EvE Tyrannis with its Planetary Interaction to be the stepping stone to link DUST 514 EvE FPS into the EvE Universe.
Now leaving the EvE in general comment aside i monitored Tyrannis expansion development since the early stages testing it on the test server (Singularity) and in all honesty i think its awesome adding another layer of complexity to the whole game making it now the most in depth game experience to be ever created in EvE...but.. one could underestimate the awesomeness of this if we are not looking at the big picture here.
What do i mean about a big picture? Well Tyrannis is awesome in itself but it i just a stepping stone to the full plan. What plan you ask? Well CCP will do something never done before as they already did and taking it to a new level.
What did they do before well they created a game that with Tyrannis is self sustainable by players meaning if all players where to leave the game would be dead. Its experience is not scripted, not laid out for you its all player driven. This in itself has not been achieved in any other game as of yet.
So what is this new awesome plan, what can be more awesome then that? Well heard of DUST 514? It is a shooter based in the EvE Universe. Sounds awesome? Well, for the ones playing eve it does indeed but it also allows people that are into FPS games to experience the EvE Universe.
Ok so whats the big fuss about? Well Tyrannis with its Planetary Construction sets the foundation on which DUST 514 will battle it out. Wait you mean we'll FPS on EvE Planets? Hell yea!! But wait doesn't that mean... yes it does! For the first time a FPS and SPACE SIM game will coexist within one universe able to interact with each other. Now that's what i call mind-blowing!
So "Whats the vision?" you might ask as it puts your mindset dreaming about all the awesome possibilities opening up. Well the vision would be DUST 514 providing the first person experience in the eve universe starting from a actual body character, walking in stations/ships, EvE economy entanglement players from one game producing equipment for players in the other game while they earn cash from conquering spaces on planets payed by the EvE players so that the EvE players can build them equipment. Now this is an ecosystem right there. Now the peak would be players in the FPS battling it out on the planet while spaceships in the atmosphere support the ground forces in a Onslaught(Unreal) type of game-play.
Now this is some vision and some mighty plan. Will it work? No way to tell for now we just have to wait and see. But we really hope it will. Not much info available as of yet but details come out one after the other.
Some disappointing things might be that DUST 514 will be console only hopefully they allow PC clients.If you want to taste DUST 514 look for it around here there are some really awesome in-game footage floating on the internet.