CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.06.13 21:40:00 -
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Firstly, let me get my laugh out of the way, for Sheriff Joe----your post caught me. So silly,GǪ but darned great line!
Err--um. Okay,GǪ I met a player on the local chat a few nights ago, and he gave the perfect term to describe what Dust felt like back in 2011 - 2013. The term was "SUPER BRUTAL". And, no joke, this game was that rough. You felt proud if you just survived a match with less than 15 deathsGǪ.forget thinking about killing anyoneGǪ
... except the walk-assisted mercs holding canes,
GǪ.and Lav-casualties you came across on the sides of the roads, who were just pleading "please, don't let my wife find out I died like thisGǪjust finish me off quick." 
 Every match, the gunfire was always off in the distance, and you were always running to try to catch up to it,GǪ and you were regularly bumping over these bodies of shot players here and there. Disturbing in a game! Then comes the sound of a fast-moving Lav, or the whiz of a sniper round,... AND YOU'RE BACK AT SQUARE ONE AGAIN, spawning at the blue staging area.
I don't blame any of the players who said, "wha?---FORK this, you think I'm gonna go through this kinda humiliation repeatedly in a game---I'm taking my arse back to SOCOM-3."
I think it's the memory of that fearful experience (an experience found in NO other fps, ever), that made players demand SOME kind of Matchmaking. And now that we have it, players have an expectation that the Matchmaking should "completely" sterilize their match, and ensure it's bunny-vs-bunny, alligator-vs-alligator, bear-v-bear. Anything uneven, means this match is unfair.
BUT, there are just as many players who (me too) feel that "everything even" makes the match become under-thrilled and lukewarm, and that there should always be SOME amount of bunny-bites-bear, alligator-vs-bear, alligator-frightens-bunny. I am one who has seen my name explode on the end-of-match screens since the new matchmakingGǪ and I worry if the game has now gotten too bunny-easier for everybody.
Do you WANT to fail 25 times before finally feeling the joy of heroically surmounting Mt Pachitoo?
Or do you want 20 sherpas to literally carry you up and spray sweat-beads on your forehead to fabricate the ILLUSION of an heroic feeling?
GǪI don't think the Matchmaking system should change anymore, beyond just maintenance and tweaks.
Maybe because I survived through the "Super-Brutal" phase, I have a personal wish for SOME (meaning not all, but a scary dose) of the original "brutality" is preserved in the game. I know a game is meant for me to escape and unwind from the pressure of work/life, and is not supposed to fill me with MORE frustration and pressure. But Dust is the one game my sweetie introduced me to that makes you feel kinda cool to finish a session like you're hands hurt, and you climbed successfully out of burning aircraftGǪ. lost four mercs on your squad, but saved two. 
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
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