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Kevall Longstride DUST University Ivy League 3	Posted - 2015.11.01 21:38:00 - [1] - Quote At the risk of fueling tin toil sales..... Should really know better by now than to dip into port threads. No matter where any port may or may not go in terms of format, the one thing I'm fairly confident of is that cross play between formats isn't going to be on the cards any time soon after. The difficulties of balancing the two control systems, DS4 on the PS4 and m&kb on PC are just too great to overcome. The closest example at the moment, Planestside 2, has the PC and PS4 players on separate servers precisely because of this. Having spoken to a couple of SCE (now Daybreak) Devs in the past at Fanfest, I know they spent a lot of time trying to overcome the problems but in the end it was felt the compromises being made impacted on the playability of both formats. There has been the suggestion on these forums that CCP could have two separate regions on TQ for the Dust players to operate in. One for PC players and one for console. This on the face of it would seem a decent compromise. However such a thing happening would 'splinter' the single shard gameplay that has been the cornerstone of the New Eden universe since day one of Eve Online's launch. New Eden has an over decade long reputation as being the only major MMO with this single shard gameplay. I honestly can't see CCP allowing that to change. So it's going to be one format or the other I believe, certainly in the short term to medium term. If it's PS4 then that would be great as I prefer my FPS action sat in a sofa with a big TV. But if it were to be PS4 it's pretty much a sure thing that the game wouldn't have any form of auto aim assist and full unhindered m&kb support so that if a PC version comes later there would be control parity. No PC gamer I've spoken to on this issue would be interested in playing any game that artificially gimped m&kb to aid console players. If it's PC first, then the same conditions would apply with any later PS4 version shipping with full m&kb support. So no matter what format the port may go to, it's control system is going to have to be m&kb for there to be any chance of cross platform play. Which personally would suck for myself as I loath m&kb for FPS games. CPM 1&2 Member CEO of DUST University

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