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Dust 514.
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Nerd SlayerIn the SkyRegistered User regular
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Hello all!
Before we continue:
If you enjoy FPS games, this is for you.
If you don't, this will change your perspective entirely.
Introducing the revolutionary First-Person Shooter/MMO Hybrid ...thats console-based!
Currently in development by CCP Games
CCP Is most renown for their popular game EVE Online
The release date is still unknown. It was set to be somewhere in the summer of 2010, but obviously that never happened. BUMMER
General Info:
Game Description:
DUST 514 is an upcoming console-based MMOFPS set within the Eve universe, developed by CCP Games. It was announced on August 18, 2009 at the Game Developers Conference in Cologne, Germany and was introduced with a short trailer featuring unrendered footage of the game. This game will be the first game developed by CCP since Eve Online, and it is currently being developed by CCP's Shanghai studio. According to Hilmar Veigar Petursson, the CEO of CCP Games, the game is being developed for the seventh generation of video game consoles (Wii, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3).
The game features users fighting ground battles in wars on planets in the Eve Online universe. According to a preview by Edge, the events that happen in this game will affect the EVE Online universe. Battles in this game can also determine who controls various planets in the EVE universe, and users in DUST 514 can interact with users from the EVE universe such as providing mercenary assistance. In an interview conducted by Simon Carless of Gamasutra, Petursson said that he hopes "these [Eve Online and DUST 514] communities will meld over time", bridging the two environments. He also wanted to establish a relationship between the flying-oriented nature of Eve Online and the infantry-oriented nature of DUST 514, saying "while the fleet does the flying, the infantry does the dying". [According to Game Informer, this gives fans and players of Eve Online a new challenge in testing their FPS skills.
A preview in PC World states that the plot behind the game will deal with cloned soldiers, and that some of these plot elements will be explained in an upcoming Eve Online novel.
On March 10, 2010 CCP Games and Epic Games China reached an agreement to license Unreal Engine 3.
Taken from the wikipedia article here.
Dust 514 is all about the multiplayer. I can't say for sure if there will be a single-player mode.
Videos:
Debut Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYkuZLxAWBo
Gameplay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUlJbah93tM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHxYk-ZdvCQ&feature=related
Genre
First-Person Shooter
Massive Multiplayer Online
As I stated earlier, this will be a hybrid of the two.
Cool cats please refer to this as an MMOFPS :X
Platforms
Xbox 360 :^:
Playstation 3
CCP will hopefully create a successful cross-platform gaming experience.
All of this is fine and dandy, but the unique thing about 514 is (this is for you EVE players) that what happens in-game will affect your character in EVE Online. SO that means, awards, currency, achievements/accomplishments, unlocks, etc.. can be applied to your EVE. Cool, huh? ^.^ Lucky you EVE players..
HOWEVER, LET ME MAKE ONE THING CLEAR: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO OWN A EVE ONLINE ACCOUNT TO PLAY THIS GAME. No monthly subscription fees or anything. Just a one-time purchase of the Dust 514 game itself.
Im sure there are more finite details, but this info is a basic summary of my findings.
Let me know if you come across anything else!
Thoughts/Ideas?
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The concept is interesting. I have little faith in CCP executing it in any reasonable form.
but goddamn I couldn't stand it for more than a few months
If EVE were a space sim and this game wasn't only tangentially connected to EVE but was rather an expansion my MMO needs would basically be satisfied for several years.
EVE was terrible, but I've always wanted to see an MMOFPS actually work, so
here's hoping
Cabela's Big Game Hunter doesn't count?
Considering this dude has been registered for over two years, I guess he's just been really patient.
Also, that's a lot of different colors being used in the OP. As a typical white american, mixing several different colors in the same place scares me.
because of minorities or because of gays?
no, the only good FPS is Deer Avenger
That there is a huntin' simlatr.
That's a silly question. Gays are minorities.
Or maybe it was the other way around.
I need to check with my local Tea Party and get back with you on this.
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for some definitions of 'work'
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Unfortunately, the recent collapse of several major powerblocs means there are now fewer bitches with faces to shoot.
Fortunately, we've been able to shoot a large number of blues instead.
I don't think the game is going to take place inside of one large persistent world. It looks like you'll be in a lobby (the ship) and decide on where you're fighting and then you'll load the map on the planet you're fighting on. So it's like Guild Wars or Global Agenda, probably, neither of which has a monthly fee. Additionally, games like Guild Wars 2 which is supposed to contain more open-world elements than the first game also doesn't have a monthly fee, so it's definitely possible and is slowly becoming less of an oddity.
Oh yeah it's right there. I guess that after many annoying color changes I just stopped reading and wen tfor the original site.
Where they do fail to mention this crucial data (or at least not where it should be)
/facepalm
See above post. I didn't see it in your OP, because I immediately went for the official page and you would expect that at least in their front page they would mention it or put some logo.
This is gonna suck just as much as EvE but I'm probably gonna try it anyway just as much as I'm thinking about resubbing for EvE
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but that is irrelevant because like ambulation, orbital flight, or readable fonts in eve, it will never be released
e: seriously though the core gameplay model in Eve online is bad. The FPS demo shown at fanfest was just a bad version of Halo. We've never seen evidence that CCP can generate working products with the polish of AAA releases. There is no reason at all to be excited for this. Period.
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
I hope you can fly capitals or zealots or drakes or logistic ships because that's all we do now since CCP keeps fucking things up.
But yeah the core gameplay model of eve is completely awful for 90% of people in a fleet fight. Go here. Shoot this. Awesome. Oops you exploded.
I think that for 10% or so of everyone involved there is a lot more action though, not just the FCs.
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
Aah yes. Apologies for the color changes, my friend said it'd have been too dull. Girls and thier complaints :l
Seems CCP can't do anything correctly these days.
Probably not 360 because microsoft doesn't want patches without fees
Probably PS3
Probably not wii because the hardware isn't that great.
really the project is all but dead
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
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