Alena Asakura
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Posted - 2016.01.29 20:03:00 -
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CELESTA AUNGM wrote:I won't give my opinion about Aim Assist again. But it is cool to play in a sci-fi environment where your weapon-technology has become so adept at scanning an enemy, identifying the make of her dropsuit, analizing her suit hp weakness, and plotting the highest probability of hit and kill,... ....that we don't just "attack" an opponent in this universe. In New Eden you MUST coat you suit in peanut butter, jiggle from side to side rapidly, and drag a live farm hen on a rope behind you,... to try to throw off the opponent's targeting system as you run up to fight him.  I'm not trying to be sarcastic. I'm serious, I LIKE this. It's funny, it's hilarious to see what some of you do to avoid a slug in the forehead, and I don't have laughter-fun any other PS3 game nearly as much as my good time playing Dust. ...Maybe that's why my BF doesn't play this game with me as much any more. He takes the gameplay more seriously than me.
Well, I for one an turned off by all the coating in peanut butter, jiggling from side to side rapidly and dragging live farm hens on a rope behind me. I find all such things inane and ridiculous, as clearly do you. But I don't find them "laughter-fun", I actually dislike them to the point of quitting the game whenever I encounter something like this that offends me to a great enough extent.
I continue to play as much as possible as I always have FPSs, firing from cover, aiming using sights where possible, from a distance where my better aim using my preferred weapons (usually a good RR) will have a greater effect on my target than they could possibly have on me.
I am ultimately most incensed by being taken out from the flank, while in cover, by someone blatantly out in the open where they have no reasonable right to be, because in any decent FPS, they would have died from someone else long before they got a chance to target me. When that happens is when I usually turn off the console and do something more productive, at least until I cool down enough to contemplate the prospects of such idiocy again.
No I don't find such things "fun". They to me are an indication I'm wasting my time playing this game. If the dynamics of the game were such that people couldn't get away with anything so puerile as that described above, and people actually had to do "normal" things like firing from cover, etc, then I probably would feel this game had some sort of future. Perhaps it really does just come down to rapid turnover of high-AUR using players. I'm not a long-liner at Dust but I am in New Eden, and I certainly don't count as a high-AUR user. I loath AUR, as do most of the EvE players I know. But CCP makes money from AUR in Dust, so it's reasonable they would develop the game to be one that favours the high-turnover model, rather than the player retention model. The problem is, as far as I can see, there is certainly high turnover, but the player retention is suffering so badly, there may not be enough players for the high turnover players to fight against!
All that said, every day I find my time playing Dust is decreasing, I quit and turn off the console faster, I leave battle faster on seeing something ridiculous, or being stomped in a pub that's supposed to be loaded with players at my level (no I don't believe that, but it's supposed to be that way, apparently). In short, if I were to plot it, I'd say my time playing Dust each day is asymptotic to the x-axis, and in the not-too-distant future, unless the fabled 1.3 seriously fixes a lot of these issues, which I do not believe are even seen as issues, I will be turning off the console so soon after starting play that I might as well leave it off. |