meet sounds like they smoke pot and probably wouldn't have any intelligence outside the game. Snipers never do a thing but get the odd kill or hit, and being a general pain in the ass, and being one is too boring because you have to invest in a dropship if you hope to get the best vantage point. In any case I don't see practice playing a role in it at all, it seems you're either good at it or you aren't and I just can't be bothered to investing any more time into such a broken game. If you can actually give solid evidence of Dust rewarding practice then show me. But to me I just think it's a total load of rubbish.
Nathanes Blackfort Sinq Laison Gendarmes Gallente Federation 1	Posted - 2015.03.24 19:59:00 - [4] - Quote TEBOW BAGGINS wrote: it sounds like the pot calling the kettle black you have set a trend amongst the community. they are trying to mimic your success.. What are you even talking about I don't have any success I haven't even become the pot yet lmao Please don't use philosophical phrases so carelessly.