CrotchGrab 360 wrote:terrible idea, absolutely terrible.
Look at Planetside 2, the battles are awesome when it happens but I stopped playing that game because although it was one
of the most impressive FPS games I've ever played in terms of both looks and large-scale battles it got extremely boring finding 5 people mindlessly running around a huge complex with no enemies to fight.
When you queue up you know you're going to go against opposing players, if it were a sandbox style game you wouldn't know what you would find and most likely would be walking across empty terrain or run across 10 tanks all parked up.
Honestly it is an OK idea in concept as far as conquering cetain districts go but as soon as the opposing player gets bored or enough people go to sleep that district gets taken over again.
At least with corp battles you dictate how and when what is at stake.
I don't even play MMOs, barely play FPS games. Have been playing DUST for 2 months and can tell that this is a terrible idea, it doesn't take a genius to work that out.
I'm really in on this ^
Right now it might not seem sandboxed at all !!
But it'll come SOON ^TM and all that. They do want to implement this into null in eve. ( thats where all the sandbox stuff is) there they talked about maknig us take stations, take pos's, assault valuable planets. And that's only the fighting part. When market is like fully opened and eve players will be making the stuff we buy. Simple fight can change those prices from one month to another. We'll be fighting for the resources to pay for our guns.
In PS2 you would run around and a lot of the times for one silly guy hiding in a corner waiting for you to go away so he could cap the rest of the objectives.
Here you'r more forced into the combat. The sandbox here isn't that much the combat ( it still is you can deploy vehicles that can have well over 500 different fittings. Suits that can even more as therer are many more suits and stuff to put on them ) the sandbox is the logistics of keeping an district of making the most isk out of on using the isk on the market getting more isk to found even more war to maybe become a major part who earns isk on making the tools of theses wars.
Your sandbox will at some point (soon ^TM and all that) become the entire bloddy SPACE !!
And not a boring one where you have to stand and wait for objectives to slowly turn your way and at some point you'll have to run back to cap it yet again
NOT SIGNED !