As someone who has been playing this game for just under 3 weeks, one of the most depressing things I've experienced in the game was the discovery that there were players walking around with more than THREE-TIMES as much shield HP as I'm allowed to have....... and that they could move FASTER than I could..... and that we were wearing the SAME "CLASS" of suits.

However, even more depressing than that was the realization that I was, at best, months away from being able to gain access to that level of gear (proto logi + proto shields + max shield skills + max speed skills + etc.. etc...).

So I grind and grind and grind, and even do some more grinding, and I finally am able to build myself a nice little tryhard gear setup like that also. Then what?
I put on my shiny peaCOCK suit and prance around the battlefield.... rolling NEWBIES and other lesser geared players?

My choices.... be out geared by tryhards, or roll lesser geared(read: leveled) players. Really?


I used to have this rule about playing shooters that would dull my skill-based reflexes/senses if I played them for too long. I just don't see how Dust514 could maintain and cultivate any type of skilled core playerbase with such extremem progression and power gap mechanics.

I'll give it three more weeks but, as of right now, Dust falls squarly in the "skilless playerbase" shooter list for me. Wouldn't even justify it as a decent tactical shooter at this point, due to the steep and punishing power progression (wtf is with that weekly cap? it hurts the newbs way more than it helps).