Msoul

Note - Firstly we thought Alien Cores in lockdown don't produce items but apparently they do.  It still takes a significant amount of time to get it into lockdown but anyway not sure if thats correct or not.   A group of us have randomly been hitting cores on and off due to numbers.  Secondly from asking NQ we wrongly assumed if the Core/Base shield goes down and we capture it then the base shield goes up and we capture it
 
The Preparation
 
With the majority of the PvP base in Legion plans went on behind to secretly arm non-PvPer's to a huge event before the impending wipe decision, a lot of our PvP'ers have paused with NQ's post about a wipe.   For props Deadrank/Caerus contacted with a potential idea to gather a group of orgs and equally arm, provide logistics support for one final event but also a good way to give NQ feedback.  They had built warp sleds to carry vessels and other orgs built ships and poked their non-PvP players so a very raw and quick into PvP for many.
 
The Day
 
The day had finally come to give it a go.  Prep was completed and the gathering point confirmed.  Forces from multiple orgs were ready and an rough plan was formed.  A fake attack was made (maybe more too) but the bulk of the fleet was near the Alien Core.  Orgs/Groups were split into comms with A 'Siege wing' sole role to target the core (Reality is they should have just shot ships now what we know).  We knew Legion potentially had a 'Warp Beacon' Nearby so knew it had to be as quick as possible as unfortunately if your the attacker you really are limited compared to the defender who could keep warping more ships in.  We had around 30 people to start with which is a mammoth amount of people (this increased slightly as more joined in) but one of us was dropping off 'decoy' ships just to mess up the radar (they even had weapon looking stuff on them!).
 
Transponders were broken still as NQ did not fix it in time so this was even more of a challenge with a huge list, people new to scripts/Lua.  
 
The fight begun with one of us blasting in to spot a couple of Legion Ships.  We did call out core ID's to target but this was a newly formed force so no simple task at all.  I personally was chasing a L ship for a period and swung back to the core to assist.  The L cores of our group begun battering the Base shield with others targeting legion ships (core ID's).  Our channel had the bulk of people and it was a little chaotic.  I had personally split off with a few Legion ships and chased an L core which I successfully Cored and with more on radar for me it was to quickly get off grid to vent my shield (was low).  I rejoined the fold closely and we were still at that point successfully coring Legion allied ships but equally ours were slowly being popping off, then rapidly more and more Legion ships appeared.
 
The tide had totally turned quickly.  Multiple ships, multiple double/triple seater ships (A lot of ours were single seater things) all targeting people with ease.  Some allied forces had already begun to flee unbeknown to the core group but the Alien core shield was still going down.   It was obvious without the people and ships it was only a matter of time before it was a full retreat.
 
It was at this point a few ships named the same as Legion and strafed into the fold to keep hitting the core.  The shield was close to breaking point.  It was at this time at 1% shield I failed to escape and at 1.8SU away one final shot hit me and BOOM.............  I did however exit in time to float about in space.  I managed to fly to the core in case we needed to repair to capture it.
 
At this time Lovoda finally made it on 'grid' his ship opened up onto the Alien Core and BOOM the core died.  A few of us frantically tried to repair the core and they did so we thought huzzar! we won the day.  Sadly this was not the case in fact Legion blew it up within minutes (we did delete some plasma and took 1 that's it).  Thinking it was a bug one of us kept coming back with a ship and kept re-coring it or we flew to a wreck and reactivated old ships that had cores stored in their containers.  Honestly we thought it was a bug so kept going!.
 
Running out of throw away ships, wrecks to use we called it a day.  I guess we thought wrongly if the core died, repaired its yours with a shield.   So its good feedback to know that is not the case.
 
Anyway this was a blast but that was the last made hussar from the group.  Reality is you equally needed a trained PvP group to combat another PvP group so well played to Legion it was an absolute blast and more importantly the SERVERS HELD UP WITHOUT MAJOR LAG!!!!!!!!
 
Thank you to all who made it happen and turned up.
 
NQ has lots to do but this certainly has given food for thought
 
Honvik
Premier of the Empire

Newbie here after my first 10 hours of play. In my opinion what all can be crafted by the base player is way to much. No need for me to buy it from market if I can build it all myself. I feel for the industrials. 
 
As for a schematics, I felt it was not clear what I needed to buy so ended up buying ones I could already craft. The cost of them was pricey and ate into my starter funds, so no spaceship. I do like them though as not everyone should be an industrialist to balance the economy. 
 
 

Recently, I've been working on a photography art series called "Art of the Metaverse" 🎨 
 
The images were all filmed in-game during 2020 & 2021 and re-imagined with Adobe Lightroom (mobile edition) to enhance and/or colorize the content within the screenshots. Photoshop was not used. The series does not represent how the game looks (now or then). Rather, all pieces in the series are intended to be an artistic interpretation of Dual Universe.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Hope you enjoy these. 
 
Sincerely,
Geo

Really awesome to see some more fleet vs fleet pvp. Thanks for sharing and best of luck to both groups in your next engagement.

Really awesome to see some more fleet vs fleet pvp. Thanks for sharing and best of luck to both groups in your next engagement.

Really awesome to see some more fleet vs fleet pvp. Thanks for sharing and best of luck to both groups in your next engagement.

Really awesome to see some more fleet vs fleet pvp. Thanks for sharing and best of luck to both groups in your next engagement.

With the Athena update we decided to hold 3-4 alien cores, the goal being to test our ability to defend multiple cores.

The harsh reality of alien cores
In response, our enemies have put our cores in lockdown ~fifteen times, sometimes 4 on the same day, forcing us to organize ourselves well to allow everyone to come home from work, eat, take care of their family or simply rest. For having a minimum number of people at the end of each lockdown, just in case.
The ends of lockdown follow one another and still nothing on radars, the regularity required by this feature prevents us from pirating on asteroids or pipes as we did before, but the various changes have not reinforced either the interest of them, the motivation is therefore less and less perceptible and it becomes a chore to come and defend...
So we come to this evening of May 21, 4 cores are in lockdown;
Gamma, Theta, Iota and Zeta
Theta and Gamma are respectively under siege at 18:24 UTC and 18:56 UTC, knowing that it takes 20 minutes to secure a core without enemies, the timing is tight but nothing can tell at this moment that our enemies will take advantage of it...

A well thought out plan
18:36 UTC, Theta in siege but without contacts, when suddenly the announcement falls: "CONTACT ON THETA"
10 to 15 ships on radars, the fight is easily managed but a large part of our fleet is therefore in combat lock for the next 10 minutes, preventing warp, and an attack on Gamma begins to grow in our heads. Taking advantage of the combat lock to loot some of the enemy ships, meanwhile another group forms, alerted by the first attack and start moving in direction of Gamma.
18:58 UTC, Gamma in siege and the dreaded announcement drops: "24 CONTACTS ON GAMMA"
We are all surprised and at the same time excited, @here and @everyone appears on the various discords to call Legion for mobilization, we've been waiting for this moment for a long time, impossible to miss it!
We get together in voice, we regroup in the same place in game and we jump into the fray. Focus announcements follow one another, but more surprisingly, there are not 24 contacts but 50... 70... 100... (we reached 150 contacts on the radar at one point, allies and enemies). Several ships are dummys, but the enemy is really numerous, we will have to be disciplined and use our experience in PVP but also as a group.
The confrontation was complex, the previous patch broke the radars and transponders, impossible to sort the contacts on the radar and even less those who change their name like ours (our entire fleet bore the name "WONDU" on its ships), but LUA scripts save us and maintain some semblance of order in this nameless mess.
The station sees its shield descend little by little, an alt left on it allows us to follow it live, protecting the core is impossible without killing all our enemies, it must get out of the 10 minutes of combat lock to recharge its shield. It ends up being core, we manage to regain control, the core itself is not enough, we have to hold these 10 minutes. Unfortunately the timer is constantly reset, even after taking advantage of the fight; the dead ships then repaired by our enemies, the incessant comings and goings of small fast ships and those bearing our tag, it's almost mission impossible to prevent them from approaching, the fight drags on so long as we almost destroyed the entire enemy fleet.

The Liberation
"30 seconds left" (combat timer on alien core)
Announced in voicecom, still no hostile contact... When suddenly a M core appear, rushing to the alien core.
"15"
Some of our remaining forces are concentrated on him, the burst is violent but it's not enough.
"10"
He is at 80km from the core, almost dead but he still represents the last threat of these long hours of confrontation.
"OHNO OHNO OHNO HE IS SHOOTING [filtered] MY LIFE"
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"IT'S REPAIRED"
Nerd screams, phew of relief, Legion held on but not without difficulty.

A big GG to everyone, even if the game is clearly not the most pleasant for PVP currently, it's events like this that make the game live. Bravo for the organization, the execution and the destruction of the core. We had a lot of trouble keeping our precious plasmas

Some stats about those fight
The opposing forces: Legion vs "Empire, BOO, CVA, Penrose, CYT, IC, CRN, MSI, SB Nation, UA and I think another 1 or 2, just a handful from each, think IC had the most, but mostly new to PvP"
+/- 150 ships involved
~40 Legion members at the end
More than 3 hours of fight
45+ wrecks still close to Gamma this morning
Very very little amount of stasis
Too much ammo fired
Too much kills
Not enough transponder xD
 
 

A lot of pvp-groups disagree with you, and burn egregious amounts of cells scouting for people to shoot.
 
As for there being a lot of people on Alioth... If I had to guess it is more because travel between planets is easy, and resources are relatively close. Near about anything that is for sale can be found on Alioth, so all the buyers go there (in turn attracting even more sellers). Look at EVE's star-map, you'll see a lot of systems with next to no activity (even in high-sec space), but Jita will always be a crowded mess because that's where people have decided to buy and sell their stuff. Alioth is our Jita.
 
On top of that, if someone needs to go to any other planet in the system it is only one jump away. It is functionally the center of the system, from there you can go anywhere if you want.
 
New players also tend to collect there, as they are not limited to just operating in their own sanct/haven tiles and the shuttles allow them to go back and forth without having to learn/manage interplanetary flight.
 
Cell-cost is fine. If you want people to spread out then you need to give them a reason to do so.

Bonjour VoyoOuzala
 
Mon problème venait de mon anti virus au final.
 
J'ai eu un mal fou à débloquer le launcher de la zone de quarantaine, mais ça marche nickel depuis.
 
 

Another interesting idea would be to dedicate each podcast to a particular dev or team. There are quite a few unsung heroes at NQ that really deserve some time in the limelight.

Most of the physical rewards were for kickstarters and founders. With that said a patron supporter pack includes a Dual Universe T-Shirt as well as the  following in-game/digital rewards:
x2 Sanctuary Territory Units x3 Giftable Beta Keys x12 Dual Access Coupons (DAC) The Black Earth Legacy Outfit The Black Earth Arkship Passenger Outfit Personal Pets (Level 1,2, and 3) x2 Resurrection Nodes x1 In-Game Patron Title x10 Character Animation Pack x20 Furniture Set x9 Character Customization Tokents The ability to reserve your name Digital Artbook (PDF Format) Digital Soundtrack x1 Arkship Cryogenic Tube (decorative element) x2 Character Redesign Token x500 Fireworks Forum Title (Patron) Content Creator Pack Your name in the Official Credits For details on the other supporter packs, please consult the wayback machine as the DU website has since been updated and all the old links are invalid: http://dualthegame.com/en/pledge#. If anyone can find the equivalent on the new website, please let me know where and I will update this post.
Also note that any founders who did not purchase a supporter pack will still receive a subset of the above (courtesy gift from NQ for your early support). See this page for details.
 

Hello Noveans,
 
Many thanks to all of you who have been with us from our Kickstarter campaign. We appreciate your support and your patience and would like to update you on the status of the rewards you have been waiting for.

THE PHYSICAL KICKSTARTER REWARDS
 
Production on the Dual Universe figurines and the Collector Box is complete. However, there are two challenges in shipping them:
 
First, due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the price of shipping has risen significantly. It has reached a point where sending the rewards would cost as much as producing them. We had hoped that these price rises would only be temporary, but we now know that they won’t decrease in the short to medium future. We’ve therefore taken the decision to absorb the increased cost and to move forward with shipping the physical rewards. The second challenge has come from our partner responsible for handling the shipping of the physical rewards. They’ve recently informed us that they won’t be able to complete the task. We are therefore searching for a new partner to take receipt of the physical rewards and to start shipping them to you as quickly as possible.     THE VIRTUAL KICKSTARTER REWARDS
 
Both the Kickstarter Founder Packs and the Supporter Packs will be released throughout the milestones of 2022 in Dual Universe. We’ll give you more concrete details on exactly when you can expect each part of those rewards packages to be released in the months ahead.

Your support and patience mean a lot to all of us at Novaquark, and the delivery of your Kickstarter rewards is one of our priorities. We thank you again for your support and will update you with more information as quickly as we can. 
 

Hi Caladhras,
 
Once you login, you can update your account's email address on this page https://www.dualuniverse.game/account/profile. Note that it can sometimes take a little bit for the changes to propagate throughout Novaquark's various services (ie: forums, launcher, etc). If you can confirm that the new address was registered, I would wait an hour or so and if it still does not work, submit a ticket to support via https://support.dualthegame.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. Give them a heads-up if you have 2FA enabled, as that feature was recently implemented and could potentially have unintended effects on this process.

So no-one thought about checking Alioth's Cathedral, heh ?
 
@NQ-Nyota Could we hope for a full disclosure of all messages, found and unfound, please ? We already have a compilation of some, thanks to Juvenius, Koffye, Belorion and Tekhamon, but some of the more... archive-oriented among us could appreciate having the whole ensemble.

The results for our Egg-cellent Adventure are in! 
 
We hope that you had the most eggs-travagant time during our Egg-cellent Adventure event! A huge thank you to everyone for participating and finding the eggs (with the prizes inside) so quickly! 
 
All eggs were deployed very carefully and as it might surprise some of you, they were also deployed individually in some obvious and some not so obvious spots. (The egg placements were not driven by a script, each egg’s location was chosen and placed by hand by someone on the Novaquark team.) How many eggs were deployed? Who got the most eggs and/or points? Read on!
 
In total there were 424 eggs deployed and even though many of you quickly became eggs-pert egg detectives, there were 24 eggs that remained untracked (or is it uncracked?). One of which was NQ-Mojo’s special egg (the only NQ egg that wasn't found), which escaped detection in a snowy and cold destination.
 
Points for eggs were as follows depending on rarity (and egg color): 
 
White (1 point), Green (3 points), Yellow (5 points), Blue (8 points), Red (10 points). Special NQ eggs (15 points).
 
Who found the most eggs? Belorion
Who got the most points? Tekhamon
Who found the most NQ eggs? Tekhamon
Who found the first egg? MrERNST 
Who found the most common eggs? Tied between Belorion and MrERNST 
Who found the last placed egg? Belorion
 
In the common-tiered eggs, there were haiku messages that were found inside. Here are a few examples: 
 
Sunset Alioth
A small Sanctuary sits
Beyond the Haven
 
Elderly Sundown
A small Thoramine hunted
Betrayed by the poor
 
Icy outer space
A coarse, sluggish adjustor
Beyond the ship
 
The special NQ eggs all had unique and personalized message inside. Some were clues, some were favorite sayings and quotes. Did you find a special NQ egg? Please share with us the message inside!

We hope that everyone enjoyed one of the first of its kind Dual Universe event and we thank you for participating. A special shout-out goes to NQ-Rubicon for his eggs-pert egg deployments as well as NQ-Nicodemus for creating the most eggs-travagant egg design/construction. 

Okay, no more egg puns now.
 
Did you find an egg or a different message than the ones above? What did you do with all the loot you got from inside as well as the eggs themselves? We would love to see your screenshots too! 
 
NQ-Nyota's egg:
 

 
NQ-AntiGravitas' egg:


 
NQ-Lasius' egg:
 

 
NQ-Mojo's never found egg:
 

 
NQ-Nicodemus' egg:
 

 
NQ-Rubicon's egg:
 

I would consider duplicating construct names or even changing names good combat tactics. There is honestly no way to regulate this without artificially imposing naming restrictions for everyone and that would be very unpopular. Instead I suggest identifying targets via their construct ID. Perhaps an argument could be made that this ID should be included in the default radar HUD to help new players without sufficient lua experience. Would that be an acceptable compromise?

Noveans,
 
First, we wish to thank everyone for all of your feedback and questions about the topic Shedding Light on a Novaquark Internal Discussion.
 
We wanted to let everyone know that the internal discussions are still in process and currently ongoing with all of the pros and cons mentioned in the thread above. This is a big decision and we want to do what is right for Dual Universe, as well as our current and future players.
 
We have been reading all of your feedback and questions, and they have been extremely useful in our internal discussions. As soon as a decision is made, we will pass that information to you. We appreciate your patience and support as we continue to explore and investigate the best possibilities for Dual Universe. Thank you!
 
In addition, we will soon have information about the Kickstarter Rewards, as well as DACs to share, so please keep watch for that!
 
 

 
New Community Podcast 
 
We know that you have many questions about many Dual Universe topics on your mind. Next week, we will be starting a new podcast where we will be bringing your questions to our Novaquark team for answers. 
 
How does it work? Good question! 
 
If you have a question about Dual Universe (game mechanics, lua, FTUE - these are just some examples of topics to ask about), then head over to our Community Questions Submission Form and enter your question(s) there. Once submitted, just listen to the upcoming podcasts and your question may be included there. We look forward to hearing from you!
 

Personally I am not a huge fan of 2FA but I can appreciate promoting better account security standards. Please try and keep it optional thou, as some of us like to keep our professional lives separate from our gaming career.
 
Also just an fyi, the new authentication page says to input your username but it actually requires the player's email. You might want to fix that to avoid confusion.

Novaquark is releasing Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for added account security for our Dual Universe players. 2FA is simple yet effective: it adds an extra layer of protection to your account. As Dual Universe moves forward, we want to reward those players who choose to opt in. On top of the benefits of added account security, players will also receive the following rewards in-game:


 
Talents: One million free skill points* added to your available pool. Money: Five hundred thousands quanta* of it, to be exact. Fashion: An exclusive skin for your programming boards to show off your commitment to security:
 
*These figures may be revised in the future
 
HOW IT WORKS

You can enable or disable 2FA in the ‘security,’ section of your account at www.dualuniverse.game/account/security at any time. Once you have enabled 2FA, your in-game rewards will be delivered to your account the next time you login.  
When 2FA is enabled, in addition to your password, you will be required to enter a one-time code that is generated by an authenticator app on your phone when attempting to log in.
We hope you’ll enjoy flying through Helios with added peace of mind. Share your thoughts on the implementation of 2FA here!
 

A friend showed me some cool artwork. Turns out it was concept art for an upcoming game. Kind of crazy how some colored sketches evolved into all of this.

Hi Lunaprey, I am glad its working now but I fear that is only temporary. The most likely scenario here is that one of your gameplay files did not update correctly and the post update integrity check failed to catch it. The anti-cheat will continue to kick you whenever that file is indexed due to the mismatch. Sometimes it will happen right away but it could also take 30-45 minutes depending on the location. To fix the problem you can delete your current game folder and then let the launcher redownload everything. Note that NQ support might have a more elegant procedure for this so consider reaching out to them directly via https://support.dualthegame.com/
 
 

@Emma Roid You did the right thing asking via support ticket but I also recommend you send a message to one of the discord moderators (ideally modmail if it still exists). Its quite possible that one of the bots mistakenly gave you a temporary mute. Either way try to avoid discussing it here and take it up with the staff directly.

Hey everyone!
 
We wanted to let everyone know that the internal discussions are still ongoing. We have been reading your feedback (all of it - really!), and we wanted to express our sincere thanks to everyone for joining in the discussion.
 
We have also been gathering your questions (please continue asking them if they haven't already been asked in this thread) and we'll do our best to have some answers for you as soon as we can.
 
Thanks again, we really do appreciate all of the feedback. ❤️