You know you can quit and cry about it privately. There is no rule stating you have to cry here.

lololololol. I love the internet.

There's no rule stating I don't have to cry here or that you have to read it.

So far the advice has been to create other rookie characters to get spanked while I wait to "get good". I'm used to games where players are on fairly equal footing and I perform, generally, slightly above the average.

Having a game get released so we can create characters and then receive advice from the community saying "wait a few months to a year" is silly. Up to a year?!?!?! What kind of business model is that?

If 0.4 IS slightly above average then there is something wrong with these statistics and there are elements here we don't know about.

Playing the Academy maps are a horrible tease. Start you off on the same footing as everyone and it goes fairly well.

Start the regular maps and score an average of 0.4 a round. Everyone is using the same weapon, drop uplinks and jeeps. Why is there no tier system for matches and why bother with weapon variation at all? The choices are there to tease you and make you hate life until you train Assault Riffle 5 and can compete. Why is it the only weapon skill with sharpshooter skill? Clearly the game was built for this weapon.

Going from the Academy to facing all the Proto suit/gun/experts is exactly how I wanted to be introduced to this game.

Academy - "Ok, I could get into this game. It's neat."
Ambush - "WRONG! Go home n00b!"

High-five to the developers of this game. I'm going home.

I feel bad for the beta players. If this is how it is at release wtf did you guys go through? If you need grief concealing I'm sure CCP will provide.

Come back in 6 months or a year, you'll have a crapload of passive sp and the game will hopefully have improved.

lol to all of you who said I was wrong when I said this fixes nothing. its a band aid and it hurts even more when you remove it.

lololololol. I love the internet.

There's no rule stating I don't have to cry here or that you have to read it.

So far the advice has been to create other rookie characters to get spanked while I wait to "get good". I'm used to games where players are on fairly equal footing and I perform, generally, slightly above the average.

Having a game get released so we can create characters and then receive advice from the community saying "wait a few months to a year" is silly. Up to a year?!?!?! What kind of business model is that?

If 0.4 IS slightly above average then there is something wrong with these statistics and there are elements here we don't know about.

i frequently play my sub 1m sp alts when my main is capped. they do fine. I'm guessing you're just not that great at videogames. if a couple of 5% bonuses here and there get you stomped, maybe it's not the SP system that sucks.

Playing the Academy maps are a horrible tease. Start you off on the same footing as everyone and it goes fairly well.

Start the regular maps and score an average of 0.4 a round. Everyone is using the same weapon, drop uplinks and jeeps. Why is there no tier system for matches and why bother with weapon variation at all? The choices are there to tease you and make you hate life until you train Assault Riffle 5 and can compete. Why is it the only weapon skill with sharpshooter skill? Clearly the game was built for this weapon.

Going from the Academy to facing all the Proto suit/gun/experts is exactly how I wanted to be introduced to this game.

Academy - "Ok, I could get into this game. It's neat."
Ambush - "WRONG! Go home n00b!"

High-five to the developers of this game. I'm going home.

I feel bad for the beta players. If this is how it is at release wtf did you guys go through? If you need grief concealing I'm sure CCP will provide.

2 questions for the original poster.

1.) Would a militia only mode or 2 (skirmish & ambush) provide a suitable area AFTER the academy?

2.) Would PvE, even in an extremely basic form, keep you aboard?

2 questions for the original poster.

1.) Would a militia only mode or 2 (skirmish & ambush) provide a suitable area AFTER the academy?

2.) Would PvE, even in an extremely basic form, keep you aboard?

How the hell would he know? He's only played the game for a week.

a militia only mode would just mean that squads would get together and pubstomp in militia gear. I don't see how it would solve the actual problem of CCP not explaining to players that they NEED to be in squads and using mics.

Welcome to Dust bro that was your initiation lol i love tears

My 12 year old son thinks it is a fun game, he had no problems and never complains to me about anything DUST related. I just don't see how it is so difficult for grown people to play a game.

Someone needs to explain to you guys, that " Lone Wolf " is a genuine way to play a game. Some people don't have a mic, or they don't speak English very well, or they just simply don't like talking when they play games.

My 12 year old son thinks it is a fun game, he had no problems and never complains to me about anything DUST related. I just don't see how it is so difficult for grown people to play a game.

2 questions for the original poster.

1.) Would a militia only mode or 2 (skirmish & ambush) provide a suitable area AFTER the academy?

2.) Would PvE, even in an extremely basic form, keep you aboard?

This is not a "lone wolf" game. You are free to play it that way, but dont expect sympathy when it doesnt work out and you cry about it.

I feel bad for the beta players. If this is how it is at release wtf did you guys go through? If you need grief concealing I'm sure CCP will provide.