As a non FPS aficionado the thing that I find the most frustrating about the gunplay is waiting for the game to catch up. It feels like there is a total lack of moment to moment gameplay.

Even though my reflexes are slow, the game is slower still. From turn and strafe speed, to throwing a grenade, to switching out weapons, to transitions between sprint and crouching, strafing and sprinting. This to me is a terrible thing on a multiplayer console shooting game because it almost totally negates the possibility of the player reacting to what is going on around them at the speed at which they can push buttons and move the sticks on the controller. So that hand eye coordination aspect of gaming, in this case gunplay, that has been a part of games since at least pong, or missile command, is noticeably absent from moment to moment "gunplay" where you are shooting at stuff and trying to avoid getting shot in return.

It feels more like I am playing a turn based strategy game, or RPG, or something like a Final Fantasy game, where you get your character into position, then the character or the player's fighting forces execute the attacks they are capable of with the gear they have equipped with minimal further input from the player.

This does make for great strategic gaming, but it is almost to the point where you can't even play as just a dude or lady that wants to jump into a game and shoot some stuff and blow some stuff up. It isn't that the game is better when playing as a team, it is almost not possible to play any other way. Your squad's position on the map relative to the enemy, the balance of gear between the members of a squad and a team, are now almost the entire focus of the game.

So I don't feel that like an individual merc, immersed in a war, where my own unique fighting skills actually matter on the battle field, moment to moment. That visceral and palpably physical connection to the game, where every second counts, where every nudge of the controller is meaningful, is not really there in this build.

Or, to put it succinctly, the game is too slow.

The good thing about this build is that so far it feels the most solid and balanced. And the strategic and abstract gameplay is very close to being balanced with the moment to moment physical gunplay. As others have said, if the speed of the game gets turned up a notch, across the board, without changing the speed of any one portion of the game relative to any other, that would be a huge improvement.

The gunplay in this is just down right boring it takes forever to get to the main battle and then you spend most of the time running (speed walking) around trying to find an enemy and when you do it doesn't matter who has more skill cause its just who ever shoots who first win the battle. Its just way to slow, you can even at at someone when your scoped because either it doesn't move or it moves way to much.

i think DUST needs to move in the direction of MAG yes MAG i know its a sin to say that word but thats the one things Zipper got right with that game. You were able to move fast enough so that you can get around the map. you were able to strafe but not to the point were people were unable to aim at you, and jumping wasn't a big deal because you just adjusted your aim a little bit and that was it, also once you jumped you stopped shooting so that really reduce the amount of jumping in a gun fight.

But in IMO people who say to "ADAPT" to this new build should actually follow their own advice because in a FPS you are able to strafe jump and dodge in order to kill the enemy. This isn't an FPS anymore its just stand and hope that the person your shooting at runs out of HP before you do.

O and no i don't play COD.

Not hating on you for the cod comment, I hate COD and campers in general, however camping is a valid military tactic no matter how much it irritates you. It's not outsmarting people to camp, but it is punishing people who aren't careful to avoid open areas and wandering around without looking around. In fact sniping is nothing but camp-move-camp-move-etc.

Also, this game isn't as balanced as MAG because MAG didn't have the same system of gear and skills that this game has. You cannot expect this game to balance the same unless they entirely remove the different tiers of dropsuits and just have one of each type that basically would equate to perks in COD. Heavy would be damage resistant and slow, scout would be fast and weak, logistics would be somewhat weak, somewhat fast, and allow you to carry more items, and assault would be somewhat damage resistant and somewhat slower.