I lucked out with the raffle drawing for Mordu's Private Trials. I say "lucked out" because I got to play with what we now call Skirmish 1.0 (can't remember the map name). Destructible objectives, two-stage fight with defined attack / defense positions, carved into a two-laned mountain where CQC was abound and you were never too far away from the action. Tanks dominated the lanes, while infantry wormed in and out of the terrain and struggled to advance.

Now we have "bowls" of sockets with tons of travel time between them, rooftops everywhere, and a stale metagame of "king of the hill". I can say without a doubt in my mind that I had more fun in the closed beta than I do now, and that's not just nostalgia talking. With the old game, you were never far from the action, it was fast-paced, and most importantly, fun.

Granted, we did have CreoDron Breach rifles abound, and dropships were sledgehammers, but there hasn't been one build since then that I have thoroughly enjoyed as much as I did with Mordu's.

+1 ALM1GHTY STATIUS. Lot of truth here, and all of it is echo'd in reviews of the game, and were DUST to be re-reviewed today the results would be the same.

I don't dispute that CCP has done some good work over the last year, my critisism is that not a lot of it seems to be focussed on getting core mechanics to the point where the hands-on interaction with the game is responsive, predictable, enjoyable.

I'm sorry CCP, but over-entusiastic AA on top of awkward controls will never cut it, and you should know this without it being said.

Movement. Aiming. Fidelity of input. Responsiveness. Interaction with environment. User customization or controls. Comms.

Regardless of what higher-level content you add to DUST, the experience of that content will be filtered through the list of core mechanics in the preceeding paragraph.

It's likely you know all this CCP, and that i'm preaching, yet again, to the converted. But if that is so, why haven't your actions shown that the core mechanics and the hands-on player experience are your top priority?

That's the thing i can't figure out.

While i would phrase it that way. I agree i can count on one hand pre replication players still playing this game. The others have openly addmited they only still play because thry cant afford other games, or are waiting on new titles to come out. The vet communty has moved on. Only those with strong Social connections have stuck around.

And those weaken every week. I called it long ago. I game does not die over night. Its a quite whimper down to a few core hold outs. These fourms are dead its just the same names over and over again.

This is my 5th dieing game i know the signs now.

What will finish dust off is outrage in 1.8 dev moral tanking as a result and ccp deciding to cut loses and focus on valakry.


I hope im wrong

They can't stop, it's too dangerous!

don't worry, you are

*Stuff*

& this

I hate you. Goodbye.

Confirming that the above statement is NOT total bull****.

I've seen CCP during slow periods, I've seen CCP during periods where they've just been doing a s**** of communicating about work they absolutely should be sharing with the public, this does not qualify as either.

This is hands down the most productive period I've seen since taking office as a CPM rep, the studio is growing faster than ever before, and there are concrete plans guiding this process. The lack of information shared at this time is intentional (and in my opinion, for completely understandable reasons). CCP wants to be sure their communications are of substance moving forward, in sharp contrast to last year's FF where a bunch of hype was dished out without much regard to feasibility.

Once Rouge is ready to show what he's been preparing for everyone, you'll likely see the communication frequency increase sharply again (and become regular). The silence for the past few months is very specific to the current work in progress, I don't have any indication from where I sit that it will be a trend. I applaud Rouge and the rest of upper management (and the new dev staff) for being so forthcoming with the CPM about their plans, every step of the way.

There will be an end to this, that's all I can say at this time. I totally understand where you guys are coming from, I'd be going bonkers if I wasn't one of the few CCP is consulting about their work-in-progress. Your frustration is completely justified. Believe me, I was around last summer when communication was really in the dumps, and it was because of CCP employees failing to do their jobs to engage the public. I've always called this **** out when it happens. The reasons for the silence have changed sharply in the last few months however, even if the end result for public has not.

Anyways, I won't belabor the point I just wanted to stop by and give you guys what little perspective I can. I look forward to the next couple of months as everyone is brought up to speed finally on where Dust is going. And it is going places. I've never seen more investment in the game (by all measurements: financially, manpower, etc) than I have since Rouge has come on board.

some of us are still here. lots of us had to change our names.

shouldn't you have started an eve account by now?

Yeah but this,



https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1879107#post1879107

I am a very long time member of the dust community, longer than practically anyone here, I come from pre-replication builds, which is about two builds before you could buy a pass into the beta. So basically a long ass time.

Hands down the best build this game had ever seen was replication, movement was flawless, there was some memory leaks and hit detection was God awful, but currently movement is clunky, uneventful, slow, and the game is simply boring.

A long time ago your running speed now was about equivalent to our back peddling speed, the game was fun, action filled, and only the best of the best could run in prototype gear without going broke.

CCP seems to have this delusion that adding more equipment into dust will improve the core gameplay, that somehow, my boundless combat rifle will make my foot getting caught on a rock 2mm high any better.



I will once again spell out your stupid ******* problems for you again ccp, listen up.

Movement: the maps are huge, this is a fps with an arena gameplay mode. You need to increase movement speed and fix buggy environments including invisible walls, quick sand, immovable spots etc. Also the running being walking speed and walking being running speed needs to be fixed.

Hit detection: still, after literal years of making this your "top priority" you still cannot manage to get it right, wanna know why? SERVER SIDE HIT DETECTION IN A LIVE ACTION FPS DOES NOT ******* WORK.

balance: you've worked a decent amount towards the right direction, but until you fully balance what's here already, don't add in anything else.

Skill> equipment: a long time ago you said this was the case and always would be, please make it so. With aim assist it's nearly impossible even for the BEST player to kill someone below par in a std v pro battle.

Graphics: your graphics slow the game down flat out, move to ps4 or dumb down graphics for ps3.

I hate you. Goodbye.

see almighty you have it wrong.. this isnt an FPS its an MMOFPS

that means gun fights are suppose to happen automatically after you move your cursor over an enemy

and you need to take longer to get to things so you can consult your spread sheets

I've got no excuse for invisible walls, a small rock halting your forward movement, quicksand and other things though

MMO? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH

wait... you were serious...

Just to be clear, what about DUST is classified as being an MMO?

I am a very long time member of the dust community, longer than practically anyone here, I come from pre-replication builds, which is about two builds before you could buy a pass into the beta. So basically a long ass time.

Hands down the best build this game had ever seen was replication, movement was flawless, there was some memory leaks and hit detection was God awful, but currently movement is clunky, uneventful, slow, and the game is simply boring.

A long time ago your running speed now was about equivalent to our back peddling speed, the game was fun, action filled, and only the best of the best could run in prototype gear without going broke.

CCP seems to have this delusion that adding more equipment into dust will improve the core gameplay, that somehow, my boundless combat rifle will make my foot getting caught on a rock 2mm high any better.



I will once again spell out your stupid ******* problems for you again ccp, listen up.

Movement: the maps are huge, this is a fps with an arena gameplay mode. You need to increase movement speed and fix buggy environments including invisible walls, quick sand, immovable spots etc. Also the running being walking speed and walking being running speed needs to be fixed.

Hit detection: still, after literal years of making this your "top priority" you still cannot manage to get it right, wanna know why? SERVER SIDE HIT DETECTION IN A LIVE ACTION FPS DOES NOT ******* WORK.

balance: you've worked a decent amount towards the right direction, but until you fully balance what's here already, don't add in anything else.

Skill> equipment: a long time ago you said this was the case and always would be, please make it so. With aim assist it's nearly impossible even for the BEST player to kill someone below par in a std v pro battle.

Graphics: your graphics slow the game down flat out, move to ps4 or dumb down graphics for ps3.

I hate you. Goodbye.

I am a very long time member of the dust community, longer than practically anyone here, I come from pre-replication builds, which is about two builds before you could buy a pass into the beta. So basically a long ass time.

Hands down the best build this game had ever seen was replication, movement was flawless, there was some memory leaks and hit detection was God awful, but currently movement is clunky, uneventful, slow, and the game is simply boring.

A long time ago your running speed now was about equivalent to our back peddling speed, the game was fun, action filled, and only the best of the best could run in prototype gear without going broke.

CCP seems to have this delusion that adding more equipment into dust will improve the core gameplay, that somehow, my boundless combat rifle will make my foot getting caught on a rock 2mm high any better.



I will once again spell out your stupid ******* problems for you again ccp, listen up.

Movement: the maps are huge, this is a fps with an arena gameplay mode. You need to increase movement speed and fix buggy environments including invisible walls, quick sand, immovable spots etc. Also the running being walking speed and walking being running speed needs to be fixed.

Hit detection: still, after literal years of making this your "top priority" you still cannot manage to get it right, wanna know why? SERVER SIDE HIT DETECTION IN A LIVE ACTION FPS DOES NOT ******* WORK.

balance: you've worked a decent amount towards the right direction, but until you fully balance what's here already, don't add in anything else.

Skill> equipment: a long time ago you said this was the case and always would be, please make it so. With aim assist it's nearly impossible even for the BEST player to kill someone below par in a std v pro battle.

Graphics: your graphics slow the game down flat out, move to ps4 or dumb down graphics for ps3.

I hate you. Goodbye.