Updated story: CCP has revealed Dust 514 players will be able to migrate their characters to Project Legion.

The firm also clarified it will still continue to support Dust 514.

Original story: Dust 514 will see no meaningful updates as development shifts to the newly-announced PC game Project Legion.

A keynote for the PS3-only shooter at EVE Fanfest 2014 gave a brief recap of its first year but failed to outline any upcoming updates and features, and instead focused on Project Legion, which is developed by the same team at CCP Shanghai.



Executive producer Jean-Charles Gaudechon told Digital Spy that any new modes, such as planned player versus environment survival-style missions, as well as a Vita app, have been cancelled and any updates for the time being would simply "keep improving the experience" rather than adding to it.

"Project Legion is changing things a little bit," he said in an interview outside of the keynote address.

"We need to look at what we have right now, and start putting part of the team on one and part of the team on the other.

"It's still a tiny bit early to say what's going to come when, especially when it comes to game modes. I'm also a big fan where we have a lot of toys already to play with, and want to make sure we keep balancing that.

"We keep offering a really strong experience out there, because it is kind of an online service. There's a big focus there too where we need to not forget."



Senior vice president of product development Sean Decker also reiterated that the first-person focus for CCP will shift from Dust 514 to Project Legion.

"Obviously we're really happy with millions upon millions of people coming in. At the end of the day, the question for us is really taking Dust 514 and ensuring that it still lives within the EVE universe," he said.

"But, is it really that core shooter experience that we wanted? Again, taking all that time and energy, I think there were certain things that we did well and certain things we did poorly on execution, almost.

"For us, the question is looking at it and saying, 'How do we either improve this or move onto something else?'"

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Gaudechon explained the decision to move away from Dust 514 to the separate Project Legion, which will offer both more emergent and environmental-driven experiences.

"The thing with Dust 514 is that it's a full-on product in flight," he said. "I say in flight, because it's really difficult to change the engine of a plane in flight, and that's what Dust 514 is.

"You could not, I feel, iterate without putting that plane down, fixing it, and putting it back up. I'm not about to do that with Dust, because Dust is a really good experience out there, and that's something we should all remember

"It's something I enjoy a lot. But if I want to make the change that I want to make to it, it will go towards Project Legion, and hopefully become its own experience."

Decker didn't specify how long CCP would continue to support Dust 514 for, and confirmed it would remain only on PS3 despite talk of possible long-term next-gen support at EVE Fanfest last year.

However, with Project Legion entering development recently and being classed as a "prototype", Gaudechon said all plans are "in flux".

"That's the risk of coming in early into Project Legion, but we're not good at keeping secrets away from our consumers," he explained.

"Not all of our ducks are in a row, we're still trying to make the right decision.

He added: "We felt we had to show Project Legion early - that's what we've done - but now we need to organise more plans, where we put our teams, our effort, etc. And that's all happening now."

The last update to Dust 514 was in March, introducing cloaked technology, new drop suits and firearms.

As well as Project Legion, CCP announced virtual reality game EVE Valkyrie would star Katee Sackhoff and move development to Unreal Engine 4.

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