This one should be over within minutes...
Titan Thor is vulnerable!
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You don't need the weapon stabiliser - nanite is ignored as experimental
Do you abandon a vent/core cycle if attacked or soak up damage and repair
good news is... i finally made it to the CORE ( rocks ) and also got hits on the TITAN !!! ( my 1st ever run , in case anyone didn't read my previous posts in this thread )
bad news is .... ugh.... i only managed to do----wait for it ----a pathetic 1.8mil damage before Thor literally blew up ( shutdown ) in front of me on my final run just now.
./sigh , so close i was . But hey at least i made it into 'rocks' finally. ( only been ingame EliteD for 3 months , so yeah i'm still newbie )
Better to ask how it feels without a shield with a single module amp ...
thats actually pretty impressive. good job! o7
thanks CMDR ... Although , i'm having serious gamer-regret at the moment because: If i had just moved my Fleet Carrier back into the nearby system last nite , i would've saved myself 45minutes today ( since for some odd midlly inconvenient reason these servers can't handle "too many" FC jumps at once? ) and therefore would've had time for another couple runs at 'Thor' for at least the 2mil damage threshold. ( since i was only like 300k damage short before it blew up )
But thems tha breaks in EliteD . One small mistake and it's over. At least i was able to grab 1 sorta cool screenshot here.....
.... and hopefully i can go back into that 'zone' again later to watch the boomboom ? i also heard you can collect materials from the Titan somehow too?
i kinda abandoned the practice of trying to find a nearby spot for my carrier everytime a titan gets bullied. theres always someone from the community with open carrier around so mostly i just deploy something with fuel scoop and use them as a temporary base. 100% you will find some axi, pdes, hive or some other squadrons carrier open for service near any active titan. or if you would like i can dm you an inv to a discord that im part of where we coordinate a bit...
~24 hours from the last shot til the big badaboom
there are mats on live(/melting) titan. with the xeno pulse wave you can detect and harvest them (laser is enough, best with abrasion blaster). i think some are used somewhere, but they also do sell pretty well at the stations. you can also rescue kidnapped people from the titan this way with sub-surface mining missiles. and then there are also mats in the titans aftermath (debris field).
Wow. I wasn't aware of the Nanite Torp being ignored. Thanks Bud. I've now installed a HRP in that slot. Should give me a little more strength.
I've never been attacked heavily on the vent run, a few times get attacked while hitting the core. Earlier today had 3 hunters on me, struggled to boost away and somehow made it to the asteroid field with 1% hull left. Couldn't believe how lucky that was.
I didn’t consider moving my carrier to nearby for more than a few seconds when I realised I would have to go old school and find places to dock and refuel to get my ship there.
Once I was in range I looked for an adjacent system with carriers or stations in, one 5.63Ly away from Thor had carriers so I went there and found one convenient to the arrival point that would let me dock.
I launched all my attack runs from there and did repairs and cashed in their to add to the carrier’s budget as a thank you.
Mind I also undocked and exited the game from nearby just in case.
Wow, good going after just 3 months. Shame you didn't get 2M
Go watch the meltdown tomorrow - it is awesome - 18:50 BST, 17:50 UST.
Get there 10-20 mins before and it is quite a show.
You can get next to the Titan as it just (politely) pushes you gently away before the big KaBoom!
Gentle is a strong word for getting a boot out the door so powerful, you are instantly propelled to 5 or more kilometers per second. As a first-time experience, it's pretty good though, visually in particular.
It is gentle and very polite in the way that it does no damage to you. Why not annihilate/vaporise everything in close proximity (IIRC I was within 1km of the Titan) like a huge Fusion/Fission detonation would.
I did like it as I watched it 1st 3 times, as the speed was as you said, around 5km/s but it is gentle in respect that to accelerate such a huge mass (your ship) to that speed, I would expect a huge force applied with respective damage to the hull (I was in a shieldless Krait)
EDIT just imagine going from zero to (had to google it) 18,000km/hour (speed of orbiting ISS) in about 3 seconds !!!!!!!! What? (169G)
Not even Kumo would be able to reuse the red smear (remember it in the Expanse?)
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To be fair, the standard Titan repulsor does not eject your ship from the cloud with any damage (or hardly enough for me to notice) either, but I get the point.
Whyever Titans toss human ships nearby out before exploding (I did not expect it when I was at Taranis), well, I’d ask them but the ones that have exploded can’t talk back anyway, and I don’t think the others are very inclined to answer…
Whyever Titans toss human ships nearby out before exploding (I did not expect it when I was at Taranis), well, I’d ask them but the ones that have exploded can’t talk back anyway, and I don’t think the others are very inclined to answer…
Something I noticed failing to get through the repulsion pulse was that whatever was on my primary trigger of the selected fire group went off so I would launch my caustic sinks or decon limpet depending which fire group was active. Was that normal or just me catching the trigger?
I cannot say, because I've no memory of getting ejected by it once the pulse neutralizer became available. Or the times that I did was looking for caustic crystals and straying too close to the Titan's personal space without it equipped. Likewise I've heard reports of people's cargo hatch malfunctioning when ejected, but never experienced that either.
I scouted parking systems for every titan days in advance, and I've been jumping my carrier to the next titan as soon as the current enters meltdown.
As I type this, already heading for Raijin:
PS: FDev, please fix the insanely high music volume of the Carrier Management screen.
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The closest systems next to Titans always get clogged with FC's but come on, there is ALWAYS slots available in systems 1 jump away, ALWAYS.
It just takes time with the atrocious UI - if you select Jump FC and no slots are available, it throws you right out and you have to start again from the start.
WHY?!?!?!
Why not just kick you back one step instead of right out? I cannot understand it!
It just takes time with the atrocious UI - if you select Jump FC and no slots are available, it throws you right out and you have to start again from the start.
WHY?!?!?!
Why not just kick you back one step instead of right out? I cannot understand it!
No one can. It's one of those things that make you wonder if they actually play their own game.