Radical. Thank god we had that first discussion.

Also, could this go up there? https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=512777#post512777

I mean I find it unreasonable that every battle to take place in New Eden only has two sides. I feel like it would also intensify battles, because there's twice the enemies, but half of them are trying to kill the other half as well.

I agree with the movement. With the sky spawning idea it'll make sense if players get dropped from the warbarge instead of npc dropships, since the warbarge is already in orbit.

Everything sounds great to me except for MCC destruction.

While I think it would be incredible to watch an MCC skid to a halt in front of your face as a match finishes, if you have ever played Final Fantasy VII you will know why I disagree with this small idea as it is now.

In FF7 there is a summon you can use which initiates a cutscene of about five hours showing all of the awesome special effects the PSone could muster. In any battle where this summon was used more than once it became hugely tedious.

My suggestion is to simply have an option somewhere to turn it off for yourself or have it skippable.

It would not not be a cutscene, it would be in the game in real time, and would not stop regular gameplay. It certainly won't be more tedious than the MCC just floating there.

So you're saying that while the MCC is crashing we can still get kills? Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of a pretty light show? And if the plan is not to allow kills then wouldn't it be just the same as a cutscene?

Personally I felt the destruction of the MCC wiped everyone out at the end of a match anyway as the mercs have done their job and are now disposable.

This all sounds great, and I would love to have this stuff. i just think that as players we ask for a lot. I also feel as though we forget that this is a free game. Not that it shouldn't be as great as the rest. This is not just coming from your post but as I see it everyday there is something new that we want for free. A jetpack, a hoverbike, and so many more. I think we should be satisfied with the fact that it is a great game and it is free. Just my opinion. Don't get me wrong those are great ideas and it would be nice to have them, but I think we need to be happy with what we have. The game is fine the way it is, with the exception of a few tweaks to what already exist, and I am sure it is going to get better.

would need another button right? what would you propose?

also what do you think about leaning around corners? would be cool but again would need more buttons which is fine for KBM but not for controller users unless leaning was a SIXAXIS option (only when stationary)

Run + crouch combination is usually how most games do sliding.
Vaulting is usually done by doing a regular jump over certain special objects that allow it (like boxes and railing).
No new buttons needed.

Merc bio: was already under 'character sheet' along with employment history etc, most character sheet sub menus (including merc bio) were removed until they serve a purpose.

Wobbling HUD: was already in game in builds before precursor, reason for removal unknown.

Do you know if CCP intend to let us write on it?
I liked that feature, I want it back

>> Sky spawn: T. Drop uplinks are wormhole tech, & CRUs store respawn clones, so makes sense how mercs can just show up there. For ground base spawns & spawns on objectives, there is no explanation for how we appear. Instead of magically appearing on bases & objectives, we should be dropped down into battle from the sky. Could be explained with cloaked NPC drone dropships. Would me make more sense, & be much more immersive than just magically appearing in the battlefield.

[Animations]

>> Vehicle entering, seat switching, and exiting animations: Not only would be more immersive, but would make use of vehicles more balanced since those in vehicles won't be able to instantly switch seats to dodge shots.

very good thread. not a big fan of sliding but the vaulting and 'see ur feet' aspects should be in. movement needs work and should be much more fluid. we should never have to press a button to interact with a ladder, for instance. the classes should still be separated, however. lets see scouts climb and vault faster than everyone else. the heavy should still be a lumbering beast.

as should prone, it has a number of tactical applications. slow the animation down so that it takes a long time to lie down prone & get up and you render dolphin diving useless but still allow players to shrink their profiles and hide.

MAGs headshot was the best i have ever heard. weapon effects would push this game hard. the forge looks intimidating. the nova knives do not. the sound of the shotgun is distinctive but not intimidating at all. it reminds me of a bionic kangaroo jumping.

sky spawns are also the perfect answer to spawn camping. we call them dropsuits after all. allowing people to drop in [like in the beta trailer] from cloaked ships in a 40m radius of the CRU renders spawn camping a dangerous practice. the message from employer is a great polishing aspect and the bio is a feature we hope returns.

Reloading animation.

nothing bad about it, but would be nice to have a different reloading mechanic other than drawing a clip from the same magical left side of our Dropsuits. would be awesome to have a few reloading animations where your pull out a clip from a different section of your dropsuit.

Perhaps the dispersion of force from inertia dampeners could be channeled outwards to cause a small shock wave that actually caused damage? Would hinder spawn campers even more and if we had even greater control over our freefall, we could guide ourselves over an enemy and use our dampeners to disorientate them whilst we're picking ourselves up.

More immersion would still be great, especially the gunshot lighting.

PS4 feature maybe?

Most of what I suggest is totally doable on PS3. I'm not asking for destructible environments and next gen graphics.

CCP has the FOV backwards. Lowering the field of view makes you feel slower. There's no reason to make the game feel slower than it already is. It also hinders your vision so that you have less situational awareness.

The "dynamic" field-of-view should either be removed or done the other way around so that the FOV increases when you start sprinting to give a sense of acceleration and speed.

Visual variety is very important to me, both for keeping my interest, and for immersion as well (we are suppose to be fighting on thousands of planets). Its much easier to create skyboxes then terrain since there aren't any balace issues to worry about, its purely art.
After CCP's art guys showed what they were capable of with the Caldari Prime event, I thought about the things that could be done with skyboxes.

[I would like to see]

Stars and nebulae: Some planets have very low atmospheres and/or low sunlight, which means the stars and nearby nebulae should be very visible. I want to see more skyboxes with visible stars and nebulas. I would also like to see stars and nebulae as well on planets without these conditions during the nighttime. The nebulas and stars we see can be based on which region of New Eden we are in. Click here and here for pretty picture.

Moons: Many planets have moons, 1 or more. I would like to see them in the sky. Click here for pretty picture.

Auroras: The district we are fighting on could be near the magnetic North of the planet, and auroras have been observed in many planets in our solar system. I want to see them on Dust planets as well. Click here for pretty picture.

Thank you for reading.

Right now, our reload is cyclic.

We begin to reload but then do something like throw a grenade, sprint, or jump, and we have to restart the whole thing again.

Progressive reload is based on the progress made during reload. This would allow us to complete certain phases of reload without resetting. So we could take out the mag, sprint, load the new mag, jump, and set the hammer. It seems unreasonable that when I sprint after loading a new mag, I take that magazine out. It's perfectly fine yo! Don't take it out you just put it in!

Being able to destroy a tank, but not some weak civilian truck laying around the map really breaks immersion.

Things like roadblocks (including the concrete ones), boxes, those large truck vehicles on the map, it would be nice if all these things could be destroyed. It would really help make the battlefield feel more believable.

The civilian vehicles can blow up just like battle vehicles and installations, while other less explosive assets can have 3 versions with various levels of damage that they change between as they take more damage.

I would ask for destructible surface infrastructure pieces including the outposts and stuff, but I know that its asking too much for now.

This request is just about immersion.

When we just appear in the merc quarters, war barge, MCC, and CRU, it would really be better for our clones to be waking up instead of just appearing out of thin air. From what I understand, we travel between the merc quarters and the war barge by transferring our consciousness to a clone already there, and then transfer our consciousness back to the MQ after the battle is over (jump clones).

With this in mind it would make more sense to have us waking up in the war barge and MCC in bodies that were already there, hanging on racks of clones (like in this image), and then being released from the rack to walk around instead of just appearing out of nowhere.
With the merc quarters however, instead of showing our characters just materialize, have them wake up from the bed.
Just materializing out of nowhere does make sense for drop uplinks though since they are essentially wormholes.
I would like for us to awaken from inside a CRU as well; it kind of bothers me when I see a merc just materialize next to a CRU instead of coming out of it. The CRU would need doors that open from which to eject players out (in like half a se...