...that amarr damned arse annoying bug...

Biggest **** off for me is...

Improved User experience : Has nothing to do with improving game performance.

Improved Visuals : Has nothing to do with improving game performance.


So we are getting more fluff added onto the game with still the COre issues to why this game is struggling not being dealt with?



CCP, GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEAD. YOU HAVE AMAZING CONTENT, AWESOME CONCEPTS. BUT YOUR GAME RUNS LIKE SH!T.

FIX THE GAME.


The content additions and quality of life improvements are awesome... But it will all be wasted by the pure utter player rage that happens on a minute basis when a player actually tries to play your game with any consistency...

The game can't keep upto the average player.

Unless we can invade someone's warbarge in first-person and fight it out in there or get a new mode that works, I cant see any new players coming to stay...

The plural is Rattati

And asking me the same amarr be damned questions again tommorrow is likely going to net in an answer that hasn't changed.

Stop asking me things you know I cannot answer.

Stop asking me things you know I don't have the answer for.

And finally I would greatly appreciate if people used less flourish in their concerns addressed because when I ask back "what is wrong?" The answers I get back I translate most of those responses to "I DON'T KNOW" and that is by far and large more frustrating.

To example this issue:

Blind Justice is perfect.
Blind Justice is flawed.
and I am complaining about it. Alleviate my concerns.

And lastly as others said in this thread.

CCP Rattati is all but one man. What I wouldn't give for a clone of him. Of course Warlords is not going to stack against Chromosome/Uprising 1.0; thats like asking for 3 Rattati (Rattatium? Rattaties?) at least.

warlord has every thing i have asked of this game, a commando bpo

I mean, WarBarges as just a menu item for giving yourself more solo boosts? I thought maybe we might be seeing them as an asset used for PC.

Weren't these things supposed to be the size of Orcas and hold an entire Corporation? Now they're just a single-person ship?

For the first Expansion of this game, this feels a bit meh.

It's impressive how much they've been able to accomplish with such limited resources.

Having said that, it does feel like the game is moving tangental to where it should be instead of progressing forward. I personally feel all of the effort that went into designing a crafting system for DUST was wasted. EVE has the richest virtual economy of any game ever made. Instead of working towards integrating into that, we now have hundreds? of developer hours squandered building a very shallow and uninteresting crafting system. I personally don't think crafting fits well in an FPS--especially with so many important pieces missing from gameplay:
1. Full racial parity in vehicles, turrets, and heavy weapons
2. pilot suits
3. vehicle capacitors and a rich ewar system like EVE (e.g. webs, neuts, target painters, tracking disruptors, etc.)
4. equipment like shield reppers, and modules like resistance plating.
5. an awesome NPE

It would have made more sense to work on these than building a crafting system. We've been told that CCP doesn't have the resources to do any of this, but then apparently they do have the resources to build an entire crafting/warbarge mechanic. I get that they need to monetize DUST or the servers get switched off, but I honestly think they'll get more money if they radically improve the NPE, focus on making battles rich and engaging, and then possibly do some small-scale marketing (via blogs and review sites/youtubers).

I"m not opposed to the content itself, but the prioritization is really ridiculous. I'm confident that I could easily list 100 things that would be much more important to the game than adding this stuff.

Uprising is entirely eye-candy and more paid content with no improvement to any of the gameplay mechanics that actually matter.

E3 is entirely eye-candy and more paid content with no improvement to any of the gameplay mechanics that actually matter.

Codex is entirely eye-candy and more paid content with no improvement to any of the gameplay mechanics that actually matter.

Chromosome is entirely eye-candy and more paid content with no improvement to any of the gameplay mechanics that actually matter.

Uprising is entirely eye-candy and more paid content with no improvement to any of the gameplay mechanics that actually matter.

Edit

Replication is entirely eye-candy and more paid content with no improvement to any of the gameplay mechanics that actually matter.

Dark Below is entirely eye-candy and more paid content with no improvement to any of the gameplay mechanics that actually matter. :P

Rattati and his team are putting a lot of hard work into the updates and it is appreciated I'm sure...

But, warlords does not seem like the next major build of Dust 514. It is the same thing as Uprising. It looks just like a regular update patch/hotfix for Uprising (1.11 if you will?).

Adding more content and re-working existing aspects of the game is all well and good. But what this game needs is some serious work on its basic nuts-and-bolts mechanics.

Fix stuff! Make it perform better, clean up the buggy code, work on the gameplay mechanics. That kind of stuff won't add any shiny new bells and whistles like the recent updates, but the game will be immeasurably and objectively better for it.

Having said that, I haven't played in 4-5 months (PS3 broke). But I want to!

He mentioned on Trello that they've done hardware testing that has found them a way to squeeze more frames out of the game, but they aren't sure if they want to use that for just buffing current framerates, or increasing the player count to 48 like it was supposed to be in the first place.

...

Why not both! ?!?

Warbarges as present in 1.0 are kinda the base of the platform to build on. I'd say Warlords as an expansion is the sum of it's releases. There is a lot more coming. The PC stuff is important to take our time with because as the feedback area has shown, it's a contentious topic that needs time to collect feedback and get it right. There's some exciting crud coming.