Thargoid Revenants (spoilers?)

DrinkyBird

DrinkyBird
Revenants seem to be combat drones that hang around abandoned settlements in Thargoid territory. They get angry and start shooting if they spot you. Almost certainly an obstacle for the new surface missions.
Interestingly when an interceptor drops in and EMPs you, they turn docile until your ship powers back up. (Might just be heat signature though?)
At least when in a ship, they have no collision and don't show up as a contact, meaning they just fly through you and are a nightmare to scan. Probably worth further investigation on-foot or in an SRV - I haven't done either yet, because Thargoids are quite angry, and I forgot my SRV...

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Not quite the Thargoid ground combat I was wanting, and not nearly as interesting as what's going on in the maelstroms...
 

Elpapo

Elpapo
They do have insane range of thier lasers, about 1km+ but they using gimballs, thus at 200+ m it becames not very accurate. Still G5 maverick shields, can last only maybe about of 2,5 sec, by taking fire just from single of them, and while its possible to fight them on foot, its not really viable to do that, they they will swarm in at no time and focus thier fire from few directions. I barely survived my first try, had to retreat and come back with scorpion to finish my first new mission.

They feels indeed like flying thargoid version of C2 gimball beam lasers. Scorpion works suprisely well with its missile launcher, unlike Scarab, wich will struggle, as it does not have that much range to safely fight revenants. But either of SRV's are helpfull a lot even just be being there, if parked about 500m away from settlement, once red mode, most of revenats will attack it with litte effect due being outside of thier missle range and thier gimball jitter prevent them to be able to destory SRV shields at distance.

With Scorpion its possible to take them safely one by one, just by simple tactic. Kill just one with missile launcher, then retreat (about 1km away) until they start partol mode again, then come back, repeat until one or two remains so then can be finished off. Due that initially if there is 5 or 6 of them, it can be quite deadly even for scorpion to be too close to them, but once there is only two or one remain, they easier to fight against.
 
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Ned Flandalorian

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I find it a bit unrealistic that they can perfectly track you on foot even when you're not visible to them. Do they have some sort of x-ray vision that can see through solid metal and rock?
 
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Elpapo said:
They do have insane range of thier lasers, about 1km+ but they using gimballs, thus at 200+ m it becames not very accurate. Still G5 maverick shields, can last only maybe about of 2,5 sec, by taking fire just from single of them, and while its possible to fight them on foot, its not really viable to do that, they they will swarm in at no time and focus thier fire from few directions. I barely survived my first try, had to retreat and come back with scorpion to finish my first new mission.

They feels indeed like flying thargoid version of C2 gimball beam lasers. Scorpion works suprisely well with its missile launcher, unlike Scarab, wich will struggle, as it does not have that much range to safely fight revenants. But either of SRV's are helpfull a lot even just be being there, if parked about 500m away from settlement, once red mode, most of revenats will attack it with litte effect due being outside of thier missle range and thier gimball jitter prevent them to be able to destory SRV shields at distance.

With Scorpion its possible to take them safely one by one, just by simple tactic. Kill just one with missile launcher, then retreat (about 1km away) until they start partol mode again, then come back, repeat until one or two remains so then can be finished off. Due that initially if there is 5 or 6 of them, it can be quite deadly even for scorpion to be too close to them, but once there is only two or one remain, they easier to fight against.
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The drones tend to respawn quite quickly as you take them out on foot in the settlement (are they being dropped off by the Scouts overhead I wonder?) ...after having a bit of fun with the Revenants in a Dominator, I eventually went back in my Maverick suit to do the power-up job and additional data download objective - then I sneaked out fairly quietly... only to have my SRV chased and destroyed by what I presume was a Scout (wasn't looking backwards at the time^) before I could find somewhere to recall my ship & board. Mission failed but quite fun for a first run... :]
 
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