Somebody hand this guy a joint - sounds like he needs one.

And then some proto tissues for the QQ. Another guy whose forgotten he's a tester and not a gamer.

Replication was swarm spam and HMG spawn camp sauce. The only fun thing about Rep. was the map and type of game mode (rush style) and small turrets. The RE's were broken then also, just not used as much, throw them down and blow them up. Another sniper feast but that seems to go with the territory of every FPS. The infinite tank glitch got annoying too.

Things are boring because dropships are gone, tanks are pretty easy (thanks QQers) and the same maps and game types. The game is way more stable, balancing has been effective although heavy handed in many ways. The hit detection and draw distances are all tons better. Less bugs and glitches to be exploited and sounds and graphics have improved leaps and bounds.

This just sounds like nostalgia and not remembering the headaches endured during those times, like playing only a few matches a day cause you couldn't load in the game. The invalids, hard freezes or starting the PS3 after every 3 games so you don't hard freeze, risking your rig on every freeze playing Russian Roulette.

These are better times, it's that the game had good vehicle combat (a lil OP in some areas) but now this game is all FPS, run around shoot things and hack things, rinse and repeat. But there are games that do this better so why play Dust? I liked the depth this had, be a tanker, a pilot, a gunner or drive LAVs, while avoiding ground troops AV. Now all I do is run around like everybody else.

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CCP has focused entirely on the wrong things. Instead of improving the sandbox, they are trying to fine tune all the toys inside it while restricting us. Tanks on top of the communication dish, dropships descending from 1km, lav chases to the edge of the map. All of these options have eroded, and with it the most valuable content, the player driven ingenuity, disappeared. I would roll back all of the "balance" patches for more freedom on the battlefield, since that was the "killer feature" in my eyes always.

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