Barnacles in HIP 22460

[Cmdr SciPhi]

Good Evening all, I have been doing a bit of experimenting over the last few days and have discovered that if a Thargoid drops into a barnacle site in HIP 22460 they will attack your ship. This is never happened in the past in other systems and is new behaviour.
I streamed it for prosperity (and on behalf of Buur Science )

media warning there is swearing in the video.
I have tried a few barnacle sites outside of HIP 22460, but didn't get any bites on them dropping in, so I popped to The Bug Killer in HIP 16613 to see if they were aggressive there (spoiler, they're not).

Just thought everyone should know just in case there are some explorers still mad enough to be in the attacked system.

See you in the Void, and stay safe out there.

CMDR SciPhi

 

[Ned Flandalorian]

Seems like all thargoids in HIP 22460 currently have the following properties:

• Aggressive on sight (no scanning)
• Very passive swarms - they follow the interceptor around but don't attack

There's also a very high chance of being hyperdicted on the way in and out of the system, which confirms the above behaviour; if you get hyperdicted on the way in the interceptors behave normal (because you're still outside of HIP 22460 after the hyperdiction) but they show the strange behaviour if you get hyperdicted on the way out (because you don't actually leave the system).

 

[ebbrell]

I noticed the instant attack when hyperlinked.

And yes the swarm, left me alone it normally rips me to bits.
I suspect swarm has been turned down to make it easier... to stop it attacking the capital ships