Hey there, pilots!

Another busy month for our team has gone by with so much to talk about. Nonetheless, Erik did his best to keep the monthly recap under 4 minutes as we know you guys are busy playing tons of games, right?

The June recap starts off with a slew of fresh concept art of three(!) new factions and other NPCs that will have their debut in the Drake system of the upcoming summer update. Erik then talks about new challenges that will provide permanent bonuses throughout the entire game once you mastered them. Next are new consumables that have been added to the game as well as the possibility to craft consumables which was high on the community's wishlist. But that's not all! You can now craft components from resources, too, so you can build that much-desired Catalyst even though you might not have every single component in place but plenty of others — you're welcome!

Another community request has been to have more ship dealers, so we made the Flying Dutches sell space fighters, too, which should come in super handy, as you can call her in certain areas. It's just a first implementation, and we might extend that feature later on. The highlight of June was of course the reveal of both an icy and a fiery location in the all-new Drake star system.



We know many of you guys can't wait to delve into Drake, but we're not quite there yet. We'll have a few more weekly streams before you can actually try out the new star system for yourselves. Make sure to stop by our weekly live streams not to miss out on the latest in development on YouTube and Twitch every Friday 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm CEST / 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT / 11:00 am to 1:00 pm PDT!

Don't stop being awesome, and see you in space! 🚀🪐🙌
Michael and your dedicated ROCKFISH Games Team

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pilot Kizaw, join our discord and drop them pretties in the #screenshot channel.

Greetings, pilots!

Celebrating this year's Steam summer sale, we thought it might be a good idea to drop a teaser trailer about Drake: Gang Wars and show you some iconic locations of the most extreme star system yet, coming to EVERSPACE 2 in late summer.



If you like what you just saw, make sure to swing by tomorrow's live streams on YouTube and Twitch 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm CEST / 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT / 11:00 am to 1:00 pm PDT! Erik, ACE pilot and Community Ambassador, will take the first trip to one of the new locations in Drake — so much we can share already: it's gonna be hot!

Don't stop being awesome, and see you in space! 🚀🪐🙌
Michael and your dedicated ROCKFISH Games Team

PS: Fair warning to all pilots that haven't jumped in the cockpit, yet: We'll raise the price significantly when hitting v1.0, so make sure not to miss one of the few remaining sales on the already discounted Early Acces price! Just saying... 😉

Hey there, pilots!

Goodness space gravy, the May recap of our gamedev & community live streams is here with the latest changes and new features — woot!

Ace pilots and Community Ambassador Erik talks about new types of energy orbs adding a bit more depth to this feature. Tracking required resources for crafting is an all-new feature that goes nicely together with the new resource map mode: not only will you see right away what resources are still required to make that nifty new piece of equipment, but with one click on the map's submenu, you'll see right away where is a good chance to find that precious ore or crystal that's still missing. Furthermore, Erik also goes quite deep into item grades and trades as well as new ship passives — enjoy!



The team is still hard at work to get our big summer update out as planned, and you can look forward to a massive announcement trailer for Drake: Gang Wars dropping soon(TM). As always, make sure to stop by our weekly live streams on YouTube and Twitch every Friday 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm CEST / 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT / 11:00 am to 1:00 pm PDT!

Don't stop being awesome, and see you in space! 🚀🪐🙌
Michael and your dedicated ROCKFISH Games Team

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pilot Exel, join our discord and drop them pretties in the #screenshot channel.

Hey there, pilots!

The April recap of our gamedev & community live streams is here with the latest changes and new features.

Ace pilots and Community Ambassador Erik talks about secondary weapon modifiers to help make secondaries more varied and interesting. Hotswapping armor was long in the making and a hot community demand, so now it's here (as in the internal dev build) and will come with the summer update to a PC near you.

Gero, our Sound Director, has started implementing weapon SFX based on item rarity, also giving all reworked SFX more oomph. Some perks like Percussive Maintenance have been overhauled to better work with regenerating armor. The biggest change is a new feature called High Risk Area Mutators, adding more variety and greater challenges for hardcore pilots.



May will be another busy month for us with lots of changes and new features, so make sure to stop by our weekly live streams on YouTube and Twitch every Friday 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm CEST / 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT / 11:00 am to 1:00 pm PDT!

Don't stop being awesome, 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 Deshra, join our discord and drop them pretties in the #screenshot channel.

Hey there, pilots!

While we just dropped a major content update with a hotfix shortly after, we didn't forget about the March recap of our gamedev & community live streams on our YouTube and Twitch channel.

Ace pilots and Community Ambassador Erik talks about why we renamed the Rogue light fighter to Stinger, touches on general player ship rebalancing, community-requested changes to the Vindicator, and ends with a community shout out with some amazing fanart.



Don't stop being awesome, 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 Kizaw, join our discord and drop them pretties in the #screenshot channel.

Hey pilots,

Thanks for all your feedback on the big content Stinger's Debut update (0.8.25290) that dropped less than a week ago. Overall, the response from the community was very positive, but a few issues did slip through the cracks. To get those kinks ironed out, our team has been working hard to swiftly deliver this hotfix with the changes below:

• Balancing: Reduced EMP Generator effect duration
  
• Balancing: Reduced Bloodstar Raid Plating hitpoints
  
• Balancing: Adjusted Utility scaling curve for diminishing returns in late-game but greater bonus in early-game
  
• Balancing: Increased drop chances for pure and flawless resources
  
• Integrated localization changes suggested from Crowdin community

• Fixed that during "The Magic Of Umami" while chasing Maddocks at Sato Orbit some doors were closed if side mission "Spelunking For Madcaps" was done before, resulting in a mission blocker
  
• Fixed "Cargo Full" loot screen sometimes showing up after pulling multiple items at once although there still was cargo space available
  
• Fixed "Cargo Full" loot screen sometimes showing invalid items after pulling multiple items at once that could result in all sorts of weird glitches including freezes and crashes
  
• Fixed that players who were at "From Scratch" mission when they updated from version 0.7 to version 0.8 were unable to collect the required Aetheum crystals because of a replaced resource ID
  
• Fixed "optimized" affix effect still affecting item after new catalyst has been applied
  
• Fixed Gunship turret damaging the player's ship
  
• Fixed that damage values displayed in device descriptions were not buffed by Utility
  
• Fixed Stinger expertise falsely showing up as a passive
  
• Fixed that blueprintable variants of items did not display the blueprint progress correctly
  
• Fixed wrong rarities of dropped blueprints if there were no more locked blueprints for a rarity
  
• Fixed that pillar-shaped asteroids in generic Zharkov locations could have wrong rotation

For pilots on Gamepass for PC, this latest build has also been submitted to the Windows Store and is currently in certification. It should go live very soon. 🚀💥🙌

Don’t stop being awesome, and see you in space!
Michael and your dedicated ROCKFISH Games Team

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Greetings, pilots!

Spring is here, and we’re dropping another meaty content update as promised. Along with a new fighter class, new ship modules, new story content, and new enemy ships, we’ve also made major changes to the crafting system, mining, and resource management as well as how ship devices work. We also addressed progression issues and reprioritized difficulty settings and localization. Meaning, we’re ahead of schedule! So let’s get right into it with the official release trailer.



Stinger’s Debut, previously titled Rogue’s Debut in the 2022 roadmap, adds the Stinger, EVERSPACE 2’s third light fighter class. This new ship focuses on electronic warfare, making devices a critical component for pilots who favor agile, ability-focused spacecraft. When using ship devices, a third weapon hardpoint underneath the Stinger’s hull is activated, dealing 50% more primary damage.



The Stinger’s Void Swarm Ultimate instantly resets device cooldowns and releases a swarm of aggressive micro-bots that consume everything in their way, prioritizing the locked target. Upon return, these bots restore the player ship’s hull and armor based on damage dealt. Stinger vessels can roll with random perks like 20% reduced cooldown for support or warfare devices, Void Swarm radius increased by 25%, or become cloaked for five seconds after its shield is depleted.

As we announced in our 2022 roadmap news in December last year, the spring update will feature “a bit more” story content among lots of other things. While there are “only” one and half main missions left to conclude the Early Access portion of the story campaign, it finishes with a large-scale boss battle and major storyline beat before things continue into the grand finale at full release.



We also added the 2nd part of the multi-stage side mission Parasite. As many of you might recall, Adam now has to prevent a computer virus from spreading all over the DMZ that he has accidentally unleashed, so he’ll need help from his new, dubious hacker friend, Fallon Pango.

With the continuation of the story, we also introduce new enemy ships, like the Okkar Clerical Corvette and the Okkar Prime units. With the introduction of these ships, time to share some lore with those not familiar with the Okkar that were introduced in the predecessor.

The Okkar Fleet manufactures its own ships, weaponry, and mining equipment without the aid of independent contractors. Private corporations do not exist in Okkar society, the concept of capitalism was unknown until the arrival of Colonials in the 30th Century. Nonetheless, this has not prevented Okkar technology from developing on par withto human advancement, although distinctively different in design and function. Experts put the origins of Okkar space exploration and technological development at some one thousand solar years before humans.


The Okkar Clerical Corvette belongs to the cleric caste. Generally, ships like this are seen on diplomatic missions to ease tension between Humans and the Okkar after the war, but its advanced high-tech warfare capabilities are meant to leave no doubt about who would be in control if a situation should get out of hand or escalate into a serious military conflict.


The Okkar Prime are a patriotic subfaction wanting to rid the Beltegrades of Colonials altogether and restore all Okkar territories lost in the war. They agitate within their society for war and intervene against the more peaceful ruling clerical caste.

As always, EVERSPACE 2 is all about that sweet, sweet loot. The crafting system is designed to complement the player’s gear growth when loot drop RNG isn’t working as desired. However, “filling in the gaps” is neither the crafting system’s main nor sole purpose. Our overhaul gives purpose to crafting from the beginning of a new save file to beyond the final mission; no RNG needed. This has been accomplished through the resource overhaul, granting access to new blueprints through a far more accessible system.



Item blueprints are needed before crafting, and our veteran players know a blueprint can be earned by dismantling three of the same item at the same tier. To make progression just a little easier, we’ve made blueprints infrequently drop from enemies as well. Instead of RNG working against the player, now it randomly helps instead. This small change gives players faster access to crafting possibilities.

Components (previously called tech resources) have also been added to the crafting list. Because of this, and because of the changes above, a lot of the RNG that hindered players before is quickly vanishing. We’ve seen forum posts trying to find ways to spawn certain components over others (spoiler: they don’t), so being able to craft with a handful of ingredients should be a powerfully welcome addition.



Speaking of additions, catalysts are powerful new craftables that can directly specialize an item’s prefix through modification, however, the blueprints themselves are harder to find. Instead of being dropped from random enemies, catalyst blueprints can only be found from high-risk location bosses. Also, this is just the first round of catalysts. More will appear in the future, opening up new customization routes by tampering with item modifiers themselves.

With all these overhauls, it is more than possible to track the location of desired resources, build a specific much-needed component, and upgrade a desired perk or craft a catalyst.

Device progression has been fundamentally changed. Upon acquiring a device, players can now upgrade it up to four times, improving the duration or strength of the device’s effects, increasing the number of charges, or lower cooldown timers. The previous three modes are now unlocked once you master a device by maxing out its level, and you can freely swap between all three modes so long as the device isn’t on cooldown.



Choose device upgrades carefully, however. If you want to remove the upgrades you’ve applied, you’ll have to spend crafting ingredients to peel them off. Good thing the crafting inventory is now limitless!

With the EVERSPACE 2 Stinger’s Debut update, we’re also addressing balancing and progression issues, again. The XP curve has been flattened at the beginning, so when starting a new game, players should hit level 10 after playing through all main and side story content as well as completing all challenges in Ceto. Since complaints about the game being too hard or too easy have still been the biggest issue even after several rounds of rebalancing, we also introduced experimental difficulty levels: Very Easy / Easy / Normal / Hard / Very Hard, which can be changed anytime.

The system is still at an early stage and just the first step to providing more pilots with the level of challenge they are looking for. On Very Hard, our most skilled devs finally started seeing a proper challenge when playing EVERSPACE 2 for real. For a change, they occasionally die even when using every trick they have up their sleeves. On Very Easy, even less skilled pilots can enjoy the adventure through space without breaking too much of a sweat when learning combat and build mechanics of the game.

Right now, the settings affect enemy damage output, enemy aim accuracy, and enemy health, but we also plan to add different enemy spawn rates, game economy, and gameplay rules aka handicaps much as we did in the predecessor. Of course, difficulty settings will also have an impact on loot and resources drop rate and quality in the launch version of the game.

Another re-prioritized feature is the addition of WIP language support for German, French, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Furthermore, we also plan to enable our community to add further languages through Crowdin which we will add in the future if there’s enough demand.

Now, even though the game’s story content is not complete yet, we’re already at a whopping 80,000+ word count and we’re using a lot of genre-specific terms as well as puns that carry on for several missions. We’ve been working with our professional localization friends from Synthesis on the listed languages above. However, we can tell from double-checking the German version that a lot of things can be lost in translation. So, if anyone finds any awkward or incorrect translation, we would highly appreciate the community’s support to iron out any kinks before the full release.

Last but not least, shout out to Polish science-fiction author Stanisław Lem for letting HIVE borrow various quotes from the novel The Cyberiad in the Polish language version of EVERSPACE 2, free of charge. During the process of translating the game into Polish, our localization partners came up with this idea, and we just loved it, but no spoilers!

While less important to all you Kickstarter Backer who already have Early Access, the content-gated EVERSPACE 2 demo on Steam has been updated with all relevant changes, including WIP localization. In the updated demo, players from all over the globe can explore the first sector of EVERSPACE 2’s first star system and carry their save game over to Early Access. Got a friend on the fence about EVERSPACE 2? Point them at the demo to get hands-on before buying!

Features

• Added text localization for various languages (work in progress)
  
• Added new main mission and new side missions
  
• Added new player ship class: Stinger
  
• Added new enemy faction: Okkar Prime
  
• Added new voice recordings (no Text-To-Speech fallbacks in version 0.8)
  
• Added new ship modules for heavy and light player ship classes
  
• Added new companion perk for decreasing cruise mode charge duration
  
• Added new weapons and modules
  
• Added new "Sustained" weapon prefix that increases energy capacity
  
• Added new item sets
  
• Added option to show a horizon indicator in HUD
  
• Added an option to en- or disable pausing of the game when window is unfocused (community suggestion)
  
• Blueprints for crafting equipment can now be found or received by dismantling the respective item multiple times
  
• Parts, mineable resources, components and catalysts are now stored in a separate crafting inventory, no longer occupying space of cargo or storage
  
• Crafting of components (formerly tech resources) and catalysts now possible
  
• Mining resources has the chance of spawning the same resource in a higher rarity
  
• Mined resources are now displayed in the location info window once the Location Scanner perk level 2 has been unlocked
  
• Devices can now be upgraded and mastered. Upgrading increases device attributes. Mastering unlocks all device modes
  
• UI: Added dedicated crafting tab to ingame menu
  
• UI: Added option (toggle) to show current item level on top of the item icon within inventories
  
• UI: Added new sorting option "SortByLevel" for cargo inventories
  
• UI: Added total selling value info when selling multiple items at once
  
• UI: Added ingame dialog log to the pause menu to recap the most recent conversations

Tweaks

• Increased player level cap from 20 to 22
  
• Revised ore and crystal resources and properly distributed them among regions of all systems
  
• Removed random spawns in the last stage of mission "The Convert"
  
• Dialogs get aborted when involved speakers are destroyed
  
• Improved texture streaming
  
• Improved video ram usage
  
• Speedward shield will now also recharge during cruise drive
  
• Reworked Outlaw Bomb Thrower: No more invincibility shield but a fast high-capacity shield
  
• Reworked Outlaw Bomb Thrower barrel bombs: Less damage but disable shields for a few seconds
  
• Slightly decreased Cruise Booster's cruise mode charge duration
  
• Improved handling of player attacking the freighter during "Picking Up The Pieces"
  
• When having to get rid of all interfering creatures during "X Marks The Spot", a vague search area waypoint is now displayed
  
• Combined log books 2 & 3 in "X Marks The Spot" into one and removed one "locate signal" task
  
• Invasions will not show a warning banner anymore and often spawn farther away so that invaders do not target the player immediately
  
• Show in marker details when hovered from further away if a pickup is needed as an ingredient for a tracked perk
  
• Renamed Mainframe Expansion to Mainframe Component
  
• Renamed Augment to Mainframe Expansion
  
• "3rd Person Camera Stiffness" setting now affects linear camera lag
  
• Limited linear camera lag to prevent player ship from leaving the screen
  
• Ship colors and decals don't get previewed on hover/select anymore. They now only change when "equip" is pressed
  
• Improved performance in Charybdis Bowl
  
• Tareen now flies a ship that looks like the one he used in original Everspace
  
• Use a new icon for debris from which drones can be spawned when flying Vindicator
  
• Changed "Adapt Item" to "Remove Level Restriction". This modification now also costs slightly more parts
  
• Made ship handling a little more tangible through slight tweaks in banking/inertia behavior
  
• Changed EMP Generator "Short Circuit" mode to apply normal energy damage instead of damaging the shield only
  
• Updated Outlaw Drone Carrier link drone visual effect
  
• Increased Redeemer Inquisitor hull and shield HP
  
• Outlaw Vipers are now immune to corrosion
  
• Prevent Disintegrator from accumulating excessive backwards acceleration
  
• "Powerful" and "Marksman" affixes can now also appear / be applied to launcher weapons
  
• Enemies, except for Anti-Missile Drones, can no longer shoot down player missiles
  
• Balanced prefix chances for items
  
• Balancing: Increased probability of Elite enemies with player level
  
• Balancing: Slightly increased Outlaw Missile Turret damage
  
• Balancing: Increased Synchro Pulse energy consumption and spread
  
• Balancing: Adjusted shield and armor bonuses for all ships to match late-game hull hitpoint values
  
• Balancing: Slower leveling, less xp from lower-level enemies, less aggressive downscaling of enemies to player level
  
• Balancing: Decreased hull hitpoint bonus gained from Structure attribute
  
• Balancing: Increased shield capacity scaling, use same scaling for armor with lowered base values
  
• Balancing: Increased divergence of shield and armor bonus values between ship classes
  
• Balancing: Added two additional underside turrets to Outlaw Drone Carrier
  
• Balancing: Outlaw Drone Carriers now spawn combat drones
  
• Balancing: Reduced "Crit Happens" perk range from 500m to 300m
  
• Balancing: Reduced Striker expertise scaling
  
• Balancing: Slightly reduced Precision scaling
  
• Balancing: Adjusted Firepower scaling curve for greater damage bonus in early game and less in late game
  
• Balancing: Signal Decoders will now only drop from outlaw stations, some rare containers, elites and capital ships
  
• Balancing: Slightly reduced drop chance of colors
  
• Balancing: Increased Outlaw Drone Carrier drone respawn delay
  
• Balancing: Reduced Raid Booster effect
  
• Balancing: Increased Flak range and damage, reduced energy consumption
  
• Balancing: Increased Vindicator drone damage Expertise scaling
  
• Balancing: Increased Vindicator "Phalanx" fire rate bonus
  
• UI: Use dedicated HUD marker icons for Ancient Rune and Ancient Rune Socket
  
• UI: Tweaked dialog box design
  
• UI: Show "new" highlight on freshly unlocked and not yet viewed colors and decals in customization screen
  
• UI: Enemies currently debuffed by player receive a special offscreen indicator in HUD
  
• UI: Show obstructed interactable and structure HUD markers with dotted outline
  
• UI: New icons for several items
  
• UI: Show potential resource yields instead of amount of resources mined in the location info tooltip
  
• UI: Changed xp bar color and only show xp numbers in menus
  
• UI: Ship stats panel was slightly redesigned and optimized
  
• UI: Various performance improvements for item rendering
  
• UI: New stackable item price info showing dedicated "per Item"-price as well as total stack price
  
• UI: Overhauled design of repair and restock buttons in hangar tab
  
• UI: Added animated background for launch action button on stations
  
• UI: Item selection - "Other ships"-navigation now using L2R2 navigation instead of R3 cycle behavior
  
• UI: Changed multi-sell action label from "Sell" to "SellAll" to be more precise
  
• UI: Cooldown slot animations are synchronized now
  
• UI: Item info widget - optimized scrolling to exclude empty space at scrollbox bottom
  
• UI: Reduced opacity for item stack amount when maxed (community suggestion)
  
• UI: Overhauled crafting UI/UX to support new crafting-tab and -inventory
  
• UI: Re-added expand/collapse cargo view button in ship inventory headline
  
• UI: The number of Device Ugrade Points and Mainframe Expansions is now displayed in yellow color if greater than 0
  
• UI: Optimized action button caption paddings for non-hold actions

Bugfixes

• Fixed bonus attributes changing their value after saving and reloading the game
  
• Fixed Gunship Arsenal perk: Double fire rate for async weapons, double damage for sync weapons
  
• Fixed that Vindicator Drones were attacked by neutral Outlaw Group during "The Good, The Bad & The Decent"
  
• Fixed being able to destroy Maddocks' ship inside the storage hangar during "The Magic Of Umami"
  
• Fixed a potential mission blocker when killing Maddocks right before reaching the end of the chase in Sato during "The Magic Of Umami"
  
• Fixed that "Downtime Warrior" perk was not affecting secondary weapon energy on Bomber
  
• Fixed freighter in front of Smuggler Base during "The Vortex" not having any collision
  
• Fixed being able to use the Flying Dutchess' Beacon near Khala's Vessel during "Picking Up The Pieces" although she was already present
  
• Fixed winding up outside of cave during "The Emissary" if loading initial auto-save and immediately creating manual save and then loading that save
  
• Fixed NPC HUD marker being transparent after game was paused during jump-in
  
• Fixed HUD marker "spotted" animation being stuck when game was paused during animation
  
• Fixed wrong waypoint image and wrong player position in system view
  
• Fixed shield and armor break effect appearing when collecting energy orbs while no armor or shield is equipped
  
• Fixed that destroying the plating given by Dax would stop the mission from progressing
  
• Fixed that arriving within interaction range of Spatial Bypasses always lead to the "Can't interact during conversation" message being shown
  
• Fixed several slide doors accidentally being open
  
• Fixed Outlaw Demolisher shooting mines from very far away
  
• Fixed being able to fast-travel to the same location you are currently at
  
• Fixed that the prototype and starforged prefixes lost their effect after increasing an item's rarity
  
• Fixed that the mission log for "Gathering Dust" side mission was missing
  
• Fixed "Repairs 3" perk not working as intended (was supposed to only repair the ship's hull up to 30% if lower when docked)
  
• Fixed gravitational behavior of Shadow Creatures on planets when they're detached
  
• Fixed that "Gathering Dust" side mission was available at the start of "Old Friends," not after
  
• Fixed mouse axis inversions not working when using centered crosshair and operating system mouse position
  
• Fixed inverted mouse controls not working when having relative mouse controls enabled
  
• Fixed Vindicator drones sometimes not disappearing while docked
  
• Fixed being able to track an already completed mission when double-clicking on a mission button
  
• Fixed a problem in which it was possible that the "Spares & Scrap" mission did not start
  
• Fixed ARC9000 explosion not damaging larger ships at certain impact angles
  
• Fixed that mines being displayed because of a sensor bonus attribute were staying in sensor memory and were still shown at a large distance
  
• Fixed "Downtime Warrior" perk not stacking correctly
  
• Fixed critical hit damage using a wrong value
  
• Fixed that item rewards for jobs couldn't be claimed
  
• Fixed error in Temporal Nano Recompensator "Resurgence" mode description showing wrong repair increase percentage
  
• Fixed Drone Carrier link drones not repairing carrier armor correctly
  
• Fixed bug in repair costs calculation
  
• Fixed implicit downsizing of (cargo) inventories in some cases. (e.g. storage)
  
• Fixed some save and restore problems with certain objects like freight containers
  
• Fixed a few issues with Loot screen that gets shown when not all items could be picked up
  
• Fixed that "pull all" on pickups was sometimes not possible
  
• Fixed that "Redeemers" name was missing in the "kills" stats
  
• Fixed player projectiles colliding with player missiles
  
• Fixed player Flak projectiles being triggered by player missiles/mines
  
• Fixed NPC missiles spawning with a too large offset
  
• UI: Fixed loss of focus after clicking quick repair and quick restock buttons
  
• UI: Multiple improvements and fixes for screens with non-16:9 aspect ratio
  
• UI: Fixed potential bug that repair action was available in item selection even though it isn't available on the station
  
• UI: Fixed that shop inventory might not be sorted correctly after mission items were added to an already visited shop inventory
  
• UI: Fixed various smaller color & alignment issues in ingame menu
  
• UI: Fixed rebuy indicator disappearing after selling items to shop
  
• UI: Fixed multiple bugs regarding devices in shop inventory
  
• UI: Fixed that side-by-side info would not scroll on gamepad in case current item wasn't scrollable as well
  
• UI: Fixed that the damaged equipment indicator wasn't refreshed after repairing
  
• UI: Fixed mainframe expansion points animation problems
  
• UI: Fixed homebase storage space counter not always being correct

The following changes are only relevant if you have been playing a preview of this update on the experimental branch:

Features (Experimental relevant only)

• (Exp) Added one additional light fighter body module

Tweaks (Experimental relevant only)

• (Exp) Balancing: Slightly reduced drop chance of blueprints
  
• (Exp) Replaced superior kinetic damage Catalyst with rare energy damage Catalyst
  
• (Exp) Balancing: Reduced Void Swarm repair amount
  
• (Exp) Balancing: Tweaked some Catalyst effect values and rarities
  
• (Exp) Worked in localization feedback from the community at crowdin.com
  
• (Exp) UI: Catalyst slots and action buttons in catalyst selection are now clickable
  
• (Exp) UI: Disabled catalyst selection and show info banner in case there are no compatible catalysts available
  
• (Exp) UI: Refined catalyst modification description
  
• (Exp) UI: Added dedicated item category icon for catalysts
  
• (Exp) UI: Items cannot be modified anymore while they are damaged
  
• (Exp) UI: Fully implemented reworked device appearance including upgrade animations

Bugixes (Experimental relevant only)

• (Exp) Fixed that "Okkar Prime" name was missing in the "kills" stats
  
• (Exp) Fixed that obsolete items were gone instead of replaced when loading an older savegame
  
• (Exp) Fixed Freelancer Cargo Carrier not exploding correctly
  
• (Exp) Common Catalysts are now always unlocked
  
• (Exp) Swift Catalyst can now also be applied to Disintegrator
  
• (Exp) Fixed one Stinger passive being wrongly assigned to the Scout
  
• (Exp) Fixed Optimized and Prototype Catalysts not working on modules
  
• (Exp) Fixed Void Swarm not resetting device cooldowns
  
• (Exp) Fixed that obsolete Catalysts and Affixes were not removed when loading a game
  
• (Exp) Fixed that Cruise Drive Duration perk did not unlock under certain conditions
  
• (Exp) Fixed bug where Cruise Booster's cruise drive activation time would be overwritten by upgrading the perk
  
• (Exp) Fixed Okkar Corvette shooting through its own geometry
  
• (Exp) Fixed mining Catalyst bonus attributes not being removed when applying a new Catalyst
  
• (Exp) Fixed some dialogue lines repeating during mission "The Emissary"
  
• (Exp) UI: Fixed that the item info in the "Modify" screen could not be scrolled using a controller
  
• (Exp) UI: Fixed that the device description text wasn't clipped properly after scrolling
  
• (Exp) UI: Fixed overlapping descriptions in catalyst selection screen
  
• (Exp) UI: Fixed a bug that occured after a companion was unlocked but no perks were shown
  
• (Exp) UI: Fixed that the repair banner of an item tooltip could have elements from the device upgrade banner
  
• (Exp) UI: Fixed a bug in which the amount of an item for sale would get bigger after buying
  
• (Exp) UI: Fixed a bug in which the item rarity wasn't instantly updated after a modification
  
• (Exp) UI: Fixed that the dialog board entries always showed "text-to-speech placeholder"

Well, this concludes our first major content update of 2022 with two more to come, one in summer, one in fall, before we wrap up production and will only be working on final polish for the full release, currently scheduled for early 2023. Check out our 2022 roadmap for more details.

So there’s still plenty of work ahead of us, but we’ll keep you in the loop with our weekly gamedev & community streams so that everyone can see for themselves where production is at, on Twitch and YouTube, every Friday 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. 🚀💥🙌

Don’t stop being awesome, and see you in space!
Michael and your dedicated ROCKFISH Games Team

PS: As per usual, we timed another 20% sale with the release of The Stinger's Debut, starting today at 7 pm CEST / 1:00 pm EDT / 10:00 am PDT, so here’s another chance to get in the cockpit and save a few bucks. Note that we’ll raise the price at full release, so you won’t find a better deal to grab a copy of EVERSPACE 2 anytime soon. Unless you’re on Game Pass for PC, that is.

Hey there, pilots!

The VOD of the last Spring Update, aka Stinger'S Debut, live sneak-peek is up. Ace pilot and beloved Community Ambassador Erik Schrader takes the Stinger for another spin while introducing the all-new item set Umbra & Penumbra, a blaster and flak cannon pairing nicely together. He also goes through rebalancing of some player ships and further tweaks, like new mining SFX and more.



If you want to get into all the nitty-gritty details, here's the changelog and access instructions for the experimental branch.

Happy testing! If things go according to our plans, we should have a nice April fools joke for all pilots that's totally not a joke.

Don't stop being awesome, and see you in space! 🚀💥🙌
Michael and your dedicated ROCKFISH Games Team

Greetings, pilots!

The astronomical vernal equinox of the northern hemisphere is upon us, meaning the EVERSPACE 2 spring update is literally just around the space corner. Time to give you an early look at the all-new light fighter class, the Stinger, which is a much more fitting name than Rogue, as you will be able to see for yourselves in our upcoming live stream.

While Erik, our Community Ambassador, will take the Stinger for a spin and play through some side missions of the previous update that recently got the full voice recording treatment in English (so no more text-to-speech placeholders), he will also talk about difficulty settings and localization which have both been re-prioritized for the upcoming update.

So, swing by and join us in this Friday's gamedev & community live stream on Twitch and YouTube, from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm CET / 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm ET / 11:00 am to 1:00 pm PT. Erik even promised to show the Stinger's devastating Void Swarm ULT—whoop, whoop!

If you want to catch up on development since the last major update, check out our short & snappy recaps below:





Don't stop being awesome, and see you in space! 🚀🪐🙌
Michael and your dedicated ROCKFISH Games Team

Hey there, pilots!

Here's the short February recap of our gamedev & community live streams on our YouTube channel. Ace pilots and Community Ambassador Erik talks about icons for resources and components that have been updated, the all-new crafting tab with a lot of changes under the hood, including the introduction of weapon catalysts. and how to get blueprints for those.

Erik also goes through the addition of various new ship modules for light and heavy fighters. Further major changes highlighted in this recap are how upgrading ship devices now work and the new Bomb Thrower mechanic.



Don't stop being awesome, and see you in space! 🚀🪐🙌
Michael and your dedicated ROCKFISH Games Team

Fanshot credit: ItsYFP