no hide and seek?

before match send a few of the enemy players a message saying "I bet you can't find me *******"

Then in the match, hide

rules, no redline or MCC antics

I would like to see a Juggernaut game mode where 1 out of 8 or 16 or 32 players is chosen to be the juggernaut and the rest of the team is tasked with killing the juggernaut. When the Juggernaut is killed, another player is selected as juggernaut.

When you are selected as Juggernaut you are colour coded and you spawn anywhere on the map you like on ground level. You get 50 000 ISK every time you kill the juggernaut and you get 35 000 ISK every time you assist in killing the juggernaut.

The Juggernaut would have gear that is better than proto gear if the match had more than 8 players (weapons would not be better than proto though, only suits and some modules). Non juggernauts would be able to see where every other non juggernaut is to assist in players staying together.

The juggernaut would get 20 000 ISK for every kill.

We do need more game modes....

That being said, this is not a game for casuals. At all. If you want casual, There's the door to CoD.

ISK risk is not what makes Dust not fun, unfortunately. I wish that was all that was wrong with the game that caused so many people to lose interest.

Boarding Action.

You get two squads to jump on top of each dropship. They must stay balanced on there while the two dropships manoeuvre to boarding range. Nova Knives and fists only. Brawling commences, jumping from ship to ship and beating the daylights out of each other while trying not to fall. The last team with people still in the air wins.

Eh. I'd like more than the three game mods that we have, but if there was no risk/reward, I probably wouldn't play. It's satisfying chucking an AV grenade and getting the killing blow on a tank and knowing that that guy lost more than just some "tank points" or something dumb like that. It's satisfying looking at the killboard and seeing that your team has killed a dude in prototype gear enough times to set him back no matter how many times he kills you, even if ISK isn't really an object for him.

I'm all for betting PC matches, perhaps with odds based on how many districts each Corporation controls. Most of those other "for fun" game modes are fun, but don't really fit in with the spirit of the game.

I have to say I dont agree on the free for all, dust 514 is supposed to be a team based FPS shooter, Not call of duty or Battlefield 3

We would need extended stamina bars or people would die of fatigue before killing anyone.

Meh. I prefer it this way. If I wanted to play a silly knives only or juggernaut or zombies game variant, I'd play Halo. I prefer it when my games have one unified... idea. That sort of thing works fine in Halo, because the game is made to be quick, silly, easy, no-risk fun. "Oh, you died, well whatever, try again." DUST514 isn't that game. The whole point is that your actions have consequences, including your deaths. It's silly to see massive, faceless corporations wasting perfectly good clones and equipment on LAV races, and runs exactly counter to everything else in the game.

You can say "well, it'd be your choice whether to play those game modes or not," and that's true. However, funds and time are limited, and every second and cent spent developing those modes is time and money that could be spent on things I care about.

You can say "well, it'd be your choice whether to play those game modes or not," and that's true. However, funds and time are limited, and every second and cent spent developing those modes is time and money that could be spent on things I care about.

You absolutely could say that, but it doesn't mean I have to agree with it. If you're disappointed and quit because there's no racing mode or no knife-only mode, that's your decision, but it's a safe assumption that most people who pick up a first-person shooter want to shoot people in the first person, not race. You are not the target audience, therefore your wants and needs are secondary to those who just wanna shoot doods. If you, or others like you leave because of it, you leave.

Additional game variants are fine, but I don't think DUST should have custom matches. Certainly none where "no gear loss on death" is an option. Betting on the outcome of Planetary Conquest or even hypothetical 'arena' matches would be interesting, although there would either have to be a fairly low maximum bid or low payouts altogether. Way too much money to be made too easily that way.

A Juggernaut mode could work, but only if the Juggernaut had to buy a Juggernaut dropsuit first that was only usable in that game variants. And even then, I wouldn't like it being included.

You raise a good point.

Perhaps a game mode where players play on a chaotic map with an overwhelming amount of environmental hazards of differing types. (Electricity arching from sky frequently at certain spots, Lava that shoots out of the ground). You automatically purchase (at start of the match and every time you die) a modified dropsuit (adds an extra 2000 ISK to all your dropsuit loadout costs) that carries an 2 extra grenade slots that are always required to be filled with special grenades. If you don't die during the match then you are not charged for that dropsuit at all (same as always). Free starter suits would still be free.

Special grenade type 1 could have a small detonation time that nullifies any hazard in detonation area for a period of time (like 30 seconds, and detonation area of 30m radius) by erecting a bubble shield that also covers the ground to allow safe access to that area of the map temporarily. The hazards will kill you when grenade timer expires (unless you use another special grenade prior) and bullets and grenades can pass through the bubble shields. You carry 4 of type 1 special grenades maximum.

Type 2 special grenades would just have a much smaller radius (6.5 m radius and last 60 seconds). You could carry 3 of these. Thus you can be engulfed by flames or whatever hazard but still be safe and be visually cloaked by hazard and no scanner can detect you. Thus when you temporarily nullify hazards with type 1 grenades, you must be cautious that others may be lurking inside them in some specific location on map. (maybe a proto heavy with a breach shotgun )

Hazards can have a radius as large as 52m.

You could move through narrow safe areas like high narrow bridges or groud based narrow corridors or small barren pockets of land (to park vehicles). Narrow passages would weave around the map (obvious choke points) and 4 or 5 safe pockets of land would exist for vehicles to park. Choke points maybe in hazard areas as well.

Vehicles would be modified with an extra active module that last 65 seconds which renders vehicle immune to hazards. (the safe pockets of land are mainly for waiting until 22 second cooldown timer completes for the special active module on vehicles). Allows tanks and LAVs to be ambushed by anti vehicle weapons much easier since vehicles would have less room to hide sometimes. Special module would add 5000 ISK to vehicle loadout costs. free LAVs would still be free.

Supply depots that erect there own 6m radius bubble shields dot the map to replenish special grenades and other equipment. Shielded supply depots only allow dropsuits and grenades through there shields (slow moving objects), LAVs are fast moving, maybe call them kinetic shields? Melee can pass through shields to kill enemies at supply depots. (this creates element of assassins or proto guys camping supply depots, snipers would not work)

Other hazards could be tornados that pass over the map and are deadly if you are not in close proximity to temporary gravity enhancing devices (shielded supply depots). The tornados force would temporarily render bullets and grenades useless all over map until tornado is gone (it would take tornado 10 seconds to pass over map, gives you a good view of eye of tornado, something you make you say WOW, maybe electricity arching across walls of tornado and lots of debris). You are warned that a tornado is approaching 21 seconds prior to the tornado hazard passing over the map by small text appearing next to armor/shield meter. Perhaps make text flash frequently. Tornado can be nullified by special grenades but the grenades would only last 6 seconds and would have a radius of 19m. (to give you some fighting room around supply depots during the tornado's presence.)