Developer CCP has revealed on the PlayStation blog, details regarding the online and technical aspects of its upcoming Dust 514 which is an MMO first person shooter set in the universe of the popular MMORPG named Eve Online. This game was revealed for the PS3 in 2009, but it was only at this year’s E3 that Dust 514 was also announced for the PS Vita.
It has been disclosed that the game will include ‘heavy’ MMO elements. CCP’s Eve Online has received considerable success following its 2003 release and it is perhaps this what has prompted the developer to chose the game as a background for the new title. Dust 514 would be powered by the Unreal Engine 3 and will apparently take advantage of some existing EVE Online technologies.
Lin Luo, Server Architect, CCP, posted on the blog, “We have done a bunch of significant performance optimizations to the FPS engine we are using both on the server side and the client side, so each Dust battle server is now happily hosting a satisfying number of concurrent Dust players. Again, I will not go too much detail on how we achieved that, but rest assured that the Dust battles will be very scalable. As always, we are continuously making improvements to every aspect of Dust 514, to make Dust an enjoyable experience for all of our future players!”
A notable aspect about this game is that unlike traditional first person shooter multiplayer servers, it will host battle servers around the globe. Moreover, as an alternative to having a dedicated server machine to host one battle, the developer is supposedly aiming to have a dedicated multi-core server machine to host as many Dust battle servers as possible.
Dust 514 is yet to receive a definite release date. Gamers will be kept posted by us with all the latest information regarding this title.