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orange offspring
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#1 - 2011-10-10 16:31:19 UTC
I havnt read 'all' the blogs etc for Dust514 but i have read alot and i was just wondering when (if we do) we get a chance to sign up for beta testing (trials) ??

just curious =S
xxxak
Perkone
Caldari State
#2 - 2011-10-10 16:41:36 UTC
2nd Q 2018

[u]The nerfs to supercaps will cause more super pilots to join the largest alliances who can properly "support" their deployment, further concentrating firepower/wealth in EVE. The end result will be fewer "fun" fights, and will hurt EVE in the long run.[/u]
KaarBaak
Squirrel Team
#3 - 2011-10-10 16:42:40 UTC
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Talk us though how your beta is going to work.

Brandon: Just as we have done with EVE Online, we’re going to be telling a story with each of the events that happen in our game. To give a bit of context, in EVE Online you play as the pilot of a spaceship – a capsuleer – and in DUST 514 you play as a mercenary on the ground. It’s going to be a bit weird if, all of a sudden, we release the DUST 514 beta and all these mercenaries suddenly show up in the EVE universe, so the setting is that the first small group of players that get access to the Private Trials will be the first trial of this new mercenary technology in the context of EVE Online. Just as you’re helping to test the game in the real world, in the EVE world you’re taking part in war games organised to test this new mercenary technology.
With our Private Trials – we’re not calling it a Beta, but Private Trials in both the real world and the EVE fiction – we’re not taking the usual “on / off” method of rolling out a build and then taking it back and tweaking it, then rolling it out again; when we roll out with those first few users we are introducing mercenary technology to EVE, our “game as a service begins”, and the story will continue from there as that technology develops, further empowering the DUST 514 mercenaries from test subjects in war games to ultimately allowing them to take hold of their own future. It’s what we call a thematic rollout.


From here. Dated today.



Dum Spiro Spero
orange offspring
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#4 - 2011-10-10 17:37:00 UTC
Yeh i read that bud dusnt give a date on when they select said such selected players =/
Jack bubu
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#5 - 2011-10-10 17:44:36 UTC
The date they told for that was "sometime at the end of the year"
Vicker Lahn'se
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2011-10-10 17:53:42 UTC
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Brandon: We’re not thinking of it in that way at all, I suppose is the easiest way to respond to that. The EVE universe is comprised of three experiences: one is the classic EVE Online play, “flying in space” or what we call FIS; there’s WIS or “walking in stations”, where you can now get out of your ship and explore the interiors of space stations; and the final piece is DUST 514 and we’ve nicknamed that SIF, or “shooting in face”. None of those three are spin-offs, they’re experiences of equal value that can be played independently or fully connected. If you’re connected then you’re going to get the rich emergent gameplay that runs through all three.


I like how they say that "flying in space", "walking in stations" and "Dust" are all to be equally balanced. Imagine if the Dust release is as spectacular as the WiS release. People log in to their brand new Dust character and find him standing by himself in a room with a gun in his hands. The door does nothing.