First look: THE SCYTHE!!! (New Thargoid ship)
Technically that already happened (the universal limpet controller lets you launch 8 concurrent limpets instead of the existing research limpet controller which only supports 1) and I suspect it's a big reason why things are currently as they are.
A first look at the NEW THARGOID The Scythe! It's a new Hunter-class ship with a purpose different to anything we've seen before. What do we know about it so far?
What exactly is its purpose? This is what we need to discover
- The Scythe is a new hunter-class vessel arriving in Update 16.
- It has a very different purpose and behaviour within the ranks of the Thargoid fleet to the Glaive.
- When you come across the Scythe, learning how it selects its targets is key to understanding its intent as it’s not like any traditional combat vessel that you’ve encountered before.
- In addition to the number of tools we know the Thargoids have, it has new weapons that make it a very specialised vessel with a singular sinister objective.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYyWl04JjmY
is it a thargoid trader or is the thargoid going to remain a simple driver to additional engineering and combat scale?
I'm honestly not sure how the thargoid need yet another combat vessel. why are they being designed by fdev? the only interaction we have as players with thargoids is combat ( and recently shooting limpets at them to steal tissue)... that's our interface. Human ships can take on drastically different roles and behaviours using the same ship model. why couldn't thargoids save that design money and just do variants that way (maybe different skin tints) and the rest of the design money could have gone into content players can actually interact with in more than just one limited way? this is crazy, but maybe new ships we can fly around in, in this space ship game.
it's so hard to get excited about more thargoid ships that all we can do with is shoot at, when we haven't got a new ship to fly in like 5 years
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but human winning the war literally just returns the game to the state it already had before the war ( since nothing is actually destroyed). why would that be preferable to a game state that is entirely new because the thargoids won?
That works on the principle that anything is better than nothing. Frontier appear to be trying to disprove that proposition.
I would prefer losing. Winning is... boooring.
Well, it definitely will not be Vegan!
And should go well with Kumo Burgers <ninja'ed Rubbernuke>
... Humans.
The big question is, can a limpet collect a thimpet. If so, how much do they sell for. I don't mind the Thargoids collecting humans and harvesting their brains to build ship naviation computers.
Well, that joke's on them, certainly. drifts around in utter confusion, refusing to ask directions
Honestly I think it's more of a meme from Star citizen ship names.
In star citizen there is a hostile xeno race called Vanduul; 2 of their famous fighter classes are called "Glaive" and "Scythe"
Or - at least - cobble together more useful versions of existing hulls with better weapon convergence, speed, etc.
How many Mk”s of Hurricane and Spitfire were created during WWII? Yet Core Dynamics have made ZERO improvements to their ships despite being the primary / premium supplier to the Federal Navy?!!
- Faster Corvette
- FAS with more Utility slots
- Vulture with 4x C2 slots instead of 2xC3
All of those should be simple hull variants with some compromise due to bigger thrusters / increased power drain / etc …
And no-one ever complained about "new" ships being mere variants of existing ones.
True … but better that than nothing, right?!
In an existential war, all of R&D would be pushed to the brim and beyond to push warship performance to the max. At the very least, all of the existing G5 mods, which are insanely stable, would become standard.
That being said, the war has only been going on for a few months now..
The Vulture variant sounds intriguing. It's hard to know what's more ridiculous though, the total lack of new ships or variants during the war... or the fact that while the human race populates something in the region of 20,000 star systems there are only FIVE ship manufacturers in existence.
And some of them haven’t even released a new model in a couple hundred years..
The what now?