Today, CCP Games released ‘Into the Abyss‘, the newest expansion to EVE Online, the deep and uniquely player-driven spaceship MMO game. Delivered as a free update, EVE Online: Into the Abyssinvites players of all experience levels to explore Abyssal Deadspace – dangerous uncharted territory inhabited by hostile new faction the Triglavian Collective – and return with new weapons and technology impacting the full sandbox of New Eden. In addition, ‘Into the Abyss’ introduces substantial quality of life improvements accessible to all players.

CCP has marked the new expansion’s launch with this feature tour.

“Abyssal Deadspace is our next evolution to PvE in EVE Online,” said Bergur Finnbogason, Development Manager at CCP Games. “We wanted to change the dynamics of what players are used to while also maintaining the core elements of EVE’s gameplay.”

“The concept behind ‘Into the Abyss’ is to allow us to test new and brave ideas while providing an immediately engaging and fun experience to our players,” said Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, CCP’s Chief Executive Officer. “Having such a dangerous new playground will allow us to take not steps but leaps in bold new directions of EVE Online‘s further development.”

‘Into the Abyss’ adds exciting solo survival gameplay in the form of Abyssal Deadspace, a brand new hazardous environment filled with unpredictable environmental effects and the most intelligent enemies seen yet in New Eden. Players can enter this unstable part of space from almost anywhere in New Eden by activating an Abyssal Filament, are found in exploration sites and can be traded on the market between players. On entry, players will need to travel and fight their way through pockets of Abyssal Deadspace tenuously linked together in chains by Abyssal Conduits that are constantly opening and closing, with each pocket taking players around 20 minutes to complete. These highly variable environments are fraught with new and visually striking obstacles for players to navigate such as caustic clouds and megastructures. Players will need to adapt their tactics on the fly to survive, requiring fast thinking and improvisation.

Inhabiting Abyssal Deadspace are the Triglavian Collective, a radically advanced civilization who possess biotechnology that can be harvested by players and unleashed on existing modules. These Mutaplasmids will alter the properties of modules in unpredictable ways, sometimes increasing their performance, and other times rendering them less capable than before. Players will need to be careful when taking the risk on potential experimentation, but the rewards for being bold could vastly increase the value of their hardware.

Triglavian ships feature an entirely new weapon system with wildly different characteristics to anything seen in EVE Online before, known as Entropic Disintegrators. In the hands of a skilled pilot these powerful weapons can prove devastating, and players on a subscription will be able to utilise blueprints found within Abyssal Deadspace to build and fly three new Triglavian ships.

With ‘Into the Abyss’, players will also see some significant UI and UX improvements to Planetary Interaction. These changes will make planetary installations easier to maintain and give guidance on how to use various elements of planetary interaction, guiding players through setup with more detail than ever before. Further new features include UI scaling to support 4K monitors.

With the discovery of unexplored space that all players can reach, this is the most exciting time to join EVE Online. More details about EVE Online: Into the Abyss can be found via updates.eveonline.com. EVE Online can be downloaded for free by visiting www.eveonline.com.

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Today at EVE Fanfest, CCP announced ‘Into the Abyss,’ the newest expansion for EVE Online, their deep and uniquely player-driven spaceship MMO game. Launching in May 2018, EVE Online: Into the Abyss will be delivered as a free update to all players, both for those with subscriptions and those playing for free.

EVE Online: Into the Abyss injects ground-breaking, transformative gameplay into EVE Online and presents a new adventure for players, inviting them to explore dangerous uncharted territory with strange new inhabitants and potentially vast rewards. This content will be just as unfamiliar to veteran EVE players as it is to novice players entering the game today.

‘Into the Abyss’ adds exciting exploration and survival gameplay in the form of Abyssal Deadspace, a brand new hostile environment filled with hazardous environmental effects and mysterious adversaries, the Triglavian Collective. Players can enter pockets of Abyssal Deadspace from almost anywhere in New Eden. On entry, players fight and explore their way through a series of unpredictable encounters, using their skills to take on growing risks in the hope of coming out the other side with high value cargo.

Players will be searching for the new mutaplasmids, only found in Abyssal Deadspace. Mutaplasmids can be combined with existing modules to transform them into Abyssal modules, potentially increasing their power vastly or breaking them beyond repair. However, the challenges that players confront become more difficult the deeper they venture into Abyssal Deadspace… and failure means death. Faced with increasing danger from perilous encounters; do you continue and risk your spaceship in the hope of finding greater riches, or return home to exploit your rewards?

Celebrating its 15th anniversary in May, EVE Online is the world’s most renowned videogame sandbox, with a rich history of compelling stories, battles, triumph and defeat. Players have near limitless ability to create their own destiny in the context of hundreds of thousands of capsuleers worldwide, choosing their own unique way to live among the stars, wage war, broker deals, harvest resources, gain and lose territory and all the adventures in-between.

“At CCP, our mission is to build together with our players a true virtual world, with real relationships and real emotions and consequently, real stories,” said Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, CCP’s Chief Executive Officer. “With EVE Online remaining strong and vibrant after 15 years, we have made great strides towards realizing that ambition. Nevertheless, I truly feel that our best work is ahead of us and that EVE‘s amazing single-shard sandbox design will continue to dazzle, amaze and eventually outlive us all.”

To celebrate 15 glorious years of player and community achievements in EVE Online, CCP Games has released this video: https://youtu.be/xAVIhKdspl8

This is the most exciting time to join EVE Online. New, unexplored space has just been discovered that all players can reach. What is beyond? And who are the Triglavians?

More details about EVE Online‘s previous, current and future updates can be found via updates.eveonline.com. EVE Online can be downloaded for free by visiting www.eveonline.com.

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