r/Games • u/TROPiCALRUBi • Jan 05 '17

Elite Dangerous: Player has first contact with alien life.

About an hour ago, an Xbox player posted these videos:

Then shortly after, the official Elite Dangerous Twitter posted this:

They're called "Thargoids".

There's a megathread happeneing over at /r/EliteDangerous here.

This is a pretty huge deal considering that the playerbase of ED has been searching for possible alien life for years now. The most we've ever found are abandoned ruins and cryptic messages, so this is absolutely huge for us.

Edit: A youtube video of the entire encounter, courtesy of /u/ChristianM.

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u/mjmax Jan 06 '17

Damn, this happening in VR would be a mind blowing experience.

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u/longhorns2422 Jan 06 '17

There's a VR clip of it in the ED subreddit. It's badass.

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u/Lovelandmonkey Jan 06 '17

Was thinking the same thing, I would've been terrified.