IceShifter Childhaspawn
DUST University
Ivy League
103
   |
Posted - 2013.07.08 13:12:00 -
[1] - Quote
Welcome to New Eden merc.
There are some with whom you may have pubbed in the past who will tell you this game is about killing the red guy and nothing more.
You may have noticed these same people raging when they died and using phrases such as:
- (Insert explicative) (Manner of death) (Blaming hit boxes or hit detection)
- Pay-to-win______(usually a fused locus grenade)
- Overpowered ____ (insert explosive weapon)
They were ignorant merc.
This is New Eden. Not some $60 play for 30 minutes FPS. This game is run by CCP and they only care about balance. They dont give a dren about some raging fraktard who lost their shiny (somthing expensive) due to being stupid.
Basics
You are a clone and you will die.
Embrace that you will die often and in rapid succession. If your death was particularly hilarious, please share the details.
Down to business. Which target is easier to hit: The one moving, or the one standing still? Recall the last time someone ran straight towards you in a battle. Did they appear to be moving? Nope. Relatively, it appeared they were growing.
Lesson 1: DO NOT STAND STILL
Standing still makes you Sniper bait. Don't Be Sniper Bait.
Lesson 2: RUNNING STRAIGHT AT THE ENEMY IS THE SAME THING AS STANDING STILL
see Lesson 1
Lesson 3: FIRE FROM BEHIND COVER
A wall is cover, grass in concealment. Cover stops bullets, grass decorates your grave.
Sprint and strafe (move sideways) wherever you go. Preferably from cover -to cover. Taking cover is your best defense. One side of a wall is cover, the other side is a backdrop to for your corpse. How can you tell which is which?
Lesson 4: SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
-or-
SEE THEM BEFORE THEY SEE YOU
Once you have spotted a red target, and have taken cover, your job is to rapidly unload as many bullets into their brain-pan as plausible. The best method is to
Lesson 5: AIM DOWN YOUR SIGHTS (ADS)
Hip firing (firing without aiming) wastes bullets and is best saved for those moments you ignored lesson 4 and were left surprised and in need of new underpants.
So now you are +50 war points and -42 rounds or so in your magazine.
Lesson 6: RELOAD AFTER EVERY ENGAGEMENT
-or-
RELOAD EARLY, RELOAD OFTEN
Now you are ready to find your next target. Likely, your last target noticed his sudden loss of life and communicated this -along with your exact location- to his battle buddies. More often than not this leads to you discovering each other due to impacting your visor into theirs. This sudden circumstance is called a close range engagement.
Lesson 7: CLOSE RANGE IS FOR SIDEARMS AND GRENADES
Unexpected encounters are the norm on the battlefields of New Eden. Many of us run with our sidearms at the ready to save time. See Lessons 5 & 6 for reference when utilizing your sidearm. Grenades are battle cookies, cook them well and give them to your red friends. Burn them and you may notice a sudden loss of shields and armor. No, suicide bombing is neither authorized, nor a sign of intelligence. Cook grenades, then throw them -AWAY- from yourself.
Eventually, you will run out of ammo and/ or experience a sudden loss of mobility and sensory perception we like to call: Death.
Lesson 8: WAIT FOR THE STICK MAN
Nanite injectors make death a minor annoyance, but there have been side effects. You may experience a sudden lack of intelligence upon your revival, whether by stick man or CRU (Clone Re-Animation Unit.) This sudden loss of intellect may drive you to hunt down the group that just killed you and engage them (See lessons 1 and 2)
Lesson 9: DO NOT GET KILL HUNGRY
-or-
LET THE ENEMY COME TO YOU
-above all-
Lesson 10: DONT PANIC
You are a Professional Mercenary -Act like one- Keep cool, calm, and collected at all times, ESPECIALLY when you are dead. Use your time between bodies to relay combat information to your squad, or muse on the fact you are experiencing anything at all, devoid of brain.
Final words. Be an asset to your team, don't waste bullets trying to shoot the MCC, anything with a blue chevron, or the LAV bearing down on you. Die facing your enemies fire, not taking fire up your posterior plate.
o7 Merc.
TL;DR - Do it anyways you lazy dren. |