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KalOfTheRathi
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Posted - 2014.04.07 11:18:00 -
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Jackof All-Trades wrote:We've had the most updates in the last few months than DUST has ever had in its entire development, and you say that it's under-developed?
Go back to your locked districts. We have had two patches in six months while previously we had five patches in five months. Exactly which months are you referring to?
No, hot fixes don't count. Those just counter hacks to bugs, typos and items that had no proper QA. As is mixing the number of equipment versus low slots. That is not an improvement. It is a negative screw up.
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KalOfTheRathi
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Posted - 2014.04.07 11:24:00 -
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Xaviah Reaper wrote:fanfest announcement? would this explain why dust sucks and has had so little development? a new game? ....
or is it just some fan made crap that means nothing. Dust has the same amount of devs and commitment as it always had from CCP. They used the cheapest game engine they could get their hands on, found a dev studio in Shanghai to work at their own pay level and trickle fixes out while managing to break something every single time they make a release. Same old, same old. 
What has changed for Dust is that there is a new Executive Producer (boss) at CCP/Shanghai for Dust. He came from Zynga the makers of Farmville. We have yet to hear what his new plan is for Dust. Hopefully something at FF will brighten our future and shed some light on the path forward.
What we do know is that VR will release on PC with Oculus Rift and on PS4 with Sony Buzzword VR technology.
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KalOfTheRathi
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Posted - 2014.04.08 03:15:00 -
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Zetsumi Ravencroft wrote:KalOfTheRathi wrote:He came from Zynga the makers of Farmville. ... if this was meant to be some kind of reassurance, you have failed miserably. Why would you assume that anything I said was meant to reassure a Merc playing down here in the Dust? Have you read nothing I have posted in the past?
I offer reality, snark, counterpoint and opposition to Dust Devs. I am the anti-Dev to comment on their perceived abilities (slim), their honesty (lacking), their trustworthiness (sorry, sneezed my coffee all over my keyboard) and the chance that this game will return to its roots (hah!) which was Chromosome. A very good FPS/MMO/RPG that had signs or greatness that has been subsequently crushed with the release of Uprising 1.0 and only managed not to completely suck for one month (1.5 or maybe 1.6).
Vehicles have been destroyed by turning them into Dumber and Dumbester play World Of Tanks In the Dust. True they are fun to play, enough - sort of. But the older ones were damned tough to play, expensive to get right and cost a bloody fortune if you got a little too loose with your magic plan. The weapons were a complicated web of abilities and cost. Some of the changes are good, while CCP/Shanghai has continue to prove they hate (or seriously do not understand) shields and those that use them.
They ruined this character's 18 months of effort. They removed the three basic items that made me switch from sniper (easy first choice that got very, very boring much too quickly) to Minmatar Logi. Four slots, high, equip and low. HP regen and Hacking bonus. All of those are gone now. Maybe the four slot equip is back now that scanners are pure useless junk and wasted SP/ISK and can be ignored like they should have been in the beginning. But pet projects by a Dev must be inserted in the game!
Yet many still ask why I play Dust514 if I hate it so? Well, true I hate the version we have now and have ever since Uprising broke my rail guns and nearly everything else. I have Zero respect for any company who's motto is HTFU and the Devs comprehension of what could/should be done with the game and their total lack of respect for the entire player community. They really do not care how much effort, time and hope any player has poured into their game. Because they change it with every single release since 1.0 with no end in sight.
I play if my friends are online and playing Dust. If they aren't ... no Dust. As Dust without my friends in chat, trash talking, laughing, joking and yelling at the stupid Blue Belles (heads ring when you dope slap them) isn't worth playing.
You want reassurance, try someone else. Anybody that is not KalOfTheRathi.
Welcome to Dust
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KalOfTheRathi
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Posted - 2014.04.08 10:04:00 -
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Lorhak Gannarsein wrote:He didn't.
He came from EA.
I don't know what crap Kal is spouting, but it's wrong. Lorthak is correct. I was mistaken. I don't know if I read the original article incorrectly, remembered incorrectly or it was the result of a fever dream. However the EP did not come from Zynga.
The proper attribution is from EA. I stopped being a customer of EA when they introduced Origin and their Project Screw the Customer for Ten Bucks program (since deceased). I did buy two of their games as gifts but have no experience with the online experience. Others, maybe even Lorhak, might be able to comment on the online success/failure/attitudes.
Again, my apologizes.
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KalOfTheRathi
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Posted - 2014.04.08 10:25:00 -
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Monkey MAC wrote:And in those last 2 patches we have had more content added and rebalanced than the rest of uprising put together.
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And performance improvements Of your list, four were day one OP. Just sayin'.
CCP/Shanghai promised the racial suit features a long, long time ago. Yea! They are finally here. Give 'em a medal.
The basic functionality of the FPS is still ... broken. Hit detection, targeting and being able to accurately tell if a target is actually sighted (versus being behind a wall, corner or the terrain) is still poor and Heavies can shoot through solid walls but cannot be hit behind them. And Railings cannot be fired through. Not mentioning all the gun play that causes screaming over the comms about emptying a clip into a Scout (whatever) and their shields not even going down (targeting/hit detection or guns not firing).
We also still have Rail Gun Turrets that fail routinely. As do Forge Guns. As do Missile and Blaster Turrets (just proved the last one), light weapons that don't reload (combat rifle will empty but will not auto load).
The fact that they delayed 1.7 was a positive but the actual content cost me friends to play with. 1.8 did it again and the hot fix to tanks got a few more.
Maybe you are happy with the recent changes. Many are not. Watch the charts.
There are fewer in the chats I hang out in. Fewer to play Dust with.
So keep up the good work CCP/Shanghai.
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