Thursday, December 19, 2013
Why the Weapons Lab & Trainers are Critical
Its past time CCP added the weapons lab and virtual trainers into New Eden for Dust mercenaries. Recently thousands of players purchased the skills necessary to utilize the weapons added by update 1.7 without ever testing out either the rail or combat rifle. Because Dust 514 requires such a large commitment to specialize into a skillset, the weapons lab that was mentioned long ago is essential. This isnt your normal fps experience where you can create loadouts on a whim and be an engineer, assault or sniper. In Dust you have to spend large amounts of time grinding for sp to obtain the points necessary to purchase the new skills that allow you to specialize. We dont have the option to try out the prototype combat rifle in a test setting and see if it fits our playstyle, and lets be honest, we should. Imagine adding all the necessary skills for the caldari rail rifle only to discover it doesnt fit your CQC playstyle.
Dust 514 should kill two birds with one stone and not only add the weapons lab as quickly as possible but also the virtual trainers that were hinted at over a year ago. Not only would this give serious corps the opportunity to work on tactics and maneuvers, but would also allow players to test weapons and dropsuits in a true combat setting. While no assets or ISK would be lost in a virtual setting, no SP would be gained either. The value of the 'trainer' would be in the experience itself and skill gained in a practice setting. BF4 has a great test range setup with shooting ranges and the ability to test vehicles but the single player experience lowers its worth tremendously. CCP should use the same format but allow corps to single or team deploy into the trainer and even compete in configurable wargames or open world practice with options like friendly fire, view game and small, medium and large sized maps. A bevy of options is key here, as the more there are the easier it will be for corps to customize it to their liking.
In addition, give players the ability to choose any item in the marketplace in the weapons lab & trainer so that mercs can become familiar with the items that may or may not fit their playstyle before wasting millions of SP on things they will never use. Dust's persistent & consequential nature is appealing to the players who enjoy its hardcore roots but wasting precious SP can be frustrating for even the most die hard player.
As always, we'll continue to attempt to help promote and publish ideas that help establish, enhance and grow the Dust 514 community as much as we can. Have any ideas that need sharing? Would you like to join our staff as a writer? Be sure to contact us at magww@live.com
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+1 would pay AUR for a good trainer. make it happen, CCP.
ReplyDeleteagree with this.
ReplyDeleteBut these bastards(CCP) are clueless when it comes to shit like this. It'll take years for them to develop this. Laser-like focus.. my ass.
ReplyDeleteEasy solution is to make an alt,like I did,and collect passive SP without ever playing that character.
ReplyDeleteI have two alts,both with over 8 mil SP each.I was able to spec into both weapons and test them.I love the rail rifles,and don't like the combat rifles at all.Put points exclusively into RRs on my main,which I had over 4 mil SP.
The problem isn't not having a weapons lab,it's peoples unwillingness to specialize in one or two areas and not spread your SP around to where you don't have enough SP to spec into something new.
I would say that in addition to finishing off the racial and class weapons, CCP needs to fix their Lag issues, PC issues and Scotty the drunken matchmaker issues. Many of these issues I am sure stem from the current game engine, proven for small scale shooters, but this is anything but a small scale shooter. Porting the Eve Client into a Dust Client game Engine would solve a lot of lag issues as seen by it's robust architecture able to handle events like Burn Jita with relative ease. Removing the lobby in favor of Open World game play would be the second step, and a big one, allowing us to create our own modes and teams, running like a proper New Eden corporation rather than just a bunch of Bitter Vet COD players.
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