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Elite Dangerous - Alien Life found (Barnacles in space)

ErillionErillion Member EpicPosts: 10,295
http://www.gamestar.de/spiele/elite-dangerous/news/elite_dangerous,45128,3242351.html

Look and listen to the embedded Youtube video.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/40y4s9/foudn_the_barcnacles_yeahhhh/

It's on MEROPE 5 C

-026.3496°

-156.4044°

0.18G


Commander reports:

"It's unclear at this point whether the "Organic Structures" grow back, but they can be mined.

So far, I and other commanders have collected Iron, Sulfur, Arsenic, Germanium, Manganese, Tungsten, and Arsenic.

If the structures DO grow back, then these are material mines.

The central structure appears to be impervious to damage. I've watched commanders whack it with every kind of weapon there is, railguns included.

As I type this, I can hear weapons fire. If this does end in war, then we clearly started it.

UPDATE

The peripheral spires periodically grow back. I witnessed this happen. This sites are a gold mine in materials. They seem to be a nigh-infinite source of materials like germanium and arsenic.

Update 2

Occasionally these spires contain "Mining Fragments" when which picked up by an SRV transform into "Meta-Alloys" which look extremely valuable.

Update 3

When the peripheral spires are destroyed the materials they drop are shaped like this:

http://imgur.com/UeCwqNm

Update 4

Someone just dropped an unknown artifact. So far, there is no effect.

http://imgur.com/ID9EH5j

I've never witnessed a UA before. So it appears to be pointing at merope. Am told this behavior is normal.

Update 5

The UA's health does not appear to be dropping.

http://imgur.com/AjFYsTM

Update 6

A CMDR dropped a UA directly on the barnacle. No effect. UA decayed as normal. We have now ceased fire and retreated to see if we can encourage it to regrow its spires again.

Update 7

Can confirm that barnacle exists in both solo and open mode."


Commanders are working on sound analysis and binary decoding of the sounds.


If this was a first contact, we humans blew it ;-)



Have fun


Comments

  • Solar_ProphetSolar_Prophet Member EpicPosts: 1,960
    I really need to stop putting off playing this game...

    AN' DERE AIN'T NO SUCH FING AS ENUFF DAKKA, YA GROT! Enuff'z more than ya got an' less than too much an' there ain't no such fing as too much dakka. Say dere is, and me Squiggoff'z eatin' tonight!

    We are born of the blood. Made men by the blood. Undone by the blood. Our eyes are yet to open. FEAR THE OLD BLOOD. 

    #IStandWithVic

  • filmoretfilmoret Member EpicPosts: 4,906
    Nice I didn't know this game had planet exploration with player driven rovers.  I'm gonna start calling star citizen an Elite Dangerous clone.  Because they sure as heck look like the same game.  I'm definitely buying this game when my new computer arrives.
    Are you onto something or just on something?
  • ErillionErillion Member EpicPosts: 10,295
    filmoret said:
      Because they sure as heck look like the same game.
    Both developers (Braben and Roberts) basically have the same vision for their games in their final version.

    Sandbox universes, free walking avatars, player trade, many available spaceships, planetary exploration, aliens etc.

    They have a different approach in how to realize that vision. One does it sequentially and hard-sci-fi realistically, the other recapitulatory and cinematically.

    Being a backer for both projects i enjoy both games and visions and look forward to compare the final games in a few years.


    Have fun
  • Mors.MagneMors.Magne Member UncommonPosts: 1,549
    I like the way that the thargoids are being gradually introduced. 

    The barnacle reminds me of the obelisk in Space Odyssey 2001. 
  • zytinzytin Member UncommonPosts: 202
    But the controls offer for such a sharp learning curve...
  • filmoretfilmoret Member EpicPosts: 4,906
    zytin said:
    But the controls offer for such a sharp learning curve...
    Well the closer you get to real simulation the more complicated it will be.  Just like flight simulator.  You couldn't just start flying without reading directions or you would crash.
    Are you onto something or just on something?
  • BraindomeBraindome Member UncommonPosts: 959
    I would be more interested in this topic if I could decipher exactly what is even being discussed here. I understand there is a barnacle and apparently this barnacle regrows some kind of materials, guess I need to be an Elite Dangerous pro to understand the rest.... looks at Steam prices.... omg, i'm not paying that kinda money to go play with a barnacle.
  • ErillionErillion Member EpicPosts: 10,295
    Its a contact with an alien race that has at least limited  ability to communicate.

    The Elite universe so far has only one confirmed alien race, the Thargoids (insectoid alien race).
    So finding a second one is big news.

    E:D does not hand out clues easily. You have to work hard and together with other players to decipher the clues.  And yes, that may require knowledge in basic cryptology and signal processing.

    Only artifacts hinting at the existance of other alien races (now extinct ? Killed by the Thargoids ?) have been found. As an example - read up on the "Unknown Artifacts" mystery:

    http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Unknown_Artefact

    http://kotaku.com/months-later-elite-dangerous-players-make-major-disco-1736308597



    Have fun




  • ErillionErillion Member EpicPosts: 10,295
    edited January 2016





    Have fun

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