Naturi Riclenore
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Posted - 2012.08.10 15:34:00 -
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Luxuro wrote:I feel like the gap between the new players and the beta players is going to be bad for this game. Beta players will most likely be better in all skill aspects while the new players will have poor defense and attack, so new players are going to have to deal with a lot of deaths before they will stand a chance.
I wouldn't say the Beta players will be better in ALL skill aspects, but we will have a better understanding of how things work. For instance, if you are comming from another FPS, that portion of the game shouldn't be too difficult to understand for someone new. Or if you are comming from EVE, you will have a better understanding of things like loadouts. A person who comes from a team objective based game will have a better understanding of that aspect of the game. It just depends on where you are comming from.
With that said, there will be a wipe of our ISK / SP / Gear before the game goes live. We get to keep our names, but everything else gets reset back to 0 (if you have merc pack, you get that back as well). So starting out, the only thing that will be a defining factor is how fast a person gets past the learning curve. And next build is bringing skill based matches which will also be in the official release. I have a feeling CCP is probably going to put beta testers in a different skill group for a bit so that the noobies don't jsut get slaughtered.
Now what the beta testers will have is advanced knowledge of game mechanics and wise ways to spend the ISK / SP. Also, we will have more optimal loadouts since we will have a better sense of how to optimize them. But if you are comming from EVE, you will also have advanced knowledge of Loadouts.
I decided to give EVE a try, and even the loadout screen for your ship looks almost identical to the one in DUST. Even the captain quarters are similar to the ones in DUST. Not ever having played EVE, I caught on pretty quick. So for EVE players, the learning curve for various portions of DUST will be close to 0.
Off-topic: I was going through the menu last night, and saw a "tutorials" section under options. Didn't have a chance to try it out, but has that always been there? And if so, how did I miss it?  |