[SURVEY] The Future Of Dirty Bomb - Community Feedback


(Faraleth) #1

2015 was one hell of a year for Dirty Bomb. We’ve had ups, we’ve had downs and we’ve had a lot of in-betweens. Thus is the nature of a beta, but one of the key aspects of a beta is user feedback. This survey isn’t quite like those prior; this time I’ve teamed up closely with our new community manager at Nexon, RazielWarmonic, and we’ve come up with a survey to focus on your main concerns regarding Dirty Bomb’s current state.

This survey should take no longer than 5-10 minutes maximum to complete!

Link to the survey: http://goo.gl/forms/1DcVJidRec

Sadly you will have to log into a Google account in order to complete this survey, although I figured it wouldn’t be too much of a problem, because I imagine a lot of people have an account already. This is done to help prevent people completing the survey multiple times and throwing the data off. - There is no point looking at inaccurate data!

As with all prior community surveys, the results will be viewed by both Nexon and Splash Damage! This survey will be posted on both the official forums and the subreddit, but feel free to send it to your friends to complete if they play Dirty Bomb, after all, the more the merrier!

Lets all hope 2016 can be even bigger and better, with a bright future for Dirty Bomb!

  • Faraleth

Please note: Your responses can also be changed at any time until the time I see fit to close the survey (no static date, likely when responses slow down). So, if you feel you made a mistake and want to come back and change it later, feel free to do so! :slight_smile:

Public results are not available at this current time. They will be made available upon the survey closing to discourage any community bias.


(Runeforce) #2

It’s never good when I am FORCED to pick a choice to validate the test, but don’t want any of the choices.


(light_sh4v0r) #3

Yes, I had the same issue.


(Glottis-3D) #4

what those guys said, and also how can i look the results?


#5

“Public results are not available at this current time. They will be made available upon the survey closing to discourage any community bias.”


(Faraleth) #6

I’ll post them as soon as we decide to close the survey! :smiley: We decided releasing them early may have had some bias effect in the past, so this time we wanted to ensure this didn’t happen. Fear not, I’ll post the results everywhere once it’s closed. :slight_smile:


(Glottis-3D) #7

thnx for clarification!


(Glottis-3D) #8

i realy hope for SD to fix the old maps. it was pretty sad and disapointing news, when afair Smooth sad that they are OK with current maps.
I mean Bridge is awful on 1st and 3rd stages (where is Bridge-alt?) i will not go again on other maps, but all of them have issues, like BIG issues.

Remember ETQW, when it went live ? it had 12 maps, and about 8 of the maps were good and very close to great in terms of level desing

…meh


(Kl3ppy) #9

[QUOTE=Glottis-3D;543837]i realy hope for SD to fix the old maps. it was pretty sad and disapointing news, when afair Smooth sad that they are OK with current maps.
I mean Bridge is awful on 1st and 3rd stages (where is Bridge-alt?) i will not go again on other maps, but all of them have issues, like BIG issues.

Remember ETQW, when it went live ? it had 12 maps, and about 8 of the maps were good and very close to great in terms of level desing

…meh[/QUOTE]

The main issue of DB are the maps. SD doesnt (want to) understand this. They have a better alternative of a current map (Bridg_alt) and they dont use it. Why? SD tries to “improve” the maps since 3 years and so far we have only very little improvements. Just have a look at Dome. How many games have been played on it? In public Matches it is very unlikely to play Dome because no one votes for it. Why? Because the map is bad. Many places are not used, you just have stupid running parts.
Please SD, think about meaningful side objectives + capturable spawns. Why dont use mechanics which worked very well in previous games (ET, ETQW)?


(Demolama) #10

[QUOTE=Kl3ppy;543838]The main issue of DB are the maps. SD doesnt (want to) understand this. They have a better alternative of a current map (Bridg_alt) and they dont use it. Why? SD tries to “improve” the maps since 3 years and so far we have only very little improvements. Just have a look at Dome. How many games have been played on it? In public Matches it is very unlikely to play Dome because no one votes for it. Why? Because the map is bad. Many places are not used, you just have stupid running parts.
Please SD, think about meaningful side objectives + capturable spawns. Why dont use mechanics which worked very well in previous games (ET, ETQW)?[/QUOTE]

Because implementing how things were done in the past is not “innovation” and would admit failure. SD isn’t willing to be humble and admit that their ideas are going in the wrong direction


(alphabeta) #11

Any great innovator builds off the lessons of the past:

“Those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it” (paraphrasing Santayana)!


(PinkFrog) #12

[QUOTE=Kl3ppy;543838]The main issue of DB are the maps. SD doesnt (want to) understand this. They have a better alternative of a current map (Bridg_alt) and they dont use it. Why? SD tries to “improve” the maps since 3 years and so far we have only very little improvements. Just have a look at Dome. How many games have been played on it? In public Matches it is very unlikely to play Dome because no one votes for it. Why? Because the map is bad. Many places are not used, you just have stupid running parts.
Please SD, think about meaningful side objectives + capturable spawns. Why dont use mechanics which worked very well in previous games (ET, ETQW)?[/QUOTE]

Maybe we’ll get buggies and humvees during 2016 :wink:


(Protekt1) #13

When does this survey close? I would like to see the results.


(Cankor) #14

More modes that split small player base is bad.
Public party matchmaking should come after they have a basic solo matchmaking (not team balance) system in place: http://forums.warchest.com/showthread.php/46715-Ranking-public-servers-by-skill

so, in other words: add “create a functioning solo queue matchmaking mode” in their under priorities. It’s not on the list, only party matchmaking and to me the solo queue thing is way more important.

…and, “I don’;t think any more modes should be added” as an option under new game modes.


(BomBaKlaK) #15

One word : Maps !

Dome is a good map (lot of routes & access) but the 1rst obj is totally broken and moving a bit the box dont change anything …
but the rest of the map is better than the other maps.


(Remedie) #16

Their should be a servey of the survey:

How do you feel being forced to choose an answer when you like none of them? from 1 to 10.


(Protekt1) #17

Is this survey done yet so we can view the results and where do we?


(BomBaKlaK) #18

Who care nothing happen …


(Demolama) #19

well considering the survey broke the #1 rule: Failing to Avoid Leading Words / Questions. I wouldn’t put a lot of weight on the results


(Winnie) #20

the results : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Zq0ASs1bXtZt_H_3iNUkr9QsPDVA8wSmEOnOXkk81UQ/viewanalytics

Now I just want to know what SD will do with it …