CCP has announced its new project in the same universe as the well-revered EVE Online. This title, EVE Frontier, is being developed and published by CCP Games and is shaping to be a Sci-Fi Space Survival game. In this game, players explore a player-driven sandbox after waking up from stasis in the cosmos. To survive, players must explore the Frontier, which is chock full of resources to help advance in the game.
The Frontier is far from closed off. It’s a shattered space region with dangerous supermassive black holes and Exotic wormholes scattered throughout. There will be other people to interact with, such as opportunists, speculators, and those desperate for power. Due to the Exotic wormholes bleeding Crude Matter, pilots are attracted to these wormholes as they can lead to significant wealth, prolonged survival, and technology enhancements.
EVE Frontier has been designed to be an open environment. With “a complete unlock of third-party development, the game world will evolve with the community.” Players will be able to influence the world with their in-game actions, and the worlds can also be edited server-wide by players in real time.
Using Smart Assemblies (blockchain technology) in-game, players can make their infrastructure offensive or defensively functional by using turrets, trading posts, and storage facilities. The sandbox features aren’t the only thing players have to look forward to in EVE Frontiers, as there will also be intense Ship combat, which relies on skill and great tactician movements. Smart Assemblies utilizes Redstone, which is an L2 blockchain which is designed for permissionless and open software, as well as MUD, which is a framework for building on-chain open applications.
It will become your mission to explore the Frontier, as well as gather supplies and resources to help you upgrade your infrastructure and technology so that you can continue to survive in the harsh atmosphere of the Frontier. It’s described as “danger incarnate,” filled with aggressive swarms of AI as well as other players who are willing to fight to the death. You have to try and beat them at their own game to harvest Crude matter to obtain fuel so that you can continue to expand.
At the moment, EVE Frontier doesn’t have a set release date or price, and both are waiting to be announced in the future. However, what we do know is that it will be available on Windows PC and Mac. Whether it will come to other platforms in the future post-release remains to be seen.
