Thargoids talk by chat

[Capitan SATA]

Hello, I was trying out the Corsair for anti-xenos, and I noticed that occasionally the Thargoids would talk to you as if you were a human NPC.
In all the years I've been fighting Thargoids, this has never happened to me.
I don't know if anyone else has experienced this, but it's very curious, although it's very likely a bug.

I noticed that if the Thargoid spends time without being fired upon, it's more likely to happen.

Traslation:
It's time to show him what a real pilot does.

Traslation:
You're about to get your ticket to hell stamped.

This message in particular, from the amount of hours I have played Elite, I have never found it.

Traslation:
Taking enemy fire!
Taking hits!

This happened to me in Asterope

 

[Jumpin' Jack Flash]

Hi

Hello, I was trying out the Corsair for anti-xenos, and I noticed that occasionally the Thargoids would talk to you as if you were a human NPC.
In all the years I've been fighting Thargoids, this has never happened to me.
I don't know if anyone else has experienced this, but it's very curious, although it's very likely a bug.

I noticed that if the Thargoid spends time without being fired upon, it's more likely to happen.

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Traslation:
It's time to show him what a real pilot does.
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Traslation:
You're about to get your ticket to hell stamped.

This message in particular, from the amount of hours I have played Elite, I have never found it.

View attachment 426032
Traslation:
Taking enemy fire!
Taking hits!

This happened to me in Asterope

Interesting! ....I've not engaged with the Thargoids directly in combat for years now so I'll have to try this out and go to the (I presume) Asterope system, as shown on your ships Hud.
I'd always hoped that the Thargoids could have been more immersive game wise in the sense of not just cannon fodder!
Seriously though, I would have thought that there'd be much more in the way of mission content and interaction story line wise if you could converse with the Thargoids on a more cordial basis than just the 'pew pew' approach.
I mean, any one of their ships for instance would be a great addition to my fleet of ships, maybe as a reward for trading stuff with 'em etc.
Ok, I'll check this out today and see what ensues.

Jack

 

[Kira Goto]

Probably is a bug. Thargoids aren't exactly known for communicating to humans, especially not in our language... and this is basically just using the (human) conflict zone NPC chatter, which makes little sense.

 

[sinkarma]

Thargoids have a language and communication. They've had this since the first hyperdiction.
Its just a shame that there hasn't been enough interest in it cause shooting thargoids give a bigger dopamine hit than trying to learn their movements and noises and decypher them.

So the community gravitated to shooting them and Fdev decided to focus its recources on the bigger clump of players to keep them interested... the thargoid killing crowd. Even going so far as "hey look miners! You can mine now on thargoid titan hull!" To try clump people together...

Rant aside the thargoids have a overly complex actual communication system, like they advertised originally years and years ago they said "they are alien and communication with them would be incredibly difficult" and sadly its so complicated that the players couldn't figure it out. The mechanics now all abandoned in favour of develouping the whole titan bombing fomo fest.

This still looks like a bug. Thargoids using chat. But a fun and hilarious bug neverless!!!