DUST Search - To: our new players of dust.

Scan Sweep wrote:

I feel exactly the same right now. I just dropped out of the academy yesterday. Until that time those battles were fun, extremely well balanced and constantly waving back and forth. I really liked it.

But this changed immediatly after dropping out of the academy and jumping into any of the public matches. Protos, Protos, Protos. One slaughter party after another. Six matches and not one single kill! Even though I really had taken care of choosing the right skills in order to get better equipment, by the time I joined the public matches DUST just wasn't fun any longer.

If my friends asked me if DUST was worth being played I had to say: Absolutely no! This has nothing to do with the game itself but with the fact that it's completely overrun by all the veterans who are now hunting the random goups.

The only way to avoid that: AFKing! Seriously. With the current state of the game there is literally no other chance to compete against all those Protos than hiding or AFKing. Right now there is absolutely no point in fighting or even investing in anything else than Militia or Proto gear. Everything else in between is a complete waste of ISK.

There are already three of my friends who guit after they were constantly being farmed for two days by the veterans. CCP tried to transfer the idea of personal skill being more important than equipment and skills from EVE to DUST but this just doesn't seem to work at all for a FPS shooter.

Never the less, until a matchmaking system is implemented and working this game will lose a lot of new and potential players due to being one of the worst new player experiences out there so far. And until that hiding & AFKing will be king for new players.

To be clear:
I don't have anything against the veterans and their proto gear in person. They also can't choose their opponents. They are also restricted by the actual game mechanics. I'm against the current status quo of the game and the fact that these problems even exist after the game was launched. But unfortunately this game is very very far from being finished.


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Cosgar The Unholy Legion Of DarkStar DARKSTAR ARMY 1022	Posted - 2013.05.19 06:51:00 - [1] - Quote If you truly cared, you would make an alt to round up random new players in the academy and teach them like I've been doing for the past few days. I don't even do this to recruit, I do it because CCP obviously doesn't want to do it.
Cosgar The Unholy Legion Of DarkStar DARKSTAR ARMY 1022	Posted - 2013.05.19 07:14:00 - [2] - Quote NIKIA BETHUNE wrote: Cosgar wrote: If you truly cared, you would make an alt to round up random new players in the academy and teach them like I've been doing for the past few days. I don't even do this to recruit, I do it because CCP obviously doesn't want to do it. I am a CEO at war u truly think I have time to go recruit? Lol lol rofl lmao omg wtf and Think of it this way. If something isn't done to help new players outside of this academy b/s that'll last for what? A week before they get thrown into a proto orgy with the TAR working as a fluffer? That war is going to be a helluva lot shorter when we can't keep new players. This is what new players are going through right now: Scan Sweep wrote: I feel exactly the same right now. I just dropped out of the academy yesterday. Until that time those battles were fun, extremely well balanced and constantly waving back and forth. I really liked it. But this changed immediatly after dropping out of the academy and jumping into any of the public matches. Protos, Protos, Protos. One slaughter party after another. Six matches and not one single kill! Even though I really had taken care of choosing the right skills in order to get better equipment, by the time I joined the public matches DUST just wasn't fun any longer. If my friends asked me if DUST was worth being played I had to say: Absolutely no! This has nothing to do with the game itself but with the fact that it's completely overrun by all the veterans who are now hunting the random goups. The only way to avoid that: AFKing! Seriously. With the current state of the game there is literally no other chance to compete against all those Protos than hiding or AFKing. Right now there is absolutely no point in fighting or even investing in anything else than Militia or Proto gear. Everything else in between is a complete waste of ISK. There are already three of my friends who guit after they were constantly being farmed for two days by the veterans. CCP tried to transfer the idea of personal skill being more important than equipment and skills from EVE to DUST but this just doesn't seem to work at all for a FPS shooter. Never the less, until a matchmaking system is implemented and working this game will lose a lot of new and potential players due to being one of the worst new player experiences out there so far. And until that hiding & AFKing will be king for new players. To be clear: I don't have anything against the veterans and their proto gear in person. They also can't choose their opponents. They are also restricted by the actual game mechanics. I'm against the current status quo of the game and the fact that these problems even exist after the game was launched. But unfortunately this game is very very far from being finished.
Cosgar The Unholy Legion Of DarkStar DARKSTAR ARMY 1022	Posted - 2013.05.19 07:26:00 - [3] - Quote Elijah Sol' Dzusaki wrote: The issue with new players has been resolved in this thread. https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=79324&find=unread Go drunk, you're home...
Cosgar The Unholy Legion Of DarkStar DARKSTAR ARMY 1022	Posted - 2013.05.19 07:49:00 - [4] - Quote NIKIA BETHUNE wrote: Wow I've been so busy with PC I had no idea it's a quick fix for ccp to make the time in the new player rooms longer right? Rebalancing the TAR is a quick fix, implementing an actual tutorial mode and actual matchmaking is a whole different beast. You say you care about new players? Better get your corp together to make some alts and teach these poor newberries or Dust 514 will wind up like fighting games before SFIV revived the genre that became niche after the 90's.