Yeh, I saw this on 15.00. But I gave up trying to master it as it's just so much easier to use the L6. Every time I scored a one shot with the exe, it was at long range, so tough to determine why.
I lost 3 scorpions to the scouts, and had to sneak past the settlement to avoid a stationary scout perhaps half a dozen times.In my scarab, scouts come and go; I can take as long as I like (and did when recording the many hours of video for the YT guide I did). On this one time I used the Scorpion, they arrived, hung about and then attacked as soon as I got in it and started driving.
Right now, I've got about 30 data points and only one where they did thisI'm going with my theory for now. It's just safer to use the scarab. I may be wrong but until I see the same thing happen in my scarab I can't see any reason to use the scorpion.
I just think scouts ignore the scarab. I don't know why. My only working theory is the scorpion kicks out enough heat that they can target it and the scarab doesn't. Or maybe that it's a "combat" variant and they see it as a threat. I suspect it's the first.
Should be an easy way to test, start turning off modules in the scorp. What’s the standing heat in the scarab?
Scarab 19-20
Having a heat of 20 and below was the magic number to have their ships ignore you, so you may be on to something.
At this point, I'm testing if disabling shields gives you silent running versus scouts. If it does, you could still use them, but you'd need to be mindful of what's overhead.
The tankiness of the scorpion is its selling point here so having to turn off shields would immediately hand it to the scarab anyway.
It also has more traction on rough terrain. I enjoy driving both, but for different reasons. Also as the "new" SRV, it should be the one receiving preferential treatment, should any be given.
My own experience with the Scorpion - not fighting/killing any Revenants - is that Scouts spawning randomly around you as per general Thargoid controlled mechanics will not attack unless they just happen to be spawned close enough to notice the SRV. Not sure about exact distance though.
Yeh the drop off ones don't agro nor do the ones randomly dropping in (they just drop and leave immediately). These two were really low, both times they attacked my scorpion. And they hang around as well. They don't move. I think there's something else going on with these.
Consistent with what I was getting. The problems were always preceded by a Scout hanging stationary almost on top of the parked scorpion ~500m+ from the settlement.
What I'm starting to think is it's simply RNG whether they drop or not, following any revenant kill. I've killed as many as one before it dropped and 5/6 before it dropped. On the latter, I waited quite some time between kills, too.
Yes, unfortunately, if not worse due to bullet travel. My G5 AR-50 didn't do appreciable damage within an extended magazine in a test I just ran.
Would happily take a new EDO weapon useful for murdering thargoids tho...
I think the Aphelion was originally meant to be a rail gun. Just look at the barrel - split design, has notches that could be magnets running down the length, etc. The Aphelion's barrel doesn't resemble the carbine or pistol version at all. It looks very similar to the rail gun that is in the EDRPG.Would happily take a new EDO weapon useful for murdering thargoids tho...
Rail gun. Yes, I know. I'm always asking for the rail gun
