People say the game is dead. Yesterday I saw a buddy of mine playing dust for the 1st time.

Joined his squad and there was a group of his friends.

They were confused on everything about the game. I played about 4 games with them.

In between each match I tried to explain how to and what

*Spec into guns, dropsuits, equipment, Etc
*The different gamemodes
*And explanation of all the weapons and different racial dropsuits.
*The importance of modules
*The different roles in the game.
*Corporations

If I never showed them any of these things these guys would of quit before even trying.

They really enjoy the game now because I explained how to play to them.

These guys were telling they were bored of call of duty and all that and were just looking for a game to pass the time until COD:Ghost

But this has been discussed before. Dust does a very poor job of showing people how to play the game and how to do all the deep core mechanics. I know some people that jumped into dust once and never learned how to play because they were confused.

And alot of people when you don't know how to do something they automatically quit. Which is the problem Dust is facing this is a very complicated game that some people won't bother to take the time to learn.

Unlike COD and BF Series they've had sequels and they keep the controls the same each game and most the User interface similar and easy to use.

Dust is like trying to solve rocket science.

I really think that if players could make/distribute mp3 tutorials you could play while watching the game this could help immensely.

No joke a feature to make tutorials and send um to ccp to be used would be helpful as hell

Dust does a very poor job of showing people how to play the game and how to do all the deep core mechanics

As a rocket scientist, I'll tell you firsthand that New Eden will always be a tough nut to crack.

They should change a few things here:

- Increase the WP to at least 20000 before they let people graduate the Academy. Teach them about rep tool, nanite, nanohives, uplinks and so on

- Fitting screen should have a proper tutorial for new players

- Academy battles should include some domination matches (objectives) Some insight into MCC damage and all

- Let them have at least 1.5 mil SP uncapped before letting them loose against us

Dust needs an academy. And I don't mean the current "We throw you into games with other noobs" I mean a real one. One where you run through some kind of parkouer and Aura tells you everything. You run to a shooting range where you can equip every weapon and try it out. Then Aura tells you how skilling works. How every dropsuit has its pros and cons and so on. Then you run to an objective which you have to hack while aura explains you how skirmish and domination works. Something like this.

I think we really underestimate our fellow gamers.

We are all still here aren't we?
Clearly we survived that initial trial by fire.
The only time I ever damaged gaming hardware was because of this game. But I'm still here. I didn't quit because I got my arse kicked. So why do we assume our newly cloned compatriots will?

Dust needs an academy. And I don't mean the current "We throw you into games with other noobs" I mean a real one. One where you run through some kind of parkouer and Aura tells you everything. You run to a shooting range where you can equip every weapon and try it out. Then Aura tells you how skilling works. How every dropsuit has its pros and cons and so on. Then you run to an objective which you have to hack while aura explains you how skirmish and domination works. Something like this.

I imagine they'd want to do these, but they're too afraid to split players up. They don't have the numbers to populate that many areas.

It does

But these new players do not at all go and look for the answers themselves, they do not look at the full game, they do not try to work out the fitting screen or what the skills do or how the marketplace works

Everything has to be handheld with these new players, they have an IQ of a banana and are as curious as a panda

Good job getting people to try this game. I always recommend this game to everyone but with a hearty warning. I might try to get a couple friends to play after the 1.4 update.

We as dust fanboys have a duty to promote this game. Too bad they screw us with that terrible recruiter program that is impossible to use because everyone just goes to "the play station store".

People say the game is dead. Yesterday I saw a buddy of mine playing dust for the 1st time.

Joined his squad and there was a group of his friends.

They were confused on everything about the game. I played about 4 games with them.

In between each match I tried to explain how to and what

*Spec into guns, dropsuits, equipment, Etc
*The different gamemodes
*And explanation of all the weapons and different racial dropsuits.
*The importance of modules
*The different roles in the game.
*Corporations

If I never showed them any of these things these guys would of quit before even trying.

They really enjoy the game now because I explained how to play to them.

These guys were telling they were bored of call of duty and all that and were just looking for a game to pass the time until COD:Ghost

But this has been discussed before. Dust does a very poor job of showing people how to play the game and how to do all the deep core mechanics. I know some people that jumped into dust once and never learned how to play because they were confused.

And alot of people when you don't know how to do something they automatically quit. Which is the problem Dust is facing this is a very complicated game that some people won't bother to take the time to learn.

Unlike COD and BF Series they've had sequels and they keep the controls the same each game and most the User interface similar and easy to use.

Dust is like trying to solve rocket science.

It does

But these new players do not at all go and look for the answers themselves, they do not look at the full game, they do not try to work out the fitting screen or what the skills do or how the marketplace works

Everything has to be handheld with these new players, they have an IQ of a banana and are as curious as a panda

Okay, I gotta ask, just how curious IS a panda?

The ability to respec would go a long way in helping people to learn the ins and outs of the game. Just because you play a certain way in one game, doesn't necessarily mean that you will want to play that way in this game. Trial and error is the way a lot of people learn, especially when it comes to games.

CPM has expressed such needs for a tutorial and something is being formulated and built in Dust by CCP right now for it.