[Sarcasm] Well done FDEV

[[VR] Mad Mike]

i had my exploration asp (i wanted a practically disposable ship)
it has shields but they are not engineered and are only ... 5As i think. most other stuff is D rated. i had a thargoid sensor and probe on me and scooped some of the bits and in the areas they were in to see and my experience was that they attacked, but they did not go all out.

i was able to, on 3 occasions fly to them, scoop 1 target, then run, highwaking out to the next system. each time i did take fire but it was not enough to drop my shields and i only lost a few % on my hull.

i did not try opening fire on them, my weapons on my exporation asp are for medium sized low rated pirates not high end alien ships.


incase it makes a difference i am dangerous combat rating (95% to deadly)

word of warning however, they can mass lock you even for high wake if they are too close, tho the escape lock distance is very low.

 

[CmdrJacks]

if you did not nick any of their stuff and you do not interfere with them i think they leave you alone. that said, they are abducting people from right in front of you so i think it is fair to say they are hostile.
should you attempt to rescue the poor sods that are abducting or you have stolen tech on you however they dont like it

I have no problem with it starting as pewpew, I just hope there's been some imagination put in to the gameplay at some point or else it's just reskinned NPCs. Differing storylines for Fed, Emp and Alliance would be good.

 

[dreampage]

From my experience, if your hold is empty, they wont attack you, just give you a warning by deploying thargons and turning red in color. At that moment, you need to increase distance between them and you.

My cargo hold was empty.

 

[Winterwalker]

My cargo hold was empty.

Are they scooping escape pods, when discovered in signal sources (is what I heard)?

Human Beings .. in need of immediate rescue!

 

[Cmdr Aeries Hunter]

I'm in Maia, so yeah.

All I've been seeing are convoys and degraded. Probably scanned 2 dozen USS so far.

Thanks for the constructive input though. I'm totally salty right now.

It helps to know I'm at least in the right vicinity.

Try Pleiades Sector IR-W D1-55 where Aegis is. The place is crawling with Thargoids. There is also an ammonia world there so that should also give a clue. Happy hunting

 

[Tiayviel]

When I read the thread title I thought it had been written by an Elcor

You are my new favorite for this day. +rep!

 

[Ralron]

I love how people spend more time on the forums complaining then playing.,

Typical Elite CMDR on forums:
"I am going to write a 10 page wall of text that will take me 3 hours just to complaining about how i cant find MATS when i could of found the mats in those 3 hours.."

 

[AnotherVoice]

My cargo hold was empty.

I watched your video, the Thargoid ship gives you a second warning at 3 : 07 to keep your distance, but you didnt comply like the first time, thats why after some time it turned hostile

 

[AH_Its_Skeletor]

So...its content only for those who have top end, tricked out, engineered large ships? What about the rest of us? is there anything BELOW threat 5 in which we can actually participate?

I've seen 3 of them in my DBX. Literally everywhere in the Pleiades except for Merope for some reason... (3rd one killed me and sent me to the bubble)

I've posted a few tips from my own scientific findings.... but, so far, so long as you don't get too close and are NOT carrying any thargoid items, they generally leave you alone. Break these conditions and ...well, my 5k shielded cutter's hull went down to 93% before I turned tail lol.

Explains why one shot me near immediately when I had Meta-Alloys.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

The thargies come in different variants from what I've seen.

1 of them ripped my FDL to shreds quite 'quickly' (once it got really angry, after about 5 minutes of me shooting it).
Another just shouted at me, then poked me with its main guns, doing almost no damage. It launched drones, but didn't use them. I just let it shoot me for ages, it barely did 5% hull damage.
And other just ignored me if I kept my distance. (I didn't. Lol)

They do have a taste of iCouriers though. Everyone who brought one along, was vaporised in seconds. Lol

All in all, I only lost 1 FDL, despite doing many tests to see their capabilities. I even returned to a fight with 10% hull so my wingman could escape.

They're not actually that bad, if you don't want to fight one, just high wake, or boost to 4km to avoid their mass lock factor 30.

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

So...its content only for those who have top end, tricked out, engineered large ships? What about the rest of us? is there anything BELOW threat 5 in which we can actually participate?

i went in my exploration asp. G5 FSD but other than that it was standard stock (but not suicidal) build. ie 5A shields but not modded, D thrusters (actually i may have an Eng mod on those too) but still defence wise nothing other than stock and offence wise with 2 stock beam lasers i didnt even try.

i didnt open fire on them........ because i am not stupid, but i was able to drop in and scoop under their noses and escape, only taking small amounts of damage from them.

if by participate you mean blow them up, then no, no you cant, but neither can anyone yet.

 

[Alderius]

Meh, I scooped some stuff from them and split when they got angry about it. I got hyperdicted and mass locked. I watched them watch me..... And then I left for the bubble because, well, that's all the interest they were worth. Will probably run some missions from my home base tonight now that there are a lot more to choose from, and wait to see if the next CG is interesting, but as far as Thargoids go, "been there, done that".

 

[CmdrKull]

I'm hoping the conflict will get a lot more intense in the coming days.
[alien]

I do too. I am having a ton of fun interacting with them now, but I'd love it if, when they actually felt threatened, they could destroy small ships with a single salvo/swarm pass. As though what they are doing right now was their equivalent of saying "excuse me, you're blocking the path, could you step aside?" And later we will see what happens when they get Triggered.

 

[Zambrick]

So...its content only for those who have top end, tricked out, engineered large ships? What about the rest of us? is there anything BELOW threat 5 in which we can actually participate?

You jump in and get blow up like I have a dozen or more times for tests. We know we cant hurt them right now, so what is it you think you would accomplish with a top of the line ship?

If you are not willing to lose your ship, then why fly it? Thats the normal PVP mantra isnt it?

Hawke is either not in the sector or he isnt trying. You cant fly in a straight line without getting 4 of them pop up in less than 1000 ls.

Just because its threat 5 doesnt mean you need to afraid of it. You can survive the encounter without taking 1 point of hull damage in a sidewinder if you wanted to.

 

[Kzak]

I entered several threat 5 non-human USS sites, found thargoids, snooped around them - when they got angry because I was too close, I boosted away. I didn't stick around to fight in my Asp - nor will I do so until we have gotten better weapons, and I'll use a Python or Anaconda for combat in that case. Thargoids, presently, can be escaped from without much problem.

 

[ironside31]

So...its content only for those who have top end, tricked out, engineered large ships? What about the rest of us? is there anything BELOW threat 5 in which we can actually participate?

I went out hunting in my stock Cobra.... Had a blast....well til i got blasted lol We cannot as of yet hurt them. Until the CG is done and we have new equipment. If you are not having fun in Elite before 2.4 then maybe its not the game for you? Not trying to shoo you away or anything just saying. There is much to discover about the Thargoids, and then there is combat, hauling and exploration. If these things are not doing it for you.... I cant help you. I hope you choose to stay but if not have fun in whatever game you go to

 

[jmp470]

Now I can be just as bored and frustrated while looking for Thargoids as I am while looking for engineering mats.

Thank you RNGesus!

My god man! Your nuts... It's much easier to find the Thargoids than it is engineering mats

 

[Tiayviel]

Now I can be just as bored and frustrated while looking for Thargoids as I am while looking for engineering mats.

Thank you RNGesus!

Have you tried logging in before posting?

 

[Surprised Brony]

If you had bothered to read the thread, you would know exactly where I am, and where I was previously. When I finally found a Thargoid, I emptied my guns into it. I didn't expect to damage it, but wanted to observe how it reacted. It acted in a sadly predictable manner. I "actively observed" it for about 30 minutes before I decided it didn't have anything else to show me. I did take about 8% hull damage due to their equivalent of phasing weaponry.

They won't be predictable and sad for long. Would SJA be happy with just this? No. But she said she's happy. That should tell you that these guys aren't even trying.

 

[Ian Phillips]

Have you tried logging in before posting?

Have you tried reading a thread before "contributing"?

Now now boys, behave please.