UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn

[Ozric]

I'm not source ?

My eyes

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I also didn't realise (but should have assumed) that they degrade at a reasonable rate. I don't think I spent 6 minutes trying, and failing, to get a real good close up.

 

[Derthek]

I have heated it in my ship to over 200%, dropped it close to hot stars and forced the cargo hatch to break due to heat. Nothing happens to it.

Others have fired heat weapons on the UA. No different than regular lazor.

The art book images are just consept art. It looks quite different to a real UA.

The art book UA has beautiful fractals. The cylinders inside look like some kind of ancient, intricate, mechanical computation machine.

 

[Han_Zen]

The art book UA has beautiful fractals. The cylinders inside look like some kind of ancient, intricate, mechanical computation machine.

The hole artbook UA looks more mechanical. More angular design, with well defined edges.

The real one has a much more rounded, organic look.

I think they are both beautifull.

 

[gaplant]

I hope I don't bring up old stuff again, thanks for replying last time bitstorm.

After scanning an UP it pushes the ship, is that random or does it point your ship at a certain location?

Have the UAs been honked at when they are glowing? I read that they glow when near a planet or moon.

Have you tried honking at a UP near a glowing UA?

Just things I wondered.

Read the first page. The question has been answered already.

 

[rizal72]

Hey there everyone. I just found this discussion. I found a up on a planet while looking for barnacles. My screen grab for Xbox was disabled but I took a picture with my phone just in case I wanted to go back. Anyway I can go back tonight(I'm working) and get all the details and pictures.

I don't want to break anyone's expectations, but it already happened a couple times: I bet what you found is not an UP. It is an Unknown Artifact. Happy to be disproven, anyway

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Sorry it's Pleione 3 not 4. My error.

Here is where I am that seems to be consistentaly causing a crash on a UP deploy, 0.38Ls away on currently lit side :

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https://drive.google.com/uc?view=export&id=0B8ck-2ELKOuLZTZPYWNHbFI3S2M

But yes I definitely think it's a possibility, some specific code path that only runs here is executing and causing the crash?

There could be other reasons of course, my UP could just be fubarred somehow.

I would ask someone else to try Pleione 3, but if you do record it with a camera or something so you get video in case of a crash.

What if that's the right place?
So many times in ED a bug was the proof of that

 

[gaplant]

My eyes

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http://i.imgur.com/czuMBaBh.jpg

I also didn't realise (but should have assumed) that they degrade at a reasonable rate. I don't think I spent 6 minutes trying, and failing, to get a real good close up.

Speculation about what FDev Art Dude is trying to tell us here:

It really looks like those are supposed to be something dropped off the UA- like the UA is a carrier that spreads them around. The art makes them look like they are designed to come off, not like they were broken off.

Are they trying to tell us the UA is seeding something else? Barnacles, UPs, more UAs, thing we haven't seen yet? Do we have any hints or in-game lore that addresses this? I remember someone MB? saying something about the relation between UP UA and barns, but it's not on the mighty list of MB hints yet.

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The wheel on the inside of the UA is a 'speculation wheel'. A wheel designed to provoke wild speculation.

I find the thing about the pods blowing up and being detached from the UA more interesting. It seems that we haven't tried everything, heating up a UA for example, maybe with engineered weapons, or dropping it near the exclusion perimeter of a hot star...

above, see a CMDR that understands this puzzle very well

 

[Bungalo]

Pleione 3 was also where my ctd happened. Could be nothing, it could mean thargoids were about to jump in and eat all my biscuits.

On a serious note, after listening to vents merope audio makes me think how "deep" in deep space you have to be to change the audio. As vents is the outlier it's worth repeating meropes deep space experiments to see if it changes.

Possibly a check 10k Ls from the star and then 100k ls ... See what the purr rate and the chirps do. There could be more than just sphere of influence that effects those parts which would make sense.

 

[gaplant]

I don't want to break anyone's expectations, but it already happened a couple times: I bet what you found is not an UP. It is an Unknown Artifact. Happy to be disproven, anyway

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What if that's the right place?
So many times in ED a bug was the proof of that

Yeah, especially since they can't public beta test any of the hidden stuff!

Shoot, if you're doing a sneaky mysterious plot thing like this, I'm not even sure if you can use contract QA testers, much less any kind of outsourced testing. You'd only want to tell the in house testers that are right in the room with the coders. (if they have those)

 

[Krewzur]

Speculation about what FDev Art Dude is trying to tell us here:

It really looks like those are supposed to be something dropped off the UA- like the UA is a carrier that spreads them around. The art makes them look like they are designed to come off, not like they were broken off.

Are they trying to tell us the UA is seeding something else? Barnacles, UPs, more UAs, thing we haven't seen yet? Do we have any hints or in-game lore that addresses this? I remember someone MB? saying something about the relation between UP UA and barns, but it's not on the mighty list of MB hints yet.

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above, see a CMDR that understands this puzzle very well

I was just thinking something similar. I remember someone, can't remember who (bitstorm?), was talking about super-cruising away from Merope 5c in the hopes that they would find signal sources with free floaters far out.

What if we were to combine these two theories?

Perhaps the UA is a carrier that brings UP's to a target system and then releases them? Maybe we will find UP's in the same systems as UA's in the UA shell except they are dispersed outwards from the star at long distances?

 

[bitstorm]

I don't want to break anyone's expectations, but it already happened a couple times: I bet what you found is not an UP. It is an Unknown Artifact. Happy to be disproven, anyway

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What if that's the right place?
So many times in ED a bug was the proof of that

I know.

It is a lead that has to be looked at, but I am in the really horrible position (assuming Frontier sort it) of wanting to try it again. What do I do!?? Fool me once etc..

2 fails indicates *something*.

And after losing the 2nd UP and the crash, I relogged and did it with a UA again no issue. UA deployed twice, both ok, UP deployed twice client insta-crashes.

I have asked support to test it, whether they will or not I don't know.

 

[gaplant]

Pleione 3 was also where my ctd happened. Could be nothing, it could mean thargoids were about to jump in and eat all my biscuits.

On a serious note, after listening to vents merope audio makes me think how "deep" in deep space you have to be to change the audio. As vents is the outlier it's worth repeating meropes deep space experiments to see if it changes.

Possibly a check 10k Ls from the star and then 100k ls ... See what the purr rate and the chirps do. There could be more than just sphere of influence that effects those parts which would make sense.

and if it's nothing, hey we still can get FDev to fix a glitchy area in Pleione.

 

[bitstorm]

Pleione 3 was also where my ctd happened. Could be nothing, it could mean thargoids were about to jump in and eat all my biscuits.

Oh. [ugh]

And *right* on deployment was it, like deploy, insta-crash?

Hopefully tmrw support will indeed test and report back. We totally should investigate this since it's a lead but game bugs.

Prods MB!

FWIW I did recheck the image trying to figure out how this could be Pleione 3, nothing jumping out.

 

[rizal72]

I was just thinking something similar. I remember someone, can't remember who (bitstorm?), was talking about super-cruising away from Merope 5c in the hopes that they would find signal sources with free floaters far out.

What if we were to combine these two theories?

Perhaps the UA is a carrier that brings UP's to a target system and then releases them? Maybe we will find UP's in the same systems as UA's in the UA shell except they are dispersed outwards from the star at long distances?

To support a similar though we have the comms chatter of the Convoy:
They were sure to be carrying an UA not an UP, then they realize it is different 'from the other one'.
WHY?
Did they find it in the same place as the UA?
Or
Did an UA changed to an UP inside the cargo bay, for some unknown reason?

Questions...

 

[gaplant]

I'm sure puzzle has simple logic and several steps. Some steps was solved and some not

heh we solved the step about finding an image in the sound- about 5 minutes after the first UP was found!

and "we" solved the UA ship drawing secret because one guy was smart and insane and did it all himself hee.

If I had rate how much of the UP mystery we have solved, I would put us at 1% completion. We get one percent because we read the instructions for the puzzle.

 

[bitstorm]

To support a similar though we have the comms chatter of the Convoy:
They were sure to be carrying an UA not an UP, then they realize it is different 'from the other one'.
WHY?
Did they find it in the same place as the UA?
Or
Did an UA changed to an UP inside the cargo bay, for some unknown reason?

Questions...

Well I know you're theorising but just to say, I have been carrying 1 UA + 10 MA for 3-4 days, nothing has yet transmuted in my hold!

 

[gaplant]

Pleione is special enough that the Empire put a capital ship over it weeks ago. Maybe they know something we don't (and I work for the Empire, they tell us nowt)

they loved it, they put a ring on it

 

[Stillsober]

Well I know you're theorising but just to say, I have been carrying 1 UA + 10 MA for 3-4 days, nothing has yet transmuted in my hold!

When searching systems I have been constantly honking ads.
On one or two occasions new SS pop up right after.
Have you tried this all I have had from these are high grade emissions.
strange or coincidental

 

[ShadowAviator]

What does it mean when your radar shows red surface when approaching a planet? I thought it only did that for the engineers, but I had it doing that when I approached Merope 5B. Is this significant of anything regarding the UP?

 

[Wobblin-Gobblin]

http://www.pcgamesn.com/elite-dangerous/elite-dangerous-aliens-patch-22

Green cylon basestar.....very interesting [big grin]

 

[TheDayman]

What does it mean when your radar shows red surface when approaching a planet? I thought it only did that for the engineers, but I had it doing that when I approached Merope 5B. Is this significant of anything regarding the UP?

Gravity well