EVERSPACE™ - Encounters

I purchased this with the base game originally, and it's a sad thing to imagine playing without it. I've found that the new "e-war" ship and equipment are kind of irrelevant on easy/normal (since you can get away with just strapping on more guns, armour, and regen to get through), but going into hard mode, I was forced to get creative and that's where the stuff in this pack shines. Worth it. Also the French guy is great.

If you've played FTL, it follows a similar pattern - you have to get to the warp gate at the end of the map by jumping to new systems and dealing with whatever random issue that system throws up (if any). But here the gameplay is basically to loot the system by picking up / shooting everything / everyone, then the next one. The replayability comes from keeping most of your upgrades, when you die, so each time you play with a slightly stronger ship... slightly... Alas the process is tedious. After each 'run', you'll only have enough to really upgrade 1 or 2 things, say 15% more shields or another equipment slot... then do the whole thing again. And you can't just zoom to the end if you've got a good ship, because you need to collect fuel each system for each jump, meaning you have to scour the map every time. So there's a big grind here, especially as you have to go through the game 3 times to get the whole story and true ending. That's many hours slowly flying around a system picking up scrap and fuel.

At the base, Everspace has proven to be a very enjoyable game. Just picked this DLC up and just spent the past 6 hours having fun with the new stuff. The visual quality is top notch. The DLC actually adds some interesting content. As it stands now, I hope they release more DLCs of this sort. I would definitely be interested in purchasing more of this type of additional content.

If you are curious on when to get this dlc. you should get it when you buy the base game. It adds much needed depth and variation to the experience by adding more weapons, Items, minor objectives and actual NPCs you could interact with. Unfortunately doesnt improve upon much from whats in the base game apart what I stated above. No new areas, bossfights and enemies. Honestly, it should be bundled with the base game at this point.

the controls are very smooth great fun