As I've said so many times, vehicles need solid roles distinct from that of infantry. Those roles won't exist on the small maps CCP is starting out with. They will likely arrive when we see the large open maps and those look like they will come in when PC is added back.

The worst thing CCP could do is to throw in vehciles with nothing for them to do except compete with suits for infantry kills. That is what made them impossible to balance in DUST. Once game play gets more sophisticated those vehicle roles will emerge and CCP can build vehciles to match the those roles.

I suspect one of the first roles would be for a proper dropship to ferry troops across the large maps of planetary conquest. Troop transport was easily handled by running and drop uplinks in small DUST maps, killing the main role of the dropship right out of the gate. That's why CCPBlam created the ADS.

The need for a given vehicle MUST be in the game before the vehicle is implemented or we will repeat all the mistakes of DUST.

Great question... ask someone else.

Anti Vehicle perhaps? Hop into a mech suit that is twice the size of your typical heavy, takes a bit more of punch, has large alpha weapons designed to fight tanks, but much less health then a typical vehicle, but also has the flexibility of a ground troop in the sense that it can still move through smaller buildings.


Or maybe it could just be a type of vehicle that you use in complexes/buildings. Small enough to fit in to a majority of rooms. Tanky enough to actually take a significant beating like an LAV level of health. But bigger and slower then a heavy. Great for breaking camps, but easily countered by simple AV grenades or a swarm launcher.

Depending on how you fir them they could also potentially be Mobile CRU's. Or give active/passive buffs/debuffs to friendly/enemy players near them.

There's a lot of potential roles mechs could fill. The imagination is the limit.

Vehicles did not fail in DUST because they weren't in right at the start. They failed because they had no job to do. They failed because they went in before the need for them arose, and that need was never created.

You didn't need the dropship because you never had to walk far enough that waiting for a pickup was worth your time.

You never NEEDED a tank because there was nothing a tank could do that infantry couldn't do. All anyone needed to do to win was kill infantry and hack points. Tanks couldn't even hack.

Since there was nothing to do but kill infantry vehciles defaulted to that role. Even the dropship got a gun glued to its nose and became the ADS. What do you get when you compete 1v1? You get balanced 1v1. Thus the great tank couldn't be any stronger than a single drop suit and it lost its essence. It simply became a lager, more expensive drop suit.

There are some questions that none of the interviews have touched on (that I can find)

I understand (and support) this is not the initial focus, but it would be nice to know CCP's general thoughts on the following topics, and where they might be in the future roadmap?

- PVE (rouge drones etc): Something you can do in-beteen PVP matches to break it up a bit.
- NPE Missions: Initial hook / mission that bring people in and teach them about New Eden?

You know, the things we have longed for forever in Dust514

I don't like the hud. The radial hp needs to come back like eve has.

It looks too much like a bf or cod hud now.

When will it be on ps4?

All i hear is less MMO and more FPS.But we want a lot of both,right?Why should we play another FPS game when its not realy different from the rest?

There are some questions that none of the interviews have touched on (that I can find)

I understand (and support) this is not the initial focus, but it would be nice to know CCP's general thoughts on the following topics, and where they might be in the future roadmap?

- PVE (rouge drones etc): Something you can do in-beteen PVP matches to break it up a bit.
- NPE Missions: Initial hook / mission that bring people in and teach them about New Eden?

You know, the things we have longed for forever in Dust514

A few questions in general:

1) Assuming many of us are interested in Project NOVA going past the Project phase, how do we, as the DUST community, show support? Many of us did not go to Fanfest, in no small part to us simply not knowing what sort of FPS content would be there, and not expecting anything actionable. However, I feel our community's feedback should still be able to be heard by CCP higher ups.

2) What is your current plans for progression in game? You have stated gaining the ability to get into more specialized suits, but will these suits be "specialized" in the current DUST sense of Assault and Logi suits completely removing the need for Basic suits, or do you see Non-specialized suits holding a role in the game as well beyond being "training suits"

Will equipment also have tiers, such as is currently the case with DUST, or will there only ever be one "tier level" of equipment?

3) Do you still plan to have some form of asset loss / money in game such that losing suits costs some form of currency that can be earned via matches.

4) The Project looks amazing. Any chance we can get hooked up with some concept art downloads for us to... savor?

For a game to only be 16 vs. 16 is a little insulting these days but your not the only game developers doing this. I think we should be to the point of 64 vs 64 especially on PC. It is a little more logical to consider a small squad like a special ops team or pirate raiders so that doesn't necessarily hurt immersion but I would put PVE elements such as turrets and automated defenses. I would have preferred we fight over one planet or citadel and have a real war than a small fight on one game. I also know a lot of people wanted a PVE area and a PVP area kinda like EVE with concord protecting high security space.
If the game seems small or inconsequential I think it may not last. If modes are gonna be for types like a pub match one style will be dominate probably unless you need all 4 to level different aspects of your character. I would like to see you create an open world sandbox even if it's just one planet or citadel or maybe 1 citadel for each race. But, it needs to matter in the EVE universe to me to or else it's will be another small round based game I can play then a week later move on to something else. I think the truth is that the approach may have been backward and your need to make this first then make DUST like if you would have put out Valkarie years ago then made the huge expanse of EVE online next.
Whatever, we never will know if it will even release until it does release, but, if "not legion" does come about I'm hoping it's more Planetside 2 or EVE than twitchy little COD or Battlefield. Remember if you build something great they will play it. If you build a copy of something else your gonna have to beat them at their own game to make money, and I'm not sure you can make a better Black Ops, but even if you could would people buy into it or just get the next BO4 or BF6 or something?

For a game to only be 16 vs. 16 is a little insulting these days

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

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

They aren't moving away from that level of potential customization. The man being interviewed here is very clear about that. They are simply making it so that a newbie wont have to worry about that level of complexity right away. There will be pre-fit options but also the ability to dive deeper into it if you choose to. Dont worry

in the last question they asked at the bottom of the interview, they literally said that they plan to give us just as much option to customize as we do in dust. The pre fits are specifically meant to have a smoother new player experience.

People are so quick to forget things. Dust 514 in alpha had no vehicles, one map, one race of suits/weapons, even worse graphics, literally zero voice comms as a function, and believe it or not, felt worse in terms of controls. Compared to then and now the current dust is like heaven. The same will be true for project nova HOWEVER project nova's starting point is seemingly far better off then dusts starting point ever was.

What's the point of an MMO shooter if it can't even play the part of "shooter" right?

Rattati said specifically that they are focusing on making the gameplay as pristine as possible... then adding in MORE mmo elements.

I'm not sure about the generic race. Apart from determining starting skills your choice of race doesn't restrict you to only that races equipment. So picking a race when you start a character doesn't matter all that much if you ask me.

It could work as a kind of extended tutorial though. You start the game as "John Everyclone" and by completing the initial missions (thereby learning the basics of the game, being introduced to the races, and the different play styles available) you eventually come to the notice of the four empires who then invite you to enlist, thereby unlocking the next tier of missions/gamemodes/unlocks.

What do you mean?

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

This is a new interview. it answers pretty much all the negative thoughts people were having. Read the last question at the bottom of the page. Apparently, this game should have just as much customization as dust or at least close to it. It'll just be presented in a different way so that new players have an easier time.

I sense much butthurt in this one..you don't like what you see? Go away and come back when it's to your liking..for now CCP will make everything smooth and we'll help them get it right..you can wait till the final product is ready