First time

(Mc1412013) #1

So i was sitting waiting on a match and realized i couldnt remember my fist match or my thoughts and how i found out about forums/ @MissMurder and @stayfreshshoe /twitch streams. Any one still remember discovering this game and first match and your first impressions of the game and the comunity managers???

(Muddy Muddy Mud Nade) #2

I discovered this game because I remember thinking “I’m bored of Minecraft and I need to find a free to play shooter”, so I just looked through the free to play section of Steam and ended up finding this. That’s pretty much it.
I remember that my first game was on Chapel and I played Proxy, Nader, and Sparks because they were on free rotation.
I thought the game was awesome, but I didn’t understand the loadout card system so when I got a lucky golden Aura with the Blishlok, I thought that it was like the CoD weapon attachment system.
I don’t really know shoe or MissMurder that well, but I remember being really sad when she left the game.

(K1X455) #3

First match impressions:

  • It’s a TF2 Clone with ET gameplay
  • WTF are Loadouts and Augments?

Ok so it’s fast pace action shooter that has in-game drops and stuff. What else?

Why it stuck to me:

  1. ub-jek-tivs : Why the F U C K aren’t you doing it?
  2. merc synergies and teamplay cohesion… We were doing it more often than before it was canon.
  3. Being a flex player for the TEAM… the T E A M
  4. Elisabeth Wells
(everlovestruck) #4

I remember my very first matcn, it was on Terminal. The map itself impressed me and I was so glad to see a control point mechanic, just like in TF2. It was a real disappointment to realize that no other map had control points though

(Press E) #5

I found out about this game nearly a year before I started playing it, when it was shown in a random steam recommendation. I had a crappy laptop at the time that couldn’t hope to run it, but I remember thinking that the atmosphere actually looked really cool, futuristic yellow quarantine stuff.
A while later when I got my PC, I saw another ad for it and figured I’d try it out. I had never played any other PVP games before then, and honestly I was only drawn to DB because of the environment. I was pretty nervous and sucked at first, so I was considering just giving up, but eventually I started enjoying myself. But man, I hated the game when I started. Not really sure why I stayed, lol

Around that time, commenting on forums was sort of a hobby of mine. I liked going through the forums of games I liked and talking to other people, so naturally I ended up on the DB forums eventually. I had known about the nexon forums for a while, but I’m not sure why I actually decided to join them. I think I was just extra bored
I was active on both the official forums and steam forums for a few weeks, but I ended up avoiding the steam forums after a while after getting a lot of the more active members banned by asking a mod here to close a thread, lol

Never really cared much about the twitch streams or community managers, but I had heard them in idle conversations. The only content producer I liked was Shiny before he left DB

(Eox) #6

@everlovestruck said:
I remember my very first matcn, it was on Terminal. The map itself impressed me and I was so glad to see a control point mechanic, just like in TF2. It was a real disappointment to realize that no other map had control points though

Well, Underground used to have a control point for its first objective a long time ago. And it wasn’t great. At all.

(LifeupOmega) #7

Was watching some early footage of Underground and bought in a few days later with a pal.

First match was Chapel, Skyhammer/Sawbonez/Proxy.

#8

A friend told me about DB and after I watched a gameplay video I was hooked instantly, found a site giving away some closed beta keys and started downloading the same day. :blush:

(Mr.Cuddlesworth) #9

Saw this streamer playing it, game looked cool and fun, immediately downloaded and started playing. Nader was on rotation and first merc I bought-great for noobs to nade spam for ez kills >:)

(ImSploosh) #10

I started playing because I had been somewhat following Extraction since it was announced (forget when that was, 2012 or something?). After that, I was waiting and waiting. The map design originally looked promising, but after playing DB, I realized the map design is the worst part of the game (just my opinion). I’m guessing they still use that “Echo” system and their design is based on that somehow. Just my biggest gripe of DB.

Anyways, I had the opportunity to play he Alpha and Closed Beta, but didn’t have the money at the time for the founders packs and stuff. When the Open Beta rolled around, my PC couldn’t handle it so I didn’t try the game again until about 5 months later when I built a new PC.

My first map was Bridge, I was playing as Arty with the Driess. Absolutely wrecked people with it. I had much better aim at the start of DB and oddly enough, I’m pretty sure it’s gotten worse or maybe people have gotten better? lol. I used to play on max fov and max sensitivity. Man oh man, those were the days. I remember hopping into Execution when it was released and I enjoyed that greatly… My favorite gamemode for the longest time… RIP.

(Mr.Cuddlesworth) #11

Well the Driess got a nerf recently-it’s less accurate.

(NK.NewNightmare) #12

@Eox said:

@everlovestruck said:
I remember my very first matcn, it was on Terminal. The map itself impressed me and I was so glad to see a control point mechanic, just like in TF2. It was a real disappointment to realize that no other map had control points though

Well, Underground used to have a control point for its first objective a long time ago. And it wasn’t great. At all.

Sounds interesing. never heard of that though. I really wish I had come to play Dirty Bomb a while earlier, because every time I read Veteran’s or old players at least commenting the game as it was back then, I’m starting to feel like I missed a lot really - especially when comparing it to how the game is today, or at least, how it is, since the last balance update etc. Because I and as I noticed (of course) most Veterans/old players aren’t really pleased with how the game changed - to the negative , that is.

(NK.NewNightmare) #13

Anyways I really wish I would’ve been able to play Execution a little longer. The first time I entered Exectuion was back then when played the game for the first time (which was rougly 10 months ago), I didn’t really enjoy playing it; well the reason for that might be that I never played it really. Rather than that I mostly played Objective (Casual) as I casually started playing myself into the game. I then took a break for playing another game (H1Z1: at that time - and later PUBG) so even when I came to play DB for the first time through a recommendation in Steam (AND of course, because the game seemed to be, well I’d say something new; for me at least, which was the reason I decided to give it a try) I only played it secondarily.

It was only a few months later then (in October/September) that I really started playing the game (a little in August as well) and I remember exactly that must’ve been only shortly after Javelin was released - so at that time I saw two completely new Mercs having joined the game (which was Turtle whose release I didn’t experience too because of that hole of time in between). At that point I really started enjoying the game and played it just about every day or at the start just on weekends I believe.

I can’t really tell what other first notion I had of the game, when I saw it the first them, than: To me it seemed to have a cool atmosphere ingame and a good concept overall (with the Mercs and all). The problem is, I just looked at a Screenshot of the first timeframe I played the game in, before I took the “break” from it, when I was Level 6 - and I can’t even remember really how it was for me, but I somehow came to enjoy the game - and well I just played it. What I can remember though is, that Phoenix and Redeye were in free rotation at that time, and that Redeye was really the first Merc I could really play with and (with his Grandeur SR) could make kills with too. I didn’t really play him then anymore, though.