CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.01.03 21:22:00 -
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recounted wrote:Im basically broke after every match due to me fighting close up shottys knifers and those ******* redliners who snipes you from god knows where also the heavy(s) who ganks on your ass if your attention span is off. Back to the end match with my KD being a, good average .5 (2/12)or below if im more unlucky then ever.
What am I doing wrong here? Im have an account of 100,000 to 200,000 isj but then poof I have to spend them for my stockings so I wont have dead beat armor worse than I have to manage every time can I get tips on what im doing wrong?
New Years greetings to you, Recounted.  Not trying to insult you by saying that I am GUESSING from little clues in your posts that you are a Newberry. In Dust and EVE, "Newberry" is a sign of respect, because you are where all the advanced players have been, so DON'T HAVE a INFURIATION ATTACK. ( When some players have that "attack", they give up and uninstall this game---it's a very frustrating game.)
To progress successfully through Dust, you have to absorb humiliation for whatever amount of time it takes to "deduce" the ways this game is "different from the other fps games I play on PS3".
The fact that you are getting the "I must be doing something wrong" feeling is the first sign that you are on your way to surviving the "hurt-phase" and potentially becoming a smart player.
NORMALLY, the advice posted by the other players in this thread would be adequate--'stay close to other blue players', 'pay attention to your surroundings', 'pick the assault bop-pistol first', etc.
But there has always been a "type" of player who feels they HAVE to succeed against other players in a 1-v-1 encounter, and are compelled to reach for whatever safest path or discoverable game-exploit they find to help them succeed. DUST 514 doesn't really CARE about creating good 1-v-1 gunslingers to fill a leader-board (that is the main design of other fps games, not this one)GǪ. But a scary amount of players WILL frustrate your progress in the match and cost you excess ISK, on their way to snatch-grabbing as many random personal kills per minimal clone loss that they can.
As a result, the respectable community of Scouts is littered with players who have no Scout interest, but find the cloak/shotgun the best way to do leader-board bragging.
And the community of repeatable Snipers has always had some players who "aren't very skilled" at Sniper techniques, but found stooping in the safe rear area and glean whatever pedestrian kills they can, so they don't have to feel so inadequate and victimized trying open-field fighting.
The timid pseudo-snipers are players I have compassion for. The cloak-shottys are a type I NEVER sympathise with. But BOTH types of players are hunting YOU, Recounted.
Please add my advanced-player strategy to whatever you do on the map, in order to buy yourself time to build ISK and a battle style you like.
 --Do NOT approach any Null hacks or installation hack by yourself. Both types of enemy player spend the most time around these hack-points hoping a loner blue will visit by himself.
--When you are shot by one of these players, do NOT go back to that location right away hoping to get revenge (you really need vehicle assistance or an advanced player with you, to be able to spot your killer right after your death and avenge you).
--When you are staying close to other blues for safety (always a safe idea), let THEM hack the objective---you stay a clear distance away from them and EXPECT a cloak-boy or sniper to make an attempt on the hacker's life. Practice spotting the killer when he makes his move. These days, NOTHING is more satisfying than avenging a buddy's assassination by shooting one of those fleeing shotties in the back and seeing his corpse de-cloak on the ground.
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
No story can have life without writers and publishers.
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CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.01.04 03:38:00 -
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Mejt0 wrote:Cuz this game is broken and only good player will profit no matter what.
Losing 200k per fit several times per battle doesn't matter when you can earn what you losed during few other battles.
If you have isks crisis, use std/starter fits.
Umm, well not exactly. Not necessarily. If I am understanding the author correctly, he's fresh on his way to knowing how to manage his finances, and choose the appropriate assets---but the excess of cloak-shotties and mezzanine-snipers are standing in the way of him making any respectable grind progress.
That's an issue (and a potentially severe problem for the new players) that I as a seasoned player hadn't even given thought to.
 It's not a broken design, if the game rewards a player with profit in any situation, once she's become good (meaning she's finally learned how to truly master her gear/ISK/tactics in any battle/crisis. (Incidentally, letting yourself get pushed into wearing a "hobo" starter suit 95% of the time to live on table-scraps,... isn't playing Dust "good" to me, it's playing it 'timidly').
Nonetheless,.. yes , even if he uses the right economic fits/suits and tactics, if any of the gameplay excesses stop him from even reaching 1st-base in his character progress, that IS an unfair obstacle in the game.
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
No story can have life without writers and publishers.
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