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TardedPanda posted:This is awesome. I never use the needle because I get tired of trying to figure out where the hell the dude actually died. This usually turns into me getting blasted while I run around looking at the ground like a jackass. Basically that has been my fate as a Medic, which is why I don't try help people out unless in friendly zone. If they're not in that sort of spot, sorry but you're gonna die.
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So for anyone looking at the new merc packs, there were differences between what they posted on their front page and what they posted in their announcement thread. The correct list is on the front page. http://dust514.com/news/2013/05/merc-vet-elite-packs/
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Uba Stij posted:SG-1 was only good when it was on Showtime, when they went to SciFi it just became trash. You should get online and argue your stance on SG-1 with us. But I have a feeling most people will disagree with you, it only got bad once they got rid of MacGyver. If I had to guess, I think we can expect the "launch" to be far more broken than the current build, with things like 75% armor boosts to certain tanks, which has the side effect of making AV completely useless. Some tanks will have more armor than a whole squad armed with packed AV grenades can hope to deal with. Oh, and expect mouse controls to still be slightly broken. And the weapons will continue to be horribly unbalanced. And dropsuits will continue to make all of no sense.
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Tank buffs happen because tank tryhards ragecomplain up a storm if they lose shields to anything while railsniping from miles away and have to back off and lose a few seconds while they regen. Rarely does it happen because the pilot is utter poo poo and let himself eat five grenades in close combat.
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May 13, 2013 21:50
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Has anyone created an analogue to the assault skill training plan that was on the II forums for a while? I've spec'd the basics from the previous posts for Uprising, but that was only the first 1 million of the SP I've got stockpiled, and I have no idea what to do with it, nor the patience to get all spreadsheety. I just want to be slightly better at manhunting without having to think too hard.
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bam thwok posted:Has anyone created an analogue to the assault skill training plan that was on the II forums for a while? I've spec'd the basics from the previous posts for Uprising, but that was only the first 1 million of the SP I've got stockpiled, and I have no idea what to do with it, nor the patience to get all spreadsheety. I just want to be slightly better at manhunting without having to think too hard. There's a newbie skill plan that helps you get a good medium frame build going, I believe. Paradox had it made up, should be in the Goonfeet thread.
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Is it possible to earn EVE PLEX/items while playing Dust? How do the two worlds connect? Or did they drop that whole thing.
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Harlock posted:Is it possible to earn EVE PLEX/items while playing Dust? How do the two worlds connect? Or did they drop that whole thing. You can earn isk. There is the ground work for Dust items (Dropsuits, weapons, tanks, etc) in EVE. The main connection as of now is Faction Warfare and the startings of Low Sec planetary Conquest in Dust. EVE players with the rights skills, fittings, and ammos can help out in FW battles and PC battles by providing OB's. The economy of both games is not connected, and it's not really even a Soon^(tm) thing, since it will require tricky, careful consideration.
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May 13, 2013 23:14
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So if I want to be the guy who gets in close with a shotgun, am I better served with a Light/Scout suit or will I need some survivability from an Assault suit? My wife got into playing EVE recently and seems to really like it. This, however, looks like it would be more fun for me. Is there some way that you can link an EVE and Dust account or is it just, like, stuff she does can impact my game and vice versa because they impact the same worlds?
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May 13, 2013 23:24
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PerrineClostermann posted:There's a newbie skill plan that helps you get a good medium frame build going, I believe. Paradox had it made up, should be in the Goonfeet thread. Already current on that (I think). But it only covers the first million SP, while the old one was much more forward-looking.
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Lotish posted:So if I want to be the guy who gets in close with a shotgun, am I better served with a Light/Scout suit or will I need some survivability from an Assault suit? They are 2 separate characters and there is no account linking. But she could be someone providing your squad with orbital strikes in certain game modes.
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May 13, 2013 23:37
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Lotish posted:So if I want to be the guy who gets in close with a shotgun, am I better served with a Light/Scout suit or will I need some survivability from an Assault suit? Scouts aren't much faster than Assault suits, though they are stealthier and thinner. I'd take a shotgun for a weapon on a scout if I was doing ninja-pointscapture gameplay, but in all other cases I'd take Assault Rifles because if you spec into anything else you're gimping yourself in an unfunny way.
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I've applied under Milhaus Nixon. I'm a dumbshit who didn't realize passive SP became a toggleable thing (when was that even done? I haven't played since last July) I expected to come back with millions of SP, but no. gently caress.
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May 14, 2013 01:19
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So, I had tried out dust before, but not since I got a keyboard and mouse to my couch, courtesy of Monoprice: 8496 5 Button Ergonomic Optical USB Mouse w/ DPI Adjustment 1 $4.95 $4.95 8607 10ft USB 2.0 A Male to A Female Extension 28/24AWG Cable (Gold Plated) - WHITE 2 $1.28 $2.56 9277 K9 USB Keyboard - Black 1 $7.83 $7.83 Biggest cost: $8.29 shipping. (stupid keyboard), so $24 out the door, less if I hadn't given my extra mice and keyboards to friends. The USB extension cables made it all worth while, and those are only $2.56 + shipping. Oh, and DISABLE AIM ASSIST. Seriously, made the WORLD of difference for me.  Got a couple kills, capped a point, was in a squad and actually showed up to defend in the right place at the right time, and was a general bullet catcher. Every Dropsuit counts! goninzo fucked around with this message at 01:25 on May 14, 2013 |
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I just applied as Khalid Starwind , cant wait to frustrate the poo poo out of pubbies!
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bam thwok posted:Already current on that (I think). But it only covers the first million SP, while the old one was much more forward-looking. We're working on that, actually. Though, because a lot of the infantry suits after that milestone fork worse than the Android OS; we're gathering people's fits to derive plans from them. If anyone wants to help with that, lemme know.
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goninzo posted:So, I had tried out dust before, but not since I got a keyboard and mouse to my couch, courtesy of Monoprice: Confirming this. I played a round of skirmish (I think - the BF2142 mode) before work this morning with a mouse and keyboard, the game went from a mildly frustrating experience to actually fun. Now I just need to organise a mic and I can start squadding up with you guys. Hopefully my USB headset works, it didn't need any custom drivers on Windows so fingers crossed.
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Skirmish is basically Conquest, yeah (except the points chip away at MCC health and not available respawns, which are a separate thing (this may be how it worked in BF2142 I never played it)). The PSTriple is generally good at accpeting headsets, and if it works without needing special drivers you should be okay. I have a logitech one that works fine. The biggest issue is that a lot of ancillary things won't work if they do software things, so the only extra functionality you may have is the ability to mute yourself. This kinda blows as you can't increase or decrease how loud other people are (Dust has a setting now, but it doesn't make a difference in my opinion), because Sony doesn't think that's a feature worth having.
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SpookyLizard posted:because Sony doesn't think that's a feature worth having. Oh no, they put a lot of stock into that feature! That's why it's available with the 100$ Playstation headset, available at electronics stores near you! (still can't believe I bought it  )
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SpookyLizard posted:Skirmish is basically Conquest, yeah (except the points chip away at MCC health and not available respawns, which are a separate thing (this may be how it worked in BF2142 I never played it)). 2142's Titan mode was very similar - capturable missile siloes that would chip away at the enemy Titan, and eventually were capable of destroying it. The differences are that Titan mode had no tickets IIRC, the Titan was mobile, had operable belly guns and your team could board the enemy Titan once the shields were down to make an assault on the reactor core for a faster kill than the missiles would do alone. Part of me wants DICE to make a BF2143, but then I look at BF3 and   SpookyLizard posted:The PSTriple is generally good at accpeting headsets, and if it works without needing special drivers you should be okay. I have a logitech one that works fine. The biggest issue is that a lot of ancillary things won't work if they do software things, so the only extra functionality you may have is the ability to mute yourself. This kinda blows as you can't increase or decrease how loud other people are (Dust has a setting now, but it doesn't make a difference in my opinion), because Sony doesn't think that's a feature worth having. Figures. I'll find out tonight. It's not a true USB headset, it's a Beyerdynamic headset that came with a USB sound card. Hopefully people are smart enough to get their volume levels in the ballpark of acceptable.
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Night Shade posted:Now I just need to organise a mic and I can start squadding up with you guys. Hopefully my USB headset works, it didn't need any custom drivers on Windows so fingers crossed. If you have a cellphone bluetooth headset that should work too.
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Soarer posted:If you have a cellphone bluetooth headset that should work too. I used to, but it disappeared moving house. Might go see if there's a recommendation thread over in SHSC in case the USB one doesn't work. e: Forum search has failed me, so I'll ask here: Do you guys have any recommendations for bluetooth headsets, assuming USB fails me? Cost might be a bit of a thing given it'll pretty much be dedicated to the ps3. Night Shade fucked around with this message at 06:58 on May 14, 2013 |
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Whelp, as TMDC is looking for DUST writers and someone in the IRC brought it up, I've submitted a writing sample for consideration. God, what have I gotten into?
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Night Shade posted:Do you guys have any recommendations for bluetooth headsets, assuming USB fails me? Cost might be a bit of a thing given it'll pretty much be dedicated to the ps3. I went for a universal USB headset made by PDP. This way I could justify the $60 I spent on it by theoretically being able to use it for something besides Dust in the future 
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I just started playing this game; summer's opened up for me and I wouldn't mind trying this game out. I applied for GoonFeet, name is Shinjobi Jones, and my only hope is that I'm not the worst player in the universe.
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Shinjobi posted:my only hope is that I'm not the worst player in the universe. Don't worry, once you play with the pubbies in Dust you'll realize that it's technically impossible for you to be the worst player in the universe. These guys are really really bad.
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There are a bunch of players in Dust that only give you a difficult time because they've played for so long that they've accumulated enough SP to skill up into hard to kill suits with strong weapons. I confirmed this by making a new character into a Scrambler Pistol specialist (don't buy the burst ones). I'll drop a plasma cannon trip report after the patch goes up and I've had a few rounds on my PLASMA PLASMA PLASMA character.
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http://www.twitter.com/HVACRepairman/status/334266426842046465 Hi we're now a christian faith based organization might want to update the OP
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Servers are back online now. The reward for playing 100 matches last month (which I somehow managed to hit) are 100 copies of the HEP Metabolic Enhancer, a low-power biotic giving a 5% boost to sprint speed and a 15% bonus to melee damage.
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poo poo. I totally meant to start the download prior to heading off to work. How long does it take to download and install?
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Shoren posted:Servers are back online now. Oh wow, seriously? That is just pathetic. Have we claimed a district yet? I know I saw sammus in the game a couple of hours ago.
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MrLonghair posted:I'll drop a plasma cannon trip report after the patch goes up and I've had a few rounds on my PLASMA PLASMA PLASMA character. Don't bother.
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PerrineClostermann posted:Whelp, as TMDC is looking for DUST writers and someone in the IRC brought it up, I've submitted a writing sample for consideration. Just wait until you get your rejection letter/speech from Mittani at Fanfest like I did. Edit - I assume today is the day we get our shiny new home planet?
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MrLonghair posted:Don't bother. Mind elaborating? I have around 2000 AUR left over which isn't enough for anything great, but I'll still use it to try out the scrambler rifle and plasma cannon all the same.
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Shoren posted:Mind elaborating? I have around 2000 AUR left over which isn't enough for anything great, but I'll still use it to try out the scrambler rifle and plasma cannon all the same. I've used the proto plasma cannons for three skirmish and one domination. Close tight chokepoints where people bunch up? - It's like the splash only hits one, and if I hit someone dead on it deals splash instead of the full damage. Regular infantry open combat? - Good luck hitting at range with that stupid arc it has, cannon my rear end, better off going shotgun, it hits harder and the shotgun isn't going to hurt you with splash. Anti-vehicle? - Faced off against one militia tank, one gunnlogi, and one of the shiny bulbous white expensive-as-hell tanks. Better off with militia AV grenades. It's the only choice for anti-infantry more reliable than Forge combined with ever-so-weak AV but just don't bother. Some crazy scout will bunnyjump and become a god with it and claim it's overpowered I'm sure.
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Present posted:Oh wow, seriously? That is just pathetic. No we didn't. I don't have the power to put down flags, and now everything is claimed. But, not all is lost; a lot of people have over extended themselves. It's just now we'll have to fight to take someone's toys away from them, then fight to hold onto them. It's a lot like being a beach bully. We just have to pick the prettiest sand castle to knock down. Scrambler Rifles are pretty loving awesome, for 2 reasons. 1) They have a red dot aiming system, as opposed to iron sights. This means you can actually aim and hit people. 2) They deal a poo poo load of damage when charged up. I've killed ADV scouts with a single shot. But you really only get 3-10 shots before it over heats, so if you can't finish them off rapidly you'll quickly find yourself with a useless hunk of metal in your hand. Sammus fucked around with this message at 14:37 on May 14, 2013 |
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Sammus posted:No we didn't. I don't have the power to put down flags, and now everything is claimed. But, not all is lost; a lot of people have over extended themselves. It's just now we'll have to fight to take someone's toys away from them, then fight to hold onto them. It's a lot like being a beach bully. We just have to pick the prettiest sand castle to knock down. Well then best start scouting. I think people will expect to be attacked today/tomorrow so we should coordinate to strike wherever at the most inopportune time for them.
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Applied to Goonfeet as TheEmprah OfMankind. Just came back to the game to try it out after the new patch.
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