I guess the little things are nice, but I think everyone is hoping for something better out of this update.

Not really. You can only do so much in a monthly cycle and they spent some time in the beginning of the current one fixing issues from the previous. I'm liking what they have showed us so far, pretty good and important stuff, but as far as bigger changes go I'm expecting one for every two patches.

Not that I wouldn't like to be surprised.

New weapons were pushed back to 1.6. I'm betting that's the closer content that we will have, together with vehicle changes and stuff, depend on your definition of content. If they were adding any other new content in 1.5 (weapons/suits) I believe we would have heard about it by now.

But like I said, I wouldn't mind being surprised. Like, Amarr light frames...

AMARR HAV, AMARR PILOT... PILOTS, AMARR EVERYTHING WOLFMAN!

DO IT AND ALL TEH LAMBS WILL BE YOURS!

lol

Don't even start with Amarr HAVs. I want them so bad.

At least I got time to finish my infantry skill tree until they are released.

New weapons were pushed back to 1.6. I'm betting that's the closer content that we will have, together with vehicle changes and stuff, depend on your definition of content. If they were adding any other new content in 1.5 (weapons/suits) I believe we would have heard about it by now.

But like I said, I wouldn't mind being surprised. Like, Amarr light frames...

New Weapons and Vehicle balances were pushed out of 1.5 tentatively into 1.6 but there is no guarantee that is going to happen or not. 1.6 already had a lot of work thrown into it and the weapons and vehicle changes coming in may have overinflated it. While there is no limits to patch sizes CCP does like keeping the patches smaller as its less to sort though in bug hunting as well as not keeping customers in download limbo.

So unless CCP says otherwise I don't expect features of 1.6 set in stone or guaranteed to be in.

This is cool...but being able to simply join a corp member's battle will be better. That way, if there game has any open spots, you don't have to wait until their game is over in order to join.

Do you like squads? Of course you do! So in Uprising 1.5 CCP Nullarbor and Team True Grit are making it easier for you for find a squad and play DUST like it was meant to be. Read on to find out more.

Per the "bad translator" the correct title of this blog is:

"New option: a header and a bad time 1.5 features."



http://ackuna.com/badtranslator

Will newbros (still in the Battle Academy) be able to access the Squad Finder?

I applaud progress. But this seems to be a somewhat underwhelming feature for established units who have no problem finding Squads....only trouble syncing the collective efforts of those Squads into the same battle...and I am speaking specifically about Faction Warfare.

That needs to be the next step up the Squad Chain. Either full 16-player Squads or the ability to access the Team menu prior to deployment and populate it so all players enter the match together.

Can we get another option, under the Availability, that lets us set if we want autojoin on or not? So if I, as squad leader, put out a Public squad invite saying "5+ mil SP" and a new player clicks it I see an alert that says "Sir Snuffington wants to join your squad" and I can click that, see their stats and hit accept / reject?

I know this will cause some problems of people just rejecting people who don't meet their strict requirements. But rejection will happen regardless. It also saves a step of that new player joining a squad labeled "5+ mil SP" and then being kicked by the squad leader. This helps ensure that the squad leader doesn't have to play whack a mole by kicking people who don't fit the criteria out to make space.

When we next touch squads I would like to see the option in squads along the lines of "applications must be approved" and then the squad leader can accept or reject applications to join the squad.

So... no joining a squad already deployed? As a squad leader or member I'm stuck waiting around in CQ for people to join the thing, which is a majority of the pain.

That being said, I have been using the EVE-side fleet finder every single day since it was introduced. When guys type "x" in Alliance I can smugly ignore them. Now I can do the same with LFS.

Eh, might be over-complicating things if you go with accept/reject applications in the true sense of the word.

I mean, just show name, total SP and an accept/reject option - all you really need.

It would be nice to be able to quickly pull up a player's stats in their show info, rather than adding them to contacts, then loading their stats.

New Weapons and Vehicle balances were pushed out of 1.5 tentatively into 1.6 but there is no guarantee that is going to happen or not. 1.6 already had a lot of work thrown into it and the weapons and vehicle changes coming in may have overinflated it. While there is no limits to patch sizes CCP does like keeping the patches smaller as its less to sort though in bug hunting as well as not keeping customers in download limbo.

So unless CCP says otherwise I don't expect features of 1.6 set in stone or guaranteed to be in.

Yes, possibly this seems like it would be a good idea, however if we do it I can't see it being a very high priority. Will probably have to wait until we redo the leaderboards.

When ? ... i mean the "redo the leaderboards" thing, because it really needs some "redoing".