And why would we need fast paced gameplay?
Can't we have a slow shooter from once in a while?
Seriously are you guys that impatient that you have to kill someone every 0.4 seconds?

Noc, that's going to happen, wait for PC and FW.

And why would we need fast paced gameplay?
Can't we have a slow shooter from once in a while?
Seriously are you guys that impatient that you have to kill someone every 0.4 seconds?

In a tracking shooter slow speed flattens the skill gap. Skill is not the same as tactics, but honestly I'm having trouble how to improve rewarding skill in a slow paced high health game.

The sad truth is there is technical restrictions that have prompted the slower gameplay in DUST. In other words, asking for better hit detection and higher strafe speed together is asking for a technological breakthrough, which is beyond what we should reasonably expect.

So I pose the question of how could this game improve while staying slow paced?

My answer - large, complex maps with layered objectives.

What's yours?

Slower gameplay has pretty much ruined skirmish to the point where there really isn't any reason to play it if you are looking to have a decent fight.

Noc why do you have to extrapolate what the developers didn't say into something you think they said?

Really? We have planetary conquest? And faction warfare?! Where are these things?!

You really don't keep up to date with the updates, do you. What we have now is just playing on the same maps. There is no planetary conquest. There is no faction warfare. It's all coming with release.

I just want to say, as far as "slow" gameplay goes, I don't get that feeling because I play a shotgun scout about 40% of the time. It's plenty quick for me, personally.

I'd rather have more ways to traverse terrain, like vaulting over obstacles and sliding (like they showed in that old video, if you recall)

Both already exist as the corp battle mechanic. The logistics are slightly changing, as well as potentially the UI, but the battle functionality is in game and underwhelming.

Nope. Sorry, you're wrong in this case.

http://dust514.wikia.com/wiki/Districts

There's another video floating around somewhere of devs showing off how they want to do districts. Don't have the link. Looks very exciting.

But that is, in essence, what faction warfare and planetary conquest is about. Whatever you've thought of, don't worry, CCP has already thought of it.

You're trying to say that we already have faction warfare and planetary conquest.

Are we able to fight in nullsec or lowsec for sov? No. There's no planetary conquest. You cannot "conquer" a "planet". Which is kind of implied by the name of "planetary conquest".

Again, faction warfare. The kind where you pick a side and fight for it, e.g. Caldari, Gallente, Amarr, Minmatar. Currently we are unable to pick sides. Currently we are unable to fight over the planets in the systems which are dedicated, in EVE, to faction warfare. We are unable to fight for a faction, and hence, there is no faction warfare.

Get it?

Edit: Oops, typo.

In that case, pardon my ignorance. CCP has plans for both PC and FW, and they've been quoted as saying there will be districts 200km long, or it was possibly 200km^2. Either way, they'll be quite big. As such, you can consider FW as being not fully implemented yet, as the full district system hasn't been put in yet.

I'm here for that too. But I've finally realized I can't judge the game on what it could be someday...

True. But there's always the option of going away and coming back in a year, and in the meantime, playing BF3 or CoD or MoH or anything in the meantime. Or just leaving and not looking back. The choice is entirely yours.

I, for one, having played EVE on and off for years, now, can see how awesome CCP is, and how much they've improved EVE over the last few years. I have faith they can do the same, and the least I can do is stick with them and show my belief in them the only way I can, by supporting DUST 514.

Eh. I was never too fussed about walking around in stations. Not to mention I was incredibly impressed with the new character design system. Suitably so... It's much more impressive than most dedicated AAA games out there.

Yeah right, there are no technical limitations to fixing hit detection. CCP just doesn't know how.

And since ssteafe speeds are most likely a simple modifiable parameter, I doubt that applies to any technical limitations either.

True to your first point, but then again, playing the oft-played card, this game has yet to be released. They're still testing it.

And despite all of this, I do enjoy DUST. Very much so. I enjoy running from A to B, shooting everyone I come across, then dying trying to hack A. Or raging at the rest of my teammates because they're not doing anything, or are just plain awful.

I really, really do.

It is released. Sorry to burst your bubble.