Same as the cloak users complaining that the cloaks were nerfed too hard, you are swinging way too far in the opposite direction.

Cloaking devices were meant to give Scout suits the ability to safely cross open terrain with no cover which they used to have issues with. People using them as GOTCHA bullshit was part of why the CPM was so insistent on not going with CCP's original concept, which would have had NO movement shimmer whatsoever.

The Caldari Prime and the Templar events. As I understand it, there was a massive use of resources to make those events happen at the most critical time in the game's lifecycle. If those resources had instead been spent improving the game we probably would have had a much better release, which would have meant better reviews, more players sticking around. All of this would have lead to a larger developer team and would have snowballed into a radically different future for the game.

I know some people remember those events fondly, but we paid an insanely high price for them.

What?


You can see the people.... if you're aware of your surroundings.
Using the radar does not qualify as "situational awareness".

No PVE, Fanfest 2014, Launching on the PS3 within the timeframe the PS4 was being launched, ineffecient memory use. Tieing the game directly to the EVE online servers. I have lots of other ideas too as to why this hasnt become more successful, probably the lack of in-game information about weapon range, damage types and their modifiers against shield and armor, grounding the skill progression too much in EVE instead of grounding it based off of solid FPS progression and adding some EVE flavor.

Lack of matchmaker at launch, lack of tier locked modes at launch and conversely lack of risk vs reward, because risk is the only thing changing in the game right now depending on the suit you use, but reward is almost always the same.

Also pretty much all the changes Rattatai made not being in the game to begin with hurt the game.

I'm not sure if CCP looked to hire anyone who had FPS experience to lead the development of dust from the start, but they should have if they didnt.

Jian was probably responsible for hiring Blam.

I've never really had any problems with dust. The cloaks were cool and added some variety; BUT what they did wrong. Was they didn't balance the game when the cloaks were introduced.
The exact same issue with tanks back in beta, 90% of the player base was brand spanking new so all we had were MLT and STD AV to take on PRO tanks. So really the forum whingers won and got tanks hella nerfed at the same time as us beta guys started catching up to get PRO AV, whilst the tankers only had STD variants, so there you have your imbalance.

The same issue is in cloaks vs scans. Only ONE suit could scan the cloaked+damped scouts at the time. That scout had a HORRIBLE buggy hitbox that has now been graduated to the min assault suit. But the scans were nerfed into the ground when the cloak was introduced. Therefore every suit bar ONE always got snuck up on while trying to protect or attack a point regardless of how many scanners you used to try and create 'situational awareness'. Which is where everyone's frustration over cloaked scouts has stemmed from. NOW cloaks are nerfed into the ground and guess what, scans are OP again because a cloak is too slow to activate to utilise in an attacking momentum and doesn't provide any benefit to any suit BUT ONE.

SO TL:DR

The worst thing for me in dust was CCP never finding the balanced medium for their changes. Making one thing way too OP for 3-4months while we bare with the burden hoping the next update will nerf it