Thargoid soloing
12 Oct 2017xSPAC3MONK3Yx
After varying degrees of very limited success, I think that to successfully attack and kill a thargoid in deep space with no stations near, will need a team effort, dedicated ships, Medic with healing beams and repair limpets, missile ship with AX missiles, gun ship with AX multis, engineered pack hounds with thermal cascade seem to work well overloading its shields and getting its attention. Maybe a fast striker or mine layer to redirect its attention away from someone that needs to get away and repair. The Thargoid needs to be scanned first, then have the AX missiles and pack hound ships go in the first wave firing all missiles, immediately followed by the AX gun ships targeting hearts, have the little birds run through either shooting multis or dropping mines so the gun ships can break off. After each wave breaks off have them swing by the medic/medics for repairs, but keep the pressure on.
Ive noticed that the Thargoid not only swings teathers missiles at you, but the missiles themselves also fire green stuff at you.
The Thargoid at first will also fire what looked like some type of green laser at you that causes hull damage, but once you piss it of it fires some type of red lasers at you that cause even more/faster hull damage.
Thargoids have these weapons so far, maybe more but ive only seen these:
1-EMP, that disables your ship
2-teathered missiles that cause explosive damage and the missiles alse shoot green stuff at you that causes caustic damage
3-fires green laser that cause thermal damage to shields and caustic damage to hull armor
4-once mad it fires red lasers that cause even more thermal damage to shields and caustic damage to hull armor
Once you do enough damage to it, the sounds it makes change, possibly sending out an SOS to any nearby thargoid ship to assist