I've been watching videos on YouTube of the veteran players running around with awesome suits, taking tons of damage without dying, and killing other players in one second or less with their over-powered guns and skills. There are plenty of those out there. What I'm looking for are videos of what it's actually like for new players to play the game.

Here's a scene I would like to see depicted:

The player successfully flanks an enemy, empties an entire clip into them at point blank, and now must reload. The enemy's shields are down and still have 3/4 of their armor left, so they turn around and kill the player with half of a clip of their weapon.

I would upload it myself if I had video capture capabilities on my PS3, but I unfortunately do not.

So maybe all of you vets out there who can record video should start a new character (you know, one with less than 1,000,000 lifetime SP), join a pub match, and start recording how well you do.

There's one major problem, with this, though... What if you're so good that despite the lack of good gear and skills, you don't run into these problems? What if, in fact, your success was all due to your elite tactics and quick wit and had nothing to do with your gear and skills? Well, that's just a risk we're going to have to take.

Anyway, let's see the videos, vets.

Or worse, are mediocre. But truth be told, most players do. FPS games have so much actual skill involved, what with reaction times and coordination and the like, that it really is a bad business if you can't do it.

Did we squad? :)


I'm starting to think the initial poor reaction to this game isn't learning curve, it is paradigm shift. This isn't CoD or BF3, it is WOW with guns. No gunfight is going to be "fair". There are going to be a ton of twinks running around with uber gear. MMO players are used to getting slaughtered by twinks, FPS peeps are not. This is a whole new deal.

I think a skill balance would help PUG games.

I've been watching videos on YouTube of the veteran players running around with awesome suits, taking tons of damage without dying, and killing other players in one second or less with their over-powered guns and skills. There are plenty of those out there. What I'm looking for are videos of what it's actually like for new players to play the game.

Here's a scene I would like to see depicted:

The player successfully flanks an enemy, empties an entire clip into them at point blank, and now must reload. The enemy's shields are down and still have 3/4 of their armor left, so they turn around and kill the player with half of a clip of their weapon.

I would upload it myself if I had video capture capabilities on my PS3, but I unfortunately do not.

So maybe all of you vets out there who can record video should start a new character (you know, one with less than 1,000,000 lifetime SP), join a pub match, and start recording how well you do.

There's one major problem, with this, though... What if you're so good that despite the lack of good gear and skills, you don't run into these problems? What if, in fact, your success was all due to your elite tactics and quick wit and had nothing to do with your gear and skills? Well, that's just a risk we're going to have to take.

Anyway, let's see the videos, vets.