I do think 2 or 3 links in the right place can indeed sustain a team to victory. The problem is the hotspots move during the battle, so earlier links might be rendered useless. If we can carry more, we can replace those with new ones, where they are needed at the moment.

@CCP Rattati: Don't wait with this change until the next release.

it ruined solo'ist like myself being able to contribute (besides slaying)

in the right place? you mean if the enemy infantry and vehicles don't have scanners/passive scans?

Hotspots are always relatively on the objective. The problem I'm outlining is that in order to win you needed to place links for your team then do your share (and probably more) slaying/clearing the objective which used to be done in heavy suits or not-gimped-by-uplinks assault suits.

Then I or my small squad find ourselves saying "we can't switch to heavies or assaults because we have the only uplinks on the field and the loading screen doesn't tell our bluedots to bring uplinks"

I stopped playing the day they announced the equipment nerf. Nothing left for me in dust. I did log in a couple weeks ago and dropped my 6 links. Sat the rest of match out on Mcc roof in my thale logi fit. :) Haven't played since.
Dust has lost all the glitter it once had. I'll spend my money elsewhere.

There always a right place for the moment. They might find and destroy it, resulting in only 5-6 spawns, but that might do all the difference. Plus I believe Proto equipment have lower profile signature, making them harder to detect.


How do you "gimp" your Assault by equipping a spawn uplink? True, you will not be able to equip a scanner of a nanohive, but that is not "gimping" your suite. You trade one advantage with another. Heavies, that is another story, but they excel in CQC combat. They need to trade this advantage with something else.


Yes, if you are going solo you can't provide links for the team and then switch to a heavy. But that is the entire point of the system.
If you find that your team is missing the essential link deployment role, then switch to a logi and fill that role. That is how you carry your team, you fill the role which is missing. If they can't kill for **** either...well then they are missing more than one role.

If you are in a small squad, I really don't see the problem. You split the roles between you. If everybody likes doing everything, you take turns beeing the "slayer" and "provider". Hell, you won't loose that much either, as a Logi / Heavy combo is a very potent mix.

With that said, I fully agree with you the information (in-game) regarding bandwidth is subpar at best, and needs to be improved.

You know what isn't boring no matter what happens, like literally you cannot be bored no matter what type of match you get put in.....
Plasma cannon scout, slap on red bottles and damp - drive by plc everybody! Or die trying.... (Usually die trying but its great fun)

My only issue with bw is I wish they added a little gauge on the hud that filled up as you placed equipment so you have some idea of how much bw capacity you have left.

bw was a huge improvement in my opinion. It gives true logis a role and reduced equipment spam a ton. Honestly I hate uplinks, I wish they would get nerfed again in terms of number of units spawned from them. I wish there was more of a focus on vehicle transport and mobile CRUs. This would introduce a whole new role into dust. However there are still too many uplinks for people to care to spawn on mobile CRUs and AV is too strong at the moment for this role to be profitable.

My only issue with bw is I wish they added a little gauge on the hud that filled up as you placed equipment so you have some idea of how much bw capacity you have left.

I "think" the idea was to make ppl choose, death to omni-soldier 5000 etc

No u cannot haz all the links and pwn all the things while sitting in triage hives while the tank pops on yr minefield
But with a bit of thought u can do a bit of each
Or spread the roles out between ur sqd

BW is awesome, requires tactical thought (not included)

At a STRETCH of compromise maybe sentinel frames can get 4/6/8?


It's a game that thrives on planning and teamwork, BW reinforces this idea

All Bandwidth does in the big picture of what your saying... Is nerf and limit a player because they are too good... So they should have limitations and be controlled otherwise it will get out of hand.


We went from DUST being about building a Sandbox... To Having a game where GM's change names for players and legitimately Scammed ISK get's returned to the victim.


*Shrugs*

yes, it's our stated goal to increase carried for all equipment. And reduce proxies to 1 bw.

I personally feel that this whole bandwidth run was a waste of time and solved little to nothing.

Bandwidth isn't a nerf to "good players" lol

Since when was equipment spam considered a skill?

and that be the problem with bw it ruined solo'ist like myself being able to contribute (besides slaying)

I "think" the idea was to make ppl choose, death to omni-soldier 5000 etc

No u cannot haz all the links and pwn all the things while sitting in triage hives while the tank pops on yr minefield
But with a bit of thought u can do a bit of each
Or spread the roles out between ur sqd

BW is awesome, requires tactical thought (not included)

At a STRETCH of compromise maybe sentinel frames can get 4/6/8?


It's a game that thrives on planning and teamwork, BW reinforces this idea

yes, it's our stated goal to increase carried for all equipment. And reduce proxies to 1 bw.

The Questions about Bandwidth we have to ask.


Did it reduce Lag? No.


Did it stop Rooftop camping and infestations of rooftop camping that don't progress a match? Nope.


What was Bandwidth for?

Just took another shot at playing, this is like my 4th time since BW introduction, and it is just BORING.

Between matchmaking being trash and BW making for very very few uplinks on the field it just makes pace of play terrible. I know I kept saying this would happen when BW was being discussed so it may seem that I am just trying to be right but it is FAR worse than I was expecting. It is great for the logis who do choose to stick to uplinks and stack up WP but for everyone else it is just plain BAD.

Either fix matchmaking or make some huge changes to BW. Looking at the changes that have been made it would seem that the game should be in a great place but it is unplayable in the long term sense right now thanks to being out right boring.

Even a newbro who just started the game and skilled into assault or heavy as his only role could contribute to the game by running a militia light frame and placing several links then switchig to his assault or heavy if he wanted to contribute to the win