PC is not what kept everyone around.

I love how these posts assume that rattati & co. Are idiots who haven't looked up just what % of the game population was involved in what aspects of the game.

Here's a hint: the number of people involved in PC was rediculously low compared to overall population, and many veteran corps abandoned PC because it wasn't fun.

F*** YES.

IMAGINE!!!!!

Purple MCC spawn. You drop down with a purple inertia dampener. Running to an objective, you pass by a purple drought. The moment you hack the objective and charge shot a little button, machines start pouring quafe down the drought, bringing a river to life! Now you jump in it and splash all you want. Now, cloak up, duck and submerge yourself in the holy Quafe, tiring it a little blue through the cloak shimmer. As a turd Caldari sent passes by, shotgun and charge shot him to death! Let him slowly bleed into your nice pool of Quafe, mixing the blueness around you with his bloody red, forming purple again. Let his sweet m salty tears give extra flavor to your pool as your become one with... QUAFE!

Har har. I'm not confirming anything.

Pointing out a bad premise for an argument.

I stuck around for the long-term progression and fighting alongside friends.

I did a few PCs. It was rarely fun or rewarding.

This could easily be the next Halo if CCP would actually allocate the proper resources to the project.

They're sitting on a gold mine that they seem to insist is overflowing with fools gold.

But it had its moments and they were entertaining as hell.

I'm quite frankly amazed that there was a tech demo ready to play that fast after they announced they were making a new game. Tech demos and alpha play or anything similar anything less than a year after announce is pretty impressive.

But since, If I recall the tech demo was hosted off the CCP HARPA site (this was a rumor from fanfest goers, not the devs) and if that was true that means the NOVA demo was stable and running full FPS over an actual net connection. Without choking on it's own vomit. That's also a leg up on DUST if true.

If I recall Uprising was hosted locally, and everyone was Oooh-ing and aaaaaahhh-ing at that build but it went pear-shaped over a net connection is probably what choked that bad boy out in the first place.

It also means Rattati is keeping his promise to focus on the issues that made DUST a miserable bastard to play.

All in all Rattati, Frame, LogicLoop and all of the other developers have made massive progress towards nova in a much shorter timeframe than DUST's development. From what I understand the new engine is a dream girl compared to the UE3 modifications they were using before.

But from what I understand, the NOVA demo had the most important possible feature: It was fun to play.

But since it was intended to cycle through dozens, then hundreds of people in a short time, it wasn't allotted things beyond a small map, a single game mode and a few fixed classes.

Now that's as far as I can go based on what the community knows. What I know has actually kept my attention. Assuming greenlight happens, the cautiously part of my "Cautiously optimistic" will fly out the damn window. I like what they have to say, and in my opinion, they are setting realistic goals they can achieve. And no they aren't planning to just release a skeleton game with no depth.

I honestly haven't got any frame of reference to where Alpha might fall. Since I've only played with Maya as a hobbyist, I know how time consuming one or two aspects of the process might be.

Past that, it's not like I get a daily report from the devs or whatever. So I have no earthly idea how fast development is going overall as far as time to alpha.

Any answer I gave would be either a troll or a straight asspull, just because I only see bits and snippets.

Could be next year sometime around summer, could be tomorrow. Could be later. I'll have a better idea when the Devs say it's on.

Speculation from me, Dennie, Darth, etc. ain't going to happen folks, partly because we don't know, partly because if we even make a Scientific, Wild-Ass Guess too many people will shriek that "we promised" or the devs did, if our predictions fall short, or something gets delayed, etc.

In short, me speculating on hard timelines would only create drama, like it did for CPMs in the past even though they weren't violating any NDA stuff.

It's hard to be "ahead of the curve" when you trashed your old build for the new build (Legion) 2 years ago without telling anyone They're basically just playing catch up with themselves at this point

Pc was worse than pubs. Pubs were somewhat ok. Bullets killed people properly most of the times.
Then pc matches were absolutly lagtastic,ps3 was choking so hard on its own stuttering frames, everyone did the same tactics. Listening to a guy screaming sh!t over the coms. The dreaded freeze during match if the dust had gotten to deep into your console(like for real. Both forms,game and particles) really absurd timers. Huge corps and ringers, and for what? A bit of digital territory? Some bragging rights? If thats what kept vets in dust i really question if you have to have some masochistic streaks in ya to deal with that sh!tpile.


If you liked it, good on ya.

Did 1 real PC, nothing special about it other than the lack of blueberries.

To me, customization is what made Dust stand out. Having an array of fittings for every situation, as well as being able to think up more variations to experiment with is something no other game I've played offers.

ED and NMS have the same module system as Eve.