Elite Dangerous | Titan Indra Vulnerable & Thargoid War Changes

Paul_Crowther

Senior Community Manager
Frontier
Greetings Commanders!

Titan Indra will be vulnerable on Thursday 4th July! This is your chance to team up and strike it down!
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Grab a Thargoid Pulse Neutraliser, Caustic Sink Launcher, and a Guardian Nanite Torpedo Pylon from any rescue megaship and take on the Titan in HIP 20567.


Rewards

Earn up to 3200 Arx by helping take down the Titan! In addition, if you have been involved in taking down the previous Titans you will unlock the following ship kit and decal

Decal
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Ship Kit
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Important Changes to the Thargoid war balance​

Following your feedback we have implemented the following changes with the Thursday maintenance.

Thargoid War Strategy
  • Alert/Invasion
    • Titans will now directly invade populated systems, skipping the traditional probing state
      • Unpopulated systems will no longer enter an alert state
      • Several populated systems will still enter an alert state
  • Counterstrike Port AXCZs
    • Following your feedback, we are enabling an option for port Anti-Xeno Combat Zones to play an offensive role against the Thargoids:
      • In previously populated counterstrike systems, one port will reactivate and will have an AXCZ available
        • This port will have repair/rearm available, but will not offer missions
        • Planetary ports will be favored. If no suitable planetary ports are available, a space based port will reactivate instead
      • These systems can be identified on the Galaxy Map as stacked counterstrike and port under attack icons as below:
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As the war continues to escalate make sure you are ready to join the fray with the Python MKII Stellar and the Alliance Chieftain AX Combat Jumpstart!
 

kosnett

kosnett
I assume the minimum damage to earn the rewards remains unchanged at damage to the heat core equal to 2 million in bonds or more?
 

Omnituens

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  • Alert/Invasion
    • Titans will now directly invade populated systems, skipping the traditional probing state
    • Unpopulated systems will no longer enter an alert state
    • Several populated systems will still enter an alert state
Clarification request: Points 1 and 3 - does this mean some DO alert and some DON'T? Point one implies all pop systems go right to invasion, while point 3 says some don't. Point 2 - Does this mean they are totally ignoring unpop systems? Or are they going straight to controlled? Because I REALLY hope it is the first one.
 

Trouvere

Trouvere
Omnituens said:
  • Alert/Invasion
    • Titans will now directly invade populated systems, skipping the traditional probing state
    • Unpopulated systems will no longer enter an alert state
    • Several populated systems will still enter an alert state
Clarification request: Points 1 and 3 - does this mean some DO alert and some DON'T? Point one implies all pop systems go right to invasion, while point 3 says some don't. Point 2 - Does this mean they are totally ignoring unpop systems? Or are they going straight to controlled? Because I REALLY hope it is the first one.
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Reading it as written, it sounds to me like populated systems will mostly go into alert as normal, but some will just skip straight to invasion. Those thargoids are getting reckless in their desperation so it would seem!

I agree, having 10-20 new invasion states each tick would be well received by all our combat pilots. Especially given that the planetary ones are the easiest route in for new flyers.
 

jacklul

jacklul
No bonds are earned again - the bug is back?
I went to get my 2M of contribution already done in case I don't make it tomorrow/weekend - after 1 hour the combat bonds stayed at the same number, relogged and it's still the same old value, went to station - same value there too...
I started with 2.5M, earned around 2.4M from shooting Titan core and it stayed at 2.5M.

Edit: no combat bond events in the journal at all
 
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Kira Goto

Kira Goto
Paul_Crowther said:
Grab a Thargoid Pulse Neutraliser, Caustic Sink Launcher, and a Guardian Nanite Torpedo Pylon from any rescue megaship and take the Titan in HIP 20567.
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Shouldn't it be take to/on the Titan?

Else we are going to commit the heist of the millennium.

(Nothing to complain about with the other changes, but maybe the Titans will want to unveil some other tricks if they actually don't want to be reduced to heaps of scrap.)
 

Kira Goto

Kira Goto
... which (at least as far as I've found) are (also?) shown here.

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IstvaanDCIV

IstvaanDCIV
Decal is snazzy. I see that they're really starting to bring the bling as the dead Titan count crosses the half-way mark.

I think that's the first Thargoid ship kit that I would actually want to put on one of my ships, makes the Cutter look like a dragon. Does it come with the paintjob? Because that also looks really pretty.

More chances for ground port AXCZs is excellent news. They're loads of fun and allow for a wider variety of ship builds. I've got a Cobra Mk3 that I've outfitted to be an AX dogfighter, she's a blast to fly at ground ports.
 

Brrokk

Brrokk
kosnett said:
I assume the minimum damage to earn the rewards remains unchanged at damage to the heat core equal to 2 million in bonds or more?
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I don't think it's 2 million. I got the decal reward for a much lower contribution (less than 1 million) for the last titan.
 
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