https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=988205#post988205

I'm disappointed & concerned by the lack of any mention of PvE, Industry and the "Infestation" game mode which I'm assuming is the PvEvP element of Dust.

I would really like an idea of when this key part of Dust is planned for? I can remember Dev responses from months ago saying they'd like to get it in for release but weren't sure. Soon after release was another answer. I've not noticed anything more recently.

PvEvP is for me a major attraction in EvE. I might be rubbish, but if I can supply my less rubbish friends with gubbinz I build, find or buy I am fueling the war machine.

Infestation attacks are perhaps the single best method of keeping less elite corps in Planetary conquest, as their ability to dish out PvE attacks on elitest PvP corps would make them valuable to those same PvP corps.

Please, can I get an approximate and non concrete answer on when PvE is planned for, and if infestation follow after, or be released at the same time?

PS: Name the update "Infestation" too. Make some EvE event vs Drones. Incursion in the Heath :D

Can they even add something like that without a major update?

Major as in Expansion?

I don't think the PvE is something they could patch in with a server-side hotfix like they are with the stuff they're doing right now. Seems to me that would have to be something released with a whole new build of the game, so possibly for the first expansion which will likely be at the end of this year, around November.

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=988205#post988205

I'm disappointed & concerned by the lack of any mention of PvE, Industry and the "Infestation" game mode which I'm assuming is the PvEvP element of Dust.

I would really like an idea of when this key part of Dust is planned for? I can remember Dev responses from months ago saying they'd like to get it in for release but weren't sure. Soon after release was another answer. I've not noticed anything more recently.

PvEvP is for me a major attraction in EvE. I might be rubbish, but if I can supply my less rubbish friends with gubbinz I build, find or buy I am fueling the war machine.

Infestation attacks are perhaps the single best method of keeping less elite corps in Planetary conquest, as their ability to dish out PvE attacks on elitest PvP corps would make them valuable to those same PvP corps.

Please, can I get an approximate and non concrete answer on when PvE is planned for, and if infestation follow after, or be released at the same time?

PS: Name the update "Infestation" too. Make some EvE event vs Drones. Incursion in the Heath :D

Someone said at one point that in it's current form that an npc drone took up just as much , or more, space in the sver then a player hence why they may have not been added

I'm most likely wrong though

Releasing an immature version PVE would be a terribly poor decision.
It has to be internally tested more than ever in dust before, and also have a lot of content. Straight from the beginning.



I personally think PVE will hurt dust and make PVP matches even harder to matchmake. Also, I think it is a huge threat to Dust PVP because currenlty new players only choice is to play the rough pub matches and swallow up bitter defeat time after time. With PVE as an option, I believe anyone but the most determined will be swapping over to PVE and never return. Hence, a threat for Dust's long term future. But that really is my personal opinion.

Can they even add something like that without a major update?

Major as in Expansion?

I don't think the PvE is something they could patch in with a server-side hotfix like they are with the stuff they're doing right now. Seems to me that would have to be something released with a whole new build of the game, so possibly for the first expansion which will likely be at the end of this year, around November.