Now I am forced to play FW to play with my friends.

Only 4 people to a public squad?? Now I am forced to play FW to play with my friends. That or be short handed in Pubs. With 6 it was you 3 hold this point while us 3 go help the Blueberries push that second point. Now it`s either we stay here and lose because our Blueberries aren't squaded up or we push and still lose because the blue berries aren't squaded up. Hey CCP why don't you just make public matches squad free!!??? I don't know people I just think a squad of 4 is too small to really do anything with the inability to communicate with other squads. Sure you have team chat but who uses that while squaded?

Hahaha with your dumbass. Hmm I'm kinda mean on the forums tonight...

By reducing the amount of people that can squad up in public matches CCP tried to make the game easier for solo players. It is working out well.

It is a negative that now we cannot play with as many friends as before, but it is a decent sacrifice to make in order to allow new players and solo players more of a chance.

This was the simplest way that CCP could reduce the presence of proto stomping squads in public matches.

And that right there is the problem. This isn't a solo game it's a team game.

And that right there is the problem. This isn't a solo game it's a team game.

then turn on team chat and mute the crazies or play FW,

You are not much of a team player if you make the game dull for the other 10 people on your team

You made pubs lopsided and boring and you needed to be stopped so you were.

I can understand it better from this point. Still wish they would have implemented something a bit better than nerfing teamwork of all things in a team based game.

To which you still get 3 squad mates, or you can play FW and PC with an increased number of people. You just want to get easy wins in pubs, and it just isn't going to happen anymore.

Sorry.

Not really.

The game is better off this way, and precisely because of people like you.

I hate to say it, but "team work is OP".

More specifically when you combine six experienced players with proto, officer and experimental equipment against players that can barely afford to run advanced gear more than three matches in a row you get very unbalanced matches.

By cutting the potential power of these squads by a third CCP reduced their monopoly on the end result of the match.

If CCP could simply make sure that every team ended up with with a full proto squad then they would have. Though, this isn't possible because of connection issues and the small community.

. I like my wins in pubs to be close and a fight the whole way through.

WTF is this people like me. You don't know me so don't assume things. I'm not after easy wins. I have absolutely no use for FW I have the APEX suits for my roles. I'm sorry if I don't enjoy waiting 5 mins for a match. I like my wins in pubs to be close and a fight the whole way through.

Teamwork is a must in this game to be successful.

And that right there is the problem. This isn't a solo game it's a team game.

I noticed something you said

And I agree that teamwork is needed to be successful in this game, the question though is what success is, as from how I see it, success in Dust only comes in two modes, FW and PC.

Public matches are imo not a part of the end-game success, as it's just random matches leading up to nothing beyond your personal entry on the leaderboard (at the very most).

So I can't say that I agree with 6 men squads stomping left and right is heading in the direction of "successful"-ness in Dust.

I personally do not play FW nor PC, nor do I squad up because for me, I just enjoy doing matches without it having to mean something, and I can tell from experience that playing solo against a two fully coordinated squads and 4 randoms getting stomped into the red-line - is not fun, it just becomes way too serious for my style.

So this change for me as a solo player is a step to making it more fun and relaxed. But I can understand that you feel the opposite, that a relaxing match for you is when there's teamwork involved, but I fail to see the end-game success in only running squads in public matches that only reward you with some ISK and SP (ISK and SP you get playing solo as well).

/c

You should drop by state task force some day, most matches are kind of a snoozefest and you'd probably enjoy the relaxed pace that things happen at.

It is a negative that now we cannot play with as many friends as before, but it is a decent sacrifice to make in order to allow new players and solo players more of a chance.

This was the simplest way that CCP could reduce the presence of proto stomping squads in public matches.