Naturally, they are a pretty hot-headed bunch, and even their ships and gear make good use of some fancy heat-based technology, which can severely damage your ship components. They control all locations that are fire-themed. This is also where the three-chapter side quest kicks into gear - if you know what I mean when checking out Cohh’s logo on his twitch channel [The next faction you’ll encounter is another fan-inspired faction, The Zurilia, named after Zurilia, another top-tier Kickstarter backer of ours. This time, he even went for the Space Architect pledge, which allowed helping name and design a space station in the game: The massive Letho Star Port, the main hub in Drake you have seen in the trailer, is what Cohh has been working on together with Uwe, our Creative Director. It’s loosely named after the Cohhilition community from top streamer CohhCarnage who’s a huge fan of the EVERSPACE series and one of our top Kickstarter backers. The Coalition is a faction that veteran pilots probably still remember from Elek, one of the five side characters in the EVERSPACE - Encounters expansion. I don’t want to spoil too much but here’s some basic info about them. They have quite a vicious beef with each other which will escalate into a massive space battle. New FactionsIn Drake, you’ll have to deal with three new Factions, the Coalition, Retaliators, and Zurilia. It’s quite a deep side quest, expanding over three missions, and will introduce you to the new system, its most prominent locations, new gameplay mechanics, and three new factions. You get to Drake via a side quest you must pick up from Elek at the Homebase in Ceto. Gosh, I wished we had even more underwater content, but our team already said we might be revisiting those locations, again at v1.0 fingers crossed! Granted, I wasn’t scuba diving on another water planet, but you get me. I haven’t seen anything like this in any other game before, and from my own wreck-diving experience I can testify this is precisely how it looks and feels. However, I was just blown away when I had to go underwater to disable mines and plant my “own” explosives in a gigantic, half-sunken space station. I think both the lava and ice locations are absolutely awesome. These environments not only look darn pretty they also feature new damage types that players have to deal with on planets and in open space, too. In the second half, Erik covers new ship modules for the Vindicator as well as Flak Smart Ammo that prevents killing yourself when firing at targets right in front of you - you're welcome!įinally, Erik shows that Ships Devices now come with different ranges to make them more distinct and impactful to your playstyle:ĭrake | New Side Missions Drake is undoubtedly the star (pun intended) of the summer update with its mesmerizing new lava, ice, and underwater locations. Not listing them here as you can easily pause the video when Erik is talking about them. Next are six new perks that have been added to the game three are unlockable through companions the other three come available as player perks when hitting level 25. Speaking of attributes, Ship Attributes have also been rescaled to provide more impact and make those location challenges more meaningful, so even if you don't like the puzzles in EVERSPACE 2 there's now a good reason to do them nonetheless. That said we're not done refining the system, so you can expect some changes in the autumn update that will also introduce a snippet of the endgame as well as unique legendary items featuring extraordinary attributes. We're aware that some pilots just hate level scaling regardless of how integral it is to looter-shooter gameplay. So in July, Erik covered the level rescaling to give pilots a better feeling of gear progression, making you feel more powerful the higher the item level that gear is dropping with. Nonetheless, we want to give you a quick wrap-up of what we've been covering in our weekly gamedev & community streams the month before Drake: Gang Wars was released. We're a bit late with our monthly recap due to the major content update that dropped earlier this month.
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