Hyborean Strain
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Posted - 2014.04.29 16:38:00 -
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I'm a new player. I have about 11m SP and 30m ISK. I feel like I did a lot of things right. I studied this game's forums for weeks before jumping in, knew from playing Eve for years that skills make a huge difference and came very slowly, bought the Templar package (Amarr Victor!), read all the Fox guides, carefully skilled into my bpo suits and weapons. I understood the importance of cover from playing a lot of Mechwarrior, stuck with cheapass builds so I could have a decent ISK buffer, and fully expected to be face-rolled as I hadn't played an FPS since Quake III.
And holy **** did I nearly quit this game in frustration. I went from doing okay in the academy to getting down right humiliated in Public matches. I still go negative frequently. I attribute a great deal of this to terrible gun game, and I'm okay with that. But I know guys with wonderful GG that delete Dust on their first day.
The NPE is more than a joke, it's straight out damned. Even understanding that fittings and equipment make a big difference, I was shocked by how ludicrous that difference is. My favourite moment in the game is when I emptied an entire SMG clip into a guy at point-blank range, then got wasted in about seven shots from his AR. I quit the game for 3 months and let my passive SP boosters do the work for me.
There is so much of this game that needs improving. Heaps of things, and it all needs to happen right now. The NPE most especially. It could benefit greatly from tutorials similar to those in Eve; where agents send you on starter missions that pay a great deal of ISK, explain roles and include training on how to perform them, dump skillbooks and tons of equipment into your inventory, (including more Omega boosters), and for god's sake, tell you about the ranges of different guns... Basically handing the game to you on a silver platter.
I stick with this game for the love of Eve, and because I imagine that one day it can be a great thing. As a new player though, it's a turd sandwich. |
Hyborean Strain
Immortal Guides
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Posted - 2014.04.30 16:11:00 -
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Joseph Ridgeson wrote: "I have all the skills and know nothing about DUST" or "I know everything about DUST but only have 500,000 SP"?
I would say of those two choices, I would definitely prefer to have all the skills.
I know I could use Aurum to buy better equipment, but I'm not down with that. Plus I understand that having the equipment < having the equipment & the skills. So I'm patient. I have however, tried to encourage my friends who own PS3's to log in and make a character now, turn on the passive SP, then log out without ever playing a single game. That way if they ever give the game a shot in a few years, they'll have a much better experience than someone who just jumps head first into the empty swimming pool that is Public Contracts.
Because let's face it, that is the real NPE; getting stomped into the substrate by people you haven't a chance of countering. The only way that all of these protos have great GG is because all the average players ran screaming within the first 3 hours of logging in. That's no way to run a game. Having a 90% attrition rate on new customers is no way to run a business either. |