Sole Fenychs
Sinq Laison Gendarmes
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.08.15 21:27:00 -
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Viks VS wrote:I have officially destroyed the Planetside game and am now setting my sights on Dust514.
Anything I should know about fighting infantry battles before I Dive in Head First?
Prepare to:
- Shoot endlessly at someone whose HP doesn't drop because of hit detection
- Get killed by some sniping *******, finding out that he used a rare drop sniper and then proceeding to throw the game in order to hunt him down with a scanner, a dropship and some finesse and destroying his corpse to make sure that will not retain his weapon
- Be happy that you died from remote explosives, because at least they aren't cheap
- Learn that "you have been scanned" is a way of life and that walls aren't enough to hide
- Attempt to fly a dropship. Once or maybe ten times with massive loss of ISK and two months of research on various threads and youtube videos. Only to find out that assault dropships are even worse.
- Random shotgun deaths to complement random sniper deaths
- Kill yourself to deprive the enemy team of experience points during the last minutes of battle
- Finally manage to kill a user of overpowered equipment and overpowered squad play, only to find out that he was using a free suit that you will not ever be able to get because it requires either real money investment or a game mode that non-squad players have no access to
- Spawn as AV, only to die to infantry
- Spawn as AI, only to die to the nearby parked tank
- Get your expensive tanks destroyed by drunk RDV pilots. And sometimes even yourself
- Be unable to scale a railing, unless you use the blue pills, which the community will lynch you for
- Figure out bandwith, damage profiles, the scanning system, how EWAR modules apply, racial playstyles and a bunch of other stuff that is never even remotely explained despite being of huge importance
And remember, in Dust, loss matters. It's not like Planetside where you have quick TTK and just respawn.
No, in Dust your cash will run out while the enemy team uses nanite needless to never use even a single suit. And you will die randomly, even while you are trying to take revenge. There's always an ******* with a cloak and nova knives waiting for you if you are alone.
Dust has the worst combination of addiction and frustration that you can get. Planetside should steal the skillpoint system. |