I agree, Dust really isn't all that tactical.

You get that huge EHP to work with, you can make a mistake, engage in a fight that you shouldn't of, get outnumbered, whatever, in most cases you can turn around and run away and you have plenty of time to react thanks to the TTK (time to kill) in this game; especially now that weapons have been nerfed so many times. Sure you can use tactics, but that goes for ANY shooter game.

I don't see a whole lot tactical about the gameplay that I usually see in Dust, nor do I see it really necessary in average matches. In LOU, unless playing against complete scrubs I still feel it's necessary to crouch walk a lot, check corners, proceed carefully, and pick my fights wisely. I hardly had that feeling in Dust, only in very few pubs that were high competition and corp battles against top corps.

I was always able to run and gun and play stupidly and consistently do well in Dust... That is rarely the case in a tactical shooter unless the enemy is literally brand new to shooters.

I ADSed a lot in Dust actually, but I know it wasn't really necessary a lot of the time. It annoyed me greatly because I knew that hipfiring was usually more effective than ADS unless at a decent range. There would be moments where I'd go and hipfire and be surprised at how good it was, and it would annoy me at the same time. I found the same true for MAG as well at times.

I can understand hipfire being better than ADS when they're within shotgun range, but further and it's just stupid IMHO.