For a second I thought you're serious.
Anyway, as a Battlefield 3 player I have to say that suppresion isn't as bad as people make it out.
As long as you balance it right (and they eventually did), it works well for the game.
If you fire first you should have the upper hand, and suppresion is the best way to do it.

ok so the OP wants Supperession then there would be a skill to offset this...so essentially all you want to do is add another fking skill and have the new player even more confused that he needs to buy this skill so his screen stops getting blurry...again DUMB. The game will have other COOL skills added example MTACS and MCC skills with out adding lame **** like this.

Yes i said it nubs, DUST needs to be the benchmark of military tactical gaming and thus needs a suppression effect ala BF
dont believe me? just watch this vid and see how tactical this is, beware tho all this raw talent might be too much to handle

PS: Suppression must only be for MGs, and while we're at it give MGs a bipod that makes them deadly accurate. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxsbTjPe2fs
and no this is not me sadly in the vid...i only wish i had all this raw talent

Yeah holy crap, i was going to play along but geezes people.... its SATIRE!

However, good to see how the responses went with many people rallying against nums, it served its purpose in highlighting the ridiculousness of people who would try to push dust, both within CCP and in the community, in that direction.

People may say this thread was rude/pointless/just stupid trolling, but it showed results and highlighted an issue with people that keep stressing 'immersion' and 'tactical gameplay' without really understands whats tactical about competitive FPS, and without understanding the line when immersion can become overbearing for balance reasons.

Hang on, hang on!

I think suppression could work but it would have to be handled carefully.
First of all only high rates of sustained fire from the HMG or a Blaster Turret OR the combined effort of 3 assault rifle users/4 submachine gunners should be able to cause the effect.

Secondly the effect should only become more pronounced depending on the targets total DS meta level. An immortal in a crapfit or a starterfit probably isn't going to feel much sense of fear as they have nothing to lose except the one battle. Someone geared up with the latest proto-techno thingy DS and carrying a gun worth 100x it's weight in ISK might get a little worried should they come under such intensive fire.

I got your back bro. We'll make DUST just as good as BF3. CCP just needs to listen.

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