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Lycuo wrote:

So here's my 2 cents take it or leave it:

This game is not targeting the casual FPSer like the whining little kids that play CoD or god bless them the ex armed forces that want to relive their strategy based lives in Battlefield.

This game is targeting those FPSers that are always dedicated to their game. The ones that if possible eventually attempt to become MLG of some sort and want to learn the ins and outs of every map gun game type there is.

To do this, CCP has implemented said "Sp sink" that gives the dedicated player a reason to continue playing through each and every patch that they come up with. This game is meant to not be perfected in the first month of playing like you can do with CoD. This game is also meant to challenge your brain a little.

In my opinion this game has one extra bonus that no other FPS has ever had. It takes a bit of smarts to play this game. Not only the obvious in a challenging skill tree and knowing where to spec into for your gameplay type, but the strategies when in fights, the know how on how to survive even though you might be up against better players, or even know how to set ur squad up for success. All other FPS games have minimal, at best, amounts of ways to scheme and fight a battle. CoD has tac inserts and rushing versus defending versus somewhere in the middle of that. Battlefield has basic military strategies (which are even less now without a commander like in Bf2) and even then its more about K/D than winning the war.

This being said i don't know how the game will be perceived by others and it might lose some of the lesser dedicated members due to the expansiveness being derived from The Uprising expansion. Personally i am happy about this and can't wait to see the battles between long lasting and hard working corps and alliances of another 6th of a planet in the expansive universe known as Eve.

btw hi Jenza congrats and can't wait to catch up with u in Cronos.


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Ric Barlom On The Brink CRONOS. 64	Posted - 2013.05.05 19:35:00 - [1] - Quote Lycuo wrote: So here's my 2 cents take it or leave it: This game is not targeting the casual FPSer like the whining little kids that play CoD or god bless them the ex armed forces that want to relive their strategy based lives in Battlefield. This game is targeting those FPSers that are always dedicated to their game. The ones that if possible eventually attempt to become MLG of some sort and want to learn the ins and outs of every map gun game type there is. To do this, CCP has implemented said "Sp sink" that gives the dedicated player a reason to continue playing through each and every patch that they come up with. This game is meant to not be perfected in the first month of playing like you can do with CoD. This game is also meant to challenge your brain a little. In my opinion this game has one extra bonus that no other FPS has ever had. It takes a bit of smarts to play this game. Not only the obvious in a challenging skill tree and knowing where to spec into for your gameplay type, but the strategies when in fights, the know how on how to survive even though you might be up against better players, or even know how to set ur squad up for success. All other FPS games have minimal, at best, amounts of ways to scheme and fight a battle. CoD has tac inserts and rushing versus defending versus somewhere in the middle of that. Battlefield has basic military strategies (which are even less now without a commander like in Bf2) and even then its more about K/D than winning the war. This being said i don't know how the game will be perceived by others and it might lose some of the lesser dedicated members due to the expansiveness being derived from The Uprising expansion. Personally i am happy about this and can't wait to see the battles between long lasting and hard working corps and alliances of another 6th of a planet in the expansive universe known as Eve. btw hi Jenza congrats and can't wait to catch up with u in Cronos. Enough said! I've got to agree with my corp mate Lycuo here.
Ric Barlom On The Brink CRONOS. 64	Posted - 2013.05.05 20:24:00 - [2] - Quote So I've been reading through to the whole thread, guys, and you know what, man, I didn't really want to respond... But Jesus Christ! Enough is enough! I've had it with the sinks! I've had it with the business moves! And I've had it with the hypocrisy! I mean my God, suddenly the whole community is so God damn concerned about the new player experience after AFKing their asses off in the MCC! Yeah, I said it. Now that I've got that out of the way let me address a few issues in this response, guys. Let's talk about sinks a little bit cause that seems to be the buzzword of the week. Some people say Dust 514 has too many time sinks... No **** Sherlock! It's a video game, it IS a time sink for crying out loud! The new specialist suits being SP sinks which make new player experience worse cause they can't compete? Well let me be the first one tell you that the differences between the generic suits vs the specialist suits are so small that a guy with a generic suit has very good chances at beating the specialist, no question about that. Well someone even said that it's not worth putting skills into the specialist suits. Well then don't put your skills there then! It's not rocket science, guys. Now the this thing cracks me up a little bit but I've seen it float around here in the forums quite a bit so I'm gonna say something about it but I'll be very brief. What I'm talking about here is a lot of people telling me "Ric, this whole SP sink thing is a business move, can't you see it?!?!" It's a video game, genius! What do you think, that these guys live with our good will and encouragement? Think not! More likely giving them cancer as we speak.