This was a question asked from the Dust Vote Match site. After speaking with a long time Dust friend Ydubbs of RND and hearing his thoughts, I thought this would be something good to talk about.

If you had to choose one feature for a Patch What would it be?


A complete NPE (New Player Experience)

Full player market

Full racial parity

Proper tools for Community Events

Player customisation

Shooting Range/ Training Room

Corp Social Tools

New game modes / variants

Corp Contract Battles (again)




If you have an idea that is not listed please post it up. Thanks

Simple kdr matchmaking. Fixes a ton of problems, and since this game is on its way out, it fixes most of the ones that are ever going to get fixed.

Simple kdr matchmaking. Fixes a ton of problems, and since this game is on its way out, it fixes most of the ones that are ever going to get fixed.

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So people with a high kdr could barely find a game? yeah no thanks.

Now if PC was fixed wouldn't those players spend more time there? So it help with the proto stomping to have a better PC and maybe Tear restrictions on MM?

Didn't people ask back for the old corp-battle system?

It's a win-win for people who don't want unbalanced games, fun games...

Yeah sure people are going to abuse it for their stats...but what do those stats really say in the current state of this game?

The current boring game mode situation to me is the absolute WORST aspect of this game, and it genuinely makes me angry because we had this really interesting and engaging mode (Skirmish 1.0) and it just got scrapped. I'm tired of doing the same things over and over. In the original Skirmish, one team (attackers) started out with an MCC that slowly approaches the outpost for docking, the other team (defenders) started out with control of all objectives. The attackers had to destroy both defense relays (a type of objective controlling all installations), then that unlocked the next stage; a new portion of the map was "unlocked", and the attackers objective then became to disable the null cannons that threatened to destroy the MCC before the docking.

I know its too late to expect anything as interesting or complex as the original Skirmish at this point, even when Dust had a full team of devs none of them ever made it a priority to bring back that type of gameplay, or to bring any genuinely new modes (Domination is just a tweaked Skirmish). There is a way I think the current Skirmish can be copy/pasted, and tweaked to produce something with similar gameplay as the original Skirmish 1.0:
A new version of Skirmish where the maps and objectives are just the same, but one team (defenders) starts out with the null cannons under their control. The other team (attackers) start with no objectives, but once they take control of an objective, the defenders cannot take it back (defenders can counter-hack while the objective is in a contested state however). Attackers win if they take control of all objectives. Defenders win if the null cannons destroy the attacker MCC before the attackers take all the objectives.
I suppose the attackers can also win if they quickly take the majority but not all of the objectives/null cannons, and the defenders lose because of the resulting damage to their MCC. Of course any side can also win by depleting enemy clones.
Game mode could be called "Assault" or something.

I don't know if this is possible at this near-death stage in Dust's development, but I think it should be relatively easy to implement.

To prevent the addition of a new mode from dividing the playerbase too much, add domination to the Skirmish queue, like how Ambush OMS is part of Ambush queue. Domination is basically Skirmish anyway with just a few less null cannons.



I'd really like to hear some brutally honest thoughts from devs about if his is actually possible.

there's so many that would make Dust like 100% better, but I would love to have a player market... actually I would love to have all of them.

btw, I don't think kd/r is a good way to tell if a player is good.

We need new game modes man. It's getting a bit insane that Ambush is the only game mode that plays out how its supposed to play out. Domination is dead. Skirmish is a ghost town. We need something fresh.

Sometimes I wish you could actually be able to KILL SOMETHING with the swarm launchers.

How is this not a post about pipe dreams?

Whether or not any of them come true is yet to be see. The purpose is fulfilled with player giving feedback with what they see wrong and show what they care about in this game.

Fiend if you don't care to vote then why care about this post. No troll answer