Spacejerk MMO EVE Online right this moment launches its newest free enlargement, named Into The Abyss, with a concentrate on PvE motion. Capsuleers will get to enterprise into Abyssal Deadspace, a brand new type of spacedungeon, to combat a brand new faction of NPC enemies. As nicely as duffing up the mysterious Triglavian Collective, spacefolks will get to make and use their spaceships and new kind of spacegun too.
Abyssal Deadspace may be very a lot supposed for solo play, which is a bit bizarre for the murderous MMO – as Matt Kamen bought into when he talked to developers CCP about it.
So! Abyssal Deadspace presents brief solo dungeons, lasting 20 minutes tops (you’ll die for those who run over). Players who discover or purchase a ‘filament’ can use it to warp via wormholes into a series of three bubbles inside the Abyss, unusual and doomy locations the place even the spaceweather may be in opposition to you. They’re partially procedurally-generated, in order that they’ll provide selection. And Abyssal Deadspace is house to the Triglavian Collective, a mysterious faction who appear to not less than be human… ish.
Blueprints for 3 Triglavian ships may be discovered within the dungeons, starting from a frigate to a Battleship and all wanting like substitute heads for Blade Wolf in Metal Gear Rising. The spooky spacemen additionally provide the prospect to get Entropic Disintegrators, a brand new beam weapon kind which cost up and do extra injury over time (a very long time – 80-ish seconds for a frigate one to succeed in full cost, as much as 140 seconds for a battleship). They’re additionally house to Mutaplasmid Colonies which may enhance ship modules.
Read CCP’s broader overview of the update over right here, and the patch notes this-a-way.
EVE is free-to-play-ish nowadays, having launched ‘Alpha Clone’-level accounts which may fly the primary few tiers of ships and be taught fundamental abilities. Alpha Clone gamers gained’t get to play with the fanciest toys however EVE is an MMO the place low-level gamers can contribute meaningfully even to wars. Swing by EVE’s site or Steam to blast off.
I’ve reinstalled EVE since CCP launched Alpha Clones, although my outdated accounts have been misplaced to the ravages of inaccessible inboxes. I log in to queue talent coaching every so often however my coronary heart’s not in it; everybody I knew in area has left and EVE’s PvE isn’t nice. I’ll need to see if Abyssal Deadspace is as neat as its title sounds.
