FAQ – Astral Ascension June 2022

Open Beta changes
After our Open Beta, we did some additions and changes:

• Dispatch: Update with new 6th Tier of Retriever Dispatch for 3 series (B06, R06, A06)
• Astral Booty Box: Rebalancing of rewards and change of items/resources
• Pre-configured Ships:
  • Start off with 200 R-13 Rockets for every pre-configured ship
  • Start off with Auto Rocket CPU for every pre-configured ship
• Bounties:
  • Addition of HP recover gate (50% recover)
  • Rebalancing of gate, item and level chances
  • Fix: Unstable modules not working
  • Allow players to see stat boosts for unstable modules obtained
  • Not allowing to switch to Config 2
• NPC Enemy Spawn:
  • Removal of NPCs that are too fast
  • Rebalancing of NPC speed and difficulty
• Increasing variance of NPC spawn location
• Recipes: Permit Plus recipe has been decreased in Astralite costs
• Addition of Battle Pass objectives, Battle Pass Boxes and Battle Pass Key exchanges
• Astral Ascension Rankings Event from 23th June until 6th July

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Executive Summary
What is the event about?
Craft Astral CPU using the new resource Polychromium to enter Astral Ascension! Upon using the CPU, a gate will appear in the center of your home map at X-1. How far you are able to survive in Astral Ascension will determine the amount of Astralite ore you get, which may be used to exchange for various rewards.

Where do I get Polychromium?
Polychromium is available via Dispatch and Payment.

General information
The new Astral Ascension Update presents a brand-new game mode: When entering the Astral Ascension, you’ll start with a pre-configured ship. You need to fight through waves to obtain various rewards. You’ll be able to obtain equipment to augment your ship during this game mode and you will have to use your wits to get as far as possible.

Craft Astral CPUs to be able to enter the new Astral Ascension gate from the X-1 maps. The Astral Ascension gate is a Galaxy Gate of 45 rifts. Each rift has 3 waves and each player only has 1 life.

Before starting your fight, you choose from pre-configured ships and loadouts and you choose the type of reward that you would like to earn. Clearing each Rift rewards you with equipment to augment your ship. The further you go, the higher chance of better rewards.

When you die, you will obtain the rewards depending on how far you made it to the end and then you spawn back home.

The main reward is the new Astralite, a resource that can be used to craft Astral Booty Keys and Permit Plus.

The Astral Booty Keys can be used to open the Astral Booty Boxes which can be found from existing maps and which will give you valuable resources as rewards. The new Permit Plus unlocks the next level of Retriever Dispatch (Tier 6) which yields an even greater quantity of resources per hire.

NPCs inside AA do not drop any Honor, Experience, Credits and Uridium by design, as resources and ships are “rented” to players.

Preparation phase
Craft Astral CPUs from the Assembly using Polychromium. Polychromium can be obtained from Retriever Dispatch and Gate Dispatch. Enter the spatial rifts of Astral Ascension from X-1 Maps with the Astral CPU! Please don’t forget to activate the CPU via Hotbar to be able to use it!
Choose from a set of pre-configured ships (every ship will be given 200 R-310 rockets.)

Ship	Laser	Generators	CPUs	Drones (Lvl 6)
Sentinel	3x LF-3 Laser, Lvl 5	4x SG3N-B02, Lvl 5 (shield) 1x SG3N-3310, Lvl 5 (speed)	AROL-X	5x Iris Upgrade Lvl 1 Default formation 10x LF-3, 2 per drone
Diminisher	3x LF-3 Laser, Lvl 5	4x SG3N-B02, Lvl 5 (shield) 1x SG3N-3310, Lvl 5 (speed)	AROL-X	5x Iris Upgrade Lvl 1 Default formation 10x LF-3, 2 per drone
Pusat	3x LF-3 Laser, Lvl 5	4x SG3N-B02, Lvl 5 (shield) 1x SG3N-3310, Lvl 5 (speed)	AROL-X	5x Iris Upgrade Lvl 1 Default formation 10x LF-3, 2 per drone
Zephyr	3x LF-3 Laser, Lvl 5	4x SG3N-B02, Lvl 5 (shield) 1x SG3N-3310, Lvl 5 (speed)	AROL-X	5x Iris Upgrade Lvl 1 Default formation 10x LF-3, 2 per drone

Important: The ship that you select and all of the items equipped (including Drone) is „loaned“ to you for the entirety of your run. Once you are defeated, that same ship will NOT be available for you anymore. Instead you will be back to controlling your own ship. Any equipment obtained from this Astral Ascension is also loaned and cannot be kept outside of this game mode. You can however, obtain final rewards which will be given to you depending on how far you progress in Astral Ascension.

Game Start

1. Choose your gate and your Bounty: Choose one out of two gates. The gates differ in the rewards that can be obtained from the respective Rift. There are different possible types of rewards (called Bounties) that are randomly chosen for each gate. So you can chose between various types of Bounties which can be Weapons, Generators, Ammunition, Unstable Modules, or HP recover. All Bounty types (except HP recover) have 2 tiers – Normal and Frenzied.

• A normal Bounty type means that there is a lower drop rate for strong, high level equipment
  
  
• A frenzied Bounty type means that there is a higher drop rate for strong, high level equipment. However, the NPCs for the Rift will be stronger than normal. Selecting a frenzied gate will also score you slightly more points for ranking.

1. Enter the rift and fight through 3 waves of NPCs
2. Once all NPCs have been defeated, choose one out of 3 Bounties – the one that you choose will immediately be equipped on your ship (if your slots are full, it goes into the Astral Ascension inventory).

Important:

• Ammunition does not require a choice and a bunch of ammunition will be randomly given to the player.
• Switching to Config 2 is not allowed in Astral Ascension. Even if you select the config button, you will still remain at Config 1.

1. The next 2 gates appear as well as an exit gate in case you want to leave. There will be an manage tab in the event window where you can manage your equipment. If you leave the gate, you will be able to continue from where you left off, with the same configuration and HP remaining.
2. Repeat the steps, there are 45 Rifts in total with a mini-boss at every 5th rift. Your HP recover by 50% after each mini-boss. At the last rift (45th), the Final Boss attends you! Defeat the Final Boss or die and lose. Afterwards, you get your rewards.

Final rewards
Fight through waves of relentless enemies and augment your chosen starter ship with bounties obtained from every rift cleared. The further you ascend, the more substantial your reward.

Rifts	Base Reward
1 - 4	250x Astralite
5	270x Astralite
6 - 9	350x Astralite
10	400x Astralite
11 - 14	500x Astralite
15	600x Astralite
16 - 19	700x Astralite
20	800x Astralite
21 - 24	900x Astralite
25	970x Astralite
26 - 29	1050x Astralite
30	1110x Astralite
31 - 34	1160x Astralite
35	1210x Astralite
36 - 39	1260x Astralite A chance to drop 1x Astral Booty Key
40	1300x Astralite A chance to drop 1x Astral Booty Key
41 - 44	1340x Astralite A chance to drop 2x Astral Booty Key
45 (Final Boss undefeated)	1380x Astralite A chance to drop 2x Astral Booty Keys
45 (Final Boss defeated)	1400x Astralite A chance to drop 3x Astral Booty Key

Please note: The rewards in the table above are the rewards that you’ll receive upon losing. They do not stack!
Example:

• You die in Run 1 at Rift 4 => You’ll get 250 Astralite as final reward
• You die in Run 2 at Rift 5 => You’ll get 270 Astralite as final reward
• You die in Run 3 at Rift 6 => You’ll get 350 Astralite as final reward

New Items
Astral Ascension Gate
The Astral Ascension Gate spawns when you use the Astral CPU. This gate is where all the activities that are explained above happen.

Astral CPU
Needs to be crafted in Assembly. It’s the entry ticket for the Astral Ascension Gate.

1x Astral CPU

1000x Polychromium 20x Mucosum

Astral Booty Box
The new Astral Booty Boxes are spawning on the maps X2 – X8 and on the Battle Maps. They can only be opened with Astral Booty Keys. The Astral Booty Boxes contain a possibility of obtaining:

• LF3
• LF4
• SG3N-B02
• SG3N-B03
• FS-03
• G3N-6900
• G3N-7900
• ABR
• Permit
• Extra Energy
• Mucosum
• Scrapium
• UCB-100
• PLT-2021
• PLT-3030
• H-MT
• H-HP
• H-HFC
• Astral Pusat Plus Ship Design

Astral Booty Key
The Astral Booty Key can be crafted in the Assembly. You need Astralite to craft it.

1x Astral Booty Key

500x Astralite

Polychromium
You need Polychromium to craft the Astral CPU in the Assembly. You’ll get Polychromium via Gate Dispatch, Retriever Dispatch as well as via our payment section.

Astralite
This is the resource that you need to craft Astral Booty Keys and Permit Plus. You’ll get it as reward when playing the Astral Ascension Gate.

Permit Plus
Permit Plus can be crafted in the Assembly with Astralite. Permit Plus helps you to get more resources from Tier 6 Dispatch.

1x Permit Plus

1450x Astralite 20x Mucosum

New Unstable Modules (event only): XA01
During the event, we introduce new unstable modules which can be obtained via Battle Pass Key exchange and Battle Pass. Each module has a chance of being usable on more than one ship.

Overview of the Unstable Modules event series:

Name	Description
DMG-XA01	An XA01 series unstable module that ensures at least a 4% boost in DAMAGE related modifiers to certain ships, with a higher chance of affecting the Pusat Plus, Sentinel, Diminisher, Pusat and Zephyr ships.
HP-XA01	An XA01 series unstable module that ensures at least a 5% boost in HP related modifiers to certain ships, with a higher chance of affecting the Pusat Plus, Sentinel, Diminisher, Pusat and Zephyr ships.
SHD-XA01	An XA01 series unstable module that ensures at least a 4% boost in shield related modifiers to certain ships, with a higher chance of affecting the Pusat Plus, Sentinel, Diminisher, Pusat and Zephyr ships.
SPC-XA01	An XA01 series unstable module that ensures at least a 5% boost in laser hitchance, rocket hitchance, evasion or shield penetration, or at least a 2% boost in speed to certain ships, with a higher chance of affecting the Pusat Plus, Sentinel, Diminisher, Pusat and Zephyr ships.

Retriever Dispatch Update
Polychromium has been added as a resource obtainable via resource Dispatch (R-01 to R-06) and Gate Dispatch.

Battle Pass
* Battle pass window will be disabled within Astral Ascension mode

Important: The waves and score missions in the Battle Pass are counting as soon as you left the Astral Ascension gate! It is not updating when you are still in the gate. The gate needs to be completed or you need to die before the waves and score missions are counting for the Battle Pass.

Battle Pass Keys
On top of earning rewards directly from each Battle Pass objective, you also earn Battle Pass Keys (BPK) that you can use to trade for rewards of your choice from the new Battle Pass Reward Exchange window.


Overview of Items that can be exchanged:

Items	Battle Pass Keys needed	Exchange Limit
Astral Pusat Plus Ship Design	25	1
Zephyr Ship	30	1
DMG-XT10	20	2
SPC-XT10	20	2
HP-XT10	20	2
SHD-XT10	20	2
DMG-XA01	10	5
SPC-XA01	10	5
HP-XA01	10	5
SHD-XA01	10	5
Burning Trail	3	8
NPC Nuke	3	8
Anti-AI Emergency Reserves	3	8
3,000 CC-C	3	15
100x Polychromium	1	5
75x SP-100X	1	10
25x IAC	5	10
15x Indoctrine Oil	5	10
50x ABR	1	10
125x Extra Energy	1	5
4x Booty Keys	1	10
3,000x RSB-75	1	10
4,500x UCB-100	1	10
2,000x PLT-3030	1	10
3,000x PLT-2021	1	5
500x UBR-100	1	10
500x HSTRM-01	1	10
25x DCR-250	1	10
50x SR-5	2	10
1,000x Seprom	1	10
25x Scrapium	1	10
150x Bifenon	1	10
100x Tetrathrin	1	10
75x Kyhalon	1	10

Battle Pass Booty Boxes
With the Battle Pass Keys, you can also open the new Battle Pass Booty Boxes which will be available during the event time, spawning in X-2 to X-8, Battle Maps, Pirate Maps. When opening the new boxes, this might take a few seconds.

You can get a lot of valuable items out of these boxes:

Items	Chance
1x DMG-XA01	1,25%
1x SPC-XA01	1,25%
1x HP-XA01	1,25%
1x SHD-XA01	1,25%
50x Extra Energy	15,00%
5x Log Disks	18,00%
5x Booty Key	18,00%
20x Alien Crying while Laughing Emote	0,50%
20x Alien Sorry Emote	0,50%
20x Alien Cool Emote	0,50%
20x Watching you Spray	0,50%
20x Like Spray	0,50%
20x K.O. Spray	0,50%
1000x C-CC	5,00%
100x Mucosum	5,00%
100x Eternal Fragment	5,00%
50x Scrapium	6,70%
100x Polychromium	6,80%
20x Kyhalon	0,50%
200x Tetrathrin	0,50%
200x Bifenon	0,50%
500x UCB-100	5,00%
800x A-BL	5,00%
1x Astral Pusat Plus Ship Design	1,00%

Astral Ascension Rankings event
New Titles

Title	Description
Commander of the Rifts	Be the top 5 players in Astral Rankings 1
Virtuoso of the Rifts	Be the top 5 players in Astral Rankings 2

Astral Rankings
There will be a live ranking displayed in the client event window based on the score that you obtain from Astral Ascension.

The sum of your 3 highest scores in Astral Ascension during the event will be recorded in the ranking boards.

If two players have the exact same score, their rank will be in order of completion time of the latest eligible run.

* The Score & Wave number will only be updated upon ending current AA run

If you are completing another gate that has a lower score than the 3 highest scores, the points won’t count!

Scoring system:

Factor	Score (Cumulative)
Every Rift cleared (1 rift)	300
Every Frenzied Rift cleared (1 x lvl2 rift) (replaces the above)	350
Mini-boss defeated	400
Final Boss defeated	450
Boss fight: HP left	3 per 1% HP (Max 300)
Final-boss/Mini-Boss fight: Time taken (s)	450 – (0.25 x time taken) (Max 450)

You have to end the run that was started during the previous ranking event to be eligible for the next ranking event.

You won’t see your current run’s data on the ranking window in the client until your current run has ended and a new run is started.

During the event time, there are 2 different sets of Astral Ranking rewards that you can obtain:
Set 1: Running from 23rd June until 29th June

Ranking	Rewards
1st	Commander of the Rifts 600,000 Uridium 2 weeks Premium 325,000 x UCB-100 40,000 x RSB-75 6,000 x Astralite 15 x Permit 10 x GGEU
2nd	Commander of the Rifts 400,000 Uridium 200,000 x UCB-100 35,000 x RSB-75 5,000 x Astralite 12 x Permit 8 x GGEU
3rd	Commander of the Rifts 300,000 Uridium 155,000 x UCB-100 21,000 x RSB-75 4,000 x Astralite 10 x Permit 6 x GGEU
4th to 5th	Commander of the Rifts 200,000 Uridium 130,000 x UCB-100 16,000 x RSB-75 3,500 x Astralite 8 x Permit 4 x GGEU
6th to 10th	80,000 Uridium 120,000 x UCB-100 13,000 x RSB-75 3,000 x Astralite 5 x Permit 2 x GGEU
11th to 25th	35,000 Uridium 80,000 x UCB-100 10,000 x RSB-75 2,500 x Astralite 2 x GGEU
26th to 50th	25,000 Uridium 70,000 x UCB-100 7,500 x RSB-75 2,000 x Astralite
51st to 100th	15,000 Uridium 60,000 x UCB-100 1,500 x Astralite

Set 2: Running from 30th June until 6th July

Ranking	Rewards
1st	Virtuoso of the Rifts 600,000 Uridium 2 weeks Premium 325,000 x UCB-100 40,000 x RSB-75 6,000 x Astralite 15 x Permit 10 x GGEU
2nd	Virtuoso of the Rifts 400,000 Uridium 200,000 x UCB-100 35,000 x RSB-75 5,000 x Astralite 12 x Permit 8 x GGEU
3rd	Virtuoso of the Rifts 300,000 Uridium 155,000 x UCB-100 21,000 x RSB-75 4,000 x Astralite 10 x Permit 6 x GGEU
4th to 5th	Virtuoso of the Rifts 200,000 Uridium 130,000 x UCB-100 16,000 x RSB-75 3,500 x Astralite 8 x Permit 4 x GGEU
6th to 10th	80,000 Uridium 120,000 x UCB-100 13,000 x RSB-75 3,000 x Astralite 5 x Permit 2 x GGEU
11th to 25th	35,000 Uridium 80,000 x UCB-100 10,000 x RSB-75 2,500 x Astralite 2 x GGEU
26th to 50th	25,000 Uridium 70,000 x UCB-100 7,500 x RSB-75 2,000 x Astralite
51st to 100th	15,000 Uridium 60,000 x UCB-100 1,500 x Astralite