Open-world space action sim EVERSPACE 2 from ROCKFISH Games has shown off plenty of new footage across multiple events recently and it looks seriously shiny.
This sequel is expanding on basically everything from the first game, including throwing out the roguelike gameplay loop in favour of the open-world approach to let you really get into deep ship customization and combat in planetary atmosphere as well as space itself. Funded on Kickstarter in 2019 with €503,478 in funding, it's entering Alpha next week with Early Access due at the end of the year and Linux support is due with the final release in 2021.
Check out the new trailer below, shown off during the PC Gaming Show 2020:
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It might already be my most anticipated release for 2021.
I'm a massive fan of space, spaceships and of course lots of explosions so EVERSPACE 2 is going to be a must-buy for me. Tons of ships and different styles, masses of loot to find and equip with all sorts of customization options on offer. EVERSPACE 2 sounds like it's going to be an incredible action-focused space adventure.
After you watch the trailer, if you decide that's not enough for you, the developer actually did quite a long gameplay demo with commentary on June 12 which you can see below. Gameplay starts around 9:10.
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You can wishlist/follow EVERSPACE 2 on Steam. You can also see hundreds of other crowdfunded games on our dedicated page.
Want to try the original? It's intense and very pretty. If you like challenging space combat it's worth picking up. Grab it from Humble Store, GOG or Steam.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
QuoteOpenGL ES3.1 and Metal 2.0 are now the default feature levels for Android and iOS projects, respectively. Vulkan, ES3.1, and Metal 2.0 all have similar features, enabling us to establish better feature parity between mobile platforms. They will also enable us to take advantage of advancing mobile technology to establish better feature parity with desktop/console.
OpenGL ES3.1 and Metal 2.0 will be enabled by default on new Android and iOS projects, and you can set them as your preview feature level in the Unreal Editor. Projects migrating from previous versions of Unreal will be upgraded to these feature levels by default.
The OpenGL ES2 and Metal 1.2 rendering feature levels have been removed from Unreal Engine.
Last edited by randyl on 16 June 2020 at 8:24 am UTC
ES is made for mobile GPU which are nice toys but just limited toys.
If you want complex lighting, dynamic materials and FX, with ES, you're scre*ed.
Quoting: JauThe thing is : we don't care about ES. ES is not SM5.
So, are they still lacking all those high end features in their Vulkan renderer, like the archived Trello item was supposed to track?
https://trello.com/c/lzLwtb5P/124-vulkan-for-pc-and-linux
QuoteFull support for UE4’s high-end rendering features utilizing the Vulkan API on both Windows and Linux including parallel rendering to take advantage of all available CPU cores.
I tried to get some feedback on it, but no one provided any info on what's going on, why it was archived and what they are planning to do about it.
Last edited by Shmerl on 16 June 2020 at 6:08 pm UTC
I think the "all CPU" optimization is here, but all this does is fill all of them with sh*t and crash !
(sorry
it made me lose days of work without finding solutions and forces me to dev on Windows, which make me REALLY MAD !!)
Quoting: randylThe demo runs really well. It took me a little while to get used to the controls. I started with a DS4 but switched to KB/M for better aim and flight control. The controller worked well but I preferred the keyboard and mouse more.The current demo is in fact the prototype kickstarter backers got. It runs ootb with Proton, as it's using DX11 as default renderer.
Unfortunately that's not the case for the closed alpha, which defaults to DX12 now. And DX12 support in Proton/Wine needs to mature a bit more. But there is help, just pass -dx11 as launch option, and it's using DX11 again which makes it playable via DXVK *phew*
More details over at protondb.
Last edited by Corben on 18 June 2020 at 2:05 pm UTC
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