Everspace 2 Dev Tracker

The procedural generation of levels isn't designed around a realistic portrayal of space, but rather a clustered variety of obstacles and enemies. When your inertia dampeners are damaged, aiming is far more challenging and movement is restricted in a way that makes exploring tight points of interest really difficult, thus removing your ability to gain resources quickly and carefully. The game doesn't "magically become" something else, but rather hinders mobility until the component is repaired.

Sure, some players can deal with the component damage. Which is the same with other components being damaged (i.e. an evasive player doesn't mind their shields being damaged because they rarely get hit anyway).

You should be proud you're skilled with drifting to where this handicap doesn't affect you as badly as it does other players.

Correction: We agree that inertia dampeners make sense in our next game since it is far more similar to a space simulation model (being an open-world RPG) as opposed to a very fast-paced arcade-y roguelike shooter, especially so in conjunction with the feedback from our demographic (which is primarily space game enthusiasts).

We hear you and we understand your perspective and desires. But we don't agree this feature would have been the most beneficial in Everspace, which is why the Enhancement is an unlockable that also changes collision damage AS OPPOSED TO a merely applying drift.

Everspace 2 will be quite different in this regard.

Hey there! This is Erik, from the video.

First off, major shout out to u/HazzyDevil tackling a lot of questions through Reddit. Absolute champion sir, thank you.

Alright, now for the response pertaining to "recovery" options after dying:

EVERSPACE 1 took place in a roguelite loop because the main character being a clone could easily respawn and start back at the cloning facility for another attempt at completing his objective. As such, it made sense gathering the wreckage and recovering your past dead self in order to build yourself up.

EVERPSACE 2 is the continuation of that story, and (without spoilers) some things have changed about the clone you're playing as. The most important one is this: You no longer respawn. The body you have is 100% yours, with a full lifespan ahead o...

We just distributed them! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rockfishgames/everspace-2/posts/2711655

Very soon; mid-December! We've been optimizing it quite a bit, to ensure our community will be able to run it when it arrives.

Apology excepted and great to hear that we didn’t lose you, after all.

One last piece of advice, before you fall too much in love with Control Layout C: Later in the game, dodging hostile fire will be key, which is why we put strafe left/right and up/down on the left analog stick in the default layout (thrusting forward with the left bumper is probaly more comfortable, too). However, circle-strafing with Layout C will be borderline difficult, indeed. 😉

/Michael

Glad to hear that we are apparently not too far apart, so I’m happy to share a bit more context:

1. Toggling Boost: We actually considered adding the option to toggle Boost, but we decided not to because not only has this been requested by less than 1% of our player base; most importantly, it would have led to even more frustration as toggling boost would have often made players run into battles with their pants down because of depleting their energy core more frequently – a “rookie mistake” that I could observe at dozens of game shows when watching unexperienced Everspace pilots dying like flies because of too much boosting; so, why not giving us the benefit of a doubt that we made the right call here?

1. Borderline Broken controls on console: Again, a user rating of 4.5 stars on PlayStation is enough prove to us that absolute nothing in Everspace is borderline broken; however, I give you that: The controls in Everspace were initially optimiz...