very nice job, when nda lifted you should do a site or a blog or something with this content

Hey there, Great question. On the last night of this weekends beta I was able to talk to an avid logi player, and I picked his brain about the suit.

Basically as it stands right now in the beta, the logi suit is a little slower and not that much more durable than the assault suit so mobility is a pain, and you drop almost as fast. You have a lot more slots to work with however with the logi suit, but are hard to fit with a lot of high end mods because most of your cpu/pg is taken up by equipment.

So to answer your end question there, no I do not think it would be a good alternative to the assault suit for DIRECT combat with other assault suits. STATS WISE. Anyone could easily prove me wrong with sheer skill and a nice assault rifle. Just take eve for an example, the amount of theory crafting and weird fits that come up making previously uncommon ships omgwtfbbqamaing is pretty awesome. EDIT: forgot to mention that I do think that once remote repairers are introduced Logistics will be an awesome suit to use, and I intend on specializing in it =)

If you can come up with a fit that makes it a direct engagement option. Please share it!!!

The primary source of skill points will be passive skilling.

the main thing a NEW player to DUST514 should know is too Buy ONLY 1 of ALL the "Milita" items from the marketplace.

yeah i made mistake of buy 50, instead of just 1 since they do NOT run out.

I believe this is because all Militia items are BPO - Blueprint Originals as opposed to everything else which is BPC - Blueprint Copy. BPOs never run out, BPCs do. I'm not sure if there are any other BPO items on the market other than militia gear, but I'm interested to see how they handle BPOs for other items. I'm imagining they will be much more pricey than a regular BPC since a BPO is more a costly, but cheaper long-term investment.

I dont think we'll see BPOs at all other than militia gear.

CCP hate the fact that BPOs are in EVE as its a fixed point in the economy. Hence why they don't reseed them when accounts with them go inactive or they get blown up in transport etc.

Maybe worth adding information about some EVE politics and major players as i expect groups like NCdot and the CFC and GSF are going to outsourcing a lot of work to start with it wouldn't do the dust bunnies any harm at all to be getting involved in with the metagame and the politics and picking sides and potential clients as early as this..

I was thinking about this today, and I will add something. Please post any sources you may have that have over arching examples of some major historical events in EVE. I know there are a lot of things that happen in EVE that are considered "historical" to some players but not to "most" players...

You did a great job in your EVE Online history, but it might be good to post the official timeline?
http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Timeline

Also, did you link the PL Titan kill by the Shadows Of The Federation and Wolfsbrigade (as someone who's not with either group, props to PL for taking it so well, and to the two FW corps for pulling it off)? Beautiful.
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=83392
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=82562

All this delving into EVE history, reminds me of when I played EVE and I am very much finding it hard to resist the urge to resub...

This cleared up a lot of things for me. But I'm a noob and I understand that my gun will probably suck since I don't have any skills. how do I get through the first couple of battles with this crappy gun so I can get more skills? It takes FOREVER for me to kill someone.

Believe it or not many people prefer using militia gear than isk gear. This is because militia gear is easy to make money in, this is important especially when you run around in 10k+ drop suits like me >.<

Well you can do a couple things to increase your effectiveness:

1. aim for the torso (head if you can) I say torso because you want to land as many shots as you can, the worst thing ever is dying between reloads. Head if you can beucase it does more damage but only if your confident you can hit it, I recommend it if you are fighting a heavy suit because it is slow and has a big head but against assault and scout suits they will be moving much faster so aim for their bodies.

2. Stick with teammates, even if you aren't able to talk to them directly stick with them and try and work together, safety in numbers. On the flip side of this, if you see them blindly run into a gun fight.....do not directly follow their footsteps often you will be the one who will die. If you see this flank or sit back and cover fire, essentially use them as bait.

3. Avoid open terrain or areas where the enemy can shoot DOWN on you. You will die a lot if you do not heed this warning.

4. upgrade your weapon skills before you upgrade your defense skills, this is because no matter what especially in a assault suit, you are going to get mowed down very easily in a gun fight. So best utilize your time alive by trying to hit harder than the opponent. This technique is a very popular one in EVE online, DPS tanking, dead enemies do no damage. so very simply put, a safe way to play is by playing smart by using cover, sticking with teammates, helping teammates, maximize your damage

Thank you for the question and I hope this helped =)

Will this be tweaked in the final game? It feels so much like Halo and I thought this game was gonna be like M.A.G . I don't like games where it takes forever to kill someone it annoys me. Thats my main disappointment with this game right now is with the bullet damage here. I trust that all the graphics and lag problems will be fixed.

This game looks so promising!!! The fact that its taking forever to kill someone is making me extremely angry and disappointed with the game i was gonna give up on this game, but being one of the few ps3 shooters with big battles and the first shooter that links with another mmorpg i hope that they fix all the problems and balance everything.

Are the developers intentionally giving everyone lots of health because this game is supposed to be like a halo, resistance 2, type with lots of health or is this just for testing.

The simple reason for this is, it isn't MAG, it also isn't halo or resistance. The reason people can take so much punishment in this game is because we are in super futuristic space battle suits ie dropsuits. Similar in a way to Spartans in Halo. These dropsuits (if read a few EVE chronicles you will know) are all that separate us from taking a few hits and well being obliterated into tiny bits from a single assault rifle round.

So to answer your question/concerns very bluntly, you are going to have to work for your kills not just shoot someone 2 times,lucky or not, like in MAG or CoD.

The simple reason for this is, it isn't MAG, it also isn't halo or resistance. The reason people can take so much punishment in this game is because we are in super futuristic space battle suits ie dropsuits. Similar in a way to Spartans in Halo. These dropsuits (if read a few EVE chronicles you will know) are all that separate us from taking a few hits and well being obliterated into tiny bits from a single assault rifle round.

So to answer your question/concerns very bluntly, you are going to have to work for your kills not just shoot someone 2 times,lucky or not, like in MAG or CoD.