Dual Universe Drops More Info On Athena’s New PvP Content And Features

Novaquark has published another preview blog that offers a bit more information about the new PvP content coming to new alien core units that players will have to claim and defend to be able to extract resources using the new Space Mining units and the Relic Plasma Extractor. Here’s how they’ll work:

“Any player who is first to arrive at an Alien Core location is able to claim ownership of said Alien Core. They can then use the Core like a regular one to build a standing base, on which they can place the new Space Mining Units and Relic Plasma Extractors and start gathering the Core’s resources.”

The team also touches on PvP balance changes coming with the update, specifically the adjustments to the maximum speed of bigger constructs and the new Stasis Weapon that can be used to reduce the maximum speed of target ships and constructs.

“Due to the issues raised with the Missions system and with the imbalance of construct sizes in PvP, we have altered the behavior around a construct’s maximum speed. A constructs’ mass will now impact their speed: the heavier the ship, the less its maximum speed will be. This will allow for better balancing regarding the Missions system, as well as PvP tactics of heavier constructs: smaller, more agile constructs can now catch up with the heavier ones!”

“Overall, we believe that these combined changes will provide more content and interest for our PvP players, as well as providing exciting and possible lucrative rewards,” explains Novaquark. “It is our intention to change the current ‘meta’ behavior and ship design, which do not currently coincide with our vision for Dual Universe.”

You can check out the full dev blog on the Dual Universe official site for more info.