DUST Search - What is really killing this game

Thang Bausch wrote:

I agree to some degree. The corp squad (what i called perm squad in my original post) filter is the most important. I have been tracking my pub battles when possible before the game starts to see which side has corp squads. if one team has one or more and the other has none, consistently the one side wins. The game is a team player game, but not everyone can always play with the same people. I personally enjoy seeing a random group of people find some rhythm in a match.

The gear still makes a difference though. i have gone head to head with some characters where I am hitting them most of the time and their shield barely budges. When the kill screen comes up, it's always proto gear. At the end of the day, if someone has full proto gear and 15+ million skill points, and I have basic gear and 2 million skill points, I would have to be an amazing player and they would have to be mediocre. I don't think there are many mediocre players with full proto gear.

I don't mind having my *** handed to me by someone who is more skilled, but adding lop-sided gear to the equation turns a lop sided match into a pub stomping. it's the pub stomping, not the losing, i want to stop in the game so i enjoy the game enough to keep playing and encourage my friends to play.


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Thor McStrut Reckoners 65	Posted - 2013.07.20 16:54:00 - [1] - Quote Thang Bausch wrote: I agree to some degree. The corp squad (what i called perm squad in my original post) filter is the most important. I have been tracking my pub battles when possible before the game starts to see which side has corp squads. if one team has one or more and the other has none, consistently the one side wins. The game is a team player game, but not everyone can always play with the same people. I personally enjoy seeing a random group of people find some rhythm in a match. The gear still makes a difference though. i have gone head to head with some characters where I am hitting them most of the time and their shield barely budges. When the kill screen comes up, it's always proto gear. At the end of the day, if someone has full proto gear and 15+ million skill points, and I have basic gear and 2 million skill points, I would have to be an amazing player and they would have to be mediocre. I don't think there are many mediocre players with full proto gear. I don't mind having my * handed to me by someone who is more skilled, but adding lop-sided gear to the equation turns a lop sided match into a pub stomping. it's the pub stomping, not the losing, i want to stop in the game so i enjoy the game enough to keep playing and encourage my friends to play. While Corp squads can be great, it is hardly the defining factor. I've joined a squad of what seemed like randoms, but they are actually very good, and mesh well together. I've been on teams of what looked like complete randoms vs a team made up primarily 2-3 corps. We still won, because our squads worked better together. Gear does matter. It should. As an "MMO" (sort of) in-game skills and gear make a difference. As a FPS, real skill is a requirement. The players with real skill will naturally get to better gear quicker. That's the nature of the beast. A matchmaking system will be beneficial, but the only way to improve yourself is to play with others, and improve your coordination and teamwork to achieve objectives. The Acadamy is a great example of this. As a noob, you play well, and have fun. But you're playing mostly with other noobs. Graduate, and now you are playing with Vets. Were you killed by that Freedom MD or Duvolle TAC? Yes, but you were probably also out played tactically. It really can't be said enough. If you want to play better, squad up and play with the same people as much as possible!**