For my scout, I prefer using a tactical assault rifle and drop uplinks. If you know how to use it, tactical ARs can be great.

No, they cannot. Pre-nerf, yes. Post nerf, no. The Codewish is the only tac you should use if you're going to use it at all. Duvolle is bad.

edit: Tac ARs may work fine against scrubs, but anything works fine against scrubs

it's bringin me down.

0 Try Harder is looking good, like a snake in the grass

edit: I am kind of a jerk sometimes :P

I blame it on an overdose of House.

thx ^.^

No, they cannot. Pre-nerf, yes. Post nerf, no. The Codewish is the only tac you should use if you're going to use it at all. Duvolle is bad.

edit: Tac ARs may work fine against scrubs, but anything works fine against scrubs

Just because it takes practice doesn't mean it isn't good.

Previous threads have shown that he considers any weapon other than the assault rifle as proof of people not having 'gun game'

Previous threads have shown that he considers any weapon other than the assault rifle as proof of people not having 'gun game'

the AR is completely unsuited to the scout suit

while it (the AR) is currently extremely open to abuse with stacked damage mods

The only way to stay alive when you have half to a quarter of the HP of everyone else on the field is to hit first and hit harder.

This is why the guy hates shotguns, because it's the only thing that can outpace his stream of overbuffed BB gun pellets for damage.

The scout suit is worse than assault and logi with a shotgun because it needs to be in close range, and it cannot take almost any damage. So there's no way to close range on players if the scout needs to be in the open for a shot period of time. Even if a shotgun scout does manage to get into CQC with an enemy player, if that player has a baloc and a proto suit, the officer AR user can kill the proto shotgun scout just as fast as the shotgun scout can kill the AR user.

It's not like that. With fully skilled electronics and profile enhancement, the radar gives you definitive first choice of targets in CQC. Not occasionally, not at random. Every time. You get to pick when, and crucially, if, you should engage any given target.

Logis can't move fast enough to take advantage of this, can't get absolute advantage in the scanning war, and have no backup in the frequent event that you aren't able to get the range advantage. It's such a gimped fit I'm astounded you can even suggest it, although I'll concede that it's a much closer call with Assault suits*.

I'll tell you from personal experience that all the calculation in the world doesn't prevent AR tryhards from starting to question their life choices after you've baited them around the third empty corner while flickering vaguely on their radar, not to mention that your 'typical' officer AR user will have spent a giant wedge of their CPU (and lucked out in the salvage) to equip that Baloc while a shotgun scout can run a standard shotty and still get results without having to climb to the top of Rifle Mountain to do so.

your 'typical' officer AR user will have spent a giant wedge of their CPU (and lucked out in the salvage) to equip that Baloc while a shotgun scout can run a standard shotty and still get results without having to climb to the top of Rifle Mountain to do so.

you're far too enthusiastic about stamping your personal preferences on players who might just find a home and have more fun being something other than AR User #6,268,117

CCP killed it. You might be thinking of the old version, unless they have ninja-buffed it in the past week. It cannot beat a laser at longer ranges, and it cannot beat the fully automatic ARs at close range. It is a gimped gun.

0 Try Harder, I'm seriously worried about how much you're going to have fun with this game in the (long run) once more and more encouraged diversity and roles in combat become prevalent in the future.

I've recommended a lot of your sound advice to many of my friends when trying Dust for the first time.

but your narrowed views have a tendency to misguide players with much less FPS experience than you.

Especially in a game like Dust where strong RPG aspects and (soon to be) irreversible customization come into play.

No suit class is better than the other, they all have their strengths and weaknesses but are effective in their own respective ways.

You need to take into account that many of the newbr0s on here are probably playing a game with FPS elements for the very first time in their lives and were drawn in by the RPG aspects.

Pushing elitist ideals that "everyone should be an AR, shield tanking, frontline assault or GTFO" in an unforgiving game like Dust will be the ruination to this community's growth and even worse, destroy your own credibility whenever you give sound advice no matter how right you may be.

Pushing elitist ideals that "everyone should be an AR, shield tanking, frontline assault or GTFO" in an unforgiving game like Dust will be the ruination to this community's growth and even worse, destroy your own credibility whenever you give sound advice no matter how right you may be.

destroy your own credibility whenever you give sound advice no matter how right you may be.
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if you're as passionate about helping people as we all can plainly see that you are, take a conscientious look at your approach in the future.