I'm guessing that what seems to be upsetting some people is that the DEVs don't post everything to do with DUST onto the DUST forums.

I think i really like this game, and until it is released(and therefore considered somewhat finished) i'd like to be able to hear more about what is being planed for this game, and about any changes that may find their way into it.

As a beta tester, i'd like to think that my input is more then as a mere data producing automaton, that the forums are being read by CCP employees and the collective observations of the beta testers taken into account.

really what would alleviate some of this concern, would be more DEV responses and posts.

but then i've seen in other games forums how often such posts can be taken out of context, can take on a life of their own in a chinese whispers kind of way. People get worked up over things that people are saying that the DEVs said were going to be done or undone, and in reality DEVs are usually quite cryptic about changes that Might get made.

The DEVs also have seen how things get out of control, so though they may want to say more then they do, they just cannot.

This is usually why a lot of what players learn, doesn't always come from the games forums, but from other sites that deal with reviews or publicity. Doing things this way allows the DEVs to get information out to its players, in a round about way, but also to people who aren't playing the game, so that they can become interested in it.

In the end, as long as I can be sure that CCP employees are reading these forums and passing along information, I can be happy that my part in this games creation is valid.

I know that CCP has already got planned how this game should be, I am just here to test the games' systems, and that eventually all the systems will get compiled into one program, and that the game will be released when that happens.

1) When do you guys plan on 'adjusting' this current AV 'fix'? Are we going to have to wait clear until the next build? :/

2) How are you distributing the rewards for the corp battles? The Caldari and Gallente are putting up good fights for one another, while the Minmatar are decimating the Amarr. I don't believe it would be fair for the Minmatar to get rewards and neither the Caldari or Gallente, seeing as they didn't have a chance to fight the Minmatar corps.

Question 1 is likely to get answered well before the the next QnA session unfouruntely as the speed things develop vs how oftent hey poke thier head in.

Question 2 is better off being asked in here. https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=33811&find=unread

The corp battles thing if I remember right was a line they dropped stating they where watching them very carefully and keeping track. Either way Im nearly as cluess as you are, only managed to get into one fight so far and it was a tank fest.

Question: What was the weapon chosen from Wolf somethings world of weapons thread?

I think he posted he was going to put those in his thread starting next week. let me look around.

edit

found it

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=278441#post278441

No I am not Nova Knife. In the iRC channel I am Ironwolf the guy without a greendot.

Going back to my quick list of issues,

# 5 I think was damage increased by gun stats.
- Personally I think that increasing material stats such as damage a bullet does per shot is bad in an FPS game. Same with fire rate in automatic weapons or such. Base gun stats should be pretty similar between a new player and an old player, the old players gun shouldn't somehow be more damaging that the new players because he is "skilled" at it.

Things such as bein certified to operate a weapon, compensate for recoil, hold steady to reduce barrel wander, reload faster, swap faster, fire steady for a longer time, and other more physically related skills make sense. But no amount of training is going to make a gun hit harder.

On the #7 movement issue, I believe the game should be faster as in movement speed. Initially I wanted the game slowed down, but I have decided otherwise since E3 build. The game benefits from faster movement. Not drastically faster, just a buff combined with fixed hit detection to help keep scouts from being OP again.
Also I believe that stamina could use a buff, you do so much running it takes forever on foot, and vehicles are too expensive to use as a regular infantry. The militia LAV is also tin foil armor, so it dies really fast too.

As for your answers to my other issues, they have been "fixing" hit detection for 3 builds now. I will believe it when I see it.

I'M LOOKING FOR TO THEM FIX GERNADES AT SOME POINT.

GO DUST

*Hugs

This is what I am looking for. ill be sure you are heard, posting your post now so we can discuss it further.

There is eve side lore as to why weapon skills increase damage but its really hard to belilve that having better knowledge of bulelt prejectories, shield frequency, resonance, spin angle of the shot can be applied at infantry levels, and while this may not make sense infantry size there is little excuse for vehicles to manage the same feats as eve ships on smaller scales.

From the game point of view I can see where the question raises with this one, I rather see the damage increases with the guns unlocked per level. However this brings into the question hw to counter those who say trained shield management and mechanics which makes them thicker targets.

The top tier damage modules are 10% and do make quite a big difference, especially with a proto rifle and maxed skills in those areas.

I'm still running around in an assault II suit and taking out guys with much better tank than me due to having a really, really high DPS.

I've got long term concerns about how weapon damage is going to scale on new players against older players.

Has their been any mention of T2 equipment in Dust as early as launch?

No so far we got the meta +5 factional variant weapons the other special issue side grades, and officer variants.

I dont expect to see tech 2 guns until we start industrial side in dust 514.

As for infantry movement they all warrent questions on the direction ccp wants to go. Ill be sure those get asked.

And for hit detection they keep working on it. and every build its gotten better and sometimes worse. Its almost as bad as the aim assist feature that I cannot for some reason turn off.

But Im in the same bandwagon as you, Ill keep complaining about hit detection until its 'fully' fixed. Right now this build made sniping and shotgunning very possible now it seems cqc with standoff weapons is nearly impossible.

Now that I think about it, How does a computer from the damage mod increses weapon damage....

Dammit it is the same tech/lore reasons.

Either way Ill bring it up as a question, both movement and gun damage thing.