The Thargoids.... My hopes and dreams!

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
I just randomly decided to watch the Freespace intro, cuz' I always loved that game.

[video=youtube_share;NJ-xcgBL1mY]https://youtu.be/NJ-xcgBL1mY[/video]

Got me thinkin'.

In Freespace, the Shivans were completely invincible to start with(except for the bonus kill in one of the first missions they show up in), so most of the beginning story, once they showed up, involved running away, or simply surviving.
And, the Terrans and Versudans had no shields to begin with either, which made life difficult. :p

I'm kinda hoping the Thargoids are invincible to begin with. There could be at lot of gameplay behind that. Most of us are masters of the universe now, we never die, we rarely even back down. And if we do, it's mostly "meh... Carry on!".
So it'd actually be a nice change of pace to be in the receiving end, have something to fear, and to fight for. :D

For gameplay sake, we should always be able to escape in [mostly] one piece from a Thargoid. But not kill one, atleast not to begin with.

It'd be cool to see destroyed stations, and surface ports, have CGs to evacuate the population, CGs to gather scan and exploration data on the Thargoids. CGs and loads of missions to supply the military with much needed materials for the war effort.
I'd love it if things got really bad, like 100s of destroyed stations, ports and capital ships, before we even began to push back.

Then once things are more under control, CGs to rebuild.

Anyhoo, just day dreaming now. :p

In all likelihood, it'll just be Thargoid CZs to begin with. Lol

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
 

Geraldine

Geraldine
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My hopes and dreams for the Thargoids could be summed up in this image. ;)
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Phazon Xenomorph

Phazon Xenomorph
CMDR_Cosmicspacehead said:
I just randomly decided to watch the Freespace intro, cuz' I always loved that game.

https://youtu.be/NJ-xcgBL1mY

Got me thinkin'.

In Freespace, the Shivans were completely invincible to start with(except for the bonus kill in one of the first missions they show up in), so most of the beginning story, once they showed up, involved running away, or simply surviving.
And, the Terrans and Versudans had no shields to begin with either, which made life difficult. :p

I'm kinda hoping the Thargoids are invincible to begin with. There could be at lot of gameplay behind that. Most of us are masters of the universe now, we never die, we rarely even back down. And if we do, it's mostly "meh... Carry on!".
So it'd actually be a nice change of pace to be in the receiving end, have something to fear, and to fight for. :D

For gameplay sake, we should always be able to escape in [mostly] one piece from a Thargoid. But not kill one, atleast not to begin with.

It'd be cool to see destroyed stations, and surface ports, have CGs to evacuate the population, CGs to gather scan and exploration data on the Thargoids. CGs and loads of missions to supply the military with much needed materials for the war effort.
I'd love it if things got really bad, like 100s of destroyed stations, ports and capital ships, before we even began to push back.

Then once things are more under control, CGs to rebuild.

Anyhoo, just day dreaming now. :p

In all likelihood, it'll just be Thargoid CZs to begin with. Lol

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
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Freespace and Freespace 2 well amazing as hell games, even though they weren't technically a Descent title (another great series, I have the Overload Early Access on Steam which is made from the same designers of Descent, they even kept the screen breaking sound for wall panels!).

And yeah lore wise our tech is nothing compared to Thargoid tech. To them we were nothing but a toy of a skirmish, to us though it was all out war for survival. They make our stuff look trivial. Frontier even said at first any combat with them is going to go badly for us, and I can't wait, it'll be nice to have strong NPCS. Right now the only thing to fear is like wings of Railgun Eagles or something since NPC rails NEVER miss, and when they are Elite they actually become quite an annoyance, but any Elite Conda or Corvette or Cutter NPCs are just a joke of an encounter that you blast away. It'll be nice to have all the PvE players (myself included though I do love PvP in games) finally get their ships bashed in and humiliated.
 

Poltraite

Poltraite
I really hope if we ever do meet the Thargoids face to face, we are not presented with naked space insects. I would hope that an advanced species capable engineering the type of ships they do and possessing the technology that they do would be more convincing as an "alien" race. Advanced aliens do not have to be slimy tentacled multi limbed insectoid reptilian bug eyes mindless monsters every time and I hope someone at FD also thinks in this direction.
 
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