A Thargoid attack could be imminent - GalNet

NeilF

NeilF
sleutelbos said:
Or use the powerplay map system to indicate where thargoids are on the galmap. :)
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That would be great, backed up with some meaningful gameplay tools (combat and other) to affect the outcome... What meaningful tools (combat and other) have been carefully put into the game over the past 18 months ready for this?


Either FD have sneaked some new such tools/mechanics into 2.4, or they'll simply have to make do with what's already in the game... The latter doesn't fill me with much interest/hope.
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
anthonycsheehy said:
Whenever he says *anything* you say "right", Brett. You know that?
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"Right."

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Spenceuk99

Spenceuk99
NeilF said:
Wars waging as the Thargoid come into the fringe of the bubble would give CMDRs opt in/out gameplay.

Missions to evacuate settlements from systems in utter turmoil where the BGS is reflecting the apocalypse unfolding in the area would be interesting. Along with CMDRs under taking fighter escort missions for convoys from Capital ships offering cover at these locations. CMDRs in ships escorting ships in/out of the system (eg: through asteroid fields) could be engaging, especially working together with other CMDRs, or indeed even with NPC wingmen (giving simple commands such as attack this, defend that). Defending damaged vessels under assault while repair ships shuttle in supplies could be nice for CMDRs in fighters or other ships...

...But this of cause would all have required these sorts of "tools" to have been added over the past 1-2 years so they were ready in place for the game to then leverage for the first time, the only first time, CMDRs encounter aggressive aliens...

BUT, we've not had such investment put in the game (it would seem), so instead we have CQC, The Engineers, passenger missions, Multi-Crew and sun glasses to use to make the best of the approaching event...

Going to be interesting to see what 2.4 offers... I do hope it's not just light weight gameplay under the guise of story heavy "stuff"... And more cryptic paper chases around systems...
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I can see CG type missions to evacuate stations and such coming...Get 2 million people off a planet or something before the bugs arrive and destroy everyone.
 

NeilF

NeilF
Spenceuk99 said:
I can see CG type missions to evacuate stations and such coming...Get 2 million people off a planet or something before the bugs arrive and destroy everyone.
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Do you see the station being blockaded by Thargoids? CMDRs having to wing up with other CMDRs or NPCs to battle their way through such blockades? Or fighter missions from capital ships to help? ie: All the sexy sort of mechanics and gameplay you'd hope for a modern space game?

Or do you just envisage a variation on our 2+ yr old CG mechanic? Fly to X, pick up Y, and see the bar chart go up?
 
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