Not the only one.

Nope, not just you.

I think the best matches are the ones where both sides stay within 10 bars of MCC damage and 20 clones of each other, objectives being traded down to the end where the momentum could shift either way down to the final seconds.

Those matches I believe are the most fun for all involved.

Not trolling, that's for sure. I find the closer the game the more enjoyable.

This is why restricted-level matches would be healthy for competition. Even something like the old Corporate Contracts but where you could restrict suits/weapons/equipment below a certain point (ie, only ADV and lower, for example) would be a good way of getting people out of their proto-shell.

Excuse me, the community doesn't care enough?

Where inside the innards of a demented Kitten did you get that idea?

The problem is still the same as in the Closed Beta, the Open Beta and Uprising 1.0 - 1.whatever. There is No Matchmaking in DUST. None. Never has been and there are no plans to add it. New Eden doesn't need matchmaking apparently and it stems from the HTFU attitude of CCP.

The DUST community of players/gamers have long lamented the lack of some mechanism to indicate what level of play they would like to engage with other like minded Mercs. Many propose No Vehicle matches as well as Vehicles Only. Proto/No Proto and a wild range of combinations have all been asked for over the last YEAR with no results other than the absurd Squad Finder*.

My basic, frank opinion is there is no way that CCP/Shanghai can figure out how to implement it. A number of players could be easily matched by letting others know what is being requested (ADV gear only, yeah I could do that - join). What we get is more silence, confused solutions that have some of the words we used but none of their meaning.

Please put blame where it is due. That would start with the letters CCP, be it Shanghai or their Mothership.

Welcome to DUST.


* I rarely find a squad with signal that isn't a recruitment squad, the majority being 1 Merc.