It is better than it was, but still not up to par with other shooters that have come out in the last 4 or 5 years.

Hopefully it keeps making progress, because it is one of the few things that has been heading in the right direction.

This game is still very subpar in regards to performance and mechanics.

Fatal errors, poorly executed asymmetrical gameplay, choppy/low framerates, clunky movement, terrain is frustrating to navigate and not enough "things to do".

We only have 2 gamemodes. Capture point control and team death match. Redressing these two game modes as "Faction Warfare" and "Planetary conquest" and team-death-match-except-things-falling-from-the-sky.

If CCP were to ramp up their marketing on this game now, it would be a complete waste and would damage CCP's reputation, the game, and drive off all the players that may want to come back to this game.

...how would the core FPS mechanics of DUST be re-reviewed by the FPS community?

Do you think anything has changed since the first wave of reviews? Is the gungame better, worse or different?

The gameplay's more tangible issues are too numerous to recount in full. Battlegrounds are too large for the player count, resulting in long stretches where enemies are nowhere to be found. They're wastelands of muddy industrial sameness, with no attention to scale or flow. Paths dead-end nonsensically. Ladders and hallways lead to empty rooms devoid of relation to objectives or tactics. Weapon types are tremendously imbalanced. Audio effects sound cheap and have little relevance to the direction or proximity of their source. Dips in the frame rate result in distant enemies frequently looking like they're moving in stop-motion. The list goes on, but the problems run deeper.

Games like Halo and Call of Duty may be more limited in scope than Dust 514, but they can stave off any existential dread through the excitement and immediacy of their combat. Dust can make no such claims. Its poor gameplay is a taint that spreads upward from the roots, vitiating the lofty aspirations of its other features. Skill and weapon unlocks, ordinarily the cherry on top of a satisfying gaming session, morph into taunting reminders of the grind to come. The experience points, money, and items that signify forward progress become signposts that warn you're going in circles: kill to get better weapons, to kill better, to get better weapons. All the work CCP puts into crafting a larger dystopian fiction bleeds into the real experience in this fashion: you feel like a cog in a formless machine, working--not playing--in service to obscure overlords and nebulous goals.

You don't know jack **** about poor performance unless you were in closed beta.

What we have now is extremely tolerable.

You don't know jack **** about poor performance unless you were in closed beta.

What we have now is extremely tolerable.

Potential is what you have when you fail. Dust 514 with 1.8 and other updates could fix the rough edges and balance everything out. Once that happens, this game could blow out other games out of the water. We could sustain a player base and a respectable community (unlike CoD). Hell, if Dust 514 fixed this I wouldn't mind it going into PC and PS4. I would pay $60 for this if they could make it happen. Just don't bring it to Xbox, please.

COULD blow other games out of the water, but won't. Not for a while.

Only thing interesting about this game is the customization. Once other top games introduce this with a skill tree, what's going to keep people here? Keeping it free? Lore? That's all I can think of, to be honest.

By the way, Titanfall is pretty cool. Kind of like Halo, but better.

COULD blow other games out of the water, but won't. Not for a while.

Only thing interesting about this game is the customization. Once other top games introduce this with a skill tree, what's going to keep people here? Keeping it free? Lore? That's all I can think of, to be honest.

By the way, Titanfall is pretty cool. Kind of like Halo, but better.