im a new player and quickly losing interest be cause it seems to take forever to grind for better gear.

im getting killed easily with upper tier players and have resorted to sniping so i dont have a consistently bad kdr.

it sucks when you get the drop on someone and have to unload a whole clip before he turn around and hits you with 4-5 shots and your dead.

Now i understand the whole....."its F2P, you shouldnt complain" angle, but why would most people spend weeks or months of getting owned in matches that arent balanced?

Im trying to figure out if there is something "special" to this game thats worth all the grind that makes it different from all the other millions of FPS out there. i see what people call "depth" but it seems to be just loadout customization more than anything else. Is the idea to get good gear so you can go seal clubbing on the next gen of new players?

Seems to me this game isnt very noob friendly.

oh and id like some real feedback and not just some lame, "well just dont play" responses.

thanks

"Removing any opportunity for tactics or nuance puts all of the focus on loadout and skill. "

That was said in a review on Star Wars: Battlefront. It really struck home with me because I realize that that is a major issue with the NPE as a whole.

To put it simply: There needs to be less dependence on raw skill and power level of fittings and more opportunities for tactical value and player shaping/agency. A player, regardless of skill, should be able to outwit his opponent through fitting and tactics. The opportunities with which this occurs are few and far between.

In an optimal world I'd like see more EWAR options besides just the awful profile/precision system that is so binary. I'd like to see more opportunities for players to shape the battlefield in their favor rather than so much reliance on keeping a crosshair on a target. I'd love for there to be a way for a new player to jump into a battle and wreck ass using the tools available to him and not have feel as though he's ineffective due to unlock gating and fighting against the god awful control schemes.

There are a lot of people making excuses but please listen...Dust is hard at first. The challenge is the appeal of the game. It is a sandbox full of monsters. Appreciate that. Please grow, seek help froma Corp. Good luck and have fun.

well ive played alot more support now and im definitely getting more warpoints from using droplinks which is cool and im earning a whole lot more ISK but only a little more SP than before. basically im using my militia recon and camping around strategy points to cover them and keep the droplinks acive.....is this a proper strategy?

Keeping uplinks on the field is very important. Try to focus on where you are placing your uplinks.

You want to try to keep your uplinks placed in a location that allows your teammates to be able to spawn in and quickly move to where they need to be at that particular time during that particular match while at the same time trying to have your uplinks in a location where the redberries won't be able to see it nor will they be able to see your teammates spawn in. (this can take some time to figure out)

As for strategy points I find that those change depending on the flow of the match as well as who you are playing with/against so I really can't comment on that one without actually seeing what you're doing in battle.

Just make sure that you try to stay close to your teammates and if you see your teammate shooting at a reberry then you should make sure that you shoot at that redberry also. In this game you should hold as much pride in your kill assists as you would your actual kills.

What gamemodes are you playing? I would recommend staying away from Domination because the majority of the scrubby players seem to flock to that gamemode and those same scrubby players will quit on you when they see that they are facing a challenge.

Also, what Faction are you running? The most effective way of engaging the reberries in battle differs depending on the Faction you are running as well as the Dropsuit and Weapon you are using.

I've been here since Beta myself, but haven't played until very recently (4-5 months). I truly wish I had stuck with it back then, but I was and am an EvE Online player and didn't see the value of sticking with the Beta of something that looked broken until it was open released.

How could I have known that it apparently has actually gone downhill since then? Looks like I missed out on what was once a very good game. But even back then the limitations were obvious, limitations that I thought would improve, not atrophy.

One of those limitations was the scope of the game. It's played in stylised maps, in battles which are limited by fixed resourcing. There are no opportunities for EvE pilots to arrive with fresh clones in their holds to offer reinforcements and save the day. When Dust was being built, we had what we believed to be the interface to it added to EvE Online, being "Captain's Quarters" the first (and possibly last) installment of "Walking in Stations", and this was supposed to be where people from both Dust and EvE could interact, particularly with markets, but there was even talk of Dust-style battles on the stations!! There is so much that could have been done but CCP dropped the ball. And thus, Dust was consigned to the limited world of stylised battles we see today.

I still think something could be done about this but perhaps it requires a port?....