With a few exceptions this is the norm for any fps that has more than amount under its belt. If I tried to play TLOU, Uncharted, COD Battlefield or any other shooter I would be slaughtered repeatedly. Top players dominate any play who isn't in the top 10%. That's why they are the best.

The new players need to understand that this isn't a normal shooter and team work is almost required. Practice with the weapons and suit fittings is very important and our "bitter vets" should be more active in new player training. I do agree that it is a tough uphill battle for new players, but only for about a month. This game isn't that hard I'd people stick with it.

With the amount of players regularly online match making will never work. We need battles that are segregated by sec status. Each level of security should limit the suits and gear allowed on the field. Mercs should be able to choose the difficulty of their fight by the security status of the system.

Tell me, if I only had advanced level gear and matchmaking put me only against those with advanced level gear, why would I want to get prototype? It would be the same exact thing several weeks of grinding later.

Once upon a time I believed this as well, but now I believe it would just create more problems. Dust 514 is New Eden, there is no segregation. Sure have a battle academy just long enough for players to learn the controls and mechanics, but after that they must be welcomed to the world. If you create more tiers of instant battles you simply create this loop where you feel you are at the top then a couple upgrades later you are back at the bottom because you moved to the next collection of players.

Though this comes from the guy who believes the disparity between new and old players is not as great as it seems.

Says the guy who claims that he knows it all

This is just so wrong.

Dust is NOT EVE. Dust is a 2 game-type lobby shooter where your options are purely limited to the situation on the map at hand. EVE is a gigantic sandbox, where yes there is danger, however, there are also almost unlimited choices to limit and control that danger. As hardcore as it is, even EVE has a graduated introduction from spawn new pilot --> null sec fleet combat.

If this was an open world MMO with whole planets to maneuver around and thousands of players to cooperate with then go for it, no problem, but its not.

Keep saying simples fix is lock gear by game mode instant battles. T1 fw t2 pc anything goes people can't mone about gear then

Its not just the match making its the brutal, secret handshake club'esk nature of the commuinty as well.

Its the same mentality bought over from EVE, not everyone will share their secrets.

Once upon a time I believed this as well, but now I believe it would just create more problems. Dust 514 is New Eden, there is no segregation. Sure have a battle academy just long enough for players to learn the controls and mechanics, but after that they must be welcomed to the world. If you create more tiers of instant battles you simply create this loop where you feel you are at the top then a couple upgrades later you are back at the bottom because you moved to the next collection of players.

Though this comes from the guy who believes the disparity between new and old players is not as great as it seems.

i still wonder how i got through my first couple months in chromosome....oh, wait, nobody had the blacksuits until i had a gunlogi with 3 damage mods and a particle accelerator so it didnt matter. hahaha.

it really isnt fair. it's like throwing a new capsuleer into null sec with a civilian autocannon and saying: "good luck".

Yeah, like giving some random dude a pocket knife and telling him to fight a samurai :/

I got rage mail after dominating a match.

Title:" THIS GAME SUX BALLS"
Message:"Y AM I ALWAYS V PPL WITH PROTO GEAR WHEN I HAVE 1M SP. THNX 2 PPL LIKE YOU I NEVER WANT TO PLAY THIS UNBALANCED **** OF A GAME AGAIN"

Although it made me laugh at first, but then I thought about it.
Imagine how many more players are there just like him that just quit?
This is a serious problem CCP, get that matchmaking going, and get it going fast, because the longer you delay that part the more players you will lose that will never look back.

Or maybe make a temporary game mode for Militia only while you do it.
Or maybe keep them in academy longer, but instead of random matches let them choose different academy game modes.

You can say "HTFU" all you want but most players will just leave after playing 15 matches in a row against two proto squads who completely dominated them, and YOU DON'T want that for the game.
Even EVE isn't this bad as you can avoid PvP for a while.

I feel bad for them.
I invited that guy to my help channel, offering to squad up with him.
I will see if I can change his mind.

To preface, I've had a bit of a struggle really finding a niche in this game I wanted to pursue and ended up going through a good chunk of characters. The most I've ever had was around 6 million SP, and if I stuck with a single toon from the start I'd have around 11 million SP now, but instead I roll with this guy who is just about to hit 3 million SP.

You're right, good sir.
Please take this like, as an appreciation about your post.

Things that work in EVE, won't work in Dust.
Hell, even some things that get implemented in EVE, doesn't work there either.

I got rage mail after dominating a match.

Title:" THIS GAME SUX BALLS"
Message:"Y AM I ALWAYS V PPL WITH PROTO GEAR WHEN I HAVE 1M SP. THNX 2 PPL LIKE YOU I NEVER WANT TO PLAY THIS UNBALANCED **** OF A GAME AGAIN"

Although it made me laugh at first, but then I thought about it.
Imagine how many more players are there just like him that just quit?
This is a serious problem CCP, get that matchmaking going, and get it going fast, because the longer you delay that part the more players you will lose that will never look back.

Or maybe make a temporary game mode for Militia only while you do it.
Or maybe keep them in academy longer, but instead of random matches let them choose different academy game modes.

You can say "HTFU" all you want but most players will just leave after playing 15 matches in a row against two proto squads who completely dominated them, and YOU DON'T want that for the game.
Even EVE isn't this bad as you can avoid PvP for a while.

I feel bad for them.
I invited that guy to my help channel, offering to squad up with him.
I will see if I can change his mind.

I got rage mail after dominating a match.

Title:" THIS GAME SUX BALLS"
Message:"Y AM I ALWAYS V PPL WITH PROTO GEAR WHEN I HAVE 1M SP. THNX 2 PPL LIKE YOU I NEVER WANT TO PLAY THIS UNBALANCED **** OF A GAME AGAIN"

Although it made me laugh at first, but then I thought about it.
Imagine how many more players are there just like him that just quit?
This is a serious problem CCP, get that matchmaking going, and get it going fast, because the longer you delay that part the more players you will lose that will never look back.

Or maybe make a temporary game mode for Militia only while you do it.
Or maybe keep them in academy longer, but instead of random matches let them choose different academy game modes.

You can say "HTFU" all you want but most players will just leave after playing 15 matches in a row against two proto squads who completely dominated them, and YOU DON'T want that for the game.
Even EVE isn't this bad as you can avoid PvP for a while.

I feel bad for them.
I invited that guy to my help channel, offering to squad up with him.
I will see if I can change his mind.

Broke game is broke game.

Matchmaking will never get fixed.