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Sgt Buttscratch
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Posted - 2013.05.03 17:18:00 -
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My experience:
1st a lil background. I like some but not all FPS, and I do well at them. I had a group of players from Brink who wanted me to jump onto Dust, I choose to level 15 characters on BL2 to max instead.
So the day I finally download and jump onto dust, I sent my friend a message on PSN. He replies. I fire up dust join a Ambush match, see a guy with no gun play or skills what so ever, unload some AR rounds into his head, take a 1/4 shield off him before he turns around and drops me in a split second....
That last paragraph happens to A LOT of new players, I almost said F##K this. Meanwhile my friends in game are scrabbling around saying "**** he joined a public match, get him out!!". Knowing where my stance on these games is.
Luckily They got me into Corp, gave me a very good explanation on the game, skills etc.
A large % of people trying Dust, will not have my situation, they will have to get their foot in the door, with no help. Easily a huge percentage of those players will turn the game off and delete it, before they even try that.
CCP should have a new N00B game mode. 1.5k SP and under. So that their 1st few matches, the ones that count when trying to entice players to stay.
But at X2 sp rate, so they don't get to stick around there for too long. This will raise the success rate of new players, but also raise the quality for the seasoned players, due to removing the feared "blueberries" from their matches until the have at least 1.765% idea of what is going on
Also during load screens, how about skill/class/weapon hints, rather than an explanation of what "ambush" is. |
Sgt Buttscratch
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Posted - 2013.05.03 17:49:00 -
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iLLMaTiC619 wrote:I work got a wife and kids but I still have time to play.. I told you this yesterday OP this aint COD etc get some boosters active and passive.. costs a few bucks and lasts for a month.
this last week had double or triple SP XP to earn. If you played atleast a hour or so with boosters your would have a decent merc dropsuit.
passive boosters earn you sp while you are offline. you have to explain to your friend you have to put in this game what you want out of it, this is why I love Dust514 you EARN everything you got.
Be a logi heal people drop ammo down and you will get points. Buy AUR blueprint dropsuits, weapons etc .. you pay one time with your money to buy aur and you will always have these dropsuits, weapons etc.
If you and your friend want to learn and play with a active corp my corp KiLo. is always accepting applications. we will answer any questions you may have or any tips to help you out
That would be fine, but If after my 1st game someone told me, it's fine just throw some money at the game, you'll get better.
1st 2 thoughts my head "so this IS pay to win" and "kcuf that, pay for something I didn't enjoy when free" |
Sgt Buttscratch
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Posted - 2013.05.03 18:12:00 -
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BL4CK FRIAR wrote:Sgt Buttscratch wrote:
CCP should have a new N00B game mode. 1.5k SP and under. So that their 1st few matches, the ones that count when trying to entice players to stay.
This is a problem right here, this "weigh class" idea and especially in the "feather weigh" division as this game will only have had a certain time frame where there will be a good portion of players in said class, and we are quickly running up to the point where they arent enough to run a full games of ambush and what have you as most players are quickly surpassing that SP count even on alts. The only way I can see CCP fixing the issue that many of you are talking about is a tutorial "campaign" of sorts where a new player is a member of one of the four empires and does a short series of missions where they a rewarded with ISK, SP and some free skill books. In that campaign they learn through missions about all the devices and equipment in the game, get to get their hands on it all so they can make educated decisions later on, then are mustered out of their nations Army and become Cloned Mercs, at which point its big boy time and no more QQ because you didnt understand or play the tutorial.
My idea was span from Crysis 2/3's >10 noob protection system. Maybe 1.5 would be too much, but say at 750k Sp, it would work, and would be easy to implement.
You idea would take more work for CCP, but would help new players a lot also.
The main issue is there needs to be a small blast shield for new players, so that they can enjoy themselves, the reason we game. |
Sgt Buttscratch
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Posted - 2013.05.03 20:19:00 -
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The 1st three steps there could be merged into one, 10 minute interactive tutorial with ease.
Main problem is this doesn't stop the 1st real view of the game new players get, Vizium to the face x100 |
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