This is me being serious. What is shown below is simply a reminder of your inefficiencies.

For players, this game is close to being as unstable as those bad days in the New York Stock Exchange. You don't seem to understand that the current level of game development at your offices is downright mediocre. Regardless of any potential limitations your staff may be facing, it doesn't change the fact that these were allowed to occur:

*Framerate issues are still present after 1 year. Other FPS games should have overcome this in a shorter timeframe with the current staff they have.

*Responsiveness to resolving key issues is one of the longest (if not the worst) in game development, usually being 3-5 months, doing improper tweaking, and then producing additional problems. See Examples:

-Dropship missiles too strong? After 5 months of terror, damage is lowered AND its splash radius.
-Lasers are too strong? "Let's wait 4-5 months to tweak their damage values."
-HMGs are still good? "Let's further lower the damage and see what happens, heavy class is supposed to be point defense right?"
-Marauder tanks are not finished? "Let's remove them entirely for now and put in place Enforcer tanks, their lower Health\CPU\PG makes sense" (later on a health buff had to be implemented... and now LAVs are a true murder taxi)
-DS3 aiming was fine but then... "We feel that further tweaks may be necessary to controls to give our players a better experience." (Uprising finally launches, along with one of worst control systems in recent months of gaming. These changes were never reverted to Chromosome settings and a fix is not coming anytime soon as usual.)


There's probably more to note, but I'll leave it there. Now here's the stuff that Dust is lacking:

*Various (FUN and strategic) game modes.

*An aggressive style gameplay.

*Better maneuverability when traversing the area (seriously, I can't climb over some crates or mover metal railings.

*Diverse map layouts; we're still fighting in the middle of nowhere on very familiar surroundings. When can we fight to secure a city or large facilities? (Not talking about FW districts)

*Weapon customization. Currently there's none and it was supposed to be a high priority.

*Interactive environment. We only have installations... where are the lock mechanisms for opening/closing gates, a protective shielding over a strategic location, hidden loot around the map (I thought Dust was an MMO), and what about environmental hazards (traps) that can be activated by a player?

Ok, I feel a little tired so I'll take a small break and post more a bit later xP

Stability has been better, do you not remember being disconnected every other game?
Frame rates have improved considerably compared to what they were during closed beta.
They were creating a new build of the game and yes it will cause more problems because real world practice is totally different that in house testing.

I could keep going but I was just be called a fan boy, no one thinks anymore or looks at the progress we have made. I am frustraded also with progress but posting inaccurate information that is not based off of facts doesn't help at all. If you are going to bring up problems then you should consider the whole story instead of what you think has happened. All of the items you listed are problems but we have made progress and the game is better than what it was.

I'm not even going to bother arguing with the OP on this one.

What ever happened to giving the players the tools and standing back to see what they did with them

*Framerate issues are still present after 1 year. Other FPS games should have overcome this in a shorter timeframe with the current staff they have.

*Responsiveness to resolving key issues is one of the longest (if not the worst) in game development, usually being 3-5 months, doing improper tweaking, and then producing additional problems. See Examples:

-Dropsuit fitting bug fixed months later.
-Dropship missiles too strong? After 5 months of terror, damage is lowered AND its splash radius.
-Lasers are too strong? "Let's wait 4-5 months to tweak their damage values."
-HMGs are still good? "Let's further lower the damage and see what happens, heavy class is supposed to be point defense right?"
-Marauder tanks are not finished? "Let's remove them entirely for now and put in place Enforcer tanks, their lower Health\CPU\PG makes sense" (later on a health buff had to be implemented... and now LAVs are a true murder taxi)
-DS3 aiming was fine but then... "We feel that further tweaks may be necessary to controls to give our players a better experience." (Uprising finally launches, along with one of worst control systems in recent months of gaming. These changes were never reverted to Chromosome settings and a fix is not coming anytime soon as usual.)


There's probably more to note, but I'll leave it there. Now here's the stuff that Dust is lacking:

*Various (FUN and strategic) game modes.

*An aggressive style gameplay.

*Better maneuverability when traversing the area (seriously, I can't climb over some crates or move over metal railings.

*Diverse map layouts; we're still fighting in the middle of nowhere on very familiar surroundings. When can we fight to secure a city or large facilities? (Not talking about FW districts)

*Weapon customization. Currently there's none and it was supposed to be a high priority.

*Interactive environment. We only have installations... where are the lock mechanisms for opening/closing gates, a protective shielding over a strategic location, hidden loot around the map (I thought Dust was an MMO), and what about environmental hazards (traps) that can be activated by a player?


It's nice that you all want to try to link Dust to EVE so that in the future we get an interesting game experience but all of those efforts will be in vain if you don't polish the core mechanics of this game. PS4 is coming soon along with a few popular Free to Play shooters and WiiU is soon to get the return of 2 game juggernaughts (we all know what are they). If Dust doesn't greatly improve by then, I'm afraid this game will start loosing a considerable amount of it's playerbase.

A lot of the reason it takes so long to make changes is because Sony won't let them push a patch out every day unless they want to shell out a big ol' pile of money. So they put all the fixes together into one big update with a bunch of broken new stuff that's untested because they don't play their own game, then they push that patch out.

CCP takes the approach of carefully monitoring the game (through some sort of metrics) over a period of many weeks to make sure that this claim is valid, and that can often be more difficult than one could initially predict. It's not a simple matter that weapon A and B should do the same damage, it's a game where Weapon A does more damage at Range X and damages Shields A% and Armor B% but at range Y only does... etc etc while Weapon B has completely different optimal ranges, damage types, etc. Not to mention that you have to take into consideration the other factors of what a player is doing in the system. Is the situation in question a really good player against a bad one, is it a situation where the "OP" weapon is simply in it's best environment while Weapon B is in it's worst? There's also other aspects to consider as well, if more players are running around in Shield tanked dropsuits, is a weapon that does more damage to shield necessarily OP compared to the weapon that does more damage to armor tanks? Often times the game's math for balancing is a bit more complicated than making a weapon that has Fire rate X and damage per shot of Y and another that has Damage per shot of Y and fire rate X to make them be equivalent damage.

As for hidden loot around the map, I am strongly against that, as I think it doesn't make sense, and isn't appropriate for this game. The random salvage at the end of the match more or less already does this, and just randomly spawning valuable weapons all around a map just doesn't make sense in the lore, or from the goals that DUST is trying to get to.

I just said I'm being serious, any ideas posted by others I'll take in consideration and perhaps discuss it.

Stability HAS indeed improved but most of us still get disconnected or get internal error.

Framerate is still an issue as I mentioned and in rare cases it can go as bad as 2 fps.

Lastly, most of my information IS accurate. As for progress, the fixes and tweaks are occurring at a snails pace.

A lot of the reason it takes so long to make changes is because Sony won't let them push a patch out every day unless they want to shell out a big ol' pile of money. So they put all the fixes together into one big update with a bunch of broken new stuff that's untested because they don't play their own game, then they push that patch out.

This dev team (im not calling them CCP they've lost that title) has lost there way

What ever happened to giving the players the tools and standing back to see what they did with them

Also hotfixes, basically the ability to change numbers in the game (i.e. weapon X did Y amount of damage, now it does Z) are able to be implemented during updates on Tuesdays without paying the cost for a patch. I know that ME3 made extensive usage of it for weapons and class balancing.

That's right, but they still can't roll out majorly game changing stuff without a new client build, which seems that most of the bugs require.