Heinz Doofenshertz
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Posted - 2014.05.14 08:20:00 -
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CCP Z wrote:
We will offer a Respec Option (which does not exist in DUST 514). More information will come down the line as the projectGÇÖs development progresses.
While I agree that in some games a Respec option is a good thing. as you may get to a point in the game where all the choices you have made are completely obsolete or bad. In New Eden no choice should ever be made lightly, nor should they be easily changed. As no spent skill is every really wasted, it might not be useful right now, but you may run into a situation later on where you'll need it and wow I already have that skill.
New Eden is very much a place of choices, however, making a choice needs to have weight as it does now. I play Logi, and Assault, if I spend skill points into a heavy tree to test it out and decide I don't like how it plays fine. but I shouldn't be able to just undo those choices.
There are limited occasons I would say respecs ok. The end of the NPE, because you just finished learning how to play and probably made bad choices before learning how important choices are. When major changes to the skill system are made, IE you removed 15 skills I had, refunding those points I'm ok with.
Making it so that I decide I don't like the skills I have paying 5 bucks and being able to completely redo my entire tree smacks all the choices in the face, and then hampers me in my ability to use the new gear I just got, because I have not properly progressed thru the tree learning how this style plays. which means I might also not like it.
I know many people are used to this being an option in other games, but it does not really fit with New Eden. yes it makes it a bit harder for some, and makes others think they are trapped with bad choices, but this is because they didn't understand the system in the first place and don't understand why it is that way.
If these are addressed early on in the NPE, like having people pick certain skills, explaining that choices are important and that, as I suggested above they can reassign them once they finish, but afterwards their choices both with their skills and their trigger pulls are important, and needed to be treated that way.
Dust514 Stats, Have you updated today?
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