Proteus Release To Be Deployed On January 13th!

We are happy to announce that the first release of 2015, "Proteus" will be deployed during an extended downtime on Tuesday, January 13, 2015.

Downtime will begin at the regular time of 11:00 UTC, and will run through until 12:00 UTC for a total of 60 minutes. This release brings a whole host of module rebalancing and the introduction of several new module variants, as well as a redesign of the Exequror cruiser hull, new visual effects in asteroid belts to improve immersion, a rebalance of Recon cruisers, new features for the Beta Starmap, the introduction of small scale mining anomolies for rookie pilots in starter systems, the retiremement of Teams, new audio for Aura in Russian and German, and an awesome new theme tune from CCP RealX.

For further details on what's coming on Tuesday and for an update on Sovereignty work, take a look at CCP Seagull's latest blog - "Coming to EVE Online in the Proteus Release", and check out the full patch notes.