In EVE Online apocalyptic events are currently happening. Players are being attacked by the NPC race “Drifter.” Tools are going crazy: No one expected PvE content like this. Some find it great – but Space Tyrant The Mittani curses: “I could have just stayed with WoW.”
These are the Drifters: In fact, the Drifters are a more or less harmless NPC race in EVE Online. As PC Gamer reports, players have long been playing pranks on the aliens.
Because the Drifters attack when provoked and then chase players.
So players baited smaller fleets of Drifters by attacking them, then flew to safety and lured the Drifters into a trap. The smaller groups weren’t really dangerous.
But that suddenly changed.
This is how the invasion of the NPCs started: Since Wednesday, huge fleets of Drifters have been appearing in Null-Sec and attacking the strongest alliances there. They destroy important structures and hunt space fleets.
The Drifters are ruthless and violate the rules of EVE Online. They even destroy the escape capsules of the pilots.
Such an event has never even remotely occurred in EVE Online before.
Big alliances were completely confused
This is how the alliances react: PC Gamer mainly spoke with the TEST alliance and there with one of the leaders. He has been on his feet since the beginning of the invasion to fight back the Drifters and coordinate the defense. But that proves to be incredibly difficult because no one is prepared for the attack.
When the attack began, player tools only reported gibberish because they knew someone was attacking, but the tools are not designed to report “NPC attacks,” as that does not happen.
“BOTmadmin: via notifybot Structure attacked: unknown 1029248651499 [Pharolux Cyno Beacon 94.60/100.00/100.00][B0RT] in BY-MSY Esoteria by [ ](Vigilant Tyrannos) Artemis Tyrannos @ 2019-06-26T18:43:00Z [a minute ago]”
Message from an overwhelmed bot that a player programmed as an alarm system
Afterwards, there was a belief that it was sabotage by other players who had managed to manipulate the Drifters. They even asked CCP if this could be a crazy bug, but they remained silent. Ultimately, however, it became clear: there is an event behind this.
The “TEST” guy Darrah says: “Don’t get me wrong, it takes real guts to pull off such a mechanic. I admire that – but man, it is really stressful.” He has hardly slept since it started.
That’s why I left WoW
Particularly upset is the leader of the empire, “The Mittani”. He says they were just in a large war involving tens of thousands of real players. Now they have to stop for some “WoW raid-like content.”
However, they have already figured out how the AI of the Drifters works and successfully defended against them.
However, Mittani seems dissatisfied; he wants to do PvP – that’s why he left WoW and switched to EVE.
Drifters apparently want to take over all of EVE Online
This is what CCP says: CCP says they asked the Drifters for a comment, but they did not respond. They only received a picture. It shows that all areas of the major alliances will soon belong to the Drifters.
It is said: Apocalypse Now in EVE Online.
While the war means stress for the great warlords, many others are enjoying the change.
Note: The title image of the article comes from PC Gamer.
