We've just released a new update. Highlights include the 3rd player ship and an overhaul of the perk system. Have fun playing!

New Features

• Added new player ship: Colonial Gunship
  
• Added new enemy: Outlaw Drone Carrier
  
• Perks overhaul: Divided into pilot perks and individual ship perks
  
• Added new perks: Trading and Diplomacy
  
• Attacking G&B can result in them reporting your attack and them being hostile in the current and next location
  
• Added two new natural hazards
  
• Added new point of interest: Freighter Wreck
  
• Added more structures
  
• Added option to set a flag for equipment to ignore it when switching to next/previous equipment
  
• Added hall of fame that keeps track of your completed runs
  
• Added backer-written logbook entries
  
• Added new planet type

Tweaks

• Interceptor and Gunship now have armor which reduces hull damage by 10% and 20% (what the Hull Enhancer used to do, but doesn't require a device slot)
  
• Renamed "Hull Enhancer" to "Adaptive Armor"
  
• Service stations now only offer one option unless perked with Trading perk
  
• FOV is now being slightly increased while boosting
  
• Slightly tweaked threat levels
  
• Slightly decreased Stasis Missile effect duration
  
• Added Weapon Overdrive blueprint to startup blueprints
  
• Introduced a drone limit of 1. Can be perked to 3 for gunship.
  
• Reduced ore pickup amount
  
• Reduced explosion impulse strength
  
• Increased grey goo NPC speed
  
• Slightly reduced Coil Gun spread
  
• Removed all shield related perks
  
• Removed "store credits" perk
  
• Made sensor range perk scout exclusive
  
• Made jump charge duration perk scout exclusive
  
• Tweaked perks for stronger differentiation between ships
  
• Added more ship class restrictions for equipment
  
• Proximity mines will no longer react to ships of their own faction
  
• Tweaked Mine Cluster behavior
  
• Tweaked jump drive animation
  
• Damage indicator vignette and camera shake strength now depend on the amount of health left
  
• Okkar Corvettes MK 1 can now come with jump suppressors, Okkar Corvettes MK 2 now won't always carry jump suppressors
  
• Prevent more than 2 jump suppressors being active at the same time
  
• Nano Injectors will now consider the nano bot efficiency
  
• Increased Flak Cannon II damage
  
• Increased Weapon Overdrive efficiency
  
• HUD equipment slot tweaks: Display currently active devices with green glow, give currently non-usable equipment red shading
  
• Energized Boost Mk1, Mk2 and Mk3 now have the same duration but increased boost multiplier
  
• Slightly improved Shock Rifle II stats
  
• Added warning and alert sound when close to black hole
  
• Aim assist now works with proximity mines and missiles
  
• The "Devastator" sub-routine now reduces the energy recharge rate rather than allocating energy

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where wrong consumable icon was displayed in pickup compare screen
  
• Fixed wrong consumable and secondary weapon amounts being shown in player equipment slots of compare screen
  
• Fixed devices with 4 pre-installed mods being spawned
  
• Fixed sun flares not affecting cloaked ships
  
• Fixed sun flares pushing bigger ships out of level bounds
  
• Fixed spread mods not being available for Coil Guns
  
• Fixed premature uncloaking while charging weapons
  
• Fixed pilot seat clipping/blocking view when playing in 1st person view in ultra-wide
  
• Fixed inverted mouse x and y not working when playing with centered crosshair
  
• Fixed perked critical hit chance not being regarded for right-hand item in compare screen
  
• Fixed trader not offering credits anymore (but needs a perk now)
  
• Fixed ships sometimes having damage in hangar
  
• Fixed current ship name not correctly displayed in ingame menu
  
• Fixed Outlaw Sniper not uncloaking when attacked with explosive weapons
  
• Fixed nano bots not being removed in generic freighter repair mission

We've just released a new update. Highlights include the 3rd player ship and an overhaul of the perk system. Have fun playing!

New Features

• Added new player ship: Colonial Gunship
  
• Added new enemy: Outlaw Drone Carrier
  
• Perks overhaul: Divided into pilot perks and individual ship perks
  
• Added new perks: Trading and Diplomacy
  
• Attacking G&B can result in them reporting your attack and them being hostile in the current and next location
  
• Added two new natural hazards
  
• Added new point of interest: Freighter Wreck
  
• Added more structures
  
• Added option to set a flag for equipment to ignore it when switching to next/previous equipment
  
• Added hall of fame that keeps track of your completed runs
  
• Added backer-written logbook entries
  
• Added new planet type

Tweaks

• Interceptor and Gunship now have armor which reduces hull damage by 10% and 20% (what the Hull Enhancer used to do, but doesn't require a device slot)
  
• Renamed "Hull Enhancer" to "Adaptive Armor"
  
• Service stations now only offer one option unless perked with Trading perk
  
• FOV is now being slightly increased while boosting
  
• Slightly tweaked threat levels
  
• Slightly decreased Stasis Missile effect duration
  
• Added Weapon Overdrive blueprint to startup blueprints
  
• Introduced a drone limit of 1. Can be perked to 3 for gunship.
  
• Reduced ore pickup amount
  
• Reduced explosion impulse strength
  
• Increased grey goo NPC speed
  
• Slightly reduced Coil Gun spread
  
• Removed all shield related perks
  
• Removed "store credits" perk
  
• Made sensor range perk scout exclusive
  
• Made jump charge duration perk scout exclusive
  
• Tweaked perks for stronger differentiation between ships
  
• Added more ship class restrictions for equipment
  
• Proximity mines will no longer react to ships of their own faction
  
• Tweaked Mine Cluster behavior
  
• Tweaked jump drive animation
  
• Damage indicator vignette and camera shake strength now depend on the amount of health left
  
• Okkar Corvettes MK 1 can now come with jump suppressors, Okkar Corvettes MK 2 now won't always carry jump suppressors
  
• Prevent more than 2 jump suppressors being active at the same time
  
• Nano Injectors will now consider the nano bot efficiency
  
• Increased Flak Cannon II damage
  
• Increased Weapon Overdrive efficiency
  
• HUD equipment slot tweaks: Display currently active devices with green glow, give currently non-usable equipment red shading
  
• Energized Boost Mk1, Mk2 and Mk3 now have the same duration but increased boost multiplier
  
• Slightly improved Shock Rifle II stats
  
• Added warning and alert sound when close to black hole
  
• Aim assist now works with proximity mines and missiles
  
• The "Devastator" sub-routine now reduces the energy recharge rate rather than allocating energy

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where wrong consumable icon was displayed in pickup compare screen
  
• Fixed wrong consumable and secondary weapon amounts being shown in player equipment slots of compare screen
  
• Fixed devices with 4 pre-installed mods being spawned
  
• Fixed sun flares not affecting cloaked ships
  
• Fixed sun flares pushing bigger ships out of level bounds
  
• Fixed spread mods not being available for Coil Guns
  
• Fixed premature uncloaking while charging weapons
  
• Fixed pilot seat clipping/blocking view when playing in 1st person view in ultra-wide
  
• Fixed inverted mouse x and y not working when playing with centered crosshair
  
• Fixed perked critical hit chance not being regarded for right-hand item in compare screen
  
• Fixed trader not offering credits anymore (but needs a perk now)
  
• Fixed ships sometimes having damage in hangar
  
• Fixed current ship name not correctly displayed in ingame menu
  
• Fixed Outlaw Sniper not uncloaking when attacked with explosive weapons
  
• Fixed nano bots not being removed in generic freighter repair mission

We've just released a new update. Highlights include a new player ship and a difficulty selection. Have fun playing!


New Features

• Added new player ship: Colonial Scout
  
• Added difficulty selection before each run (Easy/Normal/Hard)
  
• Added a few codex entries
  
• Added chance of finding enhanced weapons (weapons with random stat bonuses)
  
• Added new enemy: Okkar Scan Drone
  
• Added new consumable: Nano Injector
  
• Added centered crosshair option for mouse controls (drag mouse to aim, could be useful for custom joystick controls)
  
• Added equipment info tooltips to equipment stats screen (PC / Mac)
  
• Added new "large" asteroid
  
• Added new nebula textures
  
• Added new structures
  
• Added option to switch between Xbox and Playstation style button icons

Tweaks

• Replaced Energized Boost with Weapon Overdrive as starting device for Colonial Interceptor
  
• Introduced player ship class restrictions: Cloak is now only available for Colonial Scout, Weapon Overdrive is only available for Colonial Interceptor
  
• Consumables floating in space can now be used directly
  
• Added swappable equipment slots to compare screen for better overview
  
• Game now pauses when using the selection wheel instead of just slowing it down
  
• Jump gates are now activated automatically after some seconds when close
  
• Automatically use surplus nano bots when nano bot limit is reached, health is not full and new nano bots are collected
  
• Slightly increased ship component damage chance
  
• Slightly increased sensor range for containers
  
• Decreased max speed perk effect and added one more level
  
• Increased Plasma Torpedo and Shield Breaker missile damage radius
  
• Slightly reduced Heavy Missile damage radius
  
• Slightly reduced Shock Rifle I & II charge damage multiplier
  
• Added spread to Coil Guns
  
• Increased energy allocation of Mk2 and Mk3 passive devices
  
• Downgraded fire rate mods to put them on par with damage mods
  
• Reduced Energized Boost energy consumption
  
• Increased pickup pull range + pull range for all tractor beams
  
• Increased amount of dark energy needed to craft ARC-9000
  
• Increased Teleporter energy consumption and slightly reduced teleport distance
  
• Slightly increased outlaw sniper aim and doubled uncloaked duration
  
• Okkar Corvettes now travel through the location and are faster
  
• Okkar Corvette Mk1 will now call reinforcements when low on health.
  
• Okkar Corvette Mk2 now fires plasma cannons and uses an Energy Discharger when enemies are close. It also uses combat drones instead of shield charge drones
  
• Freighters now come in different flavors: credits, fuel, equipment, resource and supply.
  
• Grey Goo will now do hull damage to ships that are very close
  
• Changed some consumable icons
  
• Challenges now have different credit rewards that are displayed next to them
  
• Tweaked lightning field VFX
  
• Tweaked sector colors
  
• Blueprints and "enhanced" pickups will now have a special particle effect
  
• Show signal strenghts of all jump suppressors being present, not only closest

Bugfixes

• Fixed slowmo not being correctly ended when switching weapons
  
• Fixed bug with selecting an empty equipment slot with the gamepad
  
• Fixed damage not showing in Plasma Mine stats
  
• Fixed player wreck spawning outside of level bounds and if run was successfully finished
  
• Fixed missing Coil Gun weapon meshes
  
• Fixed some keymapping issues
  
• Fixed high frequency tone in a certain ambience track
  
• Fixed "Kill a drone by ramming it" challenge
  
• Fixed bug where failed challenges were achieved when continuing the game
  
• Fixed a bug where outlaw stations would not spawn enemies
  
• Possible fix for GPU particle related crashes
  
• Fixed occasionally wrong explosion impulse direction
  
• Fixed freeze when pressing tab while using jump gate
  
• Fixed hacking sound sometimes not stopping
  
• Fixed some generic missions related bugs

We've just released a new update. Highlights include a new player ship and a difficulty selection. Have fun playing!


New Features

• Added new player ship: Colonial Scout
  
• Added difficulty selection before each run (Easy/Normal/Hard)
  
• Added a few codex entries
  
• Added chance of finding enhanced weapons (weapons with random stat bonuses)
  
• Added new enemy: Okkar Scan Drone
  
• Added new consumable: Nano Injector
  
• Added centered crosshair option for mouse controls (drag mouse to aim, could be useful for custom joystick controls)
  
• Added equipment info tooltips to equipment stats screen (PC / Mac)
  
• Added new "large" asteroid
  
• Added new nebula textures
  
• Added new structures
  
• Added option to switch between Xbox and Playstation style button icons

Tweaks

• Replaced Energized Boost with Weapon Overdrive as starting device for Colonial Interceptor
  
• Introduced player ship class restrictions: Cloak is now only available for Colonial Scout, Weapon Overdrive is only available for Colonial Interceptor
  
• Consumables floating in space can now be used directly
  
• Added swappable equipment slots to compare screen for better overview
  
• Game now pauses when using the selection wheel instead of just slowing it down
  
• Jump gates are now activated automatically after some seconds when close
  
• Automatically use surplus nano bots when nano bot limit is reached, health is not full and new nano bots are collected
  
• Slightly increased ship component damage chance
  
• Slightly increased sensor range for containers
  
• Decreased max speed perk effect and added one more level
  
• Increased Plasma Torpedo and Shield Breaker missile damage radius
  
• Slightly reduced Heavy Missile damage radius
  
• Slightly reduced Shock Rifle I & II charge damage multiplier
  
• Added spread to Coil Guns
  
• Increased energy allocation of Mk2 and Mk3 passive devices
  
• Downgraded fire rate mods to put them on par with damage mods
  
• Reduced Energized Boost energy consumption
  
• Increased pickup pull range + pull range for all tractor beams
  
• Increased amount of dark energy needed to craft ARC-9000
  
• Increased Teleporter energy consumption and slightly reduced teleport distance
  
• Slightly increased outlaw sniper aim and doubled uncloaked duration
  
• Okkar Corvettes now travel through the location and are faster
  
• Okkar Corvette Mk1 will now call reinforcements when low on health.
  
• Okkar Corvette Mk2 now fires plasma cannons and uses an Energy Discharger when enemies are close. It also uses combat drones instead of shield charge drones
  
• Freighters now come in different flavors: credits, fuel, equipment, resource and supply.
  
• Grey Goo will now do hull damage to ships that are very close
  
• Changed some consumable icons
  
• Challenges now have different credit rewards that are displayed next to them
  
• Tweaked lightning field VFX
  
• Tweaked sector colors
  
• Blueprints and "enhanced" pickups will now have a special particle effect
  
• Show signal strenghts of all jump suppressors being present, not only closest

Bugfixes

• Fixed slowmo not being correctly ended when switching weapons
  
• Fixed bug with selecting an empty equipment slot with the gamepad
  
• Fixed damage not showing in Plasma Mine stats
  
• Fixed player wreck spawning outside of level bounds and if run was successfully finished
  
• Fixed missing Coil Gun weapon meshes
  
• Fixed some keymapping issues
  
• Fixed high frequency tone in a certain ambience track
  
• Fixed "Kill a drone by ramming it" challenge
  
• Fixed bug where failed challenges were achieved when continuing the game
  
• Fixed a bug where outlaw stations would not spawn enemies
  
• Possible fix for GPU particle related crashes
  
• Fixed occasionally wrong explosion impulse direction
  
• Fixed freeze when pressing tab while using jump gate
  
• Fixed hacking sound sometimes not stopping
  
• Fixed some generic missions related bugs

We've just uploaded a new patch. Here are the patch notes. Have fun!


New Features

• Added energy regeneration bonus when standing still
  
• Added option to adjust FOV (PC / Mac)
  
• Added option to unlock crosshair from screen center when using gamepad
  
• Added new device: Teleporter (icon still placeholder)
  
• Added new device: Missile Defense System (icon still placeholder)
  
• Added new weapon: Coil Gun (basically what Shock Rifle II was before, icons are still placeholders)
  
• Added new perk: Bonus resources
  
• Added option to not use system mouse position in-game (PC / Mac) (thus disabling mouse acceleration and having different speeds in-game and in menus)
  
• Added mouse sensitivity option on Mac
  
• Added functionality to make screenshots with F9 (PC / Mac)

Tweaks

• Improved gamepad controls
  
• Improved readability of dialog subtitles
  
• Ramp-up time progress of weapons are now displayed on the crosshair
  
• Secure containers now have special HUD markers
  
• Added list of completed challenges to stats
  
• Interceptor countdown no longer decreases with sector progression
  
• Changed "Bonus gear" perk unlock requirements
  
• Floodlight challenge: Reduced required amount to 30
  
• Increased asteroid field variance
  
• Increased Thermo Gun homing agility and energy consumption
  
• Increased Flak Cannon II damage
  
• Reworked Shock Rifle II to behave more like the base version
  
• Reduced Time Extender cooldown and energy consumption
  
• Reduced Cloak duration and cooldown
  
• Added ramp-up time of 0.5s to ARC 9000 so you don't accidentally fire it
  
• Shield Booster, Damage Limiter and Damage Booster effects are no longer stackable
  
• Pickups that are dropped inside the event horizon of black holes are now removed
  
• Fuel and resources bought from trader are now directly given to the player while in trading screen
  
• Nano Kits can no longer be used if no ship component is damaged
  Increased damage tolerance of Colonial Fighter, Light Fighter and Collector Drone for becoming hostile
  
• Reduced beam laser camera shake
  
• Increased Okkar Corvette loot quality
  
• Increased hacking radius for jump suppressor and comm hub

Bugfixes

• Fixed some wrong buttons being shown during tutorial instructions
  
• Fixed removal of two access keys when opening a secure container
  
• Fixed neutrals not getting hostile when using plasma mines
  
• Fixed a bug where it was possible to get inifinite rerolls of bonus equipment offers

We've just uploaded a new patch. Here are the patch notes. Have fun!


New Features

• Added energy regeneration bonus when standing still
  
• Added option to adjust FOV (PC / Mac)
  
• Added option to unlock crosshair from screen center when using gamepad
  
• Added new device: Teleporter (icon still placeholder)
  
• Added new device: Missile Defense System (icon still placeholder)
  
• Added new weapon: Coil Gun (basically what Shock Rifle II was before, icons are still placeholders)
  
• Added new perk: Bonus resources
  
• Added option to not use system mouse position in-game (PC / Mac) (thus disabling mouse acceleration and having different speeds in-game and in menus)
  
• Added mouse sensitivity option on Mac
  
• Added functionality to make screenshots with F9 (PC / Mac)

Tweaks

• Improved gamepad controls
  
• Improved readability of dialog subtitles
  
• Ramp-up time progress of weapons are now displayed on the crosshair
  
• Secure containers now have special HUD markers
  
• Added list of completed challenges to stats
  
• Interceptor countdown no longer decreases with sector progression
  
• Changed "Bonus gear" perk unlock requirements
  
• Floodlight challenge: Reduced required amount to 30
  
• Increased asteroid field variance
  
• Increased Thermo Gun homing agility and energy consumption
  
• Increased Flak Cannon II damage
  
• Reworked Shock Rifle II to behave more like the base version
  
• Reduced Time Extender cooldown and energy consumption
  
• Reduced Cloak duration and cooldown
  
• Added ramp-up time of 0.5s to ARC 9000 so you don't accidentally fire it
  
• Shield Booster, Damage Limiter and Damage Booster effects are no longer stackable
  
• Pickups that are dropped inside the event horizon of black holes are now removed
  
• Fuel and resources bought from trader are now directly given to the player while in trading screen
  
• Nano Kits can no longer be used if no ship component is damaged
  Increased damage tolerance of Colonial Fighter, Light Fighter and Collector Drone for becoming hostile
  
• Reduced beam laser camera shake
  
• Increased Okkar Corvette loot quality
  
• Increased hacking radius for jump suppressor and comm hub

Bugfixes

• Fixed some wrong buttons being shown during tutorial instructions
  
• Fixed removal of two access keys when opening a secure container
  
• Fixed neutrals not getting hostile when using plasma mines
  
• Fixed a bug where it was possible to get inifinite rerolls of bonus equipment offers

Get ready, pilots!

EVERSPACE will go live at 10:00 am PST / 7:00 pm CET. To make the last few hours of wait a bit easier we got a brand new launch trailer featuring gameplay at 60 FPS:
https://youtu.be/WlJrokiuSO4

See you in Space, in a bit!
Michael and your dedicated ROCKFISH Games Team

Get ready, pilots!

EVERSPACE will go live at 10:00 am PST / 7:00 pm CET. To make the last few hours of wait a bit easier we got a brand new launch trailer featuring gameplay at 60 FPS:
https://youtu.be/WlJrokiuSO4

See you in Space, in a bit!
Michael and your dedicated ROCKFISH Games Team

We just published one more patch before we will hit Early Access on September 14. It features an all-new boss fight, some voice-acted dialogs, a new planet type and additional Outlaw stations. We also added the option to turn off v-sync, more granular graphic settings, and improved support for ultra-wide monitors among many other additions and improvements.

Changelog

We just published one more patch before we will hit Early Access on September 14. It features an all-new boss fight, some voice-acted dialogs, a new planet type and additional Outlaw stations. We also added the option to turn off v-sync, more granular graphic settings, and improved support for ultra-wide monitors among many other additions and improvements.

Changelog