For you, what is the new thargoid variant ?
- Thread starter Cmdr Isson Kiporto
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This will be one of those situations where how they react to humans will be based upon how humans act upon discovering the first one. Now, if we just treated kindly and don't start shooting at it right away... Oh crap. Oh well continue shooting.
I doubt so. Considering that the clip showing it off is in HIP 20567 - aka Maelstrom Indra’s location - it’s much more likely to be hostile from the get go.
And people are going to shoot the new thing because it’s a game.
Concerning all of the weird issues that ship launched fighters seem to have when they're being used, are they still useful for anything?
in fairness, there's not really been any other option that's produced a tangible outcome.
I hear collecting samples is doing great thing in Alert systems. It's only fair, they've been probing humans for centuries.
They are useful for a lot of things. They are especially good for drawing aggro.
When at higher levels they can also take out both NPCs and scouts.
Or we are going to probe it to death
They're still ok of you're playing solo
And here I thought it was Murphy...
I play Guardians fighters in open and it works very well.
I once owned a ship called Shooty McShootface. I used it to shoot things, and it shot them very well.
The issue with AI-piloted SLFs in multiplayer is that they cause a ton of lag for others in your instance. It's okay if nobody else is around, just try not to use them if you've got fellow Commanders with you.
I'm not sure about that, we've played teamed up and using SLFs without any problems. Maybe it's network or scenario dependent, but it can work.
Indeed. No idea what triggers the lag. I've seen it happen and have it happen.
(seen it happen to others in a CZ when someone launched, and lagged too)
When flying with our wing it doesn't happen, so there may be a correlation.
(this is when no-one else but our wing is around is what i mean)
Anythin that isnt hexagonal is new to me.
Had a beautiful idea about this on Lave Radio last night.
Imagine you get past the maelstrom pulse wave and finally fly your ship to the heart of the cloud where you encounter a Thargoid hive ship, apparently covered in a weird, spiky outer exoskeleton. Then, as you approach closer, this exoskeleton starts to break up and suddenly flies apart, revealing it to be a cloud of these angry little scouts which proceed to swarm all over you.
The only snag is that the game probably couldn't handle that number of ships and would slow to a crawl so it's probably not that.
Shame tho ... can you imagine the horror just as you thought you'd made it to the end!
Imagine you get past the maelstrom pulse wave and finally fly your ship to the heart of the cloud where you encounter a Thargoid hive ship, apparently covered in a weird, spiky outer exoskeleton. Then, as you approach closer, this exoskeleton starts to break up and suddenly flies apart, revealing it to be a cloud of these angry little scouts which proceed to swarm all over you.
The only snag is that the game probably couldn't handle that number of ships and would slow to a crawl so it's probably not that.
Shame tho ... can you imagine the horror just as you thought you'd made it to the end!
I fly with SLFs from myself and others in AXCZs all the time; rubberbanding happens sometimes, but normally settles after a little while.
It's rare these days; the faster connections get, the rarer it seems to be. I think it happens depending on who is involved in the P2P for the instance. If you are rubberbanding a lot, maybe the problem is you?
