Reports have been coming in about strange items being found in Drone missions on the Singularity server. Shortly after the January 2019 release, capsuleers testing new features on SiSi have been reporting on social media that, where they expect to see Overseer’s Effects and the like, they are finding such items as Yuria Amulet, Demihuman Kriegmesser, and Kzarka Staff. Typical of new items, when the data extract is queried it returns blanks for any descriptive fields or defining attributes.
Some have speculated that these herald items that allow expansion of the universe through abyssal space pockets. Others think they are a holdover from the holidays and somebody is releasing the code late hoping nobody notices. Most are just screaming that this is just another example of important bugs being ignored and more useless trinkets and animations are being released to distract players. “Atari did exploding asteroids in 1979! Could we please fix lowsec?!”
EVE Onion will continue to monitor this situation and provide you with updates as soon as they are made aware.
UPDATE #1: We have just heard from CCP that the items being dropped are intentional, but weren’t supposed to show up yet. “We are really sorry about the confusion. We were seeding them in the database but they weren’t supposed to show up in space just yet. Have you seen the new asteroid animation?”
When pressed for more information, now that the items were leaked, CCP finally confessed, “Pearl Abyss thought it would be fun to release items in EVE that you can then use in Black Desert Online! They are saying the items will provide bonuses and abilities to make your experience in BDO more exciting and the cost to unlock them will be very reasonable. Have you seen the new asteroid animation?”
A quick google search reveals that these are, indeed, items from BDO (e.g. https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/1877/bdo-guide-complete-guide-for-item-drop-locations). We were unable to get details of what items or how “reasonable” they would be to unlock in BDO. The only quote regarding foreshadowing that EVE Onion was able to obtain was, “Wait ‘til you see what we do with gas clouds.”
UPDATE #2: Turns out there’s a new animation when you mine rocks.
