Eve Online Launches Onslaught Expansion Today

The sandbox sci-fi MMORPG Eve Online released its latest expansion today, Onslaught. It introduces a new area for players to explore called the Abyssal Deadspace, new weapons, technologies, blueprints, and more. It also introduces several new Upwell navigation structures, which allows players to create their own faster-than-light travel networks.

“EVE Online has always been about putting control in the hands of our players,” said CCP’s CEO Hilmar V. Pétursson. “With capsuleers now able to build their own highway networks between the stars coupled with our use of Abyssal space as an incubator for some of our wilder ideas, after 15 years and over 40 expansions we still find creating new ways for our players to shape EVE’s sophisticated virtual world as they see fit very inspiring.”

While Eve Online has mostly been about PvP, the new Abyssal Deadspace zone was designed for co-operative PvE gameplay. The new blueprints this expansion must be obtained from the Abyss.

“EVE is best played with friends, so with EVE Online: Onslaught our goal has been to provide thrilling co-op gameplay for our community to experience in the Abyss,” said Bergur Finnbogason, EVE Online’s Creative Director. “It’s not only a race against time and increasingly difficult enemies, but now capsuleers will also have to focus on keeping each other alive, assisting however they can. We’re especially eager to see our players diving into Abyssal Deadspace’s new PvP arena where two ships enter, one ship leaves!”

A full list of changes can be found here.