It is occurring once more. As certain as Sq. Enix overestimating their gross sales projections, as certain as John Riccitiello pissing off each out there buyer, EVE On-line builders CCP will attempt to make a first-person shooter set in the identical universe.
This time it is referred to as EVE Vanguard, a shooter “module” which can sit inside the EVE launcher and asychronously hook up with EVE On-line.
Vanguard is a PvPvE shooter that appears to have discovered classes from Hunt: Showdown and Escape From Tarkov, with gamers in squads preventing computer-controlled enemies with the intention to safe an merchandise that different gamers on the identical server will then compete to steal. Your actions within the shooter then hook up with EVE On-line through a corruption mechanic being launched within the Havoc growth, says PC Gamer.
CCP hope EVE Vanguard will launch into beta this December, and there is a sign-up kind on the official web site together with a load of different screenshots.
If I seem deeply cynical, it is as a result of we have been right here earlier than. The obvious earlier event is with Mud 514, CCP’s 2013 PlayStation 3-only shooter set within the EVE On-line universe. It wasn’t superb and shut down just a few years later, however the ambition to create a shooter set in EVE’s backstabby spaceverse did not go away. In 2014, CCP introduced sandbox shooter Venture Legion, set within the EVE On-line universe, which went away with out ever being launched. In 2018, they ran closed betas for tactical shooter Venture Nova, set within the EVE On-line universe, earlier than cancelling it in 2020.
That makes Vanguard try quantity 4 – and that is simply those they introduced publicly. I can not fault CCP for persevering. Because the saying goes, if at first you do not succeed, strive, try to strive once more. I’ve begun to really feel somewhat like Charlie Brown although, creduously attempting to kick CCP’s soccer.
Then again, it is higher than CCP’s different introduced venture: a blockchain sport set within the EVE On-line universe.
