PS US Blog - In DUST 514, a massively multiplayer free-to-play first-person shooter exclusive to PlayStation 3, you can build an empire, wage war on a galactic scale and change the notorious sci-fi universe of EVE Online forever. But you can’t do it without the right gear.
Ninth episode, and we talk Planet Nomads kickstarter, slow CPUs, EVE Valkyrie event, and I have finally received my Bragi Dash!
News:
* Bragi is finally shipping The Dash wireless headphones
* EVE:Valkyrie players holding an in-game event February 20th, with live-streams
* Apple has the highest quarterly revenue of any company ever
* Intel says future CPUs will be slower, but more efficient
Farewells to DUST514:
A small goodbye to DUST514, from current and past players and bitter-vets
Special Guest:
This week’s guest is Daniel Maslovsky from the game-studio Craneballs, here to discuss their kickstarter game Planet Nomads! It is an interesting Sci-fi Survival Sandbox games, and several Bammsters are already backers on Kickstarter!
From GameWatcher: "DUST 514 was first announced back in 2009 for the PlayStation 3 as a first person shooter played in conjunction with the massively multiplayer space sim EVE Online, and its final build was launched in 2013. CCP has announced that DUST 514 will be shuttered on May 30th 2016, with a new FPS being developed to replace it."
wow. that's messed up. I don't play the game, but shutting it down and then a month after that showing your replacement game after you told the community screw you. LOL. Remind me to never support or play a CCP game. There are games that came out many years before this one and the devs keep the servers up for people.
It's on an old console and was nearly dead in the water when it launched. Not much of a community left to anger. Quite frankly, it sucked, and I'm excited to see what the next one will bring.
From launch to death Dust was only really ever a poor mans M.A.G. God I miss M.A.G and Valor.
Dust 514 was free so I don't see your point, but I do find your name ironic.
@Tony - Yeah I still wish for MAG2, or even a PS4 remaster of MAG.
I remember them saying it was supposed to contribute to eve and everyone was up in arms and that never happened and it just fell to the way side
I'm not sure enough people ever played DUST 514 to say "everyone was up in arms", but there were in fact cross play battles between EVE and DUST.
It was a cool concept with some sizable flaws, but I'd be interested in a sequel that addressed some of those flaws. I thought I heard there was a PS4 version coming, but maybe that's my imagination.
It was definitely ambitious given the tech involved and how late into last gen we were. They tried though and cross gameplay is getting more relevant, so I think not all was lost...
DUST514 players create EVE:Phoenix trailers as part of their #PortDUST514 campaign.
Since the announcement of the DUST514 sequel EVE:Legion by CCP Games at FanFest 2014, there has been an almost eerie silence about the project from the game’s creators. Domains and trademarks were registered, and later left expired, for the EVE:Legion brand, and the player base was left watching as no actual news or progress updates were given by CCP, even at the various player-gatherings or CCP’s own FanFest 2015.
The players of DUST514, both past and current, have rallied under a banner, #PortDUST514, led by Ripley Riley, and are using this hashtag on social media to highlight that there is still a desire for a sequel or a port of the game to a more recent platform than the Playstation 3.
Most recently, this has resulted in the players creating propaganda posters and “memes”, and even voiced trailers, for what they themselves have named EVE:Phoenix.
The player Pokey Dravon, with the help of several other players, created this trailer for the campaign.
Remove free LAV's, add LAV PSN pack :|
This game is terrible. Dedicated 4 months into this pos. Even the executive producer quit. Just visit their forums to see the state of the game, not to mention the player base.
Aiming and frames per second are still plaguing this game after 8 years of developement.
LOOOOOOOOOOOL
CCP is way too slow for fps console kids attention span.
Dust=epic fail
Just played a few games, had a blast! Upgraded my tank buster(sic)gun, and actually messed a tank up bad! Really fun!
I’ve been playing DUST 514 for 2 months now. I transitioned directly into it from single player console shooters so I haven’t played other MMOFPS shooters such as Call of Duty or Battlefield, so I can’t compare them all, but I can attest to the fact that this game is fantastic fun. A lot of the things that I like the most about it are precisely the things some other people have problems with. For instance, some people say it’s too difficult and that you can just jump into other MMOFPS shooters and play. DUST 514 is much more complex. After a couple of months I can take out noobs with just a few rounds, while more advanced players are much harder to take down. It’s impossible when they mob you when you’re by yourself and all you can do is get away or die. BlingBlaine (above) complains about the aiming system and he’s right. It’s difficult. That’s one thing that separates the more advanced players from the noobs. That’s probably true in any shooter. And, by the way, you do have to make adjustments to the aiming in the options tab. Also, you start out in the game with the lowest quality gear. It takes a long time to build up your skills in this game and the skill tree takes a bit of time to work out. You can pay 20$ or so for a start-up MERC kit, which I did, but beyond that it costs a bit too much for the pay-to-win kits, and I think any advanced player can easily take out a player with a pay-to-win kit. This game is not pay-to-win as far as I can see. As for the bugs, there have been a few, but they haven’t been nearly as debilitating as BlingBlaine makes out. For the most part, the game works just fine. I myself don’t have frames-per-second problems 99% of the time, so I think the problem might be on his end (BlingBlaine’s). Regarding DUST 514’s forums, there are a couple of different ones, one is a lot more active than the others.