Horizons I "May" Have Found A Barnacle - SRV Destroyed in the Process

Flandre-SDM

Flandre-SDM
Hang on now, so I did manage to explore the same place you mentioned, but couldn't find anything out of the usual. I did move to Merope to explore its moons as my next target, and I'm still there.

Do we actually even know what the signal shape and sounds are for those... barnacles, or whatever they are? Is it viable that we should be expecting those tall signals? Every time I come across one, I get somewhat excited, and destroyed a little when I realize it's just a data point, or a bunch of useless canisters. I am becoming more eager to find whatever these strange things are, lol. Also, another few questions are: Will they be in somewhat special areas, like ravines, mountains, or cliffs? And does it matter if it's in the dark or light side?
 

1adog1

1adog1
Greyhawk said:
Whats this barnacle you guys are talking about?
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In the Horizons release video, two SRVs can be seen driving up to a group of structures, which emit a green light as they approach. They have since been confirmed to be in the game somewhere in the Pleides Nebula, and possible other nebula throughout the galaxy. For some reason, the community has taken to calling them "Barnacles."

Flandre-SDM said:
Hang on now, so I did manage to explore the same place you mentioned, but couldn't find anything out of the usual. I did move to Merope to explore its moons as my next target, and I'm still there.

Do we actually even know what the signal shape and sounds are for those... barnacles, or whatever they are? Is it viable that we should be expecting those tall signals? Every time I come across one, I get somewhat excited, and destroyed a little when I realize it's just a data point, or a bunch of useless canisters. I am becoming more eager to find whatever these strange things are, lol. Also, another few questions are: Will they be in somewhat special areas, like ravines, mountains, or cliffs? And does it matter if it's in the dark or light side?
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The signature I found on the surface was a very large crashed ship, and my SRV exploded due to a bug.

In terms of what we know about the structures so far, they've been confirmed to found as POI radar signatures (the tall ones - probably with the same width as crashed ships), and can be persistent objects. I can't attest to what sound they make, but I suspect it would be different than the normal "Deep whistle" that you here from POIs. Also, considering that well over 1000 players searching the less than 50 landfall planets in Pleides haven't found anything yet, I'd say they've probably been given random coordinates by the in game code, and been placed on a few planets in very small concentrations. It's only a matter of time before someone stumbles across one. Frontier has made it very clear that if you happen across one, it will be unmistakable.
 

Flandre-SDM

Flandre-SDM
1adog1 said:
In the Horizons release video, two SRVs can be seen driving up to a group of structures, which emit a green light as they approach. They have since been confirmed to be in the game somewhere in the Pleides Nebula, and possible other nebula throughout the galaxy. For some reason, the community has taken to calling them "Barnacles."



The signature I found on the surface was a very large crashed ship, and my SRV exploded due to a bug.

In terms of what we know about the structures so far, they've been confirmed to found as POI radar signatures (the tall ones - probably with the same width as crashed ships), and can be persistent objects. I can't attest to what sound they make, but I suspect it would be different than the normal "Deep whistle" that you here from POIs. Also, considering that well over 1000 players searching the less than 50 landfall planets in Pleides haven't found anything yet, I'd say they've probably been given random coordinates by the in game code, and been placed on a few planets in very small concentrations. It's only a matter of time before someone stumbles across one. Frontier has made it very clear that if you happen across one, it will be unmistakable.
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Ah, that's very well important to note than. I should continue keeping an eye on these tall signals then. I too imagine they will sound different. Gaah, this is so crazy. I hope someone, or myself, find something. It seems the Unknown Artefacts point to Merope, so I figure I'd start there.
 

Flandre-SDM

Flandre-SDM
I also do have another little insight, maybe I missed this somewhere else. But do you think maybe picking up an unknown artefact could help detect this... strange barnacle ordeal? I don't even know how that would work, but maybe it'll light up or something. Wonder if anyone's tried that.
 

Foxiol Eagle

Foxiol Eagle
That explosion is some kind of bug. I exploded for no reason with 97% Hull just by driving at full speed in a 1.37G rocky world. And no I hit nothing, it was a plain area with small rocks, it felt more like an invisible wall or something like that. Scared the crap out of me.
It could be the same bug that some people encountered in Horizons while flying with their ship.
 

Justor

Justor
1adog1 said:
With no warning whatsoever, my SRV going 40 kph with full shields and 77% hull health exploded. There were nothing on the minimap when it happened, no grey dots, no yellow dots, nothing.
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It sounds like the Thargoids got you! You were creeping up on their base and they blew you up with the predator cloaking technologies.

But seriously, I have logged a ton of hours and that has not happen to me, I can say when my SRV blew up it was my fault :rolleyes: was on the dark side of the planet and that was allot more of a ledge drop than I taught! :eek:

Now mining resources you can pick up show on the radar, but big rock you need to dodge do not show up as white dots. Were you are on the dark side of the planet and maybe barreled into a large rock at at 40 kph?

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irongut said:
It's a known bug, the SRV should be recalled at some point for to fix that and the faked emissions tests.
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LOL Who knew that Volkswagen made the SRV
 

Loskene

L
1adog1 said:
In terms of what we know about the structures so far, they've been confirmed to found as POI radar signatures (the tall ones - probably with the same width as crashed ships), and can be persistent objects. I can't attest to what sound they make, but I suspect it would be different than the normal "Deep whistle" that you here from POIs. Also, considering that well over 1000 players searching the less than 50 landfall planets in Pleides haven't found anything yet, I'd say they've probably been given random coordinates by the in game code, and been placed on a few planets in very small concentrations. It's only a matter of time before someone stumbles across one. Frontier has made it very clear that if you happen across one, it will be unmistakable.
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That's a very concise summary of all I needed to know about barnacle hunting, thanks. Trading in the anaconda's getting boring for now so I might add another ship to the search, the Pleides nebula is only 500ly from me anyway.
 

cygnusa

cygnusa
They are now officially found. See the UA thread. Likely to be found on other planets too, but confirmed on Merope 5C
 

dewiced

D
I think Barnacles are just another marketing move. People are searching it quite some time and no one came across it? I'm not buying it.
 
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