So I downloaded Dust having played EvE for countless years. I make a minmatar because they are my favourite race.

I have a look at the market and want to use the Heavy Machine Gun. Fortunately enough, there was 5 sets of the AUR version of the Golem HMG or something to try out. I loved it.

As a new player, we are put into matches of others players of equal skill and equipment. So everyone was using very similar gear except the few that had purchased AUR.

With my 5 free sets of gear, I managed to obtain 64 kills. In an equal footing ground.

So after a few really good games, I get put into the "real public" matches. And we get completely stomped over and over and over.

Weapons of prototype level and officer equipment that my standard militia gear and level 1 sets just cannot stand up against. People who I normally would have been able to kill, now, not even being able to reduce shield. Getting beat over and over and over by people who just have more stats.


I am not the best player in the world, but I am not terrible either. I did very well when there was equal gear and equal skill and to instantly be thrown into this where I am being killed by scouts that I cannot see and one shot me, scouts that have MORE shields and armour than I do as a heavy is VERY FRUSTRATING.

It seems that I will just have to watch my 91 - 14 KDR fall apart while I try and skill to to gear that can even just withstand the massive stat difference. While I will do that, I don't know many that would.


Please note, this is not a rant. This is a general post that is just explaining my experience.

Thanks for all the replies folks :) I have played the game before and I do have a decent about of knowledge. The main purpose for this post was to inform others of the frustrating experience that is probably sending so many new players away. :(

So I downloaded Dust having played EvE for countless years. I make a minmatar because they are my favourite race.

I have a look at the market and want to use the Heavy Machine Gun. Fortunately enough, there was 5 sets of the AUR version of the Golem HMG or something to try out. I loved it.

As a new player, we are put into matches of others players of equal skill and equipment. So everyone was using very similar gear except the few that had purchased AUR.

With my 5 free sets of gear, I managed to obtain 64 kills. In an equal footing ground.

So after a few really good games, I get put into the "real public" matches. And we get completely stomped over and over and over.

Weapons of prototype level and officer equipment that my standard militia gear and level 1 sets just cannot stand up against. People who I normally would have been able to kill, now, not even being able to reduce shield. Getting beat over and over and over by people who just have more stats.


I am not the best player in the world, but I am not terrible either. I did very well when there was equal gear and equal skill and to instantly be thrown into this where I am being killed by scouts that I cannot see and one shot me, scouts that have MORE shields and armour than I do as a heavy is VERY FRUSTRATING.

It seems that I will just have to watch my 91 - 14 KDR fall apart while I try and skill to to gear that can even just withstand the massive stat difference. While I will do that, I don't know many that would.


Please note, this is not a rant. This is a general post that is just explaining my experience.

Dust 514 is vary much like Eve Online; harsh and unforgiving. As a new player, it is your job to pad the KDrs of vet players everywhere. Sorry to say, but that's the NPE in a nutshell, it will be like that for a while too. The only way you can have a shot at winning is if you only put skill points into core dropsuit skills, specifically the skills that affect your dropsuits all together. Once those are all at level five, pick a drop suit, a weapon, possibly equipment, and build the skills for all that up to level five. Only then will you have a chance.

Oh, and when you get access to advanced level gear, us it and no matter what don't use anything lower, Militia and standard gear will only get you killed.

I really wish they had an option to play only with Std gear or less, or only Adv gear or less.

Meta of the game gets really ******** at prototype because HP stacking gets way out of hand.

I really wish they had an option to play only with Std gear or less, or only Adv gear or less.

Meta of the game gets really ******** at prototype because HP stacking gets way out of hand.

Honestly, it's not even about gear, it's about knowledge. I could make a new character right now and go into the battle academy and I'd probably come out with a score of something like 60 or 70k to 1-3d, using just a scrambler pistol. The 'metagame' is a major factor in ones ability to be successful in dust.