well said
a game with out new players will die fast and new players who die fast will not stay
at least extend academy play to 1 mill life time skill pts so players can have some idea how the game plays before becoming meat in the proto grinder that is pub and fractional matches

Making the Academy only 1500 WP before getting out was a really, really, really stupid move. It needs to go back to, what was it, 20k WP to get out? Also, everything Pisidon said. You either need to remove KB/M or nerf it so that they have acceleration like a controller. I can't tell you how many times I've been killed due to someone strafing left and right really fast with a keyboard and I can't do **** about it. I certainly can't move that fast with a controller.

I also think that the AR, all ARs, need to be nerfed. I've been killed by militia/standard blueprint ARs while wearing proto gear as if I were wearing militia with all my skills at zero. They were using said strafing bullshit to kill me. Also, the range on the AR severely out classes a Scrambler Rifle.

It's ridiculous that you're adding more things, refuse to/are unable to/are just stupid to fix the things the community are actually saying needs to be fixed and that you think it's alright to throw newbs into the game right when they start. Oh yeah, no multi-squad sync in the FW update? Hello teamkilling fucktards. I will be staying out of FW for a good while. All it takes is one teamkiller to destroy any team.

There it is there it is! I didn't actually expect anybody to say that. Thank you, that sheds more light on the thought processes of infantry. It doesn't look good for you.

No, you get a small squad of 3 people with brains to destroy each tank. All you infantry make it sound far worse than anything supposed problem that exists by requiring different people to destroy each tank. Just use the same people.

Lol, I've changed my sensitivity and I still can't strafe like keyboards can. It's unfair to allow both controller and KB/M. It's one or the other.

It's gonna be in the new loyalty store





Following your logic, would you say vehicles should be able to hack objectives? You gotta get outta your car to hack a point, and you're not exactly inconspicuous on your way there. I don't think you're comparing apples to apples.

Vehicles have a strategic place on the field that is different to infantry. It's also a different skill tree, and costs a lot more in a lot of cases. So you can't say because infantry shouldn't do this, vehicles shouldn't do this. That's not balance, that's pointless.

Really happy with the swarm nerf and much needed AR/SR range nerf but not happy with the Forge nerfs! Come on, we heavies are neglected as it is and only have two freaking weapons to choose from:/ At least fix the HMG and give us Gallente Heavy dropsuits and armor hardeners for dropsuits. What about the tron effect that happens when the game lags out, has that been fixed? What about the shooting weapon switch glitch huh?! While your shooting and run out of ammo you switch weapons to get the kill and your character switches back towards the empty gun to finish the animation! Love most of the updates though.

You see my manipulation attempt? I'm not following...I can't see it. Can you explain how I'm manipulating something? I didn't intend to do that so I'd like to know. I'm not clear on what you're saying here. You can't seriously think a scrambler pistol should be able to damage a HAV can you? That's a logical extension of what you appear to be advocating.

For the record, I'm not a vehicle guy, so don't make assumptions. I am coming from a point of view that would like to see balance in the game, so that stuff can be added quickly instead of going around in circles carrying buff / nerf hammers and waiting months on end for progress. So I'd really like to understand how I might be making my life as infantry harder in an unbalanced way.

I'm following the points you're making, but I can't see how they make the vehicle / infantry relationship balanced. Vehicles *are* and *should be* an advantage in specific ways, shouldn't they? Just like infantry are. The trick is to get these differences right, whilst still keeping them different. Dictating that because A can't do something, then neither should B be able to, reduces variety and gets you closer to a scenario where the cheapest thing you can do is also the best thing.

You can't win a game involving hacking null cannons if everybody ran vehicles and never got out of them. So, for example, what do you see (I'm assuming you are an infantry guy too) a tank's role in the game as? How should they be utilised on the field?

So what your saying is that tanks arent underpowerd and dropships should continue to be killed with 2 shots from a swarm launcher. You are trying to tell me somthing that people put millions of sp and isk into and spends 700, 000isk to restock
SHOULD be completely obliterated with 2 shots from a swarm? You are trying to tell me that swarmers are at a disadvantage is a scrambler pistol a weak wepon to you? Does a comando suit with a proto ar and a swarm sound light to you. Does the spechialist swarm launcher with a "extended lock on time fair" ( it has a increased lock on time of under 1 secound yet a breach forge gun has a extended charge time of about 3 secounds. Yes ccp because under 1 sec is extended I think you should lay of the weed for a while") sound fair. Do you not know wtf a tank is here ill put the dictionary meaning here for you. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tank . Now the current dust514 tank. : a vehical which gos pewpewpew and can die with a few little stupid rockets named swarmies.
All vehicals need a buff and you cant compare dust with other games becaues dust is unique and dust514 is set in the future were a assualt rifle is stronger than a gataling gun.

No one have noticed the orbital strikes nerfings??

Now they're more hard to make on faction wars,..
Someone have discovered the way to call'em again on faction contracts????
Please tell us!! The new gauss and combat weapons aren't enough!!!!!....

Now calm yourselves before you put a bullet to me yet, but reading through comments, audio, and feedback of many a player it seems lag has become the greatest determining factor in your performance. Of course its obvious to almost everyone that dust has been known to be quite the jar of pickles for lag inducing rage quits. Let us take a trip back to open beta where the graphics were not half bad and render glitch sniping was in its prime just as it is today. Could most of you think back to just some lag spikes and not the constant pain after getting punched in the sack during that time? Now fast forward to tanks that fly in the air and easily catch up to an LAV. Now ever see a tank completely disappear for a few seconds and had already damaged you, but you receive all that damage delayed behind cover. Same goes with dropsuit against dropsuit. Your damage notification has quite the delay mostly near structures of the map have you noticed that pattern? Ever have your own plasma cannon shot hit you in the back firing it while running? Thats new to me.

Honestly 1.7 was like an early Christmas or Chrismahanukwanzakah (whatever gets you through) present wrapped in the nicest bow inside new toys bringing joyous sounds of rata tat tat and rrrrrrnn pew pew pew pew. Your bright happy faces bringing murdery death on the complete opposite of a wintery wonderland now with volcanic ash and stuff. Yet behind the chrismahanukwanzakah ficus tree some poorly wrapped gifts lie in wait. Suddenly thump thump thump and then the warning sound the orbital strikes make came a bit too late. Luckily it wasn't too bad so you dust off the corpse ashes of your team only to soil yourself to a sight of a tank gliding toward you at mach speed. The thing lands like a Miley Cyrus wrecking ball taking the ficus tree with it and not a scratch on it. Gathering your wits as it mows down your team you gracefully chuck every AV grenade like a monkey flinging turds. Looks like its just pissed off when out of the fray a cheap LAV laced with proximity mines galore takes it out like a champ yet barely a dent to itself. Hail of missiles burst at your feet you re soil your suit when a brave teammate wielding a trusty swarm launcher the only weapon that can be used in the event of a target being vehicle or installation gives the dropship a nice tap on the shoulder to let you know hey I'm right here give me a hug of explosives. But all hope is not lost for in the way back of your map the thump thump thump of a militia large rail gun tank saves your soiled pants continues to hug the safety of the red line till three more tanks join in joyous red lineing festivities. While I get in the fetal position clutching a laggy misfiring flaylock pistol I hope you had fun with your rail rifle.