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Let's talk a little bit about Rock Cracker [and the different versions of the breaker stations in the PTU].

TL;DRThree versions of the breaker stations are in the PTU: empty ones for later missions, contested ones where groups fight over a big rock, and exclusive PvE ones that must be earned, with tuning to continue.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

Folks who are in PTU are seeing that at this moment there are three different versions of these breaker stations. There's ones that don't currently have a rock in them, and those will be for a variety of sandbox missions that actually come online about two weeks after 4.7 releases. So 4.7 will release hopefully towards the end of this month. And then about two weeks later, there'll be another content drop that releases an entirely new suite of mission content that will utilize these third versions of breaker stations. I realize I'm starting on three. Then there are two versions of the breaker stations that have these giant, enormous rocks in the center. And one is more like a contested zone kind of thing, like players have seen with Line of Mind and Stormbreaker and stuff. It is, you get the mission and everybody has these locations. They're on your star maps. You go and it's...

SamLead Level Designer

The contested ones aren't on your star maps. No. So the way they work is that we have multiple instances, basically. Not instances in...

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

Yeah, you can't use that word yet.

SamLead Level Designer

Not instances in actual instancing, but a version of a mission that's at a location. And so basically five groups of players can go to each one at a time. And we have multiple locations that they can go to. And the expectation is that you should be taken to one where someone else is and you should fight for the stuff, basically.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

That's a bit more chaos in those ones, a bit more of that PvP.

SamLead Level Designer

It's for people who want to do PvP and who don't want to spend the high price of entry for the exclusive ones.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

And that brings us to the third one, which are these exclusive ones. These ones are also not available on the star map. You have to earn the right to purchase the locations to these versions of the breaker stations. And those allow for only the people you share them with to have it. So a true PvE experience at these places. So it's a neat evolution of what we were doing last year and learning the lessons we learned last year and always trying something new and stuff like that. So these three different versions of these breaker stations that are coming in 4.7 are pretty exciting. With ASD, with Onyx facilities, we dropped roughly 600 of them across planets. Always trying different things to see how to give something for everybody.

SamLead Level Designer

Yeah, we basically wanted to make sure that people who only want PvE should be able to get that. And people who want to fight for stuff can fight for stuff if they so desire.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

Now, the flip side of that is that there won't always be a PvE version available. Not always, but we've placed a decent amount of them. And those are the kind of things we'll continue to tune throughout PTU and stuff like that. And it will continue to evolve as the game goes on. The rewards also got better.

SamLead Level Designer

I improved them today. Not specifically. Go find it.

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Published on this date.12 Mar 2026