Two extra Rebellion-scale Eve On-line expansions are deliberate for the approaching yr, CCP Video games has revealed in a brand new 2023 roadmap for the venerable area MMORPG. The Rebellion growth, which launched late final yr, launched some sweeping modifications to New Eden, and CCP Video games says it plans to maintain up that tempo now that it’s switched to an growth mannequin for introducing new content material.
The Icelandic developer isn’t prepared to debate particulars concerning the subsequent expansions simply but, however they’re at the moment scheduled to reach within the second and fourth quarters of the yr. Rebellion – Eve On-line’s first official ‘growth’ since 2018 – added a bunch of recent Navy ships and dreadnoughts to every fleet, but in addition launched the revamped faction warfare system that focuses motion on dynamic front-line techniques.
The approaching expansions may be anticipated to be impactful on that scale, CCP Video games tells us.
“We’re hitting a very nice candy spot with this growth,” Burger Finnbogason, Eve’s inventive director, says. “And yeah, the following one will probably be much more superb.”
There’s loads to stay up for within the close to time period for Eve gamers, nevertheless. Within the first quarter of the yr, CCP Video games says it plans to introduce a brand new story arc for the factional marketing campaign that challenges gamers to assist their empires develop new transportation know-how, which is able to culminate in a particular occasion.
This quarter may even see the rollout of the Eve x Excel beta, which was unveiled at Fanfest in Reykjavik final yr. That function will permit a Javascript API to drag knowledge from Eve immediately into an Excel workbook – the end result of the “spreadsheets in area” joke that Eve gamers (and critics) have been making for years.
Within the Eve consumer, CCP has already been rolling out its revamped ‘Photon UI,’ which now permits customers to show a number of overview home windows at a time, with panes devoted strictly to ship techniques like drones, for instance, group developer Peter Farrell explains.
CCP Video games plans to carry this yr’s Fanfest September 21-23, and Halloween and winter-themed occasions are slated for the fourth quarter.
Each the builders and long-term gamers steadily observe that extra gamers in Eve means a extra enjoyable Eve expertise for everybody, and Finnbogason says the workforce has seen a wholesome surge in each day lively customers for the reason that launch of Rebellion.
“Often whenever you do expansions like this, you get a hockey stick impact – we get a variety of curiosity day one, after which it dwindles out and you find yourself with about 10% of the spike because the uptick or the lengthy tail,” he tells us. “However that’s not what we’re seeing, we’re truly seeing a very wholesome lengthy tail off this launch – we’re nonetheless seeing extraordinarily wholesome days greater than a month after launch.”
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