KalOfTheRathi
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Posted - 2014.05.03 02:01:00 -
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There is no cross platform functionality. CCP/Shanghai will be using the massive increase in computing ability to improve their art assets. They have no experience with doing the hard work necessary to get PS3 and PC working together. It can be done because Valve has done it with Portal 2. But these guys are not anywhere close to having the skill set that Valve developers do.
Also, the very nature of Legion doesn't have room for us. Solitary EVE players firing up their other PC, not the laptop they run EVE on. Then they will sandbox their way around the edges of the territory to search for Salvage as everything else won't matter. One wonders if there will even be a Skill Tree. The very thing that ruins EVE for most, besides Ganking being officially sanctioned by CCP/Iceland. It reads like there might not be one as gear is the leveling mechanism.
Technically they will be using fancy to art to cover up the fact there is no real game underneath it. Find salvage area, release the salvage bots and hope your mouse clicking frenzy will beat the other Legionnaires to the loot. It is a Loot driven FPS pretending to be a game. Those that band together will be able to Gank those that don't, just like EVE. The problem of tiny maps will be reduced with the larger storage capabilities of a PC, but it will not be all that necessary. Fighting? Who knows, certainly not CCP/Shanghai. They have yet to get fighting to work correctly in Dust.
Now they are planning on solving many of their problems by leaving the restrictions of the PS3 behind. They are embracing UE4, which we were told Dust would be on (BTW), and without a doubt they expect UE4 to automagically fix the many problems they believe are caused by UE3.5. What they don't know is coders that cannot code will never be made better coders by changing the engine.
Snipers will still have head glitches because they will be the ones defining what gets placed in a scene and it what order. So nothing will actually improve the skill set of the developers. Because they will repeat what they did in Dust. Blame the engine and, more importantly, blame the users.
Another day, another Shiv, welcome to CCP.
And so it goes.
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