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EVE Online reveals Incursion expansion

CCP Games has revealed its winter expansion for EVE Online: Incursion, set to release in November.

Incursion's story-line features lucrative rewards for players who fight back the Sansha Nation:

EVE Online®: Incursion will feature the escalating attacks of the deadly Sansha's Nation which is bent on instituting its own utopia and exacting vengeance against the pilots who stand in its way. Pilots can join public fleets and co-operate to destroy the Sansha incursions and return the universe to normal, receiving wealthy bounties, earning loyalty rewards and high commendation.

The expansion will include improvements to the game's software and hardware, and implement suggestions from the Council of Stellar Management. Listed as new expansion features are:

  • Updates to the character creator with CCP's Carbon character technology for fresh pilot portraits
  • A Sansha Mothership
  • Fighterbomber
  • Noctis salvaging vessel
  • Improvements to NPCs and their AI
  • New loot and rewards
  • New storyline events
  • "Amazing" new visuals
  • A more dynamic and simplified system for Planetary Interaction
  • New forums for EVE Gate
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Senior Producer Arnar Gylfason said via press release, "Incursion marks a point where our PVE experience moves towards the co-operative roots of EVE and the largest introduction of our Carbon Technology platform to date. Never before have so many players and developers contributed to EVE's living universe."

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