Specia1 K
State War Academy
Caldari State
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Posted - 2014.11.18 10:54:25 -
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Did one of these in Hisec yesterday, using my Astero. Was doing relic/data sites, and realized this one was different during the probing. Was difficult to scan down, 3+3 skills and +2 implant. I had to ball all of my probes to get the 100%. Nice.
Note: I had not read anything about these beforehand, so this was all new.
The initial warp-in had already been hacked, so just proceeded into the gate. Anticipation...
There were three frigate wrecks here, two Herons and an Astero. Damn, what did I get myself into? I can see the gas clouds, and carefully try and avoid them and make my way to the first hack. Take some enviro damage, but tank with sm. repper is working. I have 2 faction nanos, so resists are good.
Hack is difficult, and there are new elements that I don't recognize or understand. But I manage to solve the core without fail, and get 100 RAM. Ok, off to the next one. Another ship arrives, and the Heron heads off to one of the other hacks.
Fail that hack miserably, and take damage. What are these things? Try again, and whatever I did (or the Heron) now caused a shield bubble around one of the other cans. wtf? I am confused, but really enjoying myself! The unknown is absolutely thrilling.
Ok, finally finish the hack and...some sleeper components. Now there are only the can that the heron is doing, and the one in the bubble. I can see the shield generator, so I assume that I have to destroy it. So I start off to close range to the shield... BLAM!
Now sitting in my pod, my Astero is wrecked. ROFL at this point! I don't even know what killed me.
So I BM my wreck, and warp off and go and get my other Astero and return. Warp to BM puts me back at the entrance gate. I salvage my wreck first, drop it in station, and then head back to the shield gen. Deploy my drones and attack the shield. Cannot drop the shield, it is holding at about 60%. Just don't have enough dps. An incursus enters, and I mmsg him in local to attack the shield. Together we take it down in about 2 minutes.
I head for the final hack, and after a couple of failures manage to solve the core. I got the 3-run bpc for the sebo, so I'm okay with the loot. I also recovered the expensive mods from my wrecked Astero, so in all cost me a hull.
Impressions: This was friggin awesome! Exactly why I got into exploring in the first place! The unknown, the risk (and failure) and the reward. Absolutely made my day:)
Thanks ccp. Please keep as many random elements to these as you can, that's what exploring truly is about.
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