Breaking
Dust

Part 2 on the series of Breaking Dust. We look at AA abuse through the use of a mouse simulator for the PS3

Dust Has a very prominent AA for controller users to help them compete with mouse users. However this is being exploited by pro players for a even greater edge.

They are using the mouse to PS3 converters like the eagleeye and others like it to gain both the use of a mouse and the AA advantage in pro matches.

Corps are planning to use this new edge in the squad tourney to assure a easy victory over their disadvantaged opponents. This tactic is newly discovered but as you can guess its impact on a match would be huge. The rounds on target you can achieve with this hybrid aiming system are astronomical, especially at close ranges and when shooting for the head.

Many of the pro corps have plans in the works to do this in secret, both from members who would disapprove and from any outside prying eyes.

This method is currently in the testing stage, but will become operational shortly. They are working out the kinks and improving the settings and should reach full effect in a very short amount of time.


That is the end of the segment on AA breaking in Dust, feel free to add your own knowledge below.

... This tactic is newly discovered ...

Realistically, CCP should give KB/M users some manner of aim assist so they can at least compete against auto-aim users. Aim assist has become way too powerful compared to KB/M being only a little advantaged before. I personally wouldn't use a trick like this, but I've also been basically removed from infantry gunplay due to how OP controllers are with aim assist.

The more I play, the less I think it's about AA and more about inflated hit boxes. Been testing out ARs and SMGs lately and you literally never miss as long as you're firing in the general direction of your intended target.

I would agree, if not for the following test:

I am a dedicated FPS player with years of heavy keyboard and mouse only play. Since 1.4, I have a near non-existent ability to kill things. I go 0 kills for entire matches now, and KDRs of 1/8 are common for me in this patch.

I have not played an FPS with a controller... really ever. Mostly because I'm extremely bad at it, and have never before killed something with one. Picked it up in 1.4, got two kills with ease in a short span of time.

Given how bad I am with a controller, and how generally practiced I am with a keyboard, if I'm doing better with the controller than my keyboard, there's something off with game balance.

Knew about this about a year ago... same tool different exploit.

They honestly need to go back and remove all the tweaks they made to make up for hit detection problems, remove the 10% damage bonus, remove the tweaks to kick and dispersion and give the AR it's short optimal again.

We played a standard-only weapons and dropsuits PC match a few weeks ago, and I thought the TTK was actually pretty on-target for that match. They really just need to nerf the crud out of damage across the board to increase TTK.

If I can get that, I'll even tolerate my current crippled aiming compared to controller users.

Knew about this about a year ago... same tool different exploit.

Please bring this to the attention of CCP at your next opportunity. It is a fundamental feature of console FPS that hardware advantages are kept to a minimum. If I wanted to be in a technological arms race I'd be playing a PC shooter.

I would agree, if not for the following test:

I am a dedicated FPS player with years of heavy keyboard and mouse only play. Since 1.4, I have a near non-existent ability to kill things. I go 0 kills for entire matches now, and KDRs of 1/8 are common for me in this patch.

I have not played an FPS with a controller... really ever. Mostly because I'm extremely bad at it, and have never before killed something with one. Picked it up in 1.4, got two kills with ease in a short span of time.

Given how bad I am with a controller, and how generally practiced I am with a keyboard, if I'm doing better with the controller than my keyboard, there's something off with game balance.

Even Halo has better TTK and that's with 0 character customization. It takes months to build your toon in Dust and all that adds up to an extra 0.002 seconds of survivability in a proto suit- WTF?

This is just making stuff up, really. Dust has one of the longest TTKs in the market today, Every other shooter available has gone down the tactical / cover route where 2-5 hits (or 1-2 headshot hits) = dead.

I miss the Chromosome KB/M when uprising came in I became sh*t overnight, im still pretty terrible in a gun fight but *shrug* I can just spam grenades and mass drivers to stay in the game, oh and tanks.

And as a member of the CPM, what have you done about it in all of you communication sessions with CCP Devs?

Not much of a representative of the community I would imagine?