EVE Dust 514

[Pinky]

Free to play FPS, PS3 exclusive that ties into the EVE MMO. The beta went live the other day. It's frustrating until you get the hang of it. You play cloned soldiers that are mentally copied and redeployed in new bodies after death. You lose your loadout every time you die, though, so buying supplies becomes is a huge part of it. Buy supplies, put them together into a kit, and then deploy into battlefields with 30+ players.

For anybody wanting to play, the best starter kit is to make a Sentinel class because they start with Heavy Armor (about twice as much HP as normal armor). Then use your free pool of Skill Points and currency to buy up prerequisite skills for Heavy Weapons, then Heavy Weapons itself, and purchase a pile of the cheapest chainguns. Equip them to your Heavy Armor kit and you're ready to go.

If you keep playing, go ahead and make two more characters. They accrue Skill passively over time in addition to actively via battles, so the sooner you make them the better. Once you're comfortable and familiar with the way the game plays you will have those extra characters ready with extra Skill.

[Pinky]

Apparently only 1 of your characters can gain passive exp at a time. Lame. Almost no reason to even have a second character since they will increasingly be lagging behind your primary as time goes on. Oh well, hope it changes on alpha release.

[Sigfried Hunin]

It's the same in EVE online so I doubt that will change.

[Tyr]

Is this the one they plan to be influenced by actions in the EVE universe? So you can bomb planets with ships during important battles etc.?

[Pinky]

Yeah. The beta just needs your 4 man squad to earn around 2500 pts, then the squad leader can paint a spot that is immediately bombed. Not sure about the set up in the full game.