So Dark Faction.... my timer is scary

[**Sarge**]

Nothing like mining and farming on a peaceful little green planet, with butterflies and beautiful greenery, little birds singing in the back ground and the all of a sudden HELL STARTS RAINING FROM THE SKY AND THE DOOM MUSIC KICKS IN and all my weapons start glowing red at the barrel!!! .... so my question is. What happens when that little red box gets full.... is it game over? can i still keep going? can i reverse the spread once the box gets full cuz it fills 1/4 before you even get through the planet jumping missions.

[Midas]

I was wondering what that box meant. I guess that means I should panic now.

[**Sarge**]

Originally posted by Midas:

I was wondering what that box meant. I guess that means I should panic now.

LOL yea i was watching a stream with the Devs. when he pointed it out. The really scary part is when it spreads to the planets you are on like 40 minutes in to the game

[Amrak]

Yes you can reduce the spread by attacking the towers on infected planets. The planets will slowly revert back to normal. You can even beat the game.
Eleon explained this in the live stream today with Spanj.

[**Sarge**]

Originally posted by Amrak:

Yes you can reduce the spread by attacking the towers on infected planets. The planets will slowly revert back to normal. You can even beat the game.
Eleon explained this in the live stream today with Spanj.

dang i had to leave out of the stream early ... i had to work. thanks for that info. i will check out the VOD.

[Kel'Ithra]

Right so that's the damn red box that I was swearing the orange bit was creeping. My first thought seeing was... "♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game has a timer" fml. Kept looking at it wondering if it was moving or not.. the question is is that timer, for the entire known galaxy, or if it's just for the next planet to be infected.

[Amrak]

Originally posted by Kel'Ithra:

Right so that's the damn red box that I was swearing the orange bit was creeping. My first thought seeing was... "♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game has a timer" fml. Kept looking at it wondering if it was moving or not.. the question is is that timer, for the entire known galaxy, or if it's just for the next planet to be infected.

It is a timer for the galaxy.

[**Sarge**]

Originally posted by Kel'Ithra:

Right so that's the damn red box that I was swearing the orange bit was creeping. My first thought seeing was... "♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game has a timer" fml. Kept looking at it wondering if it was moving or not.. the question is is that timer, for the entire known galaxy, or if it's just for the next planet to be infected.

yea the planet infestation seems to be RNG as far as i can tell. but in the end..... its all RED

[Kel'Ithra]

oh well.. fml even more I guess. Not sure how I feel about that timer now considering all the prepping you need to do just to be able to kill a tower.

[**Sarge**]

Originally posted by Kel'Ithra:

oh well.. fml even more I guess.

i dont move very fast so i go overwhelmed and my ship blew up. it seems like there is some effect on the generators once you are in the red zone of any planet. my power kept spiking and eventually destroyed my Gens and then there was a big boom and that was all folks. The box was a little over half. i just could not get away

[Kel'Ithra]

Think you need to fully convert your ship to the new material to survive.... or have those special research projects complete, since noticed they have ship equipment that seems designed to shield against it. And the weapon systems, but means going to infested planets to harvest the materials.

The timer might need separate options to adjust it. Just know playing as one does in the Base game doesn't work, probably why they made the capital ship the way it is.

[thegazbeard]

Originally posted by Kel'Ithra:

Think you need to fully convert your ship to the new material to survive.... or have those special research projects complete, since noticed they have ship equipment that seems designed to shield against it. And the weapon systems, but means going to infested planets to harvest the materials.

The timer might need separate options to adjust it. Just know playing as one does in the Base game doesn't work, probably why they made the capital ship the way it is.

I'm not at all a fan of that timer - survival is about slow and steady and minimise risk. Adding a pressure timer turns it into a Battle Royale game between the Dark Faction and the player - it ruins the pace of Empyrion in my opinion.

[ShadowAngel]

Anyone found console command to turn it off yet? Im not playing with a timer.

[stecph]

Apart boycotting Funcom. That timer thing would have been a game breaker for me.

[Latol]

cant play the new content without being forced to deal with it within a time limit. i was wondering wtf that red box was.

[spam]

I think it is not a timer, but is an indicator of how much of the Galaxy has been taken over. My indicator has shown pretty much red all around except for a tiny sliver for a while. However, I won't be clearing all the pillars; endlessly grinding the same few POIs over and over is not my idea of fun. Just going to do a few more systems and call it done.