People seem to want an explanation for what bad game play means so ill try to explain what I have experienced with dust. I think it can be broken down into 4 area.

1 Slow down on fps

2 Bad auto aim

3 Unsatisfying weapon sounds and death animations

4 Long time to kill ratio with weapons

1Game slow down.
When running the game at 720p or higher the game has tremendous slow down on fps. The characters actually feel like they are moving slower. The game plays completely different when running at 480p or lower. Also there are different look speeds for every dropsuit which makes some suits feel sluggish. Also at 720p and higher the game stutters on close encounters which only frustrates fps gamers.

2 Auto aim
On most AAA fps the auto aim basically aims for you. On call of duty you can actually watch your cross hair drag to the enemy and it takes effort to pull the cross hairs off. In dust auto aim is completely broken. It doesn't help keep the crosshairs on the target. This mixed with a quick time to kill in call of duty it makes you feel like you quickly aimed at the enemy and killed him. On dust the long time to kill means that the little help auto aim may of did is wasted as only 3 rounds hit your target before he moved out of the way again.

3 Weapon sounds and death animation.
I dont think anyone can disagree that in any fps game shooting someone with a shot gun and having them blown to pieces is unsatisfying. Half of the weapon sounds in dust do not sound powerful. That and the long death times make your weapons feel weak. I personally use the shotgun because its more satisfying to run up and one shot somebody than for two people to run in circles spraying bullets.

4 Long time to kill ratio.
As mentioned in the previous to points auto aim effects are lessened by the long time to kill with the weapons. Also the long drawn out spray n pray shootouts are not that fun.


I believe in the effort to make different tier dropsuits and team oriented healers the gun play has suffered. Some efforts to improve all this would be to fix the frames per second. The game has to run at 60fps even in close battles. The auto aim needs to help more. Weapon sounds should have deeper more powerful sounds and death animations should be more lively. I personally would like to see quicker time to kill ratios but i dont see a weapon and health overhaul coming.

When running the game at 720p or higher the game has tremendous slow down on fps.

In dust auto aim is completely broken.

autoaim is fine where it is, i would actually prefer if it wasn't the noob level of cod or halo. it is very functional and great right now

I'm interested in this but could you clarify a couple of points please? I'm sure I'm being dumb but I don't understand!...


I haven't actually experienced this in any meaningful way, but you say 720p or higher. How are you changing the res you are playing at to above 720p?


Auto-aim has always been the first thing I switch off in games, are you saying in Dust it should be more helpful at aiming for you? Do you mean to help new players? I realise that sounds like I'm being a d*ck but I don't mean to be, I genuinely don't see what auto-aim is for once you are used to a games controls.

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Sorry, but somehow my overall picture of what your saying is you want to kill people with no work and feel like you have more skill than you do.. we don't need insta death auto aim on this ****. sure the one on one battles can drag out a bit, but I would prefer that then to get instantly auto aimed at and 1 shot every time I look at a red. This is why I don't even play COD, aim bot, auto aim.. no difference they both crap crutches

Disagree with op on all points, only the framerate needs fixing and they worked out where that memory leek was

4 Long time to kill ratio with weapons

4 Long time to kill ratio.
As mentioned in the previous to points auto aim effects are lessened by the long time to kill with the weapons. Also the long drawn out spray n pray shootouts are not that fun.
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4 Long time to kill ratio.
As mentioned in the previous to points auto aim effects are lessened by the long time to kill with the weapons. Also the long drawn out spray n pray shootouts are not that fun.

TTK is a design choice. Short TTK favours skills like map knowledge, positioning, stealth. Long TTK favours skills such as jumping, dodging and aiming. Both of these skill sets are valid (though often players refuse to recognise the validity of the skillset they are bad at).

Neither are good or bad, just different (and maybe different to whatever your favourite game is).

If you play lots of different FPS's you get used to changing TTKs and adjust your playstyle as you go from game to game.

Both design are valid and i usually prefer longer TTK. I hate the "see you, kill you" effect.
But some fights in dust are just dumb. I think the range system is part of the problem. But overall. slightly more damage wouldnt hurt.

I prefer longer time-to-kill. It calls to mind older shooters with that same trait, and seems appropriate for a game where you use customizable armored/shielded suits of varying tiers. Quick kills seem against the spirit of the game, and more in-line with the style of recent shooters with that "gotcha" quick kill & respawn element.

They did add the 10% back from weaponry. And the memory leak isn't fixed yet - they're waiting for a client update to apply the fix.