Moin!
Spoiler warning ahead, I'm talking about end of main story line & beyond content here.
So, after defeating the wormhole guardian yesternight... with the 'help' of some pirate attacks even, mind you ;) ... one of those 'surprise' events triggered as it may have been announced in the latest patch notes.
To make sure we are talking about the same thing:
I play Single Player atm.
Shortly after killing the boss and still salvaging away my own business suddenly a chat message appeared, that a lot of Xsotans are appearing/spawning everywhere.
And did they spawn, ho boi!
I suddenly was surrounded by some 20+ ships and desperately tried to fight them.
I saw a new 'Emissary' type ship, focused that down first, fearing something like a summoner in disguise.
Unfortunately the ships started to overwhelm my shields rather quickly. (Hint: if nerfing the manoeverability, which I would second btw., we will all die there immediatly.)
I tried to run, no harm done. Ran before. Managed to jump a few sectors away and deemed me safe...
But I wasn't, because here another 20+ ships already agressive awaited me and opened fire.
I was lucky again, there was a wormhole leading to a sector close to the 'edge' inside the barrier.. and I was able to catch that. Fell back into my chair relieved...
... and effing died the moment I left the wormhole. :(
You may guess it: another 20+ Xsotan armed and trigger happy already waited there for me.
But hey, who am I to easily give up. Reconstructed my trusty 64K omicron Borg-Cube, repaired the hull to full with my last Avorion stock left and decided to go in there and at least salvage my cargo bay's contents.
Bad idea.
The Xsotans where still there and in every sector inside the barrier. 20+ ships, every time, and not the simple one-shot-Minions, mind you.
Long story short:
I died again.
Lost the ship, the before gathered cargo from the boss fight,
and am now stuck with a demolished 80% hull reconstructed ship and no Avorion nor any chance to get any anytime again.
Any ideas? I can't repair the ship, because I have no Avorion.
But I can't get no more, because insanly massive fleets of Xsotans are guarding every(!) sector which could contain any Avorion, making it impossible to get any. (Please do spare me comments the like of: just build a much much bigger ship from cheaper stuff. Been there, sacrified it, didn't even got close to Avorion. :( )
I do not think, that this is the intended outcome of this 'event'... or is it?
Every inside-Barrier sector flooded?
Gathering the needed material to fight the present Xsotan force made impossible (at least for my current state) by said Xsotan force?
Has anyone else encountered this or tried to fight through the hordes themselves since the latest update?
Thank you for any encouraging feedback.