Elite: Dangerous - Massive Alien Base Discovered

With a small release new secrets appeared in the game universe and the Canonn research group wasted no time in tracking down signals from beacons, fighting their way through hostile NPC's and decoding a message that brought them to a massive alien base, presumably of Thargoid origin.
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MadRaptor produced the activated device footage at the end - please check out his work:
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[@DOHARKsmash]

There's Scott...finding crazy shit in the galaxy...then there's me. afraid to leave the vicinity of underwood station

[@viola_case]

At least you're past Threvithick!

[@DOHARKsmash]

@@viola_case ahh good old LHS 3447.

[@DOHARKsmash]

May I recommend trying your hand at deep core mining? It's a good kickoff for anyone who's trying to get their foot In the door.

[@GrimViridian]

@Alan Justin not sure whats more sad the fact that your spamming on KZbin or the fact that you're spamming about hacking your gf's account XD

[@Random_Banshee]

Holly Lee It‘s not sad at all, that and the bot that responds to it are bots, they neither waste their time spamming nor did they hack anyone‘s stuff, it probably leads to a scam site and the dude that programmed these is making good money off of it

[@vonneely1977]

They should add an "I want to believe" ship decal as an reward for when you run into enough Thargoid stuff.

[@Krooksbane]

Maybe an X as well?

[@ejoegot4957]

Muka hantu 👻👻👻👻👻👻👻 ibngmgvd

[@oKDarkStarKo]

Idk... i've seen those weird things before... alien eggs corrosive materials weird signals unidentified structures Ridley Scott already warned us about that.

[@cpob2013]

omnomnom

[@anarchyantz1564]

Large tentacle like structures....check....Iris eye like structure in the middle......check....Gurgling like sound effects............check...Elder Gods and Cthulhu confirmed. Please check your sanity at the airlock and breath in that sweet, sweet vacuum....

[@arandomturtle5963]

No, this is a job for a exturminatis

[@cmdrflint9115]

there's 5+ of these sites, all with subtle differences.. by far the most interesting alien addition to the game so far, and it's even better, you can spot them from orbit, makes finding new sites much easier.

[@AstroPsych_]

Can you see them from orbit without Horizons? I've not been able to even partially get involved in the alien stuff, but maybe now I can at least get a glimpse.

[@JosephHeartsu]

DoctorWhoFanBadWolf yes I'm curious about this too

[@robinchwan]

Cmdr Flint maby you need to visit these places in some sort of order???

[@Boraboar]

8:46 unknown Organic Structure? Pew-Pew-Pew it! Adequate space explorer approach. Humanity is doomed.

[@qualitydsc8299]

Thank you. Excatly! We are so stupid!

[@boulderthefat154]

Thankfully astronauts and pilots are selected very well irl...for now anyway, who knows it could end up like a regular drivers license lmao

[@satanicdude]

... once again, a great addition to Euro Screenshot Simulator 2017.

[@Tautolonaut]

-Buying this game recently, gradually falling in love with both it and the wealth of youtube videos about its gigantic world - pretty good -Suddenly remembering one of your favourite youtubers has loads of stuff about it that you've never got round to watching - *priceless*

[@Perdikofas]

Obviously this is Shai Hulud and the planet is Arrakis a couple million years after the death of the God-Emperor of Dune!!!

[@bigoljoe1829]

You... I like you.

[@Perdikofas]

:D

[@cryx4]

Indeed, this one is... developed.

[@ErizotDread]

maybe after the Honored Matres used the weapon of the Enemy on the planet?

[@DeusExWolksvagen]

Blessed be his comings and passing!

[@CasanOffi]

How do you guys find such sites? I'm a rookie explorer on my first trip to a nebular, only a couple of thousands LY away (so, not really far away). I enter a system, discovery scan for planets, scan for all surface details - and then? How do I even know where I have to search for anything? I have absolutely no clue...

[@scottmanley]

+Andreas Heidrich follow the Cannon research group

[@CasanOffi]

Thanks mate :-)

[@thirakawa5810]

"Go to this planet and check out these coordinates..." Is that really a *discovery*?

[@freshlymemed5680]

T Hirakawa They know where the place is, they dont know whats there

[@snoworries4342]

Assisted discovery

[@eldarlrd]

That's not really how it works, you find an unidentified beacon and then it transmits a message like once an hour or so. You pickup the message, it's a bunch of mess and use NATO decryption to make sense of it. It shows coordinates and the planet in the same system and then you actually fly there. One decrypted by a single player though it's marked in EDSM and additional sites like those and there's no longer a need for others to do the same.

[@Lump7229]

I ran into Thargoids once... I was in a hauler. They melted me. Can’t remember what system, but it was inside the bubble. And then Scott discovers an entire base.

[@RaikiriFujitsu]

Elite: Dangerous sort of reminds me of Ready Player One, nobody really knows what's going on and it seems like a real thrill to discover this content, and not simply reading guides on the game's wiki page.

[@milkcarton6654]

And people get overly excited about it because there is literally nothing going on in this game and people go like OMG A NEW HALF ASSED ASSET ISNT ED AMAZING?

[@Praetore_]

Half assed how? Also you think people over hype Elite? what about No Man's Sky, that was and still is worse in every way. :3

[@tigusvidiks728]

it may be half assed, but it's still the best in what it offers.

[@Praetore_]

There is no proof of it being the "best", infact its not that good at all in comparrison to other games and its fans all seem to have the superior to everyone else complex, maybe something to do with it costing 10x, maybe 100x the price its actually worth at a push anyway. The ships are over expensive for a start...

[@tigusvidiks728]

tell me 1 that does what Elite does, but better.

[@ZarielZanzibar]

Just wait for them to pop their 6 pool

[@rrenkrieg7988]

nah we're still safe till they get Spires, then we'll be drowning with Mutas.

[@Oodain]

curse my 14 light year jump limit,

[@xavierh.5102]

outfit a hauler for exploration, or a cobra if you can afford it.

[@EminemLovesGrapes]

Oodain and do the rags to riches route. I wish I did that, I'm currently way too far into my tens of thousands ly trip to a random asteroid station, to turn back and do that instead.

[@zenjji1158]

Go to high extraction zones and get bounties

[@ceiling_cat]

your jump limit is underaged, she must be more than 16 to do exploration, remember that

[@SlowKlone]

python life

[@mrk45]

The more I see of the Thargoids, the more they remind me of the Mysterons. Maybe it's the fact we've never seen any in the flesh and also their penchant for shining lights at things.

[@kobalt63]

Thank you Scott - love your style ... very refreshing among all the scatterbrain KZbin contributors. Thargoid structures remind me of Prometheus' organic spaceships and structures ... Elite Dangerous devs keep adding new material for exploration and investigation ... keeps surprising me ... nice pace of keeping an otherwise declining (?) game interesting and up to date. Don't stop working on it devs, ELITE is a nice fun alternative between StarCitizien and EVE. Keep to this recipe and you will have a market in the Space exploration/trading/shooter genre. I have played ELITE 35 years ago ( ! ) on my Commodore64 on a 640x460 black and white television with wire frame graphics ...smiles. ELITE and Sundog were the best games back then and the recipe still works it seems.

[@TechyBen]

Control pad works wonderfully, I use an Xbox controller on PC.

[@TheotherTempestfox]

Personally, I prefer to use a gamepad for the SRV.

[@WimsicleStranger]

TechyBen PS4 controller works a million times better IMO. You can snap to the different menus by pressing certain corners of the touch pad. Not to mention you can look around by pressing R3 and moving the controller around.

[@bvs1q]

you can look the same with xbox controller too, most people who had a xbox controller when elite came out already had binds like that before elite added their own default controller setup like a year later and i dont know what ps3 controller is like (with windows support/drivers etc) but with xbox you can have 3 or 4 button binds for every digital input so you can literally bind every single control to something on the controller

[@leecroft7311]

Been playing this on my Xbox One X with the Elite Controller, just awesome.

[@leecroft7311]

Just to think we can now have game's like this running (very well) on a home console is incredible, something us console owner's could only dream of if lucky have to put up with a shitty, cut-down version of not too long ago.

[@EdSchroedinger]

when my eyes went down the list of suggested vids skimming through the headlines my first thoughts were like 'what.. alien base?... elite? just another alien ufo clickbate crap?.... or... wait a moment.... what?' it apparently went completely past my attention that Elite has received a 2014 follow up version... Elite was a special (probably live changing) kind of experience back those days and I never knew there's a new version... and, well... obviously some graphical improvements have taken place since :D

[@pizza7323]

I would just love to be able to step out of my ship for once and explore on foot. Just imagine all the possibilities. -Walking around your ship, with total immersion -Being able to jump through the rings of a planet -Having FPS battles with people There's just too much to mention. Many things to think of. Once they do add this though, you'd have 3 main ways to get around. Either from Flying, Driving, or Walking. This would just add much much more variety in the game with much more opportunities, and you guys know this. If you think deep enough you'd be overwhelmed with the possibilities that come to mind.

[@scottmanley]

+Your Lord it may come eventually. Right now if you have a room scale VR setup you can walk around the cockpit of ships.

[@pizza7323]

Hey I'll try that, thanks!

That is coming in another two year season pass process and you have to buy the base game and horizons again.

[@TheAlcoholic27]

Awesome, thanks for sharing! And I'm sure you've figured it out by now, but for those interested in using a controller in the future, if you want to check messages it's X+dpad Up (Xbox controller). X+left, right, down will show the Nav panel, Functions panel and Helm panel respectively. You can use free look as well, but like you mentioned, it doesn't focus in and it can be a bit shaky.

[@MaliciousMatt888]

im loving this game on the X in 4K quality mode

[@polygondon]

"What kind of propulsion, that is?" -Yoda Manley

[@Ahroundeltori18]

You were pretty entertaining. Definitely subbing

[@garycleveland6410]

It is truly amazing how far they've come with Elite.

[@fingpolak]

I hope you meant it in a sarcastic way.

[@garycleveland6410]

@@fingpolak I mean from its inception in 1984. They still need to fix some stuff.

[@Old_Grey]

Subscribed, nice video. Dying to play this game later

[@sirdee9607]

Great Video, thx for that

[@Dark__Thoughts]

We do know now that they're indeed Thargoids, this was the result of the CG during E3.

[@klesk4never]

I'm not even playing this game, and I'm watching every video he makes about it.

[@jacksonkidd4195]

i've seen this discussed and shown all around the internet, but i still wait for the scott manley vid for it!

[@anonymousperson9761]

Holy shit, I love Scott’s KSP vids I didn’t even know he played ED. Truly a space renaissance man.

[@pugfugly1989]

I keep hearing and finding a lot of weird stuff surrounding specifically Merope, and the other Pleiades stars named after the Greek Pleiades. I'm wondering if, because of the Greek myths connections to Orion, any of the system in the Orion constellation might be involved with the Thargoids?

[@gpcaptdrunkenmonkey1265]

PS4 Players do not only play on the dualshock 4 controller. Thrustmaster developed a HOTAS which is no 4. This was specifically put in as another controller by Frontier. With this extra controller Elite Dangerous is a Dream to play and so intuitive and ads another dimension to the game.

[@relentlessmadman]

every time I think of something interesting to look up, It's all ready a damn game!

[@bdetert82]

They seem to be terraforming the immediate area around the structure creating an atmosphere. Might explain the color shift you see from orbit.

[@johnnypatterson77]

Every time I play this game in it's current state I just get bored, but you make it look fun again, maybe being by myself in this huge galaxy is just overwhelming.

[@Verdiumm]

No, it's because the Devs are GREAT and i mean GREAT. at visuals, and sound design. but horrifically awful at making the games base content fun, and Scott Cut's a lot of the monotonous jumping, and grinding out for us (which i really appreciate). Everything boils down to grinding for a better ship, that's what they rely on. instead of engaging content, they add in new things to grind for, like power-play and engineers. I think they made it TOO big. much like No Mans Sky, too much relying on Procedural generation, though obviously, NMS makes this game look good by comparison.

[@McSniffle]

Check out the elite subreddit right now, lots more stuff recently discovered. People have discovered starmaps from audio spectrographs as well as gaining access to one of the bases thats still active that seems to be projecting a galaxymap from some alien object.

[@javkiller]

The scavengers and the general aesthetic they went for with the thargoids is really reminiscent of the aliens from he 90's version of Battlezone.

[@dibo244]

those players should work at Bletchley park

[@mj6258]

That is absolutely fucking incredible. I played ELITE until i had blisters on the good old commodore 64 as a youngster. I tried elite dangerous when it came out but i guess with age my gaming skills severely diminished and i just couldn't get the hang of flying properly. It is amazing to see what it has evolved into. Always remember the Thargoids interrupting jumps in the original , ah the memories. Great video.

[@TheWolfiet]

You need a UA in your cargo to open the doors, Scott. Give it a try!

[@IcarusDawn]

Played this with the Alien Theme in the background, immersion +100%

[@mibah1369]

This game looks amazing for vr, can't wait to get a rift

[@vermithraxplays1615]

hey scott, what is your favorite ship? at the moment i am flying an upgraded keelback with a fighter bay. very versatile allrounder ship. great even for exploration. but i am already looking forward. any suggestions?

[@stab456]

calling it, the mouth is the thargoid's mailbox.

[@kaotic90109]

So ready to get off work to play this. after the download finished last night I feel asleep but hoping I have a better experience in this than No Man's Sky

[@ComputingCactus]

As of July 1 2017 0350 UTC, there are 38 confirmed sites, 28 unconfirmed, for a total of 66 so far.

[@scottmanley]

Yep - Spreadsheet is being maintained: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G79y2Sg-7lU8BDIpM_N0-mnS6BFqhe4va648J1wwnag/edit#gid=1210897867

[@oisnowy5368]

"They kept on missing with the unknown probe..." most suggestive (wink, wink) thing I've heard all day.

[@waitemat88]

I like the TK-421 reference.

[@littlevischous]

i just hope that we aren't locked out of trying to negotiate and/or work with the thargoids.

[@alaskanbas6507]

Hi Scott, I'm going to test the power of different types of rocket fuel in the same rocket engine as a high school project. The rocket will be sitting on rails with Newton springs to indicate the thrust that is being delivered. My physics teacher likes and approves the idea, fortunately .

[@sometimesChris01]

Thats the best game i have ever seen in my life

[@sometimesChris01]

Hello past me

[@justins21482]

what is the song you used at the very end when you offer additional videos to check out? it sounds fantastic!!

[@Trusteft]

Those "bases" look somewhat to the ones found in some of the Xcom games. Cool.

[@thechuby7625]

My belief, Its like a parasite, eating at the core/ or just the planet and it is some sort of resource gatherer/ mother ship/ communication site

[@agenericsteve]

Looks like the remains of the Zerg Overmind on Aiur xD

[@HeyGuy4321]

6:18 Lol the way you said "MMM SCAVENGERS"

[@SpacialKatana]

Nice one Scott - am 1000's of ly's away from all the buzz atm - no hurry to return either ;)

[@stefanklass6763]

Hi Scott. I remember having seen one of your KSP videos where you tested what the maximum reentry velocity was, but I can't find it. Is it gone or am I just too dumb to find it?

[@cpc2043]

hey scott, can you send me your ASP Explorer build that you are using, thanks

[@alandotson327]

This game is on another lvl

[@COMMANDandConquer199]

With a controller you can hold X on Xbox or square on PS4 then use the dpad to lock onto the different screens in the ship. Makes it a lot easier. I honestly find that playing with a controller is the way to go if you don't have flight sticks.

[@Vevvev8]

Scott it has been confirmed they are Thargoids. You cannot say we don't know anymore.

[@benrussell-gough1201]

My guess it was a mobile industrial area of some sort. It probably was building at least Corvette/Clipper-class or maybe even capship-class starships. It has likely exhausted all the planet's useful resources and the Scavengers are ROVs picking any remaining useful materials before the factory ship leaves. I'm sure that the central structure is the starship itself and everything else are waste products and off-casts from the ship fabrication process. Why couldn't Scott get into the first one? Simple: The factory ship was getting ready to leave and the inner airlock doors were sealed. The second one discovered by the Canonn clan is likely active. The display they found may be a navigational aid or it could be a strategic map showing targets identified by the UAs and UPs.

[@jmcaes32112]

this stuff is cool and all but i wish they'd focus more on the core game. still kick ass to see that they can put something like this into this game! hopefully they add more!

[@Acecool]

It looks like a tremors - was that the movie? - sand worm dead - coming up one for some reason one last time....

[@denizaltunyurt1850]

this is literally the scene from prometheus when they were trying to land on the engineer's planet

[@AAABBB-lh9se]

I searched for Phil Schneider... why KZbin returned this result???

[@Satelitko]

I swear, they're setting up first person exploration of locations.

[@MrFragglerock75]

This video earned you a sub 👍

[@volteerwattson435]

I wouldn't mind joining you Scott I just got the game and I already have the hauler. I'm using trading and delivery to work my way up to a good ship.

[@Tom-Servo]

My first thought on the scavengers were the sentinels from no man's sky ugh

[@NoedigJK471]

Make it easy on yourself and submit, Scott Manley.

[@Roman9746]

I'm on ED righ now. Accidentally found Victoria's Song while exploring

[@garycleveland6410]

A nod to the movie Alien.

[@Tyclone]

Yap those starfish looking things on the ground are thargoid tech 100%

[@firstnamethenalastname]

you should try exploration with an anaconda with a fighter bay, zipping around a planet's surface in a gu97 beats the HELL out of the srv

[@oxycypher]

8:50 thats probably an air vent or something, heat looks to be coming out of it

[@lReaItra]

Exactly what I thought, too. It's a very generic portrayal of heat refraction in games.

[@thelqualomee1040]

Nah, that's a space cancer vent

[@purplealien71]

0:15 I wish jumps were really that fast!

[@elfinplatypus1341]

They need to add Tabby's star and put an active Thargoid base there.

[@la-le-lu-le-lo5540]

Oh look, the art design team discoverd H.R Giger

[@SonakaG]

did you try flying in from the top with the actual spaceship, maybe its a port for docking of the sorts.

[@TheRealDookieJenkins]

The console controls are not the same as you mentioned, and it is configurable to make it easier to use for what its worth.

[@ColinPaddock]

Love to go in there with space legs, but I feel like somewhere along the way something’s going to grab my face and lay eggs…

[@unfair4705]

if the smaller ships were barnacles is this thing Charybdis ?

[@swumimobile5843]

Damn dude,i already envy the pilots who in the far futute will find something similar to this,space truly must be fucking amazing

[@HughieDoomer]

looks like those things within the base are creating an amonia atmosphere.

[@leecroft7311]

The Xbox One X does seriously good justice to this masterpiece. Awesome game.

[@ardalla535]

This reminds me of Horizons (if anyone remembers that abomination). The enemy was The Blight. When you penetrated to the center of their controlled area---a place that should have meant instant death to any intruder---there was hardly anything there, and nothing you couldn't handle. And The Blight was hyped as this horrendous force that was consuming the entire planet, destroying everything in its path.

[@davidkovar7524]

This should be explored again now that Odyssey is out :)

[@maniac6655]

it looked like youre sitting in mid of the repulsion system or the CMD-Bridge (if it is really a Ship of the Thargoides)

[@percypurple9585]

It looks like the inside of a larynx with all the cartilage rings

[@Shull140]

Looks like a mega sarlacc, that eats capital ships rather than bounty hunters.

[@jasontipton8430]

scott the second time i went i could lock onto it from several light seconds from it it was identified as unknown structure.

[@scottmanley]

Yep, once you find it it'll be marked from 1000LS out making a return easy.

[@ramy21602]

Obviously this is the Sarlac Pit.

That's curious, I watched many of your scientific videos but it is the first time I see you playing a videogame. I searched and could not see you playing X: Rebirth though, which is somewhat like Elite: Dangerous, but single player and with a slightly different focus. Any reasons?

[@Kentalian]

What's the music in your outro? I can't seem to find in the description.

[@fraznofire2508]

I feel like I might have made a discovery in elite dangerous but I couldn't check it out because I didn't have a planetary approach suite at the time.

[@Dethmeister]

She's not just going to let you in there. You'll have to wine and dine first.

[@commissarhal5927]

So IDK if its just me, but I went to the coordinates of the base and nothing is there... I don't know if it got removed after the beyond update, or is now floating in space somewhere.