Do Militia LAVs really need a huge HP buff? They're free LAVs, after all. Spend a little SP and get into something better if you don't want to pop from AV grenades.

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

all i want to know is why all assault riffles have scopes on them in the viewer but why we dont have them on r automatic assault riffles ???Give us sights something to aim down this is a game of the future but yet reddot or acog scopes lack on r assault riffles give us r sights ccp

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.

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.

It should really be cut down to 4% per level. That way with 5 shield extenders it's 396, that's still a whole shield extender right there. 5% is a little too much...

5% is perfect

You're coming to the party about 4 months too late ...maybe someday theyll come back as addon accessories.

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.

Any and all changes and info you have and are thinking to implement needs to be shared with the community.

I am sorry CCP but if you want your game to succeed we need total transparency on the changes you believe need to be made WELL before they go through.

I would not normally think that this would be the best way to approach balancing issues in the game but you have proven time and again that a lot of the changes you implement are to the detriment of the game.

There are many active forum warriors that would be more than happy to help crunch numbers and think out side the box on how certain changes will affect the game.

Please moving forward post what changes you are looking into making and why. Most are here to help and these people should be easily spotted.

The changes that you make half the time are to sweeping in nature and doesn't help in whittling away what the problem is for each situation.

Less hatchet and more scaple.

But more content and less nerfing.

Any and all changes and info you have and are thinking to implement needs to be shared with the community.

I am sorry CCP but if you want your game to succeed we need total transparency on the changes you believe need to be made WELL before they go through.

I would not normally think that this would be the best way to approach balancing issues in the game but you have proven time and again that a lot of the changes you implement are to the detriment of the game.

There are many active forum warriors that would be more than happy to help crunch numbers and think out side the box on how certain changes will affect the game.

Please moving forward post what changes you are looking into making and why. Most are here to help and these people should be easily spotted.

The changes that you make half the time are to sweeping in nature and doesn't help in whittling away what the problem is for each situation.

Less hatchet and more scaple.

But more content and less nerfing.

Matchmaking GÇô we are working to put live an update to matchmaking on 5/14 that gets new players to play together, and keeps the vets and their proto gear away. For example: Entry to these battles will be limited by total warpoints earned per character and will prevent older players from joining. New players will not be presented with the existing instant battle queues however they can join a squad with veteran players and be pulled into other battles.
Expect this change to hit TQ by next week and for more details from CCP Nullarbor you can go here.

I am a long time lurker here, but I think its about time I post something. I started playing EvE in 2011 when a friend told me about DUST 514. I fell in love with EvE and CCP, and my hopes for DUST grew as time went on. Dust entered beta, and I got in at an early stage for being an eve player. It was rough, but it was a beta. It has continually gotten better as time has gone on. When people make statements like this



I wonder if they realize that their OPINION is not FACT. I also wonder if they have ever made a video game or piece of interactive media. As a hobbyist indie developer who makes small art games and projects, I wonder if they have any idea how difficult making a game is. I also think sometimes console gamers/ gamers in general dont realize CCP develops games for the long term, they arent looking to release DUST 514 2, DUST 514 BLOPS, DUST 514 Future Warfare 3. It will always just be a steady and constant iteration on DUST till its refined and mature like EvE Online is now. I also think it is laugh-able to compare DUST to COD or BF3 as user Simon Gunn did. Those games just suck, you buy a new one every 6 months just to play with a few new weapons and kill streak mechanics. *guffaw* All that said, I cant wait for the future of DUST, things look better and play better with every update. If any dev team can pull off making DUST work, its going to be CCP.

TL;DR Your OPINIONS aren't FACTS. Keep up the hard work CCP.

If I was a game developer trying to find out what are the issues of my game, I would only find the fine lining of this post has. Everything else about entire post overall is worthless though.

The reason why I am disagreeing with the post for the most part is the fact that the 'fun' part is generally a very very hard goal to hit for any and every game. That majority of the time FUN is an opinion.

Lets look at a few other games.

Imagine a game where all you do in the game is order something, it takes some resources and now you have to wait anywhere from a few hours to a couple of days before it gets done. The object that gets done nearly nothing special other than what every other building does but generate resources, maybe it has different art or assets but nothing more.

Doesn't sound fun right?

This is what we call a time gate game, they're typically common on face book these days an now mobile devices games such as Farmville and Tiny Monsters.

While many of us here may not find that fun there are quire a few people that do and pays tonns of money to skip the time gate portion of the game.

While we're not here to talk about other games and more about first person shooters the reason why the opinion of fun is just an opinion is that not every game tailors to everyone. There are those who would like Counter Strike over ARMA, Ghost Recon 1 over 2. Call of Duty over Halo. Portal over Half Life 2. Mirror's Edge over Battlefield. The list goes on an on on why each game can or cannot be considered fun at all. This is a very ambiguous goal to find, and make whole and its own.

What is far more feasible to find however, is the cause of the misery index in the game. Things that are appalling, frustrating, making every kill a tooth or hair pulling experience. These can, not only be found easily, but fixed easily in an MMO environment, had dust 514 been a single player one shot game, it would have failed horridly with this build.

So goals we need to achieve that may help satisfy your needs

Making the game less about fighting the controls and more about fighting the enemy.

Making the game less about fighting the numbers and more planning against the enemy.

Making the game less about fighting bugs and more about making that awesome kill shot that by all accounts should have NEVER happened.

Making the game less about whining about its short falls and more about talking on how awesome it really is.

This is going to take time, hair pulling testing and adjustment and tuning, it can't be done over night either by a studio that has never made a shooter in its life before. Despite having ex Dice and ex Zipper developers dust 514's is far more ambiguous of a project and you can only do so much tweaking of the core at a time and you have to see the results of everything it has on the multiple layers of things that wraps around the core such as balance, flavor, theme, gear, environment and the sorts.