According to a new developer blog on the official EVE Online site, the migration of current DUST 514 players into the EVE universe will begin "after a slightly longer than usual scheduled downtime" on Thursday, January 10th. DUST players can be recruited into corporations and will appear in General chat as well.

Besides just chatting about the weather or sharing battle stories, we are also introducing the first component of higher level gameplay as part of Faction Warfare. DUST mercenaries can accept contracts offered by the NPC Faction Warfare miltias and fight to attack or defend them in the form of corporation battles. These come with the risk of losing a collateral payment of ISK, but a victory will secure a district on one of the many temperate planets in Faction Warfare space. The more districts a militia has control over the fewer victory points will be required for EVE Faction Warfare pilots to take ownership of the system.

Read more about the interaction between the two games on the EVE Online site.

Whoa, wait a minute. Players will be doing FPS stuff instead of space combat? For some reason, that sounds far more interesting that flying a fighter ship.

Originally posted by lizardbones

Whoa, wait a minute. Players will be doing FPS stuff instead of space combat? For some reason, that sounds far more interesting that flying a fighter ship.

It's a separate world. Players from eve can contract the players, but you can't really interact much. Supposedly there will be a system so that eve players can drop in with their ships and blow the crap out of people in Dust, but as of yet there is not information on if dust players can get out into the stars. As it stands it is pretty much a stand alone FTP FPS that totes, "limited" connectivity to the world of EVE.

Originally posted by LadyEuphei

Originally posted by lizardbones

Whoa, wait a minute. Players will be doing FPS stuff instead of space combat? For some reason, that sounds far more interesting that flying a fighter ship.

It's a separate world. Players from eve can contract the players, but you can't really interact much. Supposedly there will be a system so that eve players can drop in with their ships and blow the crap out of people in Dust, but as of yet there is not information on if dust players can get out into the stars. As it stands it is pretty much a stand alone FTP FPS that totes, "limited" connectivity to the world of EVE.

It's limited compared to where CCP is headed with the link, but what is arriving is far more than just chat.

The DUST 514 mercenaries are fighting on the temperate planets in the Factional Warfare (FW) zones of EVE Online. More importantly, they can take contracts to fight for control of a district on a planet, which directly affects the balance of power in EVE Online when it comes to FW ownership of a system.

The interaction is even more up close and personal with the Tactical Strikes, where DUST 514 players coordinate with EVE Online players to "rain fire from the skies" in the form of a Tactical Strike. Beyond just communicating between two games, you now have actual combat interaction between the two games on two separate platforms.

Again, this is limited connectivity compared to where CCP is heading with the integration of the two games within the EVE Universe, but as a feature set, it's a really great technological step forward for cross-platform online gaming.

Originally posted by Jorl
They've should have made this for PC. Though marketing wise, I can see why they did so.

And why is that?  Because I can see no upside to making it a PS3 exclusive, especially this late in the console lifecycle.

Originally posted by Lonzo
They should concentrate on EVE or EVE-Next

is eve-next something you came up with ?

if yes, then YOU should concentrate on it since nobody else is working on such a thing.

Originally posted by Lonzo
They should concentrate on EVE or EVE-Next

 Could not agree more the fact that they using my subs to make this pile of crap is what annoyes me.

Originally posted by NightBandit

Originally posted by Lonzo
They should concentrate on EVE or EVE-Next

 Could not agree more the fact that they using my subs to make this pile of crap is what annoyes me.

u can cancel your sub anytime

I don't know why there's so much hate towards Dust514. Just grab your PS3, connect a keyboard and a mouse via USB and happily start shooting stuff. You don't need to play it with an effing controller.

Additionally, the PS3 makes Dust514 very resiliant to hacks and cheats, which I happily live with instead of playing any other FPS on the PC, where hacks and cheats are mandatory to even have the slightest chance.