I'm very weary of the TCO role, not because of what it is or what it does, but what it could mean. I've been part of PC matches where, like clockwork, a player gets black-screened, disconnects, or some other vague mishap that occurs when deploying to the match. In the past, if that player is a member of the corporation; they'll just restart and join in separately. If not, one of the backups (usually from the corp in question) will join separately.

Now, that you have to be a TCO to join a Corp Match, how can mitigation of Deployment Issues be lessened?

Yes DUST players can accept applications, but the EVE player has to then hit accept as well since thats how it works in EVE.

1.5 BREAKING NEWS!! You can now rotate the camera to view the front of your merc .

There are many players who are going to be asking why do this when you could give us some new weapons?

Because this blog represents one of the biggest leaps forward in the delvelopment of the game. Certainly as big as PC and more so than the skill tree updates.

This is going to be a major help for how corporations are able to be maintained. Anything that allows a CEO and directors the ability to safely delegate tasks such as recruitment without access to to the wallet and district control is going to be a huge boost.

It also means that we can now reward those players that are helpful to the corp and give them a sense of responsibility and engagement by giving them a role in the day to day running of a corp.

Kevall Longstride/ Dennie Fleetfoot
CEO DUST University

what a joke. Having only selected people be able to bring players into PC seems like a crazy idea. I like the idea of having roles. but all members of a corp should be able to join a battle. Not only because of faulty servers that kick people out, but also because the players that do have the role might not be there, or maybe only one. So he will have to back out 3 times to bring in players. It doesnt make sense at all and most likely make things harder then they need to be.

You can appoint multiple people to the role, and I would advise appointing everyone who's approved to fight in PC. If 80% of the people who are going into PC are appointed to the TCO role, then any connection issues where they drop out will be mitigated by being able to jump right back in after a reset. By having a way to approve whether someone can join PC or not, you can keep out anyone who hasn't been specifically vetted and might be a saboteur--or who's just clueless and needs training.

Know how everybody wants vehicle locks? This is the equivalent for PC.

That said, maybe the role shouldn't have the word "officer" in the title, since I suspect many corps will be using it to check off who is approved to join PC at all, and not just the people they want leading squads.

I'm concerned about the same thing... you're going to have to give EVERYONE in the corp that does PC the role in case they have stability issues.

I'm concerned about the same thing... you're going to have to give EVERYONE in the corp that does PC the role in case they have stability issues.

Except for the part where we can already do all of that. If someone is in who you don't want to be, you kick them. Now we have this role that CEOs and/or Directors literally need to go through the entire member list and give everyone who is eligible the role. It's stupid.

Not to mention people who don't get it aren't going to be happy, leading to unnecessary drama.

Glad you wasted a month on this, TrueGrit. 1.6 better be ******* epic.

I see your point. But I also see the other side of the coin as well. As a CEO I like this. The only real problem I see with this is the connection/loading issues. As far as drama goes.......what isn't drama? Someone is always unhappy or bitching about something. It's all about how you handle the drama sir, that's what makes a person successful.

As far as a fix for this. I think having a option added into the little checklist on members to say "PC Eligible", would be a nice fix.

Parson, Smile sir. Life is good. Don't be so grumpy. It's a free game enjoy and help make it better.

I see your point. But I also see the other side of the coin as well. As a CEO I like this. The only real problem I see with this is the connection/loading issues. As far as drama goes.......what isn't drama? Someone is always unhappy or bitching about something. It's all about how you handle the drama sir, that's what makes a person successful.

As far as a fix for this. I think having a option added into the little checklist on members to say "PC Eligible", would be a nice fix.

Parson, Smile sir. Life is good. Don't be so grumpy. It's a free game enjoy and help make it better.

Will this be the major update of the new patch?

And can you please fix the problem of changing weapons?! Every time you finish using a plasma cannon or a mass driver and try to switch to a smg the character ALWAYS glitches out tries to reload instead of switching. Even the animation freaks out and the plasma cannon turns sideways and you cannot switch weapons for a few seconds after done reloading. Very annoying. Please fix thx!

I feel like the new WP rewards will be the more significant (feeling) update. I would think the new maps would be ready by then, although I think they can drop them in at any time anyway.

I'd like for members of the corp to be able to see some kind of badge or something for members that hold the TCO role. This way a newer player to the corp knows that this person is someone that has the knowledge/skill level to be granted the right to fight in PC battles. It would help new players find someone to give them advice that they could take to heart.

Any plans to allow DUST corps to form alliances without having to go through EVE side?

Also, is the leaderboard contacts list bug getting fixed in 1.5?

The easy fix would be to flag any player who joined the match and was *not* kicked out of the barge as being allowed into that one battle. If you drop from a PC battle without being kicked by a director, then you are allowed to rejoin that specific battle as if you had the TCO role. But you cannot join a different battle.

This gives us the benefits of both sides. We can designate a large number of people who have been around long enough to prove that they are trustworthy and won't awox in PC, but also allow unproven members to rejoin the fight if they have connection problems.

For the concerns about disconnecting from PC battles I will have a look into allowing players to rejoin a battle if they were already in it and not previously kicked by a director.

I will also have a look into allowing squad members to join a squad already deployed into a PC battle provided the squad leader has the TCO role. This would allow substitutes to be pulled in on short notice without the squad leader leaving.