Sorry to hear about the loss of Bob, but repped for the science you did with it.
Listening to the UA dying, it gives of something like a scream when it bursts into 'spores'. I'm not an audio geek, but it definitely is a new sound.
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Listening to the UA dying, it gives of something like a scream when it bursts into 'spores'. I'm not an audio geek, but it definitely is a new sound.
Well yeah, at least we have that sound to fiddle with. And a fully complete recording for the purr-movement.
Read this a while ago, but only just repped, sorry.
I couldn't agree more.
I have fallen into the 'here's a theory' camp on more than on occasion - but I'm trying to offer more practical ideas right now; and hopefully at some point somebody might pick then up. Biggest issue with my most recent idea was that there was no firm list of locations to go to (completely open ended, I know), and I don't know what else can be done about that. Wisdom of the crowd, probably.
I'd written more for this post questioning the wisdom of continuing to test the purrs, and more - but I've deleted it because ultimately I'm losing the desire to question these things any more - there simply aren't enough UAs to cover the experimental ground we need to cover.
My logic, on what is the next best test, is not the same as other's and if I'm in a minority in thinking certain tests are worthwhile or not imma just gonna have to suck it up, let the thread grow, observe, and hold my tongue!
I'm gonna start making my way back to the bubble in the meantime, in the hope I might be able get a UA myself. If by that point there's a consensus to work through a list of tests, then I'll follow that 100%. If not, then I'll do the tests I think are worthwhile and, once I'm dry, I'll start taking suggestions, as all UA carrying heroes have done so far (much respect there).
By extension, I also think that any current UA carrier has carte blanche to do the same - so I feel no frustration towards any of you for not wanting to follow any particular idea I might personally come up with
Does sound like it didn't "want" to explode, for want of a better term - in other words, I don't feel that exploding is the purpose. Could it be like a cry for help in some way, in that case, all the transmitted signals? A "come find me I am at"? Seems ill-suited to the depths of space too, since it doesn't last long - if it was a nav beacon meant to guide ships, surely it would be more durable? Transmitting location might just be in desperation, rather than the intended purpose of the device? Not sure what that changes in terms of what we do with it though - find an environment it can thrive in?
What's this exactly, a UA hunt? If you need people, I am happy to help out for this. Although I'm not off work and back home until much later, probably 0130 BST. If anyone is still on though and in need of wingman, feel free to send me a message. At the very least, I can distract some Anacondas while someone else coaxes goodies from a T9.
Sorry to just throw this in without reading the entirety of this or previous threads (I've read a bit!) and only spending a few hours on researching past experiments - but has anyone taken the musical note values and corresponding frequencies and used them to plot grid references on the Galaxy Map? The notes I've heard in the video recordings would appear to be D, B flat (or A), F and D. So 146.8, 233.1, 17461.468 if it's below a middle C. I can't tell the exact pitch so frequencies may be wrong - I don't play piano.
Apologies if this has already been done.
Apologies if this has already been done.
Rauminen, sorry for your loss, we'll try to use your footage to the fullest.
Ok, like my previous posts on Ratking and Zenith's double recordings, this one is probably going to be thrown into oblivion but I'll share with you my results anyway! I'm still on the same theory:
The Unknown Artefact appeared with 1.2 Wings, so I truly believe the solution can be achieved with joined efforts. At first we thought the two recordings didn't match, but after further analysis we discovered that they kinda do, with a slight offset.
At the beginning of Ratking's recording, we have two purrs.
At the beginning of Zenith's, we have three.
So I focused on the extra purr. And this is what I discovered:
With no offset, there was a sound on Ratking's sample. I decided to zoom in:
Now, it's a bit difficult to notice with an image but basically the two sounds at the beginning (orange box) are VERY similar. Then it's when the purr kicks in on Zenith's sample (purple box), to finally end while transitioning to a sound similar to Ratking's bit (red box).
This is just on the first extra purr. If anybody's interested, I can upload the audio samples so that you can understand better what I mean.
I hope I expressed myself properly. Thanks for reading.
(PS: "weird1_ass...ociated purr". Tell me if you want me to use spoiler tags.)
Ok, like my previous posts on Ratking and Zenith's double recordings, this one is probably going to be thrown into oblivion but I'll share with you my results anyway! I'm still on the same theory:
The Unknown Artefact appeared with 1.2 Wings, so I truly believe the solution can be achieved with joined efforts. At first we thought the two recordings didn't match, but after further analysis we discovered that they kinda do, with a slight offset.
At the beginning of Ratking's recording, we have two purrs.
At the beginning of Zenith's, we have three.
So I focused on the extra purr. And this is what I discovered:
With no offset, there was a sound on Ratking's sample. I decided to zoom in:
Now, it's a bit difficult to notice with an image but basically the two sounds at the beginning (orange box) are VERY similar. Then it's when the purr kicks in on Zenith's sample (purple box), to finally end while transitioning to a sound similar to Ratking's bit (red box).
This is just on the first extra purr. If anybody's interested, I can upload the audio samples so that you can understand better what I mean.
I hope I expressed myself properly. Thanks for reading.
(PS: "weird1_ass...ociated purr". Tell me if you want me to use spoiler tags.)
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SORRY TO SHOUT! THIS IS NEW DECAYING FOOTAGE.
Some folks have been asking for this for a long time.
The death explosion looks really, really unique.
Does anything else in game produce a similar death?
It's a shame you were so zoomed in on the UA when it went pop.
The expiring scream does sound like it was Doppler shifted away from you.
The thing I'm looking for is the plasma/distortion that would show from the "head" end in the moment it goes pop.
I can't remember who said about rotating around it to view from different angles.
I make a specific point of trying to avoid looking through the UA at something because you get the background ambient sound for that object as well. If you looked towards the centre of the galaxy through the UA, then you would hear the background "chorus" sound interfering with the UA sounds. Same if you look at an Earth-like world, you'll get all soundscape of the planet as well as the UA sounds. When we were trying to get clean recordings, we tried to minimise the background sound as much as possible.
I don't have a list, but the systems are the FE2 systems with a few added.
Hotice is also missing. This was the system where Mycoid was made.
Hoeda is missing. This was the place they found 4000 year old alien ruins.
Most of the more mundane systems seem to have been included.
Time to put on the tinfoil hat?
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Also, I'm sorry to say this was a decay without a purpose. We missed an opportunity to perform a unique test that myself, Rauminen and a couple of others want to perform. Yes it is good that we have another decay recording, but bad that we didn't piggyback some of the test suggestions on top.
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Unfortunately, I don't think the Mayans did negative numbers
Assuming the 'weird symbol' meant 'negative' rather than zero: 1627, 471, -42
Another interpretation might be 'minus 3' which would give: 1627, 471, -474
In theory you can convert numbers to greek and check against system names - but there's so many potential numbers that it seems crazy to me
The maya numbers look to be date format according to long count callender.
We did a bit of research in the old thread. No result, but this date calculator is nice: http://www.dr-rock.biz/MayanDateCalculator
Give it a go.
The more I listen to it, the more I agree. It really DOES NOT WANT to die.
Right. We should take more care about that - I noticed the bg sound, but wasn't aware of the logic to be honest.
Agreed, I'm not happy about it by the slightest. At least I now have a chance to use one of the few other names I came up with...
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OK how about the greenish blip on different pods theory? Is that moot? Am I imagining things?
Edit: yeah, probably I am.
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No, it's from FFE journals: http://www.dream-ware.co.uk/first-encounters/journals/all/
Ctrl+F hexagon.
Yes - upload them. I spent a few hours last night playing around with audio extracted from one of the recent videos. Trying different band pass filters to see (hear) what I could find. There are definitely a lot of noises overlaid to make the complete sound.
I see that someone has ripped all the UA audio.
With over 100 sound samples, I think it's pretty safe to assume the audio is significant!
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I checked the map as if they were literal coordinates. There are no systems in both of these coordinates and the only thing close is too off to actually be something. It's name is Plio Eurl IQ-F B27-0.
Edit: Aaand someone did that in the previous page.
Edit: Aaand someone did that in the previous page.
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Good question.. we have very limited environments at the moment that we can ferry it to.. to summarize.
1. Space - vast empty void, an almost perfect vacuum meaning really bad for anything that requires to "breathe". UA blows up in space after doing its distress like signal script.
2. Star's Coronae - see space add heat and tons of radiation also generally really bad for anything that lives. I'm assuming the UA also explodes here.
3. Black Holes - nature divides by zero there which is exactly where you wouldn't want to be.. the game doesn't simulate them well but I'm willing to bet that currently a UA would pop here and in the future it would be crushed to an atom... along with our dreams.
4. Ship's Cargo Hold - stable environment (providing you aren't destroyed) potentially climate controlled (for human climate) stops the UA from exploding but wants out and starts corroding through it.... two things with this. 1. it may not like human air.. 2. it may not like metal enclosures or metal in general which is what the ship is made of.
5. Space Station Docking Ring - more open than a ship's cargo hold but for the most part presenting the same restrictions plus (here's the part I don't like) wasn't this tried in a test and the UA still exploded? That tells me a game mechanic is overriding the script or an oxygen atmosphere is not the answer.
6. Planets - Well.... watch this space.
7. Asteroid belts / rings - mostly vacuum like space but may present more floating particles than open space thanks to particulates etc from collisions... who knows maybe water/ice asteroids? Will it pop here?
8. Nebulae - mostly vacuum like space unfortunately they look pretty at a distance but close up it might as well be open space. I'm thinking pop here too.
There that is all the environments I can think of. If anyone has any more to add to this it would be interesting to see, however so far the only thing we know from our "environments" available is that it won't explode if it is in a cargo hold... I'd say in a hold it also shuts up because I haven't heard anything about UA bearers complaining that their ship sounds like a tuning fork or a SeaWorld exhibit.
Happy hunting!
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