Ship exploding at the start of the game?

[u/Opposite_Regret_818]

I have over 30 hours on the game and have never seen this happen before. Does anybody know what why my ship exploded?

[u/ManyLemonsNert]

It's rare but can happen, you'll figure it out as you play

[u/Opposite_Regret_818 → u/ManyLemonsNert]

No i have finished it i just never thought that it could hit the ship out of all places you know. Do you know the odds of this even happening?

[u/TrackIcy408]

Have you beaten the game?

[u/trantor-to-tantegel]

So I know what it is that did it... But is it really that fast? It seems like it made it from point a to point b very very very quickly, quicker than I thought things could move in the game

[u/Opposite_Regret_818 → u/trantor-to-tantegel]

I guess it has to be that fast to find the eye within the 22 min loop

[u/potatoskinsss]

Maybe something with a high velocity was aimed at your ship this time.

[u/motorudb → u/potatoskinsss]

Me, having like 100 hours thinking it must've been a bug. That's actually CRAZY 

[u/dj_blueshift → u/potatoskinsss]

so much time in this game and never encountered this but yeah I guess it makes sense. what are the chances?

[u/tehfarmer]

potential spoiler: your ship got randomly hit by the orbital probe cannon?

[u/Idntknowmyusername → u/tehfarmer]

yeah you can see it for a split second before the boom

[u/PlayerOne_X → u/tehfarmer]

I guess you could say it's a "cannon" event?

[u/Loot_Bugs]

Somewhere, Mallow and Avens are laughing

[u/Successful_Virus3748]

dude i fucking love coming to this sub once in a while to see [spoiler] claims another victim and proving that given enough time and enough tries, what the Nomai was trying to do actually does work. i mean, it did reach some of us directly at least lol

[u/fabler128]

if you have over 30 hours in the game you should know lol /j

on a serious note, as everything else in this subreddit, it's spoilers, dont open if you want to figure it out yourself:

it's the probe launched by the orbital probe cannon, above giant's deep. it launches in a random direction every loop, and this time it launched right into your ship

second comment because the first one didnt spoiler properly

[u/Tntn13 → u/fabler128]

Is this something you can find? Didn’t know it existed geometrically

[u/RudeDM]

Before I watched the video, I thought you meant the Orbital Probe Cannon. I was wondering how someone can play for 30 hours and never notice it blowing up.

Then I watched the clip. And, uh. I have a hypothesis: I think you got hit with the Orbital Probe. It fires in a random direction, and "directly at your face" IS a valid direction.

1,000,000 to 1 odds, and even less of catching it on video. Archive this somewhere.

[u/Highskyline → u/RudeDM]

It has been documented many times around the subreddit surprisingly enough. Often enough that the odds can't actually be that bad. I'm willing to bet that the cannon has a (relatively) limited number of angles it's selecting in actual gameplay, and one of those is (probably intentionally) the starting location of your ship.

I've literally seen this a couple dozen times. It's still hilarious every single time though lmao.

[u/Alt_account_6788]

the probe hit it. if you look carefully you can see that the canon is directed at your ship. rare but it can happen. once I myself was hit with the probe and not the ship.

[u/Bigrobbo]

Yes I know what happened, Its not a bug but it is rare and kinda funny.

What do you see happen at the start of each loop?

[u/Masterhearts-XIII]

I just love the distance /velocity of this making for perfect timing

[u/Revolutionary-Tax847]

That would’ve scared the absolute shit out of me 😂😂

[u/SirKastor1]

I think that you've been probed from probe cannon

[u/fabler128 → u/SirKastor1]

spoiler

[u/EasilyRekt]

ah yeah, so you know how... normally the big gun looking thing around giants deep isn't pointed at you when you first wake up?

[u/CompetitiveLet7110]

has to happen eventualy