The spiffy news: The longstanding space MMO Eve Online has been natively ported over to the Mac. Although available to Mac users for years now, the game had been running through an emulated version of the Windows client.
On Thursday, CCP Games announced a native Mac client for the game. Now, Mac users can enjoy EVE Online as the developers intend, on M1 and Intel computers alike.
For 18 years, EVE Online has allowed gamers to forge their own path and destiny in the distant star cluster of New Eden. The game features adventure, riches, danger, and glory. Players can take up a variety of in-game professions from mining and trading to exploration and bounty hunting.
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</center>Over the years, the game has become known for its robust player-driven economy, epic in-game space battles, and political intrigue. The latest updates to the game provide new players with a narrative-driven training program and customizable skill plans. A new daily log-in reward campaign provides players with additional incentives to keep up with their pilots.
The game has now been converted to a native Mac client that uses the Metal graphic processing framework. This allows the game to have even better graphic fidelity, lower memory use, and CPU optimization. Incorporating Metal support makes gameplay smooth and seamless. Other cool bells and whistles include support for the macOS keyboard and shortcuts, which are a nice time saver.
EVE Online is free to play and requires macOS 10.9 or later to install and run.
If you’ve tried the new version, please let us know about your experience in the comments.
Via The Mac Observer and eveonline.com