Assault SMG got a reduced clip size and an even tighter hipfire, Breach SMGs got a RoF buff, and I don't use normal SMGs so I don't know what happened to those.

Combat Rifles and other Projectiles had their profiles swamped from 5/5 to 15/15. It's a bit worse against Shield Tanks, but it drops Armor Tankers like butter.

MinAssaults and other Minmatar suits got an eHP increase to balance out their speed advantage. As for Assaults in general, they buffed their HP and slot layouts substantially. (2/2, 3/3, 4/4).

seeiously jgr seriously?

Atiim got most of it right but except one thing...

Projectile profile used to be -5/+10, not -5/+5.

Other than that, spot on.

And finally, the sidearms all got rebalanced. SMG is no longer king, the Bolt pistol is now.

hop on and check it out yourself

Even the "haters" acknowledge that Dust is 1000% better now than at launch.

Remember tanks going 60-0 in ambush? Yeah, those were the days

2.5s with maxed skills and you could lock from redline to redline.

Heck, Dropships may as well not have had a flight ceiling back then.

Yeah but people would go HAM attacking each other and if you lost or took a district it meant so much more than it does now.

The game asn't change at all, still the same ***** playing tanked cloaked scout with shotguns and re's, camping on a roof with RR and rushing you with vehicles.
It doesn't worth any come back.

I remember you pretty well, Aztec, from your posting. AV balance is better than ever, sidearms have been refreshed, assaults got a nice rework, and development under Rattati is better than it was at any time prior. I for one would really appreciate reading your take on the AV changes. Reinstall and come blow some stuff up.

I think people that struggle the most with DUST are folks who can only do one or two things well (and forum splurging doesn't count). You either need to run with a squad, or be prepared to run multiple counters as needed. If you can't do that, you will DIAF. On a possibly unrelated note, the number of Spanish speaking players is UP, and the number of Americans with 420 in their name is DOWN. Our Tryhardasaurus Rex population has been thinned as well. This means better fights, plain and simple.

Hope to see you on the battlefield again sometime, Aztec. We'll save a Wyrkomi with your name on it. ;-)

We never squaded together, but I contributed to some of your AV threads back in Chromosome on another character. I'm just a random scrub, to be completely honest. We shared a similar passion for AV once upon a time, which is why I posted here. Since those days I've learned how to run tanks and ADS myself; enough to know AV today > yesterday. The quality of posting here is meh with some diamonds in the rough; I recall you to be a quality poster.

Regardless of what you choose to do, best regards. o7

No. Racism is not friendly or funny.

DonGÇÖt tell me that you are so optimistic that you think that stuff, or at least equivalent, wonGÇÖt happen in every other multi player PVP game? It is not like the stuff Sequal Rise mentioned doesnGÇÖt have counters in DUST.

It sounds like CoD is a better fit for your playstyle. I personally love the fact that we have a game where fits matter, where who wins a 1v1 is based on SP, fits, weapons, environment, ewar, and gun game. It makes fights infinitely more interesting than everyone being almost the same. I'm sure there are excellent games out there where gun game is the only factor in who wins. I don't think of that as being a tactical shooter, and I'm very glad DUST is different. I hope it never devolves into that.

Pls come back, we miss you :((

Cold Poop Syndrome:

When your poop is still warm, you know it's poop, therefore you wouldn't even go near it.

But, on the other hand, if the poop gets cold and hard, many people might mistake it for chocolate.

Then, they'll try a bit and remember that it's been poop all along.

Dust 514 is poop, not chocolate.

Don't call it a comeback I have been here for years rocking my peers and putting suckers in fear.