Elite: General talk

No new ships yet. Which should have been expected since that fancy new Python ~~which probably isn’t going to be very fancy or get my interest~~ was only announced as a work in progress at the end of January.

But people are having “fun” blasting the Titans which can’t end up going wrong in any kind of way, and it’s definitely not a shitty thing to go and kill them when we’re the goddamned idiots who attracted them in the first place.

Odion Khons

28 Feb 2024, 10:11am

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I really hope the 30GB update provides more than only replacing "Slow down" with "Gravity well"... on the other hand, I have no idea how complex these alterations are.

SnapStr

28 Feb 2024, 10:22am

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Hi! Has anyone had problems with the system map after the update? I have in one of the systems after opening the local map the game froze. Only a reboot helped. Tried several times. As soon as I left this system map again began to work as usual.

Episparh

29 Feb 2024, 11:03am

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So that new python mk2 ... with 6 hardpoints (4L + 2M) supposedly having design intention to rival FDL and Mamba in combat (we already know that it will have 6 utility slots but it will need at least max speed buffed to Krait mk2 levels) ... From the work in progress footage it looked fast enough to me.

And about its release:
I understand that Python mk2 availability is linked to narrative event which will come from the stuff in Update 18. Yesterday's stream hints that new function is related to things delivered with U18. Since the U18 content is mainly focused on Maelstroms my best guess is that either we will be able to bring the fights to Thargoids or Maelstrom will become extremely dangerous for current ships, hance we will need those new ships for that. This guess is also enforced by the fact that the ship have potential to be also good for AX (+2 utility slots for more heat sinks, +1 hardpoint for thermal vent laser, but let's see max speed? first)

Kasumi Goto

29 Feb 2024, 11:42am

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Taranis is getting absolutely smashed right now so if it has anything to do with the Titans, we might find out soon.

A ship with four large hardpoints and two mediums could mount one or two medium torpedo pylons and four large AX weapons - providing use of a weapon stabilizer(the only useful thing Azimuth did throughout the war) while keeping a vent beam too. Or do the Guardian torpedoes not count toward the experimental weapon limit? I haven’t looked at them in the game yet, but their description from a screenshot makes no mention thereof. (And one launcher would probably be enough.)

And yeah, the speed also matters, but if it can’t even do around 500 with a boost(on engineered thrusters) it’d be pretty disappointing.

Episparh

29 Feb 2024, 4:56pm

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One more thing. The new design of Faulcon DeLacy will be spliced to other new ships. So, my 1st guess might prove right and we will be seeing a faster Anaconda mk2 soon.

Warpig_NL

02 Mar 2024, 1:38pm

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A fair warning, it is said that the Titan Taranis is on detonation and that this is the first major victory for humanity on the Thargoids. I was there at Taranis 10 minutes ago to save survivors (not found) and yes, spectaculair explosions and emissions of (unusable) materials and energy at the surface. However, Thargoid ships are still being launched from Taranis. Apparently the basis is still (partially) operational and not destroyed.

Are we not too optimistic about the state of affairs?

Meowers

02 Mar 2024, 1:50pm

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Well, the thing looks absolutely roasted. Maybe, because of it being that big, it doesn't explode or melt down immediately. Imagine a big slowly sinking ship, with some parts of it still being operational, crew are evacuating, someone's still manning the guns and trying to return fire, damage control teams still putting out fires to make the evacuation less dangerous, escorts still being active, to protect the evacuees, etc., but the ship itself is certainly doomed.

Sampi Ogonek

02 Mar 2024, 3:48pm

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Warpig_NLI was there at Taranis 10 minutes ago to save survivors (not found)

If you were in open you might try solo instead; I figure all the chambers in the open instances have been emptied already.

Kasumi Goto

02 Mar 2024, 4:44pm

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Warpig_NLAre we not too optimistic about the state of affairs?

We are definitely not, the whole thing’s either going to be seriously crippled when its reactor goes past the critical stage/point of no return and blows up or melts down(the latter would be less devastating, though probably still leave it non-functional) and the Thargoids are literally just outright abandoning it. Usually, there is a certain delay between when it has its ‘ports’ open for Thargoids to exit and enter the ship.

Right now? They’re almost constantly open(unless some donkey thinks it’s a great idea to pick a fight with 20+ Thargoids and gets absolutely shredded, which makes the ships stay and the game not let more out to avoid overloading the instance) and only have Thargoid ships leaving. Which is effectively just the Titan remaining or keeping itself functional for long enough to ensure at least partial, possibly near-complete evacuation(or total within a day, if the Thargoids are organized well enough with their hivemind tricks).

Unfortunately, that will just further seal its fate because those membranes seem to produce a ridiculous amount of heat and them being ‘open’ generally would coincide with the heat vents opening. Which are now largely defunct and emit what looks like charred particles of the Titan’s interior, or black smoke(but smoke is unlikely because it’s a vacuum and it would dissipate basically immediately).

If Aegis had a cleaner way of defeating a Titan than sentencing it to literally be cooked alive, they should just not say it at this point.

Rayman.

02 Mar 2024, 7:33pm

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Glory to mankind o7 One down, seven to go.

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