EVERSPACE™ 2

Its the same thing over and over. Gets boring quick. The name makes a lot more sense now. Its the same missions over and over - ever (space) suffering.

EVERSPACE 2 is a first-person or third-person perspective action RPG looter, in the same vein as Diablo et al., making it more or less space Diablo. It features Adam Roslin, a fugitive escaped clone on the run from the Colonial forces, led by a Commissioner Hawke. He starts the game working for Grady & Brunt Prospects, an interstellar mining corporation, as a wingman for the miners. Adam is trying to earn his ticket out of the Demilitarized Zone, an area within Cluster 34 that serves as the area in which the game takes place. Cluster 34 and the DMZ are home to a variety of characters and factions as well as various aliens, including the Okkar race, with whom tensions are frail, as a once great conflict led to Colonial Forces and the Okkar fighting. Of course, as these types of stories go, Adam ends up working for Hawke sooner or later, in his attempt to redeem himself and his ragtag bunch of NPCs he picks up along the way. All in an attempt to prevent further escalation between Okkar and Colonial Forces. Meanwhile, Adam also has to reconcile his true nature as a clone. The writing isn't amazing, and the dialog and banter between characters is full of cliches and whimsical behavior from the protagonist. He's eager to help anyone and everyone, regardless of circumstances, to the point he appears as a bumbling idiot. Similarly, in RPG terms, the protagonist must have maxed charisma, because everyone is like, "Ok dude, here's a mission, you're a cool guy dude". It's no wonder he constantly comes across his former selves dead and gone, which is an ongoing joke in the story. His constant chatty AI companion HIVE, doesn't help things along, with its David Attenborough-mimicking voice, and sarcastic, annoying attitude. The gameplay is your standard fare ARPG looter, if you've played one, you've mostly played them all, and few stand above the rest of them, with a unique take or mechanics. But what is EVERSPACE 2's unique thing? It's...in space? The shooting mechanics as well as the flight mechanics are rather simplistic, this is an arcade game after all, not a space sim. Which is fine for the genre, but it feels overly simplistic at times. There's a variety of ships available in the game, from the somewhat disconnected sniper, to the drone carrier or the missile bomber. But in the end, they don't play that differently, as you end up dogfighting your way through most encounters, in a spam of projectiles, explosions, and particle effects, to the point where you often just end up holding down the boost button, screaming around in circles filling the screen with colours. Not unlike classical bullet hell games. With that type of combat, middling linear story beats, and an endless amount of puzzles, the game gets super repetitive and grindy. Wait, puzzles you say? Yes someone put ARPG elements in your puzzle game, or is it puzzles in your APRG game. The game touts "massive handcrafted area is packed with secrets, puzzles, and perils to encounter", understating how packed it is but overselling the handcrafted aspect. It would be enough to have 1 puzzle in each area, as long as it was original and not just a "get that energy ball over there and bring it over here." or "shoot the red lights". The repetitiveness of the puzzle elements cannot be overstated, as there are far too many of them in every area, each giving marginal rewards at best or giving the elusive items needed for ship attribute upgrades. On the topic of itemization and attributes, EVERSPACE 2 is full on classical ARPG. Items with levels, rarities and effects and sets, character levels and perks, NPC perks you can unlock, it even has maps from PoE. Add to that a weird restrictive choice to limit the main attribute rolls on gear to the three primary stats, when there are ships that arguably have other stats as their "primary". There's also a pacing issue, since you can grind your way on pointless quick jobs, whereby side missions and Main missions trail behind the character level. As is typical with these types of games, if you do all the side content, you outlevel the main story. The game could have made better use of level scaling in that regard. Or just not have levels at all. EVERSPACE 2 is a single-player experience, but some of the tedium could perhaps have been alleviated with a Borderlands style cooperative experience. But even then, it would still be tedious, just tedious with friends. Looking at the achievement completion, it's very telling that less than 5-10% even gets a Tier 4 ship, or complete the DLC content.

Did you enjoy Everspace? The sequel has more puzzles to solve, more galaxy to explore and plenty of crafting and looting to get on with.

Parádna vesmírna FPS akcia, množstvo zbraní a vybavenia, ktoré si upravíte podľa svojho štýlu boja. Objavonie rôznych častí vesmíru, ale aj obežných dráh planét, či dokonca možnosť plniť misie aj na plenátach a pod ich povrchom. Nechýba tu ani oichodovanie s rôznym tovarom A v neposlednom rade možnosť kustomizácie svojich vesmírnych plavidiel. Od farby až po rôzne typy modulov. Nemám moc hier odohraných v tomto žánri, ale ak by som to mal k niečomu prirovnať, je to taký naboostovaný Freelancer. Kto mal tú starú klasiku rád, táto hra sa mu bude páčiť.

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Fun open ended space exploration game. Maybe a little light on training for the UI- the tutorial is basically "strafe left and right, go up and down, use the boost button, ok go!" You can figure out what all the bars are trying to show you but it's a little confusing at first. But I suppose if you've got time for an open ended space exploration game, you've got time to figure out the UI haha Only downsides were performance. I have an M1 Macbook Pro with 32G RAM and it was unplayable. I think they did zero optimization for Mac as most games that are made to run on Mac run flawlessly on it. Fortunately I also have a Windows machine with a 2060 Super. It runs at Medium graphics settings on that at around 50 FPS and runs the GPU at 99% pretty steadily. Sometimes it will get choppy and stays that way until I reboot the machine- their fault? I have no idea.

Freelancer 2.0 that we never got, nuff said.

It's basically Freelancer for the modern era, and it's a damn good homage to that classic. I can't recommend it enough.

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great game for space lovers