Thanks for the great post (and the shout out, heh). As you know, i totally agree. Let's break this kitten. +1

IMO boosting is wrong. i understand this is BETA were supposed to break things, find bugs and exploits etc. Once they're found report them and move on for more hunting. To continuously abuse an exploit in a beta is just as bad as it is in a full game.
Well done you repaired you own LAV,HAV, dropship every second of every match and have you 70 million skill point. But whilst doing this did you never think about the effect your having on other players. Why should you contributing nothing to the team get the Lions share of the available skill points, whilst the rest of the Beta community is running around testing everything they can and contributing to the team effort aswell and getting nothing because they didnt get +25 every second of the match?

Or do you suggest the whole 24 men should crash lavs into each other and stand round repping them. That'd be so much fun.

Grow up and get out of the selfish mentality hermitting in you mums basement has taught you. All action carry consequence it might do you well to consider them once in a while.

Carry on looking for Bugs and exploits adn keep trying to break things. But when you have success fille the report and move on. Do not exploit and exploit what ever selfish motivations you have (even if you try to disguise them with this is BETA) .

I'm not sure you get the idea of a beta Dzark.

I don't need the SP at all far from it, but do we need that bug squashed?, the answer is yes.

How badly do you think the grind would affect the game at launch in retail?. I certainly don't want it there when these games start to matter.

The fact is we need to break the game, that's what we're here for.

Not to play the game early or get the advantage on people, like so many think is the reason to get into a beta these days. You'll see these same people saying the game is "Crap" and how "they're not playing it anymore"

We're here to state facts on what we find balanced, broken or just plain not working. The amount of posts I see here with people more concerned with their K/D or losing their stuff to something is horrible.

What makes this worse is it's usually people commenting on something they either don't even have or just don't have the first clue on it. They just know it killed them.

great post. there are a lot of things I would love to try with this game but. it to expensive to try weird stuff like rocket jumping with forge guns and spawning tanks on the top of dropships (flying tanks!).

.......and another brick wall post. I don't know why i bother......


To Dzark and DOOM and anyone else with the same perspective,

To be clear, I'm torn on the specific subject of boosting. On one hand i do want the higher end gear to be tested thoroughly and on the other hand I'm not completely thrilled those people will then be running around slaughtering me. It's a matter of taking the good with the bad.

The fact that the game will be wiped means there is really no reason for anyone to be complaining about anything. If people are boosting to increase their shield, armor, DPS, etc. yea, i see that as abuse and not really helping anything. Me? I've got all of those things maxed already without boosting. The only thing boosting would allow me to do is explore new things that i otherwise could not. That's what i support. But i also realize i can't be judgemental about it and must accept that people will do it for both reasons. That's the whole point of discussing this. To give the people that only see it as an advantage to consider exploring new things instead to better the game. I really don't understand with an imminent wipe, why anyone would bother boosting to increase their advantage. It's pointless. But if they want to do it, they can knock themselves out for all i care.

It's not a matter of "hiding behind the beta". Everything you do in a beta is fair game. As long as you report exploits and yes, move on. However, if there's something that allows you to continue to explore new things, then whether or not you should "move on" is a tricky subject.

I've decided that i'm ok with people running around slaughtering me with proto everything if it has potential to bring something OP/bugged to the surface for CCP to take a second look at. That's my choice. You have the right to feel differently but guess what? There's nothing you can do about it. It isn't against the rules (in this beta stage) and therefore you've got no choice but to accept it or continue to get upset over it. I don't know about you, but I've got more important things to worry about.

All of that said, will i be hardcore boosting? Nope, and i kind of feel bad about it. You read that right. I feel i'm one of the few that wouldn't abuse something like that but instead use it to explore new gear and test things. Yet, the time it takes to boost makes it not really worth it too me. However, if something strange pops in my mind that i think is plausible and the only way for me to test the theory is to boost, will i do it? Absolutely. I'll spend as much time as necessary to uncover an exploit and you should too.

To all of you who complain about "hurting the team" and not helping to win a battle, 75% of the time you will see me on the front lines with my AR sending you back to the respawn screen or maybe you sending me back to mine. The other 25% of the time, if i want to spend hours trying to get inside a building or a rock that i'm not supposed to, attempt to cause myself to fall through the map, or anything else that you deem to be hurtful to the final score of the game, that's my choice and frankly, my job as a tester. If i had the choice of a local, private,unranked server that's where i'd be, but i do not have that option. If you see me boosting, i could be gaining an advantage,sure, or i could actually be trying to test a new theory which if you interfere only slows me down and makes me have to do it again in the next game. Who are you to pass judgement without knowing why i'm actually doing it?

If you aren't interested in helping to fix the game and your only concern is playing it at face value, you shouldn't be in a beta. Wait for release when we've all put in the time and effort to actually test things, find problems and fix them, and then you can enjoy your exploit free gameplay.

You're welcome.