Let me try to sum up what you are getting at

The biggest problem holding the game back is poor balance and huge sweeping changes to weapons and gear that forces a total change in playstyle
Thats the gist of it right?

U trolling?
Not play style, it's comming off as a scam, if your gun works worse than before so what do you do?
Get a new gun, but you want a good gun so you buy aurum till you have more sp, then that gun dies an they introduce more weapons an the cycle repeats.
Wouldn't you want a shotgun that worked the same all the time if you had 3million sp in it? Or do you wanna go buy more soon to be broken rubbish so you have a closet of dusty guns?

I started this game in the start of open beta, I got so stoked an amazed with the freedom of designing my player. I knew nothing of dust or eve or even fps for the more part.

I tried many suits an fell in love with the scout, I wanted to be a amazing nova knifer/ shotgunner like the people that killed me.
I got into a corp an made goals for myself an I kept track of my learning progress.
Ie: what to do, what not to do, range for a shot, how to sneak an stab, ect, ect.

Then came uprising an we all got so excited, then the nerfs came an all our play styles had to change; it became harder to know what our progress really was.

One week were good , next week our shots are off, then we get accustomed to it an something else changes.

It's very hard to know if we're good or not or to beat our kill records when the mechanics change.
For example my best with the sg was about 20 then the gun changed, tithe strafe an the stamina, now I'm about 12 to fifteen.
With novas I was about 24 then similar changes an hit detection came to light an now running knives with no sidearm is a death sentence with all the changes to strafe an stamina an my own hit box.
So I tried the faylock on uprising for a range weapon an also a md, since they were good hit an run weapons .

Now all of these do not work as they once did an everytime I gett accustom to the updates about two weeks of playing like crap just to adjust then the game changes again an the cycle repeats.

I'm no noob I play everyday an have almost 17 million sp, but it's all speced into horrible weapons, so I said f$$k it an went around with remote s an trapping guys an using my grenades to set them off or my teams fire an made a new record for myself of 26/2 with no gun!
Week later 1.3 comes out an everyone has cried about everything in the game an ccp silently nerfs the remote explosive!

Now I basically have a 17 million isk smg since everything I used to use is broke or changed so much I can't make a acceleration of kills or progress or beat old kill goals because nothing works as it used to or it keeps changing an I can't tell if it's me or the game.

Players need consistency!

Cod, battlefield may suck but people love the consistency .

Yes people cry for balance but balance is consistency .
Why spend more time an money when what you have is different than what you bought!

If you buy bread an it looks good when you buy it but it's covered in mold when you get home will you still eat it?

Hell no , chuck it or take it back.

Ccp this is happening!

3x sp or 2x sp has so many on line because they need new weapons an they travel to what works in the moment.

In the process of this nerfing to find balance you will always create a higher imbalance due to the fact that there are amazing players an poor players, high sp/ low sp, good equipped suits / poor set up suits.

So find a standard weapon balance an keep it there.
Do a once over on everything an leave it. We will adjust to it being op or not at least we kno what were getting into an we can track our progress.

If you keep changing the game players can't tell if there getting better an they will leave for another game with consistency .

Now let me tell you the real truth of what is hurting you.

Playing an FPS with a worthless Timesink RPG mechanic that forces you to have to specialize down one path, instead of being able to play what you want when you want, when you feel like you want it.

IE.

When I play any other FPS. I can...

Play an Assault class one game...
Then Play a Sniper the very next.

And I didn't have to waste days upon days of my time speccing into either class.

I can just immediately Be able to choose a class and do well in that class. Because I'm not being held back by **** poor RPG mechanics.

"But the RPG mechanics that waste my ******* time is what makes Dust so cool"

No.... No it is not.

In fact, just about everything that sets Dust apart from other FPS.... is a complete failure.

A Game should not aspire to make a Loss mean so much. Making a loss hurt to the point that you might commit suicide over it... does not make the game fun, or somehow special. It makes it worthless, because they spend too much time trying to make you care about losing stuff, rather than caring if the ******* thing is any good and worth playing in the first place. In which, Dust is the most mediocre FPS to ever exist, right along side of Counter Strike. The next most worthless FPS every created, that somehow gained popularity because people thought it was "Serious Business, and Realistic" because of the 1 life gamemode that was the ONLY gamemode available. But in Reality, Counter Strike was just a ..."Round Started, Everyone Rush to the bottleneck. Ok Next Round, Everyone Rush to the Bottleneck, Next Round, same thing. Next Round, Same thing."

I have come to the conclusion that super competitive gamers such as those who play Counter Strike and EvE and Dust. Are ******* ********.

A Game should not aspire to make a Loss mean so much. Making a loss hurt to the point that you might commit suicide over it

"this game will never change, leave then" "this game won`t make it due to imbalance my as well quit" and other comments on the lines of this is BS, the forums is where you go to change something and if guys like you go on every thread and keep saying this garbage NO DUH IT WON`T HAPPEN.

I have to agree on the topic, they over nerf and over buff stuff and it takes like 7 builds to get it right.

although the topic wasn`t SGs I would like to comment on them, from the beginning of the privet beta to the end of chromosome / beginning of Uprising I specked into PRO SGs 1st, and atm they have bad mechanics, poor hit detection, reload bugs, and when you bullets are flying but you die the bullets won`t give damage to a direct hit. for some reason they changed the sound, idk if ypu guys remember the older 1 in early chromosome but that 1 was good, iron sights need to be changed to something that doesn`t have the sights blocking some view, as a SG it needs more visibility. crosshairs needs a check since there are parts in the circle where no damage would be dealt nvm a little.

I dare someone to hand this to an English teacher and watch their head explode.

Failed ingrish but I'm a professional artist , glad u got nothing better to write

No, I think you passed ingrish with flying "calours" (aim I rite?).

P.S. sorry for not going total *******. I will adapt.

"this game will never change, leave then" "this game won`t make it due to imbalance my as well quit" and other comments on the lines of this is BS, the forums is where you go to change something and if guys like you go on every thread and keep saying this garbage NO DUH IT WON`T HAPPEN.

I have to agree on the topic, they over nerf and over buff stuff and it takes like 7 builds to get it right.

although the topic wasn`t SGs I would like to comment on them, from the beginning of the privet beta to the end of chromosome / beginning of Uprising I specked into PRO SGs 1st, and atm they have bad mechanics, poor hit detection, reload bugs, and when you bullets are flying but you die the bullets won`t give damage to a direct hit. for some reason they changed the sound, idk if ypu guys remember the older 1 in early chromosome but that 1 was good, iron sights need to be changed to something that doesn`t have the sights blocking some view, as a SG it needs more visibility. crosshairs needs a check since there are parts in the circle where no damage would be dealt nvm a little.

I dare someone to hand this to an English teacher and watch their head explode.

Every thing has not changed and there have been no huge sweeping changes to anything no suits have been nerfed to uselessness .

There have been balance changes that almost everyone agreed with needed to be done .

Stop being a prepubescent drama queen .

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=88627&find=unread
I thought this thread lays along the same line

I got no need to look there,..

How the hell are you so stuck in one set of skills @ 17 mill sp?

Dont you train other weapons when your bored? I understand proto suit nerf QQ, but never weapon QQ..

Weapons are easy to skill into, and maxing prof an SS is over rated, so lets be honest here,...

There is some connection issues that effect weapons a great deal, but its not consistent, and not nearly as bad as the forums make it out to be,. If you have crazy skills in one weapon then you should be fine anyway, nerf or no nerf.

This game is wholly subpar right now.

Even COD and BFwutever had more maps at launch than dust has ever had. ever.

the lag is unending. there are always new bugs. it is incomplete in every area. i don't know much about it, but apprently CCP takes their player base for granted considering the CPM statement. hey- go ahead. take me and my $300 for granted. finding that out means no way am i buying AUR again. not a good way to retain a paying customer. business econ 101 at any uni in the world teach you that.

i mean- i am surprised they didn't get 1.0s and lower across the review board. the only slack they got was the eve component. if eve didn't exist dust would already be gone. literally bit dust.

eve is really the big prop up here, and the reason dust might get to be something at some point. i am thinking about going over to payday 2, and leaving my dudes collecting SP for a few months and see what's up. GTA 5 too! i'm just not only bored. but i have over 20m SP. I am running out of things to spec, and honestly.. grinding for a month so i can have 3% more ammo because there isn't anything better is about as compelling as a prostate check.

if it weren't for passive SP gain, I am not even sure I'd look forward to a better day for dust.

Omg that's what the whole topic is about!
You get good at knifing then they add a delay to the strike, you then get accustomed to that, then they change strafe an equal mobility in 1.2 so you get good at that, then 1.3 and 1.4 bring more changes such as hotbox lagging with speed an collision models increasing, so you get good at that, then you have the stamina nerf!

Did you not notice any of these changes?
No of course you didn't cuz ur not a scout!
So instead of trying to debate things that obviously happened re read what was written!