EVE General Discussion

Doesn't matter how fast you are, you're still limited by the speed of your controls.

Console controls are not as agile as a laser mouse (and can't mod the USB controller for even more speed...computers you can).

Consoles are cheap for a reason. You compromise performance and modifications for $$$ saved.

A lot of voodoo is done to get games to perform similar to PCs (notice the gate animations and loss of control? That's the stuff done to make consoles play when it can't perform on par as a computer).

There's no substitute for a PC for FPS games. Let us know if the PS3 can perform as well as a quad SLI computer; 16GB of fast memory; and a processor that'll run circles around a console -- Hint: it can't it doesn't have the horsepower.

In BF3 do you know how they got the XBox and PS3 to work with PCs? Things like auto aiming, as they can't compete with PCs and their speed.

It's a joke about accuracy and speed to compare console performance against computers that regularly play FPS games.

How does it feel being stuck in the eighties?

played a few planetside 2 games, was not impressed, uninstalled. Can't really see the point. now Dust on PC I'd actually play because of the Eve universe

Did CCP not headshot DUST 514 when they made it a PS3 exclusive spinoff of a PC based game?

Never forgive.

Owena Owoked was misquoted in your post and you expect people to take you seriously?

Also, I have 16 gig of RAM in my gaming PC and I'll tell you what, it is a waste to have that much RAM for gaming. You will never use it. Also, look at the specs for the new PS4 and XBOX 1. They basically are computers.

And to your point about auto-aim. Console games didn't always have auto-aim. Games like RS3 and GR/GR:IT never had auto aim and they had millions of copies sold and huge competitive gaming scenes.

Also, you can mod the controller for more speed and accuracy. There are even dedicated sites setup where you can purchase your own modded controller from $50 and up.


But like I said earlier, just because you are biased towards KB/M does not mean controller is any less viable as a control scheme. It is just what you prefer. Preference is not proof of fact and there are people out there that will use a controller over your KB/M and destroy you in a FPS without the need of auto aim. Hell I play BF3 almost exclusively now with my 360 controller plugged into my PC and I still get top 5 on my team just about every match.

It would have been a better idea for CCP to wait a short time to port DUST to the PS4 for another game at launch rather then that of releasing during the end of the PS3's life. Regardless of what system, PS4 is not backwards compatible which is a major problem for the life span of dust514 because the PS4 is soon to launch

Yup.

Dude CCP can't put a Directx11 option client already because of greedy.
XP OS not even updated anymore by the editor who doesn't even want to listen talking about anymore, they moved forward for more interesting stuff which is good.

In a year or two PS5 will be out, games will become again incompatible with new stuff and yada ya, idiots will continue to buy that crap because it's fashion yada ya and the circle goes on and on. Makes me think about Apple and the latest news, you know people who want to get the cake eat it and pound the cooker on the couch, this always finishes ugly one day or another.

CCP chose the PS3 for a specific reason; Because they didn't want to compete with their own playerbase. It's fair to assume that PS3 FPS Dudebros are not Eve's target audience. In that, it was a good idea; They were reaching out for a new market. The idea was that they'd unite two playerbases in one universe. Vastly different cultures uniting together. It's a beautiful vision.

Unfortunately, it's flawed for one fundamental reason: MMOs have a much longer lifespan than consoles.

Ultima Online has been kicking around for what, 16 years? Some older MUDS have been going on for decades. Consoles, on the other hand, get discarded every 5 years or so. Their technology rapidly and chaotically changes. Backwards compatibility is a luxury. Games released for consoles are stuck in a technological timewarp; They don't really have room to grow. None of these things mesh well with MMOs. In fact, they clash horribly.

I'm not sure what the deal was. I remember the first question upon the announcement of DUST was "But what happens with the PS3 dies?", and the only answer was a sort of awkward "we'll see when we get there". Maybe they predicted a bigger adaption rate and massive incomes which would fund further development. Maybe they expected the current generation of consoles to last longer, or for DUST to take less time to develop than it did. They couldn't have failed to predict this. Somebody in CCP must have asked these questions. What was the answer? We know what the vision was, but what was the plan?

DUST's best bet is to abandon the PS3 and become a purely PC FPS, assuming licensing deals with Sony haven't made this practically impossible. There'd be some overlap with the Eve market, but DUST strikes me as more of a PC Shooter kind of game anyway.

But sadly, I fear they're locked into contractual obligations with Sony, that they know the current situation is bad, but that there's nothing they can practically do about it. So they keep moving forward.

God speed, CCP.