You seem to be forgetting that Dust can serve as the perfect testing platform for Legion

But Rattati hates me and will never reply

Obvious dev bait is obvious dear Joseph.
To what end is this all?

To upgrade my illustrious wooden leg you are so fond of.

Love to see all those new blue tags. I am really quite interested in seeing how all this new stuff plays out. To those interested: Skill Points, Warbarge stuff, More Salvage

The most interesting thing is, of course, the Warbarge changes. That isn't just tweaking some numbers regarding SP or introducing vendor trash; that is an entirely new system that is having to be implemented in DUST. It might very well be the most ambitious thing that CCP has been successful in doing with DUST. Whether this is sad or exciting is in your interpretation. I only have one question: to what end?

How much farther is DUST capable of going with the current hardware and software? We were told to expect minor hotfixes, which I believe is what the SP change falls into and possibly the Salvage part. But this Warbarge overhaul is way beyond anything we have seen yet and is coming at a time when DUST is not at its strongest (IE, still recovering from months of radio silence). Considering that nothing can have a strong, long term plan on a console that is already 8 years old and the replacement to said platform was released 14 months ago, it seems so very strange to me that such extensive changes are coming.

These changes have to be difficult to do and will likely take quite a bit of development time, meaning money. With the Executive Producer not having posted anything for nearly 8 months, I am deeply curious where the current idea, the concept of 'DUST 514' stands. This new stuff has me wondering:

To what end?

Hopefully to fund Legion or something similar. Or their going to take the money and run and were being bled, lol

Personally, to make Dust 514 a better game because I passionately care about it and the players.

Personally, to make Dust 514 a better game because I passionately care about it and the players.

Bandwidth is amazing

fixed

Then stop listening to the forums.

Bandwidth and the new match making are the worst things that have ever happened to this game.

Personally, to make Dust 514 a better game because I passionately care about it and the players.

To what end?

The only people I've seen complain about it used the "I can no longer switch to my heavy suit and still have links argument" the majority of the time

1. Dont you mean i cant swap to anything no matter what the situation because i will lose basically everything and i am forced to play that role and only that role for the entire length of the game or my team will suffer as a consequence?

Also, found the logi tourist! Please cry directly into the bucket.

All this fluff still doesn't mean **** if the game still runs like **** ... https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=187433


Although I don't see much of that stuff happening. By the time Phase 1 has its bugs worked out the player base will be under 2k concurrent, and development halted...

This is what is bothering me.

Most of this new ''content is smoke and mirrors, tbh. Where it does contact actual in-match gameplay, i.e. the warbarge, it's an arbitrary and immersion-breaking kludge that make very little sense. It's also potentially harmful, given the way Rattai was so willing to propose in-match damage bonuses - he should have been the one fighting marketing on that. Instead, once again, it's left to the playerbase to defend DUST.

There are many ways to fix PC, this warbarge mechanic is totally unnecessary. This is a mechanic driven almost solely by a marketing model, imo. That marketing model is obviously bad for the game and really doesn't have any respect for DUST's core FPS gameplay or New Eden itself.

It's hard to stay positive ...

Not to be mean but.....

Then stop listening to the forums. Bandwidth and the new match making are the worst things that have ever happened to this game.

I don't like bandwidth at all, I think there was a simpler solution to make logi's feel more important.

With respect, have you ever been positive?

The only people I've seen complain about it used the "I can no longer switch to my heavy suit and still have links argument" the majority of the time

What I am complaining about is the amazing lack of uplinks on the field horribly slowing down pace of play. This could also be an issue that is increased by the addition of the cheap flux OBs at the same time.

Personally, to make Dust 514 a better game because I passionately care about it and the players.

Yeah, and it's unbelievably frustrating to anyone (vet or new comer) who has put time and money into Dust and who is awake enough see what's going on..

Then we have Rattati posting in this thread like he cares for the players and/or game.. I really want to believe him and I like what he has done so far outside of the strong boxes..

But when threads like above go unmentioned and have seemingly little concern to Rattati and friends. It's hard to stay positive, because anyone who can think outside of the shiny things mentality can see this game for what it is and realize why people have and continue to leave.. I would go on but that threads sums it up nicely...