Abyssal Deadspace
Abyssal Deadspace is an area of isolated space. It was added to the game in the Into The Abyss expansion that went live on May 29th 2018.
It is accessible only with the use of filaments and even then only limited pockets are accessible for a limited time. The abyssal deadspace is filled with dangerous localized space effects and any ship that ventures away from the stable pocket or stays in for too long will be destroyed by these effects.
Site Basics
A new type of space can be accessed using filaments obtained from data sites and from abyssal deadspace. Five tiers of increasing difficulty exists. The Abyss is limited to a single Tech I, Tech II, Navy Faction or Pirate Faction cruiser and is accessed by activating a filament in space. Activation can be anywhere in space, but it needs to be out of range of Gates, Stations and mobile depots by 100 km. When activated, a combat-probable beacon is created at your entry location that allows others to await your return from the pocket.
An Abyssal Deadspace instance is composed of three pockets. Each pocket must be cleared of enemies for a gate to open to the next pocket. In addition to Triglavians, you may find rogue drones under their command. Drifters (without doomsday and rarely with overshield) may appear as well, accompanied by sleeper drones, engaged in combat with the Triglavians. However, no one will help you. You must fight your way out.
Within the Abyss, in each pocket is a structure called the "Triglavian Bioadaptive Cache" which has a scant 300 hit points and contains all the loot for that pocket.
The deadspace instance is stable for only 20 minutes. If you are still in the pocket after 20 minutes your ship and your pod will be immediately destroyed. Essentially, you must clear the three pockets and exit with the allocated time, or you will lose both your ship and your pod. The third pocket gate returns you to the location in space you activated the filament from.
Further site restrictions: you can not be warped to within the Abyss, nor can you warp out of it. You can not cloak nor deploy a mobile depot. There is no local. Core Probes and Combat probes launched will be removed from space shortly after launching and cannot be recovered. The Directional Scanner will not work. The map does not work. At the present moment, if a player is in Abyssal Deadspace when server downtime occurs, the player will still return to the Abyssal system, however the complex will have de-spawned and the player will be stuck in empty void space: the only way out is to self destruct.
Quick recap:
- There are 5 tiers of Abyssal Deadspace combat sites.
- There are 5 different types of weather effects in the sites, each with their own site bonus and weakness.
- The NPCs you face inside the Abyssal Deadspace are random.
- Once you enter an Abyssal Deadspace, a 20 minute timer begins. If the site is not completed within that timelimit, you lose your ship and pod.
- Loot are only found in the Triglavian Bioadaptive Cache, not on NPCs.
Pocket boundary
Each pocket is a 150 km diamater sphere. Flying out of the sphere will result in incrementally increasing damage to your ship leading to its destruction.
| Unstable Abyssal Depths |
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| Roughly 10km from the boundary a red disk appears to mark the boundary. Beyond this point area of effect damage from Unstable Abyssal Depths (47465) increases with each second. It is omni damage and increases in a linear fashion until you either die, move out the boundary or the site timer runs out and you perish anyways. To put the damage to the test I sat in an Onyx like so:
[Onyx, Onyx - Shield AB RLML X-L SB Regen -SISI -2] Near the end of time, I could not go on further because TiDi was kicking in and I wasn't sure when I would be registered as "Dead" so I bailed. With these high resists in a Calm Plasma Firestorm site, I registered in excess of 4200 DPS before I was able to bail (damage ticks for 630 DMG for awhile, then 631, then 632, seemed to slow down after awhile). I calculated this resistance by the following: [Damage Tick] / ((EM Shield DMG Resonance + TH Shield DMG Resonance + KN Shield DMG Resonance + EX Shield DMG Resonance)/(4 shield types, averaging out each) = Approximate Damage Per Tick 630 / (( .19 + .11 + .11 + .19)/4) = 4200 I don't know what penalties I rolled but I didn't notice any towards capacitor capacity or shield capacity. I also went in with a flat resistance profile Maller and confirmed it's omnidamage, then went in with a ... Augoror Navy Issue with a bucketload of buffer and got some graphs, of which are shown below. |
Enviromental Effects
Abyssal deadspace has several enviromental effects that will all apply to both the player ship and to the NPC ships. These effects will neutralize unprepared ships but they can also be taken advantage of. All effects applied to your ship will be shown in same location as EWAR effects. Hoover your mouse over the icon to see what effect is applied to your ship.
Weather Effects
Each Abyssal Deadspace instance will have a weather effect that spans over all three pockets of the instance. Five types of environmental weather effects exist affecting both player and NPCs. The type is identified on the info of the filament and can be countered if desired by fitting choices. The name of the filament itself gives clues as to what tier and difficulty it is. A Raging Exotic Filament means that it is a Class 4 site with Exotic Particle Storm effect. A Fierce Dark Filament is a Class 3 site with Dark Matter Field effect.
The bonus modifier of the weather is always 50% but the strength of the penalty varies by the level of the instance.
| Level | Filament Name | Filament Appearance | Penalty Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Calm |  |
-30% |
| 2 | Agitated |  |
-30% |
| 3 | Fierce |  |
-30% |
| 4 | Raging |  |
-50% |
| 5 | Chaotic |  |
-70% |
The level of the filament can also be identified by the number of glowing stripes on the icon.
The five Abyss-wide environmental effects are outlined in this table below:
| Weather Type | Penalty Type (strength defined by level above) | Bonus Provided |
|---|---|---|
| Electrical storm |  Penalty to EM Resist |
 Bonus to Capacitor Recharge Time
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| Dark matter field |  Penalty to Turret Optimal and Falloff Range |
 Bonus to maximum velocity (+50%)
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| Exotic particle storm |  Penalty to Kinetic Resist |
 Bonus to Scan Resolution (+50%)
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| Plasma firestorm |  Penalty to Thermal Resist |
 Bonus to Armor HP (+50%)
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| Gamma-ray afterglow |  Penalty to Explosive Resist |
 Bonus to Shield HP (+50%)
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When selecting ship you must consider the weather effect of the instance you are entering. For example using a turret ship in dark matter field (range penalty) is very bad idea as you would likely not be able to hit anything.
The weather bonuses and penalties apply to all entities within the abyssal deadspace. This includes your ship, rats, missiles and drones.
As the resist penalty will apply to the rats too you should pick your damage type to match the resist weakness. How negative resist bonus is applied to a ship may seem confusing. The easiest way to think of it is that a -50% resist penalty means the ship will take 50% more damage. For more in depth explanation see negative resists on tanking page.
Localized Effects
The pockets will also contain clouds and Triglavian towers that will apply effects to player and NPC ships in their immediate vicinity.
Localized Clouds:
- Filament Cloud (orange): Penalty to Shield Booster capacitor usage (+50%), penalty to ancillary shield booster charge usage (+100%). If you have active shield tank you must avoid entering these.
- Bioluminescence Cloud (light blue): +300% Signature Radius (4.0x signature radius multipler). Entering this cloud will make your ship easier target to hit but it will also make all rats easier to hit.
Triglavian Towers:
- Deviant Automata Suppressor: Damages all missiles and drones within it area of effect. The larger does about the same damage to drones as a single medium smartbomb.
- Small Deviant Suppressor will attack all drones, misisles and rogue drone frigates within 15 KM
- Medium Deviant Suppressor will attack all drones, missiles, and rogue drone frigates within 40 KM
- Multibody Tracking Pylon: +60% or +80% tracking to all ships in its are of effect.
Running Abyssal Sites
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WARNING: Any ship and capsule should be considered lost the moment a player enters Abyssal Deadspace. The atmosphere is rather unforgiving to inexperienced, ill-equipped or unfamiliar pilots. If your ship is lost inside the site, you will loose your capsule with implants (if equipped) as well. Do not run Abyssal Deadspace complexes with expensive implants installed or with excessively expensive ship setups which cannot be readily replaced. |
Rat info
The Abyssal Deadspace contains variety of different kind of rats. Each rat will behave differently and taking the right approach in different situations is important.
Rogue Drones
Rogue Drones are perhaps the most common enemy type encountered in Abyssal Deadspace. The sub battleship drones deal single damage type EWAR based on their name. The battlecruiser sized rogue drones are notable for having very high damage combined with very short range and incredible tracking, they will easily be able to track and hit medium drones that are attacking them. If you can keep them at over 10 km from your ship they will deal very little damage.
It is best to start out by killing EWAR ships that pose threat to your ship, meaning webbers, tracking and missile disruptors if your ship uses those weapons and target painters if the pocket has battleship. You should also keep eyes on the logistic drones. If you can't kill other frigates before repairs land you will need to kill the logistic drones first. After the dangerous EWAR and logistic drones are dead you can focus on the damage dealers in your preferred order.
The rogue drone frigates are suspectible to automata supressors. Multibody tracking pylons and bioluminescent clouds will also help greatly when trying to hit small frigate swarms.
Some of the Rogue Drone battleships have defensive webs making it difficult to get into sub 10 km orbit.
Rogue Drone name identification:
- Spark - EM damage.
- Ember - thermal damage.
- Strike - kinetic damage.
- Blast - explosive damage.
- Snarecaster - webbing.
- Fogcaster - turret and missile disruption.
- Gazedimmer - sensor dampening.
- Spotlighter - target painting.
- Fieldweaver - remote shield logi.
- Plateweaver - remote armor logi.
Drifters, sleeper drones and seekers
Drifters, sleeper drones and seekers are sometimes encountered together but they can appear on their own too. They all deal omni-damage types and have flat omni-resist profiles.
Drifter ships most often start with damaged shields and armor. The battleship deals heavy damage but a cruiser can get under its guns to avoid taking hits. The drifter cruisers all use some form of EWAR in addition to dealing damage.
Drifter cruiser names specifics:
- Entanglement - webs.
- Nullwarp - warp scramblers.
- Nullcharge - energy neutralizers.
Seeker names specifics:
- Lancer - Generic Damage Dealer.
- Entangler - webs.
- Spearfisher - warp scramblers.
- Illuminator - target painting.
- Dissipator - Energy Neutralizers.
- Obfuscator - sensor dampening.
- Confuser - turret and missile disruption.
Finally the sleeper drones. Every sleeper drone is equipped with remote repairers so it is best to kill smaller ships first as they die before repairs land. In addition to dps they will also use webs and energy neutralizer.
Sleeper drone frigate names specifics:
- Escort - Generic Damage Dealer.
- Aegis - Higher Damage Dealer.
- Warden - webs.
- Firewatcher - Energy Neutralizers.
- Preserver - Strong Remote Repairs
Sleeper drone Cruisers:
- Watchman - Generic Damage Dealer.
- Upholder - webs.
- Sentinel - Energy Neutralizers.
Sleeper drone Battleship:
- Deepwatcher - target painting
Triglavian Ships
Triglavian ships can appear in any pocket and regardless of size will have remote armor repair capability along side their unique Entropic Desintegrator weapon system. Their weapons deal Explosive and Thermal damage, and their dps can be very high. They will also use drones as supplemental weapon system.
Triglavian Frigate names:
- Damavik
Triglavian cruiser names:
- Vedmak
Triglavian battleship Names:
- Leshak
Triglavian ship name specifics:
- Vila - Drone Swarm - Can be combined with any of the following.
- Starving -Energy Neutralizers.
- Striking - Generic Damage Dealer.
- Harrowing - Target Painting.
- Anchoring - Warp Scrambling.
- Renewing - Strong Remote Repairs.
- Blinding - Sensor Dampening.
- Ghosting - Tracking and Missile Guidance Disruptors.
Best damage to deal
The Abyssal Deadspace resist penalties apply to both the player ship and to the rats inside Abyssal Deadspace. Due to how resist penalties are calculated this means that damage matching with the penalized resist will effectively receive damage bonus equal to the resist penalty (smaller damage increase if the target has too low resist). So in general you should select your damage to match the weather.
But sometimes the natural resist hole of the rat is equal or even greater than the resist hole caused by the weather.
- The Triglavian rats have resists from weakest to strongest: Ex, Kin, Th, EM
- In level 1-3 electric storm pockets the weather induced resist hole is equal to explosive resist hole. In all other pockets the weather induced weakness is greater.
- Drifter ships, seeker drones and sleepers have uniform resists.
- The rogue drone ships have wildy varying resists. Generally the weather induced weakness is the greatest resist hole to hit. Hitting natural resist hole of the battleship drone deals approximately 10%-20% more damage than not hitting any weakness. Rogue drone battleship weaknesses are:
- Benthic Abyssal Overmind: EM/Ex
- Hadal Abyssal Overmind : EM
- Bathyic Abyssal Overmind: Ex/EM
- Twilit Abyssal Overmind: Kin/Ex (Kinetic is very large weakness. Bigger than from level 1-3 weather)
- Photic Abyssal Overmind: EM (Very small weakness)
Abyssal Deadspace from the outside
When you enter the Abyssal Deadspace, you will be removed from local and from directional scanner. You cannot see who is in the system outside the deadspace, and they cannot see who is inside or in what ship. But that does not mean you are safe. Once the filament has been used, a rift appears that can be combat scanned by anyone in the system and can be warped to. It also appears on the d-scan of anyone who hasn't got it filtered out. This makes it easy for people to camp the exit and shoot whoever comes out.
This means that you have to consider where you use the filament, specially in low security and null security space. But even in high-security space you are not safe. Anyone who enters a Tier 4 or 5 Abyssal Deadspace will be flagged as suspects once they leave the site, and anyone are free to shoot them. Tier 1 to 3 does not trigger the suspect timer.
Rewards
The Abyssal Deadspace is dangerous but the rewards can make it worth for those who can complete the pockets. The abyssal space is the only source for many valuable items and materials, which are found in the Triglavian Cache:
- Mutaplasmids that can be used to change the stats of certain modules.
- What Mutaplasmid will drop depends on the Filament TYPE used,
- Gamma Filaments will drop Shield related Mutaplasmids.
- Dark Matter will drop tackle Mutaplasmids.
- Plasma Firestorm will drop Armor related Mutaplasmids.
- What Mutaplasmid will drop depends on the Filament TYPE used,
- Triglavian ship blueprint copies.
- Entropic disintegrators blueprint copies. Weapons only usable by the Triglavian ships.
- Blueprint copies of ammunition for Entropic Disintegrators.
- Blueprint copies of Entropic Radiation Sinks. The weapon upgrade module for Entropic disintegrators.
- Crystalline Isogen-10. Material needed for manufacturing of Triglavian ships, Entropic disintegrators, and Entropic disintegrators Ammunition.
- Zero-Point Condensate. Material needed for manufacturing of Triglavian ships, Entropic disintegrators, and Entropic disintegrators Ammunition..
- Meta alternatives to Radiation Sinks and Entropic disintegrators
- Blue loot that can be sold to NPCs for ISK.
- Triglavian Survey Database
- You can also find additional filaments in Abyssal Deadspace allowing you to go in again to acquire more items.
- This is how higher tier filaments are acquired.
Note: The rewards are only found in the Triglavian Cache, not on NPCs.
