Dust 514 was maybe too generic on the planets. I want to be on ships, I want to see planets, I want to know where I am. “It’s very important to me and the team to be very thematically accurate and to take place in EVE in a recognizable way. It was set on a ship that made for a fine first-person shooter setting, but lacked the personality required to make it a memorable EVE setting. Árnason seems to be cognizant of the need to do better in this area. The map that we played struggled to spotlight this desire for identity. We can see that a lot of shooters are going into fantasy, cartoons, way more extravagant stuff. By realistic, I mean that its supposed to make sense in this universe, which is a future universe based on real humans and less fantastical. It’s meant to be a semi-realistic tactile squad-based shooter. “I think it’s kind of a step back to a proper shooter in some sense. If you are true Support, for instance, you earned it.”ĭespite the fact that Project Nova is intrinsically tied to EVE Online, Árnason insists that the focus on making a great shooter that fits its setting is first and foremost.
“It was kind important to us to say ‘Okay, you earned this.” You can’t just automatically own everything.’ There’s kind of a respect to the players who play that class. “These are not final, but the progression is a kind of tech tree where you have to play in the loadout to earn it - different from EVE and Dust 514, actually,” he comments. Proficiency is the only way to earn that specialization, though. Árnason says progression is something that’s earned and that the effort is rewarded. It gets more specialized from there, with loadouts able to mix and match weapons freely. Sentinel, Vanguard, Support, Assault, Infiltrator, and Sharpshooter are the six easily identifiable ones.
In all actuality, branching class trees mean that there are 32 different roles. Project Nova is set to have three main classes - light, medium, and heavy - but there’s a lot of customization beyond that. CCP also makes a point to emphasize that it’s aiming for an “uncompromised 60 frames per second” for rigs with the right specs. What we saw was a six-on-six fray, but Árnason explains that was only to satisfy space restrictions at a convention it’s going to be 16 versus 16 instead.
The nuts and bolts of Project Nova are that it’s a free-to-play first-person shooter for the PC. But, we also sat down with the game’s senior director Snorri Árnason to get a better feel for the developer’s intentions. That’s mighty obvious judging solely by the two matches we spent with Nova. Instead, Project Nova has taken over and it seems a much better candidate to actually end up as a finalized product. Now we know that’s not the case, as Legion was officially shelved. Two years ago, Project Legion was announced as the maybe-successor of Dust 514. If a project isn’t to CCP’s liking, it’d rather not release something than press the issue. Whether it ever turns into something more depends on a number of things, a major one being how this weekend goes.ĬCP has made it perfectly clear over the past few years that it has no problem shutting down a game before it’s ever launched. Project Nova is the name of the game, a moniker designed to indicate exactly what it is to this point: A project. EVE Online developer CCP has a new first-person shooter but there’s a chance no one will ever get to play it unless they happen to be in Reykjavik, Iceland this weekend.
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