With the keynote of Eve Fanfest wrapped up, we now have all the main points of what CCP is engaged on for the following yr, together with its new enlargement: Into the Abyss.
Into the Abyss’ Abyssal Deadspace is essentially Eve Online’s first single-player raid.
Abyssal Deadspace
Into the Abyss brings with it an enormous new area for gamers to discover, Abyssal Deadspace. It’s a radical shift for Eve Online, an instanced location that may solely be accessed solo. The raid is populated by additional robust enemies however the potential rewards are large, with destroyed ships dropping blueprints and abilities distinctive to the abyss.
You can construct these blueprints or prepare these abilities your self or commerce them on the Eve market.
Faction constructions
Eve Online’s lead developer, Andie Nordgren reaffirmed plans to create ”a deeper, richer ecosystem of area colonisation.” The subsequent step for that is exchange outposts and conquerable stations with “unique heavily bonused faction citadels.”
On June fifth, anybody proudly owning a station will uncover it changed with a faction construction. “If you want this you will have to take or defend the outposts and stations and hold them on the date of the change,” Nordgren stated, basically flicking a match into the gasoline of Eve participant rivalries.
Activity Tracker
CCP have constructed a “new tool that helps people get an overview of the myriad of activities that are available in Eve Online,” Nordgren reveals. “It will show you what your character has achieved in New Eden and it will also show you what else there is to do.”
As plenty of the info that’s now being captured to fill this tracker wasn’t beforehand being recorded, the tracker received’t retroactively fill together with your complete Eve profession. However, as quickly because it goes stay on Into the Abyss’ launch date, the tracker will begin updating together with your actions.
“You’ll be able to see your career in Eve unfold,” Nordgren says. “And see how you can go deeper into what you’re currently doing or find whole new areas of the game to try.”
Bot banning
“We are also upping our efforts to deal with bots and hackers, who really don’t belong in Eve Online,” Nordgren says. This is an ongoing a part of CCP’s private war with botters.
Kill stories
Thanks to the brand new exercise tracker, CCP are utilizing the identical expertise to “vastly upgrade” Eve’s kill stories. The kill mail will now file logistics, kill marks, skins, and detailed injury info
Planetary Interaction UI replace
The largest cheer of the night time went to the information that planetary interactions are getting a top quality of life and UI overhaul. “There are many capsuleers who work with planetary colonies every day and some attention was well overdue,” Nordgren says. “We’ll have over 20 UI tweaks and quality of life fixes.” The particulars are getting stuffed out in an upcoming dev weblog.
Balance adjustments
Nordgren additionally revealed that the group are working to handle the steadiness points surrounding 500mn heavy interdictors and after that the group will transfer onto tweaking “underused ships”. CCP will begin with the navy battleships.
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