Elite: General talk

AH
16 Nov 2024, 11:59am
Vasil VasilescuThe new "Spacehawk" livery makes the PMII look like either an AWACS or a pizza delivery ship



I think Thunder Pizza might have some competition from Spacehawk Pizza.


Items are purely cosmetic
WTF? LOL
Rawnu
16 Nov 2024, 12:01pm
Re killings and combat rank: is it correct that killing Thargoid Banshees and Revenants is giving quite a significant bump to your rank? Because I did some farming for the Anti-Guardian Zone Resistance mats and I had to kill a lot of Revenants for that (and Banshees) and my rank did jump by one or two percent (I am Deadly and moving towards Elite, the final hill to climb in this game).
Thinder
16 Nov 2024, 12:31pm
RawnuRe killings and combat rank: is it correct that killing Thargoid Banshees and Revenants is giving quite a significant bump to your rank?

That's what I read in this forum several times over but it was before the last update, perhaps it has changed.
Rawnu
16 Nov 2024, 5:56pm
Found a nice spot to hang out:

I was just wondering: can you enter these things? Probably not, I know that Thargoid surface sites are supposed to have tunnels you can drive in? But dang would it be interesting to enter a spire site. Gives me serious ME2 suicide mission vibes!
Kasumi Goto
16 Nov 2024, 6:21pm
As far as I know you cannot enter the interior of the spire towers (if you don't count the ledge with the sabotage-able thingy) anywhere. There's probably a large majority of the actual structure underground, since some Orthrus (and apparently also Cyclops) will enter or exit the primary spire occasionally.

The crashed Thargoid ships which are known as the 'surface sites' do have tunnels to drive around and a central chamber that will display a sort of star map if activated with a Thargoid probe, sensor and link (found locally for the third). Apparently said map used to reflect Thargoid activities over time but I don't think Frontier still use this mechanism. You do also need one of the above items to enter (the non-cheesy way, assuming that a bug which allowed entry without was not fixed).

Last edit: 16 Nov 2024, 6:30pm
Indy
16 Nov 2024, 6:22pm
Rawnu I was just wondering: can you enter these things? Probably not, I know that Thargoid surface sites are supposed to have tunnels you can drive in? But dang would it be interesting to enter a spire site. Gives me serious ME2 suicide mission vibes!


According to this GalNet News video, you can. Sounds like it might be fun to do before the sites go extinct.
AH
yesterday, 10:25am
Indy
Rawnu I was just wondering: can you enter these things? Probably not, I know that Thargoid surface sites are supposed to have tunnels you can drive in? But dang would it be interesting to enter a spire site. Gives me serious ME2 suicide mission vibes!



According to this GalNet News video, you can. Sounds like it might be fun to do before the sites go extinct.


How do you deal with those little guys? Just shoot them? I thoght about going in there but was not sure and I had too much data with me to just go and see what happens.

Sampi Ogonek
today, 12:57am
Indy
Rawnu I was just wondering: can you enter these things? Probably not, I know that Thargoid surface sites are supposed to have tunnels you can drive in? But dang would it be interesting to enter a spire site. Gives me serious ME2 suicide mission vibes!

According to this GalNet News video, you can. Sounds like it might be fun to do before the sites go extinct.

The video does not say you can enter any of the Spires.

AHHow do you deal with those little guys? Just shoot them? I thoght about going in there but was not sure and I had too much data with me to just go and see what happens.


Just ignore them. They will not attack you if you don’t aggro them.

That said, Thargoid Scavengers’ weapons are pretty weak. They’re about as dangerous as human Sentry Skimmers.

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