The players rally and defeat the enemy after heavy losses through natural gameplay. Or the players don't* rally and the Thargoids destroy the Bubble through natural gameplay. Either way, I'm hoping Frontier is being truthful when they say this is a winnable or losable war, all depending on organic gameplay.
I think trashing the galaxy would be a collosal mistake, so I'm rather hoping they're not truthful about it being possible. It's not as if Frontier will have taken their hands off the reins anyway - look at it from the other point of view, if the players are stronger than expected are they going to allow all this content to fizzle out fairly quickly?
I've been playing the X games for nearly 20 years!
Hopefully just a bug in the display.
we don't how this indicator is calculated
Thus far not seen anyone on my friends list return and I've been here since beta.
It's a bit soon I'd say.
A good thing to bear in mind is the venn diagram of people that like to go on long range exploration expeditions, and people that like to do AX combat.
This. It is not like FDev wasn't rigging things before into the direction they wanted. It'll be "due to tremendous effort of independent pilots bringing in exobio-scans", that there will be new and improved weapons to better counter the thargoids. Corrosion-resistant armor, Salvation-tech based uber-gauss canons, automatic EMP and lightning attack defenses. They will get more powerful the less we players do the war grind, I'd guess.
That's two different meanings of "game AI" there.
I'm pretty sure that - while there may be new weapons - that's not really what's needed to make a difference in the direction of the war. There's only so dead any individual Thargoid can get, and the existing weapons can already deal with most of them.
It'll have to be tweaked somehow by Frontier. They'll have had a guess to try to place Thargoid strength where they want it but without trying it out in the real game it'll just be a guess at whether they've pitched it right for the direction they hope things will go. If it's slightly off they might just leave it, if it's too far off it'll need balancing, like every feature always does.
It was my assumption that this was what Frontier was talking about, which still is pretty impressive IMO.
This is true, but the current weaponry needs some skill to master. This is not what the majority of players will want to do. The key is to bring everyone in on the war, and for that they'll have to lower the entry barrier. This is something they already admitted to be doing, by the - mostly pathetic - AX weapon buffs. If not enough people grind the war, FDev will make it more attractive by lowering the bar even more. Imagine that you don't have to care about the interceptor dance anymore, just point and shoot... that would bring more people in.
