"derp a herp, I'm going to "help" some newbie play this game by inviting them to watch me an my friends work our very hardest to keep 10-16 other new players from ever playing it again! this is a great plan! I'm off to go drink some lead based paint, it help me think real good!"

in dust fighting a force of relatively equal force is rarer than finding a prototype commando.

You're either vastly outgunned/manned and stomped like a baby chick into a meat grinder, or you're fighting people so inept that they have to be in their first game out of the academy.

You think anyone learns from just watching you casually murder everything within 100 meters without breaking a sweat because you outgear them by a wide margin and can effectively say a fine "**** you!" to tactical gameplay!?

When I was learning, I was encouraged to take up a logistical role for a stint, so I would be useful to everyone else(since as you very well know, a new player's militia AR hit's like a spitball against your protosuit and their freebie suit is made of wet tissue paper) and would be forced to stick with everyone and learn proper tactics instead of wandering around, wondering how these guys are doing so well while I'm getting my face chewed off.

Okay, since you're dumb as a stump(and I'm fairly certain I just pissed off stumps everywhere) he is not helping the problem nearly as much as you think he is. He is still stomping newbies, who will never play this game again. Now, if no new people play the game, it just becomes a circlejerk for bittervets until they finally get burned out, then the servers get shut down because no one is playing the game at all.

At the very best, this will slow the problem of this game having basically no retention of new players by a tiny bit(one or two players for every team he stomps out of the game, and even then, it's only until they're unlucky enough to be on the other team and he stomps them out too). but he's still stomping the god out of new players because there is no such thing as matchmaking in dust.

I'm not interested in helping you understand English expressions. Use the internet if you don't get it. I got no respect for you - you beat a dead horse into the ground and now that it's not fun anymore you want to play the good, compassionate vet and try to revive it?

Yeah, you're a saint.

I've never set foot on the ground in a proto suit. And I use my advanced scout only 1% of the time. And I've been doing so for the past year while squadding with whoever (with or without mikes) wants to be in my squad.

So yeah - I'm not helping? Do the same for a year then give me a call and you can accuse me of not helping. Then, you still won't be a saint - you'll just be a regular OK guy, and not a complete nozzle trying to look good while "making a difference".

Same as above.

I thought this entire effort was focused around pub matches.... of course I'm not talking about PC here . And I'm not talking about the relevancy of being a competitive force... I want the game to succeed and I want new players to try it out, and stay. Way to completely miss the point, smart guy.

If you want to turn a corner and finally do right by the community after being a major part of the problem and a huge bully for so long, fine. But if you don't do it with humility, well then - expect some flak.