Why always drones? I never see mention of fighting Empire/Pirate NPCs.

Meh, we've talked about this subject far to much, just let it die.. Q_Q

i really do hope this gets added on....PVE is far way but if CCP does something like this it will make it last longer. +1

Our blog has been very vocal about the fact that PVE is critical to this game. its needed in the tutorial as well as to provide a break from PVP.

Those convoy missions would be very good. we would also like to see solo or small group assassin contracts, salvage, bodyguard (opposite of assassin, protect the VIP) gladiator arena fights vs drones, escorting VIPs from a starting part of the map to one of 3 extract points safely and scout missions that could yield info about PC districts. http://tinyurl.com/k8ravsg

not much....I read your post and now im imagining the possibilities lol

Well for Pve maps i thinks CCP should have a good look at the pve maps of world of darkness (you know there other game). Those maps are small scale city based maps. Don't get me wrong the large maps we have now are fun, but there needs to be diversity. I can't imagin every map beeing like them, there needs to be city maps or downed ships/stations/ruins. Especially when fighting drones, so that you need to actively search for them. As for the map in the trailer, i've been wanting to play that map since closed beta and it never came. If ccp makes these trailers, atleast incorporate these maps into the game. I just hope that one day we get to play that map.

I think once they got there basics done, we might be able to also see some diversity in the type of drones. Sancha's nation for instance are kinda half zombie like, while Guristas, Angel cartel, Serpentis are pirates, Sleepers are Jovian style npc's, while the thukkers, bloodraiders, mordu's legion are more mercenary style npc's. Offcourse after those factions, one could introduce the ancients drones/npc, who's tech sometimes can be found in complexes. Like the Takmahl who where amerian heretics with loads of cybernetics, Also most likely to survive the years, due to there half cyborg nature. The Yang jung and Talocan are more then likely extinct, but perhaps generational evolution of these races might still exist. the Talocan (caldari style) where masters in Spatial Manipulation, so just imagine a tank or trooper teleporting next to you, stuff like that. While the Yang jung (gallente style) where masters in gravitronic technology and force field tech, so hover tanks and hard to destroy force fields. The posibillity's are endless. So i hope that in the long run we will see most, if not all of these factions come to life.

But as nice as it all sounds we need to see some basic pve first very, very soon, before it all gets to boring.

+1 definitely a great idea! Nice concepts on the subject too. If corp directors could take on jobs, and assign mercs to areas of interest holding the particular type of salvage the corp is interested in. The mission could call for AV equipment as the drones have heavy armor support, or it could call for heavy armor support and the director could assign tankers to the burn zone! I like the idea, and ccp, in my humble opinion, should put more thought, time, and effort into PVE than they do some dumb cloak. Scouts are hard enough to spot as it is. This would really involve, and put into action, the dropship, HAV, and LAV roles into more than just spam in ambush matches. Maybe if we all chanted ccp it would happen sooner than later ::)

CCP, CCP, CCP LOL!

@Buwaro - actually anyone semi-important would do. luckily EVE has so many NPCs that contracts taken out on someone high in Sperpentis, Ishukone or even a mission to assassinate Tibus Heth himself. I would imagine it would be super difficult.

on the flipside bodyguard missions to protect NPCs would be cool too. Especially if both sides of the mission were taken by player corps and one was defending while the other was the assassin.

The last Ghost Recon: Future Warrior dropped all the old multiplayer mission game modes in favor of the current Cinematic-Story/PVP FPS design, suffice to say my long loyalty to that franchise is over. The Zombies & JASOC were so poorly done in Black OPs II I won't be buying any of there franchise anymore. Gutting of the story in all the HALO sequels turned me off that series.

All three of those game franchises are example of when a game designer erroneously thought betting everything on easier to code PVP modes was a good idea. Maybe it was the right decision or maybe the industry were just creating self-fulfilling prophecies. Either way a market niche has opened up. Right now Bungie is looking to win with Destiny.

I don't think PVE will save Dust 514. They need PVE to stabilize this game and give people another option than the currently broken PVP mode that has eluded every attempt to fix it. But what this game needs most right now are solid Critical Thinking skills inside the Development Teams. Otherwise we will continue to see the kind of negative results we're becoming accustomed too.