DUST Search - I think I realized my least favorite thing about Dust.

Logi Bro wrote:

Frankly it's just the fact that you can't try to have fun with new things. I don't think it's hard for any of you to figure out what it is I play, just go ahead and take a look at my name if you don't know, but I would like to do something other than logistics every once and a while.

Watching one of CEOPyrex's videos, I saw him talking about his "Seeker" tank and how it was fun to just play around with it, so I decided to fit it up(it's a pure militia tank), but 10 seconds into the game the enemy called in a Gunnlogi and insta-killed me. Obviously I don't expect to beat him in a 1v1, but it ruins the fun when there is no way for me to play around with a new toy without being killed by the toys that every tryhard and his mother have spec'd into, and are therefore over 9000 times more powerful than me.

In the same game, I decided to take out my non-spec'd AV fit to see how it would work on a spec'd tanker, but was insta-killed by a shotgun scout before I could even find the tank. Again, I don't expect to beat him, I just expect to be able to try new things without every single facet of this game being an obstacle against it.

I tried out a scout fit and was insta-killed by proto snipers, I tried a heavy fit(even made a heavy alt since I liked the little amount I was actually ale to do with it) and was killed by proto ARs, and I tried LAVs pre-Uprising but was insta-killed by proto AV, I can't say enough that I don't expect to beat them, I just expect some sort of feature that allows me to try something out without having to sink millions of SP into it.

TL;DR: Dust likes to *****-slap you if you don't use something that you haven't sunk a large portion of SP into.


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Logi Stician The Vanguardians 71	Posted - 2013.07.23 05:31:00 - [1] - Quote Logi Bro wrote: Frankly it's just the fact that you can't try to have fun with new things. I don't think it's hard for any of you to figure out what it is I play, just go ahead and take a look at my name if you don't know, but I would like to do something other than logistics every once and a while. Watching one of CEOPyrex's videos, I saw him talking about his "Seeker" tank and how it was fun to just play around with it, so I decided to fit it up(it's a pure militia tank), but 10 seconds into the game the enemy called in a Gunnlogi and insta-killed me. Obviously I don't expect to beat him in a 1v1, but it ruins the fun when there is no way for me to play around with a new toy without being killed by the toys that every tryhard and his mother have spec'd into, and are therefore over 9000 times more powerful than me. In the same game, I decided to take out my non-spec'd AV fit to see how it would work on a spec'd tanker, but was insta-killed by a shotgun scout before I could even find the tank. Again, I don't expect to beat him, I just expect to be able to try new things without every single facet of this game being an obstacle against it. I tried out a scout fit and was insta-killed by proto snipers, I tried a heavy fit(even made a heavy alt since I liked the little amount I was actually ale to do with it) and was killed by proto ARs, and I tried LAVs pre-Uprising but was insta-killed by proto AV, I can't say enough that I don't expect to beat them, I just expect some sort of feature that allows me to try something out without having to sink millions of SP into it. TL;DR: Dust likes to *****-slap you if you don't use something that you haven't sunk a large portion of SP into. Hey neat! I saw the Pyrex vid about making a militia sniper and flying up on the MCC or other tall things and just sniping for free. So I threw together what I call my dren Snipergistics fit together with all bpo stuff and try out high ground (not tower or mcc) sniping to try it out. Cathartic. I'm pretty much horrible at tracking constantly moving reds, but when they stop just enough. . . its amazing. So after I got a feel for sniping, I decided that I was going to learn how to pilot one of those flying bricks so that I might from time to time get some ridiculous height on a tower or the mcc and have some fun when the logi grind starts to wear on me. I go ahead and purchase an hundred gorgons and jump onto Oceanic to begin the heart breaking ordeal that is pilot school. I saw some youtube vids, read some forum how-tos and lost a lot of ships (around 20 something) before I could really understand basic movement, landing and all that. I can land on the MCC, I've done it twice with no crashing, I can make it to towers now with nary an explosion on my part. But! Like you've said, I stand no chance versus all the proto stuff. About half of the ships I lost were from getting insta-shot down as I was making my initial climb into the air. Discouraging! The same can be said about the dren heavy I threw together with the MLT forgey. I get a kill or two only to be more or less OHK'd by pubstompers in high tier gear. What I wouldn't give to have some sort of customizable training ground that could be used to practice piloting, weapons testing, squad maneuvers and whatever else without opposition, trolls and those dang ol' tryhards.