I think it would make the game more fun and intense if we had an increased in speeds: walking, running, reloading.
Something like a 20% boost in all these speeds would be nice. Yes these things can be improved by investing in skill points, but I think they should start out faster to be closer to that of other shooters; Dust feels slows compared to much of what players are use to from other shooters. It would also be very useful on large maps.
Ideally I would like Dust to have features like vaulting over certain objects, sliding, etc, as well but I really don't see it happening. Realistically, increasing base speeds for all characters would be the best and fastest way to give the game a mobility boost. The sense of speed and mobility is freeing, and ultimately adds to the fun. I experienced this after playing MAG again and realizing how much faster and more fun just moving around is.

There are skills and modules for movement speed, reload speed etc etc etc.

There are skills and modules for movement speed, reload speed etc etc etc.

Yeah, I'm not going to spend a million SP to activate something that needs to be available by default. +1 to increased speed of everything.

Yeah, but the game is still overall pretty slow. CCP just needs to increase the speed of everything by a little bit and it would feel less clunky, especially for starter players.

I agree that everything needs a slight increase in speed but they need to increase the frames per second before they do that.

The problem with increasing player speed right now, is that "accelerating" into full speed hasn't been properly implemented yet.

We had these faster speeds in the early builds, and there was good reason for removing it.
With no acceleration, even worse hit detection, and assault rifles deadlier than a Precision Strike, the "fights" in those builds were nothing but shuffling dances - the worst I'd ever seen in a game, period. Players would constantly move back and forth while blindly spraying with their AR hipfire, which meant the kills were completely luck-based.
It was terrible. And I do not want to go back.

The thing is, other than AR nerfs and slightly-better hit detection, nothing else got fixed.
If speeds went back up, we'd eventually see a return to strafe-dancing. Very few weapons aside from the SMG and AR could hit their targets in such a situation. Which means that the situation would return to almost exactly the same gameplay from a far-inferior build.
And if that happened during Open Beta... It wouldn't be pretty.

The problem with increasing player speed right now, is that "accelerating" into full speed hasn't been properly implemented yet.

We had these faster speeds in the early builds, and there was good reason for removing it.
With no acceleration, even worse hit detection, and assault rifles deadlier than a Precision Strike, the "fights" in those builds were nothing but shuffling dances - the worst I'd ever seen in a game, period. Players would constantly move back and forth while blindly spraying with their AR hipfire, which meant the kills were completely luck-based.
It was terrible. And I do not want to go back.

The thing is, other than AR nerfs and slightly-better hit detection, nothing else got fixed.
If speeds went back up, we'd eventually see a return to strafe-dancing. Very few weapons aside from the SMG and AR could hit their targets in such a situation. Which means that the situation would return to almost exactly the same gameplay from a far-inferior build.
And if that happened during Open Beta... It wouldn't be pretty.

Slow? Assault Suits sprint 7 meters/second.

Have you lost your calculator? ~15mpg, ~22kph.

Heavies are slowest, Logistics are next and Scouts are faster. Faster than 15 mph in a ton of metal with a fusion power pack.

BTW, since you will no doubt want everything else to be faster as well consider this:

LAVs top speed is ~80mpg

HAVs is ~50mph.

You want real speed, fly a Drop Ship or get into EVE and play in space. Now, that is fast.


On sort of the same note KHW: do you realize that a significant number of things you propose are already in Halo variants? Play that.

What is it with you? Why is it any time you comment on one of my threads you're always so rude?

The game feels slow because the maps are so large. In CoD, you could cover distance in no time because those maps were puny. My scout moves at a speed of 7+m/s which would mean that they cover 100 meters in just over 14 seconds which is a kilometer in just over 2 minutes considering that you can pretty much constantly sprint because stamina regens so fast that you're only walking for a fraction of what you're sprinting.

We're moving too fast! Great Scott!

You are total Kitten Excrement. Just so you know.

With enhanced clones, implants, dropsuits, and technology thousands of years ahead of us, we could be faster than Usain Bolt ridiculous top speed (though I'm not asking for nearly as much, only a 20% buff). Sure we're fast, but like Bojo pointed out, its the large maps that contribute to the feeling of slowness, but I think all shooters should scale player speed to the average map size to make players feel fast.

alas the maps are only going to get bigger and badder, and honestly there has to be a reason for LAVs and Dropships to exist; to ferry troops across the map with much greater speed

A 20% speed boost to make things feel faster, but it wouldn't put a dent in LAVs' and dropships' business.

yes it will. when CCP introduces an armored APC it doesn't need to be redundant by virtue that the troops can cover the map both easily and swiftly

Speculation, and an easily fixed scenario.

trimmed to get to the point.

A 20% speed boost won't turn us into the flash.

Behold the dark power of math.

After mulling it over, I completely agree with the OP. Twitch gameplay in and FPS like this one would be really intense and exciting. And there are so many times where everyone is going through a particular part of gameplay that is painfully slow - like reloading, which would be more... Interesting (?) to experience at an accelerated rate.

I can only imagine what group fights would be like. The only word that comes to mind - and I know it's overused - is epic.