From what I can see VR has become the new obsession for CCP. I don't think we'll see much come out of CCP that isn't VR capable, or VR driven. EvE Online will continue because of its huge fan base and community. I don't know what we can expect of NOVA given all this. Perhaps it will end up being a VR based FPS? It would be nice to think that they will continue to develop it as a straight PC based FPS, but my feeling is that CCP's VR obsession will either kill it or morph it into a VR FPS.

Assuming that it continues, but in the VR form, I'm inclined to believe that there might be some problems with it - I relate the PS Move experience, that being an attempt to incorporate physical movement into the control mechanism of Dust. VR fundamentally uses head movements if not also hand and body movements, as part of the input interface. I would hope that VR does a better job than the PS Move which I found clunky, imprecise and thoroughly unsuitable for the job.

Obviously, it would be better if CCP stuck with a straight PC based FPS and ignored the "potential" for VR. I just see their obsession with VR as being a bit of a given for all their future releases. I wonder whether they haven't already discussed the idea of a VR interface for EvE Online. Now that would be truly ridiculous. :)

I just want to play DUST. I don't give a damn about vapourware.

Dust would have been an adequate replacement, ported to PS4 or even PC. What they're proposing with NOVA is just not good enough.

I guess that depends on what you define as "meaningful". From what I've heard, they're not planning to reintroduce vehicles, for a start which I think was a meaningful part of the Dust experience. I didn't go for vehicles myself, but I find the concept of any form of combat meaningless without vehicles.

I also find the EvE link meaningful, where many apparently don't. Without it, it's just another FPS to me. If anything they should have made the EvE link MORE rather than less. In short, I think what they had planned from the start for Dust would have been good, but as usual CCP got diverted from its plan by listening too much to the community, as far as I can see most of whom weren't that enamoured with EvE. And from the EvE side of it, they didn't want Dust either....

In any case, my concern is not what is PROPOSED for Nova. As far as I'm concerned it's likely never to see the light of day. Why would you believe that CCP would ever produce it? They are abysmal at doing what they say they will. Just a demo to show they can put a FPS on a spaceship doesn't mean they'll ever actually do it for real.

So I suppose to answer your question correctly and truthfully, "What is your perception of what is proposed in Nova?" - it's just candy to keep those few of us still here interested while slowly we die off and get distracted by other things, rather than have us all blow up at the end of Dust which would be bad for PR. I don't honestly think they'll ever produce Nova. They're not interested in the few of us who survive other than how badly we can effect PR for the company.

Nova doesn't use VR. Therefore it doesn't fit with CCP's current obsession. That's about the size of it for me.

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By the way, I don't look at what people say, but what they do, so what they SAY they're gonna do means little to me.

It's simple for me. Unless there's an EvE link, I'm not that interested. I bought the whole concept on the basis that there was the link to EvE. It's what makes the whole point of Dust/Nova to me. Without the EvE link it's just another FPS, no matter how good it is. I know the people who didn't come from EvE in the first place can't see the point of this, but in New Eden, or the EvE Universe, it's probably the most important factor of all to me.