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You are a smart guy

telling consolehaters to buy an console

I planned to get a ps3 when the time had come but maaaan, this post costed me nearly 200 €

call me back froody guys

FPS are not console dominant and will remain console dominant don't like it quit playing games or grow up and pick up an xbox

CCP chose the wrong console and IMO the wrong time ( dust would have sold a lot more being a next gen launch title if its good)
but its ok, i have a PS3 and maybe its time to dust it off if i get a beta test ( no pun intended)

how will we get the beta invite though? assuming email? or eve gate? both?

Signed up and reporting for duty.

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+1

The whole reason I have been playing this awesome game for the last two months is in anticipation of DUST514. Let me in I beg you!!

This was a joke, right? yes?

Yeah, put some EVE-side part of Dust on sisi along with the Dust trials

I'm guessing that OP items/vehicles in Dust 514 will have far less of an effect on gameplay than they do here in EVE; mostly due to differences in the style of gameplay. An FPS isn't limited by the power of the items in the same fashion as a game like EVE, though they will and do make a difference in some respects.

Being able to take cover move or stand still, dodge, roll, crouch behind vehicles and objects, or whatever gives you a distinctive edge over weapons that may or may not be able to hit you, and you can always hide behind the other guy to. I'm sure he'll only appreciate that if he's a juggernaut though.

Anyway, it remains to be seen, but you also have to consider that someone has to physically aim at you in an FPS, and he can't shoot through everything to get you, unlike EVE. Unless he's using Hacks; but thats another thing, and one reason I'm glad it's not on PC. I'd give less than two weeks before a PC game would be overun by them and be totally unplayable.

It's not like a game like Dust will have the option of Admins, so blocking and banning Hackers is near to impossible aside from a reporting system. Even that's severely flawed considering it will just result in mostly temp bans with little or no proof the player was actually hacking. Mostly it'll result in griefing honest players.

Not intentionally perhaps, but FPS are rife with players who call foul.

Also, the very nature of weapons in the EVE universe indicates that Minmatar will be OP. You can't have a system with multiple resists and only one weapon group that covers them all without that happening.

A good example is the predictability of Hybrid ammo, which will be used by the Caldari and Gallente by all appearances, and has only two types. Amarr of course has only marginally more variations while being only slightly less predictable. It's not even the predictability that matters in this case, but rather the limitations of those weapon types as a result.

Hybrid cannot DPS EM or Explosive, and Lasers cannot DPS Explosive or Kinetic. So most armor tanks with Explosive holes are lacking a handicap against both those munitions types.

Thermal is predictably common to both, and well covered with base stats in armor and even shields, EM is not particularly useful against armor, but packs a punch on most shields, and Kinetic is marginally useful against both.

That makes Minmatar, with a complete spread of DPS types, the best all round munition, while it also packs a serious punch in DPS.

Honestly I see the limitations of Lasers, but I never figured out why Hybrid munitions were incapable of having a more even spread in the damage types. There's more than one way to mix plasma I'm thinking.