Many think I have a negative view of Dust. I'm certainly very critical of certain aspects. But, Dust will last. I'm going to share some of my reasoning.

The MAG community.
The noisy ones are already here. But the noisy ones were the "elite" groups. Now, the majority of MAG players never set foot on the forums. I never did. Never needed to, because in game communication was so easy & good. This silent majority are friendly clans who play pickup games, not clan battles. There are a great deal of these smaller clans. But they just want a game with user friendly...

Communication.
Dust is actually better for communicating out of battle. Text based communication on ps3 is normally a very slow deal. Google translate on people's phones is also really useful too. The UVT regardless of your view on paying or not, allows you to sit and talk with strange Internet people. All these communication tools help with...

Full clan support.
I don't need to go into much depth here. Mega corp skill book says it all. Provided you can include alliance members in corp battles, there is no FPS on console with this level of clan structure/size/management. I think this is part of the reason for so much interest from the large FPS clans. They quite like...

Unique gameplay.
It was almost there last build. I've said it before and I'll say it again. The easiest way to describe it was an arena shooter such as quake/ut, dropped on to a battlefield map with good, useful vehicles available for all. Add the PvE element and esport? We have a beauty. This build? Stability is so much better, hit detection is properly sorted. Sure I feel the gameplay has suffered but that's the beauty of...

Regular updates.
Whatever the problems CCP will keep grinding out the bugs. Balance stuff, add new gear to counter things. I might not like them all, but after release it won't be a case of changing everyone's strafe/mass, or halving tank resists. It'll be ensuring everything is working as intended, or fixing minor bugs. I think quite a few things might be a bit off still, after release, but there will be the 2013 update as it's been referred to elsewhere. Telling people WHEN content will be comming keeps people attracted IMHO.


I just wanted to throw this out there, because there is so much cussing on this build. I havent even mentioned the EvE community or the whole planetary conquest ect. I don't care that much about them. They're really cool, but they're added depth. All of the EvE interaction is. It's another possible readout for people to play, but I feel the other points are more important. They're the kind of things ps3 players have wanted from EVERY FPS. MAG is the only one which did some of these.

MAG is Dead
Long live Dust