What does the OP mean by gunplay?

Unless the game is given a complete overall, no matter much gameplay wise it's made like Call of Duty, Battlefield, Modern Warfare, Killzone or pick your own modern FPS equivalent. The MMO, RPG leveling/grinding elements of Dust are still going to be a major turn-off to most of the core-base for those sort of games. In that respect CCP, in my opinion, is better off trying to harsh out a place in the middle of the FPS and RPG/MMO markets, rather then trying to fit directly into either. Competeing head-to-head with other, well known FPS titles would be a no-win situation, similarly for RPGs. However there is a market with playes who like both. That's what I believe Dust in aiming for.

I'm not saying there aren't flaws in the gameplay, and admittedly I didn't play during either closed or open beta. I'm just stating I see a reason why CCP wouldn't want to walk the same gameplay style path as other first person shooters.

Cmon guys Dust is not all terrible, needs loads of work but there are some fun aspects to the game.

Skill Points system isn't terrible, it's just implemented in a poor way that makes for not just grinding but banging your head against the wall. You get PVE and throw in some sort of matchmaking and it's now more relaxing and fun but still allows greater "leveled" chars to high areas (namely PC for now)

Weapons are actually pretty good. There are some balance issues that we are addressing but there is plenty to improve upon. However, people need to understand that different does not make a weapon imbalanced (SR v AR debate anyone?) Sights and attachments could add a lot but this needs to be done right.

We have a solid list of gamemodes in which to START. Add a little Rush (Skirmish 1.0) and we now have more than BF3 (in terms of useful modes). You get some fluff ones and improve the ones we have and we are sitting pretty.

The building of your char is great in this game. Fitting takes some brains and a little ingenuity but you can make anything you really want. We have some glaring imbalance issues here (like suits with tons of slots over others and worthless mods) but we could get there.

Skipping other stuff... Now the bad.

FPS experience is lacking. You take wonky hit detection and slippery aim and guns that just feel off and throw that in to competitive gameplay and you have some SERIOUS issues, especially when you add in the issues from above. Dust is never going to have the gunplay of COD, the epicness of BF, nor the tactical gameplay of CS but we really should aim to be at least average in these categories. People who only want the best FPS experience should hit the door now, it will never happen. Dust needs to forge a avg fps with good RPG with Mmo.

Really this game should aim for UT in terms of FPS, which is where I think we are headed.

I had more rant in me about map design, map number, lacking links with Eve, lacking trading and much more but I'll just end it here.

Wait, you aren't the same terrible player that's been making all those asinine threads on the Planetside 2 forums for ages now, are you?

Just in case you are, I feel obliged to comment that when the NC MAX's Scattershot Cannon, which is a triple-barreled semi-auto arm-mounted shotgun that the thing can dual-wield was capable of firing as fast as you could mash the button and had far too many rounds per magazine back in the Tech Test, this guy was on the forums constantly asserting that it was a balanced weapon.

When every single battle in Planetside 2 ended in the New Conglomerate coming in in "SCATMAXes" and destroying anyone dumb enough to play another faction until each server's continent map was covered in blue hexes, this guy was defending that asset as balanced, and that other players just needed to play better.

This is what bothers me.....

Many people have been saying that the gameplay and gunplay feels clunky and ruins the experience. But from Chromosome to Uprising....it just got worse. I feel as if CCP only has a hard on for the rpg side but is neglecting the fps side.

I am not an insider in the game development industry...but I'm wondering is it really that hard to fix this problem? I can understand if this was uncharted territory but so many games have already laid the blueprint. And from what I understand, there are MAG & BF3 developers on dust's staff. Even if they suck..they must have some insight...they must see that there is something wrong here.

This needs to take priority