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Drox Operative 2 is a starship action RPG with warring alien races, fierce space battles, a dynamic, evolving galaxy, and co-op multiplayer for Windows and Linux.

Eons ago the Drox crushed and enslaved the ancient races and ruled the galaxy through their mighty Operatives. These elite starship captains were trained to accomplish the impossible at whatever cost. Whether employing stealth or brute force, they were always deadly. Using these Operatives, the Drox ruled the galaxy with an iron grip for over 100,000 years. Eventually realizing their Operatives were a threat, they attempted to assassinate all of them. They failed. The following Galactic Civil War was so devastating that the Drox are now extinct. The Drox Operative guild, now fully independent, survived.

Newer races emerged and thrived in the power void ... for a while. Then the ancients returned. The wars were devastating, but with the Drox Operatives on their side, the ancients were beaten back and a truce was established.

Since the devastation, a 4th wave of sentient races are emerging in the galaxy. Unlike previous waves, there are thousands in this one and no one knows anything about them. In the new space race, the ancient, mature, and young races are all scouting, colonizing, and expanding, trying to take over the galaxy through diplomacy, technology, war, and any other means necessary.

As a Drox Operative it's NOT your job to manage an empire, you are after all the captain of a single starship. It IS your job to pick the winning side and maybe even help them conquer the galaxy if you're being nice, more importantly though is to rake in as many credits as possible, well that and build the deadliest ship in the known universe. Who will you back as an Operative? The ancient, mature, or young races? The pacifist or militaristic races? The xenophile or xenophobe races? The races that value freedom or the races that use slave labor? The strong or the weak? Your actions and inactions will impact trillions of alien lives!


Features:

• Explore a dynamic and evolving galaxy
  
• Explore a unique sector of the galaxy in every game, with different "monsters", ship components, quests, and even races
  
• Fight in the galactic war between the various alien races
  
• Battle hundreds of different enemy starships
  
• Build the coolest and deadliest starship in the galaxy
  
• Outfit your ship with thousands of components and crew
  
• Adventure with your friends with co-op multiplayer
  
• Essentially play an action RPG inside a universe of alien races playing a 4X game

New Features (compared to Drox Operative 1):

• Enjoy better graphics (normal maps, better specular maps, and higher resolution textures)
  
• Deal with more treaty types (vassals, tributaries, protectorates, and federations)
  
• Find more component types (plasma cannons, ramming components, etc)
  
• Experience faster movement and combat
  
• Interact with randomly generated races (just the young races)
  
• Discover way more interesting things while exploring
  
• Protect or exploit primitive races

This patch makes the 3 monster races power more inline with the other races, makes sure Drox Guild quests are more doable, and fixes a few other minor issues.

1.042 change list:

• Legion race will now fight with Overlord and Talon monster ships
  
• Overlord race will now fight with Talon and Legion monster ships
  
• Talon race will now fight with Overlord and Legion monster ships
  
• now Drox will hopefully choose races to protect, ally with, ally with other races that aren't hopeless (IotA)
  
• Drox will no longer pick Ancient races to keep alive, protect, or form alliances with (IotA)
  
• swarm missiles now get 25% attack bonuses like normal missiles (Gavodir)
  
• remote mines now use 50% less energy (Gavodir)
  
• shield power conduit can no longer increase your shields above their max value
  
• fixed not being able to use an item when have enough energy only because of a energy reduction modifier (Starpilot/Tuidjy)
  
• fixed a few minor faction problems (IotA)
  
• fixed Death Defier achievement (was showing highest ship instead of total) (ScrObot)
  
• fixed Doomsday achievement (was showing highest ship instead of total)
  
• made it so marine failure prints don't go to log
  
• added max chest opening, item identifying, and planet scanning time (Drox & Zombie) (ScrObot)
  
• can now click on not showing loot widget to turn back on (Robodemon)

1.041 change list:

• text input now handles left arrow, right arrow, delete, home, end, and adding characters to the middle of the string
  
• added paste button to key input menus on Linux
  
• now convert 0s and Os to Qs automatically for keys
  
• now automatically convert key to uppercase (just makes some things easier)

The Linux version of Drox Operative is now available on Steam!

Drox Operative now has Steam Cards, so start collecting & trading now!

The set includes:

• 11 cards (one for each race, including the Scavengers from the expansion)
  
• 6 badges (as usual)
  
• 5 profile backgrounds
  
• 5 emoticons