Now, I don't claim to be an expert marksman, but I had more trouble keeping my sights on target in Dust than in any FPS in recent memory. Part of this is due to the mushy aiming controls, which are too sluggish for quick turns, yet too jumpy to track moving targets reliably.

Art, Gamedesign, And Coding grunts are usually seperate teams of people so not working on new content is unlikely to lead to quicker fixes of the core game.

PLS2 or PLS3 (yeah SOE will have to not call it PS2 anymore).

Dust team is only ~70 ppl strong.
In this case it would actually improve.

I'm only saying I wouldn't put it past them. What I am noticing is that a great many people commenting in here are using the review as subjective validation for their own pre-determined hate of the game... and yet, you're all still here, commenting, as if you want it to be good. Or, maybe you've just got nothing better to do other than rant on about how much this game sucks instead of playing something you do like. Maybe everything sucks, and the only thing you're good at is complaining about it. I don't know, and I don't care, and I don't care about IGN.

I've made up my mind about DUST without needing reviews. I've decided that I like what it could be, and I'm sticking with it to see where it goes. Considering my EVE subscription helped pay for its development and it's completely free (paying for stuff is 100% optional, I don't care how you spin it otherwise, I haven't spent one cent on it yet), it's the least I can do. I like what it is and I like where it's heading, granted it has its flaws, many of them mentioned in this review, but also, many of the misconstrued or blown out of proportion with this idea that it can never be fixed and has no possibility for improvement.

Who knows, maybe it'll find a nice little niche when all the mainstream reviewers go away, and settle into a pattern of development just like EVE, and in its own time, take its own position amongst the top FPS titles as a serious contender. I'd like to see that. But I'm just an "EVE fanboy". What the hell would I know about an indy developer starting with a small buggy spaceship game with bad servers and lasting 10+ years including the beta to become the longest-living MMO ever with one of the best communities around?

I got to try out the Factional Warfare and Planetary Conquest modes, and though fighting alongside a highly organized space-based corporation adds a lot of big-picture strategic depth, these clashes seem to do a lot more good for EVE players than for the Dust players who lay down their virtual lives, and by association, their virtual or even real money to do so. In fact, the only people who see any tangible gains are the well-established EVE corporations. Since there's currently no way for them to directly reward Dust players for helping defend their turf, it's kind of a raw deal.

That review is basicly a free guideline for CCP on what to fix.
First get the basic mechanics done instead of adding MORE GUNS/ STUFF.
How stupid is that.

No. You misunderstand. On the surface, DUST is a competitor for other shooters that you have to pay for. If people have a shooter that you don't have to pay for, discrediting it in its entirety is a handy tactic for getting people to go for games that you have to pay for instead, hence making more sales. I wouldn't trust that IGN don't write reviews that have been paid for by companies to promote a **** product by reviewing it as a good one. That is why I don't go to IGN.

and micro-transaction fueled grind make it numbing to play long enough to explore its depth

That review was awful. The reviewer basically complains throughout the whole article that Dust is not Battlefield 3 with spaceships. He complains that he sucks at aiming and driving vehicles, he complains that all of the superior equipment actually takes effort to use, and he complains that he doesn't have enough pretty things to look at.

I just started playing a week ago and I think it is pretty awesome, partially because it is not BF3 or CoD.

No. You misunderstand. On the surface, DUST is a competitor for other shooters that you have to pay for. If people have a shooter that you don't have to pay for, discrediting it in its entirety is a handy tactic for getting people to go for games that you have to pay for instead, hence making more sales. I wouldn't trust that IGN don't write reviews that have been paid for by companies to promote a **** product by reviewing it as a good one. That is why I don't go to IGN.

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they listen to chicks like this guy and make changes based on what she wants.

As much as I am involved into Dust, I have to say that the review was more accurate than anything else. The only thing that I disagreed about it was the whole "pay to win" issue. I don't understand what people want from games that has a free-to-play model. This isn't bejeweled or freecell...you don't have to spend a dime if you really don't want to. But if you want to advance faster, than you spend some money...simple. CCP has to earn money to keep giving us free updates.

But other than that.....I've been saying that the aiming controls and movement controls are too sluggish and not smooth. CCP is concentrating on the rpg side but neglecting (or so it seems) the actual game mechanics. We've been asking for skirmish 1.0 and we get a templar event.

I hope CCP pay attention to the review and make some necessary changes.

As long as there are items being released that are AUR only and have no ISK counterpart, it's P2W, plain and simple.

When this was a beta and the argument was still "Hey, they'll be introducing a player market so you can buy those items from other players" I was with you. Now that the game is a fully launched and commercially released product, with no player market to be found, the game is undoubtedly and clearly pay-to-win.

When it was beta and CCP were saying "point out the P2W items and we will fix them," I was still on your side. Yet, they still keep putting out new P2W items. It's not difficult to compare the ISK versions to the AUR versions. A new player doing a review can see the P2W items for themselves. If a new player doing a review can see it, you're not going to convince me that the guys developing the game simply "missed" it, or that it "slipped by" them.

The only items that I see that are AUR only are the Fused Locus Grenades. Although they are nasty grenades, they hardly determine the outcome of a game.

Now, if a weapon like the balac's or any of those officer items were only on sale for aur, then I can understand. But it's a little stretch to label the game as P2W by just one grenade. I believe that the reviewer was talking about skilling up faster....so he must have been referring to boosters. Some people refer boosters as P2W and I'm thinking, "Damn, is there anything that CCP can sell from this game?"

perhaps ccp shouldn't have released dust 514 on the 14th, like everyone was trying to warn them from

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/30/dust-514-review

The Verdict

Dust 514 truly aims high with a one-of-a-kind cross-platform endeavor. But such ambition is in vain if you don't have a solid foundation, and Dust's crumbles almost from the get-go. Its wonky mechanics, weak graphics, and microtransaction fueled grind make it numbing to play long enough to explore its depth, and its persistent elements are completely lost on anyone who doesn't already have a foot down in the EVE universe. The ideas behind Dust 514 are clearly strong, but so too is the disappointment when they crumble under the weight of its free-to-play baggage.

dude, I am moving on as soon as PS4 and Destiny gets here/released

"there wouldn't be a TAR fix for next week. "


translated:

we did it, girls!!!
we vaged so hard they are gonna nerf another weapon.

after this, we ladies will whine about the GLU
then it's on to the flaylock...



and puttin it on pc wouldn't change the game

but at least the player base could play the game without whining for nerfs...
unlike you ladies did and continue to do.


"I just started playing a week ago and I think it is pretty awesome"
yeah... but you're a codboi.
so of course you would love this game.
they broke it so you could play it.
sad thing is ... they listen to chicks like this guy and make changes based on what she wants.

Peace
B