J Falcs
Bojo's School of the Trades
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Posted - 2013.05.21 00:38:00 -
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RedBleach, thanks for your guides. You were one of the first things I read when I first started playing Dust. Invaluable.
Agreed that an equipment section would be great. And Shady has given a nice starting off point.
The only other thing I can think of is a general tactics section. Little tips of the trade that tend to help in every game, but most people only learn after dying many times over. For example:
- Toss an uncooked grenade or two around a corner and it can buy you that second or two you need to rez a teammate. Of course...good luck getting the rez on the first button press even if you're straddling the corpse.
- Don't drop nanohives in a popular grenade point, place them a bit farther back or off to a corner with a little cover.
- Generally, you're added firepower is more beneficial than a repper. But, generally isn't always the rule. In a two on two, you're repper will do little for your teammate usually. Things change up some with a heavy though when their HMGs can hold groups at bay. This is more of a learned tactic of when to rep and when to fire.
- DU should be placed a little farther back than the frontline normally. They tend to last longer and are less likely of being overrun.
- The active scanner has unlimited vertical scanning. Always nice getting to a building and scanning for infantry on the roofs.
- If you have them,don't be afraid to use BPOs of other suit types. My DU build is a scout suit. I quickly drop a few links (one in between start spawn and close to first point, and another between first point and next point.
- If you run flux, toss one into a null cannon before capping. Gets rid of REs (although in this build, I am seeing much less of them than in Chromosome).
- Set up shop outside a hack point with nanohives and start chucking nades. It can buy the time you need to hold enemies at bay while your squad forms up on you. Likewise, the same is true when playing defense on a point.
- Let your squad mates know you are a running a repper. A lot of them will remove a lo armor repairer since you will handle rep duty.
- Use supply depots to replenish your equipment. Drop two hives, run to depot, switch to new suit, and you're ready to go when the two hives run out.
- Make lots of builds. A game changer is only a suit switch away.
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