As a NZer I got a thrill when I spotted the southern cross while trying to line up on one of the Voyager probes.
UA Mystery thread 4 - The Canonn
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As a NZer I got a thrill when I spotted the southern cross while trying to line up on one of the Voyager probes.
Don't quote me but (FD) are referencing our own description; which we termed from the trailer to describe those outcroppings. The first time I heard that description was in the forum; then FD used it. Yes it could be a new entity but simple deduction reasons if it isn't it must therefore be connected to the UA and meta alloys. All are bio-mechanical; Thargoid tech was also biological in nature, the structure shown on the surface to me looked bio-mech..
FD have stated the UA story would continue and something would be found on the surface. UA are certainly connected with meta alloys as they ref them in the meta alloy mission and they use the term barnacles ipso facto - the same entity.
My reasoning is tenuous I except that...I may be a little drunk but I can still fly....(overheating coolant vent as ship scoops through a coronal mass-ejection at full throttle...
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I know that, which is why I'm telling you guys. I didn't investigate (damn you Federal Ranking Mission!), so I'll leave the honour to one of you! It was pink, not the usual purple, and was found on the way to Schlackes? Vision, 1000 ls from the star. Btw, what's the largest POI circle you'be found?
Hey Rizal, may I ask... How do you know that those things in the trailer are barnacles? They certainly look strange and alien, and I too assume it's something that can be found out there as I don't think they've been built just for the trailer, but we can't know for sure if they are the aforementioned barnacles, can we?Not 'we are'. I am.
First, the UA was announced indeed: in the wings trailer. Exactly like the barnacles shown in Horizon trailer.
Second: the missions already in game requiring Meta-Alloys.
And if not enough...
Third: a couple of other reasons that do not need any game hacking at all, but just opening a couple of folders, only to be sure that we are not wasting our time. For Science. Nothing more.
Or perhaps there's something I'm missing? I haven't been able to follow the thread 100% lately.
It's just what we call them.
One of these would be Maia B1BA? If so, I'm on that moon. The only thing I can say is that without lights on the moon is pitch black. The Nebula is really bright though. Will attempt to find the crater this morning
Got caught up in family stuff... probably will still be caught up in family stuff till it's next year ish......Soo UA's not scanning T-ships is a bug? That's kinda my takeaway from the last 40 pages....I think it was 40, got kinda swamped by the wake of the threadnaught a little. Been poking around outside the shell on some of the landable worlds, haven't found anything really interesting to report.
...Very alien sounding for sure...and that's coming from someone who had to make sense of panicked firefighters talking about "things" over the radio that eventually we ended up with our LEOs hike up into the woods with AR-10s and wp grenades and clear out a nest of....something.
Slendy... he's cute compared to some things that are alleged to be out in the woods.
I think they took "dark region" a bit too far. Sorry I'll see myself out.
...Very alien sounding for sure...and that's coming from someone who had to make sense of panicked firefighters talking about "things" over the radio that eventually we ended up with our LEOs hike up into the woods with AR-10s and wp grenades and clear out a nest of....something.
Slendy... he's cute compared to some things that are alleged to be out in the woods.
I think they took "dark region" a bit too far. Sorry I'll see myself out.
Sorry, I thought the term "Large Barnacles" had first appeared in the in-game description of meta-alloys. I can't go in-game until January, but googled a bit and found this image:
So I thought the term came from FD, someone saw the meta-alloy description and the search started. In which case we have just decided those things in the trailer must be the barnacles, but we may or may not be right about that.
Or did someone watch the trailer, then wrote somewhere in the forums "hey, check out those weird things that look like Large Barnacles". Then someone in FD saw that post and decided to add the term in-game as a nod to the community?
Just trying to understand as the first case would mean we are making a pretty sizeable assumption.
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In this case of chicken and egg, the description of the meta-alloys came first during the beta and then the launch trailer showed us a short shot of glowing chitinous stuff which some are presuming to be anything from thargoid buildings to space barnacles.
Aren't you pointing in the same direction you started in if you pitch up 360 degrees
Each pitch up is a scan along a plane- a "slice" of the sphere you need to sweep the targeting sight all around. After doing a full circle, the 5 degree or so yaw to the left, followed by another pitch spin, is a slice at a different angle, do it enough times, using the galaxy plane as a lineup mark each time you spin, and you will eventually complete an entire spherical scan. no need to do a full 360 degree of slices, just 180, because the tilt covers bolt sides as you scan.
But we do not know for sure if the structure in the trailer and meta-alloys are somehow related.
And I still do not understand what exactly we call Barnacles.
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Ah, I see. If that's indeed the case we should be careful not to call the structures in the Horizons trailer "barnacles". Otherwise people will probably assume they are the same thing mentioned in the meta-alloys description and perhaps draw wrong conclusions.
Exactly my point. I've seen a few posts already that mention the "barnacles in the Horizons trailer". When in fact we have:
- Something called "Large Barnacles" in the meta-alloys description.
- Large mysterious structures with green-glowing patterns in the trailer.
It's science dammit, let's do it properly!
The Meta-Alloy description is the source of the large barnacle description.
We discussed them long before the trailer release, in the 'Spoiler thread'.
The structure in the trailer is unknown. It could be a barnacle structure, but it could also be something else.
The first time barnacles were mentioned in this thread (actually thread 3) was on 17/8: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=175726&page=18&p=2703774&viewfull=1#post2703774
( The Canonn is always ahead of the game).
I like your idea...the pods do have obvious resemblance to cargo cylinders, & it would explain how we could eventually get access to & load into our ships the meta alloys once found. However given the current size of the UA is only about the same as a cargo cylinder then the UA would have to grow to enlarge the pods until they became the normal size of cargo cylinders (they may even drop off when "ripe") - which would match up with the large size of the things in the Horizons trailer. So we are supposed to "plant" UAs in a suitable habitat for them to grow to the adult size, probably at least two together for cross-fertilisation. From the trailer they want low light levels- so in a Nebula &/or dark side of a tidally locked planet, possibly metal-rich, & maybe in a crater.
Well, some of us are.
Me? I'm often to be found running at the back shouting 'Hey, come on guys, wait for me!'
Because the description of the Meta-Alloys fits with the Beams of the structure I'm seeing in the trailer (A complex lattice structure with large internal voids).
Obviously I'm not 100% sure of this correspondence, but I'm 100% sure that a POI structure called Barnacles is in game.
So, even if we will not find what we are seeing in the trailer, we'll find something about the Barnacles and Meta-Alloys for sure, as a POI, and on planets surface.
That said, you can call it whatever you want. But whatever name you give them, We'll find them eventually.
Or,
given that there is something strange and not common, with a nice Alien look, shown in the trailer and laying on some planet's surface, that means that we can find it in game.
But if you want we can go on debating about naming conventions, instead of go playing to look for these new fascinating content.
The Meta-Alloy description is the source of the large barnacle description.
We discussed them long before the trailer release, in the 'Spoiler thread'.
The structure in the trailer is unknown. It could be a barnacle structure, but it could also be something else.
The first time barnacles were mentioned in this thread (actually thread 3) was on 17/8: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=175726&page=18&p=2703774&viewfull=1#post2703774
Thanks for clearing it up.
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The Meta-Alloy description is the source of the large barnacle description.
We discussed them long before the trailer release, in the 'Spoiler thread'.
The structure in the trailer is unknown. It could be a barnacle structure, but it could also be something else.
The first time barnacles were mentioned in this thread (actually thread 3) was on 17/8: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=175726&page=18&p=2703774&viewfull=1#post2703774
I'm pretty sure the structures shown in the trailer are barnacles. They are the source of meta-allow obviously.
I'm currently trying to find them as they are "common in certains part of space", but we don't know where...
Does anybody have a screenshot of the meta-alloys mission ? Maybe there is some clues in the text ?
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