Razer Mikio
Hateful Munitions
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Posted - 2013.02.13 17:00:00 -
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As a dedicated DS pilot here is my .02 isk worth of ideals...
1.) The controls are fine, they are difficult enough to keep any ol player from picking up the DS, this is important because we want "boots on the ground", plus it means that we dont have 2000000 drop ships acting as gun boats every match. If you cant learn to fly, then you should figure something else out, I feel like you could always go tanks.. or just shoot stuff...
Also, learning to play a guitar and learning to fly is two different things, flying is much more difficult then playing a guitar, and yes if you pick up a guitar and cant play a D# you are ********..... considering there are four ways to play that cord, and only one way to fly.... your arguing a persons ability to find "spacial reasoning" is as equal as a persons ability to put their fingers in a specific place and strum strings..... Everyone can pour concrete not everyone can design buildings. Flying is hard, and it takes a specific type of mind to do it.... hence why something like 3.3 million dollars is spent on our pilots for the armed forces.... its not easy... and even dumbing it down in a video game its still harder...
I dont want halo drop ships, I want drop ships that are rewarding to fly, just like you like to go 12/2 to show your skill... me being able to straf around a building and then set it down on the roof, is a show man ship of my dedication to the flying.
2.) WE NEEEEEEEEED an eject button, people just sit in our DS waiting for a gunner spot to open... This is not kewl, considering your DS can easily take up to half of the team in it... so you have half the team in your DS, waiting on a gunner spot.... and not doing anything.
3.) We are not rewarded enough for using drop ships, why do I want to put 500-1m on the line just to get 200k - 300k if we win? Eve is all about risk/reward.. I would never take a 20m ship to anything where I only stood to get 1m out of it? Thats ********.... Plus we only get WP if our gunners manage to get a kill or two? My corp asks me all the time why I fly them.. and I always have to respond "so you guys can win the game", because short of maybe 2 or 3 assist depending on how good the enemy team is, thats all I get.. I find my self with scores like 2-0, or 1-1...... just because I killed a couple dudes while waiting on my DS.
4.) The collision is fine.... Its simple.. if you crash into stuff in the air you go to the ground.. if you go to the ground to hard you blow up... this should be logical... stop hitting stuff and control your speed and your craft.... I can land pretty much any DS on a dime with no issues.... do not complain to the mechanics of the game because you are a bad pilot.. control your craft.
5.) There will always be morons that dont want in the vechiles, they don't trust the pilots... bad pilots in a myriad of other games has ruined their taste... they feel like they are just gonna fly around for a few seconds and then die... and they are better off just walking there.. or they feel like they are "missing out on the action" because of it. This is something that can never be helped. There will always be these "solo people" who feel like just because they have a good score they contributed the most to the match... see CoD, Halo, and other "non objective based shooters" for the reasons behind this.
7.) CCP needs to do a better job of making people understand that this is not a "gun game" we are not playing CoD or Halo, where the focus is completely on foot combat, we are playing a "war game" where the focus is put on using the tools that you have to win..... If you come from CoD or Halo, or whatever, I understand, but this is not that game... you should go back there if all you want to do is run around and gun stuff... Where as I think a lot of focus should be put on the gun game, there has to be other aspects of the game too.. there are other archetypes, and other ways to play, and these deserve just as much love.
8.) Also, just do like all other games do, and make each person join their team voice when the game starts... this will at least help a bit of people..... though not many cause people will still selfishly ignore you, thinking they know far better then you, even though you have swooped around the battlefield, and you can tell they are running into 5+ reds, solo..... then they ***** tha |