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"Everspace 2" Gets A New Update Adding Drones, UI Fixes, & More

ROCKFISH Games revealed they had added some new changes to Everspace 2 with a fresh update. The first major impact will be the addition of drones. TWo specific drones have been thrown into the mix in the form of the Advanced Outlaw Sniper Drone and the Outlaw Detonator Drone. Both of which offer their own kind of damage and destruction to get you through the day. The devs also threw in a proper set of UI improvements, including messing with the station home screen, the storage screen, the ship dealer screen, and the job board screen. Hopefully, you can find things better now. Also, they will soon be adding cinematics to certain aspects, which they have concept art for like the casino shot you see here. Here's a little more info on the Everspace 2 additions.

New Drones

If you have played the original Everspace you may have noticed that drones were more of a 'thing' than in any other (space) game. Due to our limited budget back then, we could not afford to create a plethora of high-detailed enemy spaceships. However, having a lot of opponents with a broad range of behaviors was paramount to keep things interesting, especially for a roguelike. So, coming up with many types of different drones was the way to go.

Advanced Outlaw Sniper Drone

The Outlaw Sniper Drone uses a targeting laser to focus on enemies from afar. If the line of sight is not interrupted for a couple of seconds the target will be hit by a deadly rail gunshot. If you are quick enough you may be able to evade the shot, but your main strategy should be to take cover before the drone fires. Close in on the drone while avoiding being in the open for too long in order to take it down or turn the tables and snipe it with a rail gun yourself.

Outlaw Detonator Drone

This drone is packed with devastating explosives, and it only has one goal: to close in on a hostile unit and crash into it, triggering a huge explosion. Luckily, the Detonator Drone is quite noisy once it settles for a target, so you will at least hear that it's about to annihilate you if you do not initiate countermeasures immediately.

Cinematics Teaser

Another area where we had to make some compromises for the predecessor because of budget limitation was lore and storytelling. That said, we still take pride in having innovated by introducing a proper story campaign including event-based exposition to the roguelike genre for the first time ever. We highly encourage any space pilot to play through the very end of the story in the original Everspace as there is more to its plot as you might think at the beginning.

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