Although details on the new Caldari-Minmatar pirate faction are sparse, we have secured details on yet another potential faction-specific overheat bonus. As a quick recap, the following overheating bonuses and benefits have been leaked thus far:
- Overheating ECM doubles strength but reduces range by 50%
- Overheating drones will increase damage, speed, and tracking, but will start a countdown timer. At the timer’s expiration, the drone will explode (even if returned to drone bay), doing the same amount of damage as the drone received since being launched.
- Overheating missile and projectile weapon systems at the same time will double the overheat bonus of those weapon systems.
We also believe Cal-Min ships and faction modules will have an additional overheat benefit: If a module sustains 69% damage, Durable Upgrade Cohesion Thermal tape may be used to “repair” the module. Modules repaired with DUCT tape continue to function indefinitely while overheated but cause heat damage to adjacent modules at twice the normal rate. Each module repaired in this manner has a 5% chance of causing the host ship to detonate, causing damage to the surrounding environment and ships. Modules repaired with DUCT tape cannot have damage repaired or be unfit until Module Optimizing Nano-Engineering Ylem fluid is applied.
Additional details on DUCT tape and MONEY fluid are pending, but a partial list of new reaction formulas seem to suggest that PLEX are part of the materials manifest.
More to come, and thanks to our embedded assets for the dank leaks!
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