CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.08.11 19:47:00 -
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 Salutations,... and Congratulations!!
You've just re-certified what CCP always sold as the chain-breaking difference between Dust 514 and other FPS games: ZERO Role constraints.
Maybe most of us (kind of like I did at first) expected to find the "Artificer", "Sentinel", "Arbiter", "Enforcer" roles meant 'You are choosing a fighting specialist in this game (medic, scout, special-weap guy, sniper...designed to function with a pre-designed purpose).
...Wrong.
You're training a "character" in this game (like a pet you buy, supposed to be thinking up a perfect name for it, supposed to be deciding which sex and breed you want, teaching it some skills and tricks, but ultimately long-term raising it to be a great runner or fetcher or attacker or cuddle-protector for your little kids).
You're the merc--you have you own fighting techniques that attract you in combat and your own ways of doing things,... so YOU pick your custom gear---every suit has enough wiggle room to accommodate SOME amount of mixed-up contradictory gear--so YOU create whatever "mutt" suit works for you. No shoebox combat roles.
Some players adapted to that well: 'sniper-ing with heavy armour suit in case of ambush', 'scout-ing with an Forge Gun in case you see the opportunity to raise surprise hell on the reds's RDV staging area while you're sneaking around his yard', 'repping friends with your medic suit--but pumped with kin-cats and a cloak so you can assassinate enemy who are hacking nulls"
(I myself am no scout--I drive blatantly loud vehicles for a living---I "scout" iced tea... but I wouldn't be caught dead in anything but an advance-scout SUIT because it accommodates my gameplay and it's the best when shot down helpless in indian country).
This "freedom" to pimp your fitting is what drives other players to bancruptcy---they can't understand what they are doing wrong!!
It's what Dust was designed to be---no role constraints.
This doesn't mean they wouldn't a put small menu of "role" fit-outs on the table for those players who have to have their comforting classic pick-from-the-menu battle roles. It just means these pick-from roles understandably WON'T be as diehard dependable and well-refined as what you'd find in another FPS.... because CCP really wouldn't want to spend time making the same molds they are trying to break out of.
So I'm afraid your idea that CCP messed up by making the role-suit too adaptable is just an old idea, that Dust DELIBERATELY wanted to defy. I'm one of the players who feel they deserve congrats for doing it.... others will always feel they shouldn't have messed with the Colonel's Down-home Recipe...
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
No story can have life without writers and publishers.
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CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.08.11 21:10:00 -
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Delta 749 wrote:[Todays ignorant fan boy award goes to....
inb4 half assed retort with a smug veneer trying to say we just dont get it
.....NOOOO, Delta!!  If you came away from my post with the wrong impressions, let me quash that right now, and say I'm sorry if you thought I was saying something to try to insult you. I would not.
You understand that these suits are "not really roles" like in other FPS titles. You get it, yes. But do you realize how hard it is to break out of an old habit? The habit is that I SHOULDN'T try to make a medic suit my Sentinel role, because the Mauler suit has got to be better for that purpose. After beating "CoD #16: Alien Invasion" (#16!!!) that habit is like chewing your nails.
I get that I am NOT supposed to run across this game alone and out in the open---I get it!!---I've gotten that for over a year, and I understand it.... But do I still catch myself often running wide open across a map repeatedly? OH yeah, LOL!!!
Other players have adapted to this Dust-travellers-warning rule much better than me. I get the rule... but until I am fully broken free of my old paractices and expectations (like expecting I can make it over to that container without a hole in my head this time), I will end up repeatedly frustrated.
I won't be able to get CCP to make it safer for me to follow my old habits with less frustration.
Dust 514 is merciless and unsympathetic when it comes to our frustration.
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
No story can have life without writers and publishers.
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