As always, thanks bro. I can't lie, no vehicles in the first iteration of Nova does sting a little. However i'm not a big vehicle person, but still. I'm very excited, I hope to see you tech saavy peeps pass this through the right hands.

I almost exclusively specialise in infantry, and I'm really going to miss vehicles...

I guess I just have to accept that the idea of a hardcore experience entwined with EVE is just dead for now.

I'll attempt to hold my tongue until I see it for myself on my system. The fact that the "project" isn't even greenlit yet just makes my blood boil. This is easily one of the most loyal communities of any game I've ever seen, how they can STILL be waffling on this and allocating minimal resources just triggers the **** out of me.

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Fantastic summary. I was currently trying to track down information in all of the various articles but this being all in one source makes my life a lot easier for the analysis video I'm working on.

Though there are still a lot of details I need to cover when it comes to actual gameplay differences.

Good post

I agree with the fitting/customization thing. I really hope its the same or close to the same as dusts. I'll be very sad if they turn it into something stupid like a COD pick ten peace of crap system, or even worse, the battlefront star card system. Which is what it kind of looked like from the demo. Each person I saw only had two equipment peaces. Which kind of led me to believe that they went the star card route.

The fitting system was not what confused new players. What confused new players was how it was all presented. The basic tutorial to dust, if i remember correctly, did nothing besides tell you "this is how you fit a module to a suit" and ended it there. If they gave a comprehensive tutorial that dove into some of the more common modules like damage amps and shield extenders/armor plates and explained the premise i think that would have gone a long way in helping new players get the hang of the fitting system.

but the fitting system itself really wasn't flawed at all. I liked it because it was a core identifying trait that made dust unique to other shooters in terms of customization.

You know in the development progression, it makes a lot more sense to introduce an economic reason for EVE players to care about Planetary Conquest before they introduce something like Planetary Bombardment. I think DUST sort of put the cart before the horse in that respect.

As long as they don't do anything that would prevent them from adding direct interaction in the future, I am not going to worry about it. Even if they are not considering adding Planetary Bombardment to Nova now, there will always be that nostalgia about Orbitals in DUST, so the idea is not going to go away.

I honestly think it will be possible to link Nova and Dust in pseudo-realtime in the future, but that should be the very last step on the roadmap. When the day comes, I will be very vocal about it (since I am one of the 1% of the 1%).

But that's for another time.

I assume he means Nova and EVE.

And yeah, I am sad to see that even when we get territorial warfare back CCP seems to think orbital strikes should never come back.

Part of what I talked about with some friends on Skype was the idea of having a set of satellites about 300km above the planet that you have to warp to to perform orbitals, and that you can drop as many strikes as possible before the satellite passes over the horizon, at which point you warp to the next one back. That way you keep the process of dropping orbitals more active and fun for the EVE player and that strike ship is a major threat to the enemy on the ground.

To counter that, you implement the range of surface-to-orbit defense weapons that CCP already had concept art for. Enable the enemy on the ground to either defend themselves with their own emplacements, or hack the opposing team's and turn them against their support ships.

If you set up the orbital strike mechanics to be fun and require more activity EVE-side, you would see a lot more players engaging in them, because I've met a LOT of FW pilots who talked about how excited they were for that element of Dust integration right up until they realized it meant sitting in one place pressing F1 every 3 minutes.

Any word on what the transition plan from Dust to Nova is? CCP said there would be more information coming regarding this during Fanfest this year but that didn't happen. Given CCP's track record with Dust I'm hesitant to sink any money into Nova. How they treat their loyal customers will determine if they see money from me for Nova or whether I'll simply play it for free.

Hopefully we keep accumulated sp. I'm not gonna be happy if I lose 50m unspent skill points.