Evenews24

Why is their PSN ID considered more crucial information about a player than how good they are at the game?

Thx for the post. It wasn't doom and gloom but certainly wasn't giving dust any slack either.

I hope CCP has a bulletin board in their office of important things people have said about their game.

One thing I really liked was Merc profile (awol %, DC %). I would also like to see other player's kdr or WP. Why is their PSN ID considered more crucial information about a player than how good they are at the game?

I agree the game should reward longer play time or higher sp. It's a great model for an MMO. It's just that Dust is an FPS first,

basically this.

SO much THIS, in fact, all of my THIS.

ISK turned out to be a poor way of deterring people from fielding PROTO most of the time.

Probably bc there are two people who can run PROTO in the pub matches, the guys who play PC and make enough to play PROTO for an eternity and or the guys who only die once or twice in a whole match.

The latter happen to be good FPS players but their abilities are unnecessarily compounded by the reward from their PROTO gear.

1m blast radius for massdrivers? I dont agree with that cause its a primary weapon and needs this. And the blast damage is not 80% from the direct impact hit. If you cripple the MD to that then you can give AR's the range of a nova knife. Makes just as much sense.

I like the part about inflated KDs, that is a very good point. Having KDs so high is a symptom of poor balancing in game,which we can all so obviously see.

Disagree. Its pretty obvious CCP are horrible at area effect weapons. The MD has to be carefully balanced just like the HMG so that it doesn't blow everything else out of the water. I'm a heavy but I've always maintained the HMG max damage has to be within 20-30m or its OP.

You've failed as a game designer when people aren't getting any direct hits and are getting kills from splash in a shooter. This isn't BOMBERMAN.

Actually, the "Show Info" on a player is so VERY underwhelming on the amount of information it shows that its laughable. Where is corp history, WP totals, K/D, etc.?? Why isn't there more info shown?

To the OP--I have to wholeheartedly agree that the rise to Proto gear doesn't make sense from a shooter standpoint. It needlessly penalizes new players who continually go up against players who, stat-for-stat, are flat-out better than they ever could hope to be. The difference doesn't stop with gear, though. Increased sp and stats, as a result of higher level skills just means that the complex plate the proto vet fits is going to be *that* much more stat-rich than a comparable militia-geared player with no skills to enhance armor plate numbers. Indeed, even if that proto-skilled vet put on some cheap militia gear, he'll still be higher stat-wise to a similarly equipped, but lesser skilled, new militia player.

I agree the game should reward longer play time or higher sp. It's a great model for an MMO. It's just that Dust is an FPS first, and the proto vet wall that newbros hit when starting the game creates a needlessly difficult new player experience. And for these newbros, who paid nothing for the game and are looking to see if its for them, will likely just pass.

I get that the game is balanced around "all fives." I can personally say that I feel more powerful and better able to perform, and I'm only using all Advanced gear. So I can see the "all fives" mentality. I don't think that that knowledge, though, makes the newbros harrowing experience any less traumatic. I don't think it engenders a fun playground that people outside of Eve's sandbox will stick around for. "Why get redlined here when I can go play CoD and have fun not being gang banged in a dark alley filled with proto death squads and murder taxis?"

I could agree with a "tiericide" movement on weapons/vehicles/dropsuits/etc. to make the gap more about player skill and less about skill+gear. But what, then, is the reward for higher skills? I don't think that the 25% difference in performance that comes from skills is game-breaking. I do think its gamebreaking when you factor in the 25% PLUS the additional performance granted by the gear.

Maybe it's just because Dust is balanced around "all fives" that we're even having these discussions now, and when everyone collectively and on average moves into higher sp totals on the whole (say, we're ALL using all advanced gear) then these issues won't be so bad. Maybe it's that matchmaking should be implemented that groups and matches people according to gear/sp/other metrics for combat.

I think there's enough push on these forums to at least wake CCP up to the fact that the NPE is extremely unforgiving in more ways than one. And if CCP hopes to capture new players--which is the bread and butter of a multiplayer shooter--then they've got to do something to recognize that the NPE is suffering.

'Our first piece detailing the missteps made with Dust certainly made the rounds. Evenews24 is kind enough to repost our pieces and some of the comments and feedback on their comments section were relevant, accurate and provided good insight. To many, at the heart of much of the problem was the fact that CCP promised big but delivered tiny. One fan said "There's a mysterious, inexplicable, and hideous disconnect between the vision that they hyped and the product they've created. To be on the receiving end of that makes me feel a little violated."

read the rest here: http://tinyurl.com/m3wvzdh

our stock example is an exile AR with 32dmg, 40 rounds and iron sight whereas the gek would do 33dmg with 60 rounds and red dot sight. we also like the idea of std weapons having 1 customization slot, adv weapons 2 and prototype 3. this takes the place of the customization largely lost from shields and health. Now a duvolle user can add on their choice of sight, stabilizer and extended clip if they choose.

instead of huge gaps in protection we think a system where the shield values are 22, 25 and 28. armor values are 65, 68 and 70 and instead the real bonus lies in the fact that better extenders regenerate faster and where better plates repair faster and are lighter. This provides better gameplay instead of the alternative of giving higher sp players 4 times the health of a new player.

Good stuff.

It really makes me scratch my head when they come up with stuff like the TAC NET changes, but fail to address so many things we've been screaming about for a year or more.

I can't believe you didn't address the lack of team deploy for anything other than PC. To me this is the biggest issue currently.

all good questions, our stance is that the health gap [hp, shileds, armor] is at the heart of what makes Dust gameplay bad. we would also like to see a system where weapons only have a slight upgrade in dmg but that have subtle advantages [like faster reloads, strafe speeds and less cp/pg cost] and more customization.

our stock example is an exile AR with 32dmg, 40 rounds and iron sight whereas the gek would do 33dmg with 60 rounds and red dot sight. we also like the idea of std weapons having 1 customization slot, adv weapons 2 and prototype 3. this takes the place of the customization largely lost from shields and health. Now a duvolle user can add on their choice of sight, stabilizer and extended clip if they choose.

instead of huge gaps in protection we think a system where the shield values are 22, 25 and 28. armor values are 65, 68 and 70 and instead the real bonus lies in the fact that better extenders regenerate faster and where better plates repair faster and are lighter. This provides better gameplay instead of the alternative of giving higher sp players 4 times the health of a new player.

'Our first piece detailing the missteps made with Dust certainly made the rounds. Evenews24 is kind enough to repost our pieces and some of the comments and feedback on their comments section were relevant, accurate and provided good insight. To many, at the heart of much of the problem was the fact that CCP promised big but delivered tiny. One fan said "There's a mysterious, inexplicable, and hideous disconnect between the vision that they hyped and the product they've created. To be on the receiving end of that makes me feel a little violated."

read the rest here: http://tinyurl.com/m3wvzdh