WILLIAM Forrester
Sanmatar Kelkoons
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.11.04 19:53:00 -
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Dear CCP,
Dust is a cool game and I enjoy playing it (mostly when I get kills) and as an EVE player I'm looking forward to how things will progress.
However I would like to give some feedback regarding the menus. This is a long and emotional rant but I wanted to give honest feedback, feel free to ignore it.
When I think "I'd like to play DUST right now" my heart sinks and I grapple with the idea of whether or not I can really be bothered. Because I can't "play Dust right now", all I can do is "wade through loads of loading screens and nonsense and then play dust", and that isn't appealing.
I don't understand what happens before the title screen (the one where you press start to play and select character), I'm assuming it's really important because it is a major drag on the experience, agreeing to all the agreements every time and watching those orange loading bars.
Then, when I get through that, what I want is a clean easy menu of words which loads really fast where I can choose what I want to do and then do it as fast as possible, however this is not what I get.
I strongly dislike the mercenary quarter, it adds no functionality to the game and it frustrates me a lot that there isn't an option to replace it with a still image or a black screen. Every time it loads I resent it and feel very frustrated with the game.
Then, after selecting what kind of battle I want, often I end up in the pre-fight hangar. And I know the game wouldn't start any faster if I didn't go there but I don't want to go there, ever, it was cool to look around once but a menu to get rid of it and spend the loading time in the menus (skills, fitting etc) would be much better.
Then in a match when you die you have to wait for the respawn screen and then wait 10 seconds to deploy. But if you change your mind on what fit you want or the enemy disables the spawn point you have chosen you have to wait another 10 seconds. Why is this? You've waited your time surely it should be instant after that.
Then after the match I look at the results and I want to go, as quickly as possible, to a new game, maybe with a quick chance to replenish drop suits if I need to. But no, I go back to the mercenary quarter and my enjoyment dies a little. Because it has to load, and that takes ages, just so I can immediately leave again.
Overall, for me, the game just feels gummy and annoying and you won't let me turn it off. Surely it's not too hard to have an option to only have text menus. It would improve things so much and I would be excited to play. As it is I find all my immersion is destroyed by the loading wheel in the bottom right which I have learned to loathe.
Loading is one of the most miserable experiences you can inflict on a gamer, it is literally no fun in any conceivable way and you should only subject your customers to it when you absolutely have to.
Ok, so that was somewhat more emotional and whiney than I had intended but I wanted to be honest about how the game makes me feel.
As I say I think the game is cool, I enjoy playing it, you guys have done amazing work and I am really glad you gave me a chance to be in the BETA.
Thanks, good luck and see you on the batllefield. |