EVE General Discussion

Oh it would be great if you could launch a shuttle full of Dust players at another ship then they run through the corridors of that ship shooting other Dust players to finally take it over or be killed.

Dust players working as infections or immune systems for and against stations, outposts ships and planets.
(Hacking skill and tools required to get them into a station or outpost's vulnerable points and you have to remain there opening doors for them. Die and they are trapped!)
So that it isn't boring for them, you can recruit them then allocate them to a few places, such as one ship and one planet. You can swop them between either for attack or defence.

Captain's Quarters. If the FPS is anything like that, it will be a complete failure.

The development of DUST is causing quite a stir in the console gaming industry, that is always a good thing.
It is causing a stir because it is a revolutionary concept finally seen through to completion, tied to an 8 year old established universe of rich content.

It is being viewed by many as not just the "next new game", but rather the "next step in console games" period. This in an industry where many fans are fading away currently because they are getting tired of the MW3 or BF3 clones that are literally nothing more than the same tired game with a new $60 paint job.

This is the sort of thing that redefines who the "cool kids" are.

The cool kids will be playing a game where when they win, or when they lose, it matters to a lot of people.
The cool kids will be playing a game that gets free updates on a regular basis, and has a fresh shelf life of years.
The cool kids will be playing a game that doesn't require them to save up to buy the next years version of the same old same old.
The cool kids will be playing a game that allows them to make a name for themselves (if they are good enough) that will be recognized by thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of people.

LOL. It's an MMOFPS. It may be the first on a console, I don't know, but since console FPSes are by definition terribad knockoffs aimed at casuals and children, who cares anyway?

I very much doubt the whole gaming world is going to become MMOs. Console games are continuing to advance just fine, and whether or not DUST replaces the current FPSes as the casual's tripe of choice is really irrelevant to any actual advances which take place, just as FPSes have been and will continue to be irrelevant to actual console games.

I know you aren't trying to be overly negative, and are simply skeptical, but I will say that most of your comments are very familiar to me.

They are very, very similar to the comments that circulated when EVE was in Beta. Popular opinion was that it would crash and burn within the first few months because:

It was too radical.
It's technology was unproven.
The company had little experience in the gaming industry.
Combat of the scale proposed was totally impossible.
There was no content, and no end game.
A player driven economy would never work.
It would not be able to compete with existing SciFi franchises like Star Wars or Star Trek, nobody could relate to it.

Yes, things could go south. You never know in the gaming industry.

But if anyone can pull it off, it's CCP.

Fair points, but it still falls basically in the console FPS genre, and so does not represent an interesting advancement IMO.

I actually couldn't have said it better myself. I just moved the statements together for you :D


Good to see you are still around too, yours is one of the few names I actually remember.

Fair points. Whatever our individual preferences and predictions, I think it's safe to say that whether this thing burns like the Hindenburg... or starts a console game revolution... either way it should be interesting to watch (and in some small way been a part of).

Yeah that's a given

Mercs on the ground ?
Press F1.

Of course, but remember you are talking about captial ship guns trying to hit a target orders of magnitude smaller than a frigate. Enjoy missing every time.