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Posted - 2015.03.28 14:16:00 -
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Union118 wrote:The game is no longer playable. I dont have to sp to spec into flavor of the month. jumpers wont take damage. Its gotten so bad I have to leave battle. Its no longer fun.
Maps suck
Bugged terrain.
Horrible match making
Unbalanced weapons
Hit detection sucks
Passive scanning sucks
Lag every game
the game is a total disgrace from when it first started.
I cannot disagree more. With respect, to many aspects of balance you may just be looking back through rose-colored (or blood-colored?) lenses as I would state that hit detection, and weapon balance is far better now than it has been in the past for DUST 514. The weapon balance even has multiple metrics to back it up, from in-game anecdotal experience of seeing multiple weapon classes in game, indicating they are all competitive. There is also the data showing numbers on weapons used indicating large spread use of enough weapon types to indicate a general balance between a large array of combat options.
It may be true that not every weapon is perfectly balanced, but that's always a work in progress. Still it's far better than just about any point in DUSTs history.
As to the maps sucking, we have a far larger selection now then we've had before, and I quite enjoy a huge number of them. That said, it would be -really- nice if that kitten train map stopped appearing every game. We have a great selection of maps, ranging from ones with lots of close quarters combat, to some that favor more wide-open terrain. Ambush maps often work on the same maps, but their nature often has the focus on one area of the map that is often unused in Dom or Skirmish.
Bugged Terrain and Lag are just things I don't encounter, although I do occasionally see a laggy map. I think that falls under personal experience. Passive Scanning could always use more tweaks in my opinion, but by the same token it's not meant to be over powered compared to active scanning.
Matchmaking... yeah... that's bad. (But Rattati has a fix ready!)
Overall I would say that DUST is a far better experience than it was, and offers unique things that no other FPS on the market has. It also has a certain charm to it that has allowed me to bring in a few friends who normally would not like FPS games and those that play other FPS games to come and play it for long periods (for their average gaming sessions) of time.
I still love DUST, and certainly think it's worth another peek into. Especially if you have all that sweet, sweet passive SP saved up. |