Let f be the function given by f(x) = x^3- 7x + 6.
a. Find the zeros of f
b. Write an equation of the line tangent to the graph of f at x = -1
c. Find the x coordinate of the point where the tangent line is parallel to the secant line on the interval [1, 3].

MD seems to be a hard counter to heavies from what I've seen. Since you guys rely on cover anyway, it makes you prime pickings for a masshole. Best thing to do is call one out to your squad if they're too far away or above. If not, try rushing them and hope they soften themselves up from panic firing.

Not much of a bunny hopper myself. I prefer keeping my distance and working crowd control for my squad or cleaning up any stragglers.

On an unrelated note whats the best way to keep random blues away? Is there some signal for hey stop pinning me against the wall and making this particular spot a more attractive target that I don't know about?

Are you talking about being on the receiving end of a mass driver here?

The best I can do is out run them with kinetic catalyzers but it's way to sp intensive at the moment so I'm stuck with the militia version T.T

I actually have a sort of psychological theory about mass drivers being primary targets (I think this is what you might be asking).

It sort of has to do with something I heard about magic tricks a while back and finally found again...

If you scroll down about 2/3 of the page you see them talking about the neuroscience behind how our eyes track motion. Apparently our eyes track straight lines differently than arcs. When our eyes observe arcs they get a little short circuited. They want to track the source and motion of the arc rather than the direction or endpoint of the arc. This causes some issues with the mass driver user.

With straight lines, our eyes end up looking first toward the end point. If true, I think this puts mass driver users at a disadvantage in two ways. It also confirms a lot of experience I feel like I have as a Mass Driver player.

The first thing I think it confirms is my 'lone gunman' complex. As a mass driver user, often I feel like I'm shooting at clear targets that nobody else is bothering to shoot at. Blue dots often seem to just look the other way, as I get a target into armor and then can't finish them off because I run out of rounds. The neuroscience theory would suggest that the straight lines of other AR/laser/scrambler/pistol/HMG etc shots will be tracked toward their target much ore impulsively by the eyes than the arc of a mass driver bolt will.

If anything, the eyes of other players will subconsciously observe the smoking trail of your mass driver, then look to you, then back to the trail, think "that's pretty" and then look over toward the tracer trail of the assault rifle rounds that just wizzed by.


Additionally, I believe this theory also confirms my masochist complex. Not only do I walk around in a bright yellow armor tanked trench coat that screams 'I am slow and can't run away' but it seems that even in the middle of other players I am targeted first. If you apply the 'arc-line theory', among a set of players most of whom are firing 'lines' and you are firing in an 'arc' the eyes of the enemy will be drawn first to the origin of the arc.

What I think I've found then, is that a mass driver can avoid these problems if he embraces the support aspect of his weapon, and begins firing only after his squad has picked their primary target (drawing the other team's attention to their primary) but also maximizing his squad's damaging effect rather than wasting rounds on someone who they may not target. Only when you can get the jump with a flux grenade is it normally safe to solo a target.