INRA Base Discoveries

[Patau82]

It was all skybox matching at first.
Really an hit and miss, I circled around the planet several times until I thought of being close enough. Glided down to the surface, straight toward the canyon that was under me. From there just following the canyon's general direction; there was an awful lot of surface POIs on my radar in that area, I aimed at them at first but was only finding System Defense Force vessels every single time, which led me into a circling chase of about 50kms in radius, until I had the Milky Way's bright light contrasting with the surface on the screen (not even talking about the ambient occlusion near fat rocks on the ground that let you think you found something, the deception every time ).
There was an object near a few rocky ridges that was creating some aliasing with the heavy contrast right in the middle, so I headed there, and bam.

I realized long afterward that it wasn't the same as the trailer, I was so focused on the background that I entirely forgot to compare.

Of note, I spent a few thousand hours licking planetary surfaces back during the CoR exploration CG in search for the bases, so had a fair few ideas of how to "enhance" the yoghurting experience already

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About the above : Reduce all your graphic settings to the absolute minimum (planets looks like yoghurt at this stage, hence the term), try to find "contrasty" lighting conditions, and something I like doing : licking the surface upside down with the camera angled straight up your head

ah very nice!
so sky box was used to find the system, was wondering what lead to Hermitage couldnt find it in the thread

 

[CookieJarviz]

It was all skybox matching at first.
Really an hit and miss, I circled around the planet several times until I thought of being close enough. Glided down to the surface, straight toward the canyon that was under me. From there just following the canyon's general direction; there was an awful lot of surface POIs on my radar in that area, I aimed at them at first but was only finding System Defense Force vessels every single time, which led me into a circling chase of about 50kms in radius, until I had the Milky Way's bright light contrasting with the surface on the screen (not even talking about the ambient occlusion near fat rocks on the ground that let you think you found something, the deception every time ).
There was an object near a few rocky ridges that was creating some aliasing with the heavy contrast right in the middle, so I headed there, and bam.

I realized long afterward that it wasn't the same as the trailer, I was so focused on the background that I entirely forgot to compare.

Of note, I spent a few thousand hours licking planetary surfaces back during the CoR exploration CG in search for the bases, so had a fair few ideas of how to "enhance" the yoghurting experience already

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About the above : Reduce all your graphic settings to the absolute minimum (planets looks like yoghurt at this stage, hence the term), try to find "contrasty" lighting conditions, and something I like doing : licking the surface upside down with the camera angled straight up your head

Yes I did find it abit odd that there were POIs out the crack out tehre and that there were also a lot of USS convoys.

 

[Alex Ringess]

It was all skybox matching at first.
Really an hit and miss, I circled around the planet several times until I thought of being close enough. Glided down to the surface, straight toward the canyon that was under me. From there just following the canyon's general direction; there was an awful lot of surface POIs on my radar in that area, I aimed at them at first but was only finding System Defense Force vessels every single time, which led me into a circling chase of about 50kms in radius, until I had the Milky Way's bright light contrasting with the surface on the screen (not even talking about the ambient occlusion near fat rocks on the ground that let you think you found something, the deception every time ).
There was an object near a few rocky ridges that was creating some aliasing with the heavy contrast right in the middle, so I headed there, and bam.

I realized long afterward that it wasn't the same as the trailer, I was so focused on the background that I entirely forgot to compare.

Of note, I spent a few thousand hours licking planetary surfaces back during the CoR exploration CG in search for the bases, so had a fair few ideas of how to "enhance" the yoghurting experience already

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About the above : Reduce all your graphic settings to the absolute minimum (planets looks like yoghurt at this stage, hence the term), try to find "contrasty" lighting conditions, and something I like doing : licking the surface upside down with the camera angled straight up your head

Thanks for all that details. I was not aware of that. Just was with you live on vocal during the uncovered but I was not so aware about the details. Very enlightning !

 

[Nicholas Powell]

ohh very nice, what clues lead to the find?

Come now, Patau. The clues are all there. With just a little leap of intuition, I'm confident you'll come to the same conclusion I have.
CookieJarviz works for INRA.

 

[Patau82]

ah very nice!
so sky box was used to find the system, was wondering what lead to Hermitage couldnt find it in the thread

wait hang on if its not the same base as in the trailer then what lead to Hermitage, i'm confused ...... :S

 

[CMDR M Kozak]

So was this an "real find" or did someone magically know something? Skybox matching is one thing, but its a big galaxy and all.

 

[VampyreGTX]

And he just unleashed a plague on humanity. Those bases are really Thargoid ploys that are a 'reverse-mycoid' virus that will kill us all!

 

[Ozric]

wait hang on if its not the same base as in the trailer then what lead to Hermitage, i'm confused ...... :S

Still can't work that out. If it was the skybox that matched the system, then that must mean that there's other bases in that system we need to be searching for.

 

[eadghe]

Hmm, I tried to match the skybox with the one in the trailer and I cannot find a match... :S

 

[Patau82]

So was this an "real find" or did someone magically know something? Skybox matching is one thing, but its a big galaxy and all.

Its been done before

 

[CMDR M Kozak]

Its been done before

Im sure, Im just not sure I accept the explanation: "Skybox matching".

I will openly say here that its hard to dismiss someone fooling around with gamefiles.

 

[Kleitias]

Its been done before

Well, at least that's the story. I don't want to raise any suspicions - really not - but we will probably never know for completely sure, right?

 

[Tacyon]

I know it's been made mention elsewhere, but in the linked video, at 15 seconds, the hull all the way to the right, looks like the new T9+ (T10?) with only 4 of its 8 engines lit.

As a space cow pilot, this intrigues me. It appears to actually been in the battle with the first wave of Thargoids before the 2nd wave dropped.

 

[MyklAtrum]

Wait, so was it skybox matching? Or intuition? I'm confused. And I still haven't seen any proof that the skybox matched. I thought that Jarvis just "flew around Alioth" to find something that looked right? Although.. 60ly isn't really "around Alioth" to me. But what do I know? *shrug*

 

[Edelgard von Rhein]

For those who have the paperback copy of Premonition (not sure if pdf is the same), I think the last half of page 343 might give you a clue as to the fate of a certain ship related to the storyline ...
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Spoiler

and I don't mean the Escape Velocity - although it was great to see the reference in there!

 

[Lobey]

Congrats - I had a nosy round here back when the game launched - have always been on the lookout for something from the original games , wonder how long it's been in game ?
Also wonder if we can find any containers of Mycoid Virus to recover ?, "old" Thargoid tech even ?
On my way - need to go over this system with a fine toothcomb.

 

[TheRustyHammer]

The logs make it seem like INRA weren’t the boogeymen they were made out to be.

 

[Ozric]

Congrats - I had a nosy round here back when the game launched - have always been on the lookout for something from the original games , wonder how long it's been in game ?
Also wonder if we can find any containers of Mycoid Virus to recover ?, "old" Thargoid tech even ?
On my way - need to go over this system with a fine toothcomb.

Why on Earth would you want to pick up the virus lol.

The logs make it seem like INRA weren’t the boogeymen they were made out to be.

The logs are indeed strange and don't seem to really fit:

Spoiler

The logs must be really old from when this base was first established. She is talking about the Mycoid virus only in it's initial conception and yet the base has tanks storing the virus... It doesn't make sense to me.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

What's an INRA?

 

[Yaffle]

What's an INRA?

Shady pseudo government crazytech people that developed a bio-weapon used against the thargoids last time around (FFE).