Buy Gratuitous Space Battles The Parasites PC key

Gratuitous Space Battles: The Parasites adds a race of parasites who travel the galaxy about every 200 years in search of new host species. They need hosts to keep their immature larvae alive, and after feeding on one species for 198 years, they have weakened it and depleted its nutritional value. The parasites now leave their adopted planet to find a replacement, battling and capturing prospective hosts to screen and select them.

Parasite ships

The add-on adds 10 ships: four cruisers, three frigates and three fighters. Their translucent sections come in varying colors, and most of the new hulls have bonuses to both integrity and armor. The parasites have weaker shields, which their stronger armor helps offset.

New equipment

Three new pieces of ship equipment expand the available weapons and defenses:

• Flak cannon: a cruiser weapon that targets enemy fighter swarms, damaging ships in its area as well as its target.
• Plasma slinger: a small, high-rate-of-fire plasma torpedo weapon that can keep multiple torpedoes in flight at once, a first for plasma weapons.
• Missile revenge scrambler: an ECM weapon that sends missiles back to attack the ships that launched them, rather than merely disrupting their guidance.

New scenario

A new map lets you fight against the parasites and use the scenario in online challenges. The parasite race can also fight on existing maps from the base game and other add-ons.