Zero Notion
Wraith Company
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Posted - 2013.11.11 23:01:00 -
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I believe that a significant portion of the issue lies in a simple fact; the game is currently unfinished, the mechanics are not working correctly and they are making adjustments across the board that will effect how the weapons themselves behave. Currently, the information we have is based upon the ranges and very little else. Things that impact the weapons i.e; recoil, dispersion, aim mechanics, scope variants, armor and shield, dropsuit variants and so on. As it stands, it does appear to be a frustrating collection of data that seems to represent exactly what many players feel to be a rising issue with the current AR and does nothing to address those complaints.
However, we don't know what else is in store. That, too, is a problem as when you decide to play the game you are not given appropriate decision making information that will help you invest your SP. Only after significant play time, investment and experience do you suddenly recognize that CCP still has not pulled Dust from Beta, there is no test server that is going to be able to help the devs and players to see what the state of the game may look like and that a refund of SP is a very, very small possibility.
I feel your pain. I've refused to invest SP into any proto suits at this time because of what I saw happen to the Caldari changes. I've invested in three proto level weapons, three level four and nearly every light weapon except AR and MD at advanced level simply out of the hope that I am going to have something to fall back onto when inevitable changes happen. I don't know if that is the intended goal for players that CCP and the Devs had in mind but it is either that or not spend any points at all and hope for a finished product before you lose interest in the game.
I do know that Dust is meant to represent a real time war simulation and changes do happen with technology that often gives one side an advantage over the other, new superior weapons are introduced and others become inferior, etc. But this is simply a constant shifting of raw mechanics that is leading to more and more frustration of the population. It blows. We all know it. We all try to find *something* that will reward us with a sense of enjoyment out of this game and more often than not, that enjoyment is somehow hammered by the shifting development.
My advice: don't learn to love your weapon or your dropsuit until the game appears more stable. Don't spend any money on the game. If you want changes to be made, protest by not giving them money and make them aware that this is unacceptable and that they cannot just give you a partially completed game without some sort of in game warning for the player that articulates that mechanics, weapons and dropsuits might change and thus may not behave in the manner that they do now and that the investment of your SP into such may not be refunded. |