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mollerz
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Posted - 2014.07.30 18:58:00 -
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I like to be a random on squads. I'll rarely talk unless it's a good close match and info becomes critical. I typically snake eyes it though. I listen and when they need something, I come out of nowhere and do my best to provide it before disappearing again. Maybe it is just because I am a dedicated minja, but I tend to take outlier objectives while the rest of the team is wasting clones against a proto wall.
9 times out of ten, my solo ass provided my dipshit team a better score and chance than they had without me.
But- to that end.. let's discuss why it is hard to squad up in a pub match.
1st) CCP, in one of their truly epic development fumbles, too away the war barge. It used ot eb we had a minute or more to squad up, check out your opponents roster, dry hump other toons.. it was a good thing. Why they removed it I'll never know. But I suspect it had to do with the introduction of the squad finder. I'll address that in a bit. But...
2nd) I think it was 1.3 or so, but they added a bug where there is a huge delay in pulling up your team's squads. It takes just long enough that you launch into the game before it will populate. As a strung out biotic minja, it is crucial I get the jump on all the heavies getting their instant LAVs. So waiting that delay out and getting into a squad is a liability and has to happen after I die the first time.
3rd) And we have squad finder. Since the war barge disappeared exactly when squad finder was released, I can only surmise they took the war barge in an effort to herd people to using the squad finder. I only just started using it for S&Gs, and I thought I heard that it was initially not working well at all. now, I guess you could say it is working well enough. But the problem is the caliber of people who advertise squads. You have AFK'd people, you have drunk hillbillies (it is oddly a common theme), then you have the pompous recruiting neckbeards who make me gag, and I could go on. I did find, one time, a cool squad using this tool, but then I got disconnected by CCP... soo.. **** me.
As far ask AFKing, it is kind of silly to do that at this point. ******* play the game before it is shut off. You'll have spent all your time AFKing to have a SP roided toon.. that evaporates.
Dingle Dust Berry.
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mollerz
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Posted - 2014.07.30 19:08:00 -
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Onesimus Tarsus wrote:Thor Odinson42 wrote:B145PH3M3R wrote:Thor, its a frickin pub match. Do you really think people will care MORE now that the game is dying? Especially when you guys come in with 6-12 members and 2 or 3 tanks/ads? I dont understand the mentallity of people stomping pub matches, then crying about lack of competition... maybe tone down the proto and vehicle spam and you'll find decent matches.. I've never understood the "it's a pub match" The pub match is where you spend 99% of your time in Dust. Why should it be boring? KDR matchmaking fixes this.
Oh really? You'll have matches with heavies and tankers on one map, and logis on a separate one... because KDR matchmaking.
Dingle Dust Berry.
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mollerz
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Posted - 2014.07.30 19:48:00 -
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Thor Odinson42 wrote:
And again, we have stupid reasoning.
People playing the game within squads with gear they earned in the only game modes we can consistently run IS NOT a bad thing.
And neither are solo players. You are the one making a big thing out of it.
Here's a hint: CCP is the one ruining dust.
Dingle Dust Berry.
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mollerz
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Posted - 2014.07.30 19:52:00 -
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Onesimus Tarsus wrote:mollerz wrote:Thor Odinson42 wrote:
And again, we have stupid reasoning.
People playing the game within squads with gear they earned in the only game modes we can consistently run IS NOT a bad thing.
And neither are solo players. You are the one making a big thing out of it. Here's a hint: CCP is the one ruining dust. I disagree with the present tense, it was ruined a while back.
Well, I guess you may as well say it was ruined from inception 
Dingle Dust Berry.
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mollerz
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Posted - 2014.07.30 20:06:00 -
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Or entire squads who snipe form rooftops.. meanwhile no objectives are gettign tackled, they aren't covering me when I do.
These are the same squads you see rolling around mother ducck style with her ducklings.. all militia gear, looking like bots their movement is so ridiculous. They amble so slowly and get wiped the **** out regularly. it's just dumb.
I find most matches during the afternoon are chock full of that type of "team play" and it is impossible to get away from it. Trying to get into a FW match takes 15 minutes or more sometimes.. **** that. I usually just give up.
The player base is getting more and more anemic.
Dingle Dust Berry.
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mollerz
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Posted - 2014.07.30 20:16:00 -
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Thor Odinson42 wrote:
This makes me want to put my head through sheet rock.
WHERE SHOULD people use their proto? Why FW? What about the current mechanics of FW makes it okay to use proto?
I don't mind when people wear proto, but at the same time, CCP developed a game where even if you skill to proto, you can't barely afford to run it unless you go into a corp. They need to fix their ******* economy so the pay outs are higher. At least let us sell salvage for cost or some ****.
When I read that Eve has an "economist" on staff it makes me roll my motherfucking eyes. Mainly because I know an economist is basically a glorified history teacher that regurgitates the same old same old established math. Anyone could do that job with a month of reading.
Yet- what economic changes has dust seen? Almost none, and definitely none that weren't plain harmful.
What a ******* joke.
Dingle Dust Berry.
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mollerz
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Posted - 2014.07.31 01:25:00 -
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Thor Odinson42 wrote:
But the game just feels too random to me right now. It's like we've got 1/50th of a Sandbox but 80% of the playerbase (totally pulled out of thin air) is playing like this is some huge MMO.
The death of the dust sandbox was the worst part of everything. I had the impression that one day eve and dust would fully merge and it would have been ******* insane awesome.
that **** ain't happening and that is a real ******* shame.
Dingle Dust Berry.
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