Oh posh, I'm as clean as a whistle! Honest! Thanks for the invite though, the link worked.

(For future reference, by "channel" I meant one of the chat channels in the server. Discord is weird like that.)

I right clicked every damn thing I could. I even right clicked the Nos Nothi Discord server that no one but Dried Ice seems to want to use. Never found anything that let me invite anyone.

Glad it worked though.

I right clicked every damn thing I could. I even right clicked the Nos Nothi Discord server that no one but Dried Ice seems to want to use. Never found anything that let me invite anyone.

Glad it worked though.

Oh, Dreis... Him and his Uprising 1.8 shenanigans.

Salutations, brothers and sisters!

Nova wen.

Here's a recent recap courtesy of Pokey:
http://biomassed.net/2017/05/22/project-nova-ongoing-updates-may-18th-20th/

Seems Rattati & Team have come up with particularly clever solutions to some of DUST's more pressing design problems. Absolutely love what I'm seeing so far.

What do you guys think?

Now, all we need is piece of EQ that does this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C1Pr4AU2wc

Can you guys imagine the montages?

(All credit to Jolly Roger for the brilliant idea.)

Potential troll(possible/probable) device, activate it and it masks you as a friendly for the enemy team. Still completely visible to them, just kinda clones one of their team mates. FaceOff encounters happen. To be Travolta or Cage is the question though.

Hell, the knives in Dust were extremely situational and the user would find him/herself using their other weapon most of the time.

I just hope knife-play will be like Dust's.

I don't know how to feel about that.

I would personally prefer the default knives to be of a blander variety, with Nova Knives being a more specialized weapon.

Personal thoughts:

1) How awesome would it be if we had new types of knives? I think it safe to assume that we can look forward to exactly that. Why waste time designing a "melee slot" if the only usable item is a single set of knives?

2) http://imgur.com/IeaUIzU

3) Getting knife kills was pretty tough, and knifing in any suit other than a scout suit only made it tougher. Think EWAR. Think comparative mobility. Think back to the dreaded, full-speed backpedal :-) I remember one of you goofballs running around trying to shank mercs in a Min Heavy; it was hilarious to watch. Point being, I don't think a proper Bastard need worry about other roles displacing lightweights as the ultimate sneaky backstabbers. And if the new setting is ship corridors (vs the great outdoors), there will assuredly be plenty of room for shenanigans.

4) To add to 3, knifing was an absolute blast in DUST. I actually like the idea of other classes getting a chance to get in on the fun. More duels!

chainsaws

Unless you were a dedicated knifer.

The whole fun in knifing was that it was a niche role, and that not all situations were knifing situations. What made it fun, was find a way to MAKE them knifing situations. It was a difficult, and challenging role.

Find yourself being chased by someone shooting at you, with more HP? Round a corner, and see if they were stupid enough to follow.

Someone have you dead to rights outside your range? Run and hide, and wait for them to leave. Or break line of site, and see if you can find a way to flank them, and get close.

Sure, lots of people used knives as secondary alternatives, and I hope that perhaps the default set of knives will suit them just fine. But those of us who were knifers before 1.8, when we put up with the bad HD (knifing people who were standing still, and doing no damage...) yet really loved what we did, it would be a shame to reduce the role to meaninglessness.

I don't think that all suits having knives is necessarily bad, I just hope that they do it in the right way so that those of us who are dedicated can still find our place.

extreme masochists

I think you missed the point I was trying to get at.

For a weapon that only worked in extreme situations, a user would typically have their other weapon out just in case, whether they use it or not. The knives, being so situational, were they really worth using an entire sidearm slot for?

I'm not talking about the extreme masochists like the people in this channel, I'm talking about the Dust population in general.

For the general DUST population, I don't think they were. You would have to change your entire playstyle to accommodate the knives and have a use for them. An SMG or something else would be more effective most of the time.

Different knifes seems like it would end up, one 1hitting and the other not. I no like.