UA Mystery thread 4 - The Canonn
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Just to clarify, neither of us attacked either the Python or the escorting Vultures. Only cargo scans were done.
Then the Python was shooting empty space for a bit, as you can also see mentioned in the chat log.
After the mission failure message they jumped out, all of them except for one Vulture. Firing up the game now to look for the name of the system it jumped to.
Edit: The system the Python jumped to was Nihursaga.
Then the Python was shooting empty space for a bit, as you can also see mentioned in the chat log.
After the mission failure message they jumped out, all of them except for one Vulture. Firing up the game now to look for the name of the system it jumped to.
Edit: The system the Python jumped to was Nihursaga.
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agreed... if it helps progress our collective effort, then by all means, have at it!
Short of some sort of cheating, I look forward to what others will find in Beta.
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Thanks for the update. Nice screenshot!
Judge a few things (no T9 / Message from FED naval ship not the python) ...
I had no luck with other behavior today. The KWS is not a changer.
If system was really also "Nihursaga (9.66ly)" be glad not to have followed ... 240.000ls to "D" sun with one station there always ....
1,5 hours pure Frontier style game fun for me. Boring like hell and a final low wake jump in the sun after 5 jumps and loosing all wings.
We salute you!
Perhaps the fact that they were in a wing could trigger something?
Regarding differences in beta versus live game:
That's what blizzard and a few other Devs do during their betas, to keep from spoiling things too much in the raids and encounters they either sub in stuff that's a little different, or straight up put a bit notice that reads "so that way we aren't spoiling things this action does something but you won't know till the game goes live".
biggest example of a decent red herring that I can recall from the latest patch on WOW was that the fight with Kargath bladefist, what happened in the beta was that at 0% health he ran away presumably to fight another day, when it went live he fought to the death and when he died he said "and that's....one..hundred..." a reference to when you first meet him and he has you fight 100 mooks but only kill 99 before escaping the fighting pits. Ultimately a cool full circle moment but I was actually looking forward to fighting him a second time in a later raid.
So basically my TL:dr is that betas are betas and devs can put story elements into them to act as red herrings and alter the story from the live release.
Also regarding the mission failed convoy: more interested in the "cargo secured... i guess.." line though the whole situation is odd too.
That's what blizzard and a few other Devs do during their betas, to keep from spoiling things too much in the raids and encounters they either sub in stuff that's a little different, or straight up put a bit notice that reads "so that way we aren't spoiling things this action does something but you won't know till the game goes live".
biggest example of a decent red herring that I can recall from the latest patch on WOW was that the fight with Kargath bladefist, what happened in the beta was that at 0% health he ran away presumably to fight another day, when it went live he fought to the death and when he died he said "and that's....one..hundred..." a reference to when you first meet him and he has you fight 100 mooks but only kill 99 before escaping the fighting pits. Ultimately a cool full circle moment but I was actually looking forward to fighting him a second time in a later raid.
So basically my TL:dr is that betas are betas and devs can put story elements into them to act as red herrings and alter the story from the live release.
Also regarding the mission failed convoy: more interested in the "cargo secured... i guess.." line though the whole situation is odd too.
Don't know if this has been reported before or not (probably has) but just found an occupied escape pod in a Salvageable Wreckage. In orbit around Undine, the so-called "plague" moon at Peregrina.
Hanging out to see what else might pop now that I finally got the permit. The quarantine is still mentioned in the system description, but no mention of it elsewhere in station news or planet descriptions or the like.
Edit: Just found five more in another salvageable wreckage, also in orbit of Undine. The wreckage is pretty generic, does not look like any particular ship that I can tell. If it was a ship it was a bloody big one, most of the chunks of wreckage are as large, and in a couple of cases larger, than my Asp.
Edit 2: More than one ship in the wreckage (first time I have noticed that). Just found a cockpit section of an Eagle, but the big stuff certainly does not belong to it.
BTW, anyone else notice how the universe is emptier than even usual today? ED Steam stats show concurrent users have fallen by half with the release of Fallout 4 (bugs and all).
Perhaps these are supposed to be the survivors from the Thargoid secret base there from Out of the Darkness?
Hanging out to see what else might pop now that I finally got the permit. The quarantine is still mentioned in the system description, but no mention of it elsewhere in station news or planet descriptions or the like.
Edit: Just found five more in another salvageable wreckage, also in orbit of Undine. The wreckage is pretty generic, does not look like any particular ship that I can tell. If it was a ship it was a bloody big one, most of the chunks of wreckage are as large, and in a couple of cases larger, than my Asp.
Edit 2: More than one ship in the wreckage (first time I have noticed that). Just found a cockpit section of an Eagle, but the big stuff certainly does not belong to it.
BTW, anyone else notice how the universe is emptier than even usual today? ED Steam stats show concurrent users have fallen by half with the release of Fallout 4 (bugs and all).
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Of course, the answer for anyone who feels left out is to buy Horizons! (as I'm sure is in FD marketing strategy-it's just common sense). Enjoy your beta guys, & don't forget to pack your antnest killer & RIZ CRACKERS!
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I did get a video. I'll pop it on YouTube
To add to the above, the message about the mission failed was received (by me at least) at the same time as they jumped out. And on my screen the message was from []. No Vulture on my scanner.
Maybe a wing thing. The last Vulture still with Unrealization and sending a message but because the ship had left my instance the message was from noone.
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Oh, and apologies for the confusion earlier. Definitely no T-9s appeared.
Did you release a UA in orbit?
Still catching up the threads, but did you scan the cargo before or after the mission failed? There are seven performance enhancers and seven escape pods but eight progenitor cells.
Whatever crawled out of the escape pod after being given the (apparently unstable experimental) performance enhancers was to dangerous be further given the progenitor cells and had to be shot.
Given that the escape pods found are from man made wrecks I really doubt if the UAs really are thargoid. The only thargoid connection I can assume is that someone is fiddling with thargoids or thargoid DNA…
Whatever crawled out of the escape pod after being given the (apparently unstable experimental) performance enhancers was to dangerous be further given the progenitor cells and had to be shot.
Given that the escape pods found are from man made wrecks I really doubt if the UAs really are thargoid. The only thargoid connection I can assume is that someone is fiddling with thargoids or thargoid DNA…
No, don't have one with me at the moment. May go get one and come back. It has been done before in both 1.3 and 1.4 I believe with no obvious effect.
Edit: Occupied Escape Pods coming out my ears here. Have ten now, every salvageable wreckage seems to have them here.
Edit: Make that 12. And lots of imperial wrecks in this one.
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Yup, it must have been Nihursaga. I remembered it was just below 10 ly and it started with an N. Not much choice there.
240 kls, how nice. I think I never mentioned how much I hated LHS 3447 and its 110 kls hike to get to a useful station. ;-)
Thanks for checking that out. Sadly I'm all out of rep.
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I believe we cargo scanned before the mission failed. I have noticed in other convoys that ships seem to react to a cargo scan with evasive maneuvers, but do not turn hostile. So maybe the cargo scan triggered this. Like they were supposed to transport the stuff secretly, but have now been discovered. But that doesn't explain why there's nobody here explaining that's completely normal and was seen a million times, and I'm pretty sure that I'm not the first of this group to cargo scan a Medical Transport.
I don't think we currently have any reason to believe that the Medical Transports are linked to the UA. The reason we went back to Timocani was to check if we could still find the UA convoys from 1.3.
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Has anyone tried dropping a UA into the path of any of the convoys, or are they always in SC? If anyone has, did they pay any attention to it?
They didn't pay any attention, no.
Then I hope for you that you have "Founders World" access, otherwise a long way until a Corvette for tomorrow Beta 1.5 ...
Thanks also to CMDR Willy Wale for the correction. Judge yourself if the youtube upload is worth the effort ...
IMHO: there is nothing in a real gameplay direction until yet. Very simple. We must find the fun for our own.
We salute you!
I just had a strange sense of deja vu.... didn't you do this anagram about 20 thousand posts ago?
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Potentially important question regarding beta testing UAs; whether it should be done at all, and whether it should be shared, over on the Canonn site.
The post itself is my opinion, but the vote is an opportunity to get opinion from everyone. Whether it'll alter what actually happens is another matter - but, hey, it's an opportunity to find out what people think!
http://canonn.science/2015/11/11/beta-uas-im-not-interested-are-you/
In order to vote, you'll have to be a Canonn Member on the site, our man Derthek monitors the registrations personally for those who he recognises
He might be working right now, though, so be patient!
Thanks O7
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Potentially important question regarding beta testing UAs; whether it should be done at all, and whether it should be shared, over on the Canonn site.
The post itself is my opinion, but the vote is an opportunity to get opinion from everyone. Whether it'll alter what actually happens is another matter - but, hey, it's an opportunity to find out what people think!
http://canonn.science/2015/11/11/beta-uas-im-not-interested-are-you/
In order to vote, you'll have to be a Canonn Member on the site, our man Derthek monitors the registrations personally for those who he recognises
He might be working right now, though, so be patient!
Thanks O7
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