Yes. It is. And it's a good thing in Dust as it is a bad thing.

Why good? Because nothing says that this is a serious game rather than having 2 corps on the same team communicating and being all tactical.

This is good. It immerses players and help them have fun in the game.

And the bad thing is, believe it or not, there are solo players in Dust. People who don't have the time to be in a squad or they are just anti-social and don't like talking to people. This also hinders it.

People like, who have social anxiety can't really work well with squads. And believe me that I have tried, I try to tell them where the enemy is or if they want a lift on my dropship so that I can leave them on the objective they desire the most and no one listens. In very few occations someone has listened to me. And for my social anxiety? I just find it hard to talk to other people. Even when saying regular stuff like go here and there. I pull a little effort just to say that.

No, I am not saying to pitty me. Just letting you guys that say "Get in a squad and play good" Not all people function well in a squad and obviously CCP didn't wanted Dust to be a "Be with your squad or f you"

This can simply be fixed. But if it is, matches will become more empty and will take longer times to fix as Scotty puts the solo players in a game with little to no squads while the squadded players play with other squads.

And this doesn't really **** me. But I don't know for the other players, since I run low ISK suits I can afford to die or just leave battle because I know I won't be going ISK negative.


Now for the NPE
You guys complain about how NPE is horrible, yet you guys do little to fix that yourselfs for the time being. Newberries getting in matches where they are simply redlined within the 2 minutes of the match, or getting owned here and there by proto stompers. Seriously, if you are one of this people that just wants to redline the enemy team or proto stomps because they don't want their KDR to get harmed you guys have no rights to complain about horrible NPE since you are the guys that are causing it.

And as for the redlining the enemy team, we all have been on both sides. We know how frustating it is when we get redlined as we all know how boring it is when your team is the one redlining. Nothing to kill except for the occasional one that decides to go near the borders. And you guys won't even let them hack at least one objective.

This said, it is YOU, the one who decides how the NPE should be, and I seriously think we need new players ever since the Legion fiasco thing.

So, let them newberries hack, and stop using your proto gear for a week. Not like it will kill you

And btw, what's your go-to fit?
Mine has been the same again thanks to the AR buff
Militia Gallente Frontline fit
With an Exile and Toxin SMG.
The only thing I have to for are the Nanohives which costs 900 ISK
So that makes my fit super cheap and I can go 15/3 in matches