"Dust 514 is more than a chance to lay down blistering fire, rush over terrain in armored vehicles, and fight across the galaxy alongside your fellow Mercs.
Every battle, every action, every decision you make will bring the galaxy together, or tear it apart."

"To try and pull all of these threads together, what Dust is really about for us is trying to create an experience that's about more than just shooting the other guy in the face. Everything that you're deploying with onto the battlefield you own, you bought, you take ownership of, so there's actually a greater sense of loss. It's not just some vanilla tank that's spawning out of nowhere that's getting destroyed, it's yours, you're invested, you've fought hard to take control of a planet and either conquer the infrastructures that's there or invest together with your corp mates and build this. So when somebody comes to try and take it away from you [sic] this matters, there's meaning here. That's really what Dust is all about."

"Another key difference with Dust is when the boots hit the battlefield, when the Mercs are fighting on the surface of the planets. Typically in an FPS game you pick roles [sic] and everyone knows what everybody else has. Within Dust we have a system called fitting which is much more akin to an RPG style system. This really allows the players to take ownership of their character and their roles. They can create different fits to suit different tactics on the battlefield and also to respond to the changing behaviors of others. This adds a further layer of strategy when you're planning your battle and trying to take control of a planet"