I play a crap load of FW skirmish and hardly get officer weapons
but when I play ambush I get them
does anyone else notice this?

as for officer weapons

57 thale's
41 cala's
33 gastun's hmg
39 gastun's forge
6 balac's
33 krin's
9 wolfman's

I dont think everything is wonderful in the current build. But if people are going to complain, they should do it intelligently and accurately, rather than complain about things that arent actually broken at the moment
(or at least not quite as bad as portrayed)




Stalking: you're doing it wrong.
Or at least, equipped wrong.
First off, this is where the "minmatar over gallente" comes in. The .3 extra base movement speed helps.

Secondly: yeah, the "no charging while sprinting" is stupid. but there is at least a workaround. Stalk your target (RIGHT behind them!!) until they quit sprinting, 'cause they're out of stamina.
At that point, if you havent stupidly equipped yourself with a bunch of heavy plate armor, you *should* be still noticably faster than them at walk speed.
So, take 1 second to charge, and let it fly. I've taken out quite a few people on the run this way, out in the open spaces, so long as I wait until they drop out of sprint.

You have to be smart, and anticipate which direction(s) they're going to turn in while sprinting, so you stay in their 180' blind spot behind them the whole time.
That's the part where having a SPRINT advantage, as well as a normal speed advantage, helps.

Stalk from about 3m behind them, then when their stamina runs out, close, and BAM!




You misspelled "This is what happens consistently TO YOU with sneak up tactics". If you're doing it right, you should be getting the kill practically 100% of the time, first time.
Other people dont seem to fail at this as much as you are apparently doing. Are you trying this witih the basic knives or something?
You have to be using at least ADV knives to be reliably effective.

This is a link for the patch notes an my comment on it , if you agree please follow the link, quote it, like it, back it up an bombard that thread backing up our knife needs, please be polite so the devs don't look at us like brats but state ur case
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1341588#post1341588
Thanks OZ

You need to fix this nova knife hit detection issue ASAP ,cqc needs to work perfect!
If it does not work perfect people , especially new people assume the game is broken. There was a dev post I remember reading ( not sure by whom) that 1.5 would fix these hit detection issues with the nova knives.

Scouts die from many things easily an we have accepted that an adapted, but dying because we perfectly sneak behind a weak assailant with proficiency rated knives an a minmatar 25% scout damage bonus , charge strike a hacker 3 times an have him turn around an militia assault rifle us to death in .6 seconds an have the kill screen show he was in a militia suit with under 500 total HP is completely an utterly unacceptable.
My knives do 560 damage without even charging them.

This occurance can not continue for any longer it needs to be fixed now. Their is nothing worse about this game than dumping millions of sp into something that has constantly been complained about an always swept under the rug an neglected.

If you can't fix them or don't know how that answer would satisfy us more than making other things more important an neglecting to finish doing what you said would be done for 1.5

We are forced to skill into other weapons an waste points just to survive, when we already have millions of sp in something that is broke, this is sidetrack our skill tree progression and is unacceptable considering we have been extremely patient.
The sg is a perfect example an I have had proficiency 4 shotgun since may an ply started consecutively using it since this past week because the knives get me killed more than anything else nowadays .

An I'm a good sneaky scout, I'm not rushing in face to face, it's the behind kill with no hit detection that's killing all nova knife users at least a few times a game.
Please make this a priority

I officially gave up trying to do things right and play with NK, electronics nods, speed modes, plasma cannon....

I threw away my active scanner, I put on a bunch of shield and armor mods, got my ehp to over 500, equiped dual assault SMG, turned AA back on and started rushing red dots. My KDR went from about 0.5 to 2.0 immediatelly and I was getting a dirty amount of assists. And that's with pretty garbage personal automatic weapon skills - I never played with AR and my tracking skills are poor.

To me this have proven even further how unbalanced the game is. It's all about eHP and automatic weapons (i.e. who can be the best assault - assaults, logis, or wannabe medium frame scouts).

I don't know why CCP can't wake the Eff up. it all could be different if they only wanted to try. It's not so difficult to increase the base stats for electronics, speed and stamina on scouts; give electronic mods a real boost, increase range on NK. Instead they are just too afraid to touch anything because they are afraid that their COD AR core is gonna cry a river and leave to play Black Ops. I am pretty disgusted by the present state of the game.

I play a crap load of FW skirmish and hardly get officer weapons
but when I play ambush I get them
does anyone else notice this?

as for officer weapons

57 thale's
41 cala's
33 gastun's hmg
39 gastun's forge
6 balac's
33 krin's
9 wolfman's

So 1.5 Corp roles, Squad finder, and more WP rewards. Those are nice and all but other than that this seems like a hotfix to me. This patch disappoints me this "Update" really is not exciting like everyone thought i was going to be.

While typing this i realise maybe they did this on purpose like if you think about it everyone been talk about playing other games like BF4 beta and GTA online is going to be up and running and most likely other stuff too.
Seems like they know is going to be a slow month but who knows.
As for scouts theres no nova knife fix thats a big let down.

Need something to help scouts PC is a bloody nightmare sometimes.

That reminds me. sigh.. i should skill into the multi-drop uplinks to make my life easier.
I guess.

Currently, I just have multiple fits, with the different types of uplinks.
Would definitely be more efficient to use a single runner.

I hate PC as a Scout. If you're playing a decent opponent, here are the things a Scout can do:

1) Rush or flank an objective with uplinks (better performed by a Logi in a LAV or DS)
2) Run around and pop hostile uplinks (better performed by those who can survive 0.5 seconds of Duvolle AR fire)
3) Camp atop a tower with AV (better performed by Forge Gunners)
4) Run around and scan combat zones (better performed by embedded Slayer Logi, who can actually fight)
5) Snipe (better performed by those with more high slots)

The Scout won't be balanced until we can fulfill a meaningful role in PC.
Until we are afforded such a role, I'm personally boycotting PC.

- Shotty

I have proto minja but have slowly been going gallente an bringing up my armor an shield regulators cuz I was more red an green pills.

But last night I unlocked the advanced racial gallente, I put:
Two shields
K5 special
Toxin
Quantum
Ad shield reg
And armor rep
Has about 400 ehp

Man ! Shield regulators are awesome!
I been using them an armor reps on the mk.0 inside cities an the g adv scout , lol an last night the hate mail started coming.
I rushed the last outside objective before my team rushed in for the redline an played ring around the turret getting a 12 kill streak before I got taken out.
I really wish we had a 3/3 slot configuration again cuz the advanced gallente is pretty damn nice with 2/2 an that regulator an armor rep combo kept me kickin ace all night, get dropped to 30 HP then 2 seconds later, shields are up an armors almost full!

I'm loving the shotgun more than ever now, although this dumb melee punch glitch seems to happen a lot with my first shot , anyone else have this?
Big fan of the shield reg
I'm hoping I can build the gk.0 like this:
Complex shield
K5
Toxin
M3
Complex armor
Adv shield reg
Red/green
Gonna take almost two months but I'm stoked!

I'm about 2 weeks out from proto gal scout and though I likely won't be using it for much very often at all because of the cost, I am very much looking forward to playing with some slightly off the wall fits. I'm thinking like 4x cmp armour reppers for shield like reps and full health in 5 seconds. I've not specced into shields at all but really like your idea with combining regulators and reppers. I can't see myself ever giving up my cmp dmg mod in the high slot though - alpha damage is just too intrinsic to the whole hit and run playstyle.

I hate PC as a Scout. If you're playing a decent opponent, here are the things a Scout can do:

1) Rush or flank an objective with uplinks (better performed by a Logi in a LAV or DS)
2) Run around and pop hostile uplinks (better performed by those who can survive 0.5 seconds of Duvolle AR fire)
3) Camp atop a tower with AV (better performed by Forge Gunners)
4) Run around and scan combat zones (better performed by embedded Slayer Logi, who can actually fight)
5) Snipe (better performed by those with more high slots)

The Scout won't be balanced until we can fulfill a meaningful role in PC.
Until we are afforded such a role, I'm personally boycotting PC.

- Shotty

I'm about 2 weeks out from proto gal scout and though I likely won't be using it for much very often at all because of the cost, I am very much looking forward to playing with some slightly off the wall fits. I'm thinking like 4x cmp armour reppers for shield like reps and full health in 5 seconds. I've not specced into shields at all but really like your idea with combining regulators and reppers. I can't see myself ever giving up my cmp dmg mod in the high slot though - alpha damage is just too intrinsic to the whole hit and run playstyle.

I cannot stress how upset I am we are not seeing the attention Nova Knife was promised in 1.5



SOURCE

In 1.6 there are further improvements to hit detection as well as some specific improvements for the shotgun and the Nova Knives.

I'm about 2 weeks out from proto gal scout and though I likely won't be using it for much very often at all because of the cost, I am very much looking forward to playing with some slightly off the wall fits. I'm thinking like 4x cmp armour reppers for shield like reps and full health in 5 seconds. I've not specced into shields at all but really like your idea with combining regulators and reppers. I can't see myself ever giving up my cmp dmg mod in the high slot though - alpha damage is just too intrinsic to the whole hit and run playstyle.

Wolfman Says: Better Knives and Shotguns in 1.6.

In case you guys didn't see this ...



Source: https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1344781#post1344781

Might I ask what most have the aim sensitivity on? sniping i have to use 0/0. yes it's slow but 400m you don't need speed you need precision. When i am jumped and I pull my smg 0/0 is not slow enough and i end up shooting everything but what im trying to hit. Finding myself doing a lot more cQc testing out 4 proto range mods only to fail because aim sensitivity is to high I can literally empty 2 clips and not hit once.

Should I go KB/M? This is the first FPS I have played with a gamepad

I have proto minja but have slowly been going gallente an bringing up my armor an shield regulators cuz I was more red an green pills.

But last night I unlocked the advanced racial gallente, I put:
Two shields
K5 special
Toxin
Quantum
Ad shield reg
And armor rep
Has about 400 ehp

Man ! Shield regulators are awesome!
I been using them an armor reps on the mk.0 inside cities an the g adv scout , lol an last night the hate mail started coming.
I rushed the last outside objective before my team rushed in for the redline an played ring around the turret getting a 12 kill streak before I got taken out.
I really wish we had a 3/3 slot configuration again cuz the advanced gallente is pretty damn nice with 2/2 an that regulator an armor rep combo kept me kickin ace all night, get dropped to 30 HP then 2 seconds later, shields are up an armors almost full!

I'm loving the shotgun more than ever now, although this dumb melee punch glitch seems to happen a lot with my first shot , anyone else have this?
Big fan of the shield reg
I'm hoping I can build the gk.0 like this:
Complex shield
K5
Toxin
M3
Complex armor
Adv shield reg
Red/green
Gonna take almost two months but I'm stoked!

You should practice,, I have never use anything less than max settings for movement sensitivity, regardless of the game, you will get used to it, note, these turn speeds are much slower than both cod and halo, 2 popular fps games, I did 100% in both and my transition to this game made me feel as if itmwere slow, so if you have cod or halo crank them up all the way play and when you come back you will haven more control.

In case you guys didn't see this ...



Source: https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1344781#post1344781

ofc the only thing keeping me in DUST gets pushed back... now (if the cal assaults let me) I'm going to cry in my corner deleting DUST.