But metalock is supposed to make my dumbass teammates not suck at the game. Since NoNeck is only able to use a STD CR there is no way he can drop 30 in a pub. Since Cavani cant use a proto gun he's not gonna be able to face **** the other team in a pub. Since Regnyum cant use a Assault MK.0 he no longer has any game awareness.

Metalock is gonna fix all that ****.
No, im not being sarcastic.
Completely serious right now.
Metalock/teir lock is gonna fix everything.
Seriously. Not at all being sarcastic.

But metalock is supposed to make my dumbass teammates not suck at the game. Since NoNeck is only able to use a STD CR there is no way he can drop 30 in a pub. Since Cavani cant use a proto gun he's not gonna be able to face **** the other team in a pub. Since Regnyum cant use a Assault MK.0 he no longer has any game awareness.

Metalock is gonna fix all that ****.
No, im not being sarcastic.
Completely serious right now.
Metalock/teir lock is gonna fix everything.
Seriously. Not at all being sarcastic.

If you are not being sarcastic then you are a fool. Every suggestion a person makes to level the playing field in Public Matches is not thought up with the mindset of ending all stomps forever; at least I hope not because that would be ridiculous.

Skilled players will stomp people regardless and nothing will ever change that. What we can do is work to give people a more reasonable chance at countering those stomps.

But it's really unfair to say that squading guarantees more success. It's still a complete crapshoot on the blueberries you get. With MU, being in a squad increases your chances of getting bad players on your side. The matchmaking system can't work with so few squads and so many solo players doing random stuff.

It's a mess and it makes pub matches extremely frustrating.

How much better this game would be for people if they'd take the time to join a squad. Then if they'd try to coordinate equipment and roles to force multiply a bit.

I hear people say they don't like waiting to deploy between matches, but your chances of success increase exponentially by taking a little extra time. 6 crappy matches where you get stomped solo vs 3 matches where you win matches and profit more.

Even if you don't listen to comms or talk, you can follow the donut.

It's become tiring talking about it. But the Soraya's of Dust got their way. Lonewolfing in Dust is what the vast majority of players do. It's difficult to solo in Dust and the QQ is trying to dumb Dust down to make it easier. In the end it would just be less of a game and the bad players would still be bad.

So that about a militia/basic mode for solo players and then make pubs basic/adv then factional will be adv or higher... PC could be pro/off and raids could be pro or lower.

But it's really unfair to say that squading guarantees more success. It's still a complete crapshoot on the blueberries you get. With MU, being in a squad increases your chances of getting bad players on your side. The matchmaking system can't work with so few squads and so many solo players doing random stuff.

It's a mess and it makes pub matches extremely frustrating.

You can't whine about the gear. Its being solo vs an entire 2 or 3 fire teams. I mean teamwork in MILITA GEAR can beat an entire enemy team of proto if they were just solo players.

My advice is:
Join a corp,squad up,and run someone over.

When I first started, way back in beta, we were automatically thrown into a squad.

That being said, I didn't realize they had a separate color than blue, and was shooting at the green guys. They often shot back at me, so it seemed to confirm that they were the enemy, apart from the fact they did not die.

At no point in time did being in a squad help me to realize I was actually shooting at my squad, as none of them said a damn thing.

It didn't increase teamwork, nor understanding.

People make this connection between squadding and teamwork, as if they automatically go hand in hand, and they do not.

Even if a squad is communicating, there is a massive difference between 4 guys who run proto and try and do the right thing, and 4 guys who have experience playing with one another, know one another's strengths, know what the other players are likely to do often without direct communication, and have based all their strategies and tactics around that.

The whole situation is much more complex than everyone is making it out to be, and even adding meta lock will not necessarily prevent stomps.

Until player numbers get to a level that promotes better MM, this is just going to be a situation that is managed and not fixed.

I think we have different ideas as to what impacts new player retention.

You say squads, not stat modifiers from gear and SP

I say the opposite.

So I'll ask you... Why do you think a problem that's fairly unique to Dust is caused by the mechanic that isn't unique to Dust rather than the one that is?

Hmm....stats... Something I particuly don't care about.
A few extra pints of health and damage can't save you from teamwork. So what if you have 200hp more than the average newb. A squad of them all shooting at you will still kill you. Stats aren't everything. Teamwork is.