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CRITICAL: the aim, we don't want another KZ2 pls

CCP's stated objective for Dust is to be a AAA shooter. I believe most of us agree that we are not there, yet - but many of us feel we can get there, me included. This thread is a community-driven effort to prioritize Dust development from the players' perspective to elevate Dust to AAA-titlehood.

CRITICAL - these need to be fixed now

• Framerate - rock steady and high fps is critical for an FPS. Many experience huge framerate drops especially in close quarter combat.
• Lag - there are videos of rubberbanding and numerous reports of other really bad lag issues.
• New player experience - you can't throw window after window of graphs, UI elements and pages of text at a new player. There needs to be a proper tutorial for the UI and especially gameplay, which doesn't tell or show you what to do, but lets you do it yourself at your own pace.
• Matchmaking - a newbie MM queue was introduced which was needed, but people are thrown in with the protostompers too early. And non-newbie MM needs more tiers or to allow more time to match similarly skilled and geared players together.
• Getting stuck in terrain, corners and other map elements
• Communication - CCP needs to improve communication with players. Forum posts are not enough. More on this topic in a post below.

FPS - This is a game engine/PS3 issue. They chose Unreal. The PS3 is doing it's best given the scale, with the intended engine. It's not fair to compare with BF3's Frostbite engine, for example, (totally different engine optimized for the PS3). Graphics are going to be ongoing, but don't expect things to get much better with the current engine. They would need to create a whole new engine to get the major graphics rework that you want that would produce improved FPS (another year of dev time).

Lag/Latency - Another variable. More dependent on so-called "internet weather". They're doing pretty good in this area considering the scale. This game does a LOT more on the server-side as opposed to the client-side vs. other games. Improvement here is GOING to take time.

Matchmaking - I disagree with the matchmaking. Newbies play with us, to learn how to play, and to get recruited. Dust is squad-based, and they will learn this very early, or they will leave. I DO however wish, the MM would compensate for putting them up against 2 fully-stacked teams. SP difference, not too much of a problem. Organized TEAM difference? That's the MM issue.

Game Modes - My understanding during the closed beta was that the "Instant Battle" thing is actually what we are trying to get away from. We don't want a random set of game modes that have no purpose. Faction Warfare is being developed so that every battle fought literally effects EVE, and matters. The Instant Battles were simply supposed to be "proofs of concept" for the full game, with a Combat Arena coming later to satisfy the player desire for things like CTF and Domination, etc. But the INTENTION is supposed to be totally player owned and controlled districts, where we decide what buildings and installations to place... naturally this will take time. I imagine the Combat Arena will have a betting system so people can earn isk.

More Maps - I agree with this. A new map every month would be wonderful. This would make maps where certain roles dominate, inevitable, and I agree with that. A map where snipers rule? Yes. A map where heavies rule? Yes. I want to see us spitting out more maps. Monthly is perfect.

KB/M vs. Gamepad - This has already been addressed. Mice have a new sensitivity cap to keep them more in line with gamepads, this reduces the effectiveness of multi-DPI mice.

AFK Camping - You really don't need to be concerned about what someone is doing if they go afk. Yes, them not helping you means the match is unbalanced. Public matches where this occurs is of no consequence to anything. Every game has AFKers in some way. As long as matches are open to the public this will exist. Mid firefight, someone can walk right off and abandon you, and go AFK. That's reality. Get over it. If SP farming is what you're complaining about, that's not going to break the game. Players voted that system in during the beta. That is likely here to stay. It's New Eden, in a public match, no one is nor should be obligated to help you fight.

Minor gripe, but an excuse to keep the thread alive...

What's up with jumping out of the MCC only to land at the bottom of an installation full of toxic waste? Instant death. How about not putting a death trap right under the MCC (we don't all recognize every building on the map before jumping).