I do think sniping needs improving. But there are moments when it is genuinely effective. Rare moments.

The Quafe suits are buged? No i still want my Quafe C-1 & Quafe scout M-1.

... or that other guy that I always forget their name.

Gem Cutter or Sleepy Zan?

I still think sniping is effective, when seen in the kill feed, it generally causes the affect of "must hunt down." That takes a good few people away from point, causing division. Of course, the Sniper Rifle is not at all like it used to be. I remember back in beta, the scope had longer range, less sway, the bolt still kept it's velocity in range so it didn't damper it's damage.

And of course, it was harder to find snipers, them being ghosts and all with the Gallente Scout dampening. They were much more prevalent in beta. In this day and age, a sniper can still be as effective and affective. Though I have yet to see a sniper as good as Atiim was or that other guy that I always forget their name. But still, snipers can still cause bits of paranoia and anger on the battlefield, more so anger i believe.

On to your first point. I completely agree, the Sniper definitely needs improving. If nothing else, it needs at the very least it's old scope and range back. The sway is fine I guess, I am sure people have adapted to it by now, even though it is an annoyance. I know they actually just nerfed this Roden's damage or whatever, but perhaps they can increase the regular ones (std - proto) damage by 10%. Perhaps we would see less Thale's and more Kaalakiota's or Ishukune's or even NT-511's.

Depends.

Most times yes, but squaded with he, Frago, and Cross and they chatted up a storm.

Mostly on topic however.

Thinking the same thing. And I was wrong about tiericide, by the way; I did not expect it to improve low-level frames as much as it did (in my initial observation, at least). If Rattati & Crew find a way to stabilize framerate, this could be the best all-around build to date.

Running around on a long-dormant Alt. ~100 career kills. Just wrapped up his ~3rd pub ever, where I was somewhat surprised to find a veteran SOG squad running officer gear. Thinking I'll queue for something other than Ambush. Probably best to let Scotty pick for me.

Am I the only one that is missing seeing squad/team in-battle?

I mean WTF?!

We got a client update and a server update but still can't fix that ****?!


Oh yeah, and sorry for yesterday guys (Shotty,Duncan and the gang), I had like 0,5 frames per second in those FW matches, on the last one my ps3 froze so I just gave up launching it again..

Tiericide makes me so happy.


Now, if only we could have a framerate above 0.2 FPS and maybe DUST might be a decent game.

I think PC lag is cause by a few factors.
I recall them talking of a memory leak some time ago that I believe they patched. Also I believe Coms cause lagGǪ My experience is that when I run into squads I experience more lag, when I run into Qsync squads it can get brutal. Wether they are on my team or not. I seem to remember reading somewhere that a PC corp was running Skype instead of coms and that they experienced less lag.

Pseudo suggested earlier that we use Skype or Teamspeak for coms. Sounds like a great idea to me.
Welllll, I suggested we have a kind of hangout like Skype chat or IRC outside of the forums, so that we can organize better if we need to put up a batsignal for a raid or something. Swapping comms to a 3rd party program might be nice for raids but in that case Skype is one of the worst options, the VOIP is awful and it has a limit on the number of people that can be in a call. Teamspeak is great but you need somebody to host a server first or piggyback on somebody else's (worst case I could ask my friend if we could use his server but I'd rather not)

We talked about this, Dry Ice ShadowTransceiver.

Very clever, I hadn't considered that. Guess Pseudopseudogenesis is going to come in handy for once!

I always wanted to make an alt called : Bojo the Impotent

But I never had alt space enough to do it.

Raids are just attacks. I thought Rattati swooped in and clarified this a month or two ago? They're just attacks with a different goal in mind than regular attacks.

So if we wanted to raid, we get a platoon together, pay out the 25k CP to attack our district of choice, and then go ham with cheap gear in an attempt to annoy, pillage, and potentially steal property from a poor district owner. The only difference is that before it would've been super unprofitable to do since clone packs are so prohibitively expensive, but now since it only costs CP for corps without a district, any corp can raid.

Edit: Found Rattati's post:

I like what this newbro's doing and how he's doing it:
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2847990#post2847990

... he's from Eastern Europe or Russia ... interested to see if I'll remain impervious to lag :-)

Hmmm IWS outed him as a bittervet yet neglected to give the name. He also gets pretty snarky further on (still before your posts). Still....I agree with OP, if it's a true account. Liked some of his posts anyway in case he is a new player.

I'm curious to see how long it will take before Mu kicks me out of the kiddie pool.

With the tiercide and extra slot I updated my punching Commando. 1200 DPP (damage per punch) and...I can't remember the exact sprint speed but with two complex and the 'mando speed buff I think it's around 8 m/s

lol. Dry Ice and The Vahzzle sound like a wrestling tag-team

I can't believe the ISK transfer change wasn't in the patch notes. They've now gimped the ability to move ISK around easily.

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2851885#post2851885