Winter Event Open Beta FAQ

Winter Event FAQ

General information
This year’s Winter event comes with a bunch of activities as well as with a couple of changes for existing features.

The DarkOrbit Winter Event is back! Can you catch the elusive Synk and avoid the pesky Iceterion in the Frozen Labyrinth? All while holding back the endless flood of Black Light aliens!

Featuring new Iceterion and Skoll NPCs in the Frozen Labyrinth as well as new titles for Blacklight rankings. This event also contains a new Battle Pass format, where earned Battle Pass Keys can be exchanged for rewards such as the new Frost Orcus ship design as well as access to new Unstable Modules for this event!

Here’s a short overview:

- The Battle Pass system will be adjusted: Instead of earning direct rewards (that you still get when finishing objectives without using the Battle Pass), you’ll earn Battle Pass Keys when finishing the objectives with having the Battle Pass active that can be exchanged into different rewards of your own choice
- There are also new Battle Pass Booty Boxes that can be opened with the new Battle Pass Keys
- The Frozen Labyrinth will take place and it includes some new content
- The Eternal Black Light Rankings with a Ship Boost event and new unstable modules takes place again
- The Crazy Santa Bot reappears
- The Snowman Mutation is active again
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Please note: The Skoll Gate that we ran in the last years, won’t take place this year. But the Skoll found his way into this Winter event as a new mini boss NPC.

New Battle Pass Keys
On top of earning rewards directly from each Battle Pass objective, you now 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.

If you’re finishing the objectives without having the Battle Pass, you’ll get the normal rewards directly. But if you’re using the Battle Pass, you’ll get Battle Pass Keys that you can use to exchange into rewards of your choice.

The Battle Pass window will now include two different tabs: An “Objectives” tab and a “Key Exchange Tab”. Some rewards might have a limit how often they can be exchanged for Battle Pass Keys. This limit will be shown below the reward.

IMPORTANT: If you get the Battle Pass after having already finished some of the objectives, the Battle Pass Keys won’t be booked automatically for the already finished objectives. This means, if you get the Battle Pass, you need to collect the Battle Pass Keys manually for the objectives that were finished beforehand!

IMPORTANT: There’s an inventory limit of 250 Battle Pass Keys in the Inventory. Unused Battle Pass Keys will be exchanged into Honor when the event is over!

Overview of Items that can be exchanged:

Items	Battle Pass Keys needed	Exchange Limit
Frost Orcus	25	1
DMG-XT10	20	2
SPC-XT10	20	2
HP-XT10	20	2
SHD-XT10	20	2
DMG-XW01	5	10
SPC-XW01	5	10
HP-XW01	5	10
SHD-XW01	5	10
Frost Field	1	8
NPC Nuke	3	8
Anti-AI Emergency Reserves	3	8
Zephyr	30	1
50x R-IC3	1	15
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

New Battle Pass Booty Boxes

With the new 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 and more commonly in the Frozen Labyrinth. 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-XW01	1,50%
1x SPC-XW01	1,50%
1x HP-XW01	1,50%
1x SHD-XW01	1,50%
50x Extra Energy	20,00%
5x Log Disks	10,00%
5x Booty Key	20,00%
20x Snowman Brr Emote	1,50%
20x Snowman Rolleyes Emote	1,50%
20x Snowman Thinking Emote	1,50%
20x Yeti Spray	1,50%
20x Frozen Hand Spray	1,50%
20x Snowflake Spray	1,50%
500x A-BL	12,50%
100x Eternal Fragment	7,00%
30x Scrapium	8,00%
50x R-IC3	6,00%
1x Frost Hecate	0,25%
1x Frost Spectrum	0,25%
1x Frost V-Lightning	0,25%
1x Frost Venom	0,25%
1x Frost Diminisher	0,25%
1x Frost Sentinel	0,25%

Frozen Labyrinth FAQ

General information
Take part in the Frozen Labyrinth, a massive multiplayer treasure hunt, and traverse your way through the maze to reach the Boss NPC! Earn amazing rewards and a new title!

The Frozen Labyrinth Gate can be accessed at the following times (Local Server Times):

o Monday-Friday: From 10:00 to 14:00 (4 hours) and from 19:00 to 23:00 (4 hours)
o Saturday and Sunday: 11:00 to 15:00 (4 hours) and 19:00 to 23:00 (4 hours)​

The Frozen Labyrinth can be accessed from X-1 maps and this gate which can be found in X-1 doesn’t require a Labyrinth Key to enter.

On all Frozen Labyrinth maps, PvP is disabled. At any one point, only one Synk – which is the Frozen Labyrinth Boss NPC– will be spawned in the whole Frozen Labyrinth Map system. In the center of every Frozen Labyrinth Map there’s a gate that brings to back to your home map in X-1.

When you enter the Frozen Labyrinth, there are 3 base Labyrinth maps (Atlas A, Atlas B, Atlas C) and each player will be randomly sent to one of these 3 maps. Each map will spawn NPCs and/or loot boxes with a chance to get Labyrinth Keys to explore further into the Frozen Labyrinth.

The whole Labyrinth contains 16 maps which are interlaced with each other. In addition, each map has different zones and gates that are interconnected. Every gate that is placed within the Frozen Labyrinth will require a Labyrinth Key to access it (excluding the center gate that brings you back to your home map). Use them during the event because at the end of the event, all unused Labyrinth Keys will be removed!

Each of the different zones in the Frozen Labyrinth maps are spawning different Frozen NPCs that should be shot down to get a reward package. In those reward packages, you have the chance to get Labyrinth keys as well as other attractive items.

NPC	Rewards	Chance
Frozen Icy	1x Labyrinth Key	5%
Frozen Kristallin	1x Labyrinth Key	10%
Frozen Kristallon	1x Labyrinth Key	20%
Frozen Boss Kristallin	1x Labyrinth Key 5 to 10x SR-5	30% 20%
Frozen Boss Kristallon	1x Labyrinth Key 10 to 15x SR-5	40% 40%
Frozen Meteoroid	2x Labyrinth Key 1x NPC Nuke 10 to 15x SR-5	50% 5% 50%
Frozen Super Meteoroid	2x Labyrinth Key 1x NPC Nuke 15 to 20x SR-5	80% 10% 50%

Boss NPC: Synk
A message will be displayed announcing the upcoming spawn of Synk on the Frozen Labyrinth maps. On killing Synk, it will give the player a title and achievement as well as a reward box. The amount of the items in the reward box can differ each time.

Item	Chance	Amount
Achievement & Title: Swift Chaser	100%	1
Zephyr Frost Ship	50%	1
CC-C	100%	2019
R-IC3	100%	Between 20 and 100
BDR-1212	100%	Between 500 and 1000
BDR-1211	100%	Between 1000 and 2000

It’s up to you to find your way through the Frozen Labyrinth and find the Synk!

New NPC: Iceterion
There are also a lot of other Frozen NPCs which are dropping rewards on death and giving out chances to win Labyrinth Keys and other valuable items. And there are also brand-new Iceterion NPCs that will give you a hard time in the Frozen Labyrinth. They cannot be killed but they are dropping exploding mines that will hurt your ship!

Mini Boss NPC: Skoll
The Skoll have broken out of the Breac, and is running amok in the labyrinth. Three of the Skoll NCP will spawn every 5 minutes at any point in the Frozen Labyrinth maps. There will be an information broadcasted in the Labyrinth when they spawn. If the Skoll chooses you, it attacks you – as soon as you’re blinking red because you’re in his rocket zone, you can decide whether to attack him or to move out of the rocket zone. The Skoll NPC will spawn minions that can be attacked instead.

On death, the Skoll NPC gives out rewards for the top 3 damage dealers:

- 1x Labyrinth Key
- 4x Indoctrine Oil
- 8x Indoctrine Accelerators​

Leaderboard
There will be a leaderboard for players that have found the Labyrinth Boss in order that they found the boss.

The rank will be in order of:

1. How many times did the player find Synk
2. When Synk was found latest​

At the end of the event, the Top 10 Players of the leaderboard will get the title: Elite Marksman

Ship Boost event: Fever
There will be 3 different time slots where the Ship Boost event runs: During each run of these “Fever” time slots, different ship selections will get an additional bonus.

Fever schedule:
Monday to Friday: From 19:00 to 21:00 LST
Saturday and Sunday: 13:00 to 15:00 and 19:00 to 21:00 LST

Fever Set 1: runs from 18th December until 23th December
Affected Ships:

- Vengeance
- V-Lightning
- V-Avenger
- V-Revenge
- V-Adept
- V-Corsair
- Pusat
- Tartarus
- Berserker
- Zephyr
- Solaris
- Mimesis
- Disruptor​

Effects: + 20% NPC damage / + 10% Shield / + 10% HP

Fever Set 2: runs from 24th December until 29th December
Affected Ships:

- Phoenix
- Yamato
- Yamato Ronin
- Leonov
- Liberator
- Piranha
- Nostromo
- N-Diplomat
- Bigboy
- BB Solemn​

Effects: + 200% NPC damage / + 50% HP / +65% Shield / +10% Speed

Fever Set 3: runs from 30th December until 5th November
Affected Ships:

- Hecate
- Venom
- Solace
- Diminisher
- Spectrum
- Sentinel
- Keres
- Retiarus
- Orcus
- Centurion​

Effects: +20 % Evasion / - 15% Skills cooldown time / - 20% HP

Black Light Rankings
There will be again a live ranking displayed in the client event window which shows the players that are getting the furthest in the Eternal Black Light Galaxy Gate.

Once you enter the Eternal Black Light Galaxy Gate, you’ll take automatically part in the Black Light Rankings. Your highest wave completed will be recorded in the Ranking Boards. If there are players that completed the same number of waves, their rank will be in order of who has reached the wave first.

During the event time, there are 3 different sets of Black Light Ranking rewards that you can obtain. These 3 sets are corresponding in event times with the Ship Boost Fever Sets:

Set 1

Ranking	Rewards
1st	Title: Eternal Vanquisher 750,000 Uridium 2 weeks Premium 1x Frost Berserker Ship Design 75,000 x Seprom 30,000 x A-BL 3 x DMG-XT10 3 x HP-XT10 3 x SHD-XT10 3 x SPC-XT10
2nd	Title: Eternal Vanquisher 500,000 Uridium 1x Frost Berserker Ship Design 50,000 x Seprom 20,000 x A-BL 2 x DMG-XT10 2 x HP-XT10 2 x SHD-XT10 2 x SPC-XT10
3rd	Title: Eternal Vanquisher 300,000 Uridium 1x Frost Berserker Ship Design 40,000 x Seprom 15,000 x A-BL 2 x DMG-XT10 2 x HP-XT10 2 x SHD-XT10 2 x SPC-XT10
4th to 5th	Title: Eternal Vanquisher 200,000 Uridium 1x Frost Berserker Ship Design 35,000 x Seprom 15,000 x A-BL 1 x DMG-XT10 1 x HP-XT10 1 x SHD-XT10 1 x SPC-XT10
6th to 10th	75,000 Uridium 1x Frost Berserker Ship Design 30,000 x Seprom 12,500 x A-BL 1 x DMG-XT10
11th to 25th	50,000 Uridium 30,000 x Seprom 10,000 x A-BL 1 x DMG-XT10
26th to 50th	35,000 Uridium 20,000 x Seprom 8,000 x A-BL 1 x DMG-XT10
51st to 100th	25,000 Uridium 20,000 x Seprom 5,000 x A-BL

Set 2

Ranking	Rewards
1st	Title: Eternal Dark Horse 750,000 Uridium 2 weeks Premium 1x Frost Disruptor Ship Design 75,000 x Seprom 30,000 x A-BL 3 x DMG-XT10 3 x HP-XT10 3 x SHD-XT10 3 x SPC-XT10
2nd	Title: Eternal Dark Horse 500,000 Uridium 1x Frost Disruptor Ship Design 50,000 x Seprom 20,000 x A-BL 2 x DMG-XT10 2 x HP-XT10 2 x SHD-XT10 2 x SPC-XT10
3rd	Title: Eternal Dark Horse 300,000 Uridium 1x Frost Disruptor Ship Design 40,000 x Seprom 15,000 x A-BL 2 x DMG-XT10 2 x HP-XT10 2 x SHD-XT10 2 x SPC-XT10
4th to 5th	Title: Eternal Dark Horse 200,000 Uridium 1x Frost Disruptor Ship Design 35,000 x Seprom 15,000 x A-BL 1 x DMG-XT10 1 x HP-XT10 1 x SHD-XT10 1 x SPC-XT10
6th to 10th	75,000 Uridium 1x Frost Disruptor Ship Design 30,000 x Seprom 12,500 x A-BL 1 x DMG-XT10
11th to 25th	50,000 Uridium 30,000 x Seprom 10,000 x A-BL 1 x DMG-XT10
26th to 50th	35,000 Uridium 20,000 x Seprom 8,000 x A-BL 1 x DMG-XT10
51st to 100th	25,000 Uridium 20,000 x Seprom 5,000 x A-BL

Set 3

Ranking	Rewards
1st	Title: Eternal Virtuoso 750,000 Uridium 2 weeks Premium 1x Frost Centurion Ship Design 75,000 x Seprom 30,000 x A-BL 3 x DMG-XT10 3 x HP-XT10 3 x SHD-XT10 3 x SPC-XT10
2nd	Title: Eternal Virtuoso 500,000 Uridium 1x Frost Centurion Ship Design 50,000 x Seprom 20,000 x A-BL 2 x DMG-XT10 2 x HP-XT10 2 x SHD-XT10 2 x SPC-XT10
3rd	Title: Eternal Virtuoso 300,000 Uridium 1x Frost Centurion Design 40,000 x Seprom 15,000 x A-BL 2 x DMG-XT10 2 x HP-XT10 2 x SHD-XT10 2 x SPC-XT10
4th to 5th	Title: Eternal Virtuoso 200,000 Uridium 1x Frost Centurion Ship Design 35,000 x Seprom 15,000 x A-BL 1 x DMG-XT10 1 x HP-XT10 1 x SHD-XT10 1 x SPC-XT10
6th to 10th	75,000 Uridium 1x Frost Centurion Ship Design 30,000 x Seprom 12,500 x A-BL 1 x DMG-XT10
11th to 25th	50,000 Uridium 30,000 x Seprom 10,000 x A-BL 1 x DMG-XT10
26th to 50th	35,000 Uridium 20,000 x Seprom 8,000 x A-BL 1 x DMG-XT10
51st to 100th	25,000 Uridium 20,000 x Seprom 5,000 x A-BL

New Ship Design: Frost Orcus

Frost Orcus
Stay icy cool while dealing out punishment to transgressors in the Frost Orcus ship design.

New item: Frost Field
Frost Field
Generate a Frost Field around your ship that slows and slightly damages enemies for 8 seconds.

New Sprays & Emotes
- Snowman Brr Emote
- Snowman Rolleyes Emote
- Snowman Thinking Emote
- Yeti Spray
- Frozen Hand Spray
- Snowflake Spray

New Unstable Modules (event only): XW01
During the event, we introduce new unstable modules which can be obtained via Battle Pass reward and Battle Pass Boxes. Each module has a chance of being usable on more than one ship.

Overview of the Unstable Modules event series:

Name	Description
DMG-XW01	An XW01 series unstable module is so unstable that it very rarely settles into any useful configurations. However, when it does, this module results in top tier damage related modifiers.
HP-XW01	An XW01 series unstable module is so unstable that it very rarely settles into any useful configurations. However, when it does, this module results in top tier HP modifiers.
SHD-XW01	An XW01 series unstable module is so unstable that it very rarely settles into any useful configurations. However, when it does, this module results in top tier shield modifiers.
SPC-XW01	An XW01 series unstable module is so unstable that it very rarely settles into any useful configurations. However, when it does, this module results in top tier laser hitchance, rocket hitchance, evasion, speed or shield penetration modifiers.

New Titles

Title	Description
Eternal Vanquisher	Be the top 5 players in Blacklight Rankings 1
Eternal Dark Horse	Be the top 5 players in Blacklight Rankings 2
Eternal Virtuoso	Be the top 5 players in Blacklight Rankings 3