Sure hit detection is better but that's only if you're paying in a non competitive environment with a controller, even aim assist can't help the 5-10 frame PC matches that completely show CCP's lack of core improvements..

Also, not alienating the PC Gamers by nerfing the KB/M into the ground could help, lets face it every bit will help.. I can tell you my personal experience alone there have been 5 of my friends who all love the idea behind Dust but won't even give it the time of day till the kb/m is fixed.. I understand 5 isn't a big number but im only one person and that's part of the problem is that the kb/m community in Dust has dwindled down to a minority ..

You gotta think, Say CCP does a 360 on KB/M controls and the PC community gets wind of it, the majority of veteran kb/m players will return (If they haven't already sold their ps3) and the msg will spread like wild fire I 'd like to think our weekend peak would spike just with that fix alone.. They have to bridge the gap like it was in Chromosome.. And i believe that is what the majority of what Roman was saying.. Console players especially the competitive ones need to embrace it and allow both inputs to be at its peak because CCP needs the revenue bad..

Also, Id like to say Ive played on the top competitive lvl of Dust all through my 2yrs here and I barley hear competitive players assuming or complaining about kb/m.. If they get out gunned they try harder, regardless of the input used, when kb/m was at its peak i was going toe to toe with extremely talented DS3 users, there was no reason to nerf the kb/m besides CCP's self proclaimed balancing campaign..

+1. Good suggestion.

I like it a lot because peeps who were looking to play the game at it's highest levels would know that they'd need to practice in the lower tiers with AA off to even have a hope of doing well at the top end. And most importantly, the choice rests with the player.

For peeps looking to transition as smoothly as possible, an Aim Assist 'slider' control might be welcome.

The fear is ofc that peeps would go the route of risk-aversion/short-term gain and hence exclude themselves from higher level gameplay. That would be ok - if we could hit 20,000 concurrent players.

Am I the only one that has far more fun creating a new character and playing the one game you get in the academy with it, then deleting the character?

I think the very core lies in the awful matchmaking system. Its either get steamrolled by the opposite side in a very humiliating manner, compounded by tanks, or dominate. No in between.

Thats what needs to be fixed.

Knowing our own numbers is not going to fix dust 514 either. The only thing it does it tells us we have a problem, a problem I know when and where we lose our players to which nearly majority of the community is getting entirely wrong as to when we lose our players.


In my opinion going to the gun range (to which I hate to say it but CCP doesn't have access to such things locally at most of its studios) is not useful.

Researching into why and how Halo changed the concept of gaming would be far more useful.

Nah, thats not the case, many in the academy are DUST players doing the same thing I am, try it you'll see.

Wrong type of gun range:

http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab302/MP0117/darcpic_2.jpeg located in Arkansas is far more practical for a developer to learn to get through for the kind of game we're in. While a paintball range would be near equivalent most of your PP guns are nowhere near as massive nor heavy and cumbersome as real equipment.

Also if the only thing you think Halo did was give us regenerative health you need to look at the far much larger picture

Example:
Before Halo
http://wadido.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/nerd.jpg
After Halo
http://web-images.chacha.com/images/which-high-school-stereotype-are-you-jun-5-2012-600x400.jpg

Had halo followed the exact formula that attracted the same customers counterstrike attracts; the former will likely still be applied today and consoles would still continue to struggle to be in everyone's livings rooms, steam would not be making its own console and http://createyoursuccess.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/people_casual_clothes.jpg would have been the trend of players being tracked as the first major shift in games which would likely seen the start of ea and other publishers rampaging into the 'mobile market' like no tommarow.

Why I would hazard to say the reason why counter strike is not popular is for the same exact reasons dust 514 is not that popular either. Which is taking one of these http://createyoursuccess.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/people_casual_clothes.jpg and turning them into one of these http://www.gamergirltay.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Wild-Gamer2.jpg in 10 minutes.

So says the nerdy game boy who cannot take off his gamer glasses for 5 seconds and play scientist a short bit to understand what ticks and what doesn't.

Right now there is over 85k people just on the PC... and it's a consistent number..

http://steamcommunity.com/app/730

IWS can't really be trying to question the legitimacy of Counter-strike as a reference... and defend DUST... *Eyes start to cry blood*

You play FPS on a rig? KB/M

You play on console? controller.


Reason why KZ3 had that whole uprising and forced KZ4 to never integrate move in. And KZ has NO AIM ASSITS. But I'm sure KZ players already know this.

You don't mix the two. And their is a reason tho why AA is on, if you do mix the two. As a FPS player both RIG and Console, you can't tell me any controller can compete (with out AA) with a mouse. Come on! Who you kidding? LOL Doesn't mean a bad FPS rig player will beat a seasoned console fps player. But when you put two season FPS players on then it really shows. it's what happened with the move.