"STFU fanboi"
"Yeah it's the best it's been, but it's always been crap"
"omg but tankzors"
"omg but derpships"
"omg but scouts"
"omg but matchmaking"
"omg but racial heavies"

I'm a bitter jaded ass as well, but I have to disagree with you. With hip-fire being tighter, everyone gets in close to spray and pray in your face(excluding the praying part, because you know 100% that all your bullets will hit) so now this game plays more like CoD than anything else, and if I wanted to play CoD, I would go play ****ing CoD, not Dust.

Do you see my problem?

Do you see my problem?

=)

take advantage of that knowledge and use it against them then. Use a glu. have a teammate set up to flank them. Give them a cooked grenade everybody loves nade cupcakes.

Stop smiling on the forums, and get back to work. You have **** to fix.

My stuff is fixed. Please bear with us until they are patched in. Thanks for playing. =)

Then you should be doing something else for us. Don't think your work is done just cause of one good patch.

The FPS crowd is definitely a what-have-you-done-lately sort of crowd.

Aside from entertaining our community with answers to questions, responding to feedback and bug reports, I am working as well within maps. Have no fear. Sockets are being made.

Aside from entertaining our community with answers to questions, responding to feedback and bug reports, I am working as well within maps. Have no fear. Sockets are being made.

1.4 looked amazing on paper. Their were some bugs on day one but nothing to get all butt mad over as it is obvious stuff that would get fixed, but all the fixes they brought with 1.4 did make me happy. Dust is heading in the right direction imo.

Let's get the easy trolling out of the way, shall we?



Despite all that.

I honestly feel that all of the little things that went into this patch have finally pushed DUST over some invisible boundary into "really fun shooter territory." I'll try to break it down:

1) The new Gallente sockets/maps are a whole new class of fun.
Playing on these things has been the first time that I've felt DUST has delivered on the frantic, back-and-forth action CCP shows in all the trailers and promo videos for the game. Every sniper's nest is defendable, but has multiple access points. Vehicles can penetrate the complexes and really wreak havok, but infantry has plenty of cover and passages to duck out of the line of fire. The enterances are defensible, but there are too many for a 16 man team to cover effectively.

It really, honestly, is the first time CCP has pulled off a true AAA shooter map, and I think it deserves all the love threads the maps have gotten for it and more. (This one included.) The caveat of this is that CCP set a high bar for themselves now, and they're going to have to deliver on more maps/sockets like this to keep it going.

2) Blue dots are useful. Red dots are lethal.
Complain all you want about aimbot. It isn't nearly as strong as people make it out to be. But that fact that it exists and is noticeably useful means that games aren't dominated by 2-3 vet players and 15-16 useless lumps of cannon fodder anymore.

If bullets are coming your way now, you damn well pay attention. And sticking with your blue dots is good for more than using them as damage sponges. That makes the game more fun, at least in pubs. (sorry, but lol PC)

3) Radar changes made the game interesting.
For the last few days, I've been able to play a role I haven't been able to do since Chromosome: Ninja Fatty. Even a fat heavy like me can sneak up on people now, which means flanking is a valid tactic again. I couldn't believe it until I started playing this patch, but the radar really did give you too much information previously.

Now the battle lines feel more fluid, and the action ranges over more parts of the map than the same usual defensible positions. Also, someone on your team having an Active Scanner is a huge asset right now, WP reward or not.

4) Things are shiny.
Sure it's superficial. But one of the consistent criticisms DUST has received have been about the graphics. And the textures and new designs look spiffy now. I happen to be really impressed with the new matchmaking starmap as well. It's 100% cosmetic, but it helps with the immersion of feeling like DUST is part of the EVE universe, even though in the back of my head I know is and likely will stay a lobby shooter.

There were a lot of nice little touches this time around. Good stuff, CCP.

5) CCP is actually fixing stuff.
I noticed this after the 1.2 release, and they're at it again. Even though day 1 after a patch is buggy as a warm turd in a fly farm, CCP fixes the slop incredibly fast by console standards. Contrast them against, say, Bethesda and PS3 Skyrim fixes/updates, and they look like saints. This is the one thing that I will consistently and uncynically give them credit for.


Now, be good little forum goers and start ripping this apart point by point. I, for one, and going to put my grizzled vet hat back on and continue making snide barbs about how racial Heavy and Scout suits aren't in game yet. I just had to get these positive feelings off my chest, first.

Yea. You're not hanging back with a LR. Join the LR master race.

1.4 looked amazing on paper. Their were some bugs on day one but nothing to get all butt mad over as it is obvious stuff that would get fixed, but all the fixes they brought with 1.4 did make me happy. Dust is heading in the right direction imo.

Yep.

Don't you know anything about any game?

NEVER play on patch day.

No matter how much QA testing, there will still be some bugs, and those are usually fixed in 2-3 Days.

I'm probably going to take this advice next time. Dust was unplayable yesterday, and just one day later I'm liking it more than ever.

I think you may be my evil twin. Sometimes your posts are almost verbatim to what I am thinking.

Yep.

Don't you know anything about any game?

NEVER play on patch day.

No matter how much QA testing, there will still be some bugs, and those are usually fixed in 2-3 Days.