Favorite USS Specialization (In ver. 1.1) Thread - : MISERY Mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

Which is your favorite USS specialization class (sniper, recon or assaulter?)

Assaulter, while slow and unwieldy, is my choice. This because of the following:
High carry weigh: this allows for more food in the inventory, so that you can take longer treks, and additional ammo, and a shotgun in addition to my assault rifle and marksman rifle (all with weight reduction mods)
Slow speed: while this may seem like a con, it makes you think before you act, and keep to cover while traveling, since you can't sprint to safety in a heartbeat.  This leads to thinking about every situation you come along, taking time to engage in combat, and using the correct weapon for each encounter.

Recon:

• Lightweight and quick
• Medical equipment = better effects

Sniper class would be may fav, but there dont seem to be enough sniper rifles in the game for me to really be interested. Also some traders, and virtually all NPCs never carry sniper ammo, like they carry assault rifle ammo

wow thsi forum is so dead.

Recon:
fast to cover
medical advantage, even tho i barely ever use medkits

also sniper would be my fav if it wasnt so weak and vulnerable. also no good ammo on sniper (is the green draong categorized as sniper?) if so i will use green dragon with sniper.

always use my sunrise fully modded, the cheapest from them all to repair.
tactical helmet fully modded
streloks sg fully modded with silencer and scope OR the aku from the snork stash OR green dragon
desert eagle fully modded with silencer
and im ALWAYS relying on knife at closest combats with mutants
just 1 can of tuna 1 bread loaf
2medkits, 2 bandages
goldfish, 2 fireflies, 2 bubbles, optional 1 gravi.

I would have to say assaulter, simply because, well it's more fun. His weapons are most suited for medium-close range combat, which is the range at which most firefights take place.
Long range (for sniper) is possible outside, but not really fun, as you're not vulnerable to attack and at the same time it's harder to find ammo and kill your enemies. Additionally, most of your enemies in the wild are mutants, and from my experience sniper rifles are a very poor choice to use against mutants.
As for recon, the better use of medical equipment and maintenance of suits is nice, but I rely on not getting hit in the first place, by utilizing cover and actually planning my assault.
Finally, the extra weight I can carry as assaulter really suits my play-style, as I always like to be prepared for everything.

However, this all may change with MISERY 2, since I heard there will be more emphasis on the specializations. Cheers.

Edited by: siftheadz

The balancing doesn't work. After playing with all three classes installed, I was able to play and survive without making a single change to how I did it. AN94, Grenade attachment upgrade, GP-30, NSPU-3, which was acquired very early on in all three playthroughs. The class system shows promise, but the game is balanced against the player, not an arbitrary class system. Which I know, was achieved via weapon configuration. 

If you would humor me a suggestion, I would  submit that the classes either be taken to an extreme point of playstyle; E.G: Assaulter have nearly an absolute minimum in recoil, control and stabilization, and the other classes take absurdly high penalties for those weapons. Or, give inherent benefits to the player character via starting weapons, more or less health, faster auxillary reloads (Underbarrel grenade launchers), specialized ammunitions for subweapons; WP for sniper, Flechette shotshells and canisters for Assault, far superior armour and medical supply variants, such as hybrid meds that perform multiple tasks at once.

That way, the class system can be used to supplant player skill, or they can min-max against their own abilities. 

One thing that really bugs me, just a personal note. The OG-7V rocket ammunition we have for the RPG, is not what is represented by the model and it's actual use. The rocket that is visually represented, and the damage it does is the FG-7-VL. An HEDP rocket. It acts like it should, just has the wrong name.

Oh, and a request. Since it is indeed 2012, and the desperation for arms entering the zone is a top priority for traders, I'm wondering why I'm not seeing more variety. We've got two PDW's, the Scorpion and the Mp5. You'd figure being this close to russia, we'd see more along the lines of the AEK-919, SR-3, PP-19 and other weapons such as the Ingram M-10, Kriss Super-V  TAR-21 and the P90. My favorite weapon type gets little love in Misery.

Edited by: YourAmishDaddy

I think you could use that logic to dismiss a significant amount of the current weapons in MISERY patch 2.  From the M16 to the Famas G2 SE, MISERY contains many weapons that are used by western armies.  Could you explain  how those wound up in the zone with simultaneously ruling out the weapons you excluded?  Remember that the Kriss is purchasable by civilians in 45 of the 50 states in America and Israel actually exports the TAR to the Ukraine so.. actually, it'd make sense if the Assaulter started with one!

 Ukraine: Yuriy Lutsenko, head of Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, announced on October 1, 2008 that Israel Weapon Industries and the Ukrainian research and production company RPC Fort will jointly manufacture the Tavor TAR-21 assault rifle, that will enter service with special Ukrainian military and police special units.^[39][40]