Extraction shooter spinoff EVE Vanguard will let you salvage ships destroyed in EVE Online, then flog the parts back to their owners

EVE Vanguard, the latest attempt by Fenris 'I Can’t Believe It’s Not CCP Games' Creations at crafting a first-person shooter counterpart to EVE Online, continues to gestate within Iceland’s best-funded spinoff vats. Nearly three years after being revealed as a Shoot, Loot 'n' Scoot extraction game, it’s running its first alpha playtest – titled Operation Avalon – from July 7th-20th, with Fenris staff promising attendees of last week’s EVE FanFest event that it will dutifully tighten up the gunplay that players of previous 'pre-alpha' tests criticised as loose and floaty.

More intriguing, however, is what the company calls an "economic bridge" between EVEs Vanguard and Online: the ability to conduct on-foot Vanguard raids into ship graveyards, containing parts salvaged from real player-owned ships that were destroyed in the MMO’s space dogfights, before putting those parts up for sale back inside EVE Online itself. Thus opening a potential lifeline for defeated ship captains desperate to reclaim their stuff – or, perhaps more likely, the EVE universe’s biggest new hardware ransoming operation.

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