Footage from the Titanic Struggle of B-R (1080p available)

1080p recommended! Since we support neither of the coalitions, a late night trip to B-R with a scout provided a chance to sit back and enjoy the view. Besides, one of my missions is always to remind people that Eve is not only one of the most tactically deep games ever created but also boasts some of the grandest scenes in MMO gaming. A 4K gallery of the battle is available here: imgur.com/a/ikc...
The battle is between the coalitions of CFC/RUS/BL and N3/PL. A new record of 75 titans died in the fight, with 59 kills for the former against 16 kills for the latter. More information at: community.eveon...
The footage here mostly varies between real-time and 200% to compensate for fluctuations in Time Dilation, i.e. not very sped up or altered and a fairly close approximation of the feel of the battle. Music is Arcana's 'Chant of the Awakening'.
If anyone unfamiliar with Eve is viewing this and is curious about the mechanics, a video like CC3 or Anatomy of a Fight will show more about the nature of the game's campaigns and battles: • Rooks and Kings: Clari...

[@Kiljaedenas]

One thing for all of those people saying "This is so boring, those ships aren't moving, just staying still and shooting each other..."you obviously don't understand the sense of scale of this fight. Yes, in something like Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica etc the ships move around and maneuver a lot, but those ships barely get to around 1 kilometer long (Star Trek's NCC-1701-E Sovereign class Enterprise is just shy of 700 meters long, BSG's Galactica is something like 1.4 km long). Keep this as a point of reference: The virtually stationary Deep Space 9 space station has a max outer diameter just barely shy of 1.5 kilometers. Ships maneuvering around like that are definitely present and moving like that in this fight, but the images in the video are from a long range, wide-angle shot so such ships are so small you can't even really see them. Those really big bastards, the Titans, they range from 13 to over 18 KILOMETERS long. Let me say that in another way: The biggest ships in this fight were roughly as long as 12 DS9 stations lined up along their diameters. Now, do you really think something that big can move very fast? Here's another way of looking at it: the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer (the really big bastard from Star Wars 5 and 6) is said to be 19 kilometers long, roughly 300 meters longer than the biggest Eve Online Titan. Did you ever see that thing moving very fast or really doing anything other than lumbering into range and cracking off weapons? And we only ever saw one, maybe two at once in one fight in the movies? Something like 75 titans died in this fight, not to mention the many others that participated in and survived it. Even virtually all of those smaller ships you can see in the video are still Capital class ships, carriers and dreadnaughts to be more precise, all of which fall between 2 to 5.3 kilometers in length, EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM longer than the main diameter of DS9, as well as being bigger than the standard Star Destroyers from the movies (maxing out at maybe 1600 meters). One other thing for comparison: a standard Borg Cube is a hair over 3 km on one side. "We are the Borg. Resistance is fuuUCKING CHRIST WHAT THE HELL ARE THOSE THINGS?!" Long story short, the quick and maneuverable ships are so bloody small and so far away you literally can't see them in this fight, but they are definitely there. This is definitely the absolute largest PvP fight in human history in any electronic video game, but not only that I can't think of any electronic media that has depicted a fight of this size not only in the number of ships involved but their effective total mass and estimated total crews as well. No movie, TV show, pre-rendered storyline video within another game (including single player ones) that I can think of has had one single fight contain this much...if anyone knows of one that beats the Bloodbath, and this really is a genuine request because I want to know about it, please let me know in a reply.

[@silverhawk7324]

Yes there is one that matches the scale of this fight, if not larger. It is called Legend of the Galactic Heroes. There's even a super-weapon that weighs 60 Trillion tons. The fleet battles have up to 200,000 ships on each side.

[@vvbrent4927]

this is so boring

[@jaimdiojtar]

you have Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator! you can put a fight with like 100k units fighting of course they are all bots but you can fight with taht amount of enttities

[@gilliganxl]

While I love this explanation, the smaller ships were actually not there in this battle...or more like told NOT to be there to help server lag. They were instead spread all over the cluster stopping capital reinforcements. They may have had some small ones but not fleets of small ships.

[@Kiljaedenas]

@Jaim Diojtar if they're bots, that doesn't count. Over 4000 REAL PEOPLE participated in this simultaneously. That's the epic part of it.

[@SubzeroYoutube]

Let this be a lesson to all of you.... Pay your damn bills.

[@themightypicklerex7688]

***** I think that the missed payment that started this was ridiculously small too.

[@themightypicklerex7688]

***** I think the real world equivalent would be a missed payment of 1$ starting WW3

[@8JacksLegendary]

Dan Hutchinson LMFAO!!! HAHAHAHAHA I'd break a $20 bill for that...

[@lawlerzwtf]

Dan Hutchinson the real world equivalent is world war one lol

[@minicrafter8401]

*Tactical Nuke Incoming*

[@darrelvonnepomuceno7976]

CCP should memorialise this battle on-site by permanently leaving the 75 Titan wrecks and a debris field, with a floating plaque saying: *"Bills before skills."*

[@Demastikus]

they already did it will be in game at 31th.

[@OzzyTripping]

Demastikus banana omfg I️ died! The 31th? Try saying that literally sounds like mike Tyson hahahah 31st

[@cameronseitz4863]

Let us all take a moment of silence for many of the great pilots that lost there lives bravely fighting in this horrendous battle. 😢

[@joshuademott437]

+Cameron Seitz It's okay they were all just clones and are all still alive and flying today so fuck it...

[@cameronseitz4863]

+Joshua DeMott I can already imagine the nightmare that was the frame rate in that battle.

[@joshuademott437]

ikr lol looked cool though its the coolest active eve scene that i've seen on video...

[@63Limar]

+Cameron Seitz Game was slowed for ~100 times in this B-R system because of the amount of people. There is no frame rate issues. Just Very slow action.

[@Sparky1002]

+Cameron Seitz We live forever :-)

[@QwertyCaesar]

Think about it - this is probably the largest individual conflict in videogame history. Thats something you just have to admire, even if you were personally shafted by the event itself.

[@Jibes]

Largest in resources used, yes. Largest in amounts of players participating at the same time, no. That currently still is the battle for 6VDT-H with 4070 participating players in the system at the same time.

[@punicwars2]

Jibes in a single system is true but in order to prevent N# reinforcement CFC/RUS closed the near system so about 6000 and more took part in it.

[@xExekut3x]

Just think, millions of years from now, if humans are still around, something like this will more than likely happen.

[@tophergrallison]

+xExekut3x If that's true, then it's likely happened with alien races already. We just need to look for where it might have happened.

[@tuttuti123]

+xExekut3x pls, not a war because someone forget to pay their "this star system is ours because we payed for it" rent

[@DeviousKid45]

+Hariz Izzudin *paid not "payed"

[@tuttuti123]

DeviousKid45 oh wow. I didn't noticed that lol

[@stephenbmassey]

Faster than light travel is impossible, so this spaceship stuff is really just another brand of fantasy

[@AshyGr33n]

EVE: the best game I'll never play....

[@doodlePimp]

I tried it out but got bored after a month. The music is great so just playing the soundtrack in the background gives me most of the EVE online experience without running the game.

[@princestevenii.772]

@@doodlePimp how can you get bored?

[@agentambridge672]

@pcf how do you get bored? It doesn’t make any sense. I’ve been playing for a while and i found THE activity i wanted to do around the 3 day mark.

[@mahendrakrisnamurti9599]

@@agentambridge672 probably his spec couldn't run EVE smoothly. Or this game was too complicated for him

[@RanaRandom]

come play with us... We have cookies/freehugs. :D

[@Ashaweshk]

*end of the video* All this over a missed bill payment.

[@grimli16]

so beautiful :')

[@Ashaweshk]

*claps, crying* I-its beautiful!!! :')

[@Shadowkey392]

Who knew tax evasion could be so destructive?

[@Ashaweshk]

!!! Now i wouldn't want that to happen :O

[@tenchimuyo69]

Shadowkey392 Capone?

[@lsevent]

I have no idea what's going on.

[@baltsosser]

1/3 of all Titans lost in the game were lost in this one fight. heavy engagement between several thousand players.

[@lottaz4098]

Over 7000 player were in the server but the server can’t handle so the game can’t even run over 5 FPS

[@tonyth9240]

And the game doesn't want to run more than 5fps. Time is dilated, so everything happens in 1/10th of normal speed.

[@tonyth9240]

Basically, These were a shitload of insanely expensive insanely powerfull superfat ships shooting each other.

[@無題6376]

Me too.

[@VenomSnakee]

just think, in a couple hundred, mabey thousands of years this might happen in reality

[@xximtixx]

Marco Creen Not sure what you are talking but if you look closly at the timeline in my link you could see that as i said the last event took place at May 14, 23351 A.D. .... after Yulai Calendar its (YC 115)... and the Yulai Calendar first started at 23236 A.D. --> "Universal dating from this time follows the Yoiul Conference format and 23236 AD is equivalent to YC 0 in the new system." What mean Eve Online does not exist millions of years apart ^^

[@DevilDude912]

Marco Creen it wasn't millions of years by any stretch of the imagination, humans colonized the milky way over about 15k years. Then they found new eden and started colonizing, the EvE gate collapsed and those in new eden were trapped. It states that it took the Amarr roughly 8k years to get back into space and go interstellar, then a few hundred more years to today.

[@Coconutszz]

Marco Creen well you're wrong so deal with it

[@bloodserpent1123]

If we stop killing each other then maybe it'll.

[@Coconutszz]

Marco Creen gay

[@Winterfal11]

I'm not a player but I understand the amount of human time and effort that went into everything that led up to this massive battle. Losing those titans is no joke for the people that owned them, they are worth thousands in real dollars.

[@AaronClow]

***** I believe you can buy them, but eventually everything is measured in time -- how much is yours worth? :) Epic! Absolutely Epic!

[@HosakiSolette]

***** You can buy them for Trillions of isk, which comes out to about $3000 if you were going to sell game time for the money. The people that make these have thousands of players helping them. Its definitely not a one man effort, Takes months to build a single one. Its amazing.

[@Winterfal11]

Hosaki Solette I have always wanted to get into EVE but the learning curve seems too ruthless and the fact that in the beginning farming asteroids is pretty boring to me but after seeing this video i'm considering trying again.

[@jean-yveskiger7340]

jim jimson If you join again, join bravenewbies they are what you need to discover the game without mining ;)

[@punicwars2]

jim jimson try joining the brave noobs... they take new players and u get to do fun stuff pretty fast... Brave Collective is the allince name evemaps.dotlan.net/corp/Brave_Newbies_Inc. we take every one that wants to have fun...

[@TheGrayMysterious]

If anyone ever writes a book or an article detailing the most amazing moments in gaming history, this should be one of them. I have no idea how this game works, only heard about ti a couple months ago, have never seen it in action before and probably couldn't hope to get into it now, but I know a landmark moment when I see it.

[@_FSync_]

Very well said, you have looked at the biggest fight the game has seen so far and it's been 2 years.

[@adomalyon1]

By some measures the battle between Circle of test and Panfam was bigger.

[@BinaryShad0]

+Fsynchro Biggest multiplayer fight that has happened in any game anywhere

[@ademars.raposo6153]

TheGrayMysterious eve online niw its free

[@Yossarianct22]

I don't think anyone else has mentioned it but if you are interested in EvE online history, there is an EvE history book that was recently finished. www.empiresofeve.com/

[@Jay0253]

Everyone, the game is slowed down to prevent lag. There's over 5,000 people in this battle. If they kept it at normal speed everyone's computer would crash along with the server. Those "bubbles" make it harder for players to flee a battle.

[@trog69]

I was curious about those bubbles. I assumed they were a system-wide shield setup of some sort, but your explanation makes more sense.

[@Altan0x]

Tom Rogers Inside these bubbles majority of ships can't use warp drive, so they can't escape.

[@TorchyThePyro]

German Rakitjanski So... are the enemy ships also inside the bubbles, or are just the ones on what I assume is the defensive?

[@KevLex_RCF]

TorchyTehPyro - PC Games and Talk Shows! Anyone inside those bubbles cannot warp. Friend or foe.

[@Razgriz_01]

German Rakitjanski My god, so any players who have ships that aren't good enough but joined because they thought the battle will end in a short time can't escape? Its like the imperial guard got sent in and they can't retreat until one side gives in.

[@AlexAdamsTV]

Eve is far too much of a time commitment for me to play, but man these battles are insane!

[@machinegunpictures]

ur skills train while ur offiline, next excuse...

[@toasterboipencil]

​​@@machinegunpictures You still need to spend hours applying those skills to earn the ISK necessary to buy the next set of skills (and the equipment to actually use them), on top of waiting literal months to get to the best stuff. Next.

[@machinegunpictures]

@@toasterboipencil Eve is a game of years, not hours. When you are first starting out, there are basically no 'wasted' skill points. You would invest just as much time into playing another game as you would eve, or not, it doesnt really matter considering your skills will still continue training, which would allow you to do more lucrative things later on, and earn more ISK.

[@MegaReinart]

im glad to say that i was in that fight, captain of one Titan ! and i did survive

[@apostasy128]

the official news on eve's site stated no titan survived :(

[@ironwarrior2916]

@@apostasy128 actually, only a few survived on N3's side, the other side still had a few left.

[@vunknownvictory]

Hello are you guys still alive? I'm in that ship too but i don't play anymore

[@MegaReinart]

@@vunknownvictory yep still kicking

[@vunknownvictory]

@@MegaReinart cool☺

[@Xerofenity]

Imagine being a person on the planet below, watching the sky light up with fire. Every flash reminding you that the only god left in the heavens is death.

[@simobarret]

Being a person on a giant gas planet would remind me i'm in the wrong place at the wrong time :P

[@Xerofenity]

Gagarin I figured it was a gas planet but that would have ruin the metaphor.

[@toasterboipencil]

+Xerofen Actually, it wouldn't. Most of the PL/N3 players that controlled the system had manned planetary networks. Meaning that yes, they could see the battle, and they would probably have thrown their headphones in the abyss, listening to all that radio chatter, only for it to drop dramatically as one of the Titans were destroyed.

[@carlsbobby]

beautiful words man

[@tappajaav]

Reminds of the space battle above Noghri planet in Star Wars Expanded Universe(Or as Disney calls it now, "Legends")

[@fludblud]

Was reading an article on EVE: Valkyrie and all I could think of was that one day, ONE DAY IN THE FUTURE, I will be able to partake in a battle of this scale while in a single man fighter. And it will be glorious. (For about 10 seconds before I unwittingly fly into a doomsday beam because I was gazing at all the pretty lights)

[@BattleManiac7]

Sign me up, flying through THAT in a small fighter (hoping that the next second wont have you being vaporized) would be one of the most epic things I can imagine doing in any game.

[@DrkKnightRider]

N00bManiac7 It's only a matter of time, my son. Oh yes. It's only a matter of time.

[@RavenWarrior90]

DrkKnightRider I will patiently await this glorious day... I always dreamed of fights like this, beeing a part of this awesomeness!

[@tappajaav]

Wait patiently!

[@joshuafogg6600]

fludblud Funny you mention that..........

[@privatecaboose1000]

When we tell our grandkids of this day we will speak of it with glory and honor and teach them to always pay their bills

[@JohanDeknudt]

Someone didn't pay the rent and the spacelords got mad.

[@T.Cun.]

Someone didn't pay the rent on purpose more like :-p

[@Matteroll]

Someone forgot to pay rent making the area up for grabs and so CFC (a superpower) grabbed it. Original owners of area and their overlords (Pandemic Legion) got pissed cause they have a shit ton of assets that they cant take out from the area and so this $300k battle occurred....

[@DaimonAnimations]

This could actually be happening somewhere out there in space you know? That's scary! :X

[@danthalios]

The sheer scale of this battle is made even more bewildering when you realise that every one of those ships is each commanded by a real person.

[@hui83]

im sure theres some multiboxers in the mix, but in general yeah

[@misterguts]

Epic video, epic music. This video has a dream-like quality, like a Frank Herbert novel come to life.

[@darkzerk7]

I would play the game if some day we have lifespans of 200-300 years or more. At this point in human history, I'm not comfortable dropping 3-5 years of my life just to get to the endgame in an epic universe, no matter how great it would seem.

[@williedewit5223]

This is not an endgame in Eve :) And for me it beats 3-5 years of seeing soaps or spending that time in bar. Al are different in how they spent their free time :) The social side of Eve is truly awasome

[@sp00l]

Mentioning "end game" and Eve Online in one sentence just goes to show that your a theme park MMO player that plays games like WoW/GW2/Aion or not a MMO player at all. There is no end game, a 3 month old player could of been just a use in this battle as a person piloting a titan for 5 years was. The person playing for 3 months could have got into fast ships and managed to get onto the enemy fleets position enabling their entire fleet to warp in and tackle a titan/enemy fleet causing the entire battle to be set off. The reason there is no end game and that a brand new player (with some common sense) can be just as useful as a Eve Veteran makes this game amazing. People that have never played it though will simple never understand.

[@dathias]

There is no end game. Every fleet needs someone to tackle down other ships to keep them from running. On my main character Menaiya Zamayid (eve-kill.net/?a=pilot_detail&plt_id=1309021) I was supporting the killing of battlecruisers just 3 days into the game. I was handed a ship, a fit to fly with and a job to do. The time you spend in the game just varies what you can do in the game, not where you can go. Generally after a year of playing, if you've focused on what you want to fly, you generally can fly as well as the guy who's been playing for 10 years. Longevity just gives you more variety, not quality.

[@fortnight5677]

@@sp00l weird flex butt ok

[@akaiju9281]

What's more amazing is that on either side of this conflict, there were hundreds of people in voice calls giving orders and calling out statuses and fire-times.

[@E-101-Beta]

You sunk my battleship.

[@irllcd13]

Battleships are too small to make out at this scale. All the ships you can clearly see are much, much larger than battleships. Battleships are roughly the same size as Star Trek's Enterprise, what you can see in this are anywhere between 4 and 30 times larger than that.

[@calypso692]

irllcd13 r/wooooooooooooooooooooooosh

[@Alictos_]

"i was there"

[@calypso692]

Alictos ik I’m VERY LATE But I was there as well

[@MyName-fl2id]

@@calypso692 just how this war happened?

[@Catalyst375]

This was the battle that inspired me to come into EVE. To it, I dedicate these words:: "In the past, we worshiped the life and death of Gods. But to look upon the Titanomachy is to realize, that we never knew what Gods were until we became them".

[@Interception-tp7hi]

well said

[@WIFIunleashed]

I have no idea what's happening but it is freaking majestic

[@alexDumper]

Имхо, данное событие нужно как то отметить, там материала хватит для формирования небольшой луны, или как минимум пылевого диска.

[@JampirX]

После завтрашнего дт будет установлен монумент и множество обломков вокруг, в память об этой битве)

[@PaiSAMSEN]

By the lords of Kobol...... I've only started playing EVE a few days ago, because someone told me it's most massive scale MMO ever existed.....but this? And to think that you can't respawn your ship, and have to re-build her if you got one destroyed in battle..... How much does this battle cost? All those ships...

[@spawnera1]

They said the battle costed 200 000$ in real cash, but cannot tell you how much in ISK ( in-game value in EvE online ) you can just imagine. That was hell of a battle damn dude gorgeous in HD

[@coisinho47]

a plex costs 20 dollars, and its value in the beggining of 2014 was i believe around 500m isk. so divide 200000/20 and multiply that by 500m, and that should get you a value of some 5 trillion isk.

[@mikrofoto]

Dr Galactose actually 11 trillion isk were lost.

[@BinaryShad0]

Get your ass to a null sec alliance and start out by fliyng tackle frigs for them. I recommend BRAVE. You'll end up in big battles here and there, and maybe you'll be lucky enough to be present in the next br5rb. There was a 1700+ about two weeks ago. These still happen.

[@PaiSAMSEN]

I'll take that under consideration. :D

[@simulatethat6099]

This system should be renamed Titans Fall

[@stavro1]

I was there on the Russian/CFC side and we burned them all. 59 of PL/N3 titans and 11 Super Carriers were destroyed and we lost 16/3. R.I.P. madafakas and don't trash talk in Amamake local chat.

[@Ammeo]

lmao

[@GamingPalOllieMK]

EVE online is absolutely amazing with its epic battles and wars and everything and reading about it makes it seem like the best game ever, unfortunately the game is too in-depth, stat based, tactical and just too hardcore for a casual player like me. I could never dedicate myself to such a deep game. Amazing video nonetheless

[@taipan185]

there is something so incredibly epic about a fight like this. It's not even the size of it that makes it so epic but the fact that it's totally player driven. I used to play Shadowbane years ago so I can really appreciate a game that puts players into a world that allows them to forge whatever outcome they want. I would have loved to have been a part of this win or lose.

[@XxxclarityxxX]

Check this game out bro, its in pre-alpha but its exactly what you are describing. robertsspaceindustries.com/about-the-game

[@thenoobfactor]

Christopher Van Niekerk Star citizen likely wont be ably to match this in scale or freedom, there's a lot more hand holding involved with the players.

[@DrkKnightRider]

thenoobfactor Not even close actually. The last I read about it, they were going to cap the servers at around 2000 or so. That may have changed but I don't know.

[@StonedAF101]

Christopher Van Niekerk dude star citizen is a fuckn greedy joke, plz do not compare it to eve online TY.

[@XxxclarityxxX]

you all clearly have no idea where they are with the game. :) feel free to hate and not investigate . peace

[@CenturionC4]

War is hell. Many keyboards were smashed that day

[@djfoundation]

I don't play anything even close to games on the computer, but that was absolutely chilling to behold.

[@rake483]

Ingame sounds! No annoying and unfitting rock/pop music like in all the other EVE battle videos! Awesome vid!

[@SkyForceHunter]

And I thought being an Eve Bounty Hunter was hardcore... Holy shit I'm impressed

[@3uriah]

Fantastic vid man, was considering posting it as comments on the news networks that are telling this story of the game we play... helps those not in the know-how of eve, just what a battle of that magnitude looks like.

[@ablazetrogdor]

Another well made video by RnK. I always enjoy your videos. Oh and Providence sends you love!

[@azaas]

God dang this battle was pretty epic on its own ... a Rooks and Kings video makes it look even more epic!

[@asdasdasdasd7483]

One of the coolest moments in gaming history, tbh. And i dont even like EVE online xD

[@toasterboipencil]

I do wish someone woulda broadcasted the song to both sides to really give it the Clash of the Leviathans feel

[@Aeternum_]

RnK never cease to entertain me. Great video as always.

[@tomatochips8514]

One of the most impressive Space battle scene in a game. Damn that was a beautiful footage... until you hear about the full story

[@PorterPickUp]

What are the big blue bubbles? Interdictor fields or something similar?

[@nicfirebear]

+PorterPickUp yes the overlapping "bubbles" are interdiction probes that keep the ships you see in the video from jumping out of the system or warping off. This essentially keeps the enemy forced into fighting when they are likely to lose.

[@aserta]

+nicfirebear I like to call them fishing nets.

[@denneledoe873]

I know its been 4 months and you probaly already got your answer. But ill tell you anyways. Those are warp interdiction bubbles. They keep you from warping off

[@irllcd13]

Good guess. Old comment, I know.

[@joshuafogg6600]

One of my college friends was a part of this battle. First-hand, he bore witness to the Apocalypse. There's a reason this battle was dubbed "The Bloodbath".

[@ullrichklose9923]

Now i see what Roy Batty meant when he was talking about those beams at the Tannhäuser Gate..

[@LazureusFalcone]

10% TiDi makes this so eerily beautiful.

[@LarS1963]

I have NO clue what's going on, but damn, it looks fantastic! It makes me recall Rutger Hauer's dying words in Blade Runner: "I've watched C-beams glittering in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. Attack-ships on fire by the Knee of Orion." So, he knew about EVE back in 1983! :D Could someone tell me what music it is?

[@joaozin156]

Chant of the Awakening

[@LankyLost]

From what i read, two major player-run factions went head to head after a payment was missed by one side to protect that area of space from incursion.

[@BernhardMillauer]

Thats just unreal. Such a gigantic battle, I couldn't decide what to aim for first.

[@TRAHAHINIK]

Никогда не играл в эту игру..но после ролика... был поражен, вот это красотище, вот это безумство... прекрасная игра... Вот это наверно первая игра, где можно просто потерять все... даже влитые деньги... слов нету... у игроков наверно эмоций было просто ужас как много... аааааааа )

[@Kainzo]

I love the concept of Eve, though I will never be able to get past the way it's played. cool video.

[@Chaltaq]

A great video showcasing a ridiculously amazing fight :D

[@AndrewMalovrh]

Rooksandkings I've got to know the specs of your system. Amazing recording with little to no stutter for a battle that size and all the graphics running. You must have a beast!

[@Hawkeyes6400]

It's a beautiful video. Good work RnK and awesome music. Wonder what words they say...

[@castielangelos87]

on one side, an individual pilot gets emotionally attached to the space he called home, to his ship, to his friends who provide him with goods, ammunitions and companions.; then some sons of bitches roll in and want to take EVERYTHING from him, so he fights back with everything he got from the richness of the space that brought him on other side, an ambitous group of players who are expanding rapidly, but got confined in poorer space, your friends are constantly talking about richer space which is not belonged to your coalition; plus the cocky neighbors are constantly cut-throating them by monopoly the rare and important resources; then the chance kicks in ... of course it's oversimplifying everything: the history, the leadership, the politic, the conflict of interests etc. but to every individuals of 5,000 players who fought in that battle; the reason is big enough for them to takes up arm and fight; and we got a space drama and opera for entertainment

[@JustinCunningham]

Something like $500k has been destroyed. One of the biggest battles on a single server game...unreal. The video hasn't been slowed down, it's a game mechanic called "Time Dilation" that essentially allows fights like these to happen. It basically allows the server to process the requests in an ordered manner. Really a band-aid fix to something that pure hardware will eventually over come...but either way. The staggering amount of money (converted from the in game currency "ISK") just blows my mind.

[@Zzerberus]

Must have been hell in the teamspeak... bubbles! more bubbles!!!!!! :D

[@blixx66]

I can't stop watching this, it's an amazing battle! I wonder how accurate of a model this game is to what the future will bring. Hopefully in 21,000+ years, our species can finally move past currency and greed.

[@CoregamersXIII]

We are simple spectators to a war. Understanding the appeal of this game comes with experiencing things like this. The moment seems so surreal and that's what makes it amazing. If the gameplay does not grab you then atleast appreciate it for it's art.

[@ivenskinbear2856]

Ужас, вот ты задрот, вкладываешь 1к баксов в свой корабль, кучу времени тратишь на прокачку, а потом за пару часов плоды твоих трудов будут уничтожены. И потом все заново...

[@495321245]

титан вроде 3-4к баксов стоит. и да в основном это собственность альянца или корпорации. "11 триллионов ISK. Если пересчитать ущерб на плексы, он будет в пределах 300-330 тысяч долларов." из статьи

[@MasterDBChief]

Never played Eve so I don't fully understand it, but this has been really fascinating to read about / watch. I hope more people "forget to pay their bill" so that this kind of thing can happen more

[@schmidti140]

Dont get how such a game could be fun...

[@vampiricalchemist]

Different tastes I guess. Personally I have enjoyed the game but I do not imagine putting in the time and effort to get a titan or another super expensive ship. But I do understand how it can be fun.

[@HeimEier12]

To everyone who thinks this is boring: What you see are actually 2000 people fighting a battle. It's not just a strategy game or something like that. Every ship represents a real person. Every ship has been worked for and this is not a dedicated server, this is happening in the real game world.

[@LeoBeoo]

CCP should insert a shipgraveyard at that spot with the next patch

[@LoremasterYnTaris]

They said they will.

[@Otakahunt]

NoobsofFredo i wonder if im brave enough to ever venture there. :D

[@LeoBeoo]

NoobsofFredo cool, thx for the info

[@smoth7]

That would be cool!

[@LoremasterYnTaris]

LeoBeoo Np.

[@kilerbeez]

Probably the most epic event in history of video games

[@SoulRipper666EVE]

Amazing footage. Thanks for this video.

[@TheGahta]

Soo will this be remembered as galaxy war 1?

[@matthewmclean836]

Galaxy war 1 already happened, like half a decade ago. this could kinda be considered the second great war.

[@MKhrome]

***** The first 'big' war was known as 'the Great Northern War' and happened in 2004. Pretty much everyone was involved in some capacity, although the fighting itself was limited to the regions Venal, Tenal and Branch. Of course, there weren't that many players then but relative to how many there were it was still one of the bigger wars in EVE.

[@DoritoJet]

that is so incredible I wish I could have been there I just learned about eve the other day... that's amazing, and EPIC

[@kalten001]

I'm happy to say I was there, for 8 hours. Nothing compared to those who were there for all 19 hours of the fight. Got on some good kills :)

[@AltarenGalil]

So beautiful, cant wait for the new bubble graphics.

[@sholpankauanova9440]

Watching this in Dec 2020. Hillarious!

[@darkspire91]

Holy crap, it looks like they're trying to make a star or something. o_o

[@DarkerIThanIBlack]

no it looks like bunch of sperms trying to make a baby o_o

[@Elfenastics]

Ahmed Ramzy no it just looks... Beautiful o_o I was there as an observer and it just was stunning to see how much passion this guys have.

[@MuhammadAli90]

Ahmed Ramzy do you play eve ?

[@DarkerIThanIBlack]

Muhammad Ali i wish

[@MuhammadAli90]

Ahmed Ramzy why not play it ?

[@RavenWarrior90]

WOW! O.O I have never seen a space battle in a scale like that... battles like this are described in the Warhammer 40k universe. Never thought that it might be possible in a real game! Simply awesome! :D

[@Razgriz_01]

Most of the events in Eve online are caused by the players. like the great northern war the great war and other events I wish I could play eve online... but there is a subscription fee and I don't have enough money.

[@RavenWarrior90]

What is the Great Northern War? Never heard of it... but I know... it's awesome how players define the politics and economy of the whole game. But I never expected that a conflict might escalate in a scale like THIS! And it's frightening that people risk and lose their ships in this game... some of them are people who are very rich in this game, and hypothetically they have a whole lot of real money only through this game. They would only need to sell their "property" for real dollars... and they would become rather rich people. Simply awesome... but be hard to lose such expensive things. Can't believe that a single titan class battleship can cost at about 4000 $! O.o Or maybe even more...

[@WinterShine7]

RavenWarrior90 Or.. you can make them by yourself.. I mean by you and the help of your corporation or even your alliance.. because it tooks like what.. around 8 weeks.. also it build on some kind of factory floating on the space.. you have to defend it for.. 8 weeks.. or someone or your enemy would come there and blow it up and pufff.. goodbye titan! easy right? oh the resources.. from asteroids.. you can mine or buy.. or.. i dont know easy right??

[@fortnight5677]

@@WinterShine7 Who cares

[@DrkKnightRider]

The record that was set by this battle has been beaten on the Serenity server in china.

[@minirevenge]

it's not really the same thing though is it, The serenity server is rife with corruption. You can RMT a titan relatively cheaply, To the point where almost every pilot who lost a titan in that fight jumped into a new one lying around and jumped back into the fight, ISK and risk on those servers isnt quite the same as it is on TQ, still a nice big fight though but i wouldent count it in any record breaks.

[@DrkKnightRider]

minirevenge I'm not getting snippy here but do you play on serenity? Or did you just do a lot of reading about it? I'm just curious.

[@shurikozerov3164]

The record that was broken was the ISK Destroyed, not the player count. However, because of how bad deflation is on Serenity, it doesn't translate well for comparing the two. That being said, even if I was wrong, that still is a win for EVE, so I'm happy for it to go either way :)

[@tw0t0n]

A fight of this scale will never, ever happen again. Thanks CCP.

[@Morrigi192]

Angel Razo That's what they said after Asakai.

[@asdasdasdasd7483]

Angel Razo why? what happened? :O i dont play the game

[@Morrigi192]

Pwasma Dwagon Someone flying a Titan, the largest class of ship in the game, accidentally hit the 'jump self" instead of "jump fleet" button, sending him straight into enemy territory with no support. It turned into a bit of a clusterfuck as both sides sent in all the reinforcements they had.

[@tw0t0n]

That's not what happened in this battle. You're talking about The Battle of Asakai. Dabigredboat jumped instead of bridging. After some time, his titan made it out alive.

[@Morrigi192]

Angel Razo Learn to read, he was asking about Asakai.

[@o3941]

The one thing I wish we had was a full length, real time video of B-R5RB. I'd love to see what this battle looked like without the TiDi.

[@Botadeus666]

Эпично однако. Разрабы уже пообещали 31 января установить на месте битвы мемориал. Надо будет как то на ковре туда добраться...

[@magno172]

Never played EVE but I've played Soul of the Ultimate Nation. Similarly to perfect world, you lose equipment when you die. And the GvGs were epic.

[@jazzyjason90]

A wonderfully done video as always guys. Cheers.

[@NickBarrett]

I honestly think I would enjoy this game. After reading about this battle, I can only imagine this being as close as you could get to the end of "Ready Player One"!

[@SupaKillah666]

EVE Online: Once you get serious, it means business.

[@rbfishcs123]

100% player driven, 100% player built. Mind blowing.

[@explosivetactics3528]

hidden rescue and a love stolen placed badly in the initial beginning of the birth of life, we call this the temptation of Adam and EVE.

[@twisted_fo0l]

holy shit. you gotta remember that each and eavry of those huge ship's is like a small city being destroyed.

[@KingSplurgeZA]

CFC & RUS would like to thank N3/PL for providing us with these amazing fireworks.

[@doorran]

with all those titans in the mix it's really hard to get a handle on the real scale of this battle. It's huge.

[@DAVID-ql1vo]

The person who forgot to pay his bills .-.

[@connormacdonald9217]

Half the battle is knowing. The other half is equal parts Red Lasers/Blue Lasers.

[@Spaghetti775]

Never knew spreadsheets could look so aweinspiring.

[@Hurley1080]

Have no idea what's going on; never played the game but this looks beyond epic!

[@Daakusutepsu1]

God I wish I was still playing... I would have taken a shuttle down there and even risked getting podded and squished as soon as I entered the system just to see this.

[@kikix8787]

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON'T PAY THE BILL!!!!

[@beowulf1632]

Makes me want to play EVE this again.

[@jackjt8]

I would love to play this... but my toaster.... x.x

[@azaas]

Eve Online is one of the most valid reasons to bite the bullet and upgrade your hardware mate. See you around when you finally decide to join us in the world's most elaborate and demanding game o7

[@highjix]

Don't do it, it's a trap! Seriously, don't. I play, I have two capital pilots and I tell all my friends to run don't walk in the other direction.

[@zorena19]

Play it on a toaster, just don't ever go near fights like that.

[@wiryantirta]

stay out of nullsec blobs and your toaster is fine, ahahah. oh but wait, Asakai was in lowsec. Stay in Jita then. oh wait, another bad idea.

[@CyberGenesis1]

You really dont have to, I loaded it on my POS laptop for work, stripped the graphics down to low and play. It's not ugly, but it's not nearly as pretty as playing at home (and to be fair, im barely running anything built after 2010 at home)

[@larsejoe]

IS the actual gameplay fun, this looks fun, and awesome.

[@TotalementenounNPC]

"I want some terrain..." 1 hour later:

[@emersongeorge2863]

376k down the drain just because some nerd forgot to pay thoer “virtual space rent”

[@eastendthug]

Cod has much better shooting dan dis crap

[@Shaka1277]

With that profile photo, you're a terrible troll.

[@Zirvualor]

*tips fedora*

[@valintinopak741]

Drvr Tipping intensifies....

[@brunofontinhas]

What would REALLY be awesome is if somebody could make a video of the entire battle in real time, not game time, REAL TIME, compensating for the slowed down action in-game.