DUST Search - WOWOW Mass Drivers seriously?

zBroadway wrote:

I feel bad for the OP..that scenario definitely sucks. But my empathy for you and all MD/Flaylock users only goes so far.

This is just my personal opinion and is not directed towards any particular player who chooses to use these weapons, its your ps3 and you can play which ever way you choose. I grew up playing shooters, the original Socom for ps2 was my first online shooter..and definitely left an impact on how I view shooters and the way they're played. Yes there were grenade launchers in the socom series (somewhat comparable to MD's..not as many grenades in a clip) but only noobs used them. Not saying you guys are noobs! A players skill was determined in gunfights. Anyone can use a grenade launcher and get a kill in that game..its not difficult to aim in someones general direction and launch a grenade at their feet to get the kill. And i kind of view MD/Flaylocks the same way on this game as well. Sure I could use them too...i choose not to because im playing a First person shooter...not a First person grenade launcher. I personally dont find it the least bit gratifying to spam somebody with projectile grenades and kill them. Id much rather get in a gunfight with somebody and win it because my aim is better..that's what does it for me.

No matter how many times i get killed by the flaylock or MD...ill never use it. To me, there's just something so unethical about playing with one in a FPS or any shooter. Perhaps its because ive played on a competitive level in all shooters ive played over the years..and the use of any kind of grenade other than those you threw with your hand was frowned upon.

Again, just my opinion...if you enjoy using MD/Flaylock..rock on. I just think its a cheap way of killing somebody.


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Fox Gaden DUST University Ivy League 540	Posted - 2013.06.24 18:00:00 - [1] - Quote Malkai Inos wrote: Some people speced into MDs with their respec? Seriously though. MDs currently suffer from explosion and lag related bugs that make them a lot weaker then what the numbers indicate. The fix is supposedly done and could come with the next client side patch (wich would be 1.2 next month). Until that get some flux nades and aim for people with low/depleted shields to make the best of the current situation. This
Fox Gaden DUST University Ivy League 540	Posted - 2013.06.24 18:23:00 - [2] - Quote zBroadway wrote: I feel bad for the OP..that scenario definitely sucks. But my empathy for you and all MD/Flaylock users only goes so far. This is just my personal opinion and is not directed towards any particular player who chooses to use these weapons, its your ps3 and you can play which ever way you choose. I grew up playing shooters, the original Socom for ps2 was my first online shooter..and definitely left an impact on how I view shooters and the way they're played. Yes there were grenade launchers in the socom series (somewhat comparable to MD's..not as many grenades in a clip) but only noobs used them. Not saying you guys are noobs! A players skill was determined in gunfights. Anyone can use a grenade launcher and get a kill in that game..its not difficult to aim in someones general direction and launch a grenade at their feet to get the kill. And i kind of view MD/Flaylocks the same way on this game as well. Sure I could use them too...i choose not to because im playing a First person shooter...not a First person grenade launcher. I personally dont find it the least bit gratifying to spam somebody with projectile grenades and kill them. Id much rather get in a gunfight with somebody and win it because my aim is better..that's what does it for me. No matter how many times i get killed by the flaylock or MD...ill never use it. To me, there's just something so unethical about playing with one in a FPS or any shooter. Perhaps its because ive played on a competitive level in all shooters ive played over the years..and the use of any kind of grenade other than those you threw with your hand was frowned upon. Again, just my opinion...if you enjoy using MD/Flaylock..rock on. I just think its a cheap way of killing somebody. You are judging the MD by the Grenade Launchers you knew from other games. The proverbial Noob Tub argument. This is common among players with experience in other FPS games, who have never bothered to use the MD themselves in DUST 514. Even in the Open Beta when the MD was more powerful and did not have this bug, it was harder to kill someone with a MD than it was to kill them with an Assault Rifle. With the AR you just point and shoot. With the MD you have to do a trigonometry equation in your head to figure out how much to elevate your shot to get the charge to land anywhere close to your target, unless you where close up, in which case the challenge was to kill your opponent without killing yourself. Any noob can pick up an Assault Riffle, point it at someone and pull the tricker to get a kill. Getting the kill with a Mass Driver is much more complicated than that. Of course people who used it a lot eventually got a feel for it and became very good at estimating the arch of the shells, but that still sort of invalidates your argument that it is easy, when it is only easy for the experts. Granted some people used it situationally from elevated positions to make the math less complicated, but there are situations where aiming an AR can be made less complicated as well. From my experiences, the mass driver is the most difficult to use of any weapon I have used in DUST. I will grant you that you can sometimes kill multiple people in one shot if they all cluster together and you make the shot, but with a MD you normally just get a lot of assists without a lot of kills. It is meant to be an area denial weapon, and once this bug is fixed it will work well for that.