not surprised if this is the game makers taking advantage of the BGS to add a little spice to the whole local story.
Quite clever; if true!
UAs, Barnacles & other mysteries Thread 7 - The Canonn
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not surprised if this is the game makers taking advantage of the BGS to add a little spice to the whole local story.
Quite clever; if true!
the biscuit barrels proved it should be easier in wings and when coordinated. we need fewer lone pilots and more organised search parties.
with hatch-breakers of course
And have to interact with people? Noooooo
We should probably get together a list of things to record/check/do once we secure one. We didn't do this with UAs so there was a lot of bits of info lacking from things provided based purely off the fact we knew nothing about them. So I might suggest the following list of things to screenshot/video.
- View of your unedited HUD including nearest celestial body and type of ship you're flying.
- Record (general) direction UP is pointing, and if it always points in the same direction.
- Any noises it makes. Is there a cyclic pattern to the noises?
- Any graphical effects?
- Is it toxic?
They're the only things I can think of from an initial check perspective.
Kinda curious too, where is everyone? at Ross 47 in open, nobody
- View of your unedited HUD including nearest celestial body and type of ship you're flying.
- Record (general) direction UP is pointing, and if it always points in the same direction.
- Any noises it makes. Is there a cyclic pattern to the noises?
- Any graphical effects?
- Is it toxic?
They're the only things I can think of from an initial check perspective.
Kinda curious too, where is everyone? at Ross 47 in open, nobody
It's just very rare, exactly like the UA convoys were. Let's not make this another BarnIclegate just yet...
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exactly.
Not to mention, it might need at least one Elite rank for them to spawn, considering the new -difficulty- rules for POI and NPCs spawning on commander levels..
Barnacle materials and defence status sheet mostly updated for the Pleiades.. Mostly..
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There was a barnacle status change again this Thursday with the powerplay update.
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Some intact are now destroyed, and some destroyed are now intact and again, some are unchanged.
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Can confirm double barnacles are now fixed. All previous doubles checked so far are now single barnacles.
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All intact polonium barnacles on Pleiades Sector IH-V c2-16 D 3 are now guarded with turrets this week.
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A good undefended Yttrium barnacle on Pleiades Sector JC-U b3-2 2 though
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Having a break until tomorrow evening!
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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...w02tyCGd7IFcfHpjYGeZL9GHQ/edit#gid=1627218729
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There was a barnacle status change again this Thursday with the powerplay update.
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Some intact are now destroyed, and some destroyed are now intact and again, some are unchanged.
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Can confirm double barnacles are now fixed. All previous doubles checked so far are now single barnacles.
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All intact polonium barnacles on Pleiades Sector IH-V c2-16 D 3 are now guarded with turrets this week.
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A good undefended Yttrium barnacle on Pleiades Sector JC-U b3-2 2 though
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Having a break until tomorrow evening!
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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...w02tyCGd7IFcfHpjYGeZL9GHQ/edit#gid=1627218729
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Indeed. Realistically, we have no idea how they spawn or if there's any more to it than simple blind luck even. People hunting UA convody went weeks without finding anything, so I think it's premature to think it's bugged simply because we didn't find them after a day of searching.
Scuttlebutt said someone actually saw an Unknown Probe in the cargohold of a ship in a convoy a fair few weeks back, but they neither had proof nor seemed to be concerned with trying to find it again. Could very well be like the guy who initially posted this fake video, and then followed up with this video of the UA which by all accounts is actually legit footage well before the first verified UA find. Other people had produced fake videos of UAs using "means" but couldn't actually do it correctly. Meanwhile that one does seem legit, though nobody believed the guy due to his first fake video (boy who cried wolf).
tl;dr people are almost definitely happening upon these accidentally, and they're likely random, very rare spawns. By searching Ross 47 based on one report it's just more confirmation bias that "That's where they spawn" when realistically, you might go days without seeing a spawn, and it might not matter where you are searching.
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Yup. A lot more effort is going to be needed before we start getting dissafected.
So far FDev have not gated any content behind ranks and I would expect that to continue.
This is why I'm in Sirius, checking ships in supercruise, every Fed ship I find I follow for a while checking the subsystems panels to see any kind of degradation, instead of looking for the convoy in Ros.. just in case.
When I get some free time from doing the Emperor's Will, and my own political machinations, I intend to spend some time looking for these convoys in Imperial space.
This may be nothing, but I saw a strange shadow while searching for polonium on a planet (a pretty ordinary planet too, nothing to do with Barnacles or anything like that) earlier today, and it just happened to coincide with a bunch of odd fps drops. Unfortunately, the game was freezing so badly I didn't get a very good look at it, so I have no idea what it actually was. What's unusual about it for me is the game has never done this for me before. Even when recording, I don't get huge freezes like that. The fact that it happened at the same time this shadow appears, moving on its own, makes me curious.
Here is the video, for those interested:
https://youtu.be/Oc_hKVae1zY
Here is the video, for those interested:
https://youtu.be/Oc_hKVae1zY
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Just picked up some "Core Dynamics Composites". Never seen 'em before. The dead Condors in the USS are... singing. Seems like it could be a major hint that puts Core Dynamics behind the barnacles.
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Following up on my inquiries regarding the NGC 6357 Nebula.
The CL Pismis 13 and CL Pismis 19 'bug' is still there. (Systems are merged in one, so you can't jump from 13 to 19 and vice versa as the target is in the star for each (and show as a few Ls in the nav panel)
Previously locked systems:
NGC 6357 Sector CG-X C1-44 - T Tauri star with asteroid belt cluster. No Signal Sources that I could locate. In other words totally empty and cannot find a reason why this would have been a previously locked system.
NGC 6357 Sector YZ-Y C40 - Class K Star, Asteroid Belt Cluster and 15 varies planetary bodies. 4 landable planetary bodies. 5 high-metal planets (1 terraformable, 3 landable, 1 landable rocky body moon) , 1 Class I gas giant 4 rocky ice moons , 1 ringed ice rock planet. Nothing sticks out, no Signal sources. Let me know if you have any ideas or suggestions on anything else to check here.
NGC 6357 Sector QT-R C4-50 - Still need to go check it out. Will hit this one tomorrow.
The CL Pismis 13 and CL Pismis 19 'bug' is still there. (Systems are merged in one, so you can't jump from 13 to 19 and vice versa as the target is in the star for each (and show as a few Ls in the nav panel)
Previously locked systems:
NGC 6357 Sector CG-X C1-44 - T Tauri star with asteroid belt cluster. No Signal Sources that I could locate. In other words totally empty and cannot find a reason why this would have been a previously locked system.
NGC 6357 Sector YZ-Y C40 - Class K Star, Asteroid Belt Cluster and 15 varies planetary bodies. 4 landable planetary bodies. 5 high-metal planets (1 terraformable, 3 landable, 1 landable rocky body moon) , 1 Class I gas giant 4 rocky ice moons , 1 ringed ice rock planet. Nothing sticks out, no Signal sources. Let me know if you have any ideas or suggestions on anything else to check here.
NGC 6357 Sector QT-R C4-50 - Still need to go check it out. Will hit this one tomorrow.
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If you follow the Unknown Probe convoy rather than try to get the probe, the transport Python says some interesting things.
[IMGUR] http://i.imgur.com/0tLglEa.jpg [/IMGUR]
Credit to CMDRs Julian McCoy, Wesley McCloud, Nexusdragon, Mykl Atrum and R00TBR for the discovery.
[IMGUR] http://i.imgur.com/0tLglEa.jpg [/IMGUR]
Credit to CMDRs Julian McCoy, Wesley McCloud, Nexusdragon, Mykl Atrum and R00TBR for the discovery.
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Those are used in some of the lvl 5 engineer upgrades. Interesting with the condors!
I'm new to the UA/UP thing so forgive me; I know many think the symbol looks like the bernard's loop nebula, but I think it's more akin to the witch head nebula from certain angles. Kinda fits with the "witch space" of previous games if I understand the lore correctly.
Anyway, once we get a UP, see where they point, take it to merope, take it to maia, a barnacle, to the WHN, CN, etc...maybe even formadine rift area? I don't remember if they have any cross-over. o7
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