REs magically detonating AFTER the person that threw them dies...

logic at its finest.

REs magically detonating AFTER the person that threw them dies...

logic at its finest.

I think the biggest problem is the intended use vs how the community interprets the use.

If you're not using it as intended, it either seems UP (like scouts) or becomes OP (LLAVs before collision damage was nerfed and they were removed)

Well, not the only way REs are effed up...

Beers, yes on most points, but I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to say about Frames.... Remove them?

Because ccp is learning, this is (to my knowledge) their first fps so they get things wrong sometimes

Zaria ccp did the whole small, med, frame thing to increase sp sink. That and it confines design because they all have to be 1 o of the 3

You hit the nail on the head here. CCP always assumes we will use things as intended. Perfects example is caldari logi and LLAV. We will all look for the best way to win regardless of intended use

You can detonate them while you're bleeding out. After you respawn, you still have control over your REs until you place more.

I refuse to believe that their constant fumbling and introduction and nerfing of a new set of so called FOTM stuff every couple of months is due to their incompitance, they just can't be that bad.

its a deliberate strategy to sell aur items and boosters to keep people wanting to spec into the next best thing.

I bet they're laughing their asses off, watching us discuss various balance issues that they offset by intention.

In either case, not going to fanfest, I might emberass myself.


(A few obvious deliberate scenarios)

- Call logi suit (in retrospect) were obviously OP from the start, did they not see it? And a suit nerf, an armor buff and a shield nerf later an its very weak indeed. Can you honestly say that the old cal logi suit was OP compared to todays Gal logi that can tank way more armor than the cal logi ever could tank shields, and get it back at a 140 hp per second on top of it?

- The whole lets sell aur contact nades very cheaply and nerf them to hell a short time after.

- The whole flaylock fiasko, from god mode to close to useless, same goes somewhat for lasers.

- I could go on.


If I'm wrong, and there really isn't any business strategy behind all this nonsensical balancing scrubbery, if this is all really done with intent to improve the game, well, I'm at a loss for words....

Today we discuss how well CCP balances dust. If you guessed poorly you get a cookie. So I am going to list out a few GÇ£whyGÇ¥ and leave it open for you nerds to come up with solutions, because frankly l canGÇÖt be bothered.

1.For those of you that play eve you can easily recognize the design elements that also exist in dust. It should also be painfully evident that ccp took bits and pieces and not the idea in a whole. Now application of all the eve design into dust was, from a project stand point impossible and acceptable. The issue is what they choose and how the applied it.

2.One of my biggest issues to this day is lack of proper damage types in dust. Yes CCP Wolfman we know we are too stupid to understand it. Thank you for saving us from our own ignorance. The 4 damage types from eve would have made balancing weapons and suits easier and more dynamic.

3.Vehicle vs Infantry. Yes I said infantry and not AV. There is a pretty good reason for it too. Tanks spend most of their time killing infantry. IGÇÖm sure if we saw the stats behind it that tanks would get 95% or more of their kills from infantry. Now I know that in PC and some competitive FW matches you have tankers going after other tankers. ThatGÇÖs more the exception to the rule really. At best you have a bunch of tank spam trying to kill infantry and a few tankers actually going after other tanks. Since 1.7 I have seen to many matches in pub or fw where tanks with blasters just farm infantry and ignore other tanks completely. Now I have a tanking toon and I am not anti-tank, it just feels like an XL suit with 90% resists vs small arms fire.

4.CCP has decided on using a range vs damage slider. The problem with that is in dust the close quarters combat (cqc) is a much higher risk vs reward trade off. So the choice of damage mods or ehp is as fair as it gets. Now the longer range weapons such as rail rifle, laser (of old sadly, sniper. I use all these weapons and you get the ability to stack damage mods (high slots), armor plates (low slots), sit on armor hives.

5.Frames. Frames. Frames. Really wanted to give us some sp sinks didnGÇÖt you CCP? So get of them. The whole idea of small is faster and low ehp vs slow and more ehp is done. With the ttk and hit detection improvement it seems an unneeded restriction.

6.So I have to rant about something. The thing that I find inexcusable is how in some maps I canGÇÖt see my reticle. I have spent many of times adjusting my settings with little to no improvement. Yes I am talking about Manus Peak.

I could go on but canGÇÖt be bothered. So add your own issues or offer a solution.