This should be in the request section but maybe they'll see it here and take it to heart.

Form follows function!

You can add all the bells n' whistles you want onto this game, but it has to WORK first and foremost.
Hit detection, freeze ups, glitches, bugs are FIRST priority.

Nobody will care what content you keep adding to the game if it doesn't work worth a damn.

Disagree I'd rather have things to do and iffy mechanics.

Because we chose to play Dust. We chose to understand that this stuff takes time. We chose to have faith in the dev. God, I'm so tired of hearing every debate on a video game forum that somehow finds a way to put COD and BF in a post.

And I'm tired of CCP putting crap in a broken game

Problem with polish is that it actually grinds away at material leaving less and less over time. Eventually you have something smooth but much less than what you started with.

Also this statement is a bit ignorant but people responsible for new guns are generally not the same sort that fixes bugs, lag, and optimization.

Let's assume the amount of playable content was tripled overnight.

How much would that change the metacritic score. My estimate is by approx. +10% but the final conclusion would still be 'Flawed/failed'.

Now run it the other way, assume that mechanics, lag compensation, controls, terrain, stability were made 'world-class AAA shooter' overnight.

How much would that change the metacritic score? My estimate is approx. +15% with a final conclusion of 'worth your time right now and holds great promise for the future'.

I agree that iterating simultaneously on both aspects, core and content, is important - but the core is more important right now. I have no opinion on how CCP should invest their development resources, but i do want to see the most critical and limiting issues resolved soonest.

Anything else is irrational, imo. Looking forward to 1.4.

One major complaint was too many guns by several reviewers. Adding far to many may have nullified the effect entirely.

Now tripling the number of maps would have been something that would have been a slight boon on the reviewers at the time but overall first 5 minutes killed it for most reviewers. There needs to be a massive improvement to the first 5 minutes. Namely NPE.

Too many guns? never heard that before.

I would say that their a lot of guns in this game, but I wouldn't say its too many.

But you can have all the guns you'd like, they won't be worth anything if the swaying hotboxes and general hit detection logic are flawed to the point the game is unplaybale

This should be in the request section but maybe they'll see it here and take it to heart.

Form follows function!

You can add all the bells n' whistles you want onto this game, but it has to WORK first and foremost.
Hit detection, freeze ups, glitches, bugs are FIRST priority.

Nobody will care what content you keep adding to the game if it doesn't work worth a damn.

This should be in the request section but maybe they'll see it here and take it to heart.

Form follows function!

You can add all the bells n' whistles you want onto this game, but it has to WORK first and foremost.
Hit detection, freeze ups, glitches, bugs are FIRST priority.

Nobody will care what content you keep adding to the game if it doesn't work worth a damn.

Then why aren't you playing Battlefield or Call of Duty right now?

We need a happy medium between more content and fixes.

More content is fun, bur no fixes aren't good either. And, all fixes are good, but no content isn't good either.

I think the ratio should lean more to content over fixes, cause, at least to me, there aren't a lot of bugs.

Then why aren't you playing Battlefield or Call of Duty right now?

Exactly. While I am not discounting that we dont need new guns/content while we polish, that focusing on new guns without polish would be a bad move. Right now the most we can do with content is treat it like a varnish while we polish.

Then why aren't you playing Battlefield or Call of Duty right now?

@Vrain Matari

You're ignoring the last line in IWS's post. There are multiple teams working on multiple aspects of the game and each team is working at their own pace. You have one team that deals with maps, guns, avatars, graphics, etc. Then another team that deals with bugs, glitches, exploits, etc. Then another team that deals with handling the user interface. Then another for sound I guess.

Again, each one is working at their own pace. Of course, the team that deals with content will obvious be able to work much faster than the team that handles bugs, glitches, and exploits dealing with bugs and stuff is a very complex thing to try to resolve. No matter which bug or glitch you try to resolves, any solution you bring forward will invariably affect other parts of the game.

Let's say for example (this is a hypothetical scenario) the hit detection has finally been resolved for once in our lives. Now you have to deal with weapon balancing and possibly change the avatar movement/sprint/strafe speed because apparently the fix to hit detection made it too easy for anyone to get hit. Imagine me one day going 50-0 with just the knives and people with assault rifles going 60-0 and people with mass drivers getting as many as 26 kill-assists left and right in a single match. Suddenly almost half the weapons seem to be OP because of the hit detection.

Although I wouldn't mind going 50-0 with the nova knives one day.

Actually the best way to cure OP weapons is to make all the weapons OP, that way no one weapon stands out over the rest.

@Vrain Matari

You're ignoring the last line in IWS's post. There are multiple teams working on multiple aspects of the game and each team is working at their own pace. You have one team that deals with maps, guns, avatars, graphics, etc. Then another team that deals with bugs, glitches, exploits, etc. Then another team that deals with handling the user interface. Then another for sound I guess.

Again, each one is working at their own pace. Of course, the team that deals with content will obvious be able to work much faster than the team that handles bugs, glitches, and exploits dealing with bugs and stuff is a very complex thing to try to resolve. No matter which bug or glitch you try to resolves, any solution you bring forward will invariably affect other parts of the game.

Let's say for example (this is a hypothetical scenario) the hit detection has finally been resolved for once in our lives. Now you have to deal with weapon balancing and possibly change the avatar movement/sprint/strafe speed because apparently the fix to hit detection made it too easy for anyone to get hit. Imagine me one day going 50-0 with just the knives and people with assault rifles going 60-0 and people with mass drivers getting as many as 26 kill-assists left and right in a single match. Suddenly almost half the weapons seem to be OP because of the hit detection.

Although I wouldn't mind going 50-0 with the nova knives one day.

One Varnish I feel we need are the two missing racial ARs, and then all starter suits being fit with their racial weapons.

Amarr:
Scrambler Rifle + Scrambler Pistol

Gallente
Assault Rifle + Magsec SMG

Caldari
Rail Rifle + whatever their pistol is

Minmatar
Combat Rifle + SMG

Suddenly I'm reminded of what happened back during the Replication build in closed beta.

OP swarm launchers that allowed you dumb-fire into the ground and clear an entire room full of mercs with massive splash damage alone.

OP heavies with OP HMGs dominating the battlefields as if they are the only frontline suits.

OP snipers (no Thales involved) OHKing from their own red line into the other team's redline.

OP shot gunners killing people at AR distances.

It wasn't so bad. Because now its not worth SP-ing into Shotguns, Swarms, or even Snipers. What's the point of having a certain weapon in the game if its below useful? It's just taking up memory...

What's the point of a game with dozens of weapons but only 2-3 are worth using? Everything needs to be OP, so that everything is worth using, otherwise its not worth having in the game.
And basically the problem with all the weapons was the Sharpshooter Skill, because it lessen Bullet Disbursement AND increased Range Lethality. I think some of the weapons (such as Snipers and Shotguns) still need that as a branch in their skill tree. (As well as no stacking penalties in build if that weapon is equipped).

When people cry nerf, they really mean buff everything else.

One major complaint was too many guns by several reviewers. Adding far to many may have nullified the effect entirely.

Now tripling the number of maps would have been something that would have been a slight boon on the reviewers at the time but overall first 5 minutes killed it for most reviewers. There needs to be a massive improvement to the first 5 minutes. Namely NPE.