Everspace (Space shooter)

Derelict Colonial station wrecks: You will be able to explore the large wrecks of Colonial stations. Some security mechanisms like turrets, laser barriers, sentry drones, and secure doors are still intact. There may also be dangerous plasma discharges that will harm your ship and push it away. As you might have expected, there is a new type of precious loot hidden inside these wrecks...

Enhancements: Enhancements can be found in Colonial station wrecks, and work like runes that can be equipped before a run. Some give small bonuses to various ship stats, while others can change the playing style completely and have both positive and negative effects, e.g. “All enemies and loot are visible on the radar, but alien forces and warships arrive twice as early.”

Ship Colors: Ship colors can be collected just like blueprints by shooting down powerful enemies. Colors can be applied to any ship in the hangar, and you can change the look of the ship’s body and markings. The more colors collected, the more variations possible.

Alternative loadouts: Can be unlocked for each ship by reaching new sectors. There are two additional loadouts for each ship to unlock, changing the starting equipment drastically and thus allowing new playing styles, especially in the beginning of a run.

Gunship balancing: The Front Shield Generator is now available and even exclusive for the Gunship. Furthermore, its armor and energy core recharge rate was increased and a new device slot was added.

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Update 0.4.2.30747
MARCH 10 - ROCKFISH GAMES
We've just released a new update. Highlights include enhancements that can be equipped in the hangar, derelict colonial stations, ship color customization and alternative loadouts.

See the complete list of changes below. Please note that Drone Overrides won't work in this version.

Unfortunately we are unable to offer this update on Mac due to several severe issues that popped up after migrating to Unreal Engine version 4.14. We're still working on solutions, but chances are high that we will have to wait for a new Unreal Engine version before we can release the update on Mac.



New Features

• Added enhancements that can be equipped in the hangar
  
• Added new points of interest: Derelict Colonial stations
  
• Added player ship colors: Some are unlocked from the start, more can be collected during runs
  
• Added alternative ship loadouts
  
• Replaced voice actor for protagonist
  
• Added new consumable: Distress Beacon
  
• Added new consumable: Nano Extractor
  
• Added new consumable: Sensor Drone
  
• Added new challenge "Survive a Warship attack"
  
• Added 1st person view without cockpit
  
• The three most crafted blueprints in the current run will now be listed at the top of each crafting list

Tweaks

• Reworked Colonial Interceptor model and cockpit
  
• Consumables will now be activated after holding down the button for a short time to prevent accidental activation
  
• All device Sub-Routines have been turned into enhancements. Players who had any of these blueprints unlocked will automatically unlock the respective enhancements.
  
• The Devastator Sub-Routine Enhancement is now Gunship-exclusive
  
• Shield Disruptor is now Interceptor-exclusive
  
• Energy Discharger can now also be used on the Interceptor
  
• Front Shield Generator can now be used on the Gunship and is even Gunship exclusive
  
• Increased Gunship armor by 10%
  
• Added and additional device slot for Gunship
  
• Increased Gunship energy core recharge rate and added a few perk levels
  
• Drones will now always travel with you, the ability is not Gunship exclusive anymore.
  
• Added a level to the Gunship's drones perk theat regenerates hull of drones after jumping.
  
• Increased distance of deployed drones to player ships
  
• All sorts of Okkars, not only Interceptors can jump in before the Warships arrive
  
• Okkar Interceptors are now a common, though rare, enemy in later sectors
  
• The effects of previous perk levels are now displayed for perks that have unique descriptions per level
  
• Hull repairs at service stations are now limited but can be increased with the trading perk
  
• Enhanced turrets can now be found
  
• Increased energy allocations of Mk2/Mk3 Shields and Adaptive Armor
  
• Removed cooldown for Missile Defense Systems
  
• Energy Discharger now won't damage friendly units
  
• Don't deal or receive damage when colliding with friendly units
  
• Outlaw Drone carrier will now only re-override its own link drones if they got overridden, not all player drones
  
• Time Extenders will now leave the player ship unaffected while active
  
• Freighter in generic repair mission will now ask for all kinds of resources, not only nano-bots
  
• Sensors now need crystals instead of processors to repair which makes finding the needed resources easier without radar
  
• Reduced sensor damage radar impairment
  
• Show amount of deployed drones in HUD
  
• Only show "New ship available" message once
  
• Added new message when unlocking Enhancements, Colors, Loadouts and Blueprints
  
• Yellow marker colors are now only used for neutral units. Pickups, asteroids and other objects are now drawn in light blue.
  
• Added jump suppressor markers
  
• Added service station marker
  
• Traders will sometimes offer Access Keys
  
• Added Access Keys to Bonus Gear Offers
  
• Increased alert log font size
  
• Removed challenge "Kill 5 Okkar Interceptors in a single run"
  
• Added possbility to remap "P" key for opening the system menu
  
• Thermo Gun II will now fire bursts rather than bundles of projectiles
  
• Tweaked skybox generation to allow for more variation

Bugfixes

• Fixed generic minefield mission automatically succeeding
  
• Fixed player deploy drones not having shields when respective perk level was reached
  
• Fixed some loot being spawned way outside of level bounds
  
• Fixed a bug where the game would hang when the last secondary weapon of a slot was fired while the others were set to "skip when switching"
  
• Fixed turrets of Okkar Corvette and G&B Fighter not turning friendly if ship's mainframe gets overridden
  
• Fixed camera stuttering when flying in third person
  
• Fixed codex screen in hangar being unresponsive when using controller
  
• Fixed a bug where game could freeze when firing last secondary weapon of a kind
  
• Fixed a bug where drone carriers could be mainframe overridden
  
• Fixed black hole alert sounds and lightning sound not being affected by volume settings
  
• Fixed a bug when trying to collect previously excess nano bots after crafting nano injectors
  
• Fixed Okkar Swarm Fighters speaking with Outlaw voices
  
• Fixed ships not colliding with crystals

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Update 0.7.1.31567
APRIL 13 - ROCKFISH GAMES
We've just released a new update. Highlights include functional cockpit displays and the addition of a mysterious alien race, referred to as "The Ancients".

You can see the complete list of changes below.

We're able to offer this update on Mac as well, however with a slight delay of about 8 hours as something went wrong during build process. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Version 0.5 and 0.6 fell off the back of a gigantic space truck, if you're wondering. Kidding aside, a lot of comments indicated that version numbers were often being associated with completion percentage (though they're really just numbers to us), so we've decided to play along and go with version 0.7 - as the inclusion of the functional cockpits, the Glyphs and the Ancients are all big additions and we're fast-approaching full release.


New Features

• Added mysterious alien race, referred to as "The Ancients"
  
• Added ancient structures, which work as shortcuts
  
• Added Glyphs, the second kind of Enhancements
  
• Added functional, animated cockpit displays for all player ships
  
• Added option to hide HUD in cockpit view
  
• Added new device: Missile Turret

Tweaks

• Tweaked derelict colonial stations to get better performance and avoid crashes
  
• Containers carried by freighters now have individual looks (Credits, equipment, fuel...)
  
• New animated Jump Suppressor Mesh
  
• Reworked Missile Defense System to have an active duration rather than requiring manual activation
  
• Prolong time until Okkar forces arrive after alert is shown and don't let them have jump suppressors
  
• Removed Collision Damage subroutine and added it as positive effect for Infinite Drift subroutine
  
• Changed sensory overload subroutine so that hull and shield bars are not shown anymore instead of okkar forces arriving earlier
  
• Further decreased inertia dampening for Infinite Drift subroutine
  
• Changed weapon names and descriptions of all primary weapons that had a 'II' suffix
  
• Renamed a few subroutines
  
• Okkar forces and Colonial warships now won't be able to track you down in cloud field locations
  
• Shields now start with 0 hp and immediately regenerate when picked up
  
• Increased Plasma Mine life time and prevent triggering by user
  
• Increased Front Shield Generator cooldown duration
  
• Increased Time Extender cooldown duration and decreased Mk2 & Mk3 effect duration
  
• Increased Beam Laser II charge duration
  
• Let pursuing Okkar forces drop inferior loot with a tendency towards fuel
  
• List backer names in credits
  
• Use backer-penned names for players and most wanted criminals
  
• Included backer corporation names in codex and equipment descriptions
  
• Reduced Scout hitpoints - starts with 250 (instead of 300) and can only go up to 355 with hull hitpoints perk now
  
• Reduced colonial station laser trap hull damage
  
• Forcefield generators are no longer affected by area damage
  
• Optimized overall performance
  
• Some minor UI changes
  
• Tweaked color grading to work better in some environments
  
• Outlaw Chief is now called Outlaw Bomber

Bugfixes

• Fixed Drone Override that was not working
  
• Fixed bug where the Shield Booster would actually increase the Shut Down Duration and Recharge Delay instead of decreasing it
  
• Fixed some dialogs not being spoken and not being affected by voice volume change
  
• Fixed a bug where it was possible to navigate out of the item action box with in equipment screen
  
• Fixed a bug where the game crashed when looting devices with installed mods from your old shipwreck
  
• Fixed Grey Goo not spawning
  
• Fixed subroutine spawner not disappearing if all subroutines have been collected
  
• Fixed subroutine Beeline not removing homing ability from player's missiles
  
• Fixed subroutine Jump Repairs not restoring the correct amount of health
  
• Fixed not being able to scroll perk description box with right stick
  
• Fixed some perk values falsely rounded to integer values
  
• Fixed deadlock when pressing tab before selecting jump destination
  
• Fixed freighter wrecks not being affected by scanning
  
• Fixed crafting list focus jumping between entries while crafting multiple items
  
• Fixed weapon charge sound still playing when switching weapons while charging

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