Elite: Game talk

Sakashiro
24 Nov 2022, 1:22pm
MeowersImagine starting a new game as a Thargoid, in a Thargoid ship, in a Thargoid nooby district, and then playing it like that.

If the Thargoids were a playable race, I'm sure plenty of people would buy another license of the game just to make a Thargoid alt.
Episparh
24 Nov 2022, 1:24pm
Yuna SakashiroIn a recent livestream FDev said they will introduce new AX weapons to make it easier to get started with AX combat, but they also said those won't be as good as the Guardian stuff.

My alt is currently in the noobs' district. I'll keep it there to see if u14 changes anything about it. But I doubt there will be any Thargoids in there.

I doubt you will see something new added there nor the engineering grind will be reduced any soon. So new players have quite a barrier between cardboard ship and well engineered ship. One new boom stick won't make them less vulnerable, so do not keep high hopes of "more Dangerous" solo mode.
Episparh
24 Nov 2022, 1:26pm
MeowersImagine starting a new game as a Thargoid, in a Thargoid ship, in a Thargoid nooby district, and then playing it like that.

Thargoids are a hive mind. It will be a very dull experience unless you start as a mama-cat-piss.
Meowers
24 Nov 2022, 1:32pm
EpisparhThargoids are a hive mind. It will be a very dull experience unless you start as a mama-cat-piss.
Isn't the grind the players have now already a dull experience?

At least you can bind woo to the keys and do some music!
Sakashiro
24 Nov 2022, 1:36pm
In random interdictions the game already scales NPC ships according to what the player is flying. They could scale the Thargoids in similar ways.
Episparh
24 Nov 2022, 1:42pm
Even a scout, which is immediately hostile, will be devastating for fresh cobra or adder.
Sakashiro
24 Nov 2022, 1:45pm
Episparh
MeowersImagine starting a new game as a Thargoid, in a Thargoid ship, in a Thargoid nooby district, and then playing it like that.


Thargoids are a hive mind. It will be a very dull experience unless you start as a mama-cat-piss.

Thargoid engineering seems to be very straightforward. Everything is made of meta-alloys. Not from thousands of raw, manufactured, encoded and Guardian materials.

Thargoid life = grind-free life. No wonder they are the superior species.
Meowers
24 Nov 2022, 1:47pm
So let's make noobie Thargoid ships and noobie Thargoid modules to give players a progress!
Sir Sprockett
24 Nov 2022, 9:30pm
Yuna Sakashiro

My alt is currently in the noobs' district. I'll keep it there to see if u14 changes anything about it. But I doubt there will be any Thargoids in there.


yup is is mine. Have been sitting on it for something like this - not that i knew this was coming, Though It will be a legacy account (free one from EPIC) unless I up it to Odyssey
Sampi Ogonek
24 Nov 2022, 10:11pm
Sir Sprockett
25 Nov 2022, 10:21am
@Artie it seems that you might want to add in systems that are now under Thargoid hyperdiction. I think that travelling around the bubble over the next 6months is going to become quite the challenge and we will want to be able to plot routes around the troubled hotspots - can you help with this ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xjYi_iaVEA
Sir Sprockett
25 Nov 2022, 10:23am
Sampi Ogonek
Sir SprockettThough It will be a legacy account (free one from EPIC) unless I up it to Odyssey


All PC Horizons players will have access to Horizons Live. Bruce G specifically said you don’t have to buy Odyssey.



thanks for that... time to work on this one then fully foot combat account
Artie
25 Nov 2022, 11:01am
Sir Sprockett@Artie it seems that you might want to add in systems that are now under Thargoid hyperdiction. I think that travelling around the bubble over the next 6months is going to become quite the challenge and we will want to be able to plot routes around the troubled hotspots - can you help with this ?

Maybe. I am waiting what U14 will bring to the game, as it's entirely possible that interdictions will be the least of commanders' problems.
Talon Avex
25 Nov 2022, 11:08am
ArtieMaybe. I am waiting what U14 will bring to the game, as it's entirely possible that interdictions will be the least of commanders' problems.


If I may quote someone in a galaxy far, far away: "I have a bad feeling about this". I think the bubble will be crawling with Death Daisies by this time next week. Just my .02 credits...
Sakashiro
25 Nov 2022, 11:09am
If you think about it, the newbie zone is actually the best place for PvP in Elite Dangerous. Everyone there has access to the same ships and modules, and once you have enough credits, any build can be assembled within minutes.

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