Project Nova, the Eve Online spinoff FPS, isn’t fairly prepared for public alpha testing – invite-only or in any other case. Developers CCP and Sumo Digital have opted to place the game again within the oven for some time longer, after the game met lukewarm response at fan-convention Eve Vegas. In a rather grim-looking announcement on its official web page as we speak, CCP state that “the gameplay experience in its current form does not live up to our original vision”. The non secular successor to Dust 514 as soon as extra returns to the shadows for retooling, with no set date as to once we’ll subsequent hear of it.
Project Nova and its predecessor Dust 514 have had a fairly bumpy experience thus far. I reckon that Dust 514 was an honest game, however I’ve at all times felt that CCP’s resolution to make it a Playstation three unique kneecapped it. It was a fine-looking game, however the {hardware} simply wasn’t as much as delivering the studio’s imaginative and prescient for the game on the time. Nic Rueben got to poke around Project Nova at Eve Vegas, and it looks like they’ve taken the game in a wildly totally different path once more, abandoning Dust 514’s Battlefield-lite format in favour of small-team goal matches and a horde mode.
Even CCP appeared barely apprehensive in Vegas, speaking about managing expectations. While the gunplay as described (“a meaty mix of Destiny shootouts and COD’s lightning-fast executions”) doesn’t sound unhealthy, I can admire that it sounds very totally different to Dust 514’s heavyweight power-armoured brawls. Heavy armour in that game felt prefer it may take an actual pounding from small arms earlier than giving up. It’s one hell of a balancing act that CCP have lined up for themselves, particularly in the event that they hope to combine Eve’s cutthroat capitalistic angle into its programs as soon as extra.
The developer statement closes saying “CCP is in no rush to release Project Nova until we’re satisfied it provides a rock-solid gameplay experience and visuals to match.”. Here’s hoping.
