So I've been playing Dust for awhile now and I have to say that I'm quite addicted, but there is one thing that does bother me. It bothers me that despite buying guns that have different stats, different names, and different fire modes (semi automatic, automatic, burst) that they look exactly the same except for a different paint job. I feel that that's something that needs to be remedied, don't just tell me a gun is better, show me the fruits of my efforts, show me that the gun I worked to get for so long is different. I feel that progression works better when you can visibly see the difference between the guns. Does anyone else share this feeling? And also does anyone know if ccp is considering this?

While there is no confirmation I have seen about guns having thier own model variants, you have to understand the ps3 does have limited amount of room to work with and having 5,000 different models of guns and dropsuits isnt going to help our case where as different coloring of the same modle can acheive the same needs and responses at a better resource budget.

The only objects that really do need thier own variatns between types would be vehicles.

For example I definetly want to know if that HAV down there is a blops or a murader or tier 1.

Minmatar guns better be held together by duct tape! (if you don't get the joke, don't worry about it)

Borderlands literally has 1000s of basically reskined guns and it's a pretty old game

To offer an example, when I was in the Tribes: Ascend closed beta, all of the spinfusors used the same model, as did each of the machine gun type weapons. When the game actually launched, each weapon had a unique model.
We need to get the technical aspects out of the way first, and then get into visual polish. That's part of why I was surprised that visuals were being improved upon for Precursor, but I suppose I shouldn't jump to conclusions.

@Iron wolf

Have you seen the number of individual highly detailed gun models in mgs4?

@Iron wolf

Have you seen the number of individual highly detailed gun models in mgs4?

I think COD MW3 had more guns.

Skins and textures are low priority at the moment, and serve no purpose other than aesthetic appeals. Personally, I would prefer that they work on all of the gameplay features first, all of the mechanics. Once they have all of those tightened up and ready for launch, then I would see a reason to start re-skinning guns. Until then, there is not much of a point.

yes CCP, please let the art guys do more programming ! cant think of anything that could possibly go wrong