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General Chat / Blowing the whistle on DUST 514 (Console Fans)
« on: September 24, 2009, 03:37:24 pm »
Hey all you console guys. I just wanted to let you know about a game that's currently in development by CCP games. It's called DUST 514. Those of you who've played the MMO Planetside will find it immediately intriguing. Those of you who have played Halo (who hasn't) I'd like you to imagine a world where Halo was persistent. Meaning every battle you fought would matter. It would ultimately decide who has control over a planet and moreover effects on an entire war. And your motives are always player driven.
That's essentially the START of the great idea behind DUST. First of all, it's an FPS, and it'll be console ONLY! No PC players. CCP decided to make a console game for console players. You might have heard of the other game CCP has developed, a PC MMO named Eve-Online. It's consistently referred to as "the hardcore MMO for hardcore players", and "the cornerstone of sandbox persistent MMOs". Well now they're making a hardcore MMO-FPS for the console. And they're doing it in typical CCP style... BIG!
In addition to an assortment of weapons like any other MMO, it will have an assortment of vehicles as well. The vehicles will be modifiable as well to change some of their attributes. Weapon modifications will be possible presumably and there will be four races to choose from with varying qualities for each. You can expect regular balances and content updates as time goes on as well to get new weapons and options.
Also, sometime around then CCP will release "Cosmos" it's social network for DUST (and Eve) gaming. Allowing you to search for and join corporations (guilds) and forge new alliances, all while keeping your stats neatly laddered and providing a nice little social space to introduce others to your character.
The kicker?
DUST will be intimately linked to EVE. The storyline for you as a DUST marine will not be driven entirely by and NPC storyline you ultimately have no effect over. Although there is an NPC aspect the "endgame" is to be mercenaries for gigantic alliances that play eve-online. You and your corporation (guild) will be hired out to take planets from other alliances and their forces in an eternal epic war on a scale the gaming world has only ever seen in EVE. As you get better the more you can demand to be paid, alliances who hire you will also be able to assist you in other ways. Weapons and equipment as well as technology can be given to you by your employer. Hundreds (maybe thousands) of planets to fight over. Fighting in a daily struggle to capture more resources and more glory. Truly epic warfare driven by real players, that matters to real players.
Here's a fansite and the trailer from GDC Europe. Currently there isn't an official release date set though there's a great amount of speculation that is suggesting the release will be sometime in 2010.
I hope you all find this as exciting as I do. Of course, then again I'm an Eve player. But I'd certainly buy a console just for this one game if that says anything.
http://www.dust514-fan.co.uk/about/
http://video.golem.de/games/2283/dust-514-ego-shooter-im-universum-von-eve-online-gamescom-2009.html
That's essentially the START of the great idea behind DUST. First of all, it's an FPS, and it'll be console ONLY! No PC players. CCP decided to make a console game for console players. You might have heard of the other game CCP has developed, a PC MMO named Eve-Online. It's consistently referred to as "the hardcore MMO for hardcore players", and "the cornerstone of sandbox persistent MMOs". Well now they're making a hardcore MMO-FPS for the console. And they're doing it in typical CCP style... BIG!
In addition to an assortment of weapons like any other MMO, it will have an assortment of vehicles as well. The vehicles will be modifiable as well to change some of their attributes. Weapon modifications will be possible presumably and there will be four races to choose from with varying qualities for each. You can expect regular balances and content updates as time goes on as well to get new weapons and options.
Also, sometime around then CCP will release "Cosmos" it's social network for DUST (and Eve) gaming. Allowing you to search for and join corporations (guilds) and forge new alliances, all while keeping your stats neatly laddered and providing a nice little social space to introduce others to your character.
The kicker?
DUST will be intimately linked to EVE. The storyline for you as a DUST marine will not be driven entirely by and NPC storyline you ultimately have no effect over. Although there is an NPC aspect the "endgame" is to be mercenaries for gigantic alliances that play eve-online. You and your corporation (guild) will be hired out to take planets from other alliances and their forces in an eternal epic war on a scale the gaming world has only ever seen in EVE. As you get better the more you can demand to be paid, alliances who hire you will also be able to assist you in other ways. Weapons and equipment as well as technology can be given to you by your employer. Hundreds (maybe thousands) of planets to fight over. Fighting in a daily struggle to capture more resources and more glory. Truly epic warfare driven by real players, that matters to real players.
Here's a fansite and the trailer from GDC Europe. Currently there isn't an official release date set though there's a great amount of speculation that is suggesting the release will be sometime in 2010.
I hope you all find this as exciting as I do. Of course, then again I'm an Eve player. But I'd certainly buy a console just for this one game if that says anything.
http://www.dust514-fan.co.uk/about/
http://video.golem.de/games/2283/dust-514-ego-shooter-im-universum-von-eve-online-gamescom-2009.html