Good grief
It’s happening again. As sure as Square Enix overestimating their sales projections, as sure as John Riccitiello pissing off every available customer,EVE Onlinedevelopers CCP will try to make a first-person shooter set in the same universe.
This time it’s called EVE Vanguard, a shooter “module” which will sit within the EVE launcher and asychronously connect to EVE Online.
Vanguard is a PvPvE shooter that looks to have learned lessons fromHunt: Showdownand Escape From Tarkov, with players in squads fighting computer-controlled enemies in order to secure an item that other players on the same server will then compete to steal. Your actions in the shooter then connect to EVE Online via a corruption mechanic being introduced in the Havoc expansion,says PC Gamer.
CCP hope EVE Vanguard will launch into beta this December, and there’s asign-up form at the official sitealong with a load of other screenshots.
That makes Vanguard attempt number four - and that’s just the ones they announced publicly. I can’t fault CCP for persevering. As the saying goes, if at first you don’t succeed, try, try and try again. I have begun to feel a little like Charlie Brown though,creduously trying to kick CCP’s football.
On the other hand, it’s better than CCP’s other announced project: ablockchain game set in the EVE Online universe.
