Controls?

This is a very legitimate gripe. Just about ALL of even the crappiest games ever made on PC still come with a menu where you can customize the key layout, and it's really common in console games that have competitive elements as well. They recently added "alternate" layouts for controllers, but they still aren't willing to just hand the player a list of functions and let them attach the button/key they want.

This is dead stupid. It's not a complicated feature. It's not something that requires balance. It's something managed in just about every game ever released. Dust is released. Controls you don't like shouldn't be something you just cope with. How you interface with the game itself is about as basic and fundamental to the game as things get. It's easily the first shooter I've seen with keyboard support that said basically, "use our mappings or gtfo". I still hate the controller options too, and it seems stupid that a list of functions we could assign buttons to wasn't part of the initial release.

So, yeah. If I reviewed MMOs, I'd say this game sucks too. It's like being an RPG player handed a shooter with only a head to head player mode, no single-player, etc. What else would you make of it?

CCP really needs to do a better job bringing new players into the fold.

This guy was reviewing the game for a major online MMO news/review site, and didn't even join any squads or try getting together with a corporation. Imagine how lost a MMO newb would feel.

One can't force people to see a (realistic) vision of what a continuously developed game will be like to someone who is used to release->next game kind of game development.

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CCP really needs to do a better job bringing new players into the fold.

This guy was reviewing the game for a major online MMO news/review site, and didn't even join any squads or try getting together with a corporation. Imagine how lost a MMO newb would feel.

This game sucks for lone wolfing, but is awesome playing in squads and CCP needs to make this apparent for new players.

http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/05/15/massivelys-dust-514-launch-impressions/

Unless you're a coder yourself and have a simpler solution to offer to include customisable layouts in the current iteration of the engine, you can't just call it "dead stupid". Constructive criticism is one thing, calling something explicitly crap without offering an alternative and explaining the methodology is something else entirely. Now, I would agree with you actually that the lack of control customisation is a drawback to the experience on the game. I'm pretty sure it's on CCP's to do list along with a whole range of other updates and expansions to come, as I explained previously.



What would I make of it?

I rather get a guy who doesn't paint himself as a fanboi of other games and takes every game for itself from the raw. Clearly this guy hates New Eden and doesn't understand it.

I played like 5 matches on my alt in Academy (then I WP capped)....to be honest fighting players with equal gear/sp is more fun then the regular game.

i dont exactly understand new eden.

ive been playing since feb or so. it seems new eden doesnt like real money coming its way. ive bought 4 merc packs. chromosome was so fun. nowadays its just getting by till things get better. i dont see the point of buying active boosters and suits. battle isnt fun. we sit in lobbies and bs. its a blast but i can do that elsewhere. are you guys gonna do anything about community concerns? are the forums the only place to talk? u guys go into the field?

hit me up sometime saber. u cud hear what ppl who dont frequent this forum feel about this game.

the guy's a moron

he has trouble understanding the skill system even after it was dumbed down.

Soon as the house stops burning for a bit Ill be entrenching soon enough.

Get a Tack AR if u want to compete.

You know what is the bigger's problem with Dust 514 ?

That it's own community is trying to kill the game...I have never seen anything like this before, and i been playing games for many, many years.

Dust 514 have one of the more divided communities ever. Is actually socking ....

Fixed.

I know consoles are much more suited for casuals and the young'uns so you have got to bear this in mind.

SO when you first started you knew what every skill did and what it unlocked. Also what levels of different skills effect your toon and fits and were able to precisely apply all your SP in such a manner that not one was wasted. I'm thinking you are the moron here, and CCP needs to add a better interface for comparing items and seeing what each skill unlocks. Unlike EVE, DUST is way more convoluted as to what all you need to make the fit you are after, and the only reason I say EVE is better at it is because of addons like EVEMON and PYFA. But unlike the PC most DUST users aren't going to download a program on their PC to help them navigate the maze that is the skill tree.

Bassmeant, I swear, a couple months ago you were absolutely hating on CCP. Now, all the posts I've come across of yours seem to be defending them in some way or another. What happened?!

"SO when you first started you knew what every skill did and what it unlocked"

of course not.

that's why i hit triangle and read what it did. and did some basic math.

took maybe half a minute?

so what's your point.


oh yeah:
the reviewer is supposed to be their go to MMO guy.
he claims he plays EvE.

514s skill tree, as it is, is too confusing for him.


again:
the guy's a moron.

Peace
B

Dust is NO like EVE

Dust will NEVER by like EVE.