Sadly, the community have been asking for fixed tier matchmaking for months and to no avail.
Maybe it will be introduced when the game have a bigger playerbase, but that’s just my guess.
Yeah, I agree to the second part… playerbase is too small to have a decent MM’er.
I think the brackets of 1-3 3-6 6-9 etc should be okay, maybe some special balancing.
And yeah… CovOps is definitely awesome… and I even hated the pulse lasers plasma gun initially, felt like I couldn’t kill anything with them after getting through the hull but DAMN are they effective when you can hit consistently, which you should be able to… absolutely LOVING interceptor gameplay.
The thought of rigging a frigate looks even less appealing now xD
CovOp is most damaging burst dealer interceptor to take out key target quickly and gtfo to do other stuff and plasma gun is the weapon with lowest dps available to interceptors.
If you really want to become fearsome as an inty pilot (Covert Ops to be precise), learn to use Shrapnel. Others will say Blasters or Pulse Lasers, but nothing beats a correctly used Shrapnel CO.
I don’t think punishing someone because they are better than the average player is fair.
I like to play on a level playing field, no matter how good I am as a player
The intent is to provide a level playing field. It’s not perfect, but it can’t be without a much larger playerbase.
we, in NA have to deal with 500-700 people online, and still i don’t see “so many” outrageous imbalances (and I am kinda with average skill rating ~1500)
Based on experience, 1500 DSR isn’t average, especially for the 500-700 online slot. There’s not enough good competition. I might be about 100 points lower, but we’re both still in the top 1% overall. I’ve been less active this week so it seems I’ve dropped off the charts. But yes, outrageous unbalanced matches aren’t standard. I have had a few capture the beacons where I’d be the last player on my team, and not one death. It’s annoying knowing everyone’s watching me.
I suppose rigging EM missiles is advisable to get shields dropping faster?
And is it better to have rotation implant or strafe implant for inty?
Dunno about EM missiles. I use kinetic ones because they fly faster, so you get more precision shooting them. You can try thermal if you really can’t hit anything in the beginning, those are guided, but lower damage.
Make a combo of rotation and strafe. Just so you know the collision compensator upgrades both strafing and rotation.
Dunno about EM missiles. I use kinetic ones because they fly faster, so you get more precision shooting them. You can try thermal if you really can’t hit anything in the beginning, those are guided, but lower damage.
Make a combo of rotation and strafe. Just so you know the collision compensator upgrades both strafing and rotation.
Well, right now I am still T1 for COI’s so don’t have much customisation options.
Away to record some now though, will try and not be totally biased towards the COI I have but… it’s so much fun xD
So I tried out the what I will refer to from now on as rockets and I found that they didn’t really do it for me… maybe I need to get my eye in with them on PvE before transferring the skills into PvP but I will run thermz with blasterz (shrapnel) until such times as I see a need for change.
Also… got a hilarious captain snipe earlier although I wasn’t recording sadly. I kind of hate combat recon mode, you know if your captain is in an LRF you’re screwed because he’s probably one of those 360 no scopers from cowadooty
I know I am pretty basically spamming at this point and sorry to those who are getting notifications for this… but this is the first inty gameplay of many to come I think ^^
Also… got a hilarious captain snipe earlier although I wasn’t recording sadly. I kind of hate combat recon mode, you know if your captain is in an LRF you’re screwed because he’s probably one of those 360 no scopers from cowadooty
Because of the patch, he must have had the highest “Skill Rating” on your team.
I’m trying myself to upload some videos, some of them flying interceptor, you will get seizures watching it xD
The problem is i’m still searching for a decent setup to upload in. I’d like 60fps, and unfortunately it has to be 1440x900 since my monitor is 16:10. That’s not a problem, but the quality of the displayed video is what bothers me. I don’t want to spend way too much time for rendering either.
Dust 514 is a lot like eve, there is alot catch up needed. Players from release or beta will have a great amount skill point than you. However, although you will die 9 times out of 10 in a 1v1 situation with a veteran player, the gear they use cost 10x more than ur gear and if they die, they loss it so it is kinda balanced in my opinion.
In the end, it is f2p so giving it a try is always good.
I’m trying myself to upload some videos, some of them flying interceptor, you will get seizures watching it xD
The problem is i’m still searching for a decent setup to upload in. I’d like 60fps, and unfortunately it has to be 1440x900 since my monitor is 16:10. That’s not a problem, but the quality of the displayed video is what bothers me. I don’t want to spend way too much time for rendering either.
What settings are you using?
60 fps is pointless (in my opinion), 30 fps is what you should render in.
As for settings… I will just screenie my OBS setup for you and paste imgur link here:
Basically the only thing you should note is that the mic quick sync hack is only being used because I use a webcam. Setting up scenes is fairly self explanatory and Google-xxxx should get you where you need to be with that.
I have a feeling I know why I have been performing poorly lately, it’s due to lack of sleep affecting my concentration. Got some Z’s last night so hopefully today I will be able to produce some decent gameplay !
Basically the only thing you should note is that the mic quick sync hack is only being used because I use a webcam. Setting up scenes is fairly self explanatory and Google-xxxx should get you where you need to be with that.
This right here. I actually found out what was wrong with my setup. It is now recording BETTER than Bandicam.