Are there discoveries/mysteries in the game that are yet to be uncovered?

HevKenzieHarris

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I'm not talking about things like Raxxla that are an existing mystery/conspiracy theory (however you want to look at it)

I'm talking about whether there's any sort of chance that a player could come across some big new mystery somewhere in the galaxy that no one has ever found before, that has perhaps been part of the game since the beginning but has remained undiscovered because of the vastness of the galaxy

400 billion star systems in the galaxy, surely there's something else out there right?
 

Weps

Weps
Wasn't there a dev stream or video a while back (but certainly past 2020) where a dev made the comment that there are still things to be discovered in the game?

I can't remember the details or even the exact quote / tone - all I remember was that I had the feeling at the time, that they were referring to instances of existing in-game objects, such as maybe additional bio, or additional Guardian ruins etc.
 

HevKenzieHarris

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Weps said:
Wasn't there a dev stream or video a while back (but certainly past 2020) where a dev made the comment that there are still things to be discovered in the game?

I can't remember the details or even the exact quote / tone - all I remember was that I had the feeling at the time, that they were referring to instances of existing in-game objects, such as maybe additional bio, or additional Guardian ruins etc.
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I actually discovered a brand new system with brain trees a few months ago but completely forgot about it until now, as far as I know that's an indication that there are Guardian ruins somewhere nearby

They're in Plio Eurl ZQ-V b57-5 on planets B1 and B2, which must mean that Guardian ruins are within a 100LY radius of this system
 

Aashenfox

Aashenfox
I don't think there is anything that hasn't been mentioned in the current narrative, such as Raxxla as you say, and perhaps some more guardian stuff, but I'm sure there is nothing randomly out there waiting to be found trhat's never been discussed or even hinted at, unless it's sufficiently large (like a large area of space including thousands of systems), simply because if the current playerbase were to explore the entire galaxy starting today, ignoring all discovered objects, it would take 44 thousand years according to that recent documentary. They can't hide stuff in that, it's too unlikely to ever be found, wasted effort.

I do think the loremasters might have new things up their sleeve, but they'll be 'inserted' when the time is right.
 

aRJay

aRJay
HevKenzieHarris said:
I'm not talking about things like Raxxla that are an existing mystery/conspiracy theory (however you want to look at it)

I'm talking about whether there's any sort of chance that a player could come across some big new mystery somewhere in the galaxy that no one has ever found before, that has perhaps been part of the game since the beginning but has remained undiscovered because of the vastness of the galaxy

400 billion star systems in the galaxy, surely there's something else out there right?
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Only FDev and maybe the people who try to datamine know.

I think so but don’t want even FDev to actually tell me.
 

r09u3

r09u3
I'm sure there are many things never figured out for one reason it another. The coded signal from station antennas has never been figured out.
 

PilotB

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From what I can see trawling the codex and the data.

L02 anomalies still haven't been discovered.
Any difinitive proof you can or cannot decode the guardian codex audio signals.

Puzzling but probably not puzzles.
The station antennas streams mathematically resemble noise. No patterns no variation nothing really repeating. It looks and acts like a random number generator.
Landscape signal. No attached system to it's source position. Looks after extensive searching by many players to simply be a cosmic easter egg.

Most likely a bug and the required thing doesn't spawn.
The ending for the Alpha Centauri B1 listening post still hasn't been found despite people checking the system you get directed to.

Where the Dredgers are. Scriveners Clan in Synuefai OS-O c8-1
Where Azimuth's mega ship we helped them build has been for the last few years after it never showed up where galnet said it should.
 
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Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
HevKenzieHarris said:
I'm talking about whether there's any sort of chance that a player could come across some big new mystery somewhere in the galaxy that no one has ever found before, that has perhaps been part of the game since the beginning but has remained undiscovered because of the vastness of the galaxy
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It seems unlikely that Frontier would have implemented something like that without even hinting about it - they have enough time with implementing things that they want us to find and use.


Extreme procedural outliers are possible, though - so far there's only been one World of Death found, and just three Helium Giants catalogued outside the semi-hand-crafted systems near the bubble. There's plenty of room for something else of that level of rarity to exist in the extreme outlying cases of procedural generation and not even Frontier knows it's there.


As others have mentioned the game audio provides endless opportunities for speculation
- Frontier have hidden mysteries and easter eggs in the game's audio before
- on the other hand the Elite Dangerous sound designers are just generally really good at it, and lots of things which therefore don't technically need a sound effect at all have one anyway for a bit of extra ambience. Not all or even most of those sounds have any meaning beyond "makes the game sound better"
 

PilotB

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All the mysteries in the game were clearly designed to be found. We've found crazy amounts of stuff for how little of the galaxy is actually mapped. The chances of there being something completely unkown out there seem to approach 0 at this point. All the puzzles have markers to draw the players to them. There's cool stuff, there's some mysteries that remain but the recent MO for FDev has been lock it, Galnet it, give it directly to players.

There will be future puzzles but it does not appear that there are unknown story lines in game just waiting to be discovered. They will be added to the game and players will be given a nudge or a giant flashing arrow in the direction to move. That's a little pessimistic but that's the pattern we have to work with.
 

PilotB

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Nidoboros said:
... aside from the things we aren't allowed to find.
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They haven't been sitting on large amounts of implemented gameplay for years that they've just left locked. It's not that we aren't allowed to find what's in the permits. It almost certainly doesn't exist at this stage. We'll be informed with a galnet and some clues once content is added to a permit though we'd likely see the permit name change first ruining the surprise.
 

DjVortex

DjVortex
I doubt there's entirely new content that's yet completely undiscovered. However, there's a slim but very real possibility that there are still Guardian sites, Thargoid sites and, possibly, abandoned human settlements out there that are yet to be discovered. Unlikely, but possible.

Finding one would be a jackpot for an explorer.

(Btw, when you are out there in the black FSS-scanning previously undiscovered planets, always take note of the "locations" field on the right when scanning a planet. If the planet has been previously undiscovered and that field says anything other than "none", you have hit the jackpot and should definitely investigate and report your finding in these forums.)
 
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HevKenzieHarris

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DjVortex said:
I doubt there's entirely new content that's yet completely undiscovered. However, there's a slim but very real possibility that there are still Guardian sites, Thargoid sites and, possibly, abandoned human settlements out there that are yet to be discovered. Unlikely, but possible.

Finding one would be a jackpot for an explorer.

(Btw, when you are out there in the black FSS-scanning previously undiscovered planets, always take note of the "locations" field on the right when scanning a planet. If the planet has been previously undiscovered and that field says anything other than "none", you have hit the jackpot and should definitely investigate and report your finding in these forums.)
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As in the "Signals" part or a specific "Locations" part?
 

DjVortex

DjVortex
HevKenzieHarris said:
As in the "Signals" part or a specific "Locations" part?
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The "locations" field.

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The "signals" part could also indicate something interesting, but most often it's just a crashed thargoid probe (AFAIK those are generated randomly and aren't all that interesting.)
 
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PilotB

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HevKenzieHarris said:
As in the "Signals" part or a specific "Locations" part?
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Locations and Features in the system map but the stuff that's likely to represent something hidden should be in locations.
Signals in the FSS where you're usually looking for Other, Guardian or Thargoid however Biological is important when you're hunting hidden stuff as at least for guardians Brain trees are a marker that you're in a guardian area with ruins.

If you for example found a new sphere of brain trees you'd expect to find a completely unknown set of guardian ruins within. Since they've done it before if you find any sphere of horizons biology it'd be an area to check for hidden stuff.
 
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