The Thargoids never beat the Guardians. The Guardians forced them into retreat, then killed themselves with robots.
The 2020 Dev Run: As Big As The Launch Run (?)
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Well I mean the 'leak' is essentially: Guns, Thargoids, Bases. Never know....
(Waiiiit a minute. Admit it, you wrote that thing
)Ah, yes, okay ... so maybe some of my premise needs adjusting to fit with the lore better but imagine:
- Story based DLC where you sign up for the Defense Force and are given missions
- Missions involve espionage against the returned Guardians; sneaking out with scooped intelligence; maybe taking on a few low level ships; a few planet based missions - mix it up!
- Other missions are Thargoid based, searching for ways to better fight the Guardians
- At various points you unlock access to anti-Thargoid weapons to help you succeed in the Thargoid based missions
- Story culminates in hitting Thargoid crash sites to retrieve specialised materials (involves fighting Thargoid Scouts) and delivering them to a specific location
- Once enough mats have been delivered by the community at large (Community Goal!) a Thargoid Jump Gate is built
- This jump gate provides access to a multi-player “Raid” where you jump into Thargoid space to fight full on Thargoids in order to steal weaponry/tech to fight the returned Guardians
- Once at least one group have finished this, a custom CZ (Raid #2) unlocks near Sol which is the final battle against the Guardians.
- To compete this second “Raid” you’ll need those Thargoid derived anti-Guardian weapons ...
- For every completion of Raid #1, Ram Tah gets closer to reverse engineering the weapons so whilst initially only those who finish Raid #1 will be able to tackle Raid #2, eventually the weapons will become purchasable and then anyone can do Raid #2 even if they haven’t completed the first
This just sounds like the inverse of what we have.
thargoids attacking, and we use gaurdian tech to defeat them.
But... they have nothing to announce right now...
Yup ... that was entirely the point: big twist, Guardians turn out to be bad guys and we have to steal stuff from the Thargoids (who will obviously defend said stuff) to fight ‘em ... except, Story Led with proper Multi-Player missions (Raids) as clarified in my later post.
Personally I have very little interest in “space legs” (I bought a space flight simulation not a First Person Walker) and maybe slightly more intrigued by atmos/earth like landings depending on exactly what that would mean.
I’m far more interested in a story or purpose ... for me, the Thargoids should have been introduced via a Story Based set of missions whereby you discover evidence, fight some early ‘goids, are given access to upgraded weaponary and culminates in unlocking a mix of single-player/match made (Normal) and multi-player/non-matchmade (Hard) repeatable scenarios (CZs, specialist jump points, etc) for fighting large numbers of them.
Instead we got ”spend hours collecting random stuff you read about on the internet in order to be able to then start looking for aliens which apparently threaten humanities very existence but none of the powers seems to care enough to actually have a plan and actively recruit pilots for fighting them”
Now, that ship has sailed but a switcheroo where the Guardians return as the enemy? Well that would be an opportunity for a Story Led introduction to both Thargoid and Guardian combat.
Pretty safe bet it's one of the roadmapped expansions...
(Hell that stuff is written into the old LEP sales page...)
I've been wondering. Given that they're treating this DLC as closer to a 'single big release' they might do a much more prolonged hype run + beta than Horizons. Something a touch closer to the launch hype, but minus alphas etc. (Which lord knows we could do with, in lieu of meaty tideover like Carriers etc).
That'd sit nice with an Expo tease maybe. But could totally see them hanging tight til like Q2 2020 otherwise :/
I can think of no better way to overhype and underdeliver. I'd hope they've learnt their lesson.
It’s legs!
But I wanted atmos!
It’s atmos!
But I wanted legs!
It’s atmos and legs!
Oh....BUGS!
But I wanted atmos!
It’s atmos!
But I wanted legs!
It’s atmos and legs!
Oh....BUGS!
I dunno, long-term betas can deliver some hard reality. (Not that it'd stop half of us theorycrafting vertical slice theories
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