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Cameron StarGazer
Trifectas' Praetorian Guard
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Posted - 2014.05.02 16:40:00 -
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I still remember three years ago when the first news of a Free To Play 1st person shooter trickled out onto the internet. I downloaded the trailer from the Playstation Store and looked in awe at the GÇÿconceptGÇÖ game play. What blew my mind thou was each suit, tank, turret, aircraft, and ship was given values, which at the time for me hinted at something more. I didnGÇÖt know anything about Dust514, I had heard of the Eve universe, mainly from various amazing fan based productions on you tube.
So I looked into it a bit more, and started picking up on the lore or New Eden, and something inside me was switched on, this rich and amazing universe had been here for seven years and I knew nothing about it. This probably was because due to my life circumstances at the time I had not really been PC gaming for quite a few years. My old computer had long since died (A windows GÇÖ95 90mhz PC to give you an idea of how long ago that was) and with my moving about consoles has become my life starting with my PS2.
Then, I picked up on the news I had been waiting for, MorduGÇÖs Trials had begun and I feverishly found the instructions required to get the closed beta key from the Playstation Home environment. I followed the clues, talked to all the people I needed to in the E3 exhibition, unlocked the secret Dust area and completed the strategy game and was rewarded with my code. The closed Beta Access was mine, and I was one of the first people outside of CCP and the Alpha testers to get in and start playing. Cameron StarGazer was born.
Match after match after match, I experimented with the fittings, I toyed with the skill tree, and I was hooked. Worse of all, my desire to experience the universe of New Eden was driven more and more to the point of madness. Countless matches and 9,000,000 SP on Cameron StarGazer later the first of a number of resets news came that finally broke me. More information on the links that will happen between Dust and Eve were released in the form of Orbital Bombardments. My mind exploded and a vision in my head of what was to be and how Cameron would fit into this universe were suddenly crystal clear. I needed to get into Eve Online and get ready for the day that I could support Cameron with my space faring Eve character.
So thatGÇÖs what I did, I was worried that my 2008 iMac couldnGÇÖt handle Eve as it didnGÇÖt have the memory, but I through all caution to the wind, and installed it.
Thos first few months were glorious GÇô Cameron spent all his time shooting people in the face while tweak after tweak after tweak came out while my Eve character Tiberius mined for the day he could produce weapons of destruction for my Dust Character.
But something happened, Eve started taking over, the little tweaks that came out in Dust 514 didnGÇÖt keep me interested, the same old Ambush, Skirmish matches were getting dull and uninteresting and Eve started to become my main focus, and for 20 months Eve has been just that. My PS3 has sat there languishing.
Then Eve Fanfest 2013 came, and plugged into the HD feed and watched the Dust Keynote, oh the joys of Racial suits and new weapons and new toys. I picked up and started playing Dust again was when the racial suits were released, I trained my character into Amarr and got some eve buddies involved, created a corp in line with my Eve alliance, me and my 8 buddies played daily 2/3 games and I finally mastered logi suits and was helping my friends win games as I supported them as the long term Dust Veteran. Dust was fun again. It was made even better I could finally use my Eve Collectors Edition Codes and I was using my Templar drop suits feeling like a member of the merc elite. But slowly and surely I fell back into Eve and my friends and I were playing Dust less and less. The same old problem came about, Tiberius still couldnGÇÖt support Cameron or my corp, it was impossible to find orbital bombardments, and the excitement of the 2013 keynotes finally started to wane.
My interest fell again and the PS3 started collecting, no pun intended, Dust.
My new PS4 arrived and I looked at the gaming press, listened to podcasts with interviews with the developers and my heart sank when they said there would be no PS4 support, but no to be deterred I kept my PS3 and waited for the next Fanfest for the next developments to once again bring my interest back to Dust 514.
So Fanfest 2014 was soon on the horizon, twitter and the forums were buzzing with predictions and excitement, will dust finally play a role in Sovereignty? Will planetary conquest be expanded? Will the two economies start being linked? Will MTACGÇÖs and Fighters make an appearance? The possibilities of all the things I have been waiting for the last 2 years were all at the front of my mind. What will be announced this year that will bring Cameron out of retirement?
Today (Friday the 2nd of May) while at work, I quietly put a headphone in my ear and started twitch up on my mobile phone, fully aware it would probably kill my data usage that I had been so careful to preserve the weeks running up to today to make sure I could watch it. The moment came and I kept and eye and ear on my phone while I worked. If the Valkarie presentation was anything to go by, I could expect the usual introductions, what has been happening, where they are today, and then the big reveal.
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Cameron StarGazer
Trifectas' Praetorian Guard
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Posted - 2014.05.02 16:40:00 -
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The presentation started and I waited with baited breath, I kept my phone slightly off its hook so not to be disturbed and it all started, the usual intro came and went, a fun video was shown with the SquadB guys getting up to their usual shenanigans, the first set of key objectives raised my expectations and I waited. Then it went into the first big announcement GÇô Dust was coming to PC. I raised a slightly unsurprised eyebrow, given they were not porting to PS4 and a PC version being is such high demand, a PC release wasnGÇÖt too much of a shock. Some footage was shown, which I must admit I didnGÇÖt see too much of due to the cellular streaming quality, but the extra graphical fidelity was very clear. But the PC release wasnGÇÖt the news I was after, but more along the lines of what am I going to have new to shoot people with, and will I be able to shoot people in new and interesting ways?
There were some hints for new planets, and new game modes, but nothing solid, but then again I understand in the typical CCP manner they wont tell us anything 100% for definite until they are ready to show it, but we do usually get a steer on what they are working on, such as the excellent Valkarie presentation where we were told about ship mechanics and types, shown some brilliant artwork and weapons, so the anticipation was palpable for me. What will they show us next? A new way of finding matches for orbital bombardment? Will there be any major game play tweaks? Will there be new game modes?
Then it ended.
I tried not to stare at my phone to intently in case any of my co-workers noticed, but I couldnGÇÖt help it, I stared at the screen and blinked for what seemed like a few good moments as the stream went back to the presenters in the main hall. My expectations crumbled and a voice in my head was screaming
GÇÿIs that IT?!GÇÖ
Where is the long term development vision? Where are the hints as to what they are working on in game? What things are going to get me excited to play tonight GÇô not in good knows how long.
Now, donGÇÖt get me wrong, its great news that the PC version is coming Soontm but to have no news on this years development plan for additional content was so crushingly disappointing I went back to work in the sure knowledge that Cameron will stay in retirement possibly for a while to come yet.
Lets hope they will at least allow me to transfer Cameron to the PC version. |
Tectonic Fusion
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Posted - 2014.05.02 16:41:00 -
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*did not watch the stream and is unaware of wtf is going one*
k
Squad status: Locked
Ehem...OBVIOUSER troll is OBVIOUSER
Solo
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Cameron StarGazer
Trifectas' Praetorian Guard
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Posted - 2014.05.02 16:42:00 -
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Additional - well it's pretty much official, no new content while PC is being developed, no PS4 version, Dust is officially canned. |
stalin93
Storm Wind Strikeforce
Caldari State
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Posted - 2014.05.02 16:45:00 -
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Tectonic Fusion wrote:*did not watch the stream and is unaware of wtf is going one*
k
dust as we know it is dead. all development is going to pc version called legion. |
Vect-r
Vault of the Void
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Posted - 2014.05.02 16:45:00 -
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As all CCP Devs and Staff would say, "Blow me, and smoke that pole real good. I took your money and time, thanks, but time for a better game that doesn't suck."
gg. Protosuit players, tankers, warbargers all got their severance.
While you're at it, blow me too. I just started a few days ago. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Not liking DUST so much so far, but hey, its free.
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