Where to find Thargoid Scouts USS?

[biohazard15]

Like those from Beta, with 4-8 scouts and occasional Federal convoy?

Note: I am NOT interested in USS with both Scouts and large thargoids (I can't kill them), I want a Scout-only experience.

 

[tonio-gmnh]

Hi, I enter an NHSS T6 in Mel 22 Sector YA-E b12-0 yesterday and I was insta-kill by around ten scouts. Well, I didn't have time to check if interceptor were here, but I'm sure that was full of scouts !

 

[ZAKALWEINC8876]

As far as i can tell from yesterdays session they just pop up like normal nhss. If you find a lvl4 nhss, this has so far always been 4-5 marauder scouts in my experience. I dropped in to many lvl5 nhss, they always contained a cyclops as normal.
I did see a lvl8 nhss, just had to have a look at that! I dropped in, there was some form of interceptor there (which instantly waked out), and 4 marauders.

Marauders have always attacked me on sight so far, no scanning, no moaning, they just bring it.

I am flying an engineered AX FGS, have not yet solo’d a cyclops(still not great at combat), and so far have dealt with 4-5 marauders pretty easily. Just remember to use silent running to burn off corrosive damage when necessary.

It really is good fun i must say!

 

[BDelacroix]

Every NHSS in the burning station systems was full of scouts for me yesterday. One had some hummie npcs but then scouts appeared and wiped all of them out.

 

[ZAKALWEINC8876]

Every NHSS in the burning station systems was full of scouts for me yesterday. One had some hummie npcs but then scouts appeared and wiped all of them out.

Thanks mate, have some rep, will have a look around the burning stations tonight when i get on, i spent a lot of time looking and not enough time fighting last night!

 

[IndigoWyrd]

Thargoid sprouts are fun. For a good laugh, shoot one with a normal seeker missile once.

 

[biohazard15]

As far as i can tell from yesterdays session they just pop up like normal nhss. If you find a lvl4 nhss, this has so far always been 4-5 marauder scouts in my experience. I dropped in to many lvl5 nhss, they always contained a cyclops as normal.
I did see a lvl8 nhss, just had to have a look at that! I dropped in, there was some form of interceptor there (which instantly waked out), and 4 marauders.

Marauders have always attacked me on sight so far, no scanning, no moaning, they just bring it.

I am flying an engineered AX FGS, have not yet solo’d a cyclops(still not great at combat), and so far have dealt with 4-5 marauders pretty easily. Just remember to use silent running to burn off corrosive damage when necessary.

It really is good fun i must say!

Thanks for the tips!

I'm not really looking for a challenge, or gitting gud, or something. What I want is my favorite 3.0 Beta experience - FDL with four gimballed OC multicannons VS wing of UFOs. Nice, fun and safe pew-pew-brrt-brrt-brrt.

If something changed here and Scouts are now invulnerable to non-AX weapons or been buffed up to eleven... well, that means I'm still locked out of thargoid combat content.

 

[CMDR Ofan]

All kinds of threat level USS can be scouts, I just mashed up a level 6 that was all scouts (lots of them). It was fun.

 

[BDelacroix]

Thanks for the tips!

I'm not really looking for a challenge, or gitting gud, or something. What I want is my favorite 3.0 Beta experience - FDL with four gimballed OC multicannons VS wing of UFOs. Nice, fun and safe pew-pew-brrt-brrt-brrt.

If something changed here and Scouts are now invulnerable to non-AX weapons or been buffed up to eleven... well, that means I'm still locked out of thargoid combat content.

I am in the bubble in a cutter that isn't fully upgraded and has no alien weapons and took out two of them (out of four) before having to leave due to acid. So its ok.

 

[CMDR_Vyse]

Try Umbila. There were Medusas popping up there before the patch dropped, and when visiting there after the patch, there were NHSS' that were spaening Scouts.

 

[Vasious]

Maia

Threat 4 NHSS

Spoiler

 

[biohazard15]

I'm currently in Bhal, flying from Gauss Station (outpost) and having a blast!

Finally, ' finally FD gave us gimbal scrubs some thargoids to shoot at. They're fun, they're easy to kill, they're absolutely non-Sammarco-challenging. Exactly what I've asked for.

And the best part is 1% Deadly = about 20 UFOs. Currently at 88% Deadly, will probably get my third Elite today.

 

[CMDR Ofan]

I'm currently in Bhal, flying from Gauss Station (outpost) and having a blast!

Finally, ' finally FD gave us gimbal scrubs some thargoids to shoot at. They're fun, they're easy to kill, they're absolutely non-Sammarco-challenging. Exactly what I've asked for.

And the best part is 1% Deadly = about 20 UFOs. Currently at 88% Deadly, will probably get my third Elite today.

My SLF pilot levelled up very quickly too, I did 4 x threat 6s which have (it's hard to tell) between 7-9 scouts and he went up a whole rank, I made sure he got all the kills.

 

[biohazard15]

My SLF pilot levelled up very quickly too, I did 4 x threat 6s which have (it's hard to tell) between 7-9 scouts and he went up a whole rank, I made sure he got all the kills.

Hmm, threat 6s in Bhal usually have 12 UFOs. Totally doable in FDL w\fat shields, but you have to be careful not to fly into caustic clouds UFOs leave after exploding.

About 97.5% Deadly now... two or three sorties more and I'm a triple Elite

 

[Ttwister]

Are there any updates to this? I spent hours last night trying to find these things... is there a method to where to find them?

 

[Factabulous]

Are there any updates to this? I spent hours last night trying to find these things... is there a method to where to find them?

Most of the systems named here should be fine. Or the ones recently targeted by Thargoids (Mentor / Lunguni). Would help if you said where you were, what you looked for. If you still fail then pick up massacre missions in Lunguni / Irandan and they;ll give you specific NHSS, though it's a bit slower.

 

[Ttwister]

I'm at Merope right now - working my way back to Founders, investigating systems on the way. Trying to find these things... lots of threat 5 and above, no threat 4 USS. I'll head to Irandan and see what they have for missions... thanks

 

[Factabulous]

I'm at Merope right now - working my way back to Founders, investigating systems on the way. Trying to find these things... lots of threat 5 and above, no threat 4 USS. I'll head to Irandan and see what they have for missions... thanks

If you're still at Merope I would check out Maia, they had a good range of NHSS, including the lower ones.

 

[ZAKALWEINC8876]

Yeah, Maia had every sort of nhss last night, u should be good there.