Paulus Phen502
Capital Acquisitions LLC
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Posted - 2015.11.12 14:32:00 -
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Unfortunately for beginners that is actually the way the game is designed, hitherto it's greatest strength and also it's greatest weakness. As you progress in your RPG style leveling you do more damage or take more damage unlike other shooter where you just unlock a new ability with each level. Here you must balance what you want to unlock with what you want to equip and the options are huge. You opponents may have proto armor plates and proto damage mods and an officer gun doing 2000 dps and level 5 proficiency in that gun adding 15% more damage, the beginner has maybe 1 basic plate and a basic shield extender or two that adds maybe a 100 total shields and armor plus a gun that does 500 dps and maybe proficiency 1 that adds 3% damage, I think you get the points.
I'm actually very sorry about this but DUST is special because of all these factors(true MMORPG leveling and economy based fitting system). We need and hopefully want new players but this game is not intended to favor the beginner(or the solo player btw). You may also be facing grouped players that have scanner specialist who see you coming or scouts who you can't detect who can easily flank you and are faster too. Again the idea of Dust is a marathon not a sprint, great twitch shooter skills can help you in this game but even they don't guarantee success.
I said a long time ago when we had more players we needed a tier based match making system but it may have been too late then. Now we have to deal with unbalanced and op officer gear that the big corps trade amongst themselves and go out and stomp noobies in pubs with. I do think this game is worth it if you stick with it, I have 750 day of consecutive login thats 6000 sp per day times 750 that I have over you without even including how much I've gained by playing matches. Iv'e also respected a few times so my skills would be optimal for killing players or helping kill players no matter which role I need to run to help win a game. I say you should counter by playing with friends, finding a active corp, and studying how to progress properly from the internet and some trust worthy people you meet in corp. In the right situation you can succeed and you deserve our respect if you learn to put yourself in spots where you can. People might troll you a little if you fail at 1st but if you choose to persist and you've tried your best you will already be better than them and no amount of k/d or warpoints can ever make that untrue.
"There's no stoppin' what can't be stopped, no killin' what can't be killed," King Willie Predator II.
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