Developer blog. Entry 121. - “Storm season”
Pilots! We continue to share the latest features that will appear on the game servers in the upcoming updates. Among them are new modes, events, and of course, ships!
The “UMC Archives: Storm season” event
Soon, the next event “UMC Archives: Storm season” will become available to all pilots. It will include a special battle pass, consisting of only one stage and lasting approximately one month. The event itself will run in parallel with the main battle pass “Tales of the ancients” and will end in the beginning of September.
All pilots who complete the new “UMC Archives: Storm season” event will be able to get a new Jericho rank 16 ECM interceptor “Cinquedea”, as well as the modules and weapons of this ship. And those who buy pass packs will get additional bundles of resources, seed-chips and ammunition. You will be able to find them in most of the battle pass levels. We will share more details about the contents of the levels with you during the start of the event. The offer is limited in time and will be available until September 18.
New ship “Cinquedea”
At the middle of August, all pilots will have access to the new Jericho ECM interceptor “Cinquedea”.
“Cinquedea” is a Sentinels’ ECM interceptor created by implementing various shipbuilding technologies. The Sentinels used their enormous computing power to optimize the adaptation of these technologies, resulting in a highly effective machine.
Jericho has always strived to uphold tradition, but in the end, the faction valued effectiveness above all else, and therefore was never afraid to apply innovation in shipbuilding. The Techs were able to convey this idea to the Sentinels. They were “inspired” (if this word can even be applied to the AI) by several ships at once. Firstly, “Zhen”, which already had simple but effective AI nodes and therefore had the software ready to be utilized by the Sentinels. Secondly, the appearance of the “Geyser” weapon and the Imperial ship “Loki” became a foundation for the exterior design of the new ship, later named “Cinquedea”. And lastly, the Sentinels were able to make use of the technology from “Maller” to create the ship’s energy core. Thus, the ship turned out to be a fusion of some of the latest developments in shipbuilding, and the Sentinels had no difficulty with the computing power needed to optimize the equipment for the new ship.
Despite the fact that the Sentinels did not actively advertise their ship or talked about its capabilities in public, the number of buyers for the “Cinquedea” was high. The UMC plans to soon offer its mercenaries the opportunity to order the ship for themselves.