Saturday, November 28, 2009

Dominion in Four Days

eve dominion.pngSo, looks like CCP got the Dominion website up. The trailer especially is very well-done. While I think I know enough about PvP to say that something like that wouldn't happen (at least not with those kinds of visuals and formations) it's definitely something you'd want to show your non-capsuleer friends to get them interested in EVE.

In case you couldn't tell, I don't spend much (any) time in nullsec. Therefore, the new features that I'm looking forward to the most are procedurally-generated planets and starfields. While these aren't as important as the sovereignty and faction ship retooling, I feel they've been needed for a while. For a space game, the planets in EVE seem are honestly pathetic, and in my opinion are the biggest problem with the graphics. The starfields look a bit better, but there are still some that clearly have artifacts and color bars on them.

Another feature I'm looking forward to are the new PvP and discovery tutorials. The tutorials and career missions gave a good basic knowledge of how EVE works, but they still seemed to lack information on major facets of gameplay. I'm not sure I'll learn anything that I don't know from having experimented with large-fleet PvP and scanning down WHs, but I might as well give a few minutes of my time to check out the desperately-needed new player content.

The complete feature list for Dominion can be found here.

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