eh, I think they both excel at what they're trying to do, they're just trying to do two different things...
In a nutshell, Dust is more strategic, but the cost of being strategic is going slow enough that people actually have time to think about what's going on...
Starhawk, on the other hand, has the ability to fling you dirrectly from one firefight to another so fast that taking a moment to think is probably going to get you shot
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