I've done this before. It's a decent stop gap measure, but problems still exist. The concern that I've had with this setup is that as people join my squad, it could potentially be weighted heavier in the 'match maker' to put us against other squads that are more organized/skilled.

I use my skinweave logi suit for a similar setup for ambush when I'm feeling cheap. Quite effective. I swap the scanner for a nanohive since I'm usually solo. I also use my exile instead of the rail rifle for a totally BPO setup.

For the newer player base, I'm surprised any of them are still here. The community is doing what it can to help the newer players since NOTHING in this game strives to help them along. The Academy is a joke with only a brief reprise before sending them to the meat grinder. I myself haven't played ambush for over 3 patches now because of this.

Well... its nice to see some of the vets coming out to bat as of late, however it just sucks to see the actual mentality. I expected to be stormed on and called a whiner and care bear, I have less then a month actual playing game time under my belt, but when I see the other vets responses to tier own peers, I see just how bad its gotten.

Perhaps t was a gradual process, as the more sportsman like players slowly drifted away from the game, as I find it hard to beleie the community grew around the current majority populace.

However I also think its a lack of action, we can talk all we like, and noble sentiment is all well and good, it all it takes for evil to triumph is good men to do nothing.

So yes make all the forum posts out want, beg and plead for CCP to take notice and fix things, and maybe they will, maybe they won't, we don't know. Forum posts fix nothing, your actions can, send ultimatums, leave corps that do this. Purposely seek out the purpotraters and make them pay. Kill em in faction warfare, double tap very one you manage to kill, do something

It seems drastic but do nothing fixes nothing. The are no other ways to discourage it. Your taxes support them, your helping themin pcs supports it, your running in the same squad and reviving their protos and repairing them supports it. As long as they can do it with minimka risk they will do it, and if we can't make it risky for them in the match their stomping itself, make em pay in other modes or when their not stomping.

Seriously for vets that have no issue threatening each other, or newberries, it would bloody well be nice to see yours actually do something. Talk is cheap, as they say, and if your going to depend on the game developer who has historicly stalled and prioritized things undeserving of a quick fix, your fools. How many patches before they get to fix it? How many patches before our player base isn't even deserving the continued server fees?

If you truly enjoy this game make it survive, take action when action is needed, organize when organization is needed, and grief your ******* heart out when a person or group is deserving to be briefed. Don't cry to CCP to fix something, that is inherently a player problem. Is it ccps fault matchmaking is broken? Yes. Is its ccps fault that plays and corps deliberately and purposefully abuse this fact, knowing full well its unfair, and continue to do so for no regard of the rest of then player base? No, it is the players fault, and their fault alone for it.

They allowed it, supported it (directly or inderectly, intentionally or not), turned a blind eye to it, and it has become a matter of course at this point. It has become more prominently noticed in 1.7 because even players who could normally handle these type of environments, be it because jier squared or just that good, e being overwhelmed, and BC there are loud mouths like me on the forums now.

I look forward to seeing you re tomorrow, as if you can't support the no proto for a week, your scum.

And I will be taking your name, posting on here, and encourage you to be disowned. Be it by your corp, your friends, your alliance, or just my fellow newberries to target your ass and grind it into the dirt as best our little newberry asses can. Action needs to be taken, hate me, loathe me, laugh at me, say I'm a whiner, do what you want.

And you vets that see our plight, that acknowledge what is going on, htfu and do something about it.

How many players do we needto lose before its fixed? HHe many have we already lost? And how many can we lose before the market needed to support this game is exhausted? 600 new plays a day, but the play base never grows.... that means there are 600 new players that come to this game daily, play it, are burned, and will probably never return to give it another chance, especially with the ps4 out.

Sure wait for CCP to fix it, though will it even be worth fixing for them by the time CCP gets around to it?

I'm sorry, CCP believes in hardcore r*pe mode. This is why all the little p*ssy nerds are the only customers left for them. CCP is apparently happy about that low player base. They call it player "loyalty". That is what they call it in Iceland anyway. I'm from America and here we call that bull and sh*t.

The last thing real ppl want when they come home from dealing with reality is "hardcore" in a game. They want fun. Several companies learned how to harness that and package it just fine a long time ago. CCP apparently thought the basement kiddie wannabe crowd was worth more money. That has yet to be proven.

This is why CCP is still a little fail company from a third rate island of ice and Sony didn't think they were worth it enough to actually buy their company and market the ever living sh*t out of their product.

If only I could buy that company. Ah, to dream. I'm still trying to figure out a legal angle on the Atlanta White Wolf office.


What I'm saying is that if you want things to change you'll have to go shoot at a statue in Jita. To date that is the only time CCP noticeably listened to complaints.

Why do people always complain about pubstomping? if you dont like it just leave the match.

Why do people always complain about pubstomping? if you dont like it just leave the match.

What I don't understand isGǪwhy all the metrics and math in matchmaking? If we don't have the player base for matchmaking to work, why use it? When we know it cannot work.

Maybe I'm just frustrated but at this point I'd settle for a simple squad sorter so that q-synced squads can't role together against dewberries.

I don't understand why are complains about a broken matchmaking system that in first place it doesn't exist. Just play and if the match is too unbalanced just get out and find another one or don't play ambush.

Match making is purely pathetic, close to non existant. This here is soley the reason why the game will not ever gather more players( a decent amount), It's just over the top.
You get out of academy, with starter fits and a few MLT fits, and still no understanding of how the different weapons, roles, vehicles, gamemodes and dust514 in general works. Right into a battle with players with upto 3x the HP and a lot more damage, not only that but you have a MLT AR, they have prototype rail rifles, combat rifles, madrugars. You cannot hide because their radars scanning NON stop. If you do manage to hurt one he is sat in the middle of prototype triage hive, with a core fuckassed rep tool on him.
This is not a learning curve, this is a tedius process that in reality you will have to go through for months before starting to really stand upto these players.
Telling the people that the game needs to survive (new players/new customers) to get gud, HTFU, this is New Eden or even find a squad does not cut it. It's a major major downfall in the game design and in a way its the games death sentance. After all this is a game on the PS3, there are plenty of other shooters that offer a game that can be enjoyed from the get go, offer much fairer battles, and does not punish people for being new. People playing the playstation have much less patience for bullshit games.
The gaming community I hail from is 6000 members strong across various platforms, after reviews of the game came out only about 10 actually tried it, after they got to review it themselves only 1 survived. Meanwhile other games you have to pay for are jam packed with members.

In my opinion this situation and game modes must become a priority.
Matchmaking, needs to be there!!!
PVE, will help entertain newer players and retain current players and bring back some of those who left.
Game modes, there are only 2, deathmatch and hack. Skirmish and dom are the same thing in reality, FW is skirm, PC is skirm. No matter what you try in this game there is only 2 game modes.

Hold on are you talking about a games development who have built the most successful persistent sci-fi mmo ever?
With offices in multiple countries across the globe?

Or are you refering to the skeleton who are currently building this game?
I don't know what it is with americans but unless it's big, loud and obnoxiously crude you don't seem to appreciate it.

As a long time player, I had to quit playing for a while. The game is in a way the best it has ever been and at the same time its the worst as well. With out a proper matchmaking system, different game modes AND pve dust just isn't playable right now for me. I am eager and hopeful for the future of dust for now though I have been playing some of the other games out there and waiting.

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Sorry, how can you say you've been here since closed beta and you can't get an upper hand on any match?

You should also have millions of SP to help you in your survivability and the experience for situational awareness on map knowledge.....