We still find ourselves at a point when early access games mark an anniversary, reminding us once more that what’s a fully launched product and what isn’t is the fuzziest of fuzzy lines. Regardless, the co-op spaceship-centric adventure game ofJump Space is having its first anniversary of early access, and it’s celebratingwith a pretty sizable series of quality-of-life updates.
Character inventories have been fully reworked into three sections to let players carry multiple items, weapons, and consumables, instead of only three of any item; missions now have auto-save functionality between jumps to let teams pick up where they left off if the session’s host experiences a crash; challenge ratings have been shifted to threat level, with more threat levels being added (up to a max of eight) to allow for smoother difficulty progression; and enemies have added tier modifiers and can chase characters on to their ship.
Other updates of note include a change in the layout of the hangar area teams assemble at between missions, additional stability and performance updates, easier looting of destroyed ships, and some smoothed animations when being ejected from a ship by a tube. Finally, the game is marking its year of early access by offering a free weekend from September 17th through the 21st.
