I'm losing hope in Legion for two reasons. First there is no plan to showcase anything from Dust or Legion at fanfest 2015. It's possible that they just aren't making any promises, trying not to get our hopes up, which after last fanfest is understandable. The 10 year plan is still in a very sense still in place, and the past couple of months have shown that development is alive and well....... for Dust 514. We were told that focus was going to be on Legion a year ago, and that the only changes to Dust would be back end and balance. Since then there have been not only been those changes but a multitude of new features and interfaces, the kind of updates that weren't promised for Dust at all.

This would be great news, but the PS3's days are numbered, even if it remains popular for a few more years this game has a long term appeal that would outlive the console. So the lack of any Legion(PC) or Dust 514(PS4) updates since fanfest and the uptick in Dust 514(PS3) content and attention makes it seem like all the focus is on making as much money with this current game as possible before the inevitable migration of players to newer consoles. This is why I lose hope, a new iteration of Dust for a new platform may not have enough resources by the time this current iteration is dead.

On the other hand......
The changes to the in game models have been purely paint scheme changes, which means the modellers are likely busy designing and modelling higher resolution or entirely new suits, vehicles, and weapons. In addition there have been only a few new socket, which are actually older sockets that were delayed. It's entirely possible the building and map making department are refining, resizing, the current maps, learning from the issues of our current models. There have been no additions to the EVE connection in a very long time, but the new faster iterations of update in EVE, which actually started in Dust are very cross development friendly. CCP has admitted that many of these events was data gathering, so it look more and more like Dust is a beta for many features likely included in a completely different game. Additionally there have been many smaller different ways to pay for the game added, so more successful than others, but they are perfect for finding the optimal pay scheme for a new game as well.

The next gen talk has gone quiet on both the player and developer side of these forums, but now more than ever it's important to discuss it as upgrading becomes inevitable.

So to the players I say appreciate every update to Dust, good or bad, they are tests to help refine and build a much better game for the future, that if CCP can hold there word too, we can continue the progress we've made in this game so far.

To CCP, I commend you for making a more grounded approach to development over the past year. Your communication on future ideas are more narrow, realistic, and have been delivered more timely and efficiently than ever and again I appreciate it. Keep up your current progress and don't give up, a new start can be a game changer, like Final Fantasy and Marvel Heroes 2015. We only ask that you keep us posted on your progress and don't leave our progress behind when the next big thing does happen. The respect you lost at fanfest 2014 is slowly creeping back, but it's still fragile.

#lolromansboat

Not talkign is good. And the improvements to dust are good. My opinion, stop worring about legion and if you are having fun in dust, keep having fun. its either going to come out or its not. So why stress it?

My prediction would be that the overall vision for Legion has shifted a lot since FF2014 and instead of aiming for Dust 2.0, a product which they could probably have released within a year, they are reaching for the stars.

Once the studio realized the roadmap went from 12-18 months to something more along the lines of 3-5 years, they reallocated some resources back to Dust, as there won't be a Legion to replace it for a while.

You know you guys could make your own FPS here.

All that time u need to put into it though and no ones paying me to do it. Plus I don't know how to do any of that shite, I sort of understand it but that's it.

It is not easy by any means. I completely suck at it which is why I don't rip on games in a demeaning way. I am getting better at height maps since I started using World Machine,. I then import the maps into the game engine after completion in World Machine. I have high hopes for info this year for Dust514 on the PC. And just the fact that Dust is getting updates is frakn awesome.

It would be awesome to me if I knew that these updates were being used to test what they want to do with Legion. I don't wanna touch the ps3 that's been gathering dust and I don't wanna bother with the game anymore. The idea of the game is what I care about still. It's highly unlikely that we'll be getting Legion or Dust514 on PC this year. Maybe an alpha or closed beta(which for some reason I feel EVE players will get into first) towards the end of 2015.

I think their biggest mistake was trying to go for the Console market to begin with.
DUST should have been made for the PC and left at that.
Would have saved them time and trouble developing it for the PC now.