From what I heard at fanfest, the lockon does not confer godmode aim. I'm led to believe the rockets can be dodged despite the ability to lock. These things also will apparently not be able to dumbfire.


However, I'm firmly in the camp that these abominations should be cleansed in a holy fire and never see the light of day :P

Heh.

Personally, I'm not a fan of swords in FPS games that are supposed to be about 'gun game'. While it's incredibly satisfying to run up and melee someone by showing them that you can out-strafe their gungame... I would much prefer if CCP stayed away from the crappy SPACE NINJA gimmick that seems to weasel it's way into every sci-fi game imaginable.

If you wanna play a gun game with swords and a proper melee system.. Play warframe. It has an engine actually designed for that sort of thing, and it's pretty damn fun :P

Swords in dust seem like nothing more than an unnecessary gimmick to me. Knives were mostly acceptable because every solider in the history of pretty much ever, carries a knife. It's standard gear. The dual wielding decision was a bit meh, but I can deal. Besides... I've said in the past. The day CCP puts in swords, is the day I quit dust. That's not to be read as an ultimatum to CCP or anything. If they want to put in swords, let them put in swords.That will just be the last straw for me personally, and I won't be able to take the game seriously anymore if they try to cater to the SPACE NINJA crowd.

I've spoken my piece on the matter.

I liked to think I properly displayed how broken they were at Fanfest when I was given the chance to 1v1 a couple CCP dudes in a closed room, and not only annihilated them, but the innocent spectators (who were using guns, and included the rest of the CPM) as well which later tried to join in to assist the CCP guys. However, they left the knives with their doubled power anyways, and as hilarious as they are right now... I do think they're too strong, but not by a lot.

All that's left to say is :

Come get some!

Don't stress too much about 'proof'. I'll gladly give kudos and public props to anyone that manages to knife me :)

So, right now... What we have is basically suits and skill bonuses that were given seemingly arbitrary assignments to each suit type with little relation to one another. This creates a whole slew of problems, that have been covered by dozens of people in hundreds of threads in the last 15+ months of dust, which I don't feel bear repeating, since they can easily be summed up as "Nothing is really in a good place right now. Just because everything is bad doesn't mean it's balanced"


With Uprising, CCP at least made some attempt to create a 'racial identity' amongst the suits, varying their bonuses and slot layouts somewhat. While this is the right move, it was not done in the right way. The idea of racial identify needs to be expanded on, as it's an excellent method of creating a distinct role definition for each race and their specializations.


My proposition is as follows :

Homogenize in order to diversify. Start each suit of a given class off with the exact same stats, and then create a set of racial modifiers, followed by specialization modifiers . Within certain allotment restrictions this creates the end result of wildly different suits, with the same general amount of stats, allocated differently. This eliminates all worry of one suit inexplicably having better stats than others, with no explanation as to why.


...

"Caldari = Lots of shield, almost no armor, medium speed, low equipment slots"

"MInmatar = Medium shield, Low armor, High speed, High amount equipment slots"

"Gallente =Low shield, High armor, medium speed, low equipment slots"

"Amarr: High sh

Are you not pushing your own personal agenda? I never voted for you.

I honestly don't know what the CPM did to you that's making you rage so hard. I saw your posts in the CPM thread about CCP communication issues, saw you go off to make your own voting thread, and now you're here because you didn't like the answers you were getting.

The people (as evidenced by your own thread), for the most part, like what the CPM are doing. Whether or not they were elected doesn't appear to matter to anyone but you and a strangely silent populace. Just because they didn't win the popularity contest (and who does other than The Mittani?) doesn't mean that they shouldn't have any representative ability.

As for your "evidence", they are all player opinions. Not once did they say "I am going to do this", but "I don't like this". They voice their opinions, just like you are doing right now. I highly doubt that they're ordering CCP to not put in nova swords because it's dumb.

Lol Buster, you really do push your agenda hard. The CPM is allowed their own personal opinions and trust me, the elected CPMs will be far worse for this sort of stuff. The thing is, this isn't a problem. Show us an example where there is any evidence whatsoever that a CPM has gotten CCP to do something that has benefited that CPM member or their corp or anything in particular and I'll consider that a problem. Until then, all your examples above are meaningless.