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Posted - 2013.02.12 20:31:00 -
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Alright. I sometimes lone wolf on alts just for fun and to see if anyone else is good :P.
Survivability is important (obviously), but what people fail to mention is that you need to keep your own HP up by yourself. My personal choice is just the tier 1 scout suit, or the tier 2 assault. Shields regen faster than armor, so put shield extenders in high slots and armor rep/shield recharge in the low. Complex shield extenders are a necessity.
You'll need a gun that works well in all situations too, and if you can aim the AR is the best way to go. Shotgun scrubs are only effective @ close quarters, and not well vs players who know what they are doing, lasers are only good at long range, and MD is better as a support weapon running with others than it is solo.
Type-II assault is nice because you get plenty of shields, and you'll have enough pg/cpu for a nanohive and everything else. Scouts are great because you can run in, drop at least one person, and duck out until your shields recharge and you reload. Go profile dampening if you have no gun game because you might get a lucky kill or something. Other skills are more important because you'll want to increase your survivability in battle, and if someone is shooting at you that dampening does nothing. Dampening will also prevent you from being ready for more battles faster because your sp and slots are better used for recharge/regen mods and skills.
Some people like armor plates. It gives additional HP, but reduces speed. I think this is a personal preference. For the way I play shields and agility matter more than the extra armor. I use speed as HP. If I can get to cover I can let my shields recharge. The armor plates increase the time I can get to cover, which makes me take more bullets. Also, armor is slow to regen, so shields are much more important to my style of play.
You can run and gun solo and easily beat your 2.5 kdr goal. I'd avoid ambush because there's a much higher chance that you'll run into a group of people, and I seem to almost always spawn in front of two heavies, or they spawn behind me. Type-II assault suits and an AR can out-maneuver most heavies, and you'll have the hp to take a few bullets. Tier-1 scout suits get torn to shreds by a HMG almost instantaneously, so you might have some trouble with heavies if you go scout. All heavies seem to use that AUR broadside too, and it hurts.
You have to understand that almost no one seems to be able to aim down their sights with an assault rifle, and they rely on junk like profile dampening. If you can ADS and shoot someone in the face, you'll win 90% of the time, and can easily out dps type-ii and advanced assault suits in your type-i scout or type-ii assault with a GEK.
p.s. if you're looking @ the kdr of peeps giving you advice, mine is inflated and shouldn't be taken into account on this guy. I spend most of my time driving around in an expensive tank, so I have a bit more motivation to keep myself alive. I run on foot a fair amount too, but tanking is lol. I wouldn't suggest that you inflate your KDR with a tank or redline sniping unless you're going something like 100/1. |
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Posted - 2013.02.12 22:27:00 -
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eh, imo scout and assault are both good for the short term. They're good for the long term too. One of the best things about the scout dropsuit is that the BPO dragonfly (it comes in the merc pack) is a great t1 suit. T1 scout dropsuit is better because it is a shield suit, whereas the t2 scout suit is armor heavy. Some people run with the t2 scout suit, but I have no idea why. The scout suit is all about shields and speed. It makes absolutely no sense to gimp the two best aspects of a scout so that you can pretend to be more of a logi/assault suit type -.-
Anyways, you will most likely not want to run an advanced suit in pub matches, because there's no reason to. It's better to focus on getting better than simply getting better gear. So for the scout suit you're left with a choice between (a very likely BPO) or a cheap t1 scout suit. If you spend $ on AUR, don't buy the BPO scout suit, it's a better use of your $ to get the merc pack. The t2 assault suit is also cheap and has the same thing- the adv t3 assault suit is worse than the t2.
Plus, you need crazy amounts of SP to get those really good suits. You can flesh out some of your core skills before committing to that grind. I'm not sure if I'd try to max all of them out before going for a proto dropsuit, but that's up to you. You should calculate if it's a better use of your SP if you put it towards maxing out a basic skill vs getting more slots for mods and CPU/PG to use.
If you really want to 'optimize', go with the logi suit. Yes, for many people the proto logi suit is best for assault. It has more speed than the proto assault, and it has better slots. Keep in mind that the assault suit is significantly better than the logi until you get to the prototype level. CCP said they're introducing more racial suits or bonuses or something, so this will probably (hopefully lol) change in the future. Idk why CCP made proto logi suit better than proto assault for most people, but they did -.- |