Aero Yassavi
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Posted - 2014.03.07 04:05:00 -
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The fact that part of what makes Dust unique compared to most other FPS games is that everything is consumable is pretty good grounds to warrant Dust also having a higher TTK than most other FPS games. When you bring a dropsuit on the battlefield you actually paid for it, whether through ISK or AUR, so it's an investment. When people see their investment get melted seemingly instantaneously it does not create happy feelings. So from my perspective the high increase in TTK is a great welcome.
The grenade nerf on the other hand looks like a bad attempt to fix a problem. The only thing I can think of is CCP thinks it'll reduce grenade spam, except that when you grenade spam you stand on top of clusters of uplinks, so it doesn't matter if you storage count is 3, 2, or 1, you'll keep getting them replenished. Bad move.
As far as medium dropsuits go, they are making some slight changes like the Amarr medium suits armor/shield values, but besides that there's not much really going on. However, given that there are big changes to the full set of lights and heavies then might as well get those out the door.
I can understand the desire to want to wait until it's perfect, but one patch is never going to fix everything and if you think waiting longer may do that then you're setting yourself up for disappointment. At this point the players just want to see progress, and I believe 1.8 is in fact progress.
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Aero Yassavi
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Posted - 2014.03.07 04:17:00 -
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straya fox wrote:Yeah i guess so Aero, i am just very nervous about this patch.
Your nervousness is completely understandable, this is one of the most substantial changes Dust will have ever seen. Quite honestly, as much as I've always believed in increasing TTK I'm not quite sure exactly how that will change the moment-to-moment gameplay and anyone who claims to know is lying. It's one of those things you have to wait and experience first hand to truly know. Sadly CCP and Sony aren't able to work together to get us a test server. 
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