Time-to-Kill.

Lower means it takes less time to kill someone, higher means it takes more time. Chromosome had a very high TTK where as lately we have a very low TTK from certain weapons.

Correct. The update people were playing before Dust officially "launched" or ended the "beta", was Chromosome. The new build after that was "Uprising". Chromosome wasn't the first build either.

S'all gravy. Basically, everything was different in Chromosome - apart from us just having hope back then (hard pressed for that now, lawl).

I suggest looking up some closed beta videos and seeing what it was like back then. There were a lot of faults (Sharpshooter skill applied to all light weapons and allowed for 100m optimal range ARs, for instance) but it was probably some of the best tactical shooter gameplay I've ever seen. Somewhere along the line, however, we went from tactical to twitch.

I doubt it'd happen. According to rumor there's consideration toward nerfing the HP values of armor plates across the board, which would further reduce TTK.

EDIT: another thing you have to remember is that CCP does not state, anywhere, what Dust 514 is supposed to be. No-one legitimately knows what they're going for. Tactical/Twitch, FPS/MMO, etc. We really have no idea other then the fact that CCP Rattati keeps hinting at features that are more closely aligned to other shooters, so the theory is that Dust 514 is slowly becoming a twitch shooter in order to cater to familiarity among the community.

Which, honestly, I think is what is causing Dust 514 to lose it's uniqueness. Perfect balance insinuates that all weapons do the same DPS - but at that point, what is the incentive to have use any of them? We need perfect imbalances. Things like the ASCR which is difficult to punch through armor, for instance. Things for people to specialize in that isn't revolving around the highest DPS or highest Alpha Damage.

Well, I'm sure the flat 5% weapon damage bonus without stacking penalties from the Warbarge will help matters. Experimental weapons too...

CCP should also at least try to incorporate SOME kind of matchmaking. Many times I've been put on a team with fresh-out-of-academy scrubs, and with Proto-stomping, q-syncing, gankers.

I really dont see any problem with scouts, there should be stealthy its their role. I one shot most scouts with a Bolt.
My biggest problem is modded controllers and the whole strafing crap, its one thing to move around as a skill its another to move in such a way that bullets or pellets or projectiles or rails dont register hits. Thats why I dont use rifles, gun fights are pointless.
Everyone is stacking a bootload of eHP and thats not my style, even if I land more shots most wont register so my Combat Rifle skills feel rather useless.

Bolt and Scrambler pistol for me
Nova Knives and flaylock

The other weapons are rather useless
I personally not really mind the strafing, I can live with it, I just need to learn to use head shots
But the modded controllers are a problem, I have seen scouts go head to head with a 1000eHP heavy with a rifle and won in less than 2 seconds even before warlord

Honestly, I think it would be better to get nerf the damage on weapons instead of AA.

It's supposed to be pro player vs pro player = strafing = longer fights, but most people are either getting ganked or simply outstrafed/outperformed by gear.

My personal beef is with "smart deploy" in ambush placing me in front of the enemy (no beacons on the map) and dying before I can finish turning around to face them (it spawned me in a cargo container both sides covered by reds).

At least I am no longer loading into a game as it ends.

And why, exactly, is having a reasonable TTK bad for this game?