Went back to the game today for the first time since the whole Caldari Prime business, played a few skirmish games and found myself wondering what happened.

I find myself hopelessly outgunned, running around with the most basic of kit I can barely get a shot off before someone with far nicer toys guns me down in mere seconds. When I used this before, I still stood a pretty decent chance against the far superior tech. Now, I may as well be throwing paper balls and wearing a frying pan on my head.
My ability to turn now seems null and void as if you come at me from anywhere other than within my field of view I'll be dead before I can even turn to face you, let alone shoot you.
Why don't we all get placed into squads anymore? I see a few with only a couple of people in, and everyone else is just bundled at the end on their own. I didn't even notice it at first, I only realised when I looked to find out who was my squad leader.
I didn't hear a single voice from anyone in all the games I played, I was very lonely talking to myself. Where's the communication?
I also kept dying on spawn, as there were people sat waiting who turned me into swiss cheese before I was even able to move away.


I see that the problem I have is that my gear isn't up to scratch with most other people who have been at this a while, and as a result they wipe the floor with my poor little cloned face before I can blink. I'm also just awful at FPS' anyway, but in DUST I was alright. Slowly but surely I'll fight my way back to the adequate performance ability I had before the curse of university began. It will take time, but I shall persevere.................after my uni exams, can't forget those. I just hope that when the game is released in mere weeks, people aren't put off by the constant stream of death.

problem is two fold imo, but before that auto squading not happening is a good thing, now players can actually form up squads, I try to aim for squads of 3 they almost always have mics and as such result in better squading experiences, if they don't have mics I just leave after the match, if they don't want me in their squad I simply find another one the next match, no skin off my back.

now for the reasons you are getting pub stomped.

first SP if you haven't been playing your SP is likely way behind now, even in even fittings the player with the most sp put into his role will have the advantage, gear is important but this is also something to consider, so more sp + better equipment = a huge advantage on a player that hasn't been around for awhile, not hing you can do about having less SP really but the good news is their is a ceiling to how much SP you can invest in a single role, and if you keep playing things will start to even out for you.

the second thing is lack of practice if you haven't been playing for a month, then people have been getting better, newberries turn into pub stompers every day, and the players of the open beta have definitely improved a lot over the last 3 months. stick with it and improve your fits and you'll get their.

same problems with this character, but a strange fact is that i'm more effective on foot with my second PG not skilled in infantry specialties...

Sounds like mostly your tactics are just rusty. You can always fight back even when undergeared. I'd work on your morale and take it easy and work on just trying to stay alive more then get kills. Not really like sitting back and sniping, just working on staying in cover and knowing when to run until you find better tactical situations and then slowly taking more risky shots until you got it back.

[Edit]: Of course thats the good advice, my idea is just charging headlong into the fray and getting my face blown off because I really just play this game to vent.