Your link takes me to the wallpaper on the DUST site. You mad?

just a few things you need to remember-

• Railguns need to charge, but are fully automatic after that point
• Only fire 3 shot bursts (2 with some- watch the heat to know what you should do) before letting off- otherwise it'll overheat it.
• Lead your shots- they have a projectile, instead of being instantaneous damage as most people seem to assume
• Don't be afraid to fire a shot while it's mostly cooled down; you shouldn't be going full auto unless it's completely cooled, but if the dropship is on its last chunk of health and/or retreating, you'll need to get a shot in
• If there are no vehicles that you can see, try hitting stationary/slow moving infantry. You almost always OHK with these things.
• (same goes for blasters) WATCH. THE. HEAT.

Last but not least (this is for all turrets on LAVs), keep an eye on your health (it's the small health indicator next to the vehicle one) and pay attention to when you're getting shot at- just move to the passenger seat when you're worried about getting shot off the turret. Any experienced driver will get the hint that it's time to back off, then drive off to a remote corner to hide. From then on, hop out and they'll hopefully use their repair tool on you. If they don't know what you want, you'll need to hop back in ASAP before they drive off.

Forge Gun week

Anyone wanna make forge gun squads?

I was actually thinking some craziness like this the other day, 3 Heavies and a Logibro.


Would scare the hell out of some pilots and drivers....

I think its to really test vehicle combat. Right now its been mostly vehicles dominating the field with a FEW infantry AV trying to stop them. Now with tons of vehicles more people will NEED to get some AV fits or get some Veh vs Veh combat going. I'm thinking the event will be quite fun for the people speccing AV.

3 Heavies, one player who brings a 2-stage loadout:

1. Spawn with Drop Uplink and who cares what else.
2. After establishing a safe spawn location, come back with Repair Tool. Again, the rest of the fitting doesn't matter.

You can repeat the pattern any time you die and either the Uplink is gone or has been used a few times, or any time you notice the Uplink is low/gone and have a Supply Depot in reach. You can also switch out for a Swarm Launcher to add even more AV firepower to the squad - unless your Repair Tool fitting already has one...

don't forget your nanohives

There's going to be a lot of newbie tank drivers. Now I'm really glad I put some points into Forge Gun Operation.

I know!!!

I'll make a tank with nothing but railguns cuz railguns counter missle tanks oh wait.....

you know how much money there is gonna be for killing tanks

Unless the half off sale includes vehicle modules it isn't much of a sale. My Myron fit is over 700k ISK and I would save only 100k ISK on the hull. Not a big increase in purchase power, and it's even less for an expensive tank build.

Cmdr Wang, can you comment on this point?

The half-off sale only includes vehicles not vehicle modules. However, you also get more ISK rewards so that should help with buying vehicle modules off the market.

The half-off sale only includes vehicles not vehicle modules. However, you also get more ISK rewards so that should help with buying vehicle modules off the market.

Forge Gun week

Anyone wanna make forge gun squads?

For those who missed it : https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=45111&find=unread

Seriously, there aint enough vehicle complaint at the moment that you guys are feeling it's a good idea to offer a 50% ISK price reduction ? While raising the overall ISK bounty ? What's the point there ? How can that be of any interest in the beta process ?

Isnt there more important things to do than this at the moment ?

I've actually done the B alone before, and (finally!) had a gunner that had a slight idea what they were doing (still stupid though) so a moving LAV could continuously fire on a dropship, instead of a stationary one like I'm usually forced to.

Still, most of it boils down to the gunner having practice, and the driver knowing where to be and when to pull out of a bad situation. For me, a baloch-impact with all BPOs (except for an advanced railgun) can do a pretty good job. Saving ISK to be able to start using standard gallente LAVs.

What I'm going to be testing over the 5 days is the effectiveness of hybrid turrets (even on dropships!), when given enough love.

I even saw an imperfect today who took the time to fit a large blaster (with the range and damage, I would assume proto) on their HAV- they were more effective than I've ever seen anyone with a missile turret be.