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al nize mk2
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2014.02.04 10:28:00 -
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I only joined a few months ago and I'm at about 7.9m SP. I am still dreadful at this game with an appalling kd/r. I already terminated one character after crazily splashing a bunch of SP on useless stuff as I had next to no idea what was going on!
Was very attracted by the free to play idea but have already spent a new games worth of cash on aurum because DUST is incredibly addictive. It has all the ingredients that get me hooked on games. Building your own suits, grinding to build skills - it's potent stuff! I've always played sports games socially and never really been into FPS online except for a secret addiction to FAR CRY 2 which I became pretty good at. I had a feeling i could get hooked on DUST and it's been proved absolutely right.
I will probably never be particularly good at DUST but it's those occaisional games where you actually help the team and get more kills than deaths that keep me coming back. It's a very clever piece of work and I sincerely hope the whole thing keeps improving and growing. I never played EVE and don't really understand the whole concept of the two games inter-mingling but I'm excited to see this in action one day.
I was warned about the horrific learning curve but I've always loved tough games so it didn't put me off that much - the first few weeks of nightmarish consta-deaths nearly did however. I've also tried to get a handful of similarly not-so-hardcore friends to join up but they have all been put off by the initial difficulty. I think that's a shame and altho I am completely consumed by the DUST cloud myself - I support any changes that make it easier for new players to get into it.
Cheers! 
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al nize mk2
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2014.02.04 15:51:00 -
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Turtle Hermit Roshi wrote:al nize mk2 wrote:
hang on brother right at 8 mil is when you can begin to dominate run good ballenced sqauds an hang in there (recruit more irl ppl too)
Good to hear - I feel like I'm making progress.. slow progress.. but hey that's still progress!
GÇ£All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.GÇ¥
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al nize mk2
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2014.02.04 17:24:00 -
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Nothing Certain wrote:I just saw it in the PSN store and downloaded, just because. I loved the idea of fittings and being more in control of how you develop and having different roles to play. I thought I could get my friends from other games to play and we could form a squad with defined roles and practice and train until we got good. They all quit because of the stomping. I stayed because of it, it ticks me off so bad I want to dish it out to those giving it.
It is only now that I can start to actually begin to actually play that it is any fun, but it is only now that I am thinking of quitting. Why? Because I love getting new things and trying out new roles and making better fittings, but when I do well, unless I know who I played against, there is the knowledge that I won because of what I have and I am becoming part of the problem that makes this game miserable for new players. I get better for what? So I can be a protostomper? If they don't fix PC, matchmaking or otherwise solve this problem I don't have much incentive.
I don't want to be negative on DUST because I love the game but I kind of agree with this point about matchmaking - I have no idea how the matching up players is done but I can promise you that getting splatted 10 times in a row (or more!) is never ever fun - and if i wasn't a gaming masochist (dark souls addict, ghosts and goblins - I COMPLETED IT) I would have given up quite quickly.
But maybe that's the whole point - maybe getting smashed to pieces is the way you become proper DUST material. I'll be sticking around and hoping it happens but I know others are giving up pretty quickly. In the long run that has to be a negative for the entire community because any game could always do with bigger numbers.
I love the game myself but I want my real life buddies to join up and so far they are all saying no go. 
GÇ£All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.GÇ¥
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al nize mk2
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2014.02.04 18:53:00 -
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Nothing Certain wrote:I am looking for a corp, but I don't want to be a corp **** and go from one to another, plus I have commitment issues. I randomly squad and I have been surprised how almost always the people are pretty nice.
Definitely I do 5 times better in any kind of squad.
If you want to go for a Corp then I can definitely recommend Dust University. I was in another Corp which was totally fine (and cheaper actually) but ultimately I didn't learn anything and kept being cr*p. Just a few days in the University and I already have a bunch of incredibly helpful emails with tips and more importantly full scale instructions on how to do stuff that some others might take for granted. It seems ideal for someone like me. Not exactly new - but not exactly hot sh&& either!
GÇ£All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.GÇ¥
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