Who says it would hang at 1hp? What if none of your weapons can deplete its shields? Or scratch its armour? What if it enters self-repair dormancy at 50% hull, repairing faster than even multiple wings could damage it but giving you a window of opportunity to escape? Any of those would be perfectly within lore. You're confusing badly-implemented cut-scene triggers with fearsome opposition.
are thargoids basically end game for super players
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Who says it would hang at 1hp? What if none of your weapons can deplete its shields? Or scratch its armour? What if it enters self-repair dormancy at 50% hull, repairing faster than even multiple wings could damage it but giving you a window of opportunity to escape? Any of those would be perfectly within lore. You're confusing badly-implemented cut-scene triggers with fearsome opposition.
digitalscream
Banned
Alternatively, they'll be implemented as a new Power in order to revive the wreckage that is PP and get more people playing it.
They'll be interesting for a few weeks until the storyline peters out, then there'll be a massive CG to fight them where everyone gets to either die repeatedly or earn billions of credits, and suddenly the galaxy is full of invincible BattleCondas for whom the Thargoids are a speck on the canopy.
Yes, 2.1 has made me cynical
They'll be interesting for a few weeks until the storyline peters out, then there'll be a massive CG to fight them where everyone gets to either die repeatedly or earn billions of credits, and suddenly the galaxy is full of invincible BattleCondas for whom the Thargoids are a speck on the canopy.
Yes, 2.1 has made me cynical
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Michael
THIS ANSWER.
I am thinking all the time that they wont just throw in some new NPC enemies. Bubble 2 may grow faster than we all expect ... refugees like us who don't want to be ripped out of Hyperspace all the time and eventually be destroyed in most cases.
We reached a point where FD needs to reset things a bit for old and new players. A new beginning. Maybe one of the reasons they throw money at us now.
So say we all ;-)
Michael
Hmm... So this is where the ship transfer mechanic in 2.2 comes into play?
Haul yourself to Jacques ASAP and get your ships over there before the bubble gets incinerated.
Have fun, fly like you mean it. o7
Mh, you don't know from which direction they're coming.Your base could be the first to fall.
digitalscream
Banned
If old lore is still valid, they live in Witch Space, and can therefore drop out wherever they want in our space.
Ergo...the concept of "from which direction they're coming" is somewhat redundant. They'll be coming from everywhere.
Michael
Is that an imperial loving Frontier smile? Or a toothy predatory grin before a light snack?
Have we? Who says its a piloted ship? Could just be a bigger probe. Or it might be an actual alien, and they are big beasties made of metal.... or a robot of theirs. Or maybe its their mothership, and the aliens are really really tiny!
Its okay man calm down, those of us with heat weapons can bypass all of that. There have been a few throw away accounts used here and on Reddit that suggest that might be the reason they haven't gotten rid of it,
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Isn't he a Fed guy like Sandy?
You underestimate the power of a fully engineered "big 3" ship. High CZ's are a joke for a single one of these ships, not a wing. I've been working on stacking war kill missions and seeing how fast I can get them done in my fully warfit Conda. My average time to complete a 96 ship kill mission over the last week is about 100 minutes, assuming I don't stop to re-supply ammo and just use synthesis.
Fair reasoning, but what about all the engineers bases ? I don't think they can just be moved by snapping fingers
I'm hoping for some variation. It wouldn't make sense for all the Thargoids to be ace pilots any more than the humans to are.
That said it would be cool if the better Thargoid ships had better on board gear to "examine." (As in loot, reverse engineer, and use on my own ship.) Purely in the interests of science of course
That said it would be cool if the better Thargoid ships had better on board gear to "examine." (As in loot, reverse engineer, and use on my own ship.) Purely in the interests of science of course
Michael
*gulp*
When a Frontier person says they're a "fed guy" it's like an American abroad with a Canadian flag on their backpack. Safety marketing.
Reading your quote my brain switched to Star Wars Emperor voice over. If you could just slip in a "fully operational Death Star" next time that would be great.
Have you seen Michael Brookes's axe? It's huge!!!
We are so screwed.
I hope the axe and the thargoid danger are truly linked. That thing looked extremely lethal.
Ian Phillips
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Its too top heavy to be useful..... It's only good as a headmans axe.