My wife ask the community to give me Thargoid build and strategy advice

Boff'in

Boff'in
I’m a Thargoid hunting and combat noob
I need some built/weapon/tactical advice.

So I got my Krait Mk2 over at oronos. I managed after an embarrassing first trail run on the small scouts ship level3 embarrassed me.

I didn’t have all my guardian hull,module and shield reinforcements which I acquired this time Last year. They were on route. I did have weapons and some reinforcements (but a light hull for the 22hyperspace jumps to the witch head nebula from sol.
But I stored some exploration stuff and waltzed out without limpets for my decontamination controller.

The Wife
I found another Alien threat over 3
And I gave them everything I had....including bad language and squeals.
God damned that corrosion added a stress timer to the combat. I did terribly bad. My wife was complaining about the noise and I had to help out around the house.

But I killed them, and got 20’ thousand in combat bonds my hull was at 20% and counting (I have already mentioned that forgot to pack limpets, but I reiterate so it sinks in more.)
Not to worry I can craft some....but I didn’t have the materials required.
more cussing to my wife’s disapproval.

Full speed to the Goldon stag(the nearest port).

Now my hull is in the teens and I being
V-E-R-Y vocal and so it my wife about the more imperative task list as I had gone over my allotted time.
As I approach The stag in supercruise I am only 5LS away, my hull is down to 12%!
I am pleading with my computer, ship, RNJesus, numerous gods and the system chat for help as I was cutting it close but I might not make it.

Interdiction time - wait, what?
So I’m not at 5% hull and a Federal cruising is nuzzling my ships shields.
“Help me” I plead.
“No” came the reply
“Thargoids should be left in peace you deserve to die.”
“Please?”
“Nope. RIP”

I was had reached my peak panic before the interdiction.
My first successful encounter against the Thargoids, my first combat
Bonds,
All ruined because of this guy.

I was beyond furious.
I had difficulty verbally. Just incoherent sounds. And I rage quitters and read a bed time bed time story to my daughter. I tried again this morning in a smaller vessel and failed my cargo hatch got damaged so I lost my limpets. I exploded outside the toaster
Rack.

But now my modules have Arrived for my krait so I tooled up (limpets) Got my bonds and laughed about the emotional rollercoaster last night open disaster gave me.
Very hard to recreate that personal story.

but now I need a thargoid heart.
Tell me what I must do!
 
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Quantis Trap

Quantis Trap
OP, this game is all about learning from the community. The best ways to do that are reading and watching existing content on the internet from other commanders.
Forget your "personal narrative", as Frontier says, until you do a bit of research.
Here's some good places to start:

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Adel

A
Go in a NHSS level 5 only! Above, it's too hard if you start at xeno fight.
AXI group have a lot of advices about ship builds, tactics etc. => https://www.antixenoinitiative.com/home
Before, i was just the kind of guy who act like this: "IF it stil move i shoot!", ending my fights in my cutter with 5k+ hull and 2k shields at below 20% health.
Now with a chieftain, i can kill a cyclop with more than 90% health!
So it DEFINITLY worth it ;)
 

Drelthar

Drelthar
www.antixenoinitiative.com

The Anti-Xeno Initiative

The Anti-Xeno Initiative, an Elite:Dangerous player group dedicated to the defense of humanity.
www.antixenoinitiative.com www.antixenoinitiative.com

These folks will give you everything you could possibly need.
The absolute authority on Anti Xeno operations.

Also, feel free to add me a as a friend (Novo Mundus) if you play on PC, that is, and I could bring you on board as crew, and show you how I handle a basic Cyclops interceptor.
My build is certainly not optimal, nor is my technique, but I solo Cyclops a lot, so that shows you don't need either to beat those.
 

Sublime

S
Boff'in said:
I’m a Thargoid hunting and combat noob
I need some built/weapon/tactical advice.

So I got my Krait Mk2 over at oronos. I managed after an embarrassing first trail run on the small scouts ship level3 embarrassed me.

I didn’t have all my guardian hull,module and shield reinforcements which I acquired this time Last year. They were on route. I did have weapons and some reinforcements (but a light hull for the 22hyperspace jumps to the witch head nebula from sol.
But I stored some exploration stuff and waltzed out without limpets for my decontamination controller.

The Wife
I found another Alien threat over 3
And I gave them everything I had....including bad language and squeals.
God damned that corrosion added a stress timer to the combat. I did terribly bad. My wife was complaining about the noise and I had to help out around the house.

But I killed them, and got 20’ thousand in combat bonds my hull was at 20% and counting (I have already mentioned that forgot to pack limpets, but I reiterate so it sinks in more.)
Not to worry I can craft some....but I didn’t have the materials required.
more cussing to my wife’s disapproval.

Full speed to the Goldon stag(the nearest port).

Now my hull is in the teens and I being
V-E-R-Y vocal and so it my wife about the more imperative task list as I had gone over my allotted time.
As I approach The stag in supercruise I am only 5LS away, my hull is down to 12%!
I am pleading with my computer, ship, RNJesus, numerous gods and the system chat for help as I was cutting it close but I might not make it.

Interdiction time - wait, what?
So I’m not at 5% hull and a Federal cruising is nuzzling my ships shields.
“Help me” I plead.
“No” came the reply
“Thargoids should be left in peace you deserve to die.”
“Please?”
“Nope. RIP”

I was had reached my peak panic before the interdiction.
My first successful encounter against the Thargoids, my first combat
Bonds,
All ruined because of this guy.

I was beyond furious.
I had difficulty verbally. Just incoherent sounds. And I rage quitters and read a bed time bed time story to my daughter. I tried again this morning in a smaller vessel and failed my cargo hatch got damaged so I lost my limpets. I exploded outside the toaster
Rack.

But now my modules have Arrived for my krait so I tooled up (limpets) Got my bonds and laughed about the emotional rollercoaster last night open disaster gave me.
Very hard to recreate that personal story.

but now I need a thargoid heart.
Tell me what I must do!
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So the moral of this story is.... you should have listened to your wife.. :)

If you don’t have limpets, you can burn off the corrosive material by overheating your ship. Go into silent running and boost around, fire weapons, etc to get your heat up to around 150% or so, it’ll give you a voice response when it’s burned off.

Krait II is a great AX ship. To fight scouts just load it up with some quick charge bi-weaves, hull, and module reinforcements. Don’t bother with the guardian shield boosters hull reinforcements, just get regular ones and engineer them with heavy duty deep plating. Get as m

For weapons, the turreted ax multi-cannons should make quick work of them.

Good luck! (and listen to your wife)
 

Northpin

Northpin
Boff'in said:
o I got my Krait Mk2 over at oronos.
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If you have them engineers unlocked this is what i would do to that Krait

You have 3 large ax turrets to kill scouts (with that build you cannot kill Interceptors)
You have 2 rails to practice fixed weapons and to use them if you get corrosion damage (heat your ship to 150-170% to get rid of corrosion, then use a heat sink)
You have decent shields, a xeno scanner to identify various types of Scouts (always kill Regenerators first)
You have decon limpets to remove corrosion (them limpets will die if you take damage)
you have AFMU to repair internal damage (some Thargoid damage will bleed through shields) - especially the MRP.

This modified build will allow you to try the first level of interceptors (the Cyclops) but they're very different from the Scouts.
 

Hacker#451563

Hacker#451563
2 pieces of advice.

First; Read the posts in the anti-Thargoid section of this forum for a few hours, they give LOADS of good advice and ship builds.

Second; Buy one of these.

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Treya

Treya
[VR] Orodruin said:
It depends on the goo. Hydra goo would require higher temperatures... there is also insta removal snd removal over time.

If it happens I just turn on SR and fire gauss until it is off. Then deploy heatsink.
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Ah, that would explain how I came to that lower number as I've only sampled Scouts and Cyclops so far. Thanks!
 

GroG79

G
You can get one from me if you want. I am in the Wellington system.

Good for you trying hard. Also I enjoyed the write-up
 

Boff'in

Boff'in
Drelthar said:
www.antixenoinitiative.com

The Anti-Xeno Initiative

The Anti-Xeno Initiative, an Elite:Dangerous player group dedicated to the defense of humanity.
www.antixenoinitiative.com www.antixenoinitiative.com

These folks will give you everything you could possibly need.
The absolute authority on Anti Xeno operations.

Also, feel free to add me a as a friend (Novo Mundus) if you play on PC, that is, and I could bring you on board as crew, and show you how I handle a basic Cyclops interceptor.
My build is certainly not optimal, nor is my technique, but I solo Cyclops a lot, so that shows you don't need either to beat those.
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I shall take you up on the offer another day. Real life (sleep) took priority the last few days.
I also had to outfit the ship now my modules he caught up.
I picked up 4 guardians guas cannons (not gay cannons you cheeky autocorrect) and a flak.

I tried soloing a cyclops and thanks to the advice of the commanders and the videos they have put together I hung out until the rage mechanic kicked in, which in hindsight was when I should have ‘really’ have bugged out, because it got me.
I’m not that great on those gaus cannons yet,
Flight Assist off and the pulling a reverski wasn’t easy at first but I did take care of multiple swarms, which is why I figured out that the rage mechanics were activated (not the glowing red which I was aware of but my brain had not processed how tough things where about to get)
I had Hull, but I guess my unarmoured power-plant was repeatedly targeted.

Despite missing the CG, I’ve decided to hang out in the witch-head nebula for a bit longer not that I have much money, enough for a 2 rebuys?
As I want that kill :)
 

Boff'in

Boff'in
Yes, my partner is (always) right.

And here I was, hoping for some solidarity amongst gamers and that you’d have my back.
Instead, you take ‘her’ side - you traitors :p

Seriously though, thanks for the replies and the help, it’s lovely to see the spam of the fleet carriers, which really weighs in, just how popular and BIG the CG’s can get. Novo Mundus, we got a date sometime in the future.
 
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