Fox Gaden
Immortal Guides
Learning Alliance
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Posted - 2014.11.28 17:23:00 -
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One of the things CCP Rattati has brought to DUST development, which hopefully effects Legion development, is the importance of a coherent vision.
The original DUST team developed in the philosophy of GÇ£hey, that sounds cool! LetGÇÖs build it!GÇ¥ This produced lots of cool stuff that did not balance well together, and lots of other cool stuff that was announced, but never went anywhere.
Rattati, for the most part, has been trying to figure out an overriding philosophy of how things should work before has starts messing with stuff. You can see this in how he laid out the slot changes to suits, and his work to balance rifles. Taking things which were designed individually and trying to figure out how to fit them as one part into a larger whole.
If CCP has learned from RattatiGÇÖs success they will first ask themselves what they want the Legion gameplay experience to be. Then they will identify what assets are essential for that gameplay experience to work; what assets will add flare and variety to that gameplay experience; and what would be nice but not essential for the experience they are going for.
I would expect full racial variants of the racial vehicles that we have now. We might get one or two more vehicle types IF those new vehicle types serve a clear purpose within the game experience they are trying to create.
MAVs and Jet Bikes might have a use in Salvage districts depending on how the mechanics work. I have been pushing for a limit to how much Salvage you can carry on a Dropsuit, which would give vehicles a purpose. If they do that, then we are more likely to get more vehicles.
As to MTACs, and Fighter Jets, I donGÇÖt expect to see them until the core game is fully flushed out. Unless the vision for the game includes a clear purpose which they would server.
We will likely get the rest of the racial variants of the Heavy weapons, particularly since it looks like we may get them with placeholder art assets in DUST soon.
We will get NPC Drones, because that it part of the vision for Salvage grounds.
Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.
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