amarr citizen11635
Terran Development
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Posted - 2015.06.06 06:15:00 -
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This is my story. ItGÇÖs a Saturday afternoon and raining, and I thought I would give Dust another go, the yearly check-in if you like, to see whether it is any good yet. Afterall, this game was the reason I bought a console right? So this is how things went:
30 mins to find the console, cords, and controllers and then plug everything together (so far so good)
25 mins for obligatory playstation update (refreshingly quick!)
45 mins failed dust update... grrr (ok, plan A is no good so on to plan B)
25 mins do delete Dust, and then reinstall from scratch, yay! ItGÇÖs working!
Now just click instant battle, and... nothing?! What is going on? Oh well, it says it is searching for a battle so who am I to disbelieve it (IGÇÖll just make a sandwich while I wait). 25 mins later and woot! I am loading into a brand new fresh battle :) IGÇÖm excited now, I can almost taste those SP and ISK, I canGÇÖt wait to fire my first shots (well actually 2.5hrs so far but whoGÇÖs counting).
So I spawn, quickly check all the buttons, yes good everything is working, and move out to find the enemy... 12 paces later I am dead, politely informed that I have been killed by a single shot from 310m range, but yay a medic is coming! Revived, I leap for cover from that pesky sniper, only to be mown down immediately by 2 gentlemen with what appeared to be full sized artillery cannons duct taped to each of their forearms. As the camera floated over my corpse I watched the shadows of the enemy team filing past without even the courtesy of a friendly tea-bagging: clearly the farming was more important than having fun. And with that thought in my mind I simply switched off the console and walked away... maybe next year. At least I had a good sandwich.
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amarr citizen11635
Terran Development
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Posted - 2015.06.12 06:17:00 -
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I donGÇÖt expect to get better at this. I logged in to see if Dust had gotten better, and it hasnGÇÖt.
In Summary: it took a long, long time to get into a fight, and once there I was slaughtered immediately without even a chanceGǪ if I followed that routine until I GÇ£got betterGÇ¥ I would be grinding forever. Things donGÇÖt need to be super-easy, just fair.
To me it seems that there is no noob-matchmaking in place (or perhaps no noobs, did they all leave?) and that the role of a new player is simply to be a loot/XP pi+¦ata until they quit in frustration.
Fortunately for me I did find a strong Eve/Dust fps community with whom I regularly enjoy getting my pew on, unfortunately for CCP that gameplay takes place within the Planetside universe! If only there was a way to combine the fast, dynamic, and massive battles of Planetside with the rich lore and industry of EveGǪ
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