Another EVE Online spin-off has bitten the mud. Project Nova, CCP’s newest try to put their expansive universe in entrance of the barrel of a rifle, has joined Dust 514 and EVE: Valkyrie on the intergalactic scrapheap. The devs haven’t fairly given up on a boots-on-the-ground galaxy completely. They’ve nonetheless acquired a crew down in London plugging away at that drawback. But for all intents and functions, Nova is not any extra.
According to Massively, CCP proprietor Pearl Abyss formally introduced Nova’s cancellation of their This autumn earnings report. CCP took to Reddit to elaborate, noting that the dream of an EVE Online FPS isn’t fairly lifeless – it had merely grown past what Nova was meant to be.
“This decision was taken because Project Nova’s gameplay experience as presented at EVE Vegas ’18 would not have achieved our ambitious goals for this concept. Moreover, it is very common for games in active development to evolve over time, often substantially. We remain committed to offering a rock-solid, action-oriented gameplay experience with stellar visuals, but due to significant changes in the scope and direction of our sci-fi multiplayer shooter game concept, it also made sense to update how we refer to this project internally. So, we are no longer using the codename Project Nova for this game concept.”
A “sci-fi multiplayer shooter” continues to be in improvement at CCP London, thoughts. In truth, that workplace has been moved over completely to growing and exploring that idea. But the spaceship-maker’s house in Reykjavik is not concerned, shifting again onto different tasks. As an apart, CCP are additionally gonna cease posting publically at any time when they get actually excited a couple of pet mission.
“We are moving away from publicly announcing our internal project codenames and will wait until we’re ready for a full reveal. We want to show you rather than tell you how we have evolved this concept and we’re looking forward to doing so when the time comes to present this concept as a fully-fledged game.”
As a fellow inventive, I get it. It’s actual simple to get pumped up about one thing you’re engaged on, zealously oversharing cool screens earlier than the entire thing fizzles out. It’s a foul feeling, and whereas this in all probability means we gained’t see so many musings come out of the Icelandic builders, what we do see is extra more likely to have legs.
For what it’s value, Project Nova wasn’t precisely shaping as much as be an all-time nice. Steven Messner warped out to Fanfest 2016 to offer it a shot, however discovered little greater than “another generic sci-fi shooter”.
It wasn’t even a lot of a shake in opposition to the final EVE shooter, Dust 514. That game would possibly’ve been janky, technically flawed, and a PlayStation unique – however not less than us PC lot might rock as much as a match with a nation-sized warship. As it ought to be, actually.
