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Garrett Blacknova
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Posted - 2012.08.18 12:58:00 -
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Bring a repair tool. Stick with other players.
Keep them alive, and they will love you for it.
Also, it's REALLY easy to aim with Swarm Launchers, and you can get a Militia one right off the bat. Try those too (preferably paired with Militia SMG). Swarm + SMG with a purely Militia fit means you can AFFORD to die horribly and repeatedly - you don't have to pay to replace your militia gear every time, so you can just suicide bomb yourself while learning the basics. Stick to Militia gear while you're learning how the game works. Don't worry about winning, losing, K/D, and all that other stuff - at least not until you have the basics down. When you start figuring it all out, you'll see those stats improving on their own.
The Swarm Launcher is almost entirely intended for anti-vehicle use - it locks on, so you can pretty easily hit vehicles just by holding the button down while getting the right general direction. Let go when you have the lock-on prompt, and your missiles fire. Even the Militia version does enough damage against most vehicles that the impact will be noticeable. It won't outright kill most things (cheap Dropships and LAVs being the exception), but you can force them to hold hold position, and sometimes even retreat from you. If you're not alone, then you're going to be backing up players and hopefully drawing enemy fire first - since your teammates usually have better gear or more high-level skills than you.
If you're taking that brakceted advice to use the SMG, you need to remember to ONLY use it in close quarters - it's NOT going to hit targets at any kind of range, don't bother wasting your ammo until you're close, and when you ARE close, just spray and pray. You may not get the kill - you're using bottom-tier gear on a bottom-tier character, so if the other guy has ranked up a few things, he'll be tough to kill, but you'll definitely be able to rip into him a fair amount before you go down. And if you luck into another new person, you'll have a decent chance of getting the kill. Also, if you're staying near teammates, every bit of damage you can deal means less of a threat to your friends. Hurt the enemy, and it's that much easier for another teammate nearby to finish the job.
Wherever possible - at first it will be rare - approach enemies from behind. Get into positions where they won't see you coming. Get as close as you can manage before opening fire, then TEAR THEM APART. Even Militia gear hurts when they get the drop on you - as I said before, Militia gear doesn't always hurt much (although with the right skills it's not too bad), but it can be the difference between a kill for your teammate and both you and him going down - and sometimes someone else will get the kill before you die. You don't have to think of every encounter as 1 vs. 1. |
Garrett Blacknova
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Posted - 2012.08.18 15:49:00 -
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NEGA LEAVESEY wrote:Kleanur Guy wrote:Try renting CoD for a week and play the Campaign. Dunno might help. Bad idea IMO. Will promote bad habits as the bots are tards - Its a learning curve my friend, no way around that. No great FPS'er myself but as you grow to learn the maps and nuances of the game you will get better. Keep at it.
To get a handle on the basics of control, grabbing any cheap FPS game you can get hold of would be a good idea. They almost all use left stick for movement and right stick to aim, and mostly use L1 for aim and L2 for shooting on PS3, so as long as you can work on that in a comfortable, easy environment, it will help when you go into playing an online game like DUST.
CoD, Resistance, Brink (yes, even Brink), etc. Just pick up something you can either rent or buy REALLY cheap, give it a bit of a run so you can build up those absolute basic skills without feeling bad for hurting your teammates' chances.
A lot of us won't care, and particularly since it's only the beta right now, but if you feel awkward about it, that's a good way to avoid the problem. |
Garrett Blacknova
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Posted - 2012.08.18 18:07:00 -
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smartlayer wrote:Yes very nice thread learned a lot too as i'm rather in the same situation than Virex :)
a question is it possible to modify the key bidding as the default one for mouse keyboard are very hard to use
At the moment, there's no control remapping for any of the control schemes, but that will be coming SOONGäó |
Garrett Blacknova
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Posted - 2012.08.19 11:46:00 -
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carl von oppenheimer wrote:Virex Staz wrote:sendeth wrote:
3 - talk to people
How? Does voice comms work? I've had a headset plugged in all evening, and have been trying regular comms checks, but with no success. I've enabled voice and push-to-talk in the options (and yes, I *am* pushing the PTT button). PTT doesn't work properly, turn it off and use the built in mute if your head set has a one.
It also doesn't help that because voice defaults to "off" most players don't realise they need to fix that. |
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