A few things before I start on this topic;-

This is not a rant or QQ thread!

If your KD less than 5;- STFU!

If your SP is less than 3 million;- STFU!

If your WPs is less than 500000;- STFU

I have been a beta tester for almost a year now and I have been playing this game, welp almost everyday. In this past one year this game has come a long way. A lot of good has happened but a lot of bad has happened too!

One of the things I want to talk about is CCPs approach to overnerfing. While this may work in the Eve world, it does not leave a very good taste in the Dust world. For example;- the variants of the AR are absolutely useless. Why have these weapons in the market when they are of no use whatsoever. Another example is the Militia AR. It is OP as hell. It is the most accurate and powerful weapon this game has to offer. Why should we even bother skilling into proto ARs when all you need is a militia AR. FPS shooter games is all about the smoothness of the game which includes straffing. The straffing speed should be increased and based on the type of suit you run. Unfortunately to fix the bug of the hit detection CCP reduced the straffing speed which was more of a band aid than a fix.

And talking about band aids;- most of the fixes CCP has brought in so far are band aids. While it helps elliviate one problem it creates 2 other problems in the end. So what has been happening here is that for every one step CCP takes forward, it has been taking 2 steps back. For example;- just because a couple of cry babies were getting squished you brught about a 100% environmental damage to dropships when this could have been addressed by either reducing the dropship environmental damage to 50% or getting those cry babies to use AV grenades. Heck I have taken out dropships with AV grenades and MDs when they were flying low.

We still dont have a clue where Dust is headed. All we have is CCP fanboyism saying "its a beta" or "SoonGäó". Where are we headed with Dust? What are CCP's milestones with Dust (if any)? I raised the topic about how communication was bad between CCP and the gamers and we still see that it is getting worse instead of improving. I cant figure out why in todays patch CCP decided to change the squad mechanics when there are loads of other problems that need to be fixed.

Can we please get the Dust milestones and some better communication from CCP? Y'all have come a long way but can we please get the basics fixed?

For the trollers who are going to troll this post;- go **** yourselve's!
For the HTFU preachers;- fo **** yourselve's too!
For the "its a beta" sayers;- go **** yourselve's too!
For the "Can i haz your stuff" beggars;- go **** yourselve's too! I aint quitting this game.

Well first I have seen you say before that the militia AR has the best accuracy.....but are you sure thats correct?

lol everytime i have seen OP he climbs the highest mountain and snipes

BTW I dont agree with your criteria to be over 3 mill by now...in order to do that you would HAVE to have a booster. Or literally no life the 1000 SP per match limit.

Well first I have seen you say before that the militia AR has the best accuracy.....but are you sure thats correct? I think accuracy goes up as you go higher into the AR tier. However I agree with your notes on the other ARs being mostly useless. Straffing speed should be increased just because people are bad at tracking doesnt mean you should nerf speed. Wheres the HTFU regarding straffing speed? It would be nice to hear more from CCP regarding when things are going to be coming.

BTW I dont agree with your criteria to be over 3 mill by now...in order to do that you would HAVE to have a booster. Or literally no life the 1000 SP per match limit.

There is were u are wrong. with my alt and main i have total of almost 4 million isk. (made a second because of the daily cap now in kinda screwed because of weekly cap.) Had to cap to dudes now with full time job/kids/wife. But im close enough every week.

You havent seen me enough then. Talk to all the corps that we have beaten in Corp Battles. They will tell you how I play. Whether I snipe or use the laser rifle or use the MD or use the AR or just melee the crap out you, I can **** you up in more ways than one.

While I get what your saying. Im no big fan of the CCPs nerfgasms. That being said, whats with the anger and the attitude, can't you just state you problems without beginning and ending on a troll?

lol everytime i have seen OP he climbs the highest mountain and snipes

Back to you orginal post, if I may.

I think the issue here is that there is a gross disparity between eve dev communication and dust dev communication (or lack thereof).

Eve seems to get a dev blog every other day. All we get is the welcome forum presence from the 'Fiction Guy' (never stop posting). Even with this you do tend to get the strong impression that hes heavily restricted on what he can and can't say, or at least the corporate machine that allows information to flow is slow at best.

Perhaps its because they are saving all the juicy "for the future" stuff for fanfest.

Who knows.

I was always under the impression CCP was nerfing stuff in tandem with the player environment. They had to flatten everything due to the limited amount of battle options and that essentially every player, regardless of skill level, is stuck together, so they've had to artificially alter the playing field. I hope this anyway. Maybe infuture they'll put the suits and guns back to thier orginal progressive concept and allow for damage types and resists as was orginally mentioned way back when dust was first announced.