Once the last titan is defeated and the thargoids retreat, they fly off giving us the middle finger (petal?) and THEY release the mycoid virus in the bubble which promptly destroys all our new SCO drives and titan trophy ship kits. Hope you kept your old FSD's.
the paranoia is real, said it before..achilles....not a good name, expect many stranded cmdrs. I refuse to keep on ship or use them for anything but fun. i will however be happy to help sirius. as achilles heel will fall. only fools run toward shiney in this way....re: galnet mentioned firmware, firmware that was adjusted without us knowing. Achilles footware, be the first.
@RicardosGaming Yeah, after Mycoid '53 devastated the Thargoids, the hivemind decided it was best if they all stopped activity galaxy-wide for a while until they could produce a reliable vaccine (with no ill side-effects, of course) that could stop the spread of the virus which allegedly came from a human lab. The humans vehemently denied that, calling the Thargoids xenophobes, and claimed it was probably a fungoid that grew on some bacteria and somehow combined in one of their nasty ammonia worlds. Meanwhile, the Thargoids all spread out from each other for their own good, something they called "social spacing." They even banned gathering in some entire sectors, presumably where their most fun places are - or homeworlds. To this day, some of those places are still blocked from entering.
Nice take on the war and what might be to come People who complain ED has no depth wouldn't know a story if they had it tattooed on the inside of their eyelids.
Expecting some tougher resistance from the thargoids later on, and then Salvation returns all AI/Guardian mode with new tech and discoveries he's uncovered.
Personally I think whatever is going to happen will kick off after the next titan falls. There is only one more caripace pack (Cutter) to release as a reward. Also I don't see more than 5* fitting on the decal.
Hopefully the next thing that will be addressed is what happened to the Construct. I think once we find out what happened and where it/they went, we'll know a lot more about the motivations of the Thargoids.
From what I remember about elite lore, they adapted to mycoid virus. And will adapt to nanite torps eventually I suppose. It’s been a long war, and now 4 down quite easily, I expect something will change. ( plus F’dev put all this work into titans and accompanying materials) I don’t see them (titans) just going away. I’d image there will be a place in the bubble where at least 1 Titan will always be present. But yes, I expect some major blow back from thargoids, and soon.
I don't know what's coming, but I do hope that there are more chapters to the Thargoid war than we can see coming. FDEV mentioned that we're in the "culmination" of the war, but does that mean that what we have is the end of it, or that all the assets are already in place? Even after all the titans are gone, humanity still has to figure out what to do about HIP 22460, so there's got to be more.
we have been told of 3 things tha could interfere with peace/genocide, a 4th can be read from the titans insignia. make no mistake, a civilisation that kills for loitering has a bill to pay and at least 2 creditors must know by now, its never going to be paid by peace or by greedy politicians.
Open is definitely coming. I can’t say what it is cause I don’t know. I think you have a point. It might be a HIVE ship just like in the movie Independence Day
I'm still waiting on a sound heard around the bubble that activates the biopod survivors similar to the prime sentinels from x-men. I'm also waiting for an opportunity to invade the col 70 sector after proving we can delete 8 titans and a swarm of zombies.
Honestly, I don't really care one way or the other about the Thargoids or the war with them. I just bought the game hours before the first titan exploded, and as a gamer I know for a fact that no matter what Frontier aren't going to let the Thardgoids get too far into the bubble before doing something either with the Thargoids themselves, or with the in-game factions. Allowing the Thargoids to "win" is the death of Elite altogether, and I don't just mean ED, but the whole franchise itself. So even if every commander were to stop fighting the Thargoids right now, and refuse to fight them anymore, then Frontier would have no choice but to stop the whole thing and suddenly make the Thargoids seek diplomatic negotiations. Either that or the factions would really have to step things up and defend the galaxy with player aid. Either way the way would have to end without our help or involvement. I also don't care because as a new player, I know that by the time I upgrade enough to even begin to hope to fight my first Thargoid, the bulk of the war will more than likely be over. So, what's the point of stressing my head over it while I'm dodging pirates in planetary rings trying to get my mine on. I think it's a great story, and I can see what the devs are trying to do to keep sales up and hold player interest, but I feel no need to go rushing in like a lunatic to "save humanity" when I know it will all be over by the time I get even close to ready to join the cause. I'll be luck to even get a shot at fighting the last survivors of the Thargoids by the time I get upgraded enough to survive an encounter with them.
I had a similar attitude to the Thagoid war for months. I bought the game in January this year and thought that the war was so far out of my reach I'd never be good enough to get involved. I went about my business mining, and fighting pirates until I bought the Odyssey expansion to do some lucrative exobiology. Started making hundreds of millions doing long distance exploration with exobiology. Then on a trip back to the bubble, my ship was violently torn out of hyperspace! I didn't know that was even possible! I heard weird groaning noises as my ship spun into real space, and there was something on the radar I'd never seen before. Then two of them! I took fire and my shields broke in a second. More groaning noises as the things on the radar quickly gained on my ship despite constant boosting and all power to engines! I started to panic as my hull melted away, and my ship was completely disabled. Something enormous, barely visible but terrifying, drifted into view, groaning loudly. I managed to snap a screenshot before my ship was effortlessly destroyed. A Thargoid interceptor! I lost 300 million in data, I was furious. I felt so helpless, how could I possibly defend myself against something so powerful? I tried to be more careful, to plot courses that didn't involve thargoid controlled systems, but I was still destroyed like this three more times. Enough was enough. I heard that some CMDRs were able to fight and even kill these monsters. I wanted to learn how. I wanted to fight back. I wanted revenge! I found CMDR Mechan on youtube and through his videos, the Anti-Xeno Initiative website and Discord server. I learned the basics of taking the fight to the enemy with the help of the amazing CMDRs in the AXI discord and others like Ricardos Gaming on youtube. I fought back. Raided Thargoid planetary spire sites. Killed hundreds of interceptors with the AXI, and with Ricardo a couple of times. I dove into the maelstroms, saw the Thargoid motherships first hand and contributed to the destruction of 2 of them! Made over 100 billion in credits and some new friends along the way. It's been many orders of magnitude more rewarding than mining some space rocks and popping some pirates. You don't need a formidable combat rank nor a top of the range engineered ship to get involved. A chieftain is more than capable of fighting some goids, with all the modules you'll need available for some credits at the Rescue Megaships in the bubble. They are the blue and green cross icons in the galaxy map. For years, the Thargoids have invaded Human space and slaughtered millions of us at will, but now we are fighting back, now we are winning. The NPC factions do get involved, but their impact is less than negligible. All the war progress has been achieved buy actual people joining the fight. "They are coming for you CMDR, but WE are coming for them! Glory to Mankind!" - CMDR Mechan.
it is easily within reach, fdev is giving away what many had to earn in order to go play with them..plus there are many places you can just go and watch them for no effort and no risk
and btw that history is backwards, we the scourge, humans, invaded thargoid gardens and stole from thargoids Long before they even gave us a thought of being more than termites. same for the guardians. Thargoids were here before any other life existed in 'our' bubble in Thargoid space . pretty sure the relic on mars is thargoid sensor, that is a very very old discovery and 1 of many reasons why no politicians are telling the universe WE STARTED IT!!
@@milesredford6913 Meh, currently living in and round Omicron Capricorni B, transporting cargo in my new type-7 and sitting around 45 million credits, just enough to buy a Krait mk2 but then will be broke again if I do. Genuinely trying to grind for my Anaconda before I decide to really commit to anything really out there. As it sits, I have a Cobra mk3, a type-6, and a type-7. we've completely depleted the demand for tritium in our private group session and may soon be hauling other good to and fro. I have no plans as of yet to go exploring beyond the bubble, and I still haven't really ventured beyond 150ly from where I have spawned yet. Everything I have been doing for the past week has been within 1-2 jumps from my current home system.
The lore is not super buried in this game but I don't why fdev doesn't make a lot of this stuff easier to find out and discover. I played a couple hundred hours before I even found out there was actual story/lore in the game that had any depth to it. I blame on also not ever playing a previous Elite game before. An Fdev guided tour (like when you rent headphones at a museum) would be pretty cool and easy to do since it's already in the game more or less.
I get all that but it's pretty easy to ignore it even unintentionally as I basically did. Some or a large part is due to the sandbox nature of the game. Some of it due to the amount of lore/story that's buried in lots of text or other submenus like powerplay overview. Or random occurances like the audio logs at the jameson crash site. I don't think fdev has ever done a very good job (in my opinion after 1k+ hours) about showing or involving the player with the history/lore of the game. I'm all speculation with this but still I believe it's worth a think.
i played for 8 years ignoring the lore, as i did not want any clues. i was even involved in 2 parts of the lore...then i finally read all the lore. had i read it beforehand i could have avoided my part in it. I am grateful for not knowing and thereby being unavoidable.
I think it's been to easy so far, 50% gone already. Plus they want everyone to kill them ASAP, I think a twist or something else or more are coming Fdev wouldn't build all this map icons and war engine for them to disappear so quickly
What's coming next in the thargoid war? Hopefully the conclusion. It has dragged on for far too long, without much actual content. I enjoy blasting space bugs as much as the next guy but the whole thing is a snore at this point.
Who is to say that the nanite torpedoes are what they say they are? It’s not like you can buy them anywhere. From a game play standpoint, I think it would be a waste if frontier “ended” the war completely. It would be a shame if all of the game play introduced by this latest conflict were removed from game.
@@Youda00008 well thargoid combat was a thing before the war, you just had to travel hella far to get to it. Something near or just inside the bubble would be ideal I would think.
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Once the last titan is defeated and the thargoids retreat, they fly off giving us the middle finger (petal?) and THEY release the mycoid virus in the bubble which promptly destroys all our new SCO drives and titan trophy ship kits. Hope you kept your old FSD's.
oooooh now thats a good idea!
@@RicardosGaming 🤦♂
I will literally KMS I replaced the fsd of 32 ships and fully engineered them.
the paranoia is real, said it before..achilles....not a good name, expect many stranded cmdrs.
I refuse to keep on ship or use them for anything but fun.
i will however be happy to help sirius. as achilles heel will fall.
only fools run toward shiney in this way....re: galnet mentioned firmware, firmware that was adjusted without us knowing. Achilles footware, be the first.
my thoughts for future: after they visit us... i think, we will visit them in some months in an unknown area of the galaxy
Fdev will continue the Thargoid story one way or another. The pre-built AX ship is in-game for the long run.
Btw all ax weapons outside of guardian tech are still mycoid tipped, thargoids came back after they built up a resistance to it.
Interesting - a resistance to it then
@RicardosGaming they got their mycoid shots, it still affects them, just not as bad as originally (dissolving on contact).
@RicardosGaming Yeah, after Mycoid '53 devastated the Thargoids, the hivemind decided it was best if they all stopped activity galaxy-wide for a while until they could produce a reliable vaccine (with no ill side-effects, of course) that could stop the spread of the virus which allegedly came from a human lab. The humans vehemently denied that, calling the Thargoids xenophobes, and claimed it was probably a fungoid that grew on some bacteria and somehow combined in one of their nasty ammonia worlds. Meanwhile, the Thargoids all spread out from each other for their own good, something they called "social spacing." They even banned gathering in some entire sectors, presumably where their most fun places are - or homeworlds. To this day, some of those places are still blocked from entering.
"who knows? some of you may not... care." Love your realistic "common-man" perspective. Keep it up!
Thanks, will do!
Nice take on the war and what might be to come
People who complain ED has no depth wouldn't know a story if they had it tattooed on the inside of their eyelids.
ED doesn't have much depth anymore though. Due to so many writers being let go, and not being replaced.
still loads of threads to pull on - the retrofitted scout ship and it bio engineered pilot etc, Raxxla, salvation.... dredger clans etc
Totally agree! The rich and relevant lore history is one of the things that I find compelling about the Elite galaxy.
Expecting some tougher resistance from the thargoids later on, and then Salvation returns all AI/Guardian mode with new tech and discoveries he's uncovered.
something big must be coming
Personally I think whatever is going to happen will kick off after the next titan falls. There is only one more caripace pack (Cutter) to release as a reward. Also I don't see more than 5* fitting on the decal.
Hopefully the next thing that will be addressed is what happened to the Construct. I think once we find out what happened and where it/they went, we'll know a lot more about the motivations of the Thargoids.
From what I remember about elite lore, they adapted to mycoid virus. And will adapt to nanite torps eventually I suppose. It’s been a long war, and now 4 down quite easily, I expect something will change. ( plus F’dev put all this work into titans and accompanying materials) I don’t see them (titans) just going away.
I’d image there will be a place in the bubble where at least 1 Titan will always be present. But yes, I expect some major blow back from thargoids, and soon.
I don't know what's coming, but I do hope that there are more chapters to the Thargoid war than we can see coming. FDEV mentioned that we're in the "culmination" of the war, but does that mean that what we have is the end of it, or that all the assets are already in place? Even after all the titans are gone, humanity still has to figure out what to do about HIP 22460, so there's got to be more.
we have been told of 3 things tha could interfere with peace/genocide, a 4th can be read from the titans insignia.
make no mistake, a civilisation that kills for loitering has a bill to pay and at least 2 creditors must know by now, its never going to be paid by peace or by greedy politicians.
The lore and the story behind this is so amazing. I hope they keep it ongoing. I hope something is coming 😍
I hope so too!
note that newbies do get hip 22460 permit right away...seems like useful info
Very true!
The Thargoids developed a resistance to the mycoid virus.
Open is definitely coming. I can’t say what it is cause I don’t know. I think you have a point. It might be a HIVE ship just like in the movie Independence Day
definate Independance day vibes - and July 4th is around the corner
I will never forgive frontier for discontinuing console support
I'm still waiting on a sound heard around the bubble that activates the biopod survivors similar to the prime sentinels from x-men.
I'm also waiting for an opportunity to invade the col 70 sector after proving we can delete 8 titans and a swarm of zombies.
Honestly, I don't really care one way or the other about the Thargoids or the war with them.
I just bought the game hours before the first titan exploded, and as a gamer I know for a fact that no matter what Frontier aren't going to let the Thardgoids get too far into the bubble before doing something either with the Thargoids themselves, or with the in-game factions. Allowing the Thargoids to "win" is the death of Elite altogether, and I don't just mean ED, but the whole franchise itself. So even if every commander were to stop fighting the Thargoids right now, and refuse to fight them anymore, then Frontier would have no choice but to stop the whole thing and suddenly make the Thargoids seek diplomatic negotiations. Either that or the factions would really have to step things up and defend the galaxy with player aid. Either way the way would have to end without our help or involvement.
I also don't care because as a new player, I know that by the time I upgrade enough to even begin to hope to fight my first Thargoid, the bulk of the war will more than likely be over. So, what's the point of stressing my head over it while I'm dodging pirates in planetary rings trying to get my mine on.
I think it's a great story, and I can see what the devs are trying to do to keep sales up and hold player interest, but I feel no need to go rushing in like a lunatic to "save humanity" when I know it will all be over by the time I get even close to ready to join the cause. I'll be luck to even get a shot at fighting the last survivors of the Thargoids by the time I get upgraded enough to survive an encounter with them.
I had a similar attitude to the Thagoid war for months. I bought the game in January this year and thought that the war was so far out of my reach I'd never be good enough to get involved. I went about my business mining, and fighting pirates until I bought the Odyssey expansion to do some lucrative exobiology. Started making hundreds of millions doing long distance exploration with exobiology.
Then on a trip back to the bubble, my ship was violently torn out of hyperspace! I didn't know that was even possible! I heard weird groaning noises as my ship spun into real space, and there was something on the radar I'd never seen before. Then two of them! I took fire and my shields broke in a second. More groaning noises as the things on the radar quickly gained on my ship despite constant boosting and all power to engines! I started to panic as my hull melted away, and my ship was completely disabled.
Something enormous, barely visible but terrifying, drifted into view, groaning loudly. I managed to snap a screenshot before my ship was effortlessly destroyed. A Thargoid interceptor! I lost 300 million in data, I was furious. I felt so helpless, how could I possibly defend myself against something so powerful?
I tried to be more careful, to plot courses that didn't involve thargoid controlled systems, but I was still destroyed like this three more times. Enough was enough. I heard that some CMDRs were able to fight and even kill these monsters. I wanted to learn how. I wanted to fight back. I wanted revenge!
I found CMDR Mechan on youtube and through his videos, the Anti-Xeno Initiative website and Discord server. I learned the basics of taking the fight to the enemy with the help of the amazing CMDRs in the AXI discord and others like Ricardos Gaming on youtube.
I fought back. Raided Thargoid planetary spire sites. Killed hundreds of interceptors with the AXI, and with Ricardo a couple of times. I dove into the maelstroms, saw the Thargoid motherships first hand and contributed to the destruction of 2 of them! Made over 100 billion in credits and some new friends along the way.
It's been many orders of magnitude more rewarding than mining some space rocks and popping some pirates.
You don't need a formidable combat rank nor a top of the range engineered ship to get involved. A chieftain is more than capable of fighting some goids, with all the modules you'll need available for some credits at the Rescue Megaships in the bubble. They are the blue and green cross icons in the galaxy map.
For years, the Thargoids have invaded Human space and slaughtered millions of us at will, but now we are fighting back, now we are winning. The NPC factions do get involved, but their impact is less than negligible. All the war progress has been achieved buy actual people joining the fight.
"They are coming for you CMDR, but WE are coming for them! Glory to Mankind!" - CMDR Mechan.
it is easily within reach, fdev is giving away what many had to earn in order to go play with them..plus there are many places you can just go and watch them for no effort and no risk
and btw that history is backwards, we the scourge, humans, invaded thargoid gardens and stole from thargoids Long before they even gave us a thought of being more than termites.
same for the guardians.
Thargoids were here before any other life existed in 'our' bubble in Thargoid space . pretty sure the relic on mars is thargoid sensor, that is a very very old discovery and 1 of many reasons why no politicians are telling the universe WE STARTED IT!!
@@milesredford6913 Meh, currently living in and round Omicron Capricorni B, transporting cargo in my new type-7 and sitting around 45 million credits, just enough to buy a Krait mk2 but then will be broke again if I do. Genuinely trying to grind for my Anaconda before I decide to really commit to anything really out there. As it sits, I have a Cobra mk3, a type-6, and a type-7. we've completely depleted the demand for tritium in our private group session and may soon be hauling other good to and fro.
I have no plans as of yet to go exploring beyond the bubble, and I still haven't really ventured beyond 150ly from where I have spawned yet. Everything I have been doing for the past week has been within 1-2 jumps from my current home system.
The lore is not super buried in this game but I don't why fdev doesn't make a lot of this stuff easier to find out and discover. I played a couple hundred hours before I even found out there was actual story/lore in the game that had any depth to it. I blame on also not ever playing a previous Elite game before. An Fdev guided tour (like when you rent headphones at a museum) would be pretty cool and easy to do since it's already in the game more or less.
codex and/or frontier store
lore is useful for what might or could be because of what was, but if its important it goes in your galnet or inbox and likey becomes lore
I get all that but it's pretty easy to ignore it even unintentionally as I basically did. Some or a large part is due to the sandbox nature of the game. Some of it due to the amount of lore/story that's buried in lots of text or other submenus like powerplay overview. Or random occurances like the audio logs at the jameson crash site. I don't think fdev has ever done a very good job (in my opinion after 1k+ hours) about showing or involving the player with the history/lore of the game. I'm all speculation with this but still I believe it's worth a think.
i played for 8 years ignoring the lore, as i did not want any clues.
i was even involved in 2 parts of the lore...then i finally read all the lore.
had i read it beforehand i could have avoided my part in it.
I am grateful for not knowing and thereby being unavoidable.
I think it's been to easy so far, 50% gone already. Plus they want everyone to kill them ASAP, I think a twist or something else or more are coming
Fdev wouldn't build all this map icons and war engine for them to disappear so quickly
SALVATION LIVES
I think he does too
What's coming next in the thargoid war? Hopefully the conclusion. It has dragged on for far too long, without much actual content. I enjoy blasting space bugs as much as the next guy but the whole thing is a snore at this point.
Who is to say that the nanite torpedoes are what they say they are? It’s not like you can buy them anywhere.
From a game play standpoint, I think it would be a waste if frontier “ended” the war completely. It would be a shame if all of the game play introduced by this latest conflict were removed from game.
I hope that the Thargoids will stay at least in some part of the galaxy. I don't want all my hard learned skills to go to waste.
@@Youda00008 well thargoid combat was a thing before the war, you just had to travel hella far to get to it. Something near or just inside the bubble would be ideal I would think.
War with the goids has existed since 1984 in one form or another. It's not going to end anytime soon.
We haven't won yet
I know - and will we ?
@@RicardosGaming One thing I'm certain of they will have more surprises for us 😄
Hmm thargoid captured ships where did that tech go and who has it
there is a story of a retrofitted scout ship and pilot - a pilot who can now commune with the thargoids
whats'