Yes, and this is why there must be a wipe at launch.

And a glorious slaughter shall it be...

The only way a green horn learns how to play the game efficiently is through deaths, or play medic.

Pretty much this.

There is way too much qq and worry about the newbs.

People learn games by dieing.

You all need to htfu, die more often, and get better.

Pretty much this.

There is way too much qq and worry about the newbs.

People learn games by dieing.

You all need to stfu, die more often, and get better.

-Get rid of all skills
-Get rid of SP
-Get rid of all gear except Militia

Perfection!

Why even have gear period! Lets just run naked around the battle field and slap each other to death!

meele=Slap with the hand.

Nova nife= A plastic hand on end of a stick.

Laser Rifle= Hand made from laser on a stick.

sniper rifle= Thowing a a plastic hand.

Reviving = Slapping them until they come to.

If you guys even remotely like dust 514, stop hoping that battle field, modern warfare, halo player base fans won't like this game. You think this game will stay afloat with a hard core player base of 1,000? This game needs a good population if it wants to thrive.

TROLL SPEAK: USE LUBE

Around how many beta tester are there now? And how much are expected when open beta?

I don't know how many people there are now, but I can expect a lot of people coming into it to check it out. Lot people tend to flawk to free FPS games specially from well known companies and its on ps3... I mean look at Halo, Dust has some halo feeling to it. In my opinion better than Halo and its free with micro transition... And CCP is smart. It is not necessarily Pay to win. There are suites and weapons that are brought form isk are just as good as one brought with Aur

Fixed that for ya.

This is exactly what i fear they will hit the wall of vets and say **** this and give up on DUST and not only that would probably spread the word to others of the same mentality, some will probably stick to it but very few will have patience and a want to be effectivly beaten repeatedly. When DUST goes live it NEEDS a Sp wipe, and the sp system needs to be made viable for people who A: dont play every day(roll over is a fix) and B: people who start a month or 2 into developpment(a DUST wide roll over would make it possible but not easy to catch up)

This is my feeling too,and I have been wondering if CCP is totally clueless of this,but then I just started thinking,why would CCP not reset? What is the point of it? Then it just hit me.

CCP is banking on that those noobs that are getting abused by vets will like the game so much ,yet hate that they are so far behind,that they are going to start spending money on AUR in an effort to catch up or at least stand on equal footing with the vets.If this is what CCP is banking on,it will surely blow up in their faces,as most console gamers would rather move on to another game,than spend money on what is advertised as a Free To Play game in order to compete with people that are going to be handed a clear advantage from the start.

Whatever CCP says,I'm still not convinced that they aren't going to do a reset for launch.I just don't see how they figure that this is going to go over well with the new players that they are trying to attract to the game.

You have a point but I believe its confirmed that there will be no more resets, CCP is telling us this is a head start so why would they be like "oh sorry I know we said we gave you a head start but uh...wipe" I mean sure the free points. But it wouldent feel like a head start...besides we JUST had a wipe...people will be raging like no tommorow on the fourms I promise you

Im Just carious How is any different from a noob when the game is out and rage quitting because he keeps dieing? I is like me joining COD and raging and such because I keep die from lack of skills. I just don't see any different than seeing someone joining for OB with people with all the skills, than joining when the game has been out for 3 months.

Im Just carious How is any different from a noob when the game is out and rage quitting because he keeps dieing? I is like me joining COD and raging and such because I keep die from lack of skills. I just don't see any different than seeing someone joining for OB with people with all the skills, than joining when the game has been out for 3 months.

Im Just carious How is any different from a noob when the game is out and rage quitting because he keeps dieing? I is like me joining COD and raging and such because I keep die from lack of skills. I just don't see any different than seeing someone joining for OB with people with all the skills, than joining when the game has been out for 3 months.

The difference is that the ceiling on your character skill level is much higher in Dust than any other shooter probably ever.For instance,in MAG,if you started one month after everyone else,you would hit level 60 a little bit later,but you would still top out like everyone else eventually does,then it all comes down to player skill,and not the skill level of your character.

Casual players that join Dust 2 to 3 months in,won't have a chance in hell,unless they are playing similar opponents,which may,or may not be in as much of abundance as CCP would hope for.

Why do people want restarts so bad.
Don't you want to desolate the noobs.

Yes, and this is why there must be a wipe at launch.

Didn't CCP say we just recently gone through our FINAL wipe?

I hope you guys are joking. Before wipe militia players were making protos QQ. Newbs can use nades as easy as any of us and crush with an LAV as quick as any of us. You guys underestimate people way too much. Besides - I'm sure CCP will hold events on weekends on such for more SP gains when game goes Open Beta to drive people to play. You really should look at the P2W market - CCP claims they don't want it but they're following it's mechanics. Though dust is still not a P2W game.

Also the logic fails.

I mean what if the game was a year old and new players enter the game?

Then the new players would get totally destroyed.If everyone starts off on the ground floor at the same time and you start late,then that's totally on you.The way that CCP will justify this is that if you wanted to get SP early,they you should have bought the Merc Pack,which is kinda BS.

And along with that,unless those players are being told by us that are in the beta right now,how are they going to know to get in now so that they aren't behind? I'm pretty damn sure that CCP isn't sending emails out telling people that this is supposedly the last wipe.

Mark my words,if they don't do a wipe for the launch,it will be a huge mistake.

Yes, and this is why there must be a wipe at launch.

The ground floor was this reset.

It's actually pretty common to have a headstart as the game goes live these days.

I think almost 1m people have been invited. If they aren't following along, what can you do? Keep resetting until they do?

But the ground floor should never be a Closed Beta.

CCP is acknowledging that people are getting a head start,which really isn't fair,nor doing any favors to the latecomers,which if you start on launch day,or even open beta,aren't latecomers.

I guess what I would like to know more than anything at this point is what is CCP doing other than the word of mouth of the beta testers,to let the people that aren't in the beta know that they should be in here now if they don't want to start at the bottom of the hill while every one else is already a good ways up it.

Second, given that this game should have a long life cycle measured in years instead of months, people will constantly will be coming and going at different skill levels. Why try to optimize around some mythical marketing launch?

Didn't CCP say we just recently gone through our FINAL wipe?

I think you guys are trying to hunt around for some optimal newb experience that wouldn't happen anyway.

It takes most people a few weeks to get comfortable with games anyway.

A few things mitigate this -

First there is really only a few weeks difference between a new character and advanced. Six weeks of dedicated AR build and you should be pretty much end game. After that it having more options in playstyles.

Second, given that this game should have a long life cycle measured in years instead of months, people will constantly will be coming and going at different skill levels. Why try to optimize around some mythical marketing launch?

Lastly the player base in this game is so bad (not trolling, the skill level is low) that I think good players will do fine coming in.

I'll just sum up my opinion with an analogy.What CCP is doing with not having a final wipe for launch is similar to this.

There's a pro basketball game being played tonight,and one team shows up to the stadium before the other team.The early team is out on the court doing the shoot around while the late team has just entered the stadium.The late team is finally ready to go,but has missed the shoot around,yet the game is still set to start at a certain predetermined time.Both teams are on the court now,and we are ready for the jump ball,but before the ball is tossed in the air to start the game,the early team is spotted 10 points just for being there first.

Do you see how that scenario doesn't make any sense whatsoever? CCP is doing the exact same thing,which makes no sense either.

The difference is that the ceiling on your character skill level is much higher in Dust than any other shooter probably ever.For instance,in MAG,if you started one month after everyone else,you would hit level 60 a little bit later,but you would still top out like everyone else eventually does,then it all comes down to player skill,and not the skill level of your character.

Casual players that join Dust 2 to 3 months in,won't have a chance in hell,unless they are playing similar opponents,which may,or may not be in as much of abundance as CCP would hope for.

Yes and no.
I.e. if you have 2M SP in AR versus my new toon then I get instakilled for about two months or so until I also have an equivalent amount of SP then its down to who sees who first.

Your analogy only works if we were all playing one single game.

We will be playing thousands of games.

It will all even out in the end.

And there's the key right there.How many of these noobs do you honestly think will stick around for that long? Personally,I would like to think that people would stick it out,but like I've said in other threads,most gamers are stupid these days,and don't have a very long attention span.

Imo,and I really hope I'm wrong about this,the playerbase for Dust will never reach the numbers that is needed to make this game the most epic game ever.Without that high install base of gamers,it's going to be virtually impossible to do what EVE does,in that it's playerbase has grown every year.

Also the logic fails.

I mean what if the game was a year old and new players enter the game?

The difference is that the ceiling on your character skill level is much higher in Dust than any other shooter probably ever.For instance,in MAG,if you started one month after everyone else,you would hit level 60 a little bit later,but you would still top out like everyone else eventually does,then it all comes down to player skill,and not the skill level of your character.

Casual players that join Dust 2 to 3 months in,won't have a chance in hell,unless they are playing similar opponents,which may,or may not be in as much of abundance as CCP would hope for.

This is exactly what i fear they will hit the wall of vets and say **** this and give up on DUST and not only that would probably spread the word to others of the same mentality, some will probably stick to it but very few will have patience and a want to be effectivly beaten repeatedly. When DUST goes live it NEEDS a Sp wipe, and the sp system needs to be made viable for people who A: dont play every day(roll over is a fix) and B: people who start a month or 2 into developpment(a DUST wide roll over would make it possible but not easy to catch up)

This is exactly what i fear they will hit the wall of vets and say **** this and give up on DUST and not only that would probably spread the word to others of the same mentality, some will probably stick to it but very few will have patience and a want to be effectivly beaten repeatedly. When DUST goes live it NEEDS a Sp wipe, and the sp system needs to be made viable for people who A: dont play every day(roll over is a fix) and B: people who start a month or 2 into developpment(a DUST wide roll over would make it possible but not easy to catch up)

CCP can't wipe our player skill or knowlege which is our real advantage.

So what can they do? They can give us a head start to get enough SP that the matchmaking system can segregate us from all the new players.

If we are really expecting thousands of new players the vets will be a drop in the bucket, not an impenetrable wall of death. The new guys will be fighting each other until they get near us in SP (proportionally) and get matched with us.

Noob pub stomping problem solved.

Stop trying to protect the newbs.

What are you feeling maternal? STFU.

CCP can't wipe our player skill or knowlege which is our real advantage.

So what can they do? They can give us a head start to get enough SP that the matchmaking system can segregate us from all the new players.

If we are really expecting thousands of new players the vets will be a drop in the bucket, not an impenetrable wall of death. The new guys will be fighting each other until they get near us in SP (proportionally) and get matched with us.

Noob pub stomping problem solved.

thats a good idea

actually not a bad plan because u are right our player skill and knowledge of the game especially where to invest early on will always have us on top newbies and they will still get raped regardless of a wipe or not and this is the best way to test the matchmaking system to make sure its actually working

CCP can't wipe our player skill or knowlege which is our real advantage.

So what can they do? They can give us a head start to get enough SP that the matchmaking system can segregate us from all the new players.

If we are really expecting thousands of new players the vets will be a drop in the bucket, not an impenetrable wall of death. The new guys will be fighting each other until they get near us in SP (proportionally) and get matched with us.

Noob pub stomping problem solved.

Why even have gear period! Lets just run naked around the battle field and slap each other to death!

meele=Slap with the hand.

Nova nife= A plastic hand on end of a stick.

Laser Rifle= Hand made from laser on a stick.

sniper rifle= Thowing a a plastic hand.

Reviving = Slapping them until they come to.