ADS needs to be revamped. I want to feel like I'm looking down a actual sight and not a camera.

For me it all comes down to gunplay mechanics. Here are a few suggestions.

Movement and controls feel way too stiff. Maximum sensitivity needs to be increased. I get that limited sensitivity helps balance vs mouse and keyboard, but its way too low. Assault and scout suits need to be able to turn around MUCH faster. Movement and strafing speed needs to be increased back to where it was a couple builds ago. I would also like to see an increase in stamina.

Also the high end gear seems too powerful. Prototype gear is a massive advantage. When you combine this with the inability to strafe and turn and move quickly, even a good player new to the game will lose to a mediocre player who has been playing for a couple months.

Finally I think we need more variety in maps. Almost all the maps atm, even the ambush maps, cater to vehicles. I would like to see some maps that emphasize infantry combat and aren't exposed to constant dropship and tank fire.

What changes can be made to Dust to get to that ideal?
What about the gameplay of Dust needs fixing, aside from the technical issues and bugs.
Videos showcasing ideal gameplay are welcomed.

People say Dust's gameplay sucks, what would need to change for gameplay to be good, what should gameplay be like? excluding obvious things like fixing bugs and technical issues.
You can bring up other shooters with good gameplay, and talk about what it has that Dust lacks that makes the gameplay.

Please be specific in your answer. I'm trying to gather some info beyond "gameplay sucks, fix it".

Everything needs fixing. This is far too ambitious and quite rubbish. It's horribly unbalanced for new players. You can't even move 20 feet without getting smoked by some lifeless tool who does nothing but play all day and has the best gear. There's lag all over the place too. I don't know how many times it's just paused for a second. The controls are also crap. I wouldn't be surprised if K&M users are owning everyone. There's no middle ground with sensitivity, it's either slow as **** or you lose all fine control. It might be free to play, but I'm not wasting my time with it. At least you get quality out of a game you pay for.

I could go on...

ADS needs to be revamped. I want to feel like I'm looking down a actual sight and not a camera.

Get rid of snipers...all my issues solved.

Larger player count would be nice.

Add sight options, I don't dislike the camera sight. It looks like and is a camera, but I would like other options. A Reflex could boost close in hip fire, the camera long range hip fire once we have gun modifications. Standard sight should be more normal on ar to make the majority happy.

The ar needs more recoil.

The strafe seems ok now, a little more would be welcome in my opinion.

A cover system would be great.

A option to play in third like in quarters or in first would be nice, could help sell the aur suits if the one that bought it can see it in battle.

I like the stamina, but maybe a across the board increase would be good, it was great in e3, the maps are bigger now so maybe add 10% to all the suits. And a 2 to 5% per level increase to sprint speed attached to the skill that unlocks sprint modules would also help with big maps.

I would also like prone, maybe make it take a second to go into or out off.

Suits could have weak spots other then head, head looks like the most armoured part of scout for example.

More building that can be entered and tunnels would be nice.

The ewar modules, market, and other known future features added.

The gun models should be modular, so the breech could have a shorter barrel and tac a longer one fot example. This would allow differences while keeping the number of models needed small. Proto/adv/aur could be different colour of the same model.

So far for console gaming, Dust is my first. I did download the CoD demo last night just to see what else is out there. It is a prettier game, and smoother shooting mechanics. Dust seems a bit rough and ragged in comparison, but also more precise. It is harder to draw a bead on someone in Dust compared to the demo version of CoD, but I got hits in CoD for firing 6" to the side of a hostiles armpit. It's like there's a hit bubble around targets.( Edit: to be fair, I have killed more than once by sniping somebodys foot, if that was all I had to shoot at)

High end gear is supposed to be very powerful in Dust. Proto gear is supposed to have a massive advantage. That is the reward for either time (passive skill gains), skills (active skill gains), or both. Good players new to the game will still get humbled when facing organized squads in proto gear. The game is working as intended. Suck it up, buttercup.

More maps are coming, so we are promised. More maps to the tune of 3,000+ unique maps, each customizable by the sovereign owner of the planetary district. For the time being, I'm all for CCP tossing us a few bones both on map variety and size.


For the OP, the only thing I could ask for (that I haven't already) would be the ability to sell salvaged items on the market for the same useless ISK that we buy with. Dust ISK may be currently useless on TQ, but it is important here. If you have played for more than a week you have millions in loot that you will never use, but skills that you cannot afford. Let's pressure test the market sometime next year when we are even close to loading Dust on to TQ. For now, the logic of being able to buy from the NPC market but not sell has not been explained.

ADS needs to be revamped. I want to feel like I'm looking down a actual sight and not a camera.

. It's horribly unbalanced for new players. You can't even move 20 feet without getting smoked by some lifeless tool who does nothing but play all day and has the best gear.
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Yes, new players are having a terribly tough time.

No, it's not the equipment that is the main cause of that, it' only a part. Other factors (as in any fps) are:
- Personal skill, combat: Knowledge of the weapons
- Personal skill, combat: Knowledge of the map and positions
- Personal skill, combat: Having the controls and gungame a second nature
- Personal skill, other: Fitting skill
- Character skill (SP): SP as if better bonuses
- Solo vs team: Being with friends on comms is always better

and what you mentioned
- Character assets: Better equipment


And in the mix onto the battlefield will, ofc, be thrown in different situations and pure luck.

Personally for me,the gunplay needs to be tightened up.For instance,there seems to be deadspots int he control while aiming making aiming less precise as almost every other shooter. When I try to move the reticle just slightly or slowly,it's slower than any other game that I've ever played.

Like others have said before,ADS is pretty bad right now and really needs to be tightened up too.I really need something more than just a full screen crosshair while aiming down sight.

Hip firing seems pretty loose too.Idk,but there are too many times when I just don't get the feeling that I'm actually hitting anything that I'm aiming at.

So in all,the gunplay needs a major reworking,as far as I'm concerned.

Grenade mechanics and physics need to be tweaked.

I would love to see a sprinting reload option.Maybe make it a skill that you have to acquire.Also would love to see a sprinting strafe as well.

X axis speed really needs to be raised to.With the assault suit,turning 180 degrees takes waaaaay to long to do.

As far as gameplay machanics,that's about all that I would like to see.