The SLFs around Strongholds used to reward 120+ merits per kill. Meaning you could get ~16000 merits per dive before you'd need a resupply. And the only downside was a fine of the same amount - 16k Cr. No bounty. I did two Stronghold SLF runs while listening to Ace Combat OST and it was the most fun and rewarding ways to do powerplay. So I decided to record it on the next day... only to find out the SLF kill rewards have been nerfed to the ground. I still did one last run just to record it, but with one tenth of the previous merits it was not worth doing it anymore. That's why it says RIP. I haven't tested how much merits the SLF kills reward after the "Triple Rewards" patch and can't really do it right now as I'm on my way to Colonia from Beagle Point (as in literallly on the other side of the galaxy).

It's jsut a cover image of Ace Combat 7 with a Python Mk2 badly photoshopped on top. Unfortunately I have deleted the original size image I made, so the low res from youtube is all there is. i9.ytimg.com/vi_webp/-N-oAoWrVd8/maxresdefault.webp?v=673f2128&sqp=CLC6jroG&rs=AOn4CLAM5aGHdxRr3jm-HPEi1fSmyU0_-A

Yep. The Tiqqun was also a last ditch effort to save the humans in our universe. You can explore the whole original Solar System in the tutorial and learn that we have no more resurses left. The Tiqqun is the last big ship we can create, and we couldnt even finish it, let alone create all the nececary tech for it to function properly. So seeing the "Post Test Jump Solar System" after exploring the original one in the Tutorial, it should be immideatly obvious the two systems are completely differnt. The game contains a lot of events and sidenotes that elude to us jumping between universes. The only reason we aren't told this directly is because the ship's AI is constantly monitoring and redacting the information we are given. The protagonist (us) is living inside a speical pod, connected directly the ship, in order to better manage and control it. In one of the failure endings your qrew can riot and forcefully extract you from that pod. But sometimes the AI makes mistakes because it does not understand some context or contents, and we are given the unfiltered data from which we can uncover the truth about the artifacts we are using as beacons to jump betveen different universes, but to the same star system.

What if in warp dimension there is huge amounts of energy going out during vohle jump?

Yeah, did you try doing that?

You have to manually edit user game settings file called "GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml". Pretty sure you can't do that on Xbox.

It took me a few tries to get in, even in VR with HOTAS: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3TdeJSMm66BncU

This was in Solo mode. It's just a bug in their behavior programming, like the one where they just sit 450m in front of the ship after a hyperdiction.

When the Thargoids were first added into the game, they were considered a 4th superpower by the game's logic. So dropping them stuff like Meta-alloys (a LOT of them) would eventually make the Thargoid faction Cordial -> Friendly -> Allied with you (and all the Thargoids you would encounter would be friendly on radar). This however was removed at some point - probably as soon as it was discovered by players.

​@@ALEX_VIIif it narrows it down, the thargoids had been in the game a bit by that point, it was only 4 years ago. Humans had been killing em for a bit now by that point. I'd post the video too but I'm not trying to self promote on someone else's channel, it's uncouth lol

@@nogitsunegaming Your video has a known bug - when the scripting of ship scanning fails and the Thargoid just stays at ~500m distance to the ship.

@@ALEX_VII aah ok, I didn't find anything about it at the time, hence why I posted it back then lol Never had a reason to look back into it because thargoids seem to keep doing the same crap. Confirmation bias I suppose.

There used to be one, back when frontier was playing out a potential divide between those that wanted war upon the goids and those that didn't. It was an interesting time for sure, and it was indeed letting potential for complex interactions with alien life play out... And then frontier dropped the "oops, all evil" and slammed down the door on anyone that was even thinking of anything other than mindlessly killing them. They did the same with the megaship jump to one of the permit locked sections of the Galaxy. Literally no one was expecting much appart form empty systems but tons and tons of exploration ships went to the station in anticipation. Frontier let that grow into a big event. And then once again they went "oops, all goids" and dropped the single strongest thargoid variants on hundreds of unarmed ships all the while anyone even attempting to defend the megaship was being shot at by it because they were fighting in a no-fire zone.

Spoilers for later in the game, but they knew it would happen. They were also convinced that there was no way for humanity to get to the stars without someone doing it. So they did it first.

@@reidsb78by destroying the Moon and condemning the Earth?

In THIS situation you could only sit and watch the cutscene. There was no way to damage the Thargoids and they didn't attack you back then. (This video is from 2017)

@@ALEX_VII good point, but you know full well that after the cutscene was over someone who was either arrogant or someone who was running a ungodly amount of shard cannons immediately ripped it apart or got ripped apart

@@velkhanaoverlord5854 No, there was no Shard Cannons back then. Or any Guardian weapons. Or AX weapons. There was no way to kill Thargoids for half a year after they were added to the game.

To reiterate further - the first weapon able to damage the Thargoids was a fixed AX Missile Rack, released in September 2017 (while this video is from January 2017). And fight with a SINGLE Cyclops was a long boss battle, and only the most skilled PVP players could pull it off solo.

@@ALEX_VII ah, sorry didnt know.