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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.
Gorra Snell BetaMax. CRONOS. 21	Posted - 2013.07.08 15:45:00 - [2] - Quote Good times, would read again ;) I'd note that peculiar exception exists to Lesson 6 (reloading often)...if you're carrying an HMG, reloading frequently will get you killed. You have an enormous clip size, and very long reload time...which makes deciding when to bow out of combat and reload an important and nontrivial tactical decision. For the other 98% of players, yes, reload often.
IceShifter Childhaspawn DUST University Ivy League 105	Posted - 2013.07.08 16:30:00 - [3] - Quote Gorra Snell wrote: Good times, would read again ;)... That Sir, is the best compliment a guide writer could ask for.
Reav Hannari Red Rock Outriders 684	Posted - 2013.07.08 17:16:00 - [4] - Quote This man speaks the truth. Someone slap some glue on him and stick him to the top of the forums so that he may speak to all the little nubbins that find this place.
Sneaky Fletcher DUST University Ivy League 3	Posted - 2013.07.08 20:03:00 - [5] - Quote Reav Hannari wrote: ...slap some glue on him and stick him to the top of the forums ... ...Do you mean? "Slap some PROTO glue on him" XD
IceShifter Childhaspawn DUST University Ivy League 110	Posted - 2013.07.08 23:22:00 - [6] - Quote Sneaky Fletcher wrote: Reav Hannari wrote: ...slap some glue on him and stick him to the top of the forums ... ...Do you mean? "Slap some PROTO glue on him" XD Just use standard: same effect, less CPU/ PG requirements.
pseudosnipre DUST University Ivy League 54	Posted - 2013.07.08 23:36:00 - [7] - Quote < chronic reloader. Good stuff! +1
Seymor Krelborn DUST University Ivy League 77	Posted - 2013.07.09 00:51:00 - [8] - Quote I am proud to be in the OPs corp
IceShifter Childhaspawn DUST University Ivy League 130	Posted - 2013.07.11 09:58:00 - [9] - Quote Bump
Meeko Fent Seituoda Taskforce Command Caldari State 626	Posted - 2013.08.17 06:22:00 - [10] - Quote El importante. Must bamp for the newberries

IceShifter Childhaspawn DUST University Ivy League 192	Posted - 2013.08.17 13:57:00 - [11] - Quote Updated with corrections to spelling and relativity to game content.
Blake Kingston Sinq Laison Gendarmes Gallente Federation 49	Posted - 2013.08.18 00:39:00 - [12] - Quote * The corner is your friend, the flat of a wall is your enemy - fired on from behind, run forward around the corner. Fired on from the front, back around the corner. Fired on from both - SOL * Don't aim fire! Unless you can see the other guy is looking somewhere else! Then definately aim fire! * When the other guy is shooting at you, try to resist burst fire - strafe back and forth, lining them up and doing short controlled bursts. You hit more and they often run out of ammo as they burst fire, leaving them to try and do pathetic jump in the air (which immediately tells you where to aim in advance because the jump arc is super predictable). I know, I get gun happy and break this rule - sometimes it works and feels sooo good to just hold down the trigger. But try to resist - make it a 'sometimes food'! * Realise the game is largely about stealth and knowledge of enemy positions - when you fire, you break stealth and compromise your position. Fire, see if you can get a clip off, then withdraw (behind that corner! Did you even read the above!?). Yeah, they only had a bit of health left - okay, play the counting game of how often chasing them down leads to a kill Vs you being killed. Heck, I forget this lesson often enough myself! * Keep half your stamina, don't use up more than that - you need the other half to run the hell away again! Yeah, you'll break this rule alot and you will come to also regret that. * Learn the maps for your kill corridors - so you can keep getting yourself to optimum position for your weapons. * Realise that veterans with millions of SP used up all their slots and so can't/don't play a character with a mere 500,000 SP allocated - so the veterans tend to forget how much their SP carries them when they try and call you out.
Lazy Scumbag The Unholy Legion Of DarkStar DARKSTAR ARMY 27	Posted - 2013.08.18 01:28:00 - [13] - Quote Keep em coming. Amazing how many people don't understand the basics


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