Greetings, Pilots!

Our first patch including community-requested features, tweaks, game balancing, and overall performance improvements, as well as several bugfixes, is out. Steam reviews are sitting at 1700+ with 92% positive, sales are beyond expectations, and current outstanding wishlists are through the roof (as in over 3x compared to the predecessor after 30 days post-launch).

There’s no denying that things are looking really good so far. On the other hand, avid space pilots from around the globe have already burned through the current content and are demanding MOARRR! Well, that’s definitely a good problem to have, and we’re already working on lots of new stuff.

Our first content update is on track to be released in April, featuring various additional side and mini-missions as well as new activities taking place in Ceto and Union. There will also be new loot as well as two new player ship sub-classes.


The Vanguard is a lightweight, maneuverable reconnaissance starfighter with a high emphasis on speed, mobility, and defensive measures.

The Bomber is a missile and mine specialist with access to unique explosive weapons and warheads. Think “shoot first, ask questions later…”

Not enough you say? We agree! Even though we originally didn’t plan to add more main story content beyond what’s already in the Early Access release version, we feel you guys. The “cavehanger” is brutal and totally unexpected, making you go: “NOOOOOO!”

TBH, that’s exactly how I felt when reaching the current end of the story campaign. I knew I hadn’t discovered every location and solved all puzzles yet. I’d already reached level 14 because I’d constantly got side-tracked doing side missions, jobs, challenges, distress calls, unknown signals, and high-risk areas. Good job, team!

However, I didn’t move on while playtesting before the Early Access release because I didn’t want to spoil my first playthrough experience for the rest of Union and instead wanted to look at our WIP game from a consumer point of view. It really left me with a weird feeling. On the one hand, I couldn’t wait to see all the cool stuff to experience for myself that I have missed and be able to write about it here—there’s content for 25+ hours of gameplay in the current version if you’re willing to explore. On the other hand, I wanted to preserve that feeling of discovering new locations when new main and side missions will take me there once the new update dropped. Meaning, I can totally understand everyone who’s yearning for more story content.


Along with new cinematics being further polished with great help from the talented folks at Puppet Works, based in Budapest, look forward to continuing the story campaign in Union, bringing back the beloved WIP TTS voice-overs (and maybe some more 4th-wall-breaking dialogues), only available during Early Access.

Now, we’ve also received a ton of questions about what’s coming and when. We love your excitement, yet we also want to manage expectations, as adding new content and features to a complex “open-world action RPG with spaceships” is no joke for a small indie dev team of 25—we already feel the pressure 😅

Even though we just launched in Early Access, some media outlets are touting EVERSPACE 2 as “Roque Squadron meets Diablo,” being “The Witcher of Spacer Shooters,” “Nailing Those Freelancer Vibes So Far,” praising it as “Descent and Privateer had a baby.” No doubt, we love these kinds of headlines, but as an indie studio, we also don’t want an overblown sense of hype around our game, while we also aim to make EVERSPACE 2 stand out on its own.

To manage expectations, as “the hub” in EVERSPACE 2’s game world, Union will be the largest of our planned star systems. While some will be substantially smaller, each star system will feature a unique look & feel and offer new types of activities.


In the star system Zharkov, EVERSPACE 2 pilots will get to the core of Grady & Brunt's shady business operations when infiltrating their ranks and learning about G&B's dark deeds.

Here are the major improvements, new features, and content additions that we’ve PLANNED for this year:


On the EVERSPACE 2 Steam store page, we’ve listed all major improvements, features, and content additions that are PLANNED for v1.0. However, it’s really hard to share detailed milestones beyond the next 12 months [because we honestly don’t know yet]. Of course, we’ll update the roadmap every three to six months, accordingly.

As some of you have already seen in the sneak peek of our live stream from two weeks ago, space critters will be a thing in EVERSPACE 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iReG0syyUo
We’re still working on their “abilities” and experimenting with how they can interact with the player, but look forward to saying hello to Cave Crawlers (the name might change) in the first content update.

Ok, that’s it for now. If you wanna know more, join our next “ROCKFISH Recap,” hosted by Erik the Shredder, Community Ambassador and ace pilot, on Twitch and YouTube, today from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm CET / 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm ET / 11:00 am to 1:00 pm PT. Rumor has it that he’ll have some all-new content to show! 🚀👀💥🙌

Keep it civil on the forums, and see you in space!
Michael and your dedicated ROCKFISH Games Team

Hey pilots,

The latest build just left the experimental stage and is ready to download as Patch 0.4.16428, featuring a few new options, a number of tweaks and bugfixes as well as some performance optimizations. Note that we are now using dx11 as default because it seems to run more stable, and we are not yet using any dx12 features, atm. Here's the detailed list of changes:

• Added centered crosshair mouse controls
  
• Added option to show mouse deadzone on screen
  
• Added option to show HUD center on screen

• Improved planet surface performance
  
• General performance improvements
  
• Savegames are now compressed sizing them down to about 5% of the previous size
  
• Added in-game option to delete manually created save games
  
• Reduced supralight visual effects intensity
  
• Reduced cruise mode visual effect in First-person Mode
  
• Improved camera dynamics in Cockpit View
  
• Unused Energy Coils and Batteries will now go back to their original position if you re-enter the location/load a savegame
  
• Mine Sweeper job can be solved by disarming mines as well
  
• During Outlaw Chief boss fight drones now focus the player more so they won't fly away too far
  
• The normal shield of the Outlaw Chief boss will not recharge if the "unbreakable" shield is depleted
  
• Save headlights on/off state
  
• Made option slider percentage bars clickable
  
• Show in-game dialogs on top of Unlock Messages
  
• Reduced opacity of Early Access banner

• Increased Gunship ULT (Turret) charge amount per kill
  
• Reduced Gauss Cannon spread
  
• Increased Flak range
  
• Increased Thermo Gun energy consumption
  
• Reduced Thermo Gun range
  
• Reduced EMP Generator debuff duration
  
• Capital ships and freighters are now immune to "EMP" and "Webbed" debuffs
  
• Reduced Scout Weapon Range expertise bonus

• Fixed crash when equipping consumables to another player ship before launching from the Hangar
  
• Fixed crash when selling a ship, returning to the Homebase, and then switch ships (also retroactively fixes savegames)
  
• Fixed multiple Augments on a single attribute not applying correctly after loading
  
• Fixed engine trails sometimes missing after undocking
  
• Fixed ship being invisible when playing in no cockpit 1st person view and docking to a station other than the Homebase
  
• Fixed focus loss / stuck at the save menu screen when using Gamepad to overwrite an existing save game
  
• Fixed gamepad focus loss when buying a new ship and having it transferred to the Homebase
  
• Fixed installed equipment not being transferred to storage but being lost when selling a ship from the Homebase
  
• Fixed the cockpit seat mesh sometimes being positioned behind the player ship
  
• Fixed gamepad autoroll option affecting joystick input (added a separate option for joystick input)
  
• Fixed not being able to rebind Left Mouse Button
  
• Fixed ships for sale sometimes having falsely increased stats
  
• Fixed signal decoders changing rarities in cargo after a new one has been picked up
  
• Fixed rebuy inventories of traders not clearing after leaving the location, leading to not being able to sell to traders
  
• Fixed Jumpgate VFX render sorting
  
• Fixed Energized Boost "Compressor" not correctly resetting duration after changing locations
  
• Fixed being able to enter photo mode during landing animation, resulting in a weird state
  
• Fixed revealed areas not staying revealed if you re-enter the location/load a savegame (e.g. caves, tunnels, secret rooms)
  
• Fixed Drone Spawners sometimes spawning drones inside of level geometry
  
• Fixed Downtime Warrior perk not resetting for devices that refund charges or reset cooldowns
  
• Fixed multiple stacks of Downtime Warrior perk
  
• Fixed targeted devices being usable on "dead" enemies
  
• Fixed devices vanishing from shops
  
• Fixed fixed container loot not scaling to player level if a location was entered with a lower player level first
  
• Fixed Flak projectiles not detonating nearby mines
  
• Fixed Recharge Speed Bonus of boosters having no effect
  
• Fixed wrong location image for currently active high-risk areas
  
• Fixed wrong position of a few HUD elements in ultra-wide
  
• Fixed sensor modifier "Tag mines at 1500m range" not working correctly
  
• Fixed that some destructible walls cannot be destroyed by rockets
  
• Fixed Magnetic Repulsor mode "Serial Pusher" adding multiple charges
  
• Fixed Perk Upgrade animation gets stuck and blocks screen
  
• Fixed Various navigation and refresh bugs in the crafting screen
  
• Fixed some affixes that do not make sense on all weapons
  
• Fixed some typos

Alrighty, we hope you'll enjoy all the improvements above. We're currently working on another production update covering our roadmap and some cool new stuff that's already in the works, stay tuned!

As always, don't miss our weekly “ROCKFISH Recap,” hosted by our one-and-only Community Ambassador and ace pilot Erik Schrader, on Twitch and YouTube to watch the latest dev build in action, Fridays from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm CET / 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT / 11:00 am to 1:00 pm PDT. 🚀👀💥🙌

Keep it civil on the forums, and see you in space!
Michael and your dedicated ROCKFISH Games Team

PS: If you'd like to see a screenshot of yours featured, like the one above by EVERSPACE 2 pilot bwlambrecht, join our discord and drop them pretties.

Greetings, Pilots!

PHEW, what a launch week! EVERSPACE 2’s start in Steam Early Access exceeded our wildest expectations. So far, we’ve received overwhelmingly positive feedback from fans and press all over the world. After we started Early Access with more than 260,000 wishlist entries on Steam, we were very confident. However, we would never have dared to dream that we would land at number 1 on the global Steam Charts in no time and stay in the top ten for six consecutive days, resulting in EVERSPACE 2 becoming Steam's #2 top seller of last week.


Last week’s sneaky reveal: You wanted it, you got it: EVERSPACE 2 is available on NVIDIA Geforce NOW!

After a few hours, we saw over 3,000 concurrent players, which is more than double the record of the lower-priced, original EVERSPACE during its first big summer sale. With currently 93% positive reviews, we seem to have hit the bulls-eye with tens of thousands of space shooter fans. The critical consensus from the media and content creators is also overwhelmingly positive, and we’d like to share a few articles and our favorite video previews with you:

“Everspace 2 is close to being the new gold standard for space shooters | I like tinkering with graphs and plotting galactic domination as much as the next guy, but I'm enjoying Everspace 2's singular focus on energetic combat and exploration. Even though it's an Early Access game that Rockfish says still needs 12 to 18 months of work, Everspace 2 is absolutely worth buying when it releases on January 18.” - PC Gamer

“I’m already heavily impressed by Everspace 2 and think Rockfish Games is doing an incredible job. The combat is excellent, the graphics look great, and the game naturally explains all of its mechanics in an extremely clear manner that makes it more than easy to grasp all of its many facets. The only worrisome thing is that, yes, you’re going to lose your save if you play now. Aside from that, though, the game is very much well worth picking up, as it’s a blast.” - PC Invasion

“EVERSPACE 2 | The Best Space Adventure In A Looong Time. This space shooter brings along a single-player galaxy exploring adventure, fluid controls, worthwhile upgrades, and great combat.” - Boomstick Gaming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HHeJKBYzf8
Everspace 2 - Excellent Already! Karak with ACG does a 5 point rundown of differences and details he likes in this 5 point inspection preview of the early access. - ACG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDFYTrhTWqU

As with every “major” launch, quite a few users ran into technical issues, especially as the game is still in Early Access. A lot of the issues discovered are on our list already; some require deeper investigation on our side; for others, there are workarounds, a few are engine-related issues where we have to rely on our friends at Epic Games.

Some pilots have mentioned MKB input feeling laggy or sluggish, which was surprising since we had received a lot of praise for the tight shooter-like WASD-controls in the predecessor. It’s one of the few code snippets that we didn’t rewrite for EVERSPACE 2, but we made some adjustments as the sequel’s combat is slightly slower-paced. If you prefer a more direct input, go to settings->input->mouse+keyboard and set "mouse position" to "operating system."

If you’re a veteran space pilot coming over from a classic space flight sim and just can’t get the feel of EVERSPACE’s primary gimbal weapons and twitchy aiming, we got good news for you: Due to popular demand, the option to have the crosshair always centered when using the mouse, as well as options to show or hide the mouse deadzone and a small dot indicating the screen center, will be available in the next patch.

If you play with a gamepad controller and are used to it, you should feel fine with at least one of the presets that you can still customize. We also invested quite a lot of time and effort into getting HOTAS/HOSAS support right from the start. While it works fine for all Logitech (Saitek) and Thrustmaster models we tested, the devil seems to be in the details. If you run into any HOTAS issues, please try disabling Steam Input, which did the trick for quite a few HOTAS pilots. If things still don't work properly, we kindly ask for your patience. We will look into these issues soon, but it won't be an easy task. We plan on opening a dedicated thread on the forums regarding key binding issues, and with your help and feedback, we should be able to find out why it isn't working for everyone.


Even if HOTAS input is preferred by “only” 12% of pilots according to our recent poll, we understand it is important for them. We really want to nail this, but we need your feedback if things don’t work as expected and hope for your patience. If anyone wants to add their vote, the poll is still live.

Before we go into the details, please bear in mind that playing EVERSPACE 2 with max settings puts a lot of strain on both your CPU and GPU. We’ve done a fair amount of performance optimization, and while there is still some room for improvement, don’t expect any miracles when playing on older hardware. We’ve been working closely with our friends at Nvidia and AMD to performance-test builds - both rated the Early Access version with “good” - and utilize their in-depth feedback for further performance optimization. To get the best experience, always make sure you have the latest graphics drivers installed and try running the game with DX11 if your GPU is older than two years.

Most crash reports were submitted by players running EVERSPACE 2 at max settings on older hardware or Windows versions or on overclocked GPUs. Here’s a pretty good article on how to troubleshoot. Please note that we most likely will not support Windows 7 or Windows 8 as we cannot guarantee that future versions of Unreal Engine 4 will still support those operating systems.

One of the biggest discussions on the Steam forums and on social media is about the pricing of EVERSPACE 2 in Early Access. While we understand $39.99 / €37.99 might feel steep compared to typical indie games in Early Access, please bear in mind that EVERSPACE 2 is a AA production with a development cycle over 4+ years by a veteran team of 25, plus a handful of long-term contractors as well as additional external AAA art services. We feel our asking price is right for the current production quality and the amount of content and features already in the game. At full release, we plan to reasonably increase the price to what is common within the genre of high-quality open-world space games.

If the price is not right for you, that’s totally fine. You might pull the trigger sometime down the road or never at all. To manage expectations: We plan to run only a few moderate sales between 10% to 15% during Early Access as we respect and value the financial commitment of our backers who shelled out up to $38/€35 for a digital copy on PC during our crowdfunding campaign back in 2019 when we had only a prototype to show.

Now, we noticed that in some countries, the price for EVERSPACE 2 is somewhat higher, which sucks. However, much like any indie dev, we followed Steam’s suggestion for regional pricing, and we don’t want to open a can of worms by adjusting prices in certain countries. This would inevitably cause outrage in other regions where we don’t adjust the price. Constantly monitoring and adjusting regional pricing, factoring in exchange rates, and purchasing power is big publisher territory.

Even though EVERSPACE 2 is currently sitting at a staggering 93% positive reviews out of 1275+ right out of the gate even without a day #1 patch, we’re not surprised about some negative feedback, especially from pilots that prefer a more hardcore, “realistic” space sim experience over our arcadey spacer shooter approach. We created EVERSPACE 2 with a focus on high accessibility and fun gameplay mechanics set in a game world with vibrant colors. Well, here’s the good news first: if you prefer a more simulation-style flight mechanic to cut engines and drift through space, etc., you can already do so by binding a key for this in the customize controls menu. The action does not have a default binding right now as we don't want to confuse players who might accidentally press the key and wonder why their ship all of a sudden keeps drifting.

Now the not so good news for space truckers that are not fond of puzzles in EVERSPACE 2. In the widest sense, simple puzzle-solving, like shooting generators to deactivate shields or activating several generators on the clock to power up a service space station, has already been a side gameplay mechanic in the predecessor. Those have all been optional and were intended to add some variety to the overall combat & exploration experience while yielding special rewards without breaking the flow of playing a fast-paced arcade space shooter.

Since exploration and discovery play a much bigger role In EVERSPACE 2, we wanted to test the waters in Early Access and take puzzle-solving a bit further by having a greater variety of puzzles utilizing the new grappling mechanic. This concept was introduced during our Kickstarter campaign back in 2019: https://youtu.be/AxxRcCRo4GA
Long story short, puzzles will stay, but also know that we plan to balance the distribution of these puzzles with combat and other gameplay mechanics we add in the future. We plan to add more engaging puzzles, but the vast majority will still be optional. However, since accessibility is also really important to us, we consider the addition of a gameplay option to adjust puzzle timers.

Furthermore, a few pilots, mostly coming from die-hard space sims, find the short loading screens when entering a new location annoying or at least immersion-breaking, and we understand where you guys are coming from. We too would love to have no loading screens and will look into further optimization towards the full release, but it is not a priority as a lot of things are still subject to change during Early Access. To manage expectations, there will always be a lot of data to be loaded into memory when entering a new location in EVERSPACE 2 for technical reasons. Since we cannot hide the loading process by riding in an elevator or traversing through a tunnel, like in other games, and as streaming is probably not gonna do the trick either as you already can see the destination right in front of you before leaving supralight travel, don’t expect any miracles to happen.

The second "disadvantage" of having a handcrafted game world in an arguably pseudo-open space game is that locations have to have boundaries because space… Well, maps in EVERSPACE 2, or locations as we like to call them, are 10 km x 10 km x 5 km in size and bigger than in any other space game featuring handcrafted locations that we are aware of. We cannot go that much further without running into severe gameplay issues at the far ends of the maps without implementing dynamic world origin shifting, which would be a huge undertaking and may even break the game.

We’re not saying that isn’t technically feasible; we think it is just not worth the effort and the risk. In fact, we’re pretty happy with the size of the locations as they are since it fits our vision to design a great gameplay experience within a controllable area, featuring great maneuvering with robust 3D collision physics while flying at high speed in open space but also inside narrow spaces, like hollow asteroids, derelict space stations, tunnels etc., precision-maneuvering in centimeters - yeah, let this sink in, it’s nuts, we know! :D

Last but not least, bear in mind: EVERY one of those fixed locations you can see on the map in EVERSPACE 2 was carefully designed, manually crafted, and tested by our team. For the final game, we plan to have some 100, each one featuring at least one challenge or mission objective plus various optional activities. In video game development, you gotta pick your battles, especially if you don’t have deep pockets. We went for quality over quantity.

The closing sentence of the previous topic is also a great intro for this one: We already made a big leap in game development by taking EVERSPACE from an indie roguelike space shooter to an AA open-world space looter shooter with RPG elements plus endgame content. We know space game fans always want more, but there is only so much we can do as a 100% self-funded team of 25.

Consequently, big features like multiplayer (PvP, Co-op, shared online space, you name it), EVA (extravehicular activities aka Space Legs), piloting capital ships, and VR support have never been on our list. There is a plethora of technical, game design, and business reasons that have already been discussed at great length for each one of them, so no need to delve into each topic again here. We are 100% committed to the promises we made in our Kickstarter, and we’re laser-focused on our creative vision to make the best single-player open-world space looter shooter that we possibly can. Yet again, we’re putting everything on the line with EVERSPACE 2, and we don’t have any other irons in the fire. We don’t have any filthy-rich investors, big AAA publishers, or platform holders paying our bills in case things go sideways. This is just us and you, our fans! If you want to know where we’re coming from, here’s our story.

With this update, we had planned to share our high-level roadmap with you guys. However, we’re still digesting the enormous amount of feedback we’ve received so far on the Steam and GOG forums (2000+ open threads even after us merging threads wherever reasonable), our discord, and social media channels. While we’re already working on a lot of new content and additional features, we also want to make QoL improvements based on community feedback. There is some really good stuff being shared, so keep it coming!

Now, we don’t want to leave you hanging in the air with this update: System 3 is already in the works and scheduled to drop in summer because we’re not done yet with System 2! We still have some cool new stuff for Union up our sleeves with our first major content update in April. You can also look forward to piloting two new ship sub-classes as soon as the update drops.


Concept Art: Right now, visitors will find a side mission, assignments for various jobs as well as shops to trade goods at Noah Damaris Starport. And there is much more yet to come! Rest assured, we didn’t build this sprawling beast of a station just as a pit stop.

But wait, there is more! We’ve also been busy working on the first patch bringing various bug fixes, QoL improvements, and further performance optimization to be released sometime next week. Here’s the kicker: Everyone can jump right into it by switching to our all-new Experimental Branch on Steam.


To access the EVERSPACE 2 experimental branch, right-click on EVERSPACE 2 in your Steam library -> select Properties -> pick Experimental Branch under BETAS. The Experimental build changelog can be found here.

So, it’s fair to say that overall, things are looking pretty good. And while we will keep reading through every thread no matter if good or bad, glowing feedback like the fan video below makes our day and never gets old:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIjK5TD3Njg

Alrighty, this is it for now! In case you are not familiar with our weekly “ROCKFISH Recap,” hosted by our one-and-only Community Ambassador and ace pilot Erik Schrader, make sure to dock on Twitch and YouTube to watch the latest dev build in action, from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm CET / 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT / 11:00 am to 1:00 pm PDT. 🚀👀💥🙌

Keep it civil on the forums, and see you in space!
Michael and your dedicated ROCKFISH Games Team

Greetings, pilots!

We know, we know! Waiting sucks, but it's finally happening: EVERSPACE 2 will launch in Steam Early Access on January 18 at 7 pm CET / 1 pm ET / 10 am PT.

Priced at €37.99 / $39.99 / £31.99, the game will launch in English with professional voice acting for the first 12+ hours of the story campaign and several side missions that take place in the first two star systems of the final game. The initial version will be good for at least 25 hours of gameplay, while introducing pilots to EVERSPACE 2’s core gameplay mechanics of space combat, exploration, mining, puzzle-solving, traveling, trading, itemization, crafting, ship customization, player and companion perks. You’ll be spending all that time in five different player ship subclasses. Lots to play with!

The full version for PC, including Mac and native Linux support, will be released at a reasonably increased price in the first half of 2022 and come with UI and text language support for German (incl. voice dubbing), French, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.


After multiple rounds of community testing by some 2,000 players, and great feedback from various gaming outlets and content creators on the closed Beta, EVERSPACE 2 is ready for Early Access, and we can’t wait to receive your much-appreciated feedback on the initial release version. If anything does not feel right, is missing, or you got a great idea, make sure to let us know on the Steam forum. Rest assured, we will read every single comment.

Of course, the game is far from being finished. On top of the two star systems pilots will be able to explore in Early Access at launch, we plan to have four to six more as well as several additional player ship subclasses beyond the Interceptor, Sentinel, Striker, Gunship, and Scout at launch, to be gradually added on a quarterly basis. In the final game, players will also be able to enjoy twice as much story content plus lots of worthwhile endgame activities. We look forward to working closely with you guys and gals over the course of the next 12 to 18 months to make an outstanding narrative-driven open-world space looter shooter.

If you're still on the fence to even wishlist, check out our YouTube channel where you'll find numerous streams of our weekly production videos to see for yourself where production is currently at. We also recommend giving the free EVERSPACE 2 demo here on Steam a try but please note: This demo is the Prototype from last year, so it is quite outdated. We’ve already implemented a lot of improvements based on community feedback on UI and controls as well as new features and content like additional graphics settings, cockpit view, HOTAS support, and a ton more into the upcoming Early Access version.

Speaking of which, Erik Schrader, our beloved Community Ambassador and admired Ace pilot will demo the current safety build on Twitch and YouTube this Friday from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm CET / 2 pm to 4 pm ET / 11 am to 1 pm PT. This will also be the last opportunity on our channel to win a pre-release key incl. immediate closed Beta access, so you really wouldn’t want to miss it.

Anyway, enough teasing. The hype is real even for us. See you this Friday or in Early Access on January 18 🚀💥👀🙌
Michael and your dedicated ROCKFISH Games Team

Greetings, pilots!

Today’s production update will be the last for this year. Obviously, we had a different main topic planned for this one. We’re fully aware that many of you still feel bummed out about our new Early Access release date, even though we have received a lot of understanding for our reasoning from our backers. So thanks again for your support!

We’d like to conclude an unprecedentedly rough year for probably all of us on a high note. Thanks to our new timeline, we got some cool new content and features to share that would not have made it into the Early Access release version (our code freeze was pushed back by two weeks, the content freeze by four weeks).

You might recall from the Kickstarter campaign that you awesome EVERSPACE fans unlocked the stretch goal “The Ancients’ Rifts,” a sector in the endgame offering extra hard challenges and the best loot in the game. In this area, you will encounter remains of a mysterious alien race first found in EVERSPACE, and you’ll get an early taste of what’s to come in the ruins of Ancients’ structures scattered on an all-new moon in the Union system.


Concept art overpaint of ruins of The Ancients on Cephas II, a moon of the gas giant Cephas within the Union system. While you won’t run into any Ancients yet, we squeezed a couple of their mysterious ruins in as a teaser for the initial Early Access release, thanks to the extra time.

Encountering The Ancients without any warning whatsoever was a major highlight in the original EVERSPACE. Their ability to transfer energy into matter as well as control time and space added new challenges in combat, the opportunity of fast-travel, as well as some wicked alien tech to play within the endgame—all must-haves in any great open-world space RPG, right?

So, how better to introduce the mysteries of fast-travel as well as “mind-bending” weapon technology and devices (with a chance of surprising side effects) in the universe of EVERSPACE than utilizing some ancient alien tech that nobody seems to know much about yet, hence the generic name. But what if The Ancients turn out to be deeply connected to the established lore? Definitely not a new concept but proven in popular sci-fi classics many times before, and yet endless possibilities for adding new ideas in EVERSPACE 2…

As revealed in production update #19, the star system Union is a bustling trading hub in EVERSPACE 2. While the newly-introduced and independent Freelancers run extremely profitable businesses in high-tech gear, medical supplies, and mining resources in the clouds high above planet Culver, the omnipresent Outlaws, already known from the predecessor, make a killing by selling loot of any kind from scavenger and piracy hunts for high profit to the highest bidder at the black market of Prescott Starbase.

Think of it as a highly condensed version of an entire city floating in space with various departments, ranging from the neon-light-flooded shopping and entertainment area, the jam-packed residential neighborhood, all the way down to the industrial and dirty space harbor district—you know the gist of such sci-fi megacities because humans and aliens are alike when it comes to basic individuals’ needs and business.


Around Prescott Plaza (concept art overpaint), travelers will be able to delve into all the human, as well as alien, guilty pleasures you can think of; as an antipole to the grim reality of living a harsh life in the DMZ, far, far from Earth, moral and ethics have no home in this place, especially in the uptown district.


Concept art of the casino’s bar from a story campaign cutscene; this is where experienced shooters hang around when on the hunt for challenging high stakes assignments.


Concept art overpaint of the space docks at Prescott Starbase, a rather dark and filthy place. While officially under the control of the Prescott Port Authority, opposing mafia clans call the shots, literally. Even though these families live by different morals and conducts of doing business, unconditional loyalty is non-negotiable. “If you need it, we have it” is the mantra at this infamous black market within the DMZ; just don’t ask where the goods came from. Greed for profit and deep loathing towards the Colonial Fleet and the Okkar Authorities is what holds this sizzling melting pot of questionable human and bizarre alien individuals together. For anyone good at operating under the radar and willing to play by a different set of rules, this is yet another place where to look for risky but very profitable “business opportunities”.

While it is still under development and far from being complete, we’re excited to announce that Prescott Starbase will be explorable on day #1 and that we’ll add more functionality and opportunities to interact over the next year during Early Access.

Using an analogy from the movie industry, NPCs in video games are somewhat like actors that have to be cast for each role from a pool of talents and show up on set at the right time—definitely not all at once, except for the inevitable cast photo, maybe.

Our systems were designed to populate locations with the occasional visit from different NPCs for both friend and foe—like background actors, to make a scene lively and convincing that there is more going on in a given fictional world than what you can actually see.

No matter if watching a movie or playing a video game (especially in RPGs), it’s all about triggering that amazing {LINK REMOVED}Kopfkino to make you believe you are actually present in that fictional world of your choice. If not done right, you may not be able to put your finger on it, but you can tell something is off, immediately making you realize you are just sitting in front of a screen.

Obviously, in video games, especially in open-world looter shooter RPGs, you can interact with NPCs in many different ways. At the same time, your current loadout and stats add yet another dimension of complexity “to the scene”. This requires both careful level and combat design to prevent immersion from breaking, no matter what players do.

Most of the time, we’ve worked with groups of enemies sufficient for compelling encounters in the Alpha and Beta. However, as the game world of EVERSPACE 2 will grow a lot over the next 12+ months, so will the need for more encounter variety.

While it seems that we’re off to a good start with the closed Beta, keeping you guys and hopefully many more space pilots hooked in EVERSPACE 2 for tens if not hundreds of hours during Early Access and beyond is by far our biggest challenge. This is why we focus on making each location worth visiting beyond exploring and looking at new stuff—which can get old quickly, no matter how pretty the vista might be.

To get a tighter grip on things, we established a new in-house tool (aka Enemy Caster) to help our designers in trying out different combinations of enemies within seconds and playtesting if they make an exciting challenge without leading to any unfair results—provided players engage within a reasonable level. That said, there's nothing wrong with feeling lucky and testing your skill boundaries against lvl +5 enemies if you so wish… (Erik didn't know that we changed the tool's name to Enemy Caster as the original one was misleading).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fha5CuXiYEA
Generally, every enemy ship has its individual stats (hit points, damage output, speed, agility, etc.), all sorts of equipment as well as specific attack and retreat behavior—it’s almost as complex as designing for the player and can easily turn out being an even deeper rabbit hole than what it looks like on paper. However, the more shortcuts game designers are willing to take by limiting what enemies can do and which items they can use compared to what’s at the player's disposal, the shallower the overall combat experience, the weaker the immersion, and the less fun overall.

Thanks to the comparatively simple player progression through the predecessor’s linear game world, plus not being able to back-travel made things even easier, we were able to balance all enemy stats within long spreadsheets. However, due to the much higher complexity in combat design for our ambitious vision of a top-notch open-world looter shooter RPG with spaceships, we already reached the limits of this method within the first star system of EVERSPACE 2—which is why we’re pretty excited about our new tools. Imagine how nasty it would be if you get pinned by a bunch of pesky Webber Drones and before you even had a chance to stun them with an EMP blast and free yourself, a group of self-destructing drones or a squadron of enemy fighters would appear right next to you... Oh, wait!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bj0HIhBuaw
Long story short, for the Early Access release, we already have quite a few more enemy types than in the Beta, and more to come over the next 12+ months. Thanks to our new in-house tools, we’ll be able to offer you guys an even broader gameplay-variety in combat on your journey through six or eight star systems, plus endgame. To ensure that these combat encounters are properly balanced and fun for as many pilots as possible, we’ll heavily rely on everyone’s feedback during Early Access, so keep it coming and share your thoughts on our discord or in the forums on Steam and https://forum.everspace-game.com/categories/everspace-2.

Due to popular demand from EVERSPACE players, we added rudimentary HOTAS support post-launch to the predecessor, even though it had never been a promised feature because we believed it wasn’t a great fit for fast-paced 3D space shooters in general. The implementation did work but required some fiddling to assign input parameters for each model, which led to some frustration and quite a few negative user reviews on Steam. Now, to create a better experience for HOTAS fans in EVERSPACE 2, we’re putting more emphasis on this feature right from the beginning.

For initial test purposes, we already implemented experimental HOTAS support in the closed Alpha/Beta, which still requires some tweaking depending on your hardware and is not as robust as you can expect from an officially released product. After analyzing feedback from test pilots using HOTAS, we decided to overhaul the entire implementation completely and also add presets for the most common setups on day #1 of Early Access for the models below:

• T.Flight Hotas X
  
• T.Flight Hotas One
  
• T.Flight Hotas 4
  
• Hotas Warthog
  
• T16000M (Single)
  
• T16000M (Dual Config)
  
• Logitech Extreme 3D Pro
  
• Logitech/Saitek X56
  
• Logitech/Saitek X52
  
• Logitech/Saitek X52 Professional

While this should be solid enough for Early Access (but not the final product!), joystick pilots should bear in mind that piloting a starfighter in EVERSPACE 2 is more like flying an agile assault chopper than a supersonic jet fighter. To defeat ES2-baddies in space, combat is more about 360° two-axis precision aiming and dodging enemy fire by swift two-axis strafing as well as quick-boosting to get out of the fire zone and then turning on a dime to counter-attack. Much different than pulling off barrel rolls, corkscrew loops, or an Immelmann, like in old-school in-atmosphere dogfighting.

Of course, you absolutely can do all that, but fancy dogfight maneuvers won’t help you much in EVERSPACE 2 because your opponents can turn on a dime anytime, too. We know this probably won’t hold back any die-hard space sim fans using their beloved HOTAS/HOSAS gear and disable inertia dampeners for the extra kick of immersion in EVERSPACE 2—which, admittedly, is a fun experience. We’re just saying: be aware of what you are getting yourselves into… it'll be a tough ride! Having said that, we're working hard to give you the best HOTAS experience for such a fast-paced game as possible.

Alrighty, that was quite a lot for our concluding production update in 2020. We hope everyone has enjoyed the space ride so far. If you did, don’t be a stranger and join our fun/informative/goofy live streams every Friday on Twitch and YouTube, from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm CET / 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm ET / 11:00 am to 1:00 pm PT. I’m pretty sure that Erik, our one-and-only Community Ambassador, and host of the weekly RFG show, will spill a few more beans than we agreed and run several giveaways for EVERSPACE 2 pre-release keys incl. immediate closed Beta access, as well 😱

Well, it probably has been an unexpectedly rough year for everyone. So more than ever, we wish you y’all a wonderful winter holiday with your loved ones and hope to see you super relaxed, happy, and excited for the EVERSPACE 2 launch in January.

The hype is real, see you in Early Access in January... 🚀💥👀🙌
Michael and your dedicated ROCKFISH Games Team

PS: If you like what you see, make sure to wishlist, follow us on Facebook and Twitter, and join our community on discord.

Still on the fence? Give the free EVERSPACE 2 demo a try but please note: This demo is the Prototype from last year, so it is quite outdated. We’ve already implemented a lot of improvements based on community feedback on UI and controls as well as new features and content like additional graphics settings, cockpit view, HOTAS support, and a ton more into the upcoming Early Access version.

Greetings, pilots!

Let’s get the cyber elephant out of the room right away: The Cyberpunk 2077 release has just been pushed back to December 10, which is a major blow to our planned EVERSPACE 2 Early Access release in mid-December. Not only will every media outlet and content creator cover the arguably most-anticipated AAA game in history throughout the entire holiday season (and not much else), we also know that there’s quite a bit of audience overlap within our community (and our team), so...

After a quick consultation with our marketing friends at Evolve PR, Plan Of Attack, and Swordfish PR, we’ve decided to push back the EVERSPACE 2 Early Access release to January. We know that sucks, but hear us out! There’s actually some good in this.

To ease the pain for backers who don’t have access to the closed Beta, we’ve decided to send out pre-release keys to all eligible backers on November 2nd. Yes, you heard right, instead of waiting until mid-December, everyone who pledged for a digital copy will be able to delve into the closed Beta this Monday and start experiencing the first 10ish hours of what we have planned for Early Access. Of course, there’s no time constraint, so feel free to melt your PC as long as you want to and share some pretty screenshots with our awesome community on our discord.

Just do us one favor: please make sure to check your spam folders before sending us messages on all channels and dropping comments all over the place if you haven’t received your key within 24 hours. In case you are still missing your key, the fastest way for us to serve you is by sending us a direct message on Kickstarter so we can look you up in our database with only one click and reply with your key swiftly.

Also, in case anyone is wondering, all(!) pre-release keys will be revoked when we hit Early Access, as we will send out new keys for each platform. Everyone who pledged on a digital copy for PC, will be able to choose between Steam, GOG, and the Epic Game Store (provided Epic Games accepts EVERSPACE 2 on their store, we’re working on that) a few weeks before full release.

Last but not least, opening the Beta to all backers who pledged for a game copy means we will get even more quality feedback from up to another 6K backers. It also gives enough time for us to evaluate and make improvements for the upcoming Early Access thanks to an extra four weeks of development time. Our entire team will have their much-deserved winter holidays to recharge their batteries and spend time with their loved ones without making a single mouse click on the project.

With this news out of the way, let’s delve into our plans for crafting in EVERSPACE 2. We have been teasing this major feature in our weekly streams for quite a while, and we’re excited to finally share some snippets with you guys (big disclaimer: everything about crafting is SUBJECT TO CHANGE).

In EVERSPACE 2, everything revolves around flying, shooting, and looting. To help with combat against tougher enemies, better equipment is much-needed. To give us better control over player progress in a narrative-driven RPG as well as overall difficulty balancing within each star system, we chose to have player and item levels. Accordingly, items and enemies scale in strength based on their level.

So, when you level up, you should hunt for better equipment by shooting down slightly stronger enemies or completing higher-level activities providing more powerful equipment as reward - so far, so good, RPG business as usual.



Every open-world RPG player knows, defeating opponents and completing activities at lower-than-player level might be inevitable to progress in the story campaign, but it can also be fun - who doesn’t enjoy ripping through a bunch of low-level mobs every now and then? However, loot drops from lower-level opponents and activities will mostly be underwhelming. Here is where crafting comes into play, supplementing that good shoot-and-loot feeling by providing a convenient way to turn trash loot into valuable gear. This approach helps when tackling issues that especially come with the looter-shooter genre:

• Enabling players to turn otherwise worthless loot into better gear
  
• Encouraging players to try out different weapon types, especially in the early- and mid-game, before settling on a few favorites (going Beam laser only e.g.)
  
• Preventing players from hoarding items or crafting resources, so inventory management doesn’t become a chore
  
• Preventing players from being under-equipped in case of “RNG unlucky” or them not bothering about side quests or certain activities that (might) provide much-needed powerful gear to beat the next boss

Now, as you progress through the game, you’ll gather better blueprints which will enable you to have more control over the outcome of the crafting process, albeit at higher costs the more valuable a given crafted item is. We hope that unlocking blueprints will keep you motivated to max out crafting, which might scratch that completionist itch.

To craft or upgrade an item you’ll need a defined amount of crafting resources and in some cases specific items. The required amount of ingredients doesn't depend on item level but its rarity. When crafting a new item, it will always be at your current player level, so you can use it right away.


Here's a preview comparing your freshly crafted item with your currently equipped gear to see if it suits your playstyle - or not.

Generally, crafting items from scratch starts with the lowest rarity (common) for each of the three gear categories. Primary Weapons, Secondary Weapons, and Modules. After choosing which type of gear to craft, you’ll have to spend enough crafting resources to receive a new randomly generated item of your chosen rarity.

Furthermore, by dismantling items, you’ll be able to progress your "crafting experience" which can then be used to unlock new blueprints. These new blueprints will allow you to craft specific item types like pulse lasers, shields, mine launchers, and any other equippable item over time. But that’s not all!: You’ll also be able to unlock higher rarity blueprints via companion perks.

When an item was crafted or is modified, it receives an icon label "Improvised" and cannot be modified any further. That means an item is only upgradable once and a crafted item cannot be upgraded any further. However, we might allow further upgrading/modifying with perks or special NPCs at a later stage - crafting can be a deep rabbit hole.

100% clickbait, I know, I know, but no worries: This section is still family-friendly. It’s just we think the all-new Gunship looks really sexy with its shiny all-metal livery and curved hull.

At the moment, this thicc boi is not ready for duty due to some issues with its targeting software. Basically, it currently is only good for punching big holes into the void and for bragging rights - which is a good start, don’t get me wrong, but we want this baddie to live up to its look. With this Gunship sneak peek, we slowly move it back into the hangar for further tweaking. Rest assured, this beast will be playable at launch of Early Access in January.


Say hello to the Gunship, a Heavy Fighter subclass armed to the teeth by using four primary hardpoints as well as a devastating 360° auto turret Ultimate.


Bulky and intimidating, but that’s what fans of this subclass were looking for, right?

Before we move on, I’d like to take this opportunity to give a warm round of applause to our PR experts Aidan, Astrid, Christopher, Freyja, Laura, Lee, and Vytautas doing a fantastic job in helping us spread the word, find and secure promotion opportunities, as well as proof-reading every production update and interview since we finished the Kickstarter campaign successfully. Don’t worry, we’re still indie-style, and every piece you read is from us, but comes with professional polish because top-notch marketing & PR is equally important as making a killer game :)

Well, if you are excited about the new Gunship, want to learn more about crafting in EVERSPACE 2, and maybe even win a pre-release key incl. immediate closed Beta access, make sure to join today’s stream on Twitch and YouTube, from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm CET / 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm ET / 11:00 am to 1:00 pm PT, where Erik will share more details without losing his job for breaking our NDA.

The hype is real, see you in the Beta... 🚀👀💥🙌
Michael and your dedicated ROCKFISH Games Team

PS: If you like what you see, make sure to wishlist, then follow us on Facebook and Twitter, and join our community on discord.

If you are still on the fence, give the free EVERSPACE 2 demo a try. Please note: This demo is the Prototype from last year, so it is quite outdated. We’ve already implemented a lot of improvements based on community feedback on UI and controls as well as new features and content like additional graphics settings, cockpit view, HOTAS support, and a ton more into the upcoming Early Access version.

Greetings, pilots!

For the Steam Game Festival Autumn-Edition, we have a jam-packed program for you:

The super-nice folks at Valve invited us for an in-depth studio spotlight, covering our insane 27-year rollercoaster ride of ROCKFISH Games. From our humble beginnings in 3D CGI rendering services, to building a leading premium AAA mobile gaming studio, then losing it all by failing to pivot from premium to F2P monetization. Losing everything again in a hostile studio take-over in 2013, enabled us to reboot as ROCKFISH Games and become a thriving, 100% independent studio, specializing in premium fast-paced space shooters for PC and console.

This would not have been possible without our amazing superfans supporting us in two wildly successful Kickstarter campaigns for the original EVERSPACE in 2015 and EVERSPACE 2 in 2019 as well as a lot of ongoing Steam front page love for several years. So once again, big thanks to our backers and the awesome folks at Valve!
https://youtu.be/N08NwWJBvT0

We're kicking off our live program with some of our very best veteran pilots live-streaming the closed beta of EVERSPACE 2 exclusively on the Steam store page:

• GeekByte, Wednesday, 10/7, 7pm CET / 1pm ET / 10am PT - 10pm CET / 4pm ET / 1pm PT
  
• Geruhn, Thursday, 10/8, 6pm CET / 12pm ET / 9am PT - 9pm CET / 3pm ET / 12pm PT
  
• 31Fox, Thursday, 10/8, 9pm CET / 3pm ET / 12pm PT - 0am CET / 7pm ET / 4pm PT
  
• Giraffasaur, Friday, 10/9, 8pm CET / 2pm ET / 11am PT - 10pm CET / 4pm ET / 1pm PT
  
• Corben, Saturday, 10/10, 6pm CET / 12pm ET / 9am PT - 9pm CET / 3pm ET / 12pm PT
  
• 31Fox, Saturday, 10/10, 9pm CET / 3pm ET / 12pm PT - midnight CET / 7pm ET / 4pm PT
  
• Corben, Sunday, 10/11, 6pm CET / 12pm ET / 9am PT - 9pm CET / 3pm ET / 12pm PT
  
• 31Fox, Sunday, 10/11, 9pm CET / 3pm ET / 12pm PT - midnight CET / 7pm ET / 4pm PT
  
• Corben, Monday, 10/12, 6pm CET / 12pm ET / 9am PT - 9pm CET / 3pm ET / 12pm PT
  
• 31Fox, Monday, 10/12, 9pm CET / 3pm ET / 12pm PT - midnight CET / 7pm ET / 4pm PT
  
• Corben, Tuesday, 10/13, 6pm CET / 12pm ET / 9am PT - 9pm CET / 3pm ET / 12pm PT
  
• Geruhn, Tuesday, 10/13, 9pm CET / 3pm ET / 12pm PT - midnight CET / 7pm ET / 4pm PT

We will be running key giveaways for the original EVERSPACE every 30-ish minutes on Wednesday and weekend live streams. On Friday, you'll even have the chance of winning a pre-release key for EVERSPACE 2. Please note: There won't be any giveaways during reruns of previous streams.

If you like what you see, make sure to wishlist, then follow us on Facebook and Twitter, and join our community on discord.

If you are still on the fence, give the free EVERSPACE 2 demo a try. Please note: This demo is the Prototype from last year, so it is quite outdated. We’ve already implemented a lot of improvements based on community feedback on UI and controls as well as new features and content like additional graphics settings, cockpit view, HOTAS support, and a ton more into the upcoming Early Access version, which you can see in our weekly production updates on our YouTube channel.

See you in the closed Beta happening right now and/or in Early Access this December... 🚀👀💥🙌

Michael and your dedicated ROCKFISH Games Team

Attention, pilots!

Buckle up for a wild 6h+ test flight through the brand new EVERSPACE 2 closed Beta with some of our best veteran pilots on Twitch, YouTube or the EVERSPACE 2 Steam store page, starting at 7pm CET / 1pm ET / 10am PT.

The hype is real, see you in the Beta now and in Early Access this December... 🚀👀💥🤘🙀🙌
Michael and your dedicated ROCKFISH Games Team

Greetings, Pilots!

Time is relative, indeed. For us developers, it is flying because the next major milestone is always just around the corner. But for you all it probably feels like forever until you can get your hands on the next pre-release version of EVESPACE 2, right? Well, we’ve got some great news.

We have just updated the official EVERSPACE 2 pre-release build on Steam. Alpha backers can simply fire up Steam to receive their update. Beta backers (Early Adopter Edition reward tier and higher) will find their brand new Steam keys in their email inboxes. If you don’t see your key, please be patient as keys are sent out in batches. Also, make sure to check your spam folders!


Unfortunately, the new animated main menu background did not make it into the stable Beta build on Steam. We wanted to give an early look at this improvement with you here because it adds a sense of the deep exploration that all of you can look forward to when EVERSPACE 2 launches with the additional “Union System” and even more new stuff in Early Access this December.

So, what has changed since the previous production update, you might wonder? Well, apart from new content in the Ceto system that we want you to discover for yourselves, we made further UI/UX improvements based on the much-appreciated feedback from Alpha backers. We implemented cockpit view featuring fully functional instruments, improved the visual quality of several environmental assets and the overall performance of the build, and, of course, fixed a ton of bugs. More side missions, job variations and enemy types, points of interest, and puzzles have been added as well. Last but not least, Gero, our Sound Director, has been tweaking and adding sound effects and in-game music tracks. Basically, the Beta is a heavily revamped Alpha with a few content additions as well as more and better LOOT!

Now, anyone who feels bummed out because of not having access to the closed Beta, there are still a few days left to participate in a massive giveaway contest at the PC Gamer Forums with 5 (five) chances to win an EVERSPACE 2 pre-release Steam key; one of which will come with a slick Alienware gaming PC - yup, no joke!


You can win THIS — just head over to our dear friends at PC Gamer before the contest ends in a few DAYS!

There are quite a few entries already, but when has an EVERSPACE pilot ever let the odds get them down? In the case you are not a lucky star on this one, there will be another run with even better starting conditions - hm, where have we heard that before?

If you haven’t already checked it out, our Creative Director Uwe Wütherich, dropped a deep dive into EVERSPACE lore on The PC Gamer forums with a few tidbits about companions and the story of EVERSPACE 2. Give it a read! We’d love to hear what you think.


Spoiler Alert: The Okkar trader Tareen from the EVERSPACE - Encounters add-on will have an important come back in EVERSPACE 2. You'll find out more about his role as another companion in our narrative piece on PC Gamer.

Make sure to join today’s official Beta reveal stream on Twitch and YouTube, from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm CEST / 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT / 11:00 am to 1:00 pm PDT, where Erik will walk you through the overhauled story campaign in Ceto and give away 3 (three) more pre-release keys of EVERSPACE 2.

The hype is real, see you in the Beta... 🚀👀💥🙌
Michael and your dedicated ROCKFISH Games Team

Greetings, Pilots!

For any of you who might have been hiding under a rock in a galaxy far, far away, we would like to get the following major news onto your radar.

We are sticking to our promise of bringing EVERSPACE 2 to Steam first (duh!) and have officially announced Early Access in December 2020: A few minutes ago, we dropped a dopamine-rush gameplay trailer, followed by a snazzy dev commentary video by our infamous ace pilot, top streamer, and beloved community ambassador Erik Schrader, on IGN during the opening day of gamescom 2020.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIAIXXJYmV8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMWcd4kcgiE

You may have noticed that this production update is a bit shorter than usual, and there is a great reason for that: We’ve partnered with the awesome dudes and dudettes from PC Gamer for a massive ROCKFISH Games Studio Spotlight on the PC Gamer Forum, centered around an in-depth piece about the story and companions in EVERSPACE 2 as well as an AMA with some of our lead developers.

The spotlight will start on Monday, August 31, and we highly recommend that you register at the PC Gamer forum ASAP because you wouldn't want to miss out on some awesome loot dropping during the coming 30 days. Especially for those who have missed on getting into the imminent closed Beta program - hint, hint, nudge, nudge, wink, wink!

Ok, enough goofing around! Make sure to swing by tomorrow’s stream on Twitch and YouTube, from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm CEST / 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT / 11:00 am to 1:00 pm PDT, where Erik is probably gonna ignore my instructions once again and spoil some hot stuff for you, dang it!

The hype is real, see you in the space clouds... 🚀👀💥🤘🙀🙌
Michael and your dedicated ROCKFISH Games Team