So lets say that youGÇÖre one of those people excited for Legion. Fair enough. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but no one to an opinion unchallenged. In this post I am going to break down exactly what we where shown today in the skimpy fifteen minute presentation, and explain to you why Legion is disastrous for the mercenary experience of EVE.

The vision
Rouge talked about the vision for ground gameplay. Imagine being in your war barge with your corp, planning strategies, organizing fits and developing universal conquest. Imagine going down to planets in low-sec in between corp battles to scavenge, engage in pvp with other explorers, and fight rogue drones buzzing about the blasted hellscapes of these frontier worlds. Sounds like a ton of fun! Surely the PS3 canGÇÖt handle that though. Especially when competitors with similar visions like Destiny areGǪoh? Destiny is coming out for current gen systems as well? Interesting.

The presentation
Now we come to what we where shown at fanfest. Fifteen minutes of gameplay on the PC along with Rouge commenting on what is to come in the game. It was all very ambitious sounding, as discussed above, and easy to get caught up in. Ignore it. Every word of it. Instead focus on what we where shown. Focus on the GÇ£gameGÇ¥ that was dangled in front of our eyes like bait. What did it have that Dust doesnGÇÖt have

Well first off there was a new menu screen. It was very flashy, but it was just a menu screen. There was also a new loading screen. Revolutionary. We saw info panes on a planet describing the effects it would have on combat, but we didnGÇÖt see any of those effects demonstrated or even mentioned, just like the game mode they where supposed to be playing.

Except we didnGÇÖt see that either. What we did see was five people wandering around a lava map. Sure the map looked pretty, but there where only five people playing, not 32. Or 48. Or hundreds. The textures where sorta high res, but it wasnGÇÖt anything too crazy. The one ground shattering addition to a map that could have been included in an update months ago? A tree. Truly this masterpiece needs a high performance gaming PC to be truly realized.

The point
There is no Legion. ItGÇÖs just Dust with a little make up running on a PC. The game that Rouge was describing is 3-4 years away, because none of it exists. We have almost half a decade of no updates to dust coming our way while we wait for another magical unicorn. When it does come out I can almost guarantee you it will be missing 40-50% of promised features, which themselves will take years to arrive.


People, Dust isnGÇÖt just dead, we are back at square 1.

Better graphics and trees was it. It wasn't even a new map design, it was just the bridge map. They basically just showed us DUST HD, and told us it did all these other things. The other buttons on the menu were almost certainly all placeholders.

Saying DUST 514 isn't dead is like saying "I'm not dead, I'm just moving on!" after being diagnosed with AIDS.

The part about trees is really funny. I think i counted 2 trees. To think we couldn't have 2 trees on PS3 Dust maps is hilarious. Now, if they had shown a full-on forest map, i'd have seen something that hasn't been shown to be possible on PS3 Dust maps yet but so far they've only shown a current map with touched up graphics.

That's it.

You should update yourself. Current medical advances mean you can lead a perfectly normal life with AIDS. The only hindrance is pharmaceutical companies selling treatments for huge profits because otherwise you'll sooner die from a flu than from AIDS.

Better graphics and trees was it. It wasn't even a new map design, it was just the bridge map. They basically just showed us DUST HD, and told us it did all these other things. The other buttons on the menu were almost certainly all placeholders.