CCP Video games’ in-development MMOG EVE Frontier is among the most anticipated blockchain video games of the 12 months.
Fortunately, its dev workforce can also be extremely skilled. Not solely does it have a public roadmap, it sticks to its roadmap.
So with the sport’s Cycle 4 now dwell, the beginning of 2026 supplies a very good alternative to check out what to anticipate for the primary three months of the 12 months.
As a reminder, every Cycle final three months and ends with your entire world being wiped. This permits the sport workforce to iterate freely with out worrying about backwards compatibility.
Cycle 4 noticed the introduction of direct ship controls, and can see the beginning of the character development system and the flexibility to create clone characters. There will even be the flexibility for gamers to work collectively to construct bases, whereas different elements of the sport to be improved will embody testing the economic system, balancing the universe, and making each ship really feel distinctive.
Due in late March or early April, Cycle 5 will see a mix of sport updates and the primary huge blockchain options, with the sport’s migration from its present EVM testnet to Sui, the blockchain that CCP Video games’ has dedicated to for EVE Frontier’s launch.
Considerably, this migration will present the primary alternative for third get together builders to begin constructing what CCP Video games calls “programmable infrastructure” throughout the universe.
As for sport options, these will embody enhancements to fight, each by way of the assault and defence of bases, and new scanning and detection techniques to seek out different gamers, and keep away from being discovered by different gamers.
Cycle 5 will even see new ships, an replace to the journey system, and enhancements to the stock system and the sport’s HUD.
You’ll be able to preserve up-to-date with EVE Frontier’s roadmap through its web site.
