Space survival MMO EVE Frontier is going fully publicly live with the launch of Founder Access: New Era on June 11, bringing a host of new features and content for players to enjoy while lifting the NDA on launch day to allow anyone to talk and share anything they want about CCP Games’ innovative blockchain-powered title.
Founder Access: New Era marks the beginning of the 1st Cycle of the 6th Era in EVE Frontier, exiting closed alpha while bringing a major update that adds in new features but also improves sounds and visual fidelity for an even more immersive gameplay experience.
For this first public release, which is also titled as the “Promised Lands” update and looks slated to go live on June 11 at 2 PM UTC, the developers are introducing Heat, a Tactical Camera, and Keeper & Terminal alongside new PBR shaders, enhancements to raytraced shadows, a dynamic music system, 4 new ship models, new Player Experience updates, new sites to explore, new assemblies, and even more.
Heat is a new system that enforces players to conserve energy by adding travel speed limits while capping capacitor generation in environments that have high temperatures. The Keeper & Terminal give players a new way to interact with in-game menus through a sidebar, and with the addition of the Tactical Camera, there are now two new view modes to help you navigate the universe more easily: the TAC view and SYS view. The TAC view shows an abstract view of the grid, while the SYS view is used for exploring the solar system.
Many graphical updates have also been made, overhauling the game’s lighting and shading to make each system look even more beautiful than before. Some of these upgrades include new PBR shaders, new specialized PBR planet surface shaders, volumetric shadows, raytraced shadow support for point lights and transparent materials with cutouts, as well as a revamped SSAO system that significantly improves ambient shadows.
Various audio updates have also been made, such as the introduction of a new dynamic music system that helps make each region of space feel more distinct than before by using a large number of different parameters, such as System Heat Zones, in order to determine fitting music wherever you are.
You can look forward to seeing 4 new ship models added in to this release, including a starting ship called Wend that is capable of doing basic tasks such as exploration and mining. Next to Wend is a cheap travel-focused vessel called Reflex, while the other two new ship models are focused on light combat, with one of them prioritizing firepower, while the other is specialized in soaking up enemy damage.
Gameplay is getting significantly improved with this major release, with one of the notable changes being new Player Experience updates. These updates add a new set of starting sites and systems for new players to explore in order to properly get introduced to the game’s core concepts such as fuel, mining, and salvaging. This will make it more accessible to dive into this unforgiving world, while still being balanced to provide a challenging experience that is “true to the Frontier’s nature.”
Various new sites have been added across the universe as well, including 10 Standard Sites, 1 Generative Site, and 1 Static Site. Many new assemblies have also been added, including Network Node for establishing your base and fuel structures, two types of decorative Totem pieces, two types of defensive Walls, varied assemblies for building ships at Shipyards, and much more.
Check out the official patch notes to learn about everything new that's been added to this content-packed Founder Access 0.1.1 update.
If you want to play the Founder Access: New Era release of EVE Frontier, you will need to become a Founder. You can purchase Founder Access for $39.99 to not only gain access to this public pre-launch version of the game but also to unlock benefits that include 1 month of premium post-launch subscription time, a unique Awakened portrait, and 1 exclusive Ship Skin. There is also the Initiated tier for $69.99 and the Ascended tier for $99.99, both of which offer more exclusive benefits and rewards.
Jumping in on Wednesday, June 11 will allow you to experience the 1st Cycle of the 6th Era. Cycles represent “the rhythm of survival” on the Frontier, with every new Cycle wiping player progress while retaining “your impact” during each Cycle to help you continuously work towards securing long-term rewards. This means that during each Cycle, you can climb the leaderboard by earning Grace from completing various missions, with Grace converted to EVE Points based on leaderboard position. The amount of EVE Points you earn per Cycle also depends on overall player participation, the in-game economy, and population size. These points do no reset nor are they spent, and are used to showcase your contribution throughout the game’s development. It’s not specifically stated what rewards, if any, you might end up getting from accumulating them though,
Check out their recent gameplay stream for a deep dive into all the new features and content included in this first public alpha release of their complex web3-powered moddable survival MMO.
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