move, cover, shoot and work together with your squad.

I'll add my flavor to this...

Here's what I usually like to keep in mind while I'm flying Drop Ships.
-You can rapidly deploy to any area on the map, allowing for quick flank attacks onto the enemy.
-You will be rapidly disposed of by enemy swarms if you stay on one area of the map for too long.
-If engaged by swarms, run for the hills while keeping as low as possible, using everything for cover to prevent lock.
-The lives of your gunners and the life of your wallet matters more then kills, skill points or anything else.
-Fly High in the clouds, out of enemies direct line of sight or Fly Low behind buildings and cliffs. Anywhere in between will put you in the direct line of sight of enemy swarms, thus an easy target.

These are things I mainly learned from a different game, but seem to translate to Dust easily.

As mentioned above, concentrate on building up your shield & armor skills (e.g. mechanics?) first before delving into the other skills. Being alive is a much more fun way to playing the game.

Stick with the militia starter fits when you first start, try each of the different builds until you feel comfortable & have chosen what you want to specialise in.
Once you are happy, start spending your ISK & SP in the relevant fields.
But survivability is the name of the game, you may have the most powerful gun in the universe but if someone can take you out with a sharp stick then it's a bit pointless.

Stick with your team at all times.

If you see someone hacking, join in you'll get the assist points.

Also, don't steal a team mate's tank, especially when friendly fire is turned on.

but seriously dont want to give away my good tricks to people

No matter how good the heavies look on paper, don't spec into them this build. Trust me on that.

I can, and i run an assault type II suit.

As mentioned above, concentrate on building up your shield & armor skills (e.g. mechanics?) first before delving into the other skills. Being alive is a much more fun way to playing the game.

Stick with the militia starter fits when you first start, try each of the different builds until you feel comfortable & have chosen what you want to specialise in.
Once you are happy, start spending your ISK & SP in the relevant fields.
But survivability is the name of the game, you may have the most powerful gun in the universe but if someone can take you out with a sharp stick then it's a bit pointless.

Stick with your team at all times.

If you see someone hacking, join in you'll get the assist points.

Also, don't steal a team mate's tank, especially when friendly fire is turned on.

I'll add my flavor to this...

Here's what I usually like to keep in mind while I'm flying Drop Ships.
-You can rapidly deploy to any area on the map, allowing for quick flank attacks onto the enemy.
-You will be rapidly disposed of by enemy swarms if you stay on one area of the map for too long.
-If engaged by swarms, run for the hills while keeping as low as possible, using everything for cover to prevent lock.
-The lives of your gunners and the life of your wallet matters more then kills, skill points or anything else.
-Fly High in the clouds, out of enemies direct line of sight or Fly Low behind buildings and cliffs. Anywhere in between will put you in the direct line of sight of enemy swarms, thus an easy target.

These are things I mainly learned from a different game, but seem to translate to Dust easily.

Probably some type of hax. Whatever it is, I hear it's overpowered.

Neo wears a scout suit.

Nope but If I were Neo, I'd wear a scout suit, I can dodge bullets with my Speed/lag pants all day.

Get to a supply and switch to AV. Everytime a tank is deployed, EVERYONE should be doing this. You take out the tank and switch back to you're standard suits.

True. Which is why more people should deploy dropuplinks and nanohives in ambush maps. Seriously for nearly all ambush maps I was in, I only died when I ran out of primary and was low on my pistol ammo.

bump and sticky please....

this sorta stuff is great for us terrible players (please dont let me be the only one out there).

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Join a squad before going into battle (join channel LFSquad to find others). Have a mic, and use it. Stick with your squad. If you are not very good, say so when forming up rather than after you screw up.

If you need to move a long way across the map, call in a free LAV.

If you are new to console FPS (maybe you're from Eve and a purely PC gamer so far) then remember you are fighting against people who've had a dualshock in their hands for 20 or more hours a week for years and years. Their controller is a seamless extension of their body, yours is a f*** *** *** with *** ** in the *** ***** **** *** that *&** by the *****!!!!! Patience and practice.