Yeah.. you have to be blind and half deaf, to believe that Dust 514 can compete with Planetside 2

review is only half the issue.

check out the comments section. comments on each of these reviews are gonna cost ya player count.



word of mouth is killin this game. gotta admit, im done waitin on it to right itself. i think this is actually it.
they had chromosome working ok... but then chucked it for this "mag" patch.

can't fanboy this stuff anymore, just sad to see it get magged out all over again.
i guess that's what the casual gamers want.

starting to think that some of the folks were right:

shoulda put 514 on pc.

Peace
B

I don't know what will save it. Once the controls aiming hit detection frame rate and lag are fixed it will just be an average FPS with controls which work and it will be relatively smooth online, but that much is a given. Any game can achieve that.

PC is interesting but unless we can mine those planets, craft weapons and sell them on the marketplace; I don't know what DUST will have to offer to deter people from PS2 and other games.

CCP can do it, I just fear that there is so much stuff on the roadmap which won't be done by the launch of the PS4. Although the PS4's launch isn't the end of the PS3 they won't have long after it does launch.

A fair review for what really is a fairly poor game that even besides the obvious faults focuses more on AUR than gameplay.

This is still a game born of Incarna and $900 jeans.

They finally did what they wanted to do to EVE through Dust but CCP never really got it.

Yeah, because CCP Remnant making posts asking for us to report any items with P2W stats to him so they can be adjusted to be equal to the free versions is clear evidence of a plot to try and shake us all down for cash.

Grow up.

keep in mind:

one of the reasons why the review score is so HIGH...


is because this game is "free".

had it been a typical 60 dollar POS instead of a free POS then the review score would prolly be around 3 or 4.

Peace
B

ps
"I talked the other day, in game, to a guy who had already dropped well over two hundred dollars into this game"

uh....

BWAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAHHAHAHAAAAAAA

Link it this post ..... and i may remove my tinfoil hat also

I accidentally the dropsuits.

Those slot loadouts are wrong, of course. They're the old slot loadouts before we rejiggered everything to pave the way for the new race variants. They obviously got overlooked and I'm an idiot for doing so.

They'll get fixed as soon as possible. And by fixed I mean nerfed. (You might have heard, we like doing that around here )

perhaps ccp shouldn't have released dust 514 on the 14th, like everyone was trying to warn them from

I honestly wonder who CCP is targeting with their game. They say they want to target consoles, and yet they make the game so anti-casual that only hardcore grinders will want to play for the potential end game status.

Then they add KBM support, but why? It's on a console, and adding KBM is targeting PC players, and the only PC gamers who'd play the game on console are the ones they've already netted with EVE, the ones the specifically said they didn't want to target because it would be fishing from their EVE playerbase. And then they make 'fixing' KBM support a huge implementation of the Uprising release build, and somehow completely neglect to QA DS3 support, the choice input device for PS3 console players, you know, the ones they're supposed to be targeting and so completely **** up the aiming mechanics that it causes a portion to leave.

And then they announce that they aren't going to do any advertising at all for the release and near future, so the only advertising the game really gets is the scroll bar on the XMB and negative reviews from places like IGN.

It's mystifying.

While DUST isn't as up to scratch as it could be, or has the potential to be, we have to remember that it's free to play, and unlike EA, CCP aren't paying IGN for good reviews. Which is why I don't go to IGN for reviews.

False.
I warned them in three threads, and all the CCP drones here just said "oh its good enough, stop whining blah blah blah it will get future updates blah blah blah".
I guess it takes a slap to the face to bring people back to reality.

I usually hate IGN reviews because they are notoriously biased. However this was actually an extremely well done review. It notes the positives of the game but that despite these positives it cant outweigh bad FPS mechanics (what most of the FPS gamers were warning CCP about). This is honestly the first game I have played that review sights have used "potential of the game" as a reason to rank it highly. Since when does potential matter? It only matters if the potential is reached by the game. I could say that Socom 4 had potential to be the best Socom ever but I doubt anyone would agree with me if I gave it a 9.5 because of that potential.

Now think in terms of Dust's pack size. It has to load in packs that contain over 100 different weapons, and eventually each could have different attachments, vehicles each with dozens of weapons and over 100 modules that affect their performance and survivability, each one fitted uniquely, dropsuits that have over 100 different modules that affect your performance and survivability, again each one fitted uniquely, and 100's of skills, each different for each player, several of which have to be used in conjunction with the skills of the other players and calculated accordingly on the fly like scan resolution.

Now look at the speed example again for dust.

Actor 1 has sprint 0 and is in suit A therefore speed = 1
Actor 2 has sprint 1 and is in suit A therefore speed = 1.05
Actor 3 has sprint 2 and is in suit A therefore speed = 1.1
Actor 4 has sprint 3 and is in suit A therefore speed = 1.15
Actor 5 has sprint 4 and is in suit A therefore speed =1.2
Actor 6 has sprint 5 and is in suit A therefore speed = 1.25

And that's with just base speed for one suit type and no sprint augmentation modules.

The deciding variables and end result variables are potentially massive.

Take into consideration that every actor on the field could potentially have a different speed algorithm attached and each must be executed and represented correctly at all times. And this is just for one skill. Now think of any other skill and weapon and think of how much the system has to handle every moment.

Dust has so much it has to process at any given time that quite frankly, it's incredible they've gotten this far on the limitations the PS3 infringes,

Yeah, because CCP Remnant making posts asking for us to report any items with P2W stats to him so they can be adjusted to be equal to the free versions is clear evidence of a plot to try and shake us all down for cash.

Link it this post ..... and i may remove my tinfoil hat also

I accidentally the dropsuits.

Those slot loadouts are wrong, of course. They're the old slot loadouts before we rejiggered everything to pave the way for the new race variants. They obviously got overlooked and I'm an idiot for doing so.

They'll get fixed as soon as possible. And by fixed I mean nerfed. (You might have heard, we like doing that around here )

This is from the following thread:
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=760432

This isn't the first time he's admitted to authoring errors causing AURUM items to have better stats, but as I said before, he made a post about reporting these errors when you find them, and as you can see from the current stats of these suits, he went back and fixed them.

I don't see why in a game where having a solid SP bank means the world these review sites don't ask veterans to play on their account for a few games. I'd be more than willing to let an IGN rep use my account if that meant they could see the game through an experienced player's viewpoint.

Link it this post ..... and i may remove my tinfoil hat also

I accidentally the dropsuits.

Those slot loadouts are wrong, of course. They're the old slot loadouts before we rejiggered everything to pave the way for the new race variants. They obviously got overlooked and I'm an idiot for doing so.

They'll get fixed as soon as possible. And by fixed I mean nerfed. (You might have heard, we like doing that around here )

This is from the following thread:
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=760432

This isn't the first time he's admitted to authoring errors causing AURUM items to have better stats, but as I said before, he made a post about reporting these errors when you find them, and as you can see from the current stats of these suits, he went back and fixed them.

Yeah, I really trust that site to give me quality information. Must be nice and cozy that far up Activision's ass.

That review is basicly a free guideline for CCP on what to fix.
First get the basic mechanics done instead of adding MORE GUNS/ STUFF.
How stupid is that.