Have you seen the new leaked Thargoid model?
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The body looks good and alien. However, the non-descriptive face is boring and forgettable. It really needs distinct facial features.
Frontier please check the alien designs of Stellaris. For example:
Frontier please check the alien designs of Stellaris. For example:
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The body looks good and alien. However, the non-descriptive face is boring and forgettable. It really needs distinct facial features.
Frontier please check the Arthropoid designs of Stellars. For example:
I thought the same.
I want to see them use technology, have (organic) armor, handweapons etc.
Well I'm glad Thargoids don't have hangups about their own nudity.
Not sure about the head, but the bodies look like the aliens out of war of the worlds (Spielberg's version).
Here is some inspiration for Frontier regarding Thargoid faces
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=strange+microscopic+organisms&atb=v140-1__&iax=images&ia=images
Does kind of seem like it's missing its exoskeleton. Maybe it just molted.
A couple of things.
1) The face is extremely reminiscent of the Chigg helmet from Space Above and Beyond.
2) The textures do not appear to be that consistent with probes, sensors, scavengers, flowers or scouts. Could this be a Blender mashup of the model?
a) The current sensor and probe animated textures are great, providing illusory depth and activity - I hope they are incorporated in the final model.
3) The body model lacks the detailing found in probes, sensors, and scavengers.
a) The unusual protuberances on those existing assets give the sense that there is organic functionality to the entire system rather than a smooth encasement.
b) A close up look at ants or wasps reveals hair, articulated antennae, eyes, spiracles, detailed articulation points, etc. These are lacking in the leaked model.
4) Traits and functionality questions -
Why grasping apendages on legs used for locomotion?
Do they live in trees? Their hive ship has floors. Weird. Did not see a bunch of handholds in the mothership tunnels.
I get the small retracted appendages with grasping hands - there are plenty of crustaceans, insects, arachnids, etc. that have equivalents.
Why so tall (long legs relative to torso dimension)? Do they feed on things significantly above the ground level?
So many articulations in the limbs, do they engage in high-speed locomotion through tunnels of a variety of dimensions?
They are definitely not swimmers!
In a cold ammonia-rich environment, they might absorb nutrition directly from their environment, so surface area increasing adaptations might be prevalent - but they are absent on the model. The mouth detail is very limited, do they even need to eat? There are no feeding assist limbs like what you would see with any terrestrial organism with an exoskeleton.
If this is legit, it's probably an early concept piece.
1) The face is extremely reminiscent of the Chigg helmet from Space Above and Beyond.
2) The textures do not appear to be that consistent with probes, sensors, scavengers, flowers or scouts. Could this be a Blender mashup of the model?
a) The current sensor and probe animated textures are great, providing illusory depth and activity - I hope they are incorporated in the final model.
3) The body model lacks the detailing found in probes, sensors, and scavengers.
a) The unusual protuberances on those existing assets give the sense that there is organic functionality to the entire system rather than a smooth encasement.
b) A close up look at ants or wasps reveals hair, articulated antennae, eyes, spiracles, detailed articulation points, etc. These are lacking in the leaked model.
4) Traits and functionality questions -
Why grasping apendages on legs used for locomotion?
Do they live in trees? Their hive ship has floors. Weird. Did not see a bunch of handholds in the mothership tunnels.
I get the small retracted appendages with grasping hands - there are plenty of crustaceans, insects, arachnids, etc. that have equivalents.
Why so tall (long legs relative to torso dimension)? Do they feed on things significantly above the ground level?
So many articulations in the limbs, do they engage in high-speed locomotion through tunnels of a variety of dimensions?
They are definitely not swimmers!
In a cold ammonia-rich environment, they might absorb nutrition directly from their environment, so surface area increasing adaptations might be prevalent - but they are absent on the model. The mouth detail is very limited, do they even need to eat? There are no feeding assist limbs like what you would see with any terrestrial organism with an exoskeleton.
If this is legit, it's probably an early concept piece.
In regards to #4, let’s not forget that they are a space faring civilization. The height could be due to low gravity and the grasping ends of the legs could aid in navigating ships in zero g.
I personally think it would be super cool if the thargoids were weak outside of the ship. Therefore humans would be better in a “man to man” fight, whereas the thargoids are clearly better in ship to ship. It could also be a neat way to explain why they have not attacked planets or taken control of stations.
Imagine how many boots and pants (trousers) they will be able to sell in the shop for these !
"Outfit your own pet Thargoid"
"Outfit your own pet Thargoid"
It's only Steam Numbers. Calm down.
Going to be a bit bummed if there aren't atmospheric landings at the same time as legs. We have fog on planets already - add the space-clouds as clouds and turbulence from neutron stars (tuned down, obviously) and they have half the assets already. I'd love to see gas planets at the very, very least.
Gives me Mass Effect vibes.
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Oh, for anyone who might not have happened to glimpse this earlier concept art already from a peek of their offices...
From that at least they look kind of like a cross between ants and prawns to me.
You must have the eyes of a hawk in the prime of his life
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I think the form looks great, agree with other comments about the face being a bit bland but I'd imagine this is a ways from a final product. Would like it to look a bit more chitinous, they are supposed to be insectoid right?