Damn right, I have been mentioning this for a while. It may be what turns this game around. Ha we can hope.

This thread needs to stay at the top until it gets some dev responses. Great job, Jack. You hit the right notes on every level.

CCP, if you can deliver on the promises you've made over the years, this will be a game that I'll be proud to say I supported. But until that glorious day of fulfillment comes, you'll need to do everything in your power to reassure us, the dedicated players, that you have not lost sight of the dream that was, and is, Dust 514.

I don't think they like where they're at right now either, given everything they said they wanted to have by this point even at FanFest last year.

I'm betting they're making that new model because using the old ones wouldn't really fit with the design direction they have now, or something to that effect. Honestly, I prefer the concept art they've shown for the Caldari Light better anyway.

The guys who are leading the team right now are the same guys that showed off all that cool stuff for the stage demos in past FanFests, and who seemed legitimately psyched about being able to offer all of that.

Do you really think they're happy with how things are now?

I can tell you from experience that there's a difference between providing an appearance of acceptance and solidarity out of necessity for marketing purposes, and what someone really thinks.

I think it's important to strike a balance. We are, of course, talking about being super-soldiers that are faster, stronger, and overall better than normal humans.

I don't really mind how the balance is handled now, we just need work on aiming accuracy, which is tied up in framerate, so fixing one fixes both.

I actually like the unintentional buff to sprinting, as it makes the game feel more like Quake or UT like it did in Replication, which I find to be a lot of fun. I'd honestly love to see an across the board speed buff to get us moving faster before we get larger maps or even the full 5x5km.

I think that's why most of us were psyched to hear about an upcoming Skirmish 3.0 that takes many of the design elements of 1.0 into account. I, for instance, love the idea of allowing an MCC to be fitted just like any other vehicle, with the caveat mentioned in the DevBlog of needing enough power to let it run all its equipment. With the full 5x5 km maps made available, you could have multiple power stations on the map that could be hacked to transmit power to the MCC, as can be seen occuring in some of the concept art that has been released.

CCP said at FanFest a few months ago that their yearly theme for this year was "Focus". As far as it appears to me right now, I don't think that focus is on the right goals.

Dust can have perfect "mechanics" and unique features like deep vehicle and suit customization, but it will always be "just another shooter" unless you guys capitalize on the biggest trump card you seem to want to keep hidden under your deck: EVE.

We all came into this looking to be mercenaries hired my starship-piloting PC players who would build and sell all the gear we needed on the largest player-driven market in the industry, roaming the stars in massive War Barges that carry all our gear and deploy our MCCs, while also providing support drops of turrets, supply depots, and CRUs.

We came into this looking to be able to stake our own claims on planets, and not just have a square on the map interface, but a massive chunk of land that we could build on the way we wanted, and that we could defend with the use of powerful cannons that could bring those PC guys in EVE to their knees with one shot.

Concepts like that are what had all those industry guys you used to do so many interviews with psyched about this game, because those are the things that had never been done before, and would make Dust 514 completely unique among shooters.

I'm saying your focus is misplaced because no matter what is done on the Dust we have now to make it "competitive" will leave it as another sci-fi shooter in an ocean of them.

When you guys first showed off Dust, and for a year or so afterward, that Dust logo always had "EVE" in it, and that's what your focus needs to be on, because that's what all of us are here for. We're here for an MMOFPS that doesn't try to be it's own universe, but actually delivers on what you said you wanted it to be: a brand new window into the already vibrant universe you've spent 10 years building with us.

I'm all for the concept of "Focus", but I think it's time to get back to "Deliver".

Yeah, it still needs work, but that was an excellent update to it.

If nothing else, most of the posts in this thread should show that a lot of us that don't even respond to each other's posts sometimes, and even get in arguments in each other's threads at other times can all get together and agree on wanting Dust to be what it seems like you guys wanted it to be when you first showed it to us.

That's the $64,000 question. My theory is that they were getting pushed by the impending release of next gen consoles and wanted the game to grow its player base before everyone focused on the PS4 games. Probably also other reasons having to do with what men in suits who care only about money wanted.

Did you guys all sign up for your Dust 514 fanboi cards???

If anyone seriously thinks this is a good game the I feel sorry for you as your gaming experience must be pathetically small.

But the cake's a lie O.O

Have to say I'm disappointed this hasn't gotten a dev responseGǪ

This...expresses my hopes for Dust.

Well, after yet another match of LAV + Flaylock spam by stacked proto teams amid various game bugs and other assorted fail I realised I can't play more than 2 matches in a row without quitting out in rage and wishing explosive diarrhea on the whole dev team. I even tried afking in the MCC for slackass-SP gain and even this made me angry.

Time for a long, long ragecation from this toilet of a game. I really really really tried to like Dust and my OCD pushed me far past my usual BS tolerance levels but enough is enough. I think this game has even managed to poison my enjoyment of EVE.

I'll look in on 1.3 to see if its some sort of cosmic miracle that fixes the 20 greatest issues of the game. With common sense suggesting this is unlikely I think I'll say goodbye for 6 months and check back to see if CCP have developed a clue.

That's actually the position I'm in due to not currently having a PS3 available. I've only been able to play the game when I visit a friend of mine, but those play sessions usually last no less than 6 hours, so I've been getting a good idea as to the mechanics of each patch.

Well, they said before 1.2 that these patches are mainly going to consist of what fixes they have ready for deployment by the time the patch rolls around, but they still put in some new assets, and there was that thread last night with completed 3D renders of the Combat Rifle, Magsec SMG, and Bolt Pistol, so I wouldn't say it's outside the realm of possibility that we might be seeing those weapons soon.

To be clear, that gallery also had renders of most of the other weapons we have in-game.

After seeing these videos crop back up over the last few days I want to ask.

How many of you would run out to buy a PS4 if CCP said they could bring something similar to that by the middle of next year?

Earlier this year many were talking about staying with PS3 and not buying new consoles for like 2-3 years or more but honestly, we will not see anything like that on PS3. If Uprising didnt get us there I dont think it is possible.

I want to know if the die hard of us left will by a PS4 even if they arent a big console fan and just got a PS3 mostly or solely for Dust.

Background: I had a PS3 mostly for PES / MGS and Blu Ray and now only play it for Dust.

http://flewda.cghub.com/images/

It's a debatable source. Either way, I wouldn't source your claims on it.

Yeah, there was earlier concept art of this both at FanFest and other designer galleries.