Out of Pod Experience

That's got to be circumstantial.

How are we going to interact? Are we going to be able to affect their world, by blowing them up in an orbital bombardment? Are we going to be able to give them ISK directly into their wallets? Chat channels, EVE Voice, Forums, EVEmail, Calendar?

We need information before calling it awesome, as it stands the idea sounds good, no more.

We don't even know if the game has auto-leveling, surely a key concern for anyone using a controller?

AK

Wow, that is a bloody awful article :/

It doesn't say ANYTHING! It just reads like he bought an Xbox for DUST....

QFT.. honestly DUST has been a cluster since day one. I get why they didn't release on XBOX (server constraints/microsoft rules) but they should have just released it as a PC/MAC game and ignored the console entirely. DUST will be, at the very most, a very very niche game, in my opinion. There's no way this goes up against the current FPS market... especially with PlanetSide 2 just around the corner as well.

i'm hoping that we won't have to play with console kiddies all the time, as has been answered in this thread pub play for hi sec, hired mercs/corps for null and they were unsure about low sec. if dust has enough to it and it's fleshed out enough it will apeal to people who want to play competitively and in a regular squad. all dipends on the gamplay but from what i've read so far with the moblie command center and the rts gameplay it's going to rely heavily on good tactics as well as being able to "shoot people in the face" ,another guess but i think someone somewhere used to play tribes in a leauge/ladder. if only half of the competative teamplay that was in that game rubs off on dust it's going to be good.

can't see why they would remove it, there are other ways to balance it, also been hinted at the dust players can shoot back. :)

edit can you imagine the crying, pop goes that carrier

The Dust trailer has them shooting back and destroying that dreadnought. When questioned about that after E3 the CCP staff said that the mechanic of orbital bombardment or Dust mercs shooting back was an already working mechanic.

It seems that the level of interaction goes pretty deep bar EVE pilots and Dust mercs meeting face to face. CCP have always said though, even when EVE and Dust are linked, one can survive without the other.

EDIT: I'd also like to say that when you read the articles about Dust on the playstation blogs or independent game sites you see a lot of people are excited for it, a lot of people who at the most know of EVE online. It's a cool concept regardless, it just depends on how CCP implement it. My personal opinion is that Dust can only add to EVE not subtract from it. If it fails, oh well, if it's a success, awesome.

Some things that have come to mind while discussing and learning more about dusk.

1. I can't see, given DUST is confined to Temprate worlds only, it having any real motivation for a podder to get involved. Tactically it's going to be hard to justify why holding this one planet would have any effect on the soverienty of a system while several billions worth of isk in ships defend it (as normal). The income of 1 PI planet is laughable 'stake' if that is supposed to be our motivation.

2. You must have to 'insert' your troops from somewhere, How are DUST ships going to navigate gate camps.

3. The financial interaction between EVE's and DUSTs economies will need to be highly controlled. What's the point in MT gear if EVEites can flood Merc corps with isk allowing them to buy similar bonuses.

4. Planatery defence is going to be a very difficult thing to balance. What class of ship are these going to be a threat to. Set too low anyone can fly a large ship in an pound away, set too high no-one will bother for fear of getting popped. Planetrey bombardment is going to have the same problem in reverse, how effective is a Frigs bombard compared to a BS's from Dusts side.

5. DUST sounds like it may have a slightly diffrent take on FPS. For there to be need for 'tankers' and 'reppers' must mean longer 'fight times' . For example in most FPS the sniper can one shot you others kill you in seconds, for mechanics like 'tanks' and 'healers' to work it must feasibly take a lot longer to take down a single target . How far they go from the usual shoot-kill mechanic will be IMO one of the determining factors of wether it's a good game to play. Should combat be too long it might not have the same 'high tension' feel of other 'Bang your dead' FPS's. Could be a good thing it'll maybe teach players to concentrate on tactics and formations more, but then maybe they don't want to know and are happy with there instant gratification the way it is.

hadnt watched that for a long time. new nebulas are there.

120mill for a command ship 1.4 mill for a tank. 0.4 mill for combat armour-lets hope not each death or i'm gona be broker than broke in eve - i may have to rethink my tard rushing ways. best get back to grinding iskies looks like we gona need it. if it's good this will bring customers to eve, lots of them.

dust troops navigating gate camps has been answered somewhere - two methods of travel, barge or clonejump only barge travel if your attacking planets. so eve players have to get dust players to the planet if they want to attack.

Dropsuits and vehicles seem to work the same way as ships in EVE, being able to fit them with different modules for different effects. There's also different classes of suits from light to heavy. So when you fight other players, sometimes it could take 30 seconds to take them down, sometimes you could probably alpha them... same way as how ships in EVE interact, they all have their advantages and disadvantages, different roles etc.