Rockfish have revealed a new update for Everspace 2 is out now for its early access period, adding the Stinger to the game, along with many other game updates, check out the new video below.

This new ship focuses on electronic warfare, making devices a critical component for pilots who favour agile, ability-focused spacecraft. When using ship devices, a third weapon hardpoint underneath the Stinger’s hull is activated, dealing 50% more primary damage.

The Stinger’s Void Swarm Ultimate instantly resets device cooldowns and releases a swarm of aggressive micro-bots that consume everything in their way, prioritizing the locked target. Upon return, these bots restore the player ship’s hull and armour based on damage dealt. Stinger vessels can take flight with random perks like 20% reduced cooldown for support or warfare devices, Void Swarm radius increased by 25%, or become cloaked for five seconds after its shield is depleted.

Along with a new hostile subfaction, the Okkar Prime, the update also brings improved crafting, and resources gathering features as well as new equipment, story content, perks and additional challenges scattered throughout the EVERSPACE 2 star systems. Along with these improvements, the ROCKFISH Games team has rebalanced portions of the game and added experimental difficulty levels that can be changed any time.

“While Stinger's Debut does not add a new star system to explore like in previous updates, the added features and substantial changes deepen the overall experience, especially when starting a new game,” said Michael Schade, CEO of ROCKFISH Games. “We’ve set up a new player data pool analyzing the impact from this update’s changes and additions to core game systems like crafting, mining, ship devices, and new game progression curve. We can’t wait to see how many catalysts and blueprints will be found, and what new builds top pilots will come up with.”

The Stinger’s Debut Update will also include experimental UI and text language support for German, French, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean so the international EVERSPACE 2 community can join in the fun at full capacity. As the early implementations of localization may not be perfect yet, localization for EVERSPACE 2 will be continuously updated along with any missing text and required fixes for the full release in early 2023. 

The game is currently in early access on Steam and GOG, but will now be available on the Microsoft Store, with it also being included within PC Game Pass, you can see all the details here, including being able to redeem it.