Dust 514: Joining your first battle
After you have created your fittings for gear you can decide to drop into battle.
Being a beginner, you will more than likely choose from the following:
After making your selection you are transported to a mercenary dropship with the rest of your team.
You will have roughly a minute depending on when you joined the battle. During this time you should be doing several things:
1. Hit up on the D-Pad and look at the members of both your team and the enemy team. After several drops you will begin to recognize some corporations and be able to plan accordingly to their preferred fits.
2. If you need to do some last second fitting Hit L1 and do so there. (There are stations to do this as well in the dropship but you are wasting time walking to them)
3. Hit select and join a squad
When the counter reaches zero you are then transported to the battlefield. At this time you should choose your fitting and spawn point.
[For example in skirmish, I initially choose a Scout Dropsuit so I can cover ground fast to capture different points.]
After you have chosen your fitting and spawn point there is a countdown till you are deployed (typically 6-10 seconds) During this countdown you can scan across the battlefield and 'get your bearings'.
If you chose to deploy on the [MCC (Link and wiki page needed)] you will need to jump out the bay and hit your inertia dampeners prior to hitting the ground. *If you do not hit your inertial dampeners and hit the ground you WILL DIE!*
From here on out it is Fight and die and learn.
