I was in a corp called synergy. A corporation that I had merged crime wave syndicate into. Corp matches were still a thing at the time. My squad, a group of a few guys, that I ran with every night weren't getting fielded. This made me concerned for my squad, with the upcoming PC. Which was on everyone's minds.

After some shopping around. Hellstorm was more than willing to take us in, and promises to field every one of my squad mates for every single PC. Cronos begins over taking every district in sight. We were told it had to do with shipping lanes in EVE. Cronos decides to start taking the three districts hell storm had. We were literally doing nothing, besides having our first three districts. Bosena. Their first attack was a failure, even with Jenza awoxing. Cronos decides to outsource. The PFBZ make attempts at our districts. This results in failure and the disbanding of the PFBZ. We decide to expand our territory, and are later labeled as "terrorists".

Finally the height of the war is upon us. EON vs LOI. Certain rules are put into place, not to mention that EON and LOI, were never going to fight. They did. Previously everyone in HellStorm voted on everything. Not anymore. Nearing this time HellStorm picks up a woman at Kujos discretion. Some kind of relationship begins to develop between them. Kujos real life girlfriend is apparently not present anymore. In the middle of the night, Kujo, his new digital girlfriend, and five of his friends in HellStorm leave, with almost the entire corp wallet. Billions in ISK. The rest of HellStorm left to fight a gritty battle against EON, which we lost.

Then there was fanfest 2014 and the game ended

Never was there such great alliance vs alliance espionage wars since before the release of dust(When there was hope)


http://dustmercs.blogspot.ru/2012/06/inside-entropy-virus-part-1.html
http://dustmercs.blogspot.ru/2012/07/inside-entropy-virus-part-2.html
http://dustmercs.blogspot.ru/2012/09/eon-insider-leaks-secret-transcripts.html
http://dustmercs.blogspot.ru/2012/06/is-roflsyn-confrontation-brewing.html
http://dustmercs.blogspot.ru/2012/10/a-look-inside-failing-betamax_12.html
http://dustmercs.blogspot.ru/2012/10/link-between-faux-gnn-and-eon-discovered.html


Meta game was and is still the main reason i play this game.

They don't understand that their "gun game" will mean nothing in New Eden. They talk bad about other members of the alliance, yet Protoman and all of the GC guys can run their mouth and get a target painted on our backs with powerful New Eden Alliances like GSF/Test......its all a little hypocritical if you ask me and there is definitely a lack of overall control by leadership."

Brought back some great memories, this thread. I was watching the wars, espionage, merc trading and Molden donut changes with a strong sense of awe.

Damn, Dust can't die man! It has to move to another platform and get a new spark!!

Good times, i wonder if they still think they had a chance around here sucking as bad as they did before CCP ruined our future.

Agreed.


This is exactly what separates Dust from other shooters, and the reason this under-funded F2P shooter on an outdated platform is still going into its 4th year.

This would be a great advertisement piece for Dust: Show all the rich player-made history, and offer new players a chance to create their own

Basically, my memory of it went like this:


Dust 514 explained in rudimentary detail, show the first ever cross game-play of Dust 514 / Eve Online with a successful cross platform orbital strike on the infamous Crater Lake map.


Dust 514 closed beta opens up to a select few Playstation Plus subscribers despite CCP stating that Eve Online players would get first dibs. Controversy ensues from bitter Eve players wanting to try it first and Playstation Plus subscribers who got in early break the closed beta NDA and start uploading youtube videos comparing the game to Halo.

Eve players finally get into closed beta through BS 'access codes' that were given out randomly and play on the Crater Lake map. Swarm Launchers are stupid OP due to lack of friendly fire (they were dumb-fired back then) and hit detection issues abound. Framerate was terrible (yes, worse than it is now) but the game had it's own unique charm to it. There were only a handful of servers available to play on, divided between North America and Europe, but the game was beautiful for the first playable bit of New Eden FPS experience.


Following a character wipe, Codex is released with a new weapon: Mass Driver. Scouts and Breach Assault Rifles are stupid OP because of hit detection issues. We get the Line Harvest map in place of Crater Lake, which would never be seen again. CRUs and Supply Depot models are changed and with them the hacking mechanics are changed as well. A few game reviewers start to hint at the building interest of the game, showing clips.

CCP opens(?) closed beta to anyone that'll drop $20 on a starter pack that contains an access code to get in.

Somewhere along the line we got female models despite crazy lore contradictions (infantry clones have no personality or gender, let alone specified appearances, as they're basically just faceless bases made of biomass giblets). The decision to change the power level structure (Standard/Advanced/Prototype) results in a HUGE benefit for new players as back then the higher power levels had higher HP values built into the suit as well as high PG/CPU and fitting slots.

Type-II suits are introduced to make up for the lack of variety in the suits as we only had The Original Four: The Amarr Heavy, The Caldari Assault, The Minmatar Logistics, and the Gallente Scout.

Skill Point accrual was tripled during this time period to allow players to experiment with things much faster than they would through normal gameplay. Doesn't really matter as there is a character wipe soon after as the server is moved over to Buckingham.

Communications Outpost had an issue where the game would freeze whenever you tried to run up the stairs between what is now Alpha and the supply depot outside the building. This was one of many crippling bugs.


The 'golden age' according to many vets. This is when the game had a lot of optimizations made to increase the frame-rate, Manus Peak was still a freaggin peak and not a plataeu, Light Weapon Sharpshooter was the most over-powered thing in the world (it gave a passive increase to weapon range resulting in 100m Assault Rifles), and Shield Tanking was where it was at. Nova Knives became an actual weapon as before they were used in the default melee, which then became a rifle butt.

Ashland and Skim Junction maps are introduced by Skim Junction is later removed due to -crippling hard freezes. Bugs abound but the gameplay itself was pretty solid and much beloved by the community for what it was.

Jenza Aranda and Betamax - one of the bigger corps at the time - find a bug that allows for potentially infinite Warbarge Strikes and abuse the ever living **** out of it until it gets fixed (seriously, they hit us with 13 in one go at one point). ICECREAMKING and his band of misfits find out you can make infinite WP (and subsequently warbarge strikes) by crashing a vehicle into a wall over and over again and repairing it with a rep tool and forever doom us to no longer get WP from repairing vehicles.

Suryas and Sagaris (Marauder HAVs) are stupid OP and nigh invincible and are fielded en masse by another bigger corporation (STB - a clan that came over from MAG).

Universal Voice Transmitters (the dumbest thing in the world) were a thing that you had to buy with real money in order to use voice communications. hated by the community and would later be removed.

Seraphim something or another is another big corporation and these head honchos frequently duke it out in Corporation Battles (which were a battle system in which both parties put up a 1,000,000 ISK collateral and then fought for the prize pot).


Kain Spero and the Imperfects host tournament on Intaki Prime, make mark on the lore (lost my **** over it back then because I was younger and stupider). Imperfects become infamous with a notoriety for forum trolling and generally being good at the game.
Nova Knife starts up the IRC which the developers frequently used to troll the community with hopes and dreams.
Iron Wolf Saber makes forum posts about stuff (mostly screenshots and concept art).

Good times abound, much fun was had.

No PFBHz mention? Sad face

Basically, my memory of it went like this:


Dust 514 explained in rudimentary detail, show the first ever cross game-play of Dust 514 / Eve Online with a successful cross platform orbital strike on the infamous Crater Lake map.


Dust 514 closed beta opens up to a select few Playstation Plus subscribers despite CCP stating that Eve Online players would get first dibs. Controversy ensues from bitter Eve players wanting to try it first and Playstation Plus subscribers who got in early break the closed beta NDA and start uploading youtube videos comparing the game to Halo.

Eve players finally get into closed beta through BS 'access codes' that were given out randomly and play on the Crater Lake map. Swarm Launchers are stupid OP due to lack of friendly fire (they were dumb-fired back then) and hit detection issues abound. Framerate was terrible (yes, worse than it is now) but the game had it's own unique charm to it. There were only a handful of servers available to play on, divided between North America and Europe, but the game was beautiful for the first playable bit of New Eden FPS experience.


Following a character wipe, Codex is released with a new weapon: Mass Driver. Scouts and Breach Assault Rifles are stupid OP because of hit detection issues. We get the Line Harvest map in place of Crater Lake, which would never be seen again. CRUs and Supply Depot models are changed and with them the hacking mechanics are changed as well. A few game reviewers start to hint at the building interest of the game, showing clips.

CCP opens(?) closed beta to anyone that'll drop $20 on a starter pack that contains an access code to get in.

Somewhere along the line we got female models despite crazy lore contradictions (infantry clones have no personality or gender, let alone specified appearances, as they're basically just faceless bases made of biomass giblets). The decision to change the power level structure (Standard/Advanced/Prototype) results in a HUGE benefit for new players as back then the higher power levels had higher HP values built into the suit as well as high PG/CPU and fitting slots.

Type-II suits are introduced to make up for the lack of variety in the suits as we only had The Original Four: The Amarr Heavy, The Caldari Assault, The Minmatar Logistics, and the Gallente Scout.

Skill Point accrual was tripled during this time period to allow players to experiment with things much faster than they would through normal gameplay. Doesn't really matter as there is a character wipe soon after as the server is moved over to Buckingham.

Communications Outpost had an issue where the game would freeze whenever you tried to run up the stairs between what is now Alpha and the supply depot outside the building. This was one of many crippling bugs.

I mentioned them in winning that tournament. I wish I could remember who it was against. It was the Imperfecs I think. I am not sure though.

There was QQ over an imperfect hosting the tournament, so they were disqualified from entry. They fought SyN, R*, SI, Ill Omens, Syndicate, Rogue, and i think 2 other corps.

There was QQ over an imperfect hosting the tournament, so they were disqualified from entry. They fought SyN, R*, SI, Ill Omens, Syndicate, Rogue, and i think 2 other corps.

And here i am stomping on ever corp you have been in for the past year...

Might I put in a few words on the dissolution of PFBHz?

Though a lot of people might like to think that we got ROFL-stomped, that simply was not the case as every match before the mass rage quit was still quite close on MCC, and on the clone front. The majority reason for why we lost was a misunderstanding of initial spawn in mechanics.

See, we didn't know to load in the fittings in the WB first while Hellstorm did. This lead us to load in 20+ seconds late allowing Hellstorm to take extremely hard control very early on in the matches with zero resistance.

Seeing every letter turn red while we were still only halfway across the map to our closest letter is more that just a little upsetting, but in the initial attacks on Hellstorm, we figured it as a mechanic of PC that the defenders started either closer to the letters, or they spawned in faster on the initial spawn in.

Following the 3 close games that were our failed attacks, we sat back and waited to be attacked, sure that it was just a defender mechanic that was giving them their lead. We were sure that with that mechanic on our side, it was going to be an easy win for when we had to defend.

So when we got attacked by Hellstorm, and they yet again took over the map while we were only halfway to our first letter, there were people who literally broke their controller. Some guys simply deleted dust right then and there, never to be seen again.

There is literally a thread on our private forums that came up a week later consisting mostly of facepalms titled "So... thats how they get to letters faster!!!?" when it finally came to light what was going on with our late spawn-ins, but by then, it was too late for the corp to come back.

Those losses came on top of the nasty internal strife centered around recruiting standards and weather or not we wanted to stay on Dust anyways because of how poorly CCP had handled the release of Uprising in the first place.

Uprising had already made several guys quit and had put many players more on the fence for staying loyal to the game for what was done to the aiming mechanics. If I might quote indy strizer on the first game played on its release,

"What the hell man, it's like my clone just duct taped his gun to his **** and is trying to aim by swinging it around."

That statement for those of you who didn't play at that time is more accurate that you can possibly know.

Just a bit of clarification for y'all.

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uh, HvLP? You mean, you can beat a PC training corp trying to bring new players into MH?!

Damn, i can see why OH fields you every game.

And you can't beat NF - you tried for years and failed, so you joined OH and started making claims, lmao. Scrub :)

Shhhhhh quiet..... you don't know what you are doing by speaking back to Viktor. He's rich......like really rich.

He'll buy you.

i've spent more ISK then he's ever had xD

No........ no you haven't.

Now if I were to take what I know about EVE....... what I know about Viktor as a mercenary, and what little I know of him as an EVE pilot..... plus the fact that he is Russian [I think]......

He's so space rich he could buy and sell you in real life. Russians take this game really seriously.

I'm very curious as to what happened with DNS and what was all that about with Kane? I