A look at a few things coming in Update 15, which includes on foot Thargoid combat against "drones", a new class of "Hunter" Thargoid called the Glaive, plus a new Oydssey mission type. Video includes a look at some of the footage Frontier showed a few of us last week.
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A look at a few things coming in Update 15, which includes on foot Thargoid combat against "drones", a new class of "Hunter" Thargoid called the Glaive, plus a new Oydssey mission type. Video includes a look at some of the footage Frontier showed a few of us last week.
Hmmm, don’t like the sound of having to unlock the field neutraliser thing, and then having to do it for each ship as well. I’m just avoiding Thargoid combat completely because of all the hoops that need to be jumped through first to get a viable ship for AX combat so this looks like more content I’ll only see in videos.
Hopefully proper Thargoid on-foot combat will appear in a later Update.
Hopefully proper Thargoid on-foot combat will appear in a later Update.
Until we unlock guardian gauss rifles, of course
FDev, the masters of disillusionment.
FDev doesn't seem capable of good on-foot NPCs. The human NPCs have horrible pathing and stiff, snappy animation.
Reskinning the skimmers is probably what we should have expected.
Seems like late timing to be throwing this in as well. You'd think these Thargoid skimmers would've shown up when the invasion arrived.
I mean....it's cool. It's something new. But like...I dunno, kinda...just alright...
FDev doesn't seem capable of good on-foot NPCs. The human NPCs have horrible pathing and stiff, snappy animation.
Reskinning the skimmers is probably what we should have expected.
Seems like late timing to be throwing this in as well. You'd think these Thargoid skimmers would've shown up when the invasion arrived.
I mean....it's cool. It's something new. But like...I dunno, kinda...just alright...
Looks a nice crop of extras, looking forward to seeing what the Maelstroms look like too.
Ozric
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Yay 8 replies are two of them are already saying how bad the on foot combat is 
I believe it's a quick way to identify systems with conflict zones in.
Unlock the special module for each one you want to buy for each ship - unnecessary grind.
Skimmers being given a new model and labelled as Thargoids, and on top, are bullet sponges. sigh
I'm not particularly enthusiastic about this news.
Skimmers being given a new model and labelled as Thargoids, and on top, are bullet sponges. sigh
I'm not particularly enthusiastic about this news.
I have only watched the promo once, and read some of the comments, and I think that for some the issue may be that the on foot combat shown may be against what appears to be similar to some kind of sentry skimmer already seen in the game. Of course, we may not have seen everything.Yay 8 replies are two of them are already saying how bad the on foot combat is
Steve
I don't think the Oppressor will be a good choice for Thargoid Skimmers.
That won't stop me from trying, though
It would appear this is turning out to be a 3D shoot-em-up. What about content for other roles within the game, like explorers, traders etc.
Holy moly people like to whine. Looks pretty cool to me. Great job devs, keep things popping.
Ozric
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The new Revenants are a hovering enemy. Lots of people saying they're just reskinned Skimmers, but the only similarity is the propulsion. Does that mean actual on foot Thargoids would just be reskinned NPCs? Are the Interceptors just reskinned ships and the scouts reskinned fighters?
How could they have done a flying vehicle that would have been completely unique. I really don't get it.
Sounds like the standard modified module unlock process. I'm guessing that you will be able to transfer it from ship to ship, and practically speaking, you really only need one in that case.
You're right, they don't appear to be reskinned skimmers.
Based on what we were told they are variants (reskins?) of the thargoid drones that can be found at the thargoid surface sites.