Why did you not just go ahead and launch on PS4 where you only have 1 hardware configuration to work with?

The reason going to PC sounded good was because it provided better scaling ability and more growth potential. Now we find out you are throwing away at least many parts of what that growth potential was.

Why did you not just go ahead and launch on PS4 where you only have 1 hardware configuration to work with?

The reason going to PC sounded good was because it provided better scaling ability and more growth potential. Now we find out you are throwing away at least many parts of what that growth potential was.

I should just code a bot to find every thread related to nova and have it autorespond with "its a f#cking basic demo,just to show you some notion of their progress"

And you forgot to mention that the vision they had for Dust was not reachable on consoles, which yes, made me a bit upset at first (being mainly a console player) but then i thought that if it was going to be the epic massive shooter they envisioned at first, well, it's ok.

I should just code a bot to find every thread related to nova and have it autorespond with "its a f#cking basic demo,just to show you some notion of their progress"

I should just code a bot to find every thread related to nova and have it autorespond with "its a f#cking basic demo,just to show you some notion of their progress"

.....Broken hearts, so fast? Project Nova is nowhere near its development stage yet, so we haven't really seen anything to judge.

But,... ugh, even if there was enough to see, we were warned. Rattati warned us. Don't look forward to "Dust on PC"
From my own perspective of playing on a game console for roughly 2 decades, and playing Dust for nearly 3 years... Dust 514 needed the "barbarian", "raw", "ultra-focused" combat-mindedness that Console gamers grew up with in their games for years. No matter how "graphically fast" the PC software could get, PC gameplay has always been smooth, laid-back combat (remember the old Star Trek fps games on PC? Like that. Picard and Geordi CALMLY trotting around shooting Ferengi players in hallways).

Dust 514 tried to merge TWO different minded players (PC players calculating in spaceships---Console players butchering clone-meat on a surface)...both needing each other to win something.
That psychology of players can't be reproduced with everyone playing their respective game on PC. The visceral experience of the butchering-game, really needed a Console. No matter how much PC devs scoff and spit on the concept, I always thought CCP's attempt to do this thing on a Console (PS3, Xbox, ANY console), was the right thing to try.

How can you expect something as elaborate as what Dust was developing into, to make grow on PC next to an EVE game that has players vested in assets for 10 years?
Any game on PC would have to be "Light", like Valkarie, or Gunjack. Exciting enough to give some New Eden feeling, but gentle enough not to rock the boat and start knocking EVE Online capsuleers off their possessions and districts.

Maybe Dust 514 was WAY far ahead of its time, and can't exist without the same hardware separation from Eve Online that many designers kept saying was its weakness. Maybe being on a Console platform, WAS Dust's greatest opportunity for success. I don't know. I'm an office girl, not a game dev.

I'm not really expecting the "Nova" to develop into anything too Dust-elaborate and Dust-deep. No, it's not dumbed down. But it probably NEEDS to stay as lightweight as Valkarie. Promote through the ranks, shoot stuff you see in front of you, and swap out some modules on your guns to change their performance.
That's pretty much all that Valkarie does, right?

"barbarian", "raw", "ultra-focused" combat-mindedness that Console gamers grew up with in their games

Maybe we get cool new Perks with a Update!

Yeah. Seriously... I don't see why they needed PC with a small scale project like this... an arena shooter.