We need to get as far away from PS2 as possible. No weapon diversity, months of cert grinding, blob tactics taking precedent over everything... need I say more?

I previously thought it was near impossible to mobilise an MMO-FPS, but after playing PS2... why isn't this game more like it? Dust 514 as a PS2-like game only with the Amarr/Caldari vs Gallente/Minmatar, combined with lore and more solid and fictional foundations would make PS2 look like a kid's game... But instead you, CCP, have to adopt this 'matchmaking' thing. I advise you to make a constant world and base it on conquering systems, and simplifying the engine and sorting out the broken aspects...

I previously thought it was near impossible to mobilise an MMO-FPS, but after playing PS2... why isn't this game more like it? Dust 514 as a PS2-like game only with the Amarr/Caldari vs Gallente/Minmatar, combined with lore and more solid and fictional foundations would make PS2 look like a kid's game... But instead you, CCP, have to adopt this 'matchmaking' thing. I advise you to make a constant world and base it on conquering systems, and simplifying the engine and sorting out the broken aspects...

You couldn't do PS2 on the PS3. The tech is too limiting - that's why they're waiting for the PS4 before porting over.

I haven't looked in to PS2 much because from what little I've seen, it's not for me. All I do know, is that DUST NEEDS persistent worlds / areas if it ever wants to be known as an MMO.

Also we NEED ways to interact with our environment. Being limited to jump and sprint....yea...boring

We have a persistent world already, but I think what we need is a way to really feel that when you're the people on the ground, and not just when you look a the starmap.

Right now, this game is more of an MMO that Planetside 2 will likely ever be because SOE listens to nothing but community feedback, and their community is almost worse than our's can get sometimes.
For example, SOE has proposed almost a dozen ways of implementing PvE content into Planetside 2, and they've been shouted down by the playerbase every time for "trying to water down the hardcore PvP-only shooter experience".

It has vehicle variety while we're stuck with failships cars and tanks

It has vehicle variety while we're stuck with failships cars and tanks

Plantside has and always will have the worse communty ever :-) you think nerf threads here are bad go back to the original planetside fourms. Ware a biohazard suit when u do

It has vehicles that are worthless when they aren't just utter **** machines. The vehicle balance is atrocious.

To put this into perspective, my outfit, The Enclave, uses a combination of mostly Heavy Assault players with the Striker multi-rocket seeker-launcher, and a group of Mosquitos equipped with anti-armor rocket pods.

That combination is completely unstoppable no matter what our enemies do. While our HA's shoot down anything that clears the horizon and insta-blap vehicles with volleys of hundreds of rockets, the Mosquitos search out all the enemy's mobile spawn points and destroy them.

I mean, tanks are a joke in that game. Anything you can do with a tank can be done far better by an aircraft.

Oh, and the Flash ATV gets a 40mm automatic grenade launcher AND a cloak! Look up BuzzCutPsycho on YouTube and you can see how balanced THAT little asset is.

You couldn't do PS2 on the PS3. The tech is too limiting - that's why they're waiting for the PS4 before porting over.

Actually, they never said that is "impossible" for PS2 to be release in the PS3, and its few rumors around that PS2 will be release in the PS3 & PS4 at the same time, as Sony normally does with their consoles.

Django

PS4.

You can't even do Dust on the PS3, not really. The devs have already admitted that with the benefit of hindsight, they probably should have done the same thing PS2 did and waited for the PS4.

I just joined and saw an instantly more mature community which functions well. Not seen a single nerf/complaint on the forums so far...

1. Your in a zerg corp therefore you have no right to whine about blog warfare.

You couldn't do PS2 on the PS3. The tech is too limiting - that's why they're waiting for the PS4 before porting over.

Last Friday night I in a 1000+ man attack. with over 5 major air platoons present.

We have a persistent world already

That's cute.

Can I see it now?

Because Planetside 2 is an actual GOOD game, and CCP doesn't like the idea of making a good game.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
You're funny.

It's good to know the truth can be funny, fanboy.

See anything "good" in there?

We need to get as far away from PS2 as possible. No weapon diversity, months of cert grinding, blob tactics taking precedent over everything... need I say more?

This PS2 only has numbers going for it, and even that makes he servers woefully unstable.

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... AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Sorry, sorry! I tried not to, I swear!

But seriously, this line made me chuckle.

Zerging is a tactic, but in Dust, it's not the only tactic. There's ways to counter it of course, but whining on the forums isn't one of them.

Dust has more ambition than planetside 2

with the PS4 SOE is turning PS2 into a console based shooter.

The PS2 has the full support of the MAG community and will serve as the spiritual successor.

It's going to be great to see the MAG community back on a game that has actual scale.

I just joined and saw an instantly more mature community which functions well. Not seen a single nerf/complaint on the forums so far...

So, you know the entire game isn't based around matchmaking, right?

Also, Planetside 2 is terrible. They made 2000 players per continent their entire focus and delivered NO content to make people even want to fight.

The game has had 3 server merges since launch and still can't pop-cap a server even on the weekends. All "higher-level" features such as functioning warp-gates, additional continents, additional bases, and the ability to actually push a faction off of a continent via warpgate capturing have all been set to "unscheduled" on the Planetside 2 Roadmap some of those Dust Doomsayers have been saying is the greatest thing ever.

But those things pale in importance to the Instanced Battle Islands for MLG support that came in the last game update.

I realize I'm going on a bit, but you shouldn't ever use an SOE game as an example of how to do [i]anything/i] right. There are two rules of Sony Online Entertainment:

• They are incapable of making good games


• On the rare occasion that they do make a good (Star Wars Galaxies) or even semi-playable (Planetside) game, they will always destroy it with a completely unneeded content update (New Game Experience for SWG; Battle Frame Robotics for Planetside).

that's PC for you.. here we're stuck with 8 year olds on their second FPS

YOu realize they have sections that they vigorously patrol to keep complaints in them, right. You should have been on the forums a few weeks back when they introduced the Zealot Overdrive Engine to the Vanu MAX suits and we were all drowning in a sea of super-speed lobster-suits.

Things you do have an impact? Are you high? Have you even played the game at all?

I mean, I hope you people are just deluded and have actually played the PC version, because I honestly feel sorry for you all if you haven't even played it on PC and are expecting it to be any better on the PS4.

A. My outfit, The Enclave, does a mass air drop on a base.
B. The enemies attempt to zerg us off the capture point for about 5 minutes, give or take
C. EVERYONE leaves to go ghost-cap some empty base somewhere else

If we have too many victories, the other outfits will just jump to other continents en masse to go stomp on randoms.

Notice also that that video was not long after a Game Update, which bring people back for short periods before they all leave again. My outfit managed to get 128 players online for a full 4 platoons of us on the day of the Game Update that brought out the lattice system, the feature that promised to finally bring the massive battles we all started playing for into the game.

4 days later we could barely muster up 80, and I could long in as a non-premium member and switch continents during prime-time without even hitting a queue. Kinda hard to have fun when every fight ends in the Vanu rolling in and rolfstomping everyone in the retardedly OP ZOE MAXes* that it took SOE forever to fix, and people STILL preferred to go cap empty bases for easy XP rather than fight.

*Terran Republic MAX suits get an ability that locks them to the ground and increases their RoF and reload speed. New Conglomerate get a riot shield that deflects all damage that hits it at the cost of not being able to use your weapons. The Vanu Sovereignty got the Zealot Overdrive Engine, which allowed them to move as fast as normal infantry, increased the damage their shots did, and only had a minor penalty to hp as a downside. Clearly SOE is the superior company when it comes to game balance.