An interview between designer Matthew Woodwards and MMORPGS.com has feed the community with new tidbits on their upcoming expansion.
This will be updating more of the EVE Online narrative and fleshing out the universe with a great war between four rival empires. Fight! Fight! Fight!
”Empyrean Age is the first expansion that we’ve really been building the story into things,” said Woodward. ”It’s about four big empires who exist in a kind of uneasy peace for some time. It all comes to a head and it all starts. The whole cluster is extreme and everything is kicking off.”
This new direction hopes to unite both PvP and PvE gamers of EVE together as individuals can enlist themselves to either of the four and aid the war effort. Missions and free-form combat are both open for players to earn standing for their chosen allegiance.
Corporations, which are the guilds of EVE, can also sign-up to help an empire out. Developer CCP seems keen to encourage more EVE’rs to try out PvP as opposed to scripted objectives in ‘safe’ space.
”The step from one to the other is a big step, and what we’re trying to do is build a bridge so that you can say ‘I want to try some PVP in a semi-controlled environment,’” said Woodward. ”It’s not safe, obviously. You’re going to die a lot, because that’s what PVP is about. Still, once you get into the mindset of ‘I’m going to lose this ship’, it’s all a lot more fun.”
A novel is to be published in conjunction with these new happenings too. No release schedule for EVE Online: The Empyrean Age yet so we’ll just have to keep watching the skies!
Click here to read the interview between Matthew Woodwards and MMORPG.com.
