Elite: Game talk
28 Sep 2017, 5:57pm
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28 Sep 2017, 7:31pm
Jemine CaesarI just came here because I thought it was an online Sudoku site
And now you can never leave....
28 Sep 2017, 7:58pm
GiyariJQAs a side note, they also seem to pick certain things up. I've seen them grab the thargoid sensors and escape pods from human vessels, both occupied and damaged. This being said, I'm not sure the thargoids we see at the aftermath are the ones attacking the ships. They don't attack us unless we fire on them or get too close, even though they come up and scan us. They also don't make use of the pulse they've previously used to disable us. I think this may be the non hostile thargoid faction following and keeping tabs on the other one. They are (or were) in a civil war after all.
This is exactly what I think too! Although to be honest I also think it could be the Feds/Imps shooting the Thargoids first as well. It's 50/50 in my eyes.
Any contact we players as "independent Commanders" have had with the Thargoids, has been peaceful until we open fire upon them. Of course, our weapons are bloody useless just now so it's one sided, but it doesn't remove the fact that we humans seem likely to be the aggressors.
Which begs the question, why are they lifting escape pods? That's the mystery to me. If they were aggressive to us then they'd want us dead, and they'd destroy or leave the pods to drift. If they're peaceful, why are they talking pods? QUESTIONS!
That being said, I can't wait to fight some of them. Hopefully we work out what factions are what between them so I can go ham on the "bad" ones.
+1 on that, but we're gonna need the tools to do the job!
28 Sep 2017, 8:03pm
JQThe color we've seen so far I'd call green. I mean the biomass that makes up the ships, not the lights. It's a bit difficult to tell though, since the last appearance of the factions was in old school elite, and that didn't do much for colors.
In the old school Elite they attacked on sight, sometimes in number (when you were dragged out of hyperdrive) and dropped drones to make things more interesting
28 Sep 2017, 8:12pm
Silver TafferJQThe color we've seen so far I'd call green. I mean the biomass that makes up the ships, not the lights. It's a bit difficult to tell though, since the last appearance of the factions was in old school elite, and that didn't do much for colors.
In the old school Elite they attacked on sight, sometimes in number (when you were dragged out of hyperdrive) and dropped drones to make things more interesting
Very true! Although all of my information is from research, I never played the old school games personally. I think my first experiences with sci-fi flight type games were descent and freespace. Oddly enough, the most substantial information about the Thargoids was in the game manuals according to what I've read. Haven't seen a manual with lore in it for years...let alone bought a physical game.
28 Sep 2017, 9:11pm
PhelboreIn answer to an earlier post, repair limpets are in, check high-tech systems.
lol..you just beat me to it !
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