Chance to make a discovery

[Alex Korr V]

Question to all, but Frontier's comments would be especially appreciated: do players still have a chance of making a discovery, meaning, a small chance of discovering something that was never ever discovered by any other player before?

This is obviously not about new worlds, but rather about new features, life, types of ancient sites, ships etc.

 

[Orvidius]

Yes and no. We think most of the life forms have been found, but we can't be 100% sure. There may be some undiscovered generation ship derelicts out there, but most of those have "probably" been found. New guardian sites are still being found fairly regularly at the moment, with some targeted survey areas. And it's possible some new Thargoid content will be added to discover, once the story line progresses further for that.

And of course, supposedly Raxxla is out there somewhere.

 

[Eahlstan]

Well, just about two hours ago I found a previously unknown variant of Fonticulua, so if you count such things it's definitely possible to get a "galaxy-wide first".

 

[Mrat13]

Go out searching for Raaxla. That would get your name in the books

 

[Ian Skippy]

Well, just about two hours ago I found a previously unknown variant of Fonticulua, so if you count such things it's definitely possible to get a "galaxy-wide first".

Congrats!

 

[Alex Korr V]

Well, just about two hours ago I found a previously unknown variant of Fonticulua, so if you count such things it's definitely possible to get a "galaxy-wide first".

Glad to hear, it means biological discoveries are still out there. That's already something.

It's just if everything is already discovered, and if you can encounter only the same content already discovered by players, just shuffled in different order, this kinda breaks exploration immersion. Not saying discovering something completely new for in-game humanity should be easy, but it should be definitely always possible, meaning that one would expect Dev Team to get an alert if players have discovered all possible content in the galaxy, and add something new from their libraries.

Devil is in the small things.

 

[Alex Korr V]

Go out searching for Raaxla. That would get your name in the books

Did Frontier unlock that playerlocked sector of the galaxy where very convincing research from thousand-pages Raxxla thread points to?

 

[Orvidius]

To clarify, there are still variants of the life forms that can probably be found in a variety of regions, but as far as the major types, they've probably all been found somewhere and identified. If you want your name in the codex, you can compare regions and see what's missing in some of them.

 

[Eahlstan]

To clarify, there are still variants of the life forms that can probably be found in a variety of regions, but as far as the major types, they've probably all been found somewhere and identified. If you want your name in the codex, you can compare regions and see what's missing in some of them.

In the same way you can make a list of star type defined life forms, spot the holes in that list and target the star types that are missing some species (mostly AE/BE and O as far as I know - although zero carbon star based ones have been found) to find galaxy wide new subspecies.