EVERSPACE™ 2 News

TL;DR: We’re overhauling the Scout’s Ultimate to make it more accessible and more fitting to the ship’s intended playstyle!

Greetings, Pilots!

Here with another sneak peek at what’s coming in our second free update, Incursions, that’s slated for later this spring.

Light fighters are an excellent, but significantly underused class in EVERSPACE 2—combined, the Scout, Vanguard, and Stinger make up less than five percent of all the time players spend in ships.

EVERSPACE 2’s RPG mechanics make light fighters an often overlooked choice. Why jump in the cockpit of a glass cannon with a hyper-specific ultimate ability when you can choose a tank fitted with terrifying main weapons that obliterate everything within its vicinity? In the hands of a skilled pilot, a light fighter ship can decimate swarms of enemies using speed and maneuverability that far outstrip the boosted shields and bulky armor of medium and heavy fighters, and—if used wisely—their ultimates can be extremely powerful, too.

Where light fighters really shine is in debris and asteroid fields, places where stray shots hammer into cover instead of your wispy shield and aluminum (or aluminium for our UK pilots) hull. Being capable of dodging shots with a quick boost-strafe is incredibly satisfying—they can’t kill what they can’t hit!


Right now, Shadow Strike renders the ship invisible to enemies and gradually increases primary weapon damage up to 300% which resets 1s after a shot was fired. Great for sniping, but it really puts a pause on the gameplay while the player waits for that bonus to build up which contradicts with the vessel’s high maneuverability, and is much less effective for mid and short ranged weapons, too.


In Incursions, the new Scout ultimate still renders the ship invisible to enemies and also grants +20% critical hit chance for any weapon type. Firing weapons or using devices breaks the invisibility, but killing an enemy restores it and extends the duration by 2 seconds to a maximum of 20 seconds. Quick kills mean your enemies won’t even know what hit them—perfect for pilots who enjoy high-speed attacks combined with highly effective cloaking.

Pilots who fully lean into this new ultimate should be able to chain together massive kill streaks against hordes of enemies. Sure, that Outlaw Destroyer may still be tough to take down, but with your invisible Scout you will have taken out its escorts and hammered in a devastating blow to its weak point before it even fires a shot. Not bad for a little ship!

I hope you’ve enjoyed this little look into the minds of our design team ahead of the next update. We’ve got more to share before Incursions drops. Stay tuned for the next blog!

Lee and your dedicated ROCKFISH Games team

Greetings, Pilots!

Work continues on our coming Incursions update. We’re still building, fixing, tuning, and polishing away, but we’ll have more to share soon. Tune into our April 12 EVERSPACE 2 stream for a sneak peak at a major change coming to the Scout’s Ultimate ability! We’ll go live at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 8pm CEST so bring your questions and don’t be late!

Also, we’re excited to share that EVERSPACE 2 has been nominated in the Independent Creator category in The Webby Awards. This is a huge honor for our small studio, but we need the help of our community and space game fans around the world to win!

If you love sci-fi and space games, cast a vote for us!

See you in next week’s stream!

Lee and your ROCKFISH Games team

Greetings Pilots!

Our upcoming free update, Incursions, is bringing quite a few changes to EVERSPACE 2 including a major change to Legendary equipment along with how this gear can be found.

Legendaries have mostly been exclusive to endgame content with the exception of a few granted as quest rewards. With the addition of so many new Legendary items in Incursions, we want pilots to find more of them during the campaign without jeopardizing game balance significantly.


A new "Radiant" class of Legendaries will be introduced with this update, allowing seasoned players to enjoy the new Incursions endgame content by offering additional room for gear improvement. Radiant Legendaries are stronger versions of the Legendary gear type with variable attributes that are roughly comparable to current Legendaries, but can potentially be even more powerful.

In the update, regular Legendaries will be weakened slightly compared to the ones available right now. Now, we know many of our veteran pilots have been stashing away Legendaries to use in a variety of ship builds and we don’t want your hard work to be diminished. All Legendaries currently in player possession will automatically be converted to Radiant Legendaries in the Incursions update. All those hard-earned Legendaries will remain roughly the same strength, suffering little-to-no nerf.


Reliquaries are another new addition coming in the Incursions update that can be found after completing an Incursions event. These are container items pilots keep in their cargo hold that can only be opened by finishing rifts or by investing Tears of the Mad—they guarantee a Legendary item reward and are the only way to acquire Radiant Legendaries.

Note the Lunacy and stat differences!

These new Reliquary items come in two forms, a generic type that contains a random Legendary item, and rarer specific types that contain a Legendary item of a particular category (Cargo Unit, Sensor, or Plating for example).

Normal and Radiant Reliquaries require specific minimum Lunacy amounts to unlock and yield respective rewards. If a lower Lunacy is chosen instead, Tears of the Mad can be used to pay the difference. Once a rift is cleared, the item contained in the Reliquary will drop alongside the rest of the loot rewarded by the rift. If you find you're collecting more of these than you can open, Reliquaries can be dismantled for Tears of the Mad.


Beyond the Legendary item reward, Reliquaries are also a source of positive affixes applied to rifts called Blessings. Each Reliquary comes with a Blessing that will provide boons to the player while they are inside the rift that boost ship stats, increase rewards, modify secondary weapons, and add other bonuses. Normal Reliquaries provide normal Blessings, while Radiant Reliquaries provide both, a normal and a radiant Blessing.


Another major change coming is the distribution of Legendaries. With the exception of a few quest rewards, most Legendaries can only be found in ancient rifts or through nightmare gameplay. With Incursions, pilots will have more opportunities to discover Legendaries outside of Rifts—new Legendary Signal Decoders will now drop after Incursion events, opening up challenging High-risk Areas with powerful rewards including Legendaries, Legendary catalyst blueprints, and new crafting components. Legendaries will also have a very small chance of dropping in Rare and Superior High-risk Areas.

We keep saying Incursions! What are these things anyway? You’ll find out soon! Stay tuned for more!

Lee and your dedicated ROCKFISH Games Team

Great news for EVERSPACE fans waiting to hear about our print EVERSPACE 2 artbook! The Art of EVERSPACE 2 is now available on Amazon stores in the USA. This artbook will retail for $39.99 USD / $49.99 CAD / €39.99 EUR. Books are being processed by EU and Canadian Amazon stores, and should be available soon.

We released the digital version of The Art of EVERSPACE 2 alongside the Armed & Dangerous update back in October. Since then, we’ve been getting message after message saying “When can I get a physical version of this?” from fans around the world who did not pledge for the artbook Kickstarter tier. The wait has been long, but finally the end to our many shipping delays is in sight!


Hardbound and printed on premium paper, The Art of EVERSPACE 2 is a high-quality collector item for ROCKFISH Games fans. This 280+ page artbook collects the best concept art, character sketches, environment illustrations, ship designs, and other illustrations from EVERSPACE 2. Each chapter includes lore from the game and development stories from the team.

If you missed out on the EVERSPACE 2 Kickstarter, this is one of the best non-game goodies to come of it. If you’re a collector of fine artbooks and sci-fi adventure concept art, this book is a perfect addition to your coffee table, bookshelf, or collector stand.

We have limited stock available and restocks will happen only sporadically, so get yours today!