7/29/2023 0 Comments Everspace beta![]() It’s your choice to play from 1st or 3rd person, with 3rd person giving you an incredible view of the fireballs enemy ships leave behind. Everspace‘s sectors are full of asteroids, planets, nebulae, plasma clouds, and I even jumped in beside a black hole on a run. Realistic? No, but real space can be mighty empty and boring. ![]() Every sector you fly through is a unique visual feast, worthy of printing on canvas and putting on your wall. The focus on the PC also pays off in the visuals: the graphics are jaw-dropping. No definitive word on HOTAS controls at this time. If you prefer using a controller you’re in luck: the devs have added gamepad support, and I’ve found it to be as good as the mouse and keyboard. The ship flies like a dream using mouse and keyboard, responsive while still requiring you to think ahead. The game’s primary platform is the PC, and it shows in the control scheme. Choosing perks can also affect how the game world pays out rewards, with more credits or better loot drops. Customizing your ship this way is really fun and helps focus your material collection in the early stages of your run. This lets you build a beam laser rather than waiting to find one on an enemy ship, for example. Moreover, blueprints that you find during a run are permanent they can be used for crafting items during your travels from the materials you collect. Over time, you’ll find your shields are stronger, your energy reserves charging faster, and your sensors scanning further. (The furthest I’ve made it so far is sector 3.) But dying doesn’t mean a total reset: credits you earn during the run can be used to purchase perks that will persist through all future attempts. The term “rogue-like” comes up frequently in the marketing notes, which you can take to mean that you will require many runs to be successful and resources will be scarce. The game is very easy to pick up for a quick session. Spend too long in place and interceptors will jump in, forcing you to move along. Each sector has a lot to explore to get you those resources, but you’ll find that you’re also being hunted. Along the way you fight enemy ships and installations, searching for the credits, equipment, crafting materials, and fuel you need to make it through. ‘Everspace’ has a feature called “Action Freeze”, allowing you to move the camera around while the game is paused for a perfect screenshot.įor the rest of you: in Everspace you pilot a ship through seven sectors to its destination. If you have played and loved both those games, then you can just skip the rest of this article and head over to pick up the Everspace Beta. Telling you that a game is a combination of two others may be lazy shorthand for complex narrative, but I’m going to do it anyway: Everspace is an addictive mix of the beauty of Descent: Freespace and the exploration intensity of FTL: Faster Than Light. In space, no one can hear you “ooh” and “ahh” about the graphics.
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