I recently got back from a break from Dust, and it's sad to say I was quite eager to play.. until I loaded up a match..
Running a squad with some corpmates and I was back to clueless blueberry stage (not that I'm ever far from it)
In the first battle I was asking 'Have the graphics changed?' 'Why does it feel like I'm stuck in quicksand?'
While away I did sweet f' all gaming so it wasn't like another game controls mixed it up, Dust just felt wrong
To be fair after a couple of battles it got back to normal, but I really have to say normal around here is not that great
Then onto some PC battles, DMG VS A.I / T.R / N-F all of which had performance issues - on both teams. This is not unexpected but from most experience 'who lags less wins' as most battles I find one team suffers more than the other due to the server.
So far in PC 2.0 (I've played 6 PC battles) and all of which had worse than usual performance for both teams. No ammount of bells and whistles will cover this up, PC 2.0 does leave the door open for new blood to get involved but if they come in and have to sacrifice a goat and pray to the mercy of the empress just to reach a supply depot due to lag/framerate issues you will just see even more get put off of this and on to other games. So CCP what is the plan to have this sorted ??
Clearly, by PC 2.0 you want more to participate.. but all recent updates seem aimed at visuals or material items
while very little is mentioned from CCP regarding the performance issues that have plagued us, and seem to get worse.
Each update, 1000 goats are sacrificed throughout New Eden in hopes that the gods will favour us
Yet in each update, crops die, villages are abandoned and the playerbase has to make do with living on... Dust
I'm in no position to say how it should be fixed, but as a Dust gamer, I can say it needs to be fixed. as
SOONTMaspossible.
Good points - Platoons, useful for gathering PC's though with the in battle 'bug' where mercs are not visible in squad once deployed and makes management of them a pain in the backside. Also 4-man squads seem good for public balance.
Aurum sales since release of SKINS/Components/BPO's have certainly been higher than usual judging by the glamour mercs are sporting in most battles, I would like to see CCP put some of this to use to improve performance, the #1 reason so many choose to avoid lagging in to play a few battles regardless of the potential rewards for doing so.
*places goat on alter* *cries in anguish at the clouds*CCP RATTATI SAVE US !!! THE INFANTRY OF NEW EDEN DEPEND ON YOUR BLESSING !!!
*slits goats throat* *rubs blood over naked body and begins the corporate blood orgy*That should get us through the PC battle with Prima later.. but I'm running out of goats for future battles.