Taranis Update and Titan Arx Reward Clarification

Paul_Crowther

Senior Community Manager
Frontier
Greetings Commanders!

The fight against the Titan Taranis is nearing its dramatic conclusion! Taranis has already lost 6 out of it's 8 hearts, with the 7th well on the way to destruction!

With so many Commanders unleashing the full power of humanity against our alien oppressors, we wanted to clear up a few things about the Titan rewards.

Arx
  • Commanders who should have received their Arx when engaging the Titan have been granted them. There is no UI message letting you know this has happened but rest assured your Arx has already been transferred to your accounts.
  • The Arx reward for fighting the Titan heat source is awarded live after each heart is killed, and each titan has 8 hearts.
    Note that your contribution percentage towards Arx resets after every heart kill.
    The top 10% of contributors to each heart receive 400 Arx, so up to 3200 Arx is available per Titan!
    A minimum of 100 Arx will be awarded for each heart, as long as you engage the heat source at least once.
Stuck Heat Sources

Sometimes the Titan heat sources can be extra stubborn and get stuck. We are aware and working on a solution to this but for the time being you can fix this yourself by changing to either solo or private group play. This changes the instance which should switch the heat source back into working correctly.


The Titan Taranis is currently under heavy fire in Hyades Sector FB-N B7-6 and humanity is on the very verge of victory. Now is the time to fight for all humanity and show the intergalactic doom weevils that we know how to squash bugs! Are you ready to do your part?
 

Ozric

Volunteer Moderator
Ozric
Excellent, thanks a lot for the update Paul. That's a whole lotta ARX.

It's really nice to see Frontier rewarding it in this way from special in game activities. Hopefully it will be something we can see more of in the future for other types of gameplay.

(poor innocent Thargoids)
 

Zulu Romeo

Zulu Romeo
Thanks for the clarifications Paul.

Also, just to check, how much contribution is required to be eligible for the cosmetic rewards of decal, ship kit and paintjob, and do these vary depending on the amount of contribution per Titan? (e.g. do we need to have taken out several hearts ourselves, be there when the heart is destroyed or the Titan blows up, is it adjusted according to how much damage we do etc.)


Ozric said:
Excellent, thanks a lot for the update Paul. That's a whole lotta ARX.

It's really nice to see Frontier rewarding it in this way from special in game activities. Hopefully it will be something we can see more of in the future for other types of gameplay.

(poor innocent Thargoids)
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I'd love to see the tasks to liberate controlled systems rewarded similarly too - ARX rewards for numbers of refugees saved, prisoners freed, enemy ships destroyed, numbers of Spires sabotaged, etc. delivered once a system is "won" by humanity - seeing as they have a direct impact on how difficult bringing a Titan down is.
 

Herix

Herix
Paul_Crowther said:
The cosmetic rewards are available to all who participate in taking down the core of a giant death tulip.
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Just so I have 100% clarification, in order to be eligible for all of the cosmetic rewards, I just have to attack the core at least once per Titan? In other words, if I have received 100 ARX for participating in the destruction of one heart, that immediately makes me eligible for the cosmetic rewards (ship kits, liveries and emblems)?
 

forbiddenlake

forbiddenlake
I tried 6 times yesterday in Open and got 6 heat sources stuck at 0%. I shot them, but it sounds like my contribution doesn't count unless I shoot a working heat source. And in my ARX history in the User Portal, I don't have any +100s yet.

Can you please confirm or deny that we need to shoot a non-stuck heat source to get credit?
 

Karmix

Karmix
We finally hit a stream of working instances. My guess is this is the message you want to see? Is this stating we hit the heart and contributed to that ring? Sometimes we saw this message, other times not. Hopefully it works out.

I'm still showing 0 ARX from previous session when I check. Maybe it is applied after it's killed?

TaranisDamageProof.jpg
 

Zulu Romeo

Zulu Romeo
Herix said:
Just so I have 100% clarification, in order to be eligible for all of the cosmetic rewards, I just have to attack the core at least once per Titan? In other words, if I have received 100 ARX for participating in the destruction of one heart, that immediately makes me eligible for the cosmetic rewards (ship kits, liveries and emblems)?
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So in theory, one could travel to all 8 Titans, including the ones with maximum resistance, clog up some vents and lob a missile or two at the central heart core when it's exposed, and by doing even some damage to each Titan one can be be eligible for all 8 sets of cosmetics? Awesome. :D
 

aRJay

aRJay
Hellrider said:
"Come on apes! You wanna live forever?" vibes :D
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Generally yes.

Karmix said:
We finally hit a stream of working instances. My guess is this is the message you want to see? Is this stating we hit the heart and contributed to that ring? Sometimes we saw this message, other times not. Hopefully it works out.

I'm still showing 0 ARX from previous session when I check. Maybe it is applied after it's killed?

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Did you check your total, they might well be being applied directly like the Xmas login ones rather than as part of the capped at 400 Arx per week for various activities system.
 

forbiddenlake

forbiddenlake
Factabulous said:
Lol. Poor Paul. They won't take a simple answer around here :D
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Sure, I think the answer my question is that I'm just screwed, but it's not actually that simple of an answer when there are game bugs preventing people from contributing, and the interaction of the bug with the rewards hasn't been addressed. (And before anyone chimes in: Yes, there are workarounds, yes I'll work on it today, but I might miss the first one, and that's disappointing.)
 

GroG79

G
Zulu Romeo said:
So in theory, one could travel to all 8 Titans, including the ones with maximum resistance, clog up some vents and lob a missile or two at the central heart core when it's exposed, and by doing even some damage to each Titan one can be be eligible for all 8 sets of cosmetics? Awesome. :D
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You have not done that yet?
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
What happens when this Taranis thingammyjig gets all boiled up and dead?

Will it mean CMDRs will have go on foot and clear out the bugs from infested settlements? With new anti Thargoid mods for personal weapons? Or new weapons perhaps?

Will humanity retro engineer Thargoid technology that gives us the ability to funnel tritium from a carrier's hold to its depot?

Will humanity discover the coordinates of the Thargoid home world that will allow us to go on an expedition with death and destruction in mind? I bet it's an ugly planet, a bug planet and it crawls.

Fire in the hole.
 

Untilting

Untilting
Disemboweled Ego said:
Yeah


You get the reward after the heart you just contributed to dies so later today.

I was already at 400/400, but I assume the extra arx don't count towards your weekly cap like every other limited time ARX bonus has been so far.
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Just checked my recent Arx transactions, there are three +100 Arx for last night which aren't showing up in the normal weekly accumulation, presumably linked to me ineffectively but enthusiastically lobbing ordnance at a pineapple.
 
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