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New designs

Frost Tartarus Plus ship
> no graphic yet

Will be available with Frost Cyborg (returning design?) during Winter sales and rare chance from Delta, Epsilon, Kappa and Zeta gates.

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Jubilee Goliath Plus (19th anniversary special):


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Railgun System

New ship-exclusive types listed:

• Cyborg
• Diminisher
• Pusat Plus
• Venom

> these are Thermal (Helios) and Corrosive (Nidhogg), and all of them are Ultimate rank

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Animations / renders

Spoiler

Thermal Shot:

Thermal Skill:

Thermal Hitsplat:

Thermal Waves:

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Corrosive Shot:

Corrosive Skill:

Corrosive Hitsplat:

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Electro Shot:

Electro Skill:

Electro Hitsplat:

 

Graphics

Frost Tartarus Plus ship:


Frozen Cyborg ship (also called Subzero. Seems to be a new version of the classic frost skin, probably.):


Blaze Goliath Plus ship (from Obsidian box refresh):

 

Breaking News

19th Anniversary Birthday Gate:

It has a difficulty selection option

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New NPCs

Pyrospire:


Magma Stalker:


Chronospire:


Veil Stalker:


Vinespire:


Spore Stalker:


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New designs

Frost Paladin ship:

> I know it doesn't look like a normal frost skin. Perhaps this was labelled incorrectly. We'll find out eventually.

 

Figured out what's happened. The classic 'frost' Cyborg cosmetic skin was stylised as frozen, and the new one's made some internal complications because of that (more info below). For now, the new design looks like this:

whatever it's called...

Frost Paladin ship design:


Fun fact
Citadel Elite's 'Frost' skin's called Glacier.
Venom's 'Frost' skin's called Arctic.
I guess Cyborg's was called Frozen, but now it looks like the devs have retroactively renamed it completely to Frozen and rereleased Frost as a purple glow skin. Further complications in the future. heh
Oh, and the 'Frost' cosmetic skin for drones is called Hailstorm.
Maybe I'm the only one interested in this stuff.

 

New Railguns

Indra:

• Cyborg
• Goliath Plus (leaked earlier)
• Paladin
• Solaris Plus
• Spectrum Plus
• Venom

> these will be craftable

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New Items

Item: Galaxy Coupon
Description: This spacy voucher is your invitation to explore the fiesta gate... and BEYOND!
Obtain: Can be purchased in the shop.

Item: Pulse Core
Description: A container of distilled boson fragments, collected in highly volatile space rifts. Collect enough to assemble the ultimate particle cannon.
Obtain: Can be gained by finished the fiesta gate.

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Birthday Gate

Named 'Fiesta Gate'
Has 5 difficulties.

> I dunno for sure if it's a new gate forever or a one time bday gate. Might be here to stay considering they've designed new NPCs and items for it.

 

where is the fiesta gate Galaxy coupon, is not in shop ??

 

Particle Cannon Evolution

Synthesis Materials to craft Ultimate Rank Railguns

• Energy Helios Citadel Plus
• Energy Nidhogg Citadel Plus
• Energy Indra Citadel Plus

etc. for the following ships:

• Citadel Plus
• Cyborg
• Diminisher
• Goliath Plus
• Hammerclaw Plus
• Orcus
• Paladin
• Pusat Plus
• Solace Plus
• Solaris Plus
• Spearhead Plus
• Spectrum Plus
• Venom

 

is there anywhere that states what damage these unwanted weapons do ?

 

Yes
https://board-en.darkorbit.com/threads/faq-particle-weapon-system.129990/

 

i aint got a diploma in that field .. just a load of waffle that is to me .

 

Spoiler: why do i bother when no ne bothers to read

Nice and simple:

There's 3 types of Railguns:

• Thermal / Helios / Red colour
• Corrosive / Nidhogg / Purple colour
• Electro / Indra / Blue colour (unreleased at this time)

A Railgun hits every 4* secs (buy the CPU from shop to make it hit automatically). Think of it like Prom lasers' burst (every 4 secs for a big hit while prom burst is once every 5 hits).
You have 3 slots to equip them on your ship. One of each. Whatever ammo you select will use the associated Railgun. The others are on standby until you swap ammo.

The ship-exclusive Railguns listed earlier are the strongest ones.

UL-Helios

Thermal

16571

UL-Nidhogg

Corrosive

32406

These are the base damage values we're given^ but that's 100% damage. We're told that Railguns have a damage range of 75-100%, so it'll be more like:
Thermal = 12,428–16,571
Corrosive = 24,304–32,406
Indra = UNKNOWN

Ship-exclusives can be equipped on any ship. If you equip them on the ship they're made for though, you get some unknown extra damage.

Now, it looks like Corrosive is waaay better than Thermal from those numbers alone. But that might not be the case because each type has a special bonus:

• Thermal hits do splash damage in a radius of 275 for 40% of the original damage. So Thermal is great for clearing up clusters of aliens. The more aliens in the area, the more mileage you get from using Thermal (up to 5 aliens. It won't hit more than 5 per shot).

• Corrosive hits harder and makes you do more damage with Corrosive shots the longer you fight. It makes the target take 5% more Corrosive damage per hit, up to 5 times (effectively +25% bonus Corrosive damage if you're shooting for at least 20 seconds. see below*). Basically a great Railgun for bulky, single targets.

• Indra's effect is UNKNOWN.

Those damage values above are for x1 ammo. You can buy x2 and x3 from the shop. I dunno about x4.
You can also get custom modifiers on your Railguns that can massively affect the damage output. So the damage you'll be able to pull off should be considerably higher than expected.

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Leaks

Next Empyrian March has Empyrian Spectrum Plus listed as a reward.

There's a new type of booty box that's Christmas themed. Possibly releasing soon.

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Edit: minor correction. Railguns hit every 4 seconds. So Corrosive' more like this:
1st hit = 1s
2nd hit = 5s
3rd hit = 9s
4th hit = 13s
5th hit = 17s (once this hits, the next shot onwards does max extra damage)
6th hit = 21s
...and so on.

 

Upcoming designs

Nobilis Centurion P.E.T. design:


Nobilis Centurion ship design:

> there aren't any bonus effects for using this design as far as I'm aware

Phantasm Spectrum P.E.T. design:

 

Another p2w event...

Trinity Trials - January 2026
Welcome to the brand-new pilot endurance arena! Will you survive long to unlock the Human Coalition's brand-new particle cannons and refractors? There's only one chance to find out…

5 levels of difficulty: Easy to Nightmare

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Items:

• Trinity Token [TT-Token] - Keycard used to enter Trinity Trials
• Trinity VIP Badge - Unlock the VIP rewards and privileges of Trinity Trials. Purchasing the Trinity VIP Badge unlocks the following privileges: Unlock VIP Pass rewards! / Get %VALUE1% additional free entries.! / Receive an additional %VALUE2%% pass points! / Gain %VALUE3%% damage bonus!
• Xyralith - Used to shorten the upgrade time of the Orbital Sweeper Module in Trinity Trials. / Required to craft advanced lasers.
• Quantum Prism [QPR] - A powerful upgrade component used to boost the Orbital Sweeper Module in the Trinity Trials. Use the Quantum Prisms harvested from Trinity Trials to upgrade the OS module, thereby increasing the probability of obtaining more powerful equipment.

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Amor and Psyche designs for February are for Orcus, apparently. I'm not sure about what ship will get bundled in the battlepass. May or may not be Orcus.

 

Breaking News

New ship:

Retiarus Plus - Battle Cruiser
The Retiarus Plus can deal an ultra-high-damage strike by charging up, and enhance the particle cannon equipped on itself.
> No graphic yet

Abilities:

• Hyper Charge shot / Charge Shot Plus

Accumulates charges against a targeted ship while target is within range. Launches a huge destructive burst of damage when charging is over.

• Supercharge Plus

Speed up your ship, reduce Particle Cannon cooldown, boost its damage—but lose shield per second
> Graphics are shown below

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Season Pass 12

Titles:

⋆ The Voidwing Sovereign ⋆ - Level 50
⋆ The Doomcaller ⋆ - Level 80

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Designs:

Wyvern Retiarus Plus ship design


Wyvern Retiarus P.E.T. design


Wyvern Retiarus Plus drone design


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XSP01 unstable modules have a higher chance to roll for Pusat Plus and Retiarus Plus ships

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New Particle Cannons

• Helios Retiarus Plus
• Nidhogg Retiarus Plus
• Indra Retiarus Plus

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> There are different graphics for Retiarus Plus' abilities and the cosmetic design (Wyvern Retiarus Plus). To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time we're seeing this change for cosmetic designs. Illustrated below:

No design=yellow/white.
Wyvern design=blue/white.

Spoiler

Charge Shot Plus CHARGE UP:


Charge Shot Plus SHOT:


Charge Shot Plus HIT:


Charge Shot Plus OUTBREAK:


Supercharge Plus:

 

Fresh graphic

Retiarus Plus (base ship):

 

why does it seem like every single ship has to have the forward fangs. "new and updated" its looks the same

retiarus plus
basilisk
goli plus
viking citadel plus
atlantis/enigma solace plus

i'm so damn tired of the bull ant head style look, give us something different for once.

on top of that, retiarus was more hot garbage than paladin and THAT gets a plus ship?

 

Yeah, I'm genuinely shocked it's Retiarus. I would have guessed the next to be any of the old ships like Diminisher and Sentinel.

I hope it'll be better than the normal version and it doesn't become another Tartarus/Spectrum disaster...

Base Ret stats are similar to base Goli, so maybe they'll do this one right.

 

Flash render of Missile Storm (NPC):


Make of that what you will...

 

As I thought, DSE is now available on the flash client.

I don't like how equipping quantum fluid cores is using the same UI window as particle cannons on flash. That whole UI is buggy, and now clogged with all sorts of stuff. This is a step down from the backpage hanger/equipment.

We need a proper UI window that's responsive and snappy, or at least make the backpage hanger have QFCs.

Also, despite the shift to moving Unity exclusive content to flash, the bugs that came about on flash with Unity's launch still aren't fixed...

 

Thank you for the info m8 , at least i can now do the DSE missions ( unity just does not work at all for me)

lol no idea what quamtum cores are or partiucle cannons , too much new stuff on this game now and is complecated, not fun anymore .and still botters on maps .