A tad confused about the Thargoid Scouts

[Vandalhound]

I'll try to keep it short. Two questions:

1. Got into a few brawls with scouts and noticed I don't take any internal module damage. No module reinforcement equipped, but I did wear shields. Sure, I did get some minor damage on external modules, but that made sense on account of the corrosion effect. So: do they actually do special module damage (like the interceptors) as long as my shields don't drop?

2. They don't seem to be able to hit me much, save for the occasional missile...which I could actually have the decency of at least trying to avoid. Now, I'm not exactly orbiting them, but I do keep a constant downward flying vector, to maintain line of sight for the turrets. On the other hand, out of lack of imagination, I also kept my two thermal vent beams on the ship and I've been shooting them. So...could it just be my flying that makes them miss, or are they also sensible to my heat, like the interceptors?

 

[Vandalhound]

I guess this is not the place to come with such questions...

However, if someone stumbles upon this thread looking for the same answers, I found mine on the AXI Discord and confirmed them through some additional testing, so here they are:

• Scouts only do internal module damage if your shields drop. No special attack in this regard.
• They are indeed sensitive to your ship's heat signature.

 

[Dr. Nagi]

Well I guess there you go
To explain one part for others: It's phasing damage that goes through shields, but only applies to hull. Nothing to do with corrosion.

 

[Vandalhound]

Well I guess there you go
To explain one part for others: It's phasing damage that goes through shields, but only applies to hull. Nothing to do with corrosion.

I've read about that and also got the related warning message every time I dropped into an alien signal, but honestly, in practice, I never registered hull damage until either I lost my shields or I got the corrosion effect applied. Maybe they are bugged or something. The phasing effect itself seems to work correctly when applied by the Thargoid swarms.

 

[WINGBACON]

I think scouts were meant to be so easy to off because new players that are new to anti-xeno will have less stress learning to fight them. I agree that scouts are easy and maybe need tweeking.