EVE Online: Citadel Cinematic Trailer 

+M. Woller ist way more pathetic but also way more epic than it sounds

M. Woller Its the closest any game has managed to get to a sense of real risk and loss. unlike other games when you lose stuff its gone forever, its doesn't just respawn. This makes both the combat more impactful..

M. Woller Nah, its not murder. Everyone involved is a clone and when they die they are reborn in another clone. They are effectively immortal.

The people are clones, the ships and station however are destroyed. They don't respawn. This lets the attacking force seize the territory for further engagements.

+The Hole Deal You forgot about all the normal people who are not clones, who are on the station and also on the ships.

+Sloth Guru for the german audience, they translated that to "wreck your dreams" -,-

+Woody Hemphack oops

+Woody Hemphack also accurate

+Sloth Guru more like "Wreck your dreams"

+Sloth Guru hahaha ,was about to post the same comment , until I saw what was top comment.... damn right

Except 0:40

Especially at 0:40

+Spawnage_ Loong NEPU! XD

oh holy fuck lol

my best 1:19

+Michaelle Green or: how many titans can we put in one?

"NEW KILLMAILS!"

What did they do? Destroy it for shits and giggles. What did players actually do when the time came? Destroy it for shits and giggles.

I wouldn’t know. I’ve only been playing for a month

Yoink my citadel now😹 but same can be done with some smaller player controled stations. Worry cool mecanick

+Андрей Касьянов I think you need to find a new favourite Commander, we seem to have broken this one - love from EVE

*was*

Hahaha mass effect is the best xd

Spaceboost!

Godlike comment!😂

EVE logics in a nutshell.

"The latest miracle of modern engineering has been achieved? LET'S GO FUCK IT UP!"

Its kinda like ruining someone's food before they can take a picture of it. Except it costs more. Much more.

That's kinda how war works, "Our enemy built something amazing? LET'S GO FUCK IT UP!"

@@rickregina5053 I mean why take a picture of your food? In my mind just accomplishing the task of building the damn thingbis impressive enough and you shouldve known it wouldng last forever

They should put there: "wreck your expectations" :P

True but then again can't make the trailer 45 minutes long =P

I wanna know who the fuck is complaining! This video, almost a year if not more since it's release still gives me a hard-on. Best trailer they've done!

Which, though, breaks the suspension of disbelief. Players are meant to represent a specific thing (an elite class of immortal space lords who have taken spacefaring to the next level), but don't behave like such beings plausibly would in such a universe, because of a difference between what would motivate and drive such a being, and what motivates a player. That, and the constraints imposed by the game mechanics. RvB, for instance, is something pretty much every player can agree on is a great community initiative in the game. If such a thing would exist in the fictional universe as it exists in the game, capsuleers would have had their existence ended by angry mobs with pitchforks. But yeah, as a representation of what the game is, on the level of alliance warfare and politics, it certainly hits the nail on the head.

See, that's the thing. Red Versus Blue is a perfect example of how players are reflected in the lore. Just how intense their disregard for human life is, throwing away hundreds of lives for "A thrilling battle" because they have the unfathomable wealth to just do it. Eve's lore was entirely built around how players act in the game, and that's what makes it so cool to read about. Capsuleers number in the hundreds of thousands... in a cluster in which every empire region alone has trillions of people. There aren't as many capsuleers in space as it seems, it's just that the warp drives and highly advanced military vessels, on top of basically having top level priority on any warpgate jump, station dock/undock, or any other communication just out of being that rich, the world doesn't seem so big.

+Arius Krieg This is exactly how people would act if they were immortal in real life and had access to this kind of destructive technology. They wouldn't have the same morality you and I have, because they don't have the same concerns as we do. RvB focuses on people who can actually get hurt, die, and have things they care about lost forever. They're, more or less, normal people. Capsuleers can't die, and anything they lose can eventually be regained. They're not supposed to be an "elite class of immortal space lords", they're supposed to be humans stripped of all inhibition.

there like. about a kilometer right?

@@dson978 try... twenty? iirc 18. an iteron mkv or an orca is a km

I felt that the minute the screen panndd something sad or badass woulc happen...I am not disapointed

Wait that are titans

@@dson978 15-18 km long

+MrRikersBeard With Xenuria in it again? BoB help us all...

Heeehe mass effect

Homeworld 1?

Lol

Underrated

Not enough lens glare to be JJ Abrams

I know this comment is old, but this isn't Michael Bay. The chick at 0:24 isn't showing cleavage, there's no unnecessary slow-mo shots, the fleet attacking needs to be the equivalent of the U.S Navy because "AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!!", and the music needs to be overly dramatic sounding instead of fun.

+LTAlter NOOOOOO its in my head. again :(

+LTAlter Ahahahah

+LTAlter Small laser rokh?

+LTAlter I WANNA ROKH!

+LTAlter First thing that came to mind too tho....

Ikr

"that face looks so punchable" billboard gets rammed through by what appears to be a Rokh class battleship.

@@RhelrahneTheIdiot That’s because you can’t ever stop the Rokh.

@@jaymorrison2419 why, are they super stronk? I don't play

@@jaymorrison2419 my vehement is much bigger :)

HELP IM DROWNING IN GRAPH PAPER

+Khannea Sun Tzu Only if Permaband does the soundtrack. :P

+Khannea Sun Tzu Ditto. Just let's hope we don't see them all sitting in dark rooms playing the market or offering ISK doubling services. :D

+Smaxx ahah

it would be hilarious if they had a scene with just that...

There's a tv series?? wow can't wait!!

+OneBigBugga DO eeeet

+OneBigBugga JUST DO IT!

I think mmo players know how real drug addicted fell... Yet another legal drug.

remember excel. wait for vr games.

+OneBigBugga JUST... DO IT! DON'T LET YOUR MEMES BE DREAMS

+Hugh McHills will pretty much be like this if teh first XLs are build in null :D

+Pegasi gotta give him credit for making EVE spicy again...loving the reports and news coming out.

+Illutian Kade heh, he didn't start the war, we brought it to him

***** I get a lot of enjoyment out of both aspects of the war.

+Hugh McHills

+Sgt Spooky My favourite is still Dominion

Upcycle Shoes maaaybe...

"Dragon Fleet, you may now enter the field."

+Sgt Spooky Quite possibly not.

+Sgt Spooky Nah, the EVE Origins trailer/intro is by far the best one. This one is good but it's a bit cheesy.

+Katsu Wolf double kill, triple kill, quadra kill, PENTAKILL!

+Siedzi Hector RAMPAGE!!!!

Denis GraveRaider CITADEL IS GODLIKE!

+Katsu Wolf FUCK THAT NYX IN PARTICULAR!!!!

then 4-5 Titans said "well, fuck you too, Citadel", and desoldered the everloving s*** out of it with their Doomsday weapons >:D

+Samuel Wang I see what you did there :3

+Samuel Wang We'd need a 0.1 option for realism

+Samuel Wang Get a decent computer and internet.

Njoekiezoekie Bro, Tidi is something on CCP's end. It slows down everything so that their servers can process everything without crashing.

Njoekiezoekie do you even tidi

they're playing tonight!

+Zockhandra “Zock” Daki they made a music video for it posted on ccp games channel.

it gets when enemy fleet arrives.

If the game were only 5% as cool as the videos suggest.

slimj091 you CAN make it look like that, but it'll put you at a serious disadvantage.

lol, you decide: lown silent wolf, or loud martial lion pack :) you'll write your own story in eve - not the others.

This is 100% true

Given how messy the large-scale battles tend to look, they probably had to cut down the ship count just so their rendering wouldn't take a year

SirMo I noticed that most Eve trailers are all just doom and gloom. that's why this is the best, because of the music.

It's one of the few videos from the Capsuleer's perspective, with them laughing, cheering, and generally having a blast even as many of them are shot apart in return. If this were the usual fare, we'd hear the reaction of people on the Citadel, which would be horror at the sheer size of the fleet that arrived, and the realization that it was a Capsuleer fleet.

@@tennoshenaniganizer9234 I mean, the This Is Eve trailer was far from dreary

+Winston Smith What do you think about the Dawn of War 3 trailer?

+Jason Burton that would be hilarious

+Jason Burton I bet it is :) it starts like some kind of "oh look, we are the future, invented to smash all to the ground", aka Star Citizen, and then boom, nope.

Jason Burton I like the song that was playing before the rokh though

Well, I think it is more a parallel between the empires and the capsuleers. With the empires being "hey look we are building the future and all" and the capsuleers "how can I find a way to make this shit blow up?"

+Inuclear It's the new revolution

+-Aatif - Don't waste your time or money, 90% of their expansions (including this one) in the last few years have been for hardcore end gamers which is a tiny fraction of the game's population but CCP doesn't give a fuck, they only want to satisfy their precious player council (usually made of hardcore end gamers lol), I did have great times with eve for several years but if you are the kind of player who is more into PVE you will certainly hit a wall pretty quickly, the game is pretty limited in that regard ..

+Unterschiedliche Eve is really not about PvE. Everything in Eve is PvP. Market PvP. Gank PvP. Low Sec PvP. Nullsec PvP.

+Iain Howe I know, but it could have easily been both, it never needed to be "this" or "that", it's massive enough to cater to both tastes without making one feel belittled like a child. I'm still one of those butt-hurt that WIS never moved forward, it was a CHOICE, if you didn't like it don't use it, how hard is that? but instead CCP was terrified of a bunch of it's own players and bent over like a bitch ..

+Unterschiedliche CCP didn't and still doesn't have the resources to properly move forward with WIS without sacrificing the maintenance and continued improvement of the core game. Any resources they put towards WIS are resources they have to take away from making the game itself better. They didn't just abandon WIS because a small group of players threw a hissy fit. They restructured the entire company and downsized by 20% because they realized they were trying to do too many things to appeal to too many people and sacrificing the core of EVE Online to do it. Older features had been left unfinished and riddled with bugs as focus continually shifted to new "Jesus" features in new releases to keep drawing in new players and get old ones to sign back up with shiny new stuff to play with before getting bored with them in three weeks and wondering why they started playing again. When they abandoned WIS, they didn't do it because the CSM told them to or because nullsec players yelled really loud. They did it because for the first time ever, their subscriptions not only stopped growing, they actually started to decline. This was not a vocal minority speaking out. This was a significant portion of the player base giving a vote of "no confidence" to the company and the game, with a good chunk of them doing the voting with their wallets. The incoming DPS to their corporate image and their corporate wallet had broken through their shields and was quickly about to overwhelm their armor reps, so they had to GTFO of WIS. So they retreated to the POS and re-equipped more armor and a DCU with the Crucible release in Winter of 2011, which was the most successful expansion EVE had seen in a long, long time. It didn't introduce any new major features. It focused entirely on fixing 8 years worth of stuff they had already made and making the game better overall. Quicksource: www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-10-19-big-shake-up-at-eve-online-dev-ccp www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-10-21-eurogamer-interviews-ccps-hilmar-petursson-interview If even Chribba brings out the Veldnaught to shoot at the memorial in Amarr to join in protest, you've probably made a bad move and pissed off pretty much everyone by that point. WIS would have been a really neat feature. Most players would have been fine with it as a choice if they could simply ignore it. The problem is nothing happens in a vacuum and WIS could not have happened without taking away resources from the spaceships side of things; it would have done nothing to make the "game" part of the game any better, and ultimately players are paying to play internet spaceships and would rather their money go towards making it better and more fun to play, not to sit around in a station chatting with glorified dress-up dolls like they already could in Second Life or IMVU. Citadel's structures go a long way towards making nullsec and lowsec a better place to play, and a healthier nullsec makes for a healthier game overall. It's the fighting in nullsec that drives the entire EVE economy, and generates the most player-driven content, which is EVE's biggest draw (especially now with World War Bee going on). It's also the largest contributor to the destruction of ISK and materials, and without it there would be much less demand for ships, modules, and resources, thus causing the market and the value of ISK to plummet. PvP is the core of everything EVE is, and yet at no point is it ever made entirely mandatory. But without PvP as a focus, EVE becomes another forgettable theme-park game that lasts maybe 3-4 years before players get bored and move on. EVE has always been about Internet Spaceships and Sandcastle Empires in Space. Crucible brought development focus back to Spaceships instead of dress-up dolls (and non-space vampires!) in late 2011. Four and a half years later, Citadel finally brings us much better Sandcastles to build and knock over which they've been promising for a long time. This strategy has proven to give a much better return on their efforts than finishing WIS would have been. After they put off development of World of Darkness indefinitely (now since handed off to another company entirely), they'd have gotten even less of a return on their efforts on walking avatars. The Carbon graphics framework for avatars was a huge waste of development time they started back in 08-09 to achieve character graphics in late 2010 that, while revolutionary at that point in time, would become more easily attainable cost-, development-, and performance-wise in the Unreal engine not too long after.

+Unterschiedliche lol

'member captain's quarters ?

I 'member

Years later, it still stands head and shoulders above.

@@jaymorrison2419 Agreed, this was the trailer to get me into the game... Still the best in my opinion, especially for getting new players hooked.

+ChaoslordZX I intentionally do not skip ad when this one comes up now youtube is smart enough not to show me any of those dungeon boss or girl/boy video bull crap

LoL has very good trailers/ cinematics, or should I say animated music videos. Some cutscenes from Blizzard... But yea, this eve one is top tier.

Ah such an awesome comment yet overlooked, o7

futurebr87 o7

+haseo yashimora lol

He should have overheated everything...

Drake is too busy dancing in abstract environments to be bothered with fleets

ahhh. there we got an idea. since comic films became huge, doh ppl get tired...and Warcraft is around the cinema corner.. this could open the door for more to come..... A LOT MORE...

+Pshybysz They're already working on a TV series. Baltasar Kormakur, the Icelandic director who did 2 Guns, is working on it with Ridley Scott

animated seires would be better any way

Not will or ever can stop its might power!!!

You can stop the Rokh, and all it takes is a stick with a Peashooter.

Permaband - Wrecking Machine. I know that I am waaay too late, but here it is

+RaveAramashi Dont waste your time or money. I played for 7 years, and finally won EVE. I quit.

Anonymous19992012 I won't lol. There's no way in hell I'm gonna have time to play this

+RaveAramashi Same. But if you're interested in this type of game, check out Fractured Space. It has a similar feel but a lot more player friendly. I really enjoy the game, and a big update should be coming in the next few days. They do free forever weekends a lot, so maybe check it out if you're interested.

Seconded on Fractured Space. Eve for filthy casuals xD

Pegasi lol Fractured space is so much less stressful though xD EVE is too dangerous for me to play these days. Heart attack the game.

+Cen prince de Lapin-tisserie You always know a Working Joe!

+Cen prince de Lapin-tisserie Then someone comes along to wreck those worlds.

+tikletik That's CCP Guard for you.

+Captain Crutches Oh Guard should never change, remember the best ship is the friendship

+Sean Mumford but other 100 000 want to smash that billboard too :D

I realized long ago that the average size of the starships and space structures in Eve Online are one of the biggest ever seen along the whole Sci-Fi works, each medium-size ship are far bigger than those from Star Wars or Star Trek

+Chris Robato fake hipster glasses exist still in the future

+Chris Robato style

+cloudstrife2131 so does the urge to smash them into the flesh of the wearers..........fucking hate hipsters.

+Chris Robato it´s a new eden hipster

@@proffessorX 0:40, there you go.

+Victor Gott It is, but blind people can't see it.

+Daniel Krawczyk +

+Victor Gott Move to nullsec!

***** Its nothing like this, i lived on null already

+Victor Gott It doesn't LOOK like a computer animated movie (duh!), but it pretty much works like that.

backup clones and clone transfer do help alot

TBF it looks rly nice when they blow up :D Also there is shiny stuff in there and nice Kill Mails

Boring game

Maybe if you dont play with a corp.

+Frans van Terwisga It's made entirely in the game graphics engine with very few custom effects used (breaking through the billboard is the only one I really noticed as totally custom), it's just the view as a pilot isn't nearly as cinematic and ship flight isn't nearly so precisely and gracefully controlled. The former is a result of practicality and tactical awareness; the best camera angles focus on what's cool to look at in that particular moment, and omit everything else that otherwise might be crucial to surviving a battle. That matter of control would take multiple players controlling a single ship (one to manage targets and modules as you normally would, and another just to pilot), as well as a ship piloting scheme similar to Elite: Dangerous for such finely and freely controlled movements.

waffle911 don't fool yourself, this was a cinematic trailer. It's called cinematic for a reason. On top of that, doomsdays don't realtime rip through structures as it did in this trailer either. Just one example of knowing this is not in-game

+Hiver We're on this like white on rice. I intend to bug CCP Guard and CCP Hunter daily until it drops. :D

+Jaime Sosa -if it is not this intense for you then you are doing it wrong

+segheg Lol maybe for you, but i think for many players its 95% waiting and grinding and 5% intense situations

+Jaime Sosa 5 months later... oh look. Level 5 skills! yay! now to get a cap ship... great. I spend to spend another year getting skills...

+Jaime Sosa It depends lot on the player if they like most of time playing eve being reasonably slow, and 5-10% being complete chaos. I like calm times, especially right before fights as everyone is getting excited waiting for the fight to start.

+Dark Star Eve being slow because of skill training is your own fault, you have skills to do all kinds of fun things from the moment you create your character, rest is in the players head.

+Squirtle Squady you should try it some time

+Tyson Sorvig I disagree. I say it's the Prophecy. It brings tears to my every time I watched it.

Tyson Sorvig I agree, this is the best Eve trailer. all the others are just doom and gloom. this ones graphics and music just make it flawless

Jump, Jump the gate, Jump Jump Jump, Jump through the gate. Hit jump, jump now guys jump jump jump.. Ok align, align guys align to YKANTU gate align align align... Oh shit, gate camp... Ok everyone warp out, warp out if you can. Warp warp... Shit bubble, okay try to warp, get out if you can. Fuck... I'm podded.

+Tom Smith (The Watcher) Cause eve players attention spans are short... What did he say? Ooooh explosions!

+Minimeister317 not even close tbh

denisgsv Well, I think it was :) Trinity is still, by far, my favorite.

1:08 NO!!!

This station is 200 km long. I don't think it would be possible to walk in it without making your computer melt down.