Remove squads and vehicles from Ambush and you solve about a million problems. Without causing a lot of hurt, since the "core" of the game is Skirmish (and to a lesser extend Domination) anyway.

Also more ways for squads and teams to play competitively without having to walk all over randoms would go a long way.

And the matchmaking should never, ever, put a squad against no squad, that is just a big no no. Unfortunately that's hard to enforce in DUST, since squads can just leave after the initial matchmaking, or squads can form up after a solo player was seeded already... Not to mention that squads come in different sizes to begin with. Maybe those things should be given some thought as well.

This **** again?

Leukoplast, seriously, you need to get some friends or SOMETHING. You have been creating the SAME thread about squads being OP for as long as I've seen you on the forums. Are you seriously that much a noob that people don't want to play with you? Are you really that antisocial that squading just isn't for you? Why do you insist on trying to turn a team based game into solo play?

Even I enjoy going lonewolf sometimes but I realize when I'm outmatched by teamwork. My recourse? Squad up and hit em back. Yours? Go on the forums and whine about the SAME topic you've made threads about dozens of times now. Seriously, give it up. Quit being such a damn scrub, find some friends, and make a squad. Stop complaining about one of the most fundamental aspects of this game: Teamwork. I'm so sick of your threads. It's the same thing every ******* time.

Give a man a fish, and he's going to beg for a game mode where you hand him fish all day. Teach a man to fish like the other men, and you can all go fishing together.



Instead of making it easier to suck at Dust 514 (ie: not be in a corporation, not use a mic, not play in squads), why don't CCP just create a new player experience that shows people how to do the basic important stuff like add user channels, how to join corporations, how to create squads outside of matches, etc?

Furthermore, why isn't there also something that tells people WHY they should be doing these things? Do CCP just not understand their own game well enough to explain it to others? What's the hold up? Do they just not think that explaining all this stuff is important? Do they think most people search the web for detailed information about free game they download?

This stuff needs to be part of the core new user experience or the majority of players are going to continue to boot the game up and run solo without a mic, and then wonder why they get their ****'s smashed in. If you don't show someone what makes Dust 514 special (corporations, squad cooperation, player specialization and synergy, etc), most won't figure it out for themselves before deleting the game off their hard drives. You literally have to either accidentally stumble across someone in-game who explains it to you, or you have to search out the game online for yourself.


The game doesn't have a large enough player base to add yet another game mode for people who don't want to play the game the way it was designed and balanced to be played. Just show people why they should be in squads and corporations, and then make it easy for them to get into squads and corporations.


You don't fix a problem by making the problem the status quo.

Regarding the first part, that's why I find the idea of only reserving Ambush for solo play so tempting. I do believe that we'd have enough solo players to fill Ambush, and squads would flock towards Skirmish and Domination, thus creating more squad vs. squad encounters. I'm also certain that we'd still have enough solo players choosing to play Skirmish or Domination to fill the gaps (I know I would).

Regarding your second point, it seems that you are not alone in the opinion that DUST does not have much to offer without squads. But I don't think it's reasonable to base game design on that assumption. I enjoy playing solo and putting my own skills to the test. I don't enjoy walking all over randoms with a squad of superior firepower. It all comes back to "people are different".

My father is currently addicted to EVE Online, and just a few days ago he told me again how what he likes most about the game is that you are really free to do your own thing, without the game dictating how you are supposed to have fun (he's a solo player by the way). I'd like us to have the same kind of freedom in DUST, and for the most part I think that we do.

Reserving ambush for solo play limits the options of people who enjoy squad play, and is even more detrimental to people who enjoy soloing in Skirmish. You are now 'tracking' people into a certain game mode based on whether or not they are solo or in a squad. Limiting the game this way just gives people fewer options.

I personally solo quite a lot, and games against teams with organized squads are often the most fun. Just sayin.