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Posted - 2013.06.19 22:53:00 -
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Lady Sovreign wrote:
What was the reasoning behind letting the beta players keep all of the skill points and wealth from a years worth of "testing"?
Normally upon release the beta players start over, just like everyone else. Instead you've given a group of players a massive head start. Surely knowing the weapons and maps was advantage enough already?
All assets were reset with open Jan 22, 2013
Dust was released May 14, 2013
That's far from years worth of anything, further maps have been added and removed as well as changed and many pieces of gear, including dropsuits and weapons, have been fundamentally altered (just check out the feedback forums or ask a closed beta vet about bumbfire swarm launchers for killing infantry  ).
So while I in no way deny that there was some advantage gained through playing open beta it is neither as extreme nor as pervasive as your OP seems to suggest. If I had to guess the reason behind it, I would say it's likely due to it being open beta so anyone could choose to participate, combined with a hat tip to all the beta vets that did indeed spend months or more testing in support of Dust 514 with a final nod to dust being a long term game in which a handful of weeks worth of progression won't be drastically signifigant 3-5 years in (or really even 1 year in for the most part).
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Posted - 2013.06.19 23:00:00 -
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Lady Sovreign wrote:This again.
If something seems to keep coming to you're attention, you either read the forums way to much and/or a lot of people share my frustration and the easy mode start some of you got.
Come on, you can't deny it's a joke. How many corps play poxy PC? How many of them are beta vets?
How many people have left because they have been farmed by someone who can easily kill you because SP trumps skill almost every time.
SP doesn't trump skill, I'm far from the best FPS player. Before Dust the last FPS I played seriously was Unreal 2004 so I have years of rust on me and wasn't the best of the best even before the rust.
I run support logi, fits geared for healing and supply not killing.
Having stated those facts I'll state another, during one of the promo events CCP seeded characters into the game with proto or better gear and essentially max skills. I was able to use free fits go up against groups of 3-5 of these players and come out heady consistently. If it was a group of 5 "ahead" would usually mean that I died with one of them left. This wasn't while using a vehicle of any kind nor was it while running with a squad. (yep, solo support logi did this).
So not only does skill trump SP but the level of skill required to do it isn't even top 100, in fact it doesn't even require a 3.0 KDR.
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