Thargoid heart.

ZAKALWEINC8876

ZAKALWEINC8876
Is it a well known thing, that when you have a thargoid heart as cargo, after you are scanned by a cyclops it goes weird and just spins around in a trance?
Recently got my first solo cyclopse kill, scooped the heart. Logged off and celebrated (i am not the best pilot).
When i went back on today i forgot i had the heart, then twice in a row after being scanned the cyclops just took a whitey. Then i shot it with gauss and it acted like a ‘normal’ angry cyclops from then on.

Sorry if this is old news, i dont remember seeing it mentioned before tho.

Fly safe o7
 

BDelacroix

BDelacroix
My question is what are they for? I mean, we know the thargoids use them as a vital organ, but what do we need one for?
 

Jmanis

Jmanis
This is the reaction to Thargoid Hearts I recorded in January.

[video=youtube;CWgJDRLNykc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWgJDRLNykc[/video]

Essentially, their reaction is:
- Scan, issue the "non-aggressive"^ warning.
- Wait 20-odd seconds until you jettison it (and any other offending cargo)
- If you jettison it, Thargoid loses interest
- If you keep it, after 20 seconds it will attack.

^ As opposed to the more aggressive reaction to Guardian Cargo.
 

ZAKALWEINC8876

ZAKALWEINC8876
I am just up and have to go to work now, will try again later and see if i keeps happening.
I am on PS4 so am relatively new, if any of you more experianced players get the same thing i would be very interested to hear about it.
In the description of the heart in the black market it says something along the lines of it possibly being involved in propulsion i seem to remember....
 

Jmanis

Jmanis
ZAKALWEINC8876 said:
I am just up and have to go to work now, will try again later and see if i keeps happening.
I am on PS4 so am relatively new, if any of you more experianced players get the same thing i would be very interested to hear about it.
In the description of the heart in the black market it says something along the lines of it possibly being involved in propulsion i seem to remember....
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FYI, I just tested out the Thargoid reaction to a heart... it seemed "the same" as usual, with the exception of the spinning bit. I suspect FD may have mucked something, and that this won't be unique to the Heart, but will apply to any instance of a player carrying cargo of interest.

Video here:
[video=youtube_share;6IHcSu6XFVY]https://youtu.be/6IHcSu6XFVY[/video]
- The "reaction" (noise and lack of colouration) is normal
- Timing is "normal" before the Thargoid turns hostile.

Will just see what happens if I jet it out.

Interestingly, Thargoids scoop hearts now.
 
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space voyager

space voyager
Jmanis said:
FYI, I just tested out the Thargoid reaction to a heart... it seemed "the same" as usual, with the exception of the spinning bit. I suspect FD may have mucked something, and that this won't be unique to the Heart, but will apply to any instance of a player carrying cargo of interest.

Video here:
https://youtu.be/6IHcSu6XFVY
- The "reaction" (noise and lack of colouration) is normal
- Timing is "normal" before the Thargoid turns hostile.

Will just see what happens if I jet it out.

Interestingly, Thargoids scoop hearts now.
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Having FSD disabled while weapons are deployed is a power management that seems a bit too dangerous, especially when you're fighting Thargoids... If you wish to escape PvP you probably won't even deploy them.

Quite OK for an exploration ship though.
 

Hanerib

Hanerib
Thats the Waggle Dance. It thinks you are a thargoid too. "Two blue suns this way and third planet of the system, there's a barnacle site ready for harvesting"
 

Jaylem

Jaylem
Jmanis said:
FYI, I just tested out the Thargoid reaction to a heart... it seemed "the same" as usual, with the exception of the spinning bit. I suspect FD may have mucked something, and that this won't be unique to the Heart, but will apply to any instance of a player carrying cargo of interest.

Video here:
https://youtu.be/6IHcSu6XFVY
- The "reaction" (noise and lack of colouration) is normal
- Timing is "normal" before the Thargoid turns hostile.

Will just see what happens if I jet it out.

Interestingly, Thargoids scoop hearts now.
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'Thargoid war dance?

Appears the heart of his best friend was just too much to bear...

Although, these things are literally just machines programed to react and respond to pain and anomalies. probably retaliate out of programing rather than emotion.
 

Jmanis

Jmanis
space voyager said:
Having FSD disabled while weapons are deployed is a power management that seems a bit too dangerous, especially when you're fighting Thargoids... If you wish to escape PvP you probably won't even deploy them.

Quite OK for an exploration ship though.
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It's only a problem if you plan on dying :)
 

ZAKALWEINC8876

ZAKALWEINC8876
Hey Jmanis, thanks for posting that vid.

It however is a bit differnet from both my encounters. Your tharg slowly spins round a central axis, both my ones span end over end, sideways and all over the shop basically whilst remaining in one place (technical terms, sorry).

It may be nothing or a bug or something i guess, thanks for the responses tho everyone. o7
 

Jmanis

Jmanis
ZAKALWEINC8876 said:
Hey Jmanis, thanks for posting that vid.

It however is a bit differnet from both my encounters. Your tharg slowly spins round a central axis, both my ones span end over end, sideways and all over the shop basically whilst remaining in one place (technical terms, sorry).

It may be nothing or a bug or something i guess, thanks for the responses tho everyone. o7
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So, short version, you're almost certainly correct. What I've found with a couple different tests is that it'll do it with varying force/direction/rotation/everything, so it'll definitely look different person-to-person. It didn't seem dependent on cargo type. Nonetheless, thanks for reporting, as looking into this led to the discovery of hearts being scooped, which is definitely new behaviour :)
 
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