My question is how does project nova feel overall compared to dust 514?

i understand that the parts considered "best" will transition over to prject nova in some form but id like to know about the design direction in mind.

three big things most players feel made dust 514 stand out was

1. fitting customization. building suits and vehicles for some people was the actual game for them.

2. risk/reward. the fact that you had to "pay" for your gear and that you gear was finite in quantity provided a real sense of ownership for players. when players died they felt an actual loss, and not just a drop in numerical statistics. a real sense of achievement could be felt for killing a player in expensive gear because you knew you made him lose something of value.

3. community. all of the chat channels helped build a community within dust 514. even better was these channels could be shared with eve online players. being able to communicate with each other independently of the match youre in was great as you werent disconnected from everyone else. ive been in a few corps that had dj's playing music for us lol

im not asking for carbon copies to be implemented, but i'd ask that you consider the impact of these things as they do really set the game apart from the others

EXCELLENT QUESTION!

I want to see those Minmatar Prison Shivs in my hands.

http://massivelyop.com/2016/04/23/eve-fanfest-2016-project-nova-will-include-territorial-warfare-link-with-eve/

This latest interview, done by Rattati today, explains things in more detail.

That actually is starting to worry me because it looks like they're setting themselves up to make the same mistakes from a different approach.

Keeping the scale too small is one obvious thing- another is that they may actually be planning to take it TOO slow.
For example, not wanting to have vehicles until the infantry game is well-implemented: the big flaw in that is that, once all the infantry aspects are working smoothly, vehicles will throw a wrench into the system by completely changing how the game is played.
It's like when cloaks were first added to Dust- it completely changed how the game is balanced by throwing new strengths and weaknesses at everything, no matter if they directly involved cloaks or not.

Sounds good. Just keep us informed as much as possible, like don't do that silence for months thing. Really want this game to take off.

That actually is starting to worry me because it looks like they're setting themselves up to make the same mistakes from a different approach.

Keeping the scale too small is one obvious thing- another is that they may actually be planning to take it TOO slow.
For example, not wanting to have vehicles until the infantry game is well-implemented: the big flaw in that is that, once all the infantry aspects are working smoothly, vehicles will throw a wrench into the system by completely changing how the game is played.
It's like when cloaks were first added to Dust- it completely changed how the game is balanced by throwing new strengths and weaknesses at everything, no matter if they directly involved cloaks or not.

Two questions:
1) What can we do, right now, to help get this thing greenlit and speed development along?

That actually is starting to worry me because it looks like they're setting themselves up to make the same mistakes from a different approach.

Keeping the scale too small is one obvious thing- another is that they may actually be planning to take it TOO slow.
For example, not wanting to have vehicles until the infantry game is well-implemented: the big flaw in that is that, once all the infantry aspects are working smoothly, vehicles will throw a wrench into the system by completely changing how the game is played.
It's like when cloaks were first added to Dust- it completely changed how the game is balanced by throwing new strengths and weaknesses at everything, no matter if they directly involved cloaks or not.

EXCELLENT QUESTION!

I want to see those Minmatar Prison Shivs in my hands.

That actually is starting to worry me because it looks like they're setting themselves up to make the same mistakes from a different approach.

Keeping the scale too small is one obvious thing- another is that they may actually be planning to take it TOO slow.
For example, not wanting to have vehicles until the infantry game is well-implemented: the big flaw in that is that, once all the infantry aspects are working smoothly, vehicles will throw a wrench into the system by completely changing how the game is played.
It's like when cloaks were first added to Dust- it completely changed how the game is balanced by throwing new strengths and weaknesses at everything, no matter if they directly involved cloaks or not.

http://massivelyop.com/2016/04/23/eve-fanfest-2016-project-nova-will-include-territorial-warfare-link-with-eve/

This latest interview, done by Rattati today, explains things in more detail.

Its actually starting to look like we might finally get the game we were originally hoping for. I can understand people's frustration, we are being asked to wait again for something that may or may not happen. Which has been happening throughout Dusts lifespan.

But the approach they are taking now is pretty much the best chance of getting the game we originally wanted.

Hopefully the lines of communication remain open

Best of luck Rattati

http://massivelyop.com/2016/04/23/eve-fanfest-2016-project-nova-will-include-territorial-warfare-link-with-eve/

This latest interview, done by Rattati today, explains things in more detail.

I don't see it like that. If anything I feel this will help with Project Nova. Keep in mind that we still haven't seen the major weapons in the tech demo so far such as the swarm launcher, plasma cannon, AV grenades and forge guns. Those were the main weapons to use against vehicles other than turret installations. Which by the way forge guns, AV grenades and swarms were released at the same time as vehicles but we still had balance problems with vehicles. AV weapons having their own balancing issues along with active vehicle modules presenting some problems of their own.

And besides, you can't fit a tank into the command room of a Chimera Fighter Carrier unless you're fighting in the hangar.

Sounds good. Just keep us informed as much as possible, like don't do that silence for months thing. Really want this game to take off.

So it will always be a lobby shooter.




Your predecessors had a lot of ambition as well. But since you are aiming to make a 16 v 16 lobby shooter, you aren't really that ambitious.




Top sign you don't know what a hardcore shooter is, you want jump jets.

Anyway, best of luck making a cookie cutter lobby shooter. I'll be off looking for devs who want to make new games, not just respin a mashup of UT2003 and BF2142, with less players.

Thank you for the clarifications.

But I remain with three questions.

1. What should I play between 1 june and the release of Nova?
2. What are the system requirements of Nova? (will a gtx 950 be sufficient for high settings, ultra not required)
3. What will happen to the vehicles? no vehicles will make nova less interesting to me

and my gues for the 4 times 6 is 32 racial suit/roles would be the pilot suit and MTAC, but that may remain a suprise.

Goodluck

I'm not interested in any form of a lobby shooter. I was only interested in Dust in the first place because of the supposed link with EvE, the ability to fight battles on stations as well as the ground, and the integration between battles in Dust and battles in EvE. If people can't come and go as they please from a battle in Dust just like they can from a battle in EvE, it's as good as a lobby shooter to me, and not worth the time.

This is the problem with not making it MMO right from the start.

theres a 5th race apparently, that everyone starts out as. its just a generic clone race. progression is something like this i think:

generic clone race : heavy, medium, and light

these then upgrade into more specialized generic clone variants: Vanguard/Sentinel, Assault/Support, Sharpshooter/Infiltrator

after that you can upgrade into the actual factional variants of each race based on the previous 6 roles. the math doesnt add up but you can visualize the idea behind it.

A couple of clarifications

It's a project, not a product. There are no guarantees that this is becomes a ccp game.

That's just ridiculous. You start off as one of the four races, then you diversify, not the other way around. The more I read the less I like it.

Is there anything we, as a community, can do to help the project become a product?

Is there anything we, as a community, can do to help the project become a product?