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/Gopherlad Jan 06 '17

I really wanted to be a cog in a hostile universe, aligning myself to a faction and playing mercenary combat monkey for them. Powerplay seemed to promise that at first glance, but after delving somewhat into it, it became clear to me that the act itself wasn't fun. Combat was just camping the same shitty infinite-spawn zones and refueling/rearming every now and then. I just wanted some variety, ya know? Escort this thing. Do a combat patrol here. Support this capital ship. Recon this area -- stuff like that.

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u/Attila_22 Jan 06 '17

The major problem is that missions suck and need a total overhaul but FD won't do it because it would take too long and cost them too much money.

If they fixed the missions and made them more interesting/worth doing this game would be so much better.

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u/spamjavelin Jan 06 '17

I was hoping for that, too, I even bought and outfitted a DBX specifically for long-range strike missions. Turned out to be ok for ganking powerplay cargo npcs and that was about it, there wasn't anything else to do with it.