New EVE video devblog series shows off revamped nebulae

With CCP Games' recent refocusing on in-space content for EVE Online, developers on the floor have been working harder than ever to bring us shiny new toys for the winter expansion. We've already heard that the player-designed Tornado would be released as part of a new tier of gun-heavy battlecruisers, and CCP has gone on to show off the Gallente design also hand-picked from contest submissions.

This week's absolute flood of good news for EVE Online players continues with the first of a new video devblog series shot at CCP's Reykjavik headquarters -- the development hub for EVE. Part 1 of this look at the art department shows off the incredible new nebula graphics we'll be getting as part of the expansion, and hints at the development of a new model for the popular Caldari Raven. The Raven update is part of what Art Manager Benjamin Bohn calls the V3 project, a project that has brought us the new Scorpion model and will continue to deliver revamps of old ships.

Skip past the cut to watch the first in this new video devblog series. Note to viewers: The presenter is in fact carrying a microphone and not a live hand grenade.

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And none of it matters because people still aren't logging in.

@(Unverified) But going in the right direction. Sure the has taken a significan fall - but it isn't over yet - by a long shot.

@(Unverified)

I just logged in and there were 45k people on, which was weird considering that "people still aren't logging in". Perhaps you're having an internet connection problem. Check with your ISP in case you've had a service interruption.

@Boardwalker

actually, i took the 4.95 offer to return, and now im logging in. if they deliver the changes that were promised recently, i'll keep logging in next year too.

As a former EVE subscriber I have to agree with you. I started playing just after Apocrypha and have watched the game go downhill ever since. I unsubscribed shortly after monoclegate, although I had decided that I was going to anyway as I was pretty bored of it all.

EVE is still the best MMO I've ever played and I have fond memories of my time in the sandbox. EVE captured my imagination like no other game has. However, these new changes are just too little too late. It took a whole year of the playerbase saying "no" for CCP to finally get it, and really I'm just done. The magic is gone.

I hope I can go back in the future, but I am very much on the fence and I think I will be for a long time until I see some concrete development and iteration on space features.

Just wait until the new boredom mechanic ships. First it lulls you to sleep by making you do rendering calculations by hand then when you decide to do something else with you life it alerts the other players that it's time to screw you over.
Hope you bought insurance.

Correct me if I'm wrong...I played a few times a while ago but isn't the only way to navigate in Eve is to select a target and away you go...or just set a cruising speed and go in on direction. You don't actually feel like you have direct control over you ship...which kind of made me feel less like I was controlling a ship and more like I was playing a point and click game. That is one pretty nebula though!

@JohnD212 No there are no "direct" control, but remember that the smallest ships in the game are the size of jumbo-jets and the largest ones are the size of cities. It wouldn't make sense to have the kind of direct control you are asking for.

@JohnD212 Piloting in EVE is more like playing a real time strategy game than a space flight simulator. It makes much more sense when you think of it like that.

@foofad

I like to think of the ship control in eve as I would war at sea. Managing transversal velocities and firing at your optimal ranges, etc, lends itself more to a naval combat sim than a fps/twitchy decent-influenced game. It's too bad it's misunderstood as a 'point and click' kind of thing.

Add + 4 ships in 2 years, some debugs and re-balance which should be done on daily basis, few images on background, call it "winter expansion" and watch lemmings reactivate their $15/month subscriptions to "enjoy" "expansion". If there was industry award "most ridiculous expansion", "less value for money", "most lazy development team" etc. - CCP/EVE could win it by a landslide during last 2 years.

@Pasha

they totally dropped the ball with FiS in favour of WiS and Nex. i think the management has realized how moronic that was. the devs are actually really happy to return to their work on FiS

@(Unverified) Do you seriously believe 1 jail cell (aka "captain quarters") and 20 pants+shirts (aka "NeX") could prevent team of 600 developers from adding single combat spaceship during 2 years? They simple didn't want to do anything until subscribers suddenly realized they are being exploited and finally won EVE by quitting it. Now CCP is trying to create impression they are actually doing something by providing few pages of text with set of gimmicks (aka "dev blogs"), 1 video clip per month and 4 years late debugs/re-balance as "expansion". TRION in Rift is doing more in a season (every 3 months) than CCP did in EVE during last 2 years. Sadly, Trion didn't make spaceships game yet - otherwise I'd used my money from multiple (frozen) EVE subscriptions to purchase it without any doubts.

@Pasha

oh, shush. don't bother commenting if you're going to be the archetype of sour. and take your 'multiple frozen accounts' with you.

@Pasha

Do what you will, I'll go enjoy taking over all the lowsec planets with my Custom offices and reaping the benefits. Also, t3 battlecruisers... say waaaa??? CCP definitely got me to resub.

@Dirame

Just to clarify, since people might misread your post, they are implementing tier 3 battlecruisers not tech 3 (t3) battlecruisers.

I know there are a lot of cynics out there. But the truth is, if your really love Eve, news like this can only be seen as a good thing. It may be little too late, but they are still doing something now. And as far as the amount they're doing, it seems pretty good. It's not like they have to create a ton of new content, like WoW and Rift. They just have to reiterate on the existing sandbox tools in the game. New ships, re-balancing hybrids, new nebulae, and (hopefully) a robust fix of faction warfare is a great start.

Thanks everyone. No disrespect about the game. I love Eve and I loved playing it when I did. I always got a little bored after a while and wish there was more to do on planets (maybe either mini games or simple exploration) but all in all..I hope it continues to do well. I'm sure I'll return to play yet again soon.

New EVE video devblog series shows off revamped nebulae

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