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byte modal 764	Posted - 2016.05.02 15:21:00 - [1] - Quote TL/DR: Re: the subject line. Reading through a few threads this morning got me thinking. What with all the various opinions being tossed around on the frustrations of DUST's hopes and expectations and the recent NOVA curve, I wonder how expectations of what may come in NOVA as opposed to what did or did not come in DUST are affected by our individual initial draw to the game. So if you can really think back for a moment, how did you hear of DUST514 and why did you care about it at all? Was it just some random PS3 advert for a F2P shooter? Was it EVE related? Word of mouth? If so, how was it described to you by your friend? You get the point. I know these threads are a dime-a-dozen, but for those of you who have remained (at least in this forum community), I am genuinely curious what brought you here. In a way, perhaps it's more important to consider why you are still here. Please comment on that too, if you would? For me, I stumbled on it by mistake. I started EVE maybe a decade ago and played for several years. One particular update required more than my graphics card at the time could handle, so that was that. From time to time I would re-sub, but by then the interface, stats, or whatever else had changed so I just never really got back into it. A few years ago I remember reading an article or blog about some space-sim in development so I wanted to check up on it. It MIGHT have been Star Citizen, but I think it was before that and believe it was a one-word title but age and such leaves me confused more times than not. So meh. Anyway, searching for that random reference I stumbled on DUST514 information. Ironic that it was being developed by CCP. In EVE, I always fantasized of entering the atmosphere of some random planet rather than just passing through it as I did in warp. DUST seemed like the idea was there at least, so I requested closed BETA access. I saw that EVE players probably had their invites but I don't think I was subbed at the time. I registered from dust514.com. I stayed because of the variety of skills to chase. That aspect became somewhat like a collection addiction. Gotta catch'em all! Ya know? I haven't played in well over 6 months, at a guess. That's mostly due to returning to college to finish my degree this past Fall (a LONG overdue closure in my life), and various other real life distractions. But I still forum because I just enjoy seeing what people have to say about the game. Too, I enjoy(ed) the interactions and opinions of the dev staff. Whether it was honest feedback on some user-posted idea or just trolling nay-sayers, I always thought that was unique and ...good. Of all the divide on possible data transfers, I do hope that at least this one aspect of DUST makes it into whatever final incarnation CCP ends with. Bla bla. Maybe I'm just stalling getting to my job this morning, but it was an honest wonder. Alright. Time to get to it. Thanks, - meow. kitten bacon taco (nom)
DUST Fiend 18275	Posted - 2016.05.02 15:24:00 - [2] - Quote The connection to EVE and the thought of being able to control planets in NULL My brain is a dead hamster on an ever turning wheel. Feed me.
Green Living Gallente Gay Swag Club 1678	Posted - 2016.05.02 15:25:00 - [3] - Quote I knew the MAG servers were going to be turned off soon. You will always be my first and best baby. Love and miss you MAG.
byte modal 764	Posted - 2016.05.02 15:33:00 - [4] - Quote DUST Fiend wrote: The connection to EVE and the thought of being able to control planets in NULL Seeing how that played out, do you still play? Why are you still in forums if you do not play? Not being a smart ass! Just fishing for perspective. Thanks for the reply. kitten bacon taco (nom)
byte modal 764	Posted - 2016.05.02 15:34:00 - [5] - Quote Green Living wrote: I knew the MAG servers were going to be turned off soon. You will always be my first and best baby. Love and miss you MAG. So just another *fix*? Nothing significant beyond a replacement? kitten bacon taco (nom)
DUST Fiend 18276	Posted - 2016.05.02 15:37:00 - [6] - Quote byte modal wrote: DUST Fiend wrote: The connection to EVE and the thought of being able to control planets in NULL Seeing how that played out, do you still play? Why are you still in forums if you do not play? Not being a smart ass! Just fishing for perspective. Thanks for the reply. I don't play, haven't in a couple years really aside from periodically popping in to test new patches and what not. I'm here because I'm an addict and a cynic who just craves to be proven wrong despite consitently being proven right :/ My brain is a dead hamster on an ever turning wheel. Feed me.
DozersMouse XIII Fatal Absolution Bleeding Sun Conglomerate 1625	Posted - 2016.05.02 15:37:00 - [7] - Quote MAG Aurum plated booty pistol
byte modal 764	Posted - 2016.05.02 15:41:00 - [8] - Quote DozersMouse XIII wrote: MAG what about it though. Did you hear rumors from the MAG community? Was everyone like, "hey... there's a new thing down the road called dust. Team, ho! Let's go!!"? What linked you from MAG to DUST. kitten bacon taco (nom)
DUST Fiend 18277	Posted - 2016.05.02 15:45:00 - [9] - Quote byte modal wrote: DozersMouse XIII wrote: MAG what about it though. Did you hear rumors from the MAG community? Was everyone like, "hey... there's a new thing down the road called dust. Team, ho! Let's go!!"? What linked you from MAG to DUST. I never played MAG but it seemed like DUST was billed as a game like MAG with the potential for large scaled, tactical combat. I don't know if MAG was also a combined arms game like DUST, but that was a big draw for a lot of people too, myself included. Basically MAG shut down right around when DUST started up, so it seemed like a natural shift at the time. My brain is a dead hamster on an ever turning wheel. Feed me.
Denchlad 7 Dead Man's Game 2626	Posted - 2016.05.02 15:58:00 - [10] - Quote It was a free to play to game, and an FPS, and as I was under 18 at the time, one of the few FPS' I could play online at that time. You'll only find me playing Destiny now. PSN: TheMysteriousEnd (PS4/PS3) XBL: Mystend 7 (XB1/360)

Denchlad 7 Dead Man's Game 2626	Posted - 2016.05.02 15:58:00 - [11] - Quote It was a free to play to game, and an FPS, and as I was under 18 at the time, one of the few FPS' I could play online at that time. You'll only find me playing Destiny now. PSN: TheMysteriousEnd (PS4/PS3) XBL: Mystend 7 (XB1/360)
TooMany Names AlreadyTaken Going for the gold 2210	Posted - 2016.05.02 15:59:00 - [12] - Quote What is this? Some sort of secret Gallente tea party? XD What first brought me to Dust... one summer's day I was browsing the PS Store looking for free games, and I came across Dust 514. A First-Person-Shooter with a cool name... interesting - I thought I'll be honest, Dust 514 was my first FPS experience, and it will always stay in my heart as one of the best-feeling immersive shooters ever. #ProjectNOVA is upon us! May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't. - George S. Patton Jr.
TooMany Names AlreadyTaken Going for the gold 2210	Posted - 2016.05.02 16:01:00 - [13] - Quote Denchlad 7 wrote: It was a free to play to game, and an FPS, and as I was under 18 at the time, one of the few FPS' I could play online at that time. Exactly the same reason got me into it, to the point. #ProjectNOVA is upon us! May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't. - George S. Patton Jr.
Heimdallr69 Negative-Feedback. 7237	Posted - 2016.05.02 16:03:00 - [14] - Quote My brother..personally I wasn't playing games at that time..a lot of people think I came from mag but I never even heard of it till dust I've always been good at games but they all tend to bore me after about a month..
Aidualc LATINOS KILLERS CORP MORS CERTA 849	Posted - 2016.05.02 16:08:00 - [15] - Quote The MGO (the online mode of MGS 4) shutdown... and now that Dust will shutdown, is time to get back to MGO (in MGS V) -- LKC -- Tomate Pote -- *Respectu, Honorem, Value, Unionem*******
ZED Regent Acid Tech 303 790	Posted - 2016.05.02 16:17:00 - [16] - Quote TooMany Names AlreadyTaken wrote: What is this? Some sort of secret Gallente tea party? XD What first brought me to Dust... one summer's day I was browsing the PS Store looking for free games, and I came across Dust 514. A First-Person-Shooter with a cool name... interesting - I thought I'll be honest, Dust 514 was my first FPS experience, and it will always stay in my heart as one of the best-feeling immersive shooters ever. ^ This... I used to play race games and fly-simulators... GranTurismo, Need for Speed... Dust was my first fps ever... Loved it from my first game ( 1,5 y ago) and i'll be playing 'till they pull the plug... Not dead, yet.....
StarVenger Horizons' Edge The-Office 316	Posted - 2016.05.02 16:19:00 - [17] - Quote Was bored. Was free. . AKA Meisterjager Jagermeister L1 FW GallAss to the CORE---Founder of Serpentis UNION of the SNAKE Horizons' Edge FTW
CELESTA AUNGM Kang Lo Directorate Gallente Federation 822	Posted - 2016.05.02 16:24:00 - [18] - Quote Thanks for the thread. Hope this doesn't serve as a Reqium, but for me I guess it is. My boyfriend likes CoD, MoH, SOCOM fps games, not me. I used to like the ones that simulate WWII events (cool experience), but apart from that, I get bored with fps quite fast. I'm a PCC! (...PCC stands for, Plump Cute Coward). On the PSForum (not an Eve fourm), folks were posting about Dust 514, and how it was free to set up and play. And CCP Eterne was the only dev posting on the PS forum (I think he was assigned as CCP's official overseer for posts on the PSforum). Anyone who likes good story writing should check out Eterne's work on the EVE World News feed. He's terrific. By this time my BF had been playing Dust in Beta for 3 months or so. It was the only game I recall ever hearing him swear at the tv when he plays. Yet he said it was great, and wanted me to add a character to his account. Hmmmm.... I was skeptical, and I watched all the EVE vids and all those explanatory Dust vids that CCP made, before I let Steve talk me into setting up my character. My Character. MY CHARACTER. Mine! That's how I saw Dust 514. Not a shooter. A Character-creation game. You're in a combat world, but you slowly need to educate and train and nurture this character you made. And you need a LOT of social interaction with other characters made by other players, in order to build your character into someone other players see as valuable, or worth fearing. How much will other players value your imaginary character? Enough that they will "hire" your character to fulfill a mercenary contract--and pay you a price you can negotiate. Wow! This isn't an Call of Duty. It's Monopoly on a galaxy-wide industry level! All in the hands of each solo player, for her to succeed or for her to screw-up. The part that deals with guns and weapons is too complex and granular for those fps-elite gamers to get through---it will kick them in the arses. There are ideas being launched here that completely redefine and outclass the corny shooters Steve plays. And the whole process might take years for even the best players to complete. ....But both Steve and I were brutally and repeatedly slapped around on the battlefield. That made me more determined to stay in the game and explore non-shooting careers. And Steve? Uh, well, he's used to putting a scope on his SOCOM weapon and cleaning the board. ....The Dust matches in 2013 were the kind of matches where you don't clean the board---the board cleans YOU. (and picks its teeth with the proto rifle you brought with you.) He got more frustrated and left me driving Dropships. Now all the innovation and bold ideas are discontinued (or so it appears with this Nova stuff). If it hasn't got that extensive complex Monopoly feel to it, it's just a glorified CoD. So there's no need for me to join Nova. But the Grimsnes is still here in Dust 514 until the end of the month. The Grimsnses was my character's career, and was becoming her path to super-wealth. I stay because of the love of a good horse. Me and Cochise... (Cochise was John Wayne's horse,... not that airy-fairy dope called Trigger that Roy Rogers used to ride, yuck.) Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne... No story can have life without writers and publishers.
DUST Fiend 18278	Posted - 2016.05.02 16:33:00 - [19] - Quote CELESTA AUNGM wrote: Now all the innovation and bold ideas are discontinued (or so it appears with this Nova stuff). If it hasn't got that extensive complex Monopoly feel to it, it's just a glorified CoD. So there's no need for me to join Nova. But the Grimsnes is still here in Dust 514 until the end of the month. The Grimsnses was my character's career, and was becoming her path to super-wealth. I stay because of the love of a good horse. Me and Cochise... (Cochise was John Wayne's horse,... not that airy-fairy dope called Trigger that Roy Rogers used to ride, yuck.) Sad to see a fellow pilot left in the dust, here's hoping CCP realizes that this game being a combined arms game is part of what made it great, and hires more devs to get vehicles put in at release. Fly safe o7 My brain is a dead hamster on an ever turning wheel. Feed me.
Takahiro Kashuken Red Star. 4802	Posted - 2016.05.02 16:57:00 - [20] - Quote MAG was dead, DUST was billed as the possible next big thing with a meaningful link to another game in which they would both interact. Having played EVE before it to get a taste of what CCP could do i was impressed, EVE FPS with so many options and ideas to make it something completely different to other FPS, it would not be a gloryfied TDM or a simple arena shooter. Like MAG but winning means something, at least in FW and null, no **** flag but actual benefits which affected EVE and vice versa is what we hoped for. Infantry and vehicles actually having choices and being able to be fitted how you want just like the ships in EVE. In the end is was the vision and hype in which i got carried away, never again though. Aidualc wrote:** The MGO (the online mode of MGS 4) shutdown... and now that Dust will shutdown, is time to get back to MGO (in MGS V) If you like MGO2 you will most likely hate MGO3, they took what made it good out and replaced it with dumbed down features or just outright cut it out. CCP Rattati - "One giant vehicle nerf with more power to AV", you have got to be kidding...''

Panthrax Oblivion Horizons' Edge The-Office 1564	Posted - 2016.05.02 17:10:00 - [21] - Quote I was just scrolling through the PSN store in F2P GûæGûæGûæGûæGûæGûêGûêGûêGûêGûêGûêGûê GûäGûäGûäGûäGûäGûäGûäGûä GûêGûêGûêGûêGûêGûêGûêGûêGûêGûêGûêGûêGûêGûêGûêGûêGûêGûê GùÑGèÖGû¦GèÖGû¦GèÖGû¦GèÖGû¦GèÖGû¦GèÖGû¦GèÖGùñ..
DozersMouse XIII Fatal Absolution Bleeding Sun Conglomerate 1625	Posted - 2016.05.02 17:44:00 - [22] - Quote byte modal wrote: DozersMouse XIII wrote: MAG what about it though. Did you hear rumors from the MAG community? Was everyone like, "hey... there's a new thing down the road called dust. Team, ho! Let's go!!"? What linked you from MAG to DUST. Rumours thru eve players that I played with. I played mordu's trials and went back to MAG then finally came to DUST 2 weeks before official release. I think most hardcore MAG community migrated to DUST because we like unique large scale shooters (even tho MAG crushed every game when it came to large scale battles) DUST had that large learning curve I need to keep me hooked. Aurum plated booty pistol
Nirwanda Vaughns 1948	Posted - 2016.05.02 18:36:00 - [23] - Quote EVE char is like 13yr old now and there was rumours of a FPS game set in EVE world. bout 5yrs later dust was announced and i got my Mordus private trials code through in the first wave and i'm looking forward to Nova Find me in the new world or PSN: LaughlynVaughns
byte modal 766	Posted - 2016.05.02 18:39:00 - [24] - Quote DozersMouse XIII wrote: DUST had that large learning curve I need to keep me hooked. Yeah, that was a huge hook for me. I'm curious: for the general FPS mindset is that a turn off? I has a hard time getting friends to login for that. kitten bacon taco (nom)
Derrith Erador Fatal Absolution 4165	Posted - 2016.05.02 18:46:00 - [25] - Quote My old clan branched out to dust from BF3, and one thing led to another, they folded from dust, and I am the last BWB to play dust. Been six months since I've played... 99% of what Derrith says is stupidity. -D3lta Blitzkrieg Bittervet ADS pilot, redheads are hot.
Fox Gaden Immortal Guides 7695	Posted - 2016.05.02 18:51:00 - [26] - Quote WOW was becoming too dumbed down. EVE had no aiming, and very limited direct control of flight (it was more like being the Captain, than the Pilot) and while I enjoyed the tactical aspect of EVE I wanted a bit more of a hands on experience. Solo and small Gang PVP in EVE required such a great knowledge of ship type and configuration, just to know whether to fight or run away, not to mention what range and vector to use, that even after a year of small gang PVP in Syndicate I still felt like a complete noob. DUST promised some of the fitting complexity of EVE, but without fitting being the be all and end all of whether or not you won a fight. I liked being able to kill a full Proto suit with a Melita fit in DUST. I liked the sci-fi setting. I liked the idea of complex fittings, and a persistent world. Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.
Refreak 44 DEPT OF CORRUPTION The Empire of New Eden 49	Posted - 2016.05.02 20:31:00 - [27] - Quote There were a bunch of E3 trailers in the psn store and, since they were free, I figured I'd take a look at some of them. I saw "Dust 514" and thought, "The Hell is a Dust 514?" so I downloaded it to see what it was as well as several others. I watched and thought "Horry shat! This looks amazing!" Being a fan of sci-fi and hearing that voice over that played, which I loved, I thought this was going to be one of the best campaigns, if not, most ambitious, I would ever play. I wanted to use that droupsuit and rifle that were in the trailer. Then open beta came out some time later and I downloaded it. Since it was a beta, I wasn't expecting a campaign and was surprised that neither the suit nor the gun were in the game. I figured, they would be released in the full game. But I was greeted with a nifty little tutorial video. I kept playing because 1. I wanted to use that gear. and 2. It was actually pretty fun. I didn't even notice when the "full game was released" but when it was, my heart sank when I saw there was no campaign. It sank even deeper when I saw that the gear still wasn't there. But there was hope for those since stuff was missing like the pilot dropsuits. I figured it was going to be a Cal light frame so I waited until they released those God knows how long later. But by then, I had already lost hope, it was no surprise to me that they didn't use the suit, that the game wasn't as grand and immersive as I wanted to be. But it was decent. The reason I still play is because it's fun from time to time, the customization is amazing, and I already spent money on this game. (Quafe cal med. used to look shiny and pink, or proto with purple. I bought both and I want them back.) \o/
shaman oga Nexus Balusa Horizon 5304	Posted - 2016.05.02 20:39:00 - [28] - Quote Honestly, i saw some images and i told: "Halo for PS". I always wanted to play Halo, but never had a pc or xbox, so i downloaded it. After seeing that it was not Halo, but was quite a sadistic game i kept playing it. Regressed to blueberry level =ƒÿ» #PortDaPort on Consoles
PARKOUR PRACTIONER Eternal Beings 4517	Posted - 2016.05.02 21:03:00 - [29] - Quote Got my first (very noob) FPS experience at a friend's house playing Halo & COD. Didn't have access online gaming of my own at the time so I was always looking for a fix. Then I got my first PS3 & access to online gaming, went looking for free-to-play and found DUST514. Addicted immediatly. Then my TV (old non- flat screen) was KIA. Took a while to get another one. Then my PS3 (fat vacuum cleaner) also was KIA. Took such a long time to replace to my current PS3 I'd forgotten about Dust until I got a thing for free aurum & some other stuff that came with PS3. At that time I had turned 18 and gotten my own PSN account so I started over on this alt. CL, GS & MS, CA & MS, GH & MH, GM & MM are my jam/Logi/objective player first, suck at slayer Am skater w/ ASD
One Eyed King Nos Nothi 15361	Posted - 2016.05.02 21:04:00 - [30] - Quote I am pretty sure Sony promoted it during the start of Open Beta, and it had that Space/SciFi thing going on. Plus it was free. I figured that it couldn't be too big a time or money commitment if I didn't like it. It was the same for PS2, except that turned out more boring, and didn't have near the community or forums. Former CEO of the Land of the BIind. Any double entendre is unintended I assure you.



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