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CCP's CEO on life, the universe, and EVE Online: 'It's worthwhile to spend our lives taking care of it'




t the recent EVE Fanfest, PC Gamer had the opportunity to sit down with CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, who since the company's founding has been something of a presiding spirit over EVE Online. Pétursson has helmed CCP through good times and bad, contraction and expansion, but from the outside this looks like a time of rude health for CCP and EVE, with this Fanfest seeing the announcement of new FPS EVE Vanguard alongside the Havoc expansion and a new mobile title. We began with the shooter, before branching out into everything else...
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Eve Online's greatest stories belong to its players

The thing that struck me the most during my time at Eve Fanfest in Reykjavik, Iceland was the players. Eve Online fans, or Capsuleers, are some of the warmest, most welcoming people I've had the pleasure of meeting, and their dedication and passion for CCP Games' MMO shine through at every given opportunity.


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AMD FSR 3 is out now in Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum, inbound to EVE Online

FSR 3, AMD’s framerate-roiding answer to DLSS 3 frame generation, is ready to roll in its first supporting games. Great! Except these are currently limited to tedious magic shooters Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum, which is less great.


Regardless, this could be a major moment for basically any modern graphics card that isn’t an Nvidia RTX 40 series model. FSR 3’s Fluid Motion Frames system works in a broadly similar manner to DLSS 3, piecing together whole new frames outside of the usual GPU rendering pipeline and slipping them onto your screen between the 'real' frames. The result (in theory – I’ll be trying FSR 3 out in depth next week) is higher FPS with no extra strain on your PC, and unlike Nvidia’s frame generation, it doesn’t need any specialist hardware to work. Therefore older cards, as well as recent AMD GPUs like the RX 7700 XT and RX 7800 XT, could get a new lease of life in games that support it.


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Crimson Harvest is Coming

[h3]Macabre capsuleers,[/h3]

New Eden is about to be overrun by terrifying events in honor of the scariest time of year. This year’s Crimson Harvest event is just around the corner, and you better get ready because it is longer and more gruesome than ever before and brings spine-chilling rewards.

Expect monstrous loot drops, horrific in-game events, and blood-curdling rewards across the period, from 5 October to 6 November. There’s certainly plenty of gore and glory to sink your teeth into, and you should not miss out on the spooktacular attractions of Crimson Harvest.

[h2]HARVEST OF HORRORS[/h2]

The Crimson Harvest puts capsuleers in the middle of the bloody conflict between the Blood Raider Covenant and the Order of Tetrimon. From 5 Oct to 6 Nov, you will find bone-chilling combat and hacking sites scattered throughout Highsec, Lowsec, Nullsec, and wormhole systems. More challenging sites, promising even greater rewards, can be found by those who dare to dig deeper into the mysteries of the void.

Getting involved in the horrific clash is as simple as picking a side through the Agency section for the event, before taking on unique sets of challenges, and rewards specific to your selected loyalty.

Community Fittings, supplied by EVE Partners and players, will be available to view during the event so you can put your best fit on. Combat sites will appear all over as anomalies in the Probe Scanner. Head into your preferred area of space, use the Agency Anomaly Scanner to scan down sites, then warp in to take on a series of frightening challenges in the dungeons that await.
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[h2]TRICK OR TREAT[/h2]

It is the bloodiest time of year, and killing is a means of communication. During the Crimson Harvest event, PvP kills will drop loot at a higher rate, around 90% instead of the regular 50%. Find the pumpkin icon tagging the wrecks of your helpless victims and claim your bounties. Take care, though, as you might yourself fall victim to devious fiends who might be lurking in the shadows, waiting to pounce on you when you least expect it.

[h2]REAP THE GRIM REWARDS[/h2]

Every day of the Crimson Harvest will bring devilish login rewards. Alpha and Omega players get separate rewards, with Omegas enjoying both sets every day, and upgrading at any time during the event unlocks all previous Omega rewards. The tasty treats on offer include boosters, SKINs, EverMarks, a generous amount of Skill Points and more. Get prepared and plan ahead, as not only will there be rewards given every day to those logging in, the 25th login during Crimson Harvest will be rewarded with 250.000 skill points for Omega and 75.000 for Alpha capsuleers.

EVE Online director wants players to be able to download its grandest battles as replays and do post-match analysis like football




t EVE Fanfest last week, I sat down with EVE Online game director Snorri Árnason for a wide-ranging chat about where the one-of-a-kind sandbox space MMO has been in recent years and where it's going. We talked about big things like Dust 514 and EVE Vanguard, with Árnason lamenting that if the former had been on PC "it would literally still be alive", but a smaller comment that also struck me as interesting was one in which Árnason expresses ambition to have football-style analysis of EVE's great battles...
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