After a long Early Access, we finally released Drox Operative 2! Get it now while it's 10% off during its launch week. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1305310/Drox_Operative_2/

We recently started Drox Operative 2 Early Access. What are you waiting for? Go buy it now! 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

• 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)

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)

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!

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

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

Invasion of the Ancients, all new content for Drox Operative is Now Available on Steam!

Drox Operative: Invasion of the Ancients is the first expansion for Drox Operative. Drox Operative is a starship action RPG with warring alien races, fierce space battles, a dynamic, evolving galaxy, and co-op multiplayer for Windows and Mac.

Before the Drox ruled the galaxy, before they were even sentient, there were older races now known as the Ancients. Using their Operatives, the Drox crushed and enslaved most of these races. The rest fled known space. When the Drox turned on their own Operatives, the Drox were utterly destroyed. Newer races emerged and thrived in the power void, never knowing the menace waited. Seizing their chance, the Ancients are invading to take their rightful place in the galaxy, as rulers! Thirsting for revenge, the Ancients can't harm the extinct Drox, but they can crush the next best thing, the Drox Operatives.

The Ancient enemies are back! Can you defend the Drox Operative Guild and younger races against the Invasion of the Ancients?

Drox Operative is Now Available on Steam!
Drox Operative is a starship action RPG with warring alien races, fierce space battles, a dynamic, evolving galaxy, and co-op multiplayer for Windows and Mac.

Eons ago the Drox ruled the galaxy through their mighty Operatives. These elite starship captains were trained to accomplish the impossible at whatever cost necessary. Whether employing stealth or brute force, they were always deadly. Using these Operatives, the Drox built a starlane system for quick travel amongst the stars, colonized and conquered millions of planets, and 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 devastating.

Thousands of years later, the Drox are extinct, but the secretive Drox Operative guild lives on. They have learned their lesson though: loyalty to any one race is foolish. They now work for whoever can pay. And pay they do! Empires might span hundreds of planets and thousands of ships, but when a critical task arises, they still turn to an Operative.

In the new space race, the major races are scouting, colonizing, and expanding, trying to take over the galaxy by diplomacy, technology, war, or any other means their scheming minds can contemplate.

As a Drox Operative it's NOT your job to manage all of those annoying people, build thousands of buildings, play nice with your enemies, or balance the budget. 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 coolest, deadliest ship in the known universe. Not many screw with an Operative captaining a Dreadnaught!

• 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