《EVE Online》Fractured Skies 扩展包11月10日推出，带来新飞船与更广星系战争

It will come as very little surprise that EVE Online really wants its players to digitally punch each other’s spaceships in their silly little noses, as the sandbox MMORPG’s next expansion, Fractured Skies, is going to bring more ships to fight with, more military campaigns for players to wage, and more reasons to draw in more players into galactic dust-ups.

This second chapter of the MMO’s planned three-expansion Theatres of War saga will introduce a wide assortment of new additions that feed the war effort, including four highly mobile and devastating navy battlecruisers that trade resilience for firepower, a new military campaign for each of the four main factions that will run into January, and nine new synchronizer rig sets — one for each of the game’s main and pirate factions — that grow stronger when modules that match with a faction are fitted together on one spacecraft.

Naturally a space war needs pilots, which is where some of the other features aimed at new arrivals come in to play. Fractured Skies will introduce 13 pre-outfitted AIR Academy ships that will let new players experience the game’s combat, exploration, and mining, although these can’t leave the PvP-free Exordium starter zone, as well as updates to the early game like new Exordium achievements and clarity for multiple level one security missions.

The expansion will encourage galactic warfare in the opening two months of 2027 as well: January will engage an Empire Showdown community battle that brings the four major factions into open conflict, with benefits earned during military campaigns available to provide an edge. February will then see a conquest feature added to seasonal factional warfare that promises “shared objectives, personal rewards and definitive winners” that build towards an epic final siege. This phase of the expansion will also see the FPS module EVE Vanguard begin its 24/7 paid alpha that further integrates with conquests.