meethos meteor
Krullefor Organization
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2015.08.03 18:56:00 -
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I am a long time Eve Online player with broken service the last few years, have 2 characters over 60mill sp so I join this game having some understanding of player and equipment upgrades using the skill points.
I have spent 9 days playing this fps game, I have paid and used three active and passive slot sp bonus using the 7 day boosts. I would estimate 80-100 games played so far.
Overall this is just my opinion and suggestions:
Game play feels clunky and why do avatars get caught on many edges in this game as well as being unable to move over the small terracing in the game without using a jump? It feels unnatural. Pretty simplistic graphic engine which still raises more questions as to how so many games, at least 30percent I have played were heavily lagged and low fps for most the game. Not my connection I assure you. Also using the equipment thru the R2 button feels wrong, sharing two button features switch weapons and use equipment(holding R2) only adds to the games clunky feel. overall pretty simple graphics but hey its a free fps on ps3, however hard to compete with other fps games when they are much more immersive.
The one issue that really annoys me is the Battle matchmaking. For starters I find almost half my game play does this, select instant battle, go to searching, then waiting to deploy, and more often than naught it will kick me to the battle matchmaking screen after about 5 min. The matchmaking overall takes 5 min to deploy, returning my game play to the battle matchmaking beginning after waiting to deploy over 5 min is annoying. Battle matchmaking (Scotty) at least half the time I find myself in a match with several high sp players who tend to control the match, faction matchmaking I always find much higher sp players vs lower ones controlling the games. I know im low sp with only 2.8mill skillpoints after 9 days of game play. I understand perhaps there are not enough new players in this game to have a balanced match, but overall I dont feel new players will endure hundreds of more matches to grind out the 5mill sp one needs to be able to just play in these mismatched games. If you desire to hold new players in an underwhelming graphic game like this I suggest find some way to make a balance game play or new rookies will not remain in your game. I understand the game has been out over 2 years now, but there still needs to be entertainment value for anyone continuing to play. I do not know what variance they select for lower sp games but being one shoted upon initial spawn by one avatar enemy seems imbalanced. Scotty sucks for newer players.
I would suggest giving newer players some incentive to play, increase their SP to 3-5 million when they begin. Every game that has been out for several years needs to have some incentive for newer recruits to feel like they can play with the veterans.
Community question, why do half the matches I play in have 4-7 players leave the game at the beginning or when it looks like they may be losing? And how come so many dont play the objectives over going afk on the perimeter of the map? I would not say all my matches had this action but about 30 percent do. Is there some type of missing incentive for players to remain and finish the match? I do think sp gain is low, and maybe making a base sp bonus for playing a full match would be in order, just seems odd that so many matches go with mismatched number of players on each side.
I know many of you may believe giving out higher skill points for incentive is unfair to the overall veterans and the time they have spent in the grind for skill points, but overall your talking about adding new players and they want the same thing as you do, Entertainment. Currently I have had multiple friends who play other fps with me notice me spending the last 9 days playing Dust, they all asked my opinion of the game play of dust. I said to them what I am saying here, I am not trashing the game I personally loved playing Eve Online for years but I cant suggest this game to friends until I would see the entertainment value of this game.
Ill continue to play this and see what higher sp does for my rookie game play. One thing about eve with its pve and pvp side of the game, no player felt that he could not be entertained playing that game, lower sp or higher sp players. Granted It took Eve Online many years before it improved it made many changes and many upgrades before it was seen as a great game.
If I am overlooking any mechanics in Dust concerning these issues please correct me, I am new to the Dust game play and I am only providing some feed back. I could not find any current feed back when I began to play Dust and I hope this is information new recruits can use.  |