NAEV is a free 2D space combat and trading game, in a similar vein to Escape Velocity.
NAEV is played from a top-down perspective, featuring fast-paced combat, many ships and outfits, and a large galaxy to explore. The game is highly open-ended, letting players proceed at their own paces.
Installation: To run NAEV, place the ndata file to naev.app/Contents/Resources. You can open up naev.app as a folder by right clicking and selecting "Show Package Contents".
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
For Players:
· Bigger universe
· Expanded Dvaered, Frontier, Empire territories
· All new Sirius territory
· Preliminary Soromid area (Not inhabited yet)
· Big systems
· More planets in systems
· Bigger planets in systems, more planet graphics
· Players must fly to jump points before jumping to another system
· Electronic warfare
· Ships have cloaking and detection abilities
· Sensor range depends on cloak vs detection
· Turrets no longer track all ships equally
· Fancier targeting method
· Random bar NPCs
· On-map security rating abandoned in favor of faction presence indicators
· More diverse planetary inventories (see the tech system)
· Outfit slots now have sizes
· System backgrounds (nebula, sun and more!).
· Fancier new GUI.
· Weapon sets allow to easily configure different weapon configurations for each ship.
· Heat system replaces accuracy making ships more accurate at first.
· Overlay map helps navigate and visualize the environment.
· Mouse targetting.
· Damage absorption and penetration system.
· For Developers (mission ...
