Sounds like the B.R.O.K.E.N. Morse after a quick listen. Easiest ones to hear are - - - of the 'o' and - . - of the 'k'
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Sounds like the B.R.O.K.E.N. Morse after a quick listen. Easiest ones to hear are - - - of the 'o' and - . - of the 'k'
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if you look at the browser based GalNet site you can see that loads of entries have disappeared. It happened suddenly a couple of days ago and we don't know yet if it was a glitch or intentional.
That sounds the same as others. The morse is there (and it actually sounds distinctly like morse rather than what the UA's strange version of it), but you might have to mentally filter out the humming and the static to hear the beeps (or use visualisation software that others use), and it is giving out the letters to BROKEN in a haphazard manner.
Thanks for the help! looks like it is just an every day Nav Beacon, ahh well
I can still see it on the GalNet Android application.
Thu, 24. Dec 2015: Technical Issues spread to Maia
That's the one mentioning technical issues starting at Obsidian Orbital.
ah interesting, it is not here on the web based one. It is there in game though I believe.
The main point though is the latest list of stations experiencing difficulties doesn't include it. The chances are it is just that they missed it off the list accidentaly and the browser based GalNet site is glitching out.
That's my current assumption. With the timing it happened I at first suspected their site not being ready for the year switch, but as it still persists I think that's not the problem.
The interesting thing is the wording of the mention.
'Shouldn't have to drive away from wrecks and Barnacles to recall ship'.
It's worded like someone already had found the barnacles and sent a bug report about the need to drive away before recall ship is available. Or they found out about it in internal testing and just used an everyday language.
Still interesting to me.
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wrecks would indicate shiup wrecks which might indicate type 9s and or anacondas, or corvettes, cutters. Now where would we find those types of heavy duty wrecks. the mind boggles.
Yeah I know right? Part of me can't help wondering if MB actually went out there to find one to confirm they are functioning in game, then found he couldn't call his ship down
Also my tinfoil hat is whispering to me, telling me the mention of them specifically in the patch update was a hint of some kind, but I don't know what kind, and it's most likely the spacemadness whispering to me.
Yeah I know right? Part of me can't help wondering if MB actually went out there to find one to confirm they are functioning in game, then found he couldn't call his ship down
Also my tinfoil hat is whispering to me, telling me the mention of them specifically in the patch update was a hint of some kind, but I don't know what kind, and it's most likely the spacemadness whispering to me.
Seems to ratify, that barnacles are planetside POI which are handmade and have fixed locations.
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Or just to expect a shipwreck sized thing when looking for barnacles.
Yeah I know right? Part of me can't help wondering if MB actually went out there to find one to confirm they are functioning in game, then found he couldn't call his ship down
Also my tinfoil hat is whispering to me, telling me the mention of them specifically in the patch update was a hint of some kind, but I don't know what kind, and it's most likely the spacemadness whispering to me.
Out of rep, but was thinking this too. Though, I was thinking it might mean that the the Barnacle is like a "fixed crash site" POI, not found with a blue thing. I don't think I've had any issue recalling the ship from randomly generated wreckages.... but then thinking about it, it might be more down to the fact I haven't tried!
At this point I'm not sure there's no pathway to discovery.
Also we do have a theory, whether there's anything to it or not is another matter though. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=195658&p=3373332&viewfull=1#post3373332
Aye but yeah it could just be as good as randomly placed.
I think it's more likely that someone discovered and filed the bug when finding a shipwreck and both (shipwrecks and barnacles) are using the same in game mechanics in this case...
Well, the most likely interpretation is probably, that barnacles are a certain kind of shipwreck
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I have never had trouble and I have tried so you may be right.
BUT the biggest point in all this is if they are fixed sites there MUST be some more information out there somewhere we haven't found yet.
Those fixed sites had GalNet local news stories to decode to tell the Lat/Long of them. Something similar must exist somewhere for the Barnacles if they really are a fixed POI or there really isn't much chance of finding them. Planets are big, and it's fine when you're relying on random generation of POI's because you'll hit the right one eventually.
I'm going to return to the bubble and search around the bases where the mission was given out, and then a few other places to see if there are any local news stories to do with them.
...Barnacles are really misshapen Thargoid wrecks!
Why would they call them 'Large' barnacles though? Are there small barnacles as well?
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