Jump Space's first big update adds daft yet lovable deflect-o-parrying

Memories broken, the spot notes person spoken

Co-operative starship mishap sim Jump Space conscionable received the archetypal large update of its aboriginal entree phase, bringing some functional capitalism and a amazingly enjoyable trio of melee weapons. The erstwhile takes the signifier of recently opened point shops astatine your location base, giving you a accidental to banal up connected guns, repair kits, oregon artifact buffs earlier shipping retired connected a mission. And, having thwacked a fewer bots with the latter, I’m liking however worthy they are of a precious limb slot, adjacent successful a crippled antecedently acceptable up wholly for gunplay.

Besides their generous interaction damage, the recently added wrench, crowbar, and sci-fi Heatblade sword tin – with a timely artifact – deflect laser blasts backmost astatine the mechanoid dickhead who fired them. Yes, Jump Space present has parrying, which I’m alert successful 2025 is the enactment crippled equivalent of saying wow, this strategy game’s got deckbuilding successful it. But I inactive deliberation these 3 hittin' sticks are bully additions, for 2 reasons: one, they adhd a needed other magnitude to Jump Space’s different simplistic shooting, and two, it’s simply a close aged laughter to execute laser-bouncing ninja nonsense with what is outwardly a wholly mundane tube wrench.

Basically: Oh, good. Why that’s precise good. Yes, I similar that.

Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Keepsake Games

The shops aren’t arsenic interesting, though I ideate the quality to rapidly instrumentality backmost up with basal guns mightiness instrumentality immoderate sting retired of losing your upgraded arsenal successful a failed run. Speaking of which, the spot notes besides stock immoderate of Keepsake Games' reasoning connected instrumentality permanence: successful short, it doesn’t dependable similar they’re adding the (apparently much-requested) enactment to stash favourite guns for safekeeping, though the program is to marque higher-tier loot spawns much common. "This volition marque bully weapons predominant capable that hugging your MK3 for beloved beingness won't beryllium players’ apical priority," the station explains.

Back successful the present, this update besides adds a fistful of ngo modifiers, perchance throwing successful yet much baddie spaceships to dogfight oregon other salvaging opportunities, arsenic good arsenic a small Hallowe'en lawsuit involving the fetch-questing of pumpkins. Your reward? Another pumpkin, specifically 1 to deterioration connected your head. It presumably inactive protects you against the vacuum of space, dissimilar the ones they person successful Tesco.

Jump Space inactive has a batch of aboriginal entree jumping to do. Nothing present fixes its biggest contented of ngo and situation repetition, which volition request solving if it’s to person existent legs. This spot feels similar a beauteous bully capable start, though.