Admittedly I've only been playing for a few weeks, but if teamwork is what we're looking for in this game there are some easy fixes that need to be implemented.

First it took me way too long to figure out how to be able to talk to other players with my headset. No clear instructions were available on what to do. I ended up finding the answer on this message board. Having to go into the settings and enable voice was an unneccessary hidden step. Having to pay for the ability to speak to each other is total BS by the way. It's too integral to the whole experience to hold it back and force players to pay with AUR to be able to communicate.

Second once I met some cool players who wanted to work together after the game was done and I looked at "players met" on the PS3 XMB there was no one from Dust listed. Maybe that's due to the beta status, but that must be in the final game. So once I figured this bit out I realized that I had to quickly add the players I liked to my in-game contact list at the end of the match. But then when it came time to send a friend invite I had to keep switching back and forth between the XMB and the contacts list to find what the merc's player's sign on ID was. Squad building is the same, send PS friend a message, "Want to play? What's your merc name?" Wait for reply then switch back to the squad building screen, scroll through the list of merc names and find it, then send invite. Repeat 2 more times to build your full squad. Can they make it any more complicated? And unless you only play with a small group of people or have a photographic memory you'll be doing this same process each time you play. I'll probably end up writing myself a list; Merc X = PS3 Player Y.


Like many of the others I've seen on here I was a MAG player and I loved the teamwork aspect of it. It was so easy to just send an invite to a PS3 friend and they would accept and be in the group.