I honestly expect 95% of all modern FPS players who try DUST to quit it. It's not a game designed for everybody, and i can understand peeps who experience the savage pounding DUST can give them and find it deeply unpleasant and ego-crushing.

But i love it. The loss, the frustration, the rage, the hoplessness DUST can evoke are a filter, and those who survive, adapt and excel in the face of this brutality are the players i want as my enemies and allies.

The new players who have joined us in recent months have faced a genuine trial by fire. Those who have stayed are worthy of respect, and if and when they destroy me on the battlefield i will know that although i fell, i fell to a warrior. And if the battle goes the other way and i lay him low, well the triumph is all the sweeter.

Tbh i honestly don't understand the trouble you're having. I picked up a controller for the first time in my life just over a year ago when i bought a PS3 for DUST. I'm doing ok, having fun and holding my own.

This game has been dumbed down a lot from EVE. Apart from figuring out the skill tree and suit fitting, for now it's just another lobby fps where bloodthirsty starship pilots from another game get killmails ;) That will be changing in big ways in the near future, which is the whole reason many of us are sticking around.

As far as welcoming new players, much more could be done for the NPE, and the sooner the better. But in terms of making the game easier and more forgiving in order to attract a broader player base, absolutely not. I honestly expect 95% of all modern FPS players who try DUST to quit it. It's not a game designed for everybody, and i can understand peeps who experience the savage pounding DUST can give them and find it deeply unpleasant and ego-crushing.

But i love it. The loss, the frustration, the rage, the hoplessness DUST can evoke are a filter, and those who survive, adapt and excel in the face of this brutality are the players i want as my enemies and allies.

The new players who have joined us in recent months have faced a genuine trial by fire. Those who have stayed are worthy of respect, and if and when they destroy me on the battlefield i will know that although i fell, i fell to a warrior. And if the battle goes the other way and i lay him low, well the triumph is all the sweeter.

Even if OP is an alt, which is believable given the language he is using, he is doing a great job of informing and reminding us of what it was like to be new in a language we understand now. At a minimum, the people following this thread will be better at remembering what it was like as a new player, and more effectively answering their questions.

Good job OP either way.

Agreed.

To keep it all real, i run an alt who doesn't get passive sp and has no boosters.

Decided to do this to try out all the different racial weapons/suits i'd never put serious effort into. I had a big eye-opening when at about 650k sp my female Ammarian alt went 19-0 with the standard scrambler rifle at lvl 2

But don't let anybody tell you it's OP. They don't know what they're talking about.

Plus 1 for spawn camping. Just happened to me in FW. Someone put an uplink down, map looked safe to deploy there. Deployed and there was a heavy and some other people just mowing us down. Pissed me off so bad that I had to turn the game off. All of the FW matches I've played, I've never dealt with that in there. FW had an invisible line of respect, but after that.... I might just stay away from it and go play with the blues in pub matches.

Spawn Killing is like my pet peeve. I hate when people on my team do it and vice versa. I remember one pub, me and this dude were hacking the CRU and our team mate started shooting at us to stop hacking it. Like wtf? Why spawn kill?

Not reading all this blurf.

OP get in a real corp, get on comms.

Math says that there's someone even worse than you in skills.

Maybe you're being out in the open too much? Maybe you're just a little over zealous or chasing down kills? Are you aiming for headshots? Do you employ figure 8 movements when in 1 on 1 battles?

... I feel this game really needs to work to draw new players in (get them hooked). Right now I just don't see this competing over any of the other FPS options out there for anyone who isn't already heavily invested in the EVE universe. Part of this comes from the lack of impact you feel you are making, but also ...what is your motivation? You're not defending your home world or wiping out your ancient rivals. Why are you fighting? To earn money? Meh. I feel like the factional war fare aspect has a chance to be the same kind of long term conflict that PS2 has, but it's so not there yet.