Thargoid Interactions

ModishNouns

ModishNouns
A cyclops variant interceptor poses for a close-up after a peaceful meeting of scanners.

Video:

[video=youtube;sFmI4pXqFxw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFmI4pXqFxw[/video]
My light flashing and horn honking fell on stony ground. It seemed content to just shadow me and I got the impression it would have done that all day. It wasn't until I turned and boosted away after the video that I got the "target has deployed hard-points" warning but I was already waking out.

Edit: Also interesting that there were two initially and the one that EMPed me jumped away and left it's wing-mate to do the scan.

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CMDR-AD

CMDR-AD
Vasious said:
I may be a bit behind the curve but just found out you can get different ship scan data from Interceptors

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I have ship flight and ship system data

What else is there
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I have scanned quite a few, and only ever got one data type returned. IIRC, that was on my very first scan, and since then, never any additional data types recovered. I think after multiple Thargoid encounters/scans, I've only got those 3 Data materials (all dropped from that single scan), I first ever got.

Strange.
 

Squid Gumbo

Squid Gumbo
CMDR-AD said:
I have never been hyperdicted.
I have never seen a Thargoid at a Barnacle site.
I have never fired on a Thargoid, or been fired upon.
I have never used a Research Limpet on a Thargoid.

I've dropped into Non-Human SS and watched and scanned Thargoids.
I've visited Barnacles, but never shot one.
I've seen UA and UP, but never shot or been in possession of one.
I've scanned the Unknown Structure central core, and activated the star map while UA and UP were owned and handled by other CMDRs.
I've possessed/carried/sold ONE Meta-Alloy, fallen from a Barnacle spire which another CMDR shot. This was back on day one of Barnacle discovery.

Currently I'm at the Barnacle forest, so I'll see if I get a chance to see a Thargoid come down out there during my stay.
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Had my first hyperdiction yesterday, and I've only ever seen one barnacle encounter. Rare stuff, man
 

Zulu Romeo

Zulu Romeo
CMDR Nef said:
Has anyone been confirmed of pacifying an aggressive Thargoid? I'm curious if it can be done. It's probably just a basic A.I., but you'd think, just like with people, if one took a swing at another, and then refused to fight back, you'd think after a while the one that got punched would stop beating them to death over it to ask why they're not fighting back anymore.

It's probably just Fdev's codding, though. I don't think the Thargoids are built to recognize you lower your weapons and refusing to fight. Even if you shoot them once with a size 1 pulse laser, they'll fire on you until you're dead, even if it takes an hour. Even if you do not fight back, and holster your weapons.
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I too want to believe. I want to tame one, train one to be my guardian angel, my wingman, my friend.

[video=youtube;Qa9mlyulJSg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa9mlyulJSg[/video]

Novo Mundus said:
Has anyone tried sending

"Ba weep- gra na weep ninibon" in comms yet?
























https://youtu.be/CzE2BoNW6bc?t=9s
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I did this:

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CMDR RazorTooth

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Not sure if anyone has had reported something like this yet, but I am consistently finding the Interceptors marked green in my contacts HUD. They also do not go hostile after the scan despite me having a few meta alloys in my cargo.. no thargons, no red. Will continue to pop into NHSS's to confirm.
 

fieval

fieval
Just had 2 encounters in Hyades Sector AQ-Y D81, out near the Barnie Farm area.

I had an escape pod and 3 Meta Alloys onboard.

1st time the Flower Ship came over, we scanned each other then it just sat there as if waiting for something... so I fed it a Meta Alloy. It picked that up then went about its business.
I set myself 1km from the Flowership as it was scanning the wrecks, and then I dropped the escape pod. Moved back 500m and dropped a Meta Alloy.
The Flowership finished its business with the wrecks and then came over and scanned/picked up the Pod, then moved over to where I was with the Meta Alloy.
It deployed its Tharglets so I backed off, it picked up the Meta Alloy then went to leave.
I pursued it at high speed and as it jumped I hit "something" with a loud crash (reminding me of the exclusion zone bump you got with black holes).
I sustained no damage at all.

I repeated this on the second interaction, again hitting the exclusion wall whilst attempting to follow the Flower Ship through the Jump portal.


edit----> Just jumped into Pleiades Sector SZ-O B6-0 and its raining USS' !!

Last Scan I picked up new data (for me) Ship Flight Data.
 
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Assimilator1

Assimilator1
CMDR RazorTooth said:
Not sure if anyone has had reported something like this yet, but I am consistently finding the Interceptors marked green in my contacts HUD. They also do not go hostile after the scan despite me having a few meta alloys in my cargo.. no thargons, no red. Will continue to pop into NHSS's to confirm.
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Never had that! How did you manage that? Have you been giving them lots of Meta alloys?
 

Drelthar

Drelthar
Assimilator1 said:
Never had that! How did you manage that? Have you been giving them lots of Meta alloys?
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I've seen a few posts saying this already, they seemed to get ignored...

I didn't look at the specific poster, but they literally said something like

"Drop lots of meta alloys and the Thargoids will go green on your sensors.
 

CMDR DancingLemur

CMDR DancingLemur
Are we certain, that these Thargoids are the same, that destroyed human ships in NHSS? So far they did not shoot me on sight, only if I angered them (scanning, tissue sampling) and this was not every time I did this. Maybe there is something, we did not seen, yet; or every destroyed human ship in NHSS attacked Thargs immediately on sight.
 
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Assimilator1

Assimilator1
Scanning them doesn't turn them hostile, staying within 500m of them, holding Thargoid probes/sensors, shooting them & ramming them does. And possibly, sometimes holding escape pods, although it hasn't for me.

Oh & we don't know for sure whose been killing our ships, other than it's very likely to be Thargoids (unknown as to which faction) due to the caustic damage.

Novo Mundus said:
I've seen a few posts saying this already, they seemed to get ignored...

I didn't look at the specific poster, but they literally said something like

"Drop lots of meta alloys and the Thargoids will go green on your sensors.
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Hmm, ok, would be interesting to hear how CMDR RazorTooth managed it.

Han_zen
You tried since 2.4? Like to be different then, I think ;).


Has anyone dumped a load of meta-alloys in 1 go in a NHSS to see if that makes them instantly allied?
 
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CMDR RazorTooth

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I have been dropping meta alloys quite frequently (maybe a damaged escape pod or two... I'm not inclined to drop occupied ones though), further encounters have shown that the instance of an interceptor ignoring my cargo (not turning hostile after scan) was probably a one off. The interceptor likely found something else in the NHSS more interesting than the couple of alloys I had (or it just bugged out).
However, all further encounters, with new interceptors (so far no repeats) have been green on contacts right after scan. As for my behavior, I've never fired upon or rammed an interceptor, but I have had to run off after crossing the hostile threshold twice. Of those two instances, I upset one by not dropping a Thargoid Probe (even after reversing away), and the other, I was thrown several kilometers away by the warp-in of a backup interceptor (after dropping 5+ MA) and upon boosting back towards them, triggered a response.

Whether it is deliberate friendly behavior or just a contact menu bug, I doubt my relations with them have been consistent enough to suddenly be friendly with the whole race. Other than one example out of at least 10 instances, their behavior is no different than any I've seen. I'm downloading the update right now, I'll hunt down some more NHSS's and see if anything has changed.
 
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