At site right now...solo mode...wave scanner off....night time mode in sound option...5.1 headset....it seems that the deep tuba honking sound (4x repeated) is somehow positioned. Tried free look in SRV cockpit...and yes the sound is moving in my headset. Could be only cool ambient sound effect, but who knows
I was just watching a tower with an ancient relic in it emerge from the ground and it occurred to me that the other ancient items might also be emerging from the ground. We have assumed that the green ooze surrounding the items has come from the items - what if the items are being pushed out from the green ooze (or whatever lies beneath)? I think the boulders that we see around the items are displaced earth resulting from the items coming out of the ground. This is certainly what I saw happen with the tower when it came out of the ground.
Agreed- if this is not what FDEV is trying to imply with the green glow and the destroyable rocks, I don't know what they're trying to say. Not only the same rocks, but the glow and the fact it activates when you approach. Unless someone comes up with a really slam-dunk obvious interpretation, I think it's reasonable to assume:
*some thing/process is pushing artifacts to the surface*
*the unknown thing can detect players or movement*
still unknown: are the artifacts/relics supposed to be already existing underground, or is something producing them each time they spawn? (and of course, does knowing that matter to the mystery or anything else?)
On the right and lower side of the "compound" the walls appear to have collapsed. With the large metal barriers lying flat.
Not sure what to make of it, no atmosphere = no wind?
Erosion?
The lower one seems much more pronounced. And assuming the metal parts were spaced evenly seems like it might have moved quite a way from its original position.
No collapse metal barriers elsewhere, just right lower side.
I was joking around in response to The_Count_of_Monte_Fisto's comment, implying that it'd be like the Rosetta if we knew how to understand the satellite number stations in the first place
Oh heh yeah sorry- I wasn't aiming it at you particularly, I just heard a lot of people throwing it around up-thread a couple pages like it meant something and it was getting me all annoyed
At site right now...solo mode...wave scanner off....night time mode in sound option...5.1 headset....it seems that the deep tuba honking sound (4x repeated) is somehow positioned. Tried free look in SRV cockpit...and yes the sound is moving in my headset. Could be only cool ambient sound effect, but who knows
I noticed this as well. While I was there it *seemed* to be coming from the large, raised 'landing' pad area. I don't think it is anything but ambience but it is interesting that the ambience has a specific source at the site.
I find it odd that the whole site looks like it does. Without erosion or wind I find it hard to believe that this place has since been 'buried' by rock and dirt and stone. Unless this planet once had atmosphere and lost it.
Either way, a lot of the site seems to be made of sculpted rocky surfaces. Like they built into whatever terrain they already had available. The whole thing is so strange.
I was overlooking the ruins looking for new ideas to try when I spotted a dark spot out of place. After approaching it, it dissapeared.
I guess it's probably just some kind of glitch... but well, here it goes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLCTin2uxFw
Interesting observation, all triangles that are lit are lit for the same amount of time per loop +/- 2/60ths of a second:
i.e. the varied duration of some of the states means that even though some triangles are lit in more states than others (67 +/- 6), this is mostly cancelled out.
Borrowed this image and tried something. But I'll ask for a favour - could someone with more skills try to make the small part transparent and then overlay it with the bigger part of the ruins? My skills in this area are horrible you know.
I'll not quote myself again. But the small circle is definitely the top part of the bigger one - too many similarities. They are visibly complementary. But "why" is that, is still eluding me.
On the right and lower side of the "compound" the walls appear to have collapsed. With the large metal barriers lying flat.
Not sure what to make of it, no atmosphere = no wind?
Erosion?
The lower one seems much more pronounced. And assuming the metal parts were spaced evenly seems like it might have moved quite a way from its original position.
No collapse metal barriers elsewhere, just right lower side.
yeah i was thinking about that- it's weird because in the middle of the site, those models are like arches sticking up from the middle of mounds, like they were part of a structure that collapsed, but on the walls the exact same models are placed more like buttresses supporting the wall from the back. I can't tell if they're A interior supports B exterior supports or C both, art guy that placed them wasn't really strict about what they were supposed to be and I'm overanalysing it (most likely).
But especially the bottom area in your picture, it looks like the artguy(tm) went to a lot of trouble to make it look like it was either one of the entrances or that something pushed it in. Supports on their sides like they fell over, inwards.
I'm not sure what that wall would BE for, on an airless low-ish G planet. Not to keep sand dunes from covering it, not water. Lava flows back when the planet was younger and still had some internal heat?
There's actually a lot of detail here that doesn't make any sense on an airless world. The only force that should be burying the site is micrometeoroid impacts wearing down the surface, and a bit of slumping from the gravity. Or someone actively wrecking it.
This might already have been noticed here, but interestingly - or not -, the USS name for Unknown Artefacts is still Anomaly [Threat 4]. Surely nothing to get excited about, too, but for the record...
On the right and lower side of the "compound" the walls appear to have collapsed. With the large metal barriers lying flat.
Not sure what to make of it, no atmosphere = no wind?
Erosion?
The lower one seems much more pronounced. And assuming the metal parts were spaced evenly seems like it might have moved quite a way from its original position.
No collapse metal barriers elsewhere, just right lower side.
Well, while a lot of people are suggesting this is a landing pad, I've only seen a few suggesting that it's actually a launch pad. There are certain structures (I'm too lazy to find screen shots) that look like clamps, similar to the ones used to hold down rockets and build up thrust when launching rockets from Earth. I think it's very possible that the collapsed walls, barriers lying flat, and seemingly unnatural hilly mounds of dirt surrounding the entire site are the result of flying debris during the launch of a massive ship. All these theories don't do as much as solving codes and riddles would, but I just wanted to throw this out there because I haven't seen many people do it so far
In Asterope currently. Seems rather quiet here. Not getting any signal sources either. Definitely feeling I'm on a wild goose chase, but shall keep looking.
day 4 of the hunt for the incident site begins
for anyone interested ill compile the already found details
found by me and my friend CMDR Selrak Lightner,
by now the system we are looking for is definitely the Asterope system BUT witch star is it is being questioned
we are questioning the star because the gamescom message was most likely edited
http://i.imgur.com/NnXjHFl.png
the gamescom message most likely been edited and that's why its way brighter also the colours are brighter
it makes it possible that either Asterope a or b if its a then the star been saturated up
if its b then the colour was accidentally changed or maybe on purpose http://i.imgur.com/SOvNatB.jpg
note: not all stars are that vissible on screenshots sadly,
and because its the same system asterope b ac be lined up perfectly too
for now its gonna take a while to find the site with what little manpower we have for searching
Speaking of firing lasers at the site, I did submit a bug report the other day, hitting any of the metallic structures at the site with a beam laser does give an awesome swirly effect that also cripples your framerate (hence the bug rpt).
Would be kind of funny given that people complained about the only way we had to interact with the Barnacles was to shoot them, so FD designed a puzzle where the solution is to shoot it
this is where these gen ships may have settled....these ruins are a sun dial type machine that perhaps is a atmos gen for the former inhabitants...a small domed one around the site if you will..thargoids came and wrecked it...or some beings did.....the atmos stopped,and years later xdeath finds the place.
whoever made these ruins.....knows we are playing around with them right now i suspect.
In Asterope currently. Seems rather quiet here. Not getting any signal sources either. Definitely feeling I'm on a wild goose chase, but shall keep looking.
Been here in Asterope for about an hour now, and I've only gotten 2 USS's, one of which was about 50,000ls away from the system's star, and I missed it because I was going too fast. The other, as I posted earlier, was a distress signal but was just an imperial clipper being attacked by pirates. I'm starting to lose faith that there's anything still to be found in this system. Like someone posted earlier, I think the latest patch might have taken out, or more likely moved, a lot of what was shown in the trailer because FDev didn't intend for us to find this stuff via triangulation, but rather by following a trail of breadcrumbs they feed as at their pace through GalNet and other in-game features.
Edit to add: The fact that the video in the interview/trailer/whatever you want to call it showed the alien ship in the Asterope system is still very significant, even if they subsequently moved it somewhere else (if there was ever an in-game "thing" to move in the first place -- it could have just been a teaser of what's to come in the lore story, or in game further down the line than 2.2). If there's anything to find, it's likely to be somewhere around Maia and Asterope as its already clear there's an alien presence in this area of the galaxy because of the barnacles
Here's my theory:
The site was originally of alien origin (not thargoids) consisting of the large hexagonal wall and the various artefacts and metal walls around the site. It formed a hexagonal energy dome to protect the aliens inside from radiation/solar wind etc. What these aliens were doing is unknown, it may have been protecting a religious site/artefact or it may have been used for scientific research and experiments.
Then, one of two events happened:
1. The site was abandoned, due to lack of use or due to the aliens going extinct. It was then found by humans who destroyed parts of the wall to get in.
2. Alternatively, the site was attacked by early space-faring humans to cover up the existence of aliens.
Either way, the walls of the site were damaged, destroying the energy shield. The humans then discovered something of importance here, and made two massive earthwork circles to indicate... something. Possibly arrows to other ruins or specific celestial objects before the existence of an organised galactic coordination system such as Universal Cartographics. The other earthworks are part of a larger complex that has been buried by earth settling after the humans arrived, or spread about by solar winds (? Don't know if it's possible for solar winds to move earth and dust).
That's just my theory given the information, I hope it makes sense!
