CCP shifts gears from DUST to EVE at Fanfest 2012

@avidlurker

Only dreadnought class ships can bombard and they must use a special module. He uses the special module during the fanfest demo, and once the youtube videos are up, you'll be able to see it in action yourself, I'm sure.

I would imagine that the differences in damage will be handled just like it is in Eve - that is to say that the resistances of your target will determine the final damage done, and some defensives automatically have lower resistances to certain types of weapons.

As far as missiles, I don't believe there are any dreadnought-size missiles, but I play a mercenary and my character is Amarrian, so we don't fly dreadnoughts, and I don't know much about missiles. Someone else might know more.

@Ebaon

Ah dreads would make sense I guess. Gives them another reason to be used.

Citadel torpedoes and cruise missiles are the dread class missiles I believe and are used by the caldari one exclusively and I believe by the naglfar as a split weapon next to projectiles.
Ofc at least the caldari dread I believe had real problems with popularity and for many "dreadnought" meant either the Revelation or the Moros (for station games that one; I hear things have changed a bit)

@Maseno

To put my disappointment into perspective the ships in Eve are absolutely fricking gianormous. One gun should have been able to take out that entire area he pinpointed, let alone the (what looks like) 8 turrets firing down.

Also to the first poster, I am going to assume that the ability to do this will be very skill intensive and possibly only in low/null. That could lead to space battles between opposing sides if both of the ground pounders in Dust have Eve corporations backing them up. From my understanding Eve corps can hire Dust mercenaries to "defend" planetary resources (not sure how this works exactly) so I assume the Dust people can hire Eve mercs to do the orbitals as well?

It is all speculation at the moment since I swear we have not gotten any real information for how long they have been spouting off about the game.

@Maseno
Well, what did you expect?

CCP wants to be able to run a successful game with Dust.
IIRC it's to be free to play with microtransactions, that means people have to continuously play and pay for the game to run successfully.
That means ground battles have to be fun to play.

CCP corporations/alliances/coalitions/blobfactories want to hold a planet and don't really care about Dust.

If BSs were able to unleash the power you seemed to expect, there would be no Dust battles at all.
Probably a spreadsheet pusher would determine (or anyone who did any amount of PI) that, if possible, it probably would be far cheaper to even just obliterate anything on the planet instead of financing or allowing any sort of ground battles to be waged.

Just park a well sized battleship or tier 3 battlecruiser fleet in orbit and pound everything on the plant surface into oblivion. Then rebuild your infrastructure.

What do you think that would do to the economic success of the game Dust 514?

@avidlurker

I guess I was expecting it to be a little more theatrical? Just wasn't very impressive from the ground point of view.

@Amy

Ship choice has absolutely no bearing on what system it will be allowed in. If you zoom in on the top corner it shows it is null.