BREAKING NEWS: GNOSIS STRANDED, GALNET NEWS!

[withnail]

Heh. This is hilarious.

If you lot had spent more time in open practicing your fighting, you would probably do better against the thargoids.

 

[Winterwalker]

Kind of odd how you're being rescued 1400 ly away though, when the ship isn't moving and has working search&rescue services...

This is a screenie from earlier, thanks to Cmdr ExoForce (post #999)

I repeat my point (link); It should not be too easy to stay aboard Gnosis in deep space. One slip and you're 'rescued'. Well played FD.

 

[Whitmann]

The whole point in exploring is to go somewhere no one has been before to see what's there, There's no guarantee your gonna find unicorns wanting to love you.

You've gone there, there being a sector of space which canon has believed there to be something relating to thargoids in a section of the galaxy that is all cordoned off,
You find one place in the middle of it all and ask to jump there.

I can remember loads of star trek episodes where they go to some section of space to explore and then find it to be rather hostile.

Don't see why jumping into the middle of thargoid territory would be any different.

But it's not in the middle of nowhere, somewhere that was previously locked or that is surrounded by permit systems. I've just flown back to the Bubble from the Gnosis.

 

[krautbernd]

The game is so... disengaging.

“There’s no doubt that we would have been destroyed if not for some of the Commanders travelling with us. They lured the Thargoids away while ejecting meta-alloys from their holds. The aliens were more interested in scooping up the meta-alloys than attacking us. The Commanders later reported that the Thargoid vessels were the recently identified Hydra Interceptors.”

No Commanders did this. Why is this not part of actual gameplay, with the possibility of commanders *not* being able to save the Gnosis if nobody worked together or came up with that idea. This is the major problem I have with the game, the narrative is so disengaged from the player, even EVE which is all player-driven narrative, when the devs have setup live story-related events, players actually get to engage and shape its outcome, not a blurb of text saying what players did (when they didn't even do anything).

This. This so much.

 

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

One thing confuses me because there are two undercurrents of "outrage" here.

Bugs - fair enough, completely understandable.

But there's quite visible "how dare you to push me out of my comfort zone" thing going on too. And I don't think anybody has to blamed about that.

 

[kofeyh]

I demand an instant promotion to Elite Explorer, unlimited credits and an i-win stick for killing Thargoids in a sidewinder by way of recompense.

I laughed. No idea if that's just observation or aimed at me.

 

[gooddoc]

The problem, which you're missing, is canonn nor the player base was made aware we were jumping into the lair of king badmofo until literally hours before.

Alot of the folks on the gnosis are explorers, people who likely wouldn't have gone if they knew that upfront, or the fact that the event was to be COMBAT focused.

Not necessarily.

I posted over a week ago, I reached a point in the game were I had a choice. I could put the game to bed & wait until Q4 or DWE2 hits or go to the Gnosis & see what happens.

Then last week the Cone Sectors got 'locked off'.

My stance never changed, this was either going to be a 1 month exploration trip, which I was willing to participate in...

....or it was going to be a pewpew gankfest, in which case I wouldn't be bothering to log in.

Sadly for me, FD choose the latter.

Looks like I may well be playing Subnautica now, well at least until this mess is sorted out!

 

[Rob At Work]

I demand a refund on my LEP for this!

 

[Conch]

The goids attack is fully to blaim on he padhuggers!!!

 

[Barking_Mad]

Bugs aside, complaining about getting on board a ship when bad things could happen and there's no knowledge of what the deal is, is just hilarious. That's the whole point of the journey. .

 

[rootsrat]

One thing confuses me because there are two undercurrents of "outrage" here.

Bugs - fair enough, completely understandable.

But there's quite visible "how dare you to push me out of my comfort zone" thing going on too. And I don't think anybody has to blamed about that.

Yes, agreed.

The attack itself is really cool. ALL the rest, from the premature story spoiling to the bugs and seemingly untested scenarios - really sucks.

 

[bkrownd]

Heh. This is hilarious.

If you lot had spent more time in open practicing your fighting, you would probably do better against the thargoids.

Except...that's boring. I'd rather spend time doing enjoyable things.

 

[kofeyh]

One thing confuses me because there are two undercurrents of "outrage" here.

Bugs - fair enough, completely understandable.

But there's quite visible "how dare you to push me out of my comfort zone" thing going on too. And I don't think anybody has to blamed about that.

My dude, theres also an endless undercurrent of explaining at people, at length. Not sure if you are familiar with the term mansplaining but it comes pretty close.

Frontier did what that always do. Have an okay idea they then endlessly fumble toward a finish line that gets moved.

 

[-VR- Max Factor]

Not necessarily.

I posted over a week ago, I reached a point in the game were I had a choice. I could put the game to bed & wait until Q4 or DWE2 hits or go to the Gnosis & see what happens.

Then last week the Cone Sectors got 'locked off'.

My stance never changed, this was either going to be a 1 month exploration trip, which I was willing to participate in...

....or it was going to be a pewpew gankfest, in which case I wouldn't be bothering to log in.

Sadly for me, FD took choose the latter.

Looks like I may well be playing Subnautica now, well at least until this mess is sorted out!

Looks like it is neither.

 

[Ralph Vargr]

I knew I made the right decision to stay in the bubble.

And, my main account may be leaving for Colonia as well.

 

[krautbernd]

This is a screenie from earlier, thanks to Cmdr ExoForce[..]
I repeat my point; It should not be easy to stay aboard a megaship.

So instead of dropping people of at the ship that's iterally right next to them, not moving and (depending on the instance you're in) not even under attack and that has working, state-of-the-art S&R facilities they take a trip to a facility that's 1400 ly away so they can waste valuable time that could be spend rescuing more people.

Yeah, checks out i guess.

 

[biot]

Spoiler

 

[Rubbernuke]

Heh. This is hilarious.

If you lot had spent more time in open practicing your fighting, you would probably do better against the thargoids.

But- Thargoids are our friends....they'd never probe our fragile Asps.. would they?

 

[CaptainKremmen]

The problem, which you're missing, is canonn nor the player base was made aware we were jumping into the lair of king badmofo until literally hours before.

Alot of the folks on the gnosis are explorers, people who likely wouldn't have gone if they knew that upfront, or the fact that the event was to be COMBAT focused.

I dunno... I spent days fine-tuning builds in and around Merope, collecting/transferring/testing gear. Went out to the Gnosis, transferred a heap of kit out there. A couple of huge regular weapons, plenty of regular Large and Medium weapons various, AX weapons various, a shutdown field neutraliser, xeno scanner, shield boosters, decontamination gear, HRPs, MRPs, fighter bay, AFMUs, limpet controllers various, etc.

When I loaded into the Gnosis, I was fortunate enough to have weapons, hull, fighter and shields capable of shooting down all ten thargoid scouts buzzing the megaship. It was epic.

THEN... I went and read Reddit and the FD forums, and found out that those fines I'd been stacking up would have got me shipped 1500 LY away to a penal colony if I'd died!

Ah, classic Frontier! It kinda sorta works, and may or may not be epic, or a bit epic, or... well, you get the idea.


Anyone who was hauled off to pay a 200CR fine back in the bubble should just contact FD support, and get themselves shipped right BACK. lol

 

[Sir.Tj]

But- Thargoids are our friends....they'd never probe our fragile Asps.. would they?

You mucky sod..