Again, I think you guys are seriously mis-judging what this game is if you think it could become an open world MMO. It is 100% an arena shooter built ontop of a persistant universe to give each match meaning and have your characters persist in an impactful way.

It is COD/HALO + consequences. Thats it.

If you are playing this game, thinking it will become more, you are going to be massively let down.

You will not see the day that bases and players exist persistantly together in DUST. Players will interact in individual matches and that is about it.

It can still be amazingly cool, with the economic factors and conquest of districts/planets. But all of this will occur within the format we have now of individual matches.

That may grow, to eventually having to fly warbridges to the planet in order to drop more resources for players on the ground, etc. But it will always be "a round of DUST is being played" similar to "a round of Halo, or COD"

Honestly, its for the best. Try to play Planetside or WWIIOnline. Despite all the claims of persistance, your actions ultimately feel 100 times LESS important then a match of Halo, because you see no real results. Sure, maybe the enemy just decides the fight was boring and logs off or goes somewhere else, but it doesnt feel like a victory. And as soon as you go to bed, guess what? Everything you did is gone.

DUST has the potential to capture the FUN of arena shooters and give it a persistant, epic backbone that drives those matches. But it will never, nor should it ever, be a persistant open world FPS.

then you know nothing about dust 514. Because it IS coming and its coming soon.

Haven't you seen the 3 hours of video explaining all this?

OOOK. Keep dreaming. A game doesnt get this far into beta, for this long and go PUBLIC if what we are seeing is a small fraction of the core gameplay.

Could there potentially be some "open" game modes, with a larger map, no teams and just the ability to walk around and fight NPCs? Perhaps. But it would be more like a game of GTA or red dead redemption multiplayer, and not WOW or Planetside.

Really? Where can I read up on this supposed open world gameplay coming? I have never once heard anything about this, and I watched many videos detailing the promise of interaction between EVE and DUST. But it has always been about individual matches taking place, not an open world persistant environment for your merc to walk around in.