Elite: Game talk
19 Apr 2024, 2:05am
19 Apr 2024, 2:12am
(by the way, can't understand why did they name them torpedoes when they look more like a space equivalent of aim-9)
Last edit: 19 Apr 2024, 3:27am
19 Apr 2024, 9:48am
Sampi OgonekBashing FDev is all very fine (I’ve done it myself at times), but the proper course of action is to post a link to an issue report and, once one is posted here, post a comment and/or vote so it is brought to FDev’s attention.
In this case, an issue was already submitted but, as it happens so often, it was broken and could not be loaded, so I submitted a new one: https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/64211
So, folks — if you want this to be fixed, be so kind and add a comment (or, if it is already Confimed, vote if you can)
Frontier banned me from their forums after I discussed issues of their product, so excuse me if I don't bother interacting with any of their websites anymore.
19 Apr 2024, 10:28am
Meowers
(by the way, can't understand why did they name them torpedoes when they look more like a space equivalent of aim-9)
The same reason why they called the “torpedoes” when they are sluggish point defense target practice projectiles. Probably. Sounds cool, even if not necessarily like one.
… and seriously, who approved the manufacture of munitions which move slower than even the slowest of ships with basic engineering slapped on its thrusters? (Not the T9 or anything)
WW2 in space vibes are fine and all, but those “torpedoes” in regular use totally miss the mark. The Titan ones, well, I dunno. Other than being highly specific singular use projectiles.
19 Apr 2024, 12:37pm
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/thargoid-invasion-next-target-systems.612125/post-10352577
19 Apr 2024, 3:26pm
It requires hardened surface fragments (G1), caustic crystals (G4) and tactical core chips (G2) engineering materials to make.
... I'm only a lowly horizons player but, what the hell are tactical core chips? Is that an Odyssey material? Something I've missed along the way somewhere? Because I've never heard of those.
19 Apr 2024, 3:37pm
If they can be found at Titan wreck sites - I've not seen one. Let me just double check on my alt to be sure it doesn't have any either, as I don't recall picking any up anywhere and particularly not from dead Revenants. It's classed as a Horizons material so you can pick one up via SRV if you can somehow work around this item being kind of limited to Odyssey-related activities.
Edit - nope, none on my alt either. Though I'm also not 100% sure if the chip can or cannot spawn at those wreck sites.
Last edit: 19 Apr 2024, 3:43pm
19 Apr 2024, 3:56pm
I might go back and see if they've been added since but I doubt it to be honest.
I suppose mod-shards are pre-engineered so it would have been gauss cannons for pineapple blasting which would've been fun but it seems I'm stuck with the AX missiles. No biggy.
Thanks for your quick and thorough answer CMDR. You're always great for the info. o7
19 Apr 2024, 4:24pm
19 Apr 2024, 8:11pm
Decent for variety over "Everyone uses AX missiles near the Titan", I guess, but there's a reason nobody ever even touched the plasmas or shards before Azimuth(urgh) made them actually worth taking. Only practical application is gauss for interceptor defense around there, if anyone even bothers fighting those over avoiding them with speed and cold. And whoever even still takes them for station AX where Glaives might occasionally show their faces.
19 Apr 2024, 9:33pm
(I did test shard cannons against the pineapple and was not impressed. They do seem to do more DPS while generating less heat than Sirius AXMRs, but their range of 1700 m means you need to get rather close to the core. I expect them to be more useful against Orthruses.)
19 Apr 2024, 9:59pm
19 Apr 2024, 10:06pm
Sampi OgonekTitan Oya progress seems to be rather slow right now, given how fast it went yesterday and that it’s a Friday evening. I guess a lot of CMDRs are now busy grinding materials for the AZGR blueprint, before they discover Guardian weapons are not so great for a Titan assault…
At the current rate, it might end up going down at a really awkward time for EU players to witness its final destruction, even with the weekend. Though depends on how active the US side of the playerbase gets at beating it up over the next few hours... at least, I know I can get a decent window to rescue pods, whatever the time where it explodes will be.
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