KalOfTheRathi
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Posted - 2014.09.04 04:36:00 -
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Having played little recently I did get back into it for the increased SP week. I didn't cap it out and that might be a first for a boosted SP event.
However, the state of the game for me is that it is mostly boring. The hot fixes keep changing things for the worse. Each one does a Nerf on something. Even the buffs turn out to be a Nerf in the end. They buff AV and the ADS sucks worse. The balance Swarms and now every other set of incoming swarms are Wiyokumi's. And vehicle death by Forge Gun, Assault Pro cover at least 80%. Non-prototype kills are usually an entire squad of junk weapons. With the armor repair nerf hammered armor is death, shield tanking has always sucked so they die even faster.
The balance of the game is miserable. Nothing new there except the imbalance moves around every hot fix.
I no longer have any prototype suits skilled, until they quit moving everything downwards I think it is just wasting SP.
CCP Rattiti claimed in his initial posting (regarding hot fix alpha I believe) that they would only be doing small tweaks, a few at a time (one was what I recalled). So for Large Blaster Turrets they changed everything about it: damage, range, heat, added massive dispersion and made the gun the least accurate of the tank weapons. As a result I quit running blasters. Why bother running an anti-infantry tank that cannot kill infantry. About 1/3 of the supply depots are still not accessible by vehicles. Client problem so no change expected. Most likely because changing the supply depot functional radius would affect infantry as well.
My ground fits suck. They have removed the bonuses from my suits of choice. Switched them to other types and/or races. Scouts rule, the prototypes are nearly impossible to kill and the KB/M players move like a water drops on a hot skillet. Which means the slow network architecture from CCP will rarely record a hit against them as they have moved at least twice before the bullet you fired arrives where you aimed at. The good news is that CCP Rattiti is talking about fixing that ... only in tanks. By making them very slow to change direction. Which will make the controller players suffer even more now than they do. Sounds like fun.
Assault suits suck. The only worthwhile versions are starter fits. Because Free.
Heavies are such a mixed bag you should ask others. I have skilled into Gallenti ADV but have started skilling into Amarr as well. But that is only because I got caught with a bucket of Amarr suits when they reset the world and the Amarr was junk until recently. At least this way I can clear some of the trash from my inventory. No player market ever means all the useless reward and salvage items just clutter up the fitting screen with items that are useless and will never be skilled into.
Client bugs will never be fixed. The modded controllers cannot be overcome and the input handler code is obviously in the client. The Unreal Engine 3 was never a good solution for game controller versus KB/M input anyway. Guns don't always fire. Buttons don't always register. Compared against some of my modern Steam games (PC/Mac/Linux obviously) the difference is severe.
As ever, no SP reset is even a remote possibility. In New Eden no SP is wisely spent. Eventually you will regret it. 
All of the bad news aside I played more during the last week than in the last month. The only reason I did was because some of my friends were online. When they don't play I don't bother even turning on my PS3.
BTW, there is an iOS PSN app. You can check to see if your PSN friends are playing. And it will tell you if they are playing dust ... or not. Probably an Android one as well I would suspect. A pleasant alternative to having to turn on my noisy PS3 only to find everyone is playing Destiny beta or watching Netflix. During the increase SP event more of them were playing Dust. They all complained about getting Officer Stomped. Its the new thing. Proto Stomping wasn't enough. Six Krinn Burst HMGs on my very fist battle for the week. Fun? No, not really. Yes Scottie is still the dumbest AI ever. Two characters logged in an between them seven games that were already lost. How close? Well, I couldn't leave battle because the defeat screen was already up!
You go have a nice day, and thanks for asking.
To everything there is a season yet in Dust there is little reason.
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