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According to merc cast episode 2, we will be getting a new Skirmish variation in the Uprising build with only one objective. It's actually a variation we have seen before in some events, and I find it quite fun and intense. There is a problem however.

The serious flaw with the game mode was objective spawning; the ability to spawn on the objective that your team holds. This feature exists in regular Skirmish, and helps contribute to the often one-sided battles, but it is much worse when there is only one objective. When there is only one objective, objective-spawning makes defending the objective much too easy, and allows for the first team to gain control of the objective to very easily maintain control of it, and lead to very one-sided battles.

CRUs, drop uplinks, and mCRU-fitted vehicles will suffice to meet our spawning needs. Add more CRUs on the map at certain locations if you need to, but please do not allow objective-spawning in Domination.

Sounds like there is going to be some disappointed heavys come May 6th.

So no change?

Sounds like there is going to be some disappointed heavys come May 6th.

First of all thanks Caz for posting this interview up, very cool of you. Nothing I say past this reflects on you.


I will hold back a little on CCP since I haven't seen the new build yet, but it does sound VERY disappointing.

6 months for...

A few new suits, 4 new weapons, 2 new maps and reconfiguration (again) of old maps, 1 horrible new game mode.

I played the new game mode a few months back, once. If you are planning to put 1 objective on the map, surround it by 20 gun installations and call that a game mode... OHK.

Many people have shouted for RUSH (skirmish 1.0 - Craterlake) to come back. Couldn't agree more, this was the best game mode you've had yet and its not deployed. So it was taken out of the rotation because it was unfair to one side... so is every map you guys have put into the game so far. You ever tried a CB on any of them? ALL your maps are unbalanced. Suck it up and put it back in.


Seriously... who is in charge of DUST 514 game development? Hire some outside help, because the original content you are trying to roll out is below par. This is not a AAA shooter, I'm sure SOE has made that known to you, if not, their heads up their butts too.


This game plays like an indy shooter and is developed like one. Truth hurts, ban me, whatever.

Seriously... who is in charge of DUST 514 game development? Hire some outside help, because the original content you are trying to roll out is below par.


This game plays like an indy shooter and is developed like one. Truth hurts, ban me, whatever.

Yo dawg heard of Planetary Conquest? The most important aspect of this game? Or maybe Factional Warfare? No? Sorry.

While I'm not as disappointed as you are, I REALLY DO WISH WE COULD GET SKIRMISH 1.0 BACK!

It was broken, too easy for defenders. Here was the problem, if the defenders put up a solid fight in the first half of the battle. (capping the first round of objectives) the attacker's MCC took too much damage, and the attacker had NO chance to cap the 2nd round of objectives.

Here's the easy fix. Make it so defender cant spawn on the objective. They have to spawn in a spot 50-100m from objective. This way, if the attacker gets the upper hand and kills off a wave of defenders, they don't have to worry about an IMMEDIATE spawn back on the objective. They actually have a chance to hack. (particularly for the first round of objectives where they need to be "blown up")

The second round of objectives is essentially what current skirmish is now. You can probably leave this as is, however, if a change is to be made...it should be that the MCC gets its HP restored after the first half of the map. (but starts accruing damage again immediately)

Take the "2 new battlefields" part of the announcement in context, and it's a LOT better than it sounds at first, guys.

We keep all current maps, gain 2 more.
We get a variety of SIs which change the layout of each map.
Day/night cycle.

There are currently 4 maps active, and 3 "deactivated" variant maps. Even looking at the baseline, that means we'll have 6 maps, each with 3 possible SIs that could appear on them. That gives us 6 x 3 = 18 maps. Add the differences in lighting - which as we've seen in the past, make a difference to the feel of maps even without changes in layout. If we assume they have 3 different types of lighting - One for daytime with the system's star overhead, one for night with maybe a moon visible in the sky and a star-skybox, and one with the local star on the horizon (or just below it) with twilight/sunrise/sunset ambience.

Yea if I paint my car pink and put some new spotlight on it, its still the same old car, that is not good enough at all, who would like to run another 6 months on the same bad map as we are doing now.

The map have to be brand new and get rid of the beta testing map,,, I am so sick of them.....

PART of the map is terrain layout.

That won't be changing for existing maps - at least not significantly, but 2 new maps will be added.

Part of the changes are purely cosmetic (updated graphics) or cleaning up terrain glitches - which fit your example.

But part of the layout of a map is the positioning and the types of buildings you can find. THE BUILDINGS WILL BE CHANGING FROM ONE BATTLE TO THE NEXT.

New building/layouts = new maps.

There are 18 variants, NOT including the lighting changes, and I'm hoping that the changes in lighting can actually - as environmental effects on maps in previous builds have done - change things more than just altering the colours a little.

If you want to use cars, it's like saying we have 4 cars now, but in a couple of weeks, they'll not only repaint the old cars and add a couple of extras, but also give us several other versions of the same type of car, with different paintjobs and different extra features, and a selection of versions of 2 new cars while they're at it.

First of all thanks Caz for posting this interview up, very cool of you. Nothing I say past this reflects on you.


I will hold back a little on CCP since I haven't seen the new build yet, but it does sound VERY disappointing.

6 months for...

A few new suits, 4 new weapons, 2 new maps and reconfiguration (again) of old maps, 1 horrible new game mode.

I played the new game mode a few months back, once. If you are planning to put 1 objective on the map, surround it by 20 gun installations and call that a game mode... OHK.

Many people have shouted for RUSH (skirmish 1.0 - Craterlake) to come back. Couldn't agree more, this was the best game mode you've had yet and its not deployed. So it was taken out of the rotation because it was unfair to one side... so is every map you guys have put into the game so far. You ever tried a CB on any of them? ALL your maps are unbalanced. Suck it up and put it back in.


Seriously... who is in charge of DUST 514 game development? Hire some outside help, because the original content you are trying to roll out is below par. This is not a AAA shooter, I'm sure SOE has made that known to you, if not, their heads up their butts too.


This game plays like an indy shooter and is developed like one. Truth hurts, ban me, whatever.