If you wanted some clear visuals on how far Ship of Heroes has come over the last year, the video Heroic Games published over the weekend is ponying up. It stands in clear contrast to a similar mission map video the team put out just about a year ago, as the new one shows off how that same map has been upgraded and adapted for the new engine version, with more props, textures, materials, doors, viewscreens, and lighting and reflectivity tweaks.
According to Heroic, this particular map is expected to take around 30 minutes to beat, although the PR notes that the devs are “pretty flexible about player strategies” such that “if a team figures out how to complete the mission in 5 minutes, more power to them!” As for what’s coming up in the future:
“We’re working on several tasks in parallel right now. Our next video may show off the new Healing Nanites powerset, but it’s not set in stone yet. We have some additional lore related to Nanites in the queue as well, and we’re hoping to get that published before we go to the next Alpha event. The next alpha event is a login test which will help the dev team prepare for a raid test later this year; we’re hoping to get a couple dozen or more members of the community to volunteer to participate.”
Here’s the new map:
And here’s the old map:
