Free Everspace 2 Incursions update adds new enemies (and Unreal Engine 5)

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A free Everspace 2 Incursions update has added new enemies alongside a full migration into Unreal Engine 5.

“The Incursions update broadens the depth of Everspace 2’s world and lore, adding massive space battles to the later portion of the story campaign,” said developer Rockfish. “Actions taken by Adam Roslin and his crew have weakened the integrity of the universe and allowed Ancients to break into reality from rift space. In new Incursions activities, it’s up to skilled space pilots to fend off hordes of enemies while destroying beacons allowing enemies to cross over from another dimension.”

Alongside the new mode and enemies are 15 new legendaries, new ship parts, and new “reliquary treasure items that can be unlocked in the retooled Ancient Rift mode”.

“The Incursions update also brings Everspace 2 from Unreal Engine 4 to 5.3,” Rockfish continued. “This engine migration allows the Rockfish Games team to continue development using the latest tools while enabling toggleable features such as Lumen GI on DirectX 12, Nvidia Reflex latency reduction, Intel XeSS upscaler, AMD FSR 3.0 upscaler, and Nvidia Frame Generation for high-end PC players.”

“Bringing Everspace 2 to Unreal Engine 5.3 alongside all the new Incursions content was a monumental challenge that the team tackled in stride and the results are evident,” said CEO and co-founder Michael Schade. “Though we were able to take advantage of the latest technologies such as Nvidia’s Frame Generation and Unreal’s Lumen in this update, our main goal with this engine migration was to future proof the game—we’ve got a lot more premium content coming that we’ll share about later this year.”

You can get a taste of what to expect above.

Everspace 2 Incursions is available now on PC and PlayStation, with Xbox to “follow shortly”, according to Rockfish.