If you guys increase MD splash range a bit too, I love you all forever <3

I know the entire CPM appreciates the steps that CCP is taking to improve communication and transparency with the community.

For the health and future of the Dust 514, I hope that progress continues to be made moving forward.

So all the dropship pilots should be able to get into these battles, right?

I hope that the issue with the flux grenades is addressed soon. I'll be posting a thread about it but hands down the flux grenades have the worst hit detection of all the weapons.

No no domination is one point. Skirmish 1.0 had points but then opened up other parts of the map something like that. Not sure.

The biggest problem that you face is that DUST 514 is not FUN.

While I know there are problems with specific game functions (hit detection primarily), all of these problems pale in comparison to the fact that Dust 514 is just not fun. The core of the core game, shooting space people, just isn't fun, killing an enemy doesn't leave me satisfied, it just leaves me with a feeling of "wow, that sure was annoying". Taking points on the map isn't fun, it's just annoying. Wow I sure am glad I just fought that guy for 3 minutes hitting mostly air, just so one of his pals can spawn in and kill me with an invisible militia grenade. CCP this is the real danger you have with Dust 514, no matter how deeply integrated it is into EVE and how much winning and losing battles means to the EVE universe, no one will continue to play this game if one dude shooting another dude is not FUN.

Other than desperately needing to make DUST 514 FUN in terms of shooting a space merc in the face, another important core piece of an FPS that makes it FUN is the use of strategy. When there are tiered objectives within a match not only do you have to out-gun your opponent, but you also have to out-think your opponent, it is very satisfying to out strategize your opponent and use teamwork to accomplish objectives.

With the current POS game mode in DUST 514 all people do is run around in a big circle and chase each other like kids playing with water guns. There is no strategy involved, the points that are held are meaningless and hold absolutely no strategic value. It is FUN when you have to understand what your opponent is thinking and see what they are trying to accomplish and react to match conditions in real-time. None of these elements are present in "Skirmish POS", some did exist in Skirmish 1.0.

Yeah skirmish 1.0 was a 2 point battle ... one side defending with a static MCC ... the other side attacking with an MCC moving towards the defenders base. If the attackers destroyed the null cannons or hacked them, their MCC would reach the defenders base before it blew up and the map would move redzone into the next stage.

The second stage was 3 objectives inside one of the compounds, but I forget how it balanced the MCC damages, but as defenders you could win before the second stage started if you held the objectives, and as attackers you could blow them up and improve your MCCs hp retention for the second stage.

It was dynamic, which made it more interesting, not just static MCCs and a static map with a few bits dropping from the sky sometimes.

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Skill point progression:[/b] Based on your feedback we will be doing further adjustments to skill point requirements for specializations, which received a massive rework in Uprising along with the new node based visualization of the tech tree. Our plan is to address this by tweaking skill point requirements GÇô and in that process reimburse you with the skill points that youGÇÖve spent back to your unused skill pool. Additionally, we are planning an optional skill point respec of skill points to players via petitioning our game masters after this change occurs, in case some of you may not be completely satisfied with your original choices. We also believe that this will solve some dropsuit requirements that were changed in Uprising, giving you easier access to those items again. Details about changes to the skill point progress will be forthcoming when available, and weGÇÖll provide an updated spreadsheet in advance of that (the previous one provided) here.

The biggest problem that you face is that DUST 514 is not FUN.

While I know there are problems with specific game functions (hit detection primarily), all of these problems pale in comparison to the fact that Dust 514 is just not fun. The core of the core game, shooting space people, just isn't fun, killing an enemy doesn't leave me satisfied, it just leaves me with a feeling of "wow, that sure was annoying". Taking points on the map isn't fun, it's just annoying. Wow I sure am glad I just fought that guy for 3 minutes hitting mostly air, just so one of his pals can spawn in and kill me with an invisible militia grenade. CCP this is the real danger you have with Dust 514, no matter how deeply integrated it is into EVE and how much winning and losing battles means to the EVE universe, no one will continue to play this game if one dude shooting another dude is not FUN.

Other than desperately needing to make DUST 514 FUN in terms of shooting a space merc in the face, another important core piece of an FPS that makes it FUN is the use of strategy. When there are tiered objectives within a match not only do you have to out-gun your opponent, but you also have to out-think your opponent, it is very satisfying to out strategize your opponent and use teamwork to accomplish objectives.

With the current POS game mode in DUST 514 all people do is run around in a big circle and chase each other like kids playing with water guns. There is no strategy involved, the points that are held are meaningless and hold absolutely no strategic value. It is FUN when you have to understand what your opponent is thinking and see what they are trying to accomplish and react to match conditions in real-time. None of these elements are present in "Skirmish POS", some did exist in Skirmish 1.0.

Awesome guys, the %10 damage increase sounds great!


If you guys increase MD splash range a bit too, I love you all forever <3

(whipping the hamsters can only get so far and our hamsters are busily making fixes!).

100% agree with you! I literally couldn't agree more!
CCP LISTEN TO THIS GUY!
It may not seem it (although it should be obvious) but this guy is speaking on behalf of A LOT of the DUST 514 community!

Well I guess with respec just being one ticket away we are gonna see ALOT more Caldari Logi on the field....

I am new to multiplayer FPS', never played Battlefield or Call of Duty. Medal of Honor would be the closest and THAT was really fun.

As others have said, especially for newbies, this game really does suck. I have been playing for a week now, spent my $20 buying the merck pack, out of AUR (and can't buy more, even if I wanted to, but it is beta, so no biggie).

There are 3 ideas that I would like to suggest:
1) it doesn't cost you consumables if you die before firing a shot
2) Change auto-deploy so that it is soldier specific... if your primary weapon is assault you go to the front, medic, anti-armour, etc in the middle and drop snipers high and dry in the back.
3) Give new users a chance to survive with an armour bonus based on their kill/death ratio (or something!) so they can survive to build. The better they get, the faster it goes away.

My $0.02
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