I can't speak to previous Fanfests (as I wasn't with CCP), but I can assure you that we have plans in place to deliver on the things presented this year.

Since my attitude about the implementation of this project is pretty negative right now I'm afraid my predictions will be the same:

• We'll see more defined concept art for the remaining racial vehicles. Implementation will be late, have the wrong stats and look like bloated whales.


• We'll see more rough slides talking about PVE and it'll be tagged SoonGäó. It won't be released until Fanfest 2015.


• The Caldari Production Outpost, Minmatar Cargo Hub Outpost and their accompanying socket sets will be strangely absent. During a round table discussion a dev will only answer if pressed with "held for optimization and performance reasons." If anybody asks about Amarr designs the devs will just look away and change the subject.


• With Valkyrie the new golden child we'll only see old, regurgitated DUST clips in the new EVE vision video.

I need a morale boost. Providing constructive criticism and defending normal development processes has drained me dry. Bitter Vet status achieved. The day CCP Guard dons a dropsuit and films an overly dramatic dramatization for EVE: DUST 514 is the day I'll believe the CCP is confident about their own game.

With just over a month till Fanfest, we have plenty of time to falsely raise our hopes, and fill our heads with hopeful delusions of DUST becoming the game we all know it can be.

So lets hear some of your more down-to-earth predictions on what we'll see at fanfest, and some wishful thinking. Please keep it DUST related, kthx.

I'll start...

Down to earth prediction: So... we already have 2 heavy spec. suits, and 2 medium spec. suits for each race, but only 1 light spec.

I am going to assume thats where the Pilot suit will go. And I'm also going to assume they will announce those, AND vehicle racial parity (along with perhaps a new vehicle type ((Fighter ships?!))

Wishful thinking: TREES. For the love of GOD... TREES!!!!!

CCP will approve my idea for a Fanfest Boxing Ring. I will be at every Fanfest including and after that announcement.

Things I realistically expect and want in the imminent future:
- More vegetation
- Slot balancing
- Turret racial parity allowing each turret to fill a smaller more defined role
- Plans for racial vehicles
- Additional heavy weapons
- More skills gaining passive bonuses
- Possibility to team sync for at least one non pc game type

I would be THRILLED if DUST got a test server (make it on the PC running in an emulator so CCP can sidestep Sony approvals). Also it needs a 10/10 NPE. These two things are the most important to the overall health of this game going forward.

The focus for 2014 should be on getting "out of beta." That means full racial parity: vehicles, turrets, heavy weapons, MCCs, RDVs, at least 1 set of sockets from each race, etc. major bugs like getting stuck on terrain fixed, reasonable balance between vehicles and AV (vehicle capacitors would really help here). Integration with EVE via PC 2.0, markets. PvE, see my sig for an excellent concept. After all of that, it will be time to transition to the PS4.

Once we have better hardware we can have vegitation, battles with higher player counts on huge maps, water, caves, player-controlled drones, fighters/bombers, more RTS elements for managing a multi-staged battles with a commander, expansion onto different types of planets (cloud city, ocean battles, etc). I can't wait.

Adding new equipment is thinking too small.

What CCP needs to be planning is moving us from our lobby shooter test bed into the bigger world of New Eden. Null Sec alliances should be sieging planets around the clock. Warbarges should be dropping MCCs loaded with vehicles and installations to massive battlefields. Logistics should mean planning, building and moving stuff between systems and districts. Infantry should be storming stations and starbases.

PVE should mean a squad contracting an NPC Warbarge to jump their MCC to a planet and dropping it to the surface. You only get what you bring along meaning you better plan ahead. Use a Dropship or other vehicle to move around the 5km map to hunt down Rogue Drones or one of the outlaw factions and liberate friendly outposts.

These aren't predictions but showing us one small part of moving towards this would make this merc do the happy dance and spend money.

Don't mind me, just watching and eating popcorn.

I can't speak to previous Fanfests (as I wasn't with CCP), but I can assure you that we have plans in place to deliver on the things presented this year.

Well, I didn't mean announce, so much as actually have the vehicles rendered and ready to deploy shortly after fanfest, or even during!

But yeah, PvE would be awesome as well :D

And as for a PS4 port, I hope not, unless we share servers, to bolster player base. Otherwise us PS3 only owners (the poor saps we are) would be left in the... well.. you know.

EVE universe doesn't work that way. It's philosophy is to have all players in the same server. They don't want, that you meet a new player in real life (let's say a bar) and talk about the same game, that you play it, share exiting experience, but you actually cant play with each other or meet in game, because you are on different servers...
So if there will be port to PS4 in the future (personally I don't think in this FanFest there will be) it will be identical to PS3, just better graphics. And of course in the same server as PS3 version, EVE Online, and hopefully EVE: Valkyrie

People still like this CCP Logibro? outside the one game style he supports.. Because he only supports logi gameplay - why is he even watching a Fanfest predictions post. So stupid. More logi easily owning leader boards with passive drops that they spam - ya that future we all want


Anyway. What will help this game in Fanfest will be maps for all the planet types. Great update in 1.8 but still lacking in the variety of planets and maps that EVE supports. To me this is a easy thing to release that would be cool for all of us.


I would like to see a water world map. even a many layered gas plant map.

Would be cool to have some maps that support more vehicle vs vehicle style gameplay and a few unable to have vehicles - gas planets for example.

Worst thing to happen... Star Citizen hypes the crowded with a more player friendly UI and the new sandbox style games like Everquest Next (truly new MMO game play) make EVE and any add-on simply and obviously out dated. EVE is still 10 year old MMO grind style. And Dust is still only at par with FPS's like it and its in an industry that moves 100 times faster then CCP. Dust can and will quickly be out dated without major face lifts yearly.

Don't mind me, just watching and eating popcorn.