Suggestions:

• KDR must go. It's not an accurate or even a useful way to gauge contribution to a battle in an objectives-based game. Players will do kills instead of trying to win the game. Even if you don't rank players based on KDR, showing it means people will still concentrate on KDR instead of points. If you insist on showing it, do it along with lots of other data, preferably not after every match.
• I'm serious that KDR must go. If it doesn't, we'll get hordes of shrill-voiced bunnyhopping stabby-stabby CoD kids with the only objective to have high KDR. If we wanted that, we'd be playing CoD.

Parting note: don't try to please everyone! If you do, you'll end up with yet another CoD/BF clone. Find your niche, and fulfill our needs, and you'll have a steady stream of players who want to spend money on your game. From what I've seen with DUST thus far is promising, and you understand your customers. You need to balance better - especially vehicles - and ground the game better in EVE.

PS. Auto-save notification on this forum is driving me nuts - it gives the useless notification every five seconds, and moves all text one line down, causing constant miss-clicks. Get rid of it.

Maybe show howmuch points a player has earned in a match instead of K/D. And if you're interested you can select the player's name and see the details on how he earned the points: kills, hacks, damage vehicles, ...

Good posts indeed. Plenty of good points. I completely agree on the KDR aspect, though I'm sure many of our fellow testers would be outraged if features like the Leaderboards were to be removed.

Some solid stuff here. Only thing I really don't agree with is the prone stance, but otherwise great... and yea, against the best tanks, the Forge IS a potato gun. You need at least two to kill it before it hides and activates reps.

I think with the "Roles" and "Team player" feel of the game, maybe CCP could have different leaderboads for different contributions; Hacks, assists, heals, teammates spawned though uplinks, repairs made to teammates' vehicles, kills made from your LAV/HAV/Dropship while you are driving, etc. I think this would better show other players what kind of role you bring to the team and how you can be an asset to a future coporate employer.

one thing to add, I really miss Bipods on heavy weapons and the sniper rifle, even without going prone, hiding behind a wall, having a Bipod would be nice to reduce gun kickback when firing and increase stability when aiming

Maybe show howmuch points a player has earned in a match instead of K/D. And if you're interested you can select the player's name and see the details on how he earned the points: kills, hacks, damage vehicles, ...

FF is on where? FF is off in DUST.

Not sure what you ment by teammates feed while waiting to spawn, but at least being able to press the up button to view the player list / stats would be nice, this doesn't work while dead, hopefully just a bug.

I think he means "off" .
I really like the posts and I find a lot of valid points in them. +FAV

Okay you've confused me now. Which one means you can wound your own team mates?

The forge gun charge being un-charged by running I like, I just wish it was equated to the swarm launcher which once locked cannot be cancelled.

If I rember correctly, if you lock a target and then you switch weapon you should be able to not waste your missile. Pretty sure.

I'd love to go in and test the theory for you..:P

Also agree with everything except prone stance.

I agree with everything, but why would people not want a prone/crawling stance???

Well, first off it would make Scout suit snipers nigh undetectable, even without cloak.
Secondly, have you seen how much ammo you have to sink into a Proto Assault suit? Now imagine if that suit was lying flat on the ground. A smaller target is all well and good (crouching) but shrinking it so much when it has so much health is nightmarish.
Plus, think of a similar game without prone... lemme use TF2. Imagine the Heavy prone. Imagine him firing a mini-gun while prone. I cannot see a man firing a mini-gun prone unless its a horrid GMod pastiche of limbs and hardware. On this simple note: Heavies, with their huge Mini-guns and Forge Guns, couldn't take advantage of prone. And these guns are hella inaccurate, so a prone Assault at over 5 meters would be nigh invulnerable, while also benefiting from a HUGE accuracy bonus for being prone. There's already enough reasons not to use Heavy as-is (no equip slots, slow, can't effectively track, large hitbox, HP not proportionate to evasion loss, I can go all day here) without adding prone.

I love sniping, but here I don't have to go prone to snipe because crouch kills all the sway. I'm happy with that.

Wait what? FF is off in DUST? I went by some google searches I did a while ago which claimed a dev said FF is on. I haven't actually tested (since I don't TK), so I'm not questioning anyone.

For clarity, I would very much prefer FF to be on. I haven't played an FPS without friendly fire in years, and have always avoided them like the plague. FF off rewards spray and pray since you don't have to look before you shoot. Truly a shame if FF will be off in the final version, and that will force me to re-consider the entire game - I'm that married to friendly fire being on.

It will be on at some point, but it's currently off. It's a beta, you know. There'd be no consequences to people just teamkilling constantly.

Fair enough. But FF changes balancing and game mechanics quite a bit, so hopefully CCP will thoroughly test it before launch - especially if there are anti-griefing mechanics involved, as they are really easy to get wrong (too loose making them pointless, or too strict resulting in too many kicks/bans).

I like the idea that null sec and low sec would have FF on, while (some) 0.5 and higher would have it off. Fits perfectly with the world, and would allow for carebears and n00bs play DUST without hurting their sensibilities.

If I rember correctly, if you lock a target and then you switch weapon you should be able to not waste your missile. Pretty sure.