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CCP Games ’ eagerly foretell religious heir toDUST 514iscoming to PC this yearand while very few official details have been disclose aboutProject Nova , we have learn some of what to carry from the next EVE - base first - person shooter .
At EVE Fanfest 2016 , a super early alpha flesh was shown off and made playable , serving as a proof of conception . It has not been showcased since but atEVE Fanfest 2017we speak to Jean - Charles Gaudechon who was running point on the game while it was being developed out of the now defunct CCP Shanghai studio . exploitation has since been move to CCP ’s main central office in Reykjavik , Iceland with support come from London ’s Sumo Digital ( who take over teams from the London - ground CCP studio which shutdown last class after developingEVE : Valkyrie ) but Gaudechon bring out a few key point last year that CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson restate to us last month .
Related : What we were told about Project Nova in 2017
Project Novawill be very focussed on great - feeling , topnotch polished gunplay , and it ’ll be highly tactical and strategical . Make no mistake , CCP Games is not trying to hasten out a clone or transcript of popular endurance or battle royale game that are currently dominate the shooter genre . Novahas been a long - in - ontogenesis project for a reason and while Hilmar Veigar tell us that they are obviously tight monitoring the market , they are serve their own recess and learning from their yesteryear oeuvre withDUST 514 .
“ We ’re going for a particular recession and it ’s more strategic than many of the games out there and manifestly it will hopefully eventually have this connexion with EVE , but we ’re ensure the gameplay feels really practiced . Obviously , especially the battle royal secret plan , specifically Fortnite , has just become such a phenomenon . It ’s just really expanded the grocery store , I cogitate , more than anything else . Even my 14 yr honest-to-goodness girl is playing . She ’s playing Fortnite on the PlayStation 4 . She ’s never played a shooter and now she ’s playing Fortnite . So I opine it ’s vastly increase the size of the market . ”
Hilmar has an interesting and positive mindset for the evolving shooter genre , namely that wildly democratic games likePlayerUnknown ’s BattlegroundsandFortnitemay be dominating the market and wound other game as a result in the unretentive term , but at long last they ’re also bringing in new histrion into the genre as a whole and that these instrumentalist will be interested in try new and different experiences eventually .
" It ’s manifestly creating a different competitive moral force but I imagine what we are doing is very different from that . While I call back Fortnite will carry on to be super successful , I conceive it will be successful in the deed of increase the size of it of the market for more people being practiced at act first - soul shooter , than maybe taking market share off – of course , it ’s sure enough taking market portion aside from hoi polloi right now because it ’s such a phenomenon – but I cerebrate that look will probably bodge over at some point , but what will remain is that Fortnite is this young gigantic , daily gunman that is too strong to ignore . A band of kidskin will larn their first moves play FPS ’s through that game . "
No doubt , every major publishing house or shooter developer is tracking the music genre and experimenting with battle royale modes . Sources designate Activision and Electronic Arts will examine aBattle Royale mode of sorts with Treyarch’sCall of Duty : Black Ops 4and DICE’sBattlefield 5 , severally , and reports haveUbisoft Massivealso developing a battle royale title . What does that mean for games likeProject Nova ?
" Yeah , I think by now everyone will experiment with something . It ’s not that complicated to do . Already conflict royale was leapfrogging from DayZ to H1Z1 … to PUBG and now to Fortnite , and I imagine from there , now that it ’s so big it will go up to everything , and it will become a matter – like not it will become a genre . There are in all probability more plot that will be successful with it but not everyone will be successful with it . But I do n’t think , that with that case of game we are going for , I do n’t reckon it ’s good to be jumping on that bandwagon – at least not right now . I think it ’s great . I just think it increase that sizing of the overall market and probably sucks the atomic number 8 a little bit out of all games , at least right now because it ’s such a phenomenon , but I recall that will arrive back . the great unwashed will still need to play different types of game . "
This summer is E3 2018 and this fall CCP Games will host their next fan issue at EVE Vegas . Do n’t be surprised if we get the realProject Novareveal somewhere in that clock time frame .
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