So I can just stick any dumbass in a proto suit with a 60 mil SP toon and watch him go to town?

Shotty, its the same in EVE. You give a new player a large SP toon with big ships he doesn't know how to use and he will get blown up and laughed at.

Same here in Dust.

Wearing a proto suit does not magically make you some amazing freaking player.

Some of these guys don't even know how to properly fit a fucking suit for christs sake.

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RANT INCOMING, NOT DIRECTED AT YOU SHOTTY.

List of tools that people have to LEARN to be good at FPS: Prefiring, Reload Canceling, Strafing, Burst Firing, Tactical Awareness, Map Knowledge, Map Control, Victory Conditions, AND THE LIST GOES ON.

EVERY SINGLE FIGHT that I've had fun in, fights that had me fighting to the wire to try and pull out the victory had people who knew how to work together. They didn't even have to wear proto, all they need to be is co-ordinated.

PUSH points together.

Find, Fix, Flank, Finish.

Know how to stonewall a defense, with proper heavy support and logistics.

Uplink control, proper scanning, hacking the right points when you need to.

Seriously. The list of tools that make a team GREAT is far longer than just "Wear Proto". Almost everything that make these "Proto Stompers" great are things that they LEARNED over playing the game.

"But Ghost, you keep talking about the team, I'm talking about individual players."

STFU. Where do you think the team STARTS from dumbass? It starts with YOU. What are YOU doing to contribute to the team? YOU have to know that the team needs more uplinks. YOU have to be the one to whip out the logi when you see heavies bunching up to defend. YOU have to be the one to know that you need that outside point if you want to win the match. YOU have learn how to PLAY. THE. GAME.

I've tried SO HARD over the years to try and teach people how to play the game.

I've written guides.

I've given fitting advice.

I've offered to squad with people.

I was even in a freaking MENTOR corp for scouts for a while.

You want to know how many people have ever taken me up on the squadding and playing with me advice?

NOBODY.

I've come to the sad conclusion that the vast majority of people in this game don't want to improve.

They want to drag everyone down to their level. And if they can't, they'll remove whatever they think is "cheating them" of their victory.

I don't know why I'm surprised. Real life is full of people like this too. Why the hell should it be different for a video game?

Does this mean that newbies need to get stomped into oblivion? Hell no.

Are there things we can do to improve the experience? Hell yes.

But blaming all of your problems on the fucking GEAR they're running will get you NOWHERE.

More than half of the people complaining need to step back, take a long ass look at how they play the game, and start noticing that most of their issues in game lie between the controller and chair.