EVE Frontier is a hardcore, gamepad-friendly space sim

EVE Frontier has had an uphill battle with EVE Online’s dedicated community and a very public early development, but its blockchain integration has been defended by a server-side modding system that’s rare in any game. At this year’s EVE Fanfest I tried the new gamepad support, and the project’s ambitions are starting to feel concrete: a hardcore space sim that blends EVE’s emergent economy and the exploration of No Man’s Sky or Elite with server-side modding at runtime and a Rust-like survival loop that trades tree punching and bedrolls for asteroid mining and space stations.

The demo at Fenris Creations’ show floor offered a combat arena built around slow, weighty engagements rather than zippy starfighter duels. The developer Scott McCabe admitted earlier builds were confusing — "Let's go back a year ago. Get into the game, so you think [you'll press] Q or W or something, right?

And nothing happens" — and the team has moved to make controls more natural.

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