Elite Dangerous - Severely damaged station under evacuation - Fusion reactor exposed

Thargoids have attacked The Oracle station and killed many. The station is now under evacuation.

[@Drakey_Fenix]

Adding this comment to clear some things up because people keep posting the same questions over and over again, without looking in the comments to see if someone else have asked it already. 1. Q: Why is there fire in the vacuum of space? A: Because atmospheric gases are leaking from the station where the fires are located. 2. Q: Why is there sound in Space? A: Because it is a game and it would suck without any sound. 3. Q: What caused the station to get damaged? A: Stations can get damaged when Thargoids (Alien Species) attack the stations during in game events. 4. Q: Can players damage/destroy stations? A: No, players can not cause damage to stations as that would break the game completely. 5. Q: What game is this? A: The title of the video literarily has the name of the game in it. 6. Q: Can you rescue the citizens of the station? A: Yes you can, if you have passenger cabins in your ship. 7. Q: Does the station explode after a while? A: No, it doesn't. 8. Q: Does the station not have weapons so it can defend itself? A: It has, but those weapons are designed to destroy human targets, not aliens, as they requires special weaponry to be dealt with.

[@insertname3293]

If you respond, do you get a reward for saving the citizens?

[@kokoido2]

Regarding question 2, I believe (not 100% sure) the in game reasoning is that your ship does sound simulations, to help with situational awareness and things like that. The sounds aren't really there, but your ship uses all available data to approximate the sounds as good as possible

[@garrettmobley1181]

@@kokoido2 This is true, because when your HUD is damaged and your interior ship is that damaged during the game, the outside sounds in space stop entirely.

[@DownHooligan]

I have a question. How many bathrooms does the station have?

[@garrettmobley1181]

@@DownHooligan None now, stupid Thargoids. That's what you get for trying to stuff them down the toilet.

[@sweet.chickens]

This guy who accepts your request for docking was thinking “Oh good, a big ship is coming to evac more people.” Meanwhile, the Commander is just like “wow would you look at that, your home is on fire. I’m just gonna have a look and leave.”

[@MoonV29]

He don't have cabins for passengers... Smh do you even watch the video?

[@princemills2810]

@@MoonV29 Ever heard of a joke...

[@MoonV29]

@@princemills2810 how's that a joke? Lol

[@princemills2810]

@@MoonV29 👍

[@michealthomas4331]

Can you actually help evacuate the station? Do you need special accomodations?

[@dylanharding5720]

The panicked voice when you were granted docking permission was such a nice detail.

[@cherrythegoat]

I was thinking that too!

[@dvhh]

The sound design for this game is above amazing

[@GabeBars]

Agreed.

[@UltraMasterProFi]

Huh, that's actually what it should be. Imagine that: Fusion reactor: (exposed) Station: (gonna explode soon) Station inside: (burns everywhere) COVAS: "Taking heat damage, hull integrity compromised" Dispatcher: You're clear to land. Landing successful. Enjoy your visit, CMDR!

[@thefirstsin]

The station was Scuffed F

[@RazordraacGaming]

A moment for the station crew still present and organising landings and launches.

[@ShadowHunter120]

They want to ensure their next of kin gets the life insurance policy, else ending up dead AND fired.

[@RKroese]

F

[@cherrythegoat]

Like the musicians on the titanic

[@tentacultist34-36]

Rip

[@longy001]

🤣🤣🤣

[@americankid7782]

To those wondering why there is sound. 1. The ships simulate sound within the cockpit to give the pilot a better understanding of what is happening around them. You can tell this when you have a canopy breach because you loose all sound except for direct contact. 2. It’s cool

[@mars.1733]

Cool space glass make sound work

[@kiuji6264]

@@mars.1733 game when glass: brrr game when no glass:

[@Selfg12]

doesn't explain the station on fire outside tho xD

[@Potmre]

@@Selfg12 athmospheric gasses leaking from the station

[@fauzan3427]

This question just pop up in my head, and I find your comment thanks

[@lvl10cooking]

Really gotta admire the engineering of that reactor. Half of it is missing but it still runs.

[@Tlactl]

i mean as long as the magnetic containment field still works on the plasma most of it should stay inside like we see in the video

[@TheSheaim]

@@squingussquingle Why do you think they're evacuating? It's not like shutting down a fusion reactor would be an easy task.

[@ScarletFlames1]

I am still miffed that it's a FUSION reactor and they're having trouble shutting it down... Just cut power to the fuel injectors or whatever. Those things have extremely small (relative to size) amounts of fuel in them and they run out of fusion material in no time once you stop supplying it. It actually used to be one of the biggest problems of fusion reactors, how to inject more fuel into a closed system that blasts out high energy neutrons? Anyhow, if the fusion plasma is exposed to space that means said high energy neutrons are blasting around everywhere causing heat and electromagnetic pulses when they hit things and THAT is the real dangerous thing. tl;dr - IRL a malfunctioning fusion reactor won't cause a lot of damage outside of singing (singed, burned, not vocal), starting small fires and frying electronics in a certain range from the exposes plasma as it's simply incapable of doing so out of physical limitation of what a fusion reaction is..

[@randombrit4504]

@@ScarletFlames1 To be fair, a third of them are probably dead, another third injured and the last third scared to shit and trying to safely get the evac ships in/out.

[@AlexGrom]

@@randombrit4504 it is kinda weird that there are people still alive if the temperature is high enough to slowly melt the ships which can fly pretty close to the stars.

[@JadeMythriil]

the atmosphere in this game - the background broadcast, the damage on the station and the ambience; It can make you think that there are actual people who are in need of rescuing even though the most you'll ever see of these people are just numbers and texts on a screen.

[@jeremydiaz9642]

Missed opportunity, I wish you can see at least the people boarding your ship.

[@Tembel_Kopek]

@@jeremydiaz9642 The whole game is a single missed opportunity. Its basically an empty shell, utterly beautiful from the outside but once inside you start missing some actual content.

[@youcansave15ormoreoncarins75]

@@Tembel_Kopek I hope odyssey at least changes that, maybe add some immersion to the game and more interaction with the environment

[@Tembel_Kopek]

@@youcansave15ormoreoncarins75 More interaction with the environment? Yes please. I get that we as players are only a grain of sand in a desert, but a little more influence on what happens around you wouldn't hurt too much. Whatever I do in the game, it almost never feels like I'm doing something significant.

[@johnathanera5863]

@@youcansave15ormoreoncarins75 odyssey will give the game the foundation to finally start adding depth. But I doubt it will add depth itself. That's not a dig, a full conversion like this is absolutely insane and they'll have there hands more than full enough ironing out all the kinks.

[@logantmchannel]

I think Elite could turn out to be a very nice story-oriented space sim if they invest more resources in things like that.

[@Drakey_Fenix]

The game could've been a lot better already. The problem for a lot of players, including me, is that there has been a huge period of content starvation for 6 years now since Horizons came out. There has only been small updates here and there since with quality of life improvements, and that's about it. I don't think anyone would've guessed that the next major update would come in 2021 if you had asked them back in 2015. Let's hope Odyssey can save this game, because the game has lost a lot of players over the years due to the stagnation and lack of content. There is also another mistake that I feel Frontier Developments is making. And that is making the game easier and easier every single year to cater to a loud minority of people that whine about grinding being too much. Me and others don't want to see every single star system in the bubble littered with Fleet Carriers and that new players that have just had their account for a week have an Anaconda or Imperial Cutter. As soon as you have to work for your assets, people freak out and complain on all forums and to Frontier themselves. This just makes endgame material feel trivial and not special at all when anyone can get that stuff within a week of grinding. It just makes me sour/frustrated to see that when i had to grind for months back in 2014-2015 to just get an ASP Explorer, people now can get an endgame tier ship within a week... It's just broken in every way! Yet people still complain about the grind being too bad, even when it is like this. (Edit 2023-01-04) This game is pretty much dead for me, the Odyssey DLC completely flopped and was filled with bugs and did not have enough content to make up for the years of waiting, I won't be returning to this game. If you want to know more about this you can read a comment further down in the replies of this one where I explain why.

[@logantmchannel]

@@Drakey_Fenix I only played the game in relatively short periods of 1-2 months per year so it didn't affect me that much, but I feel bad for the community and loyal players/streamers who had to leave because they got bored doing the same things for thousands of hours.

[@marinman3626]

@@Drakey_Fenix it lost me even though i haven't played that much

[@olivierrodriguesneto5995]

Exactly! The fact that me and a lot of players play on solo sessions and make little to no interatction with the communitty. And even if it was just me, the game lacks the overrall interaction between players that an mmo needs, they could easily made this a singleplayer focused game with an pvp and coop component.

[@marinman3626]

@@olivierrodriguesneto5995 I played solo because I didn't like random people killing me for no reason. Then I realized that the world is the same with or without players. That really hurt my experience.

[@tacticalluke8782]

It’s a nice little touch how when you get near the reactor your ships system starts glitching

[@Serxne_]

It is thargoid technology, after all.

[@thetab0179]

Gotta love the radiation that the unshielded anti-matter Elite's (station and military) reactors give off.

[@misscath28]

Well accprding to my uh.. Calcilations. This means infact. That the ship MAY be fucked. Other than the reactor being exposed and people evacuting the ship glitching is main problem

[@donosporidium]

@@thetab0179 do they use antimatter reactors too? i havent heard of that until now

[@pieguy6992]

@@donosporidium No. It's fusion.

[@xhag1x]

Everything about that was very.... Unsettling. The creaking noises of the station the panicked voice of the dock control

[@notveryartificial4486]

I'm sure nobody would like to be inside this station at the moment

[@ryanm6004]

The attention to detail in this game is incredible.

[@roberine7241]

the partially exposed fusion reactor spewing radiation everywhere, the extremely heated docking bay because the damn station is on fire

[@squidfood639]

Imagine if you could hear muffled yells/screaming from the people desperatly trying to evacuate the station..

[@Invalidar]

The sound design in this game, I swear. All other devs should take note.

[@user-gn5sg9vj3i]

It almost reminds me of DayZ’s ambiance, you can hear metal in amusement parks creaking idly and it’s amazing

[@JonatasAdoM]

Some games just hit it right with the sound.

[@Ganondorf98]

Dead Space

[@frosch161]

Elites sound design is top notch 👌 Escape from Tarkov has some pretty sweet sound design too

[@VentusTheSox]

So everyone. For context, there is an agressive race of aliens called the thargoids who attack stations occasionally. If the thargoids succeed, the station is (mostly) destroyed as you can see. This is the aftermath of the attack. Station crew are still in place guiding ships down to land because you can get passenger modules on your ships to evacuate passengers out of the station to a nearby rescue ship for lots of reputation. And yes, the elite dangerous' audio team are top notch. 👍

[@SubsidedLemon]

So this happens regularly?

[@VentusTheSox]

@@SubsidedLemon Somewhat rare, there was a period where thargoid attacks was common and they managed to expand thier way deep into human space. Players ended up fighting back with the newly developed anti alien weapons. They're making a bit of a comeback recently so its still very possible to experience this yourself. Its terrifying.

[@andrewcurtin7003]

@@SubsidedLemon its common enough where if you know where to look/what to look for youll find it but rare enough where you wont just stumble on it

[@DerAykac]

They are, but i still hope they would add some screams n´ stuff for when shipping slaves :D

[@sir_justinius]

Question is: Can someone get lucritive hunting these filrhy xenos down? Someone say, like an ex-smuggler who just bought his first heavy fighter yesterday?

[@jamrocket98]

I remember in Frontier's dev diary videos before the game was released, the audio team talked about how they are always trying to create something unique and different. Just the audio of the fusion reactor and the layers of audio for the stress that the crumbling station is experiencing is really something to behold. And that is just the audio....

[@ClashStratswithMatt]

@@RandomNameLastName811 I wish SC had this good of a sound scheme. But SC will be the better game when it's done

[@passiondpete1624]

@@ClashStratswithMatt idk now. With odysey launching before stars even close to being stable

[@coocato]

@@ClashStratswithMatt if its done*

[@LordVader1094]

@@ClashStratswithMatt SC will never be done, therefore Elite Dangerous is the better game period.

[@allypearlman5569]

@@ClashStratswithMatt no it wont be. Its a scam, and an obvious one at that. It wont finish and the cost of items far outweights their development times

[@RenegadeNico]

Even with 0 actual evidence of life just a voice and words on a screen you can still feel there is an major emergency going on and I hope Odyssey will be able to give the game the content we are starved for

[@crimeon1782]

I can confirm that we are going to be fat fucks when odyssey comes out

[@vvonslaughtvv9705]

Lmao aged like milk

[@JayYoungs1992]

@@vvonslaughtvv9705😂

[@chucklehead59]

It didn't

[@hubbleenjoyer800]

you can see vehicles driving around in some stations. could be automated vehicles but i dunno

[@adamblade9156]

All that it's missing is some necromorphs running around the landing area and the atmosphere is complete.

[@guzzledgumps2322]

*Stomping intensifies*

[@cya6109]

Make this a community goal

[@thoryon7767]

If there are necromorphs there allready the last thing you want is to spread them to other stations

[@elektra81516]

well... when odyssey comes out we may see them

[@overseer5660]

Lol i thought the same. Very Dead Space.

[@ShadowHunter120]

Visible reactor plasma is a very, very bad sign. The station is slowly cooking itself trying to prevent the reactor from fizzling out, as restarting a fusion reactor usually requires. Another fusion reactor.

[@naturelass]

or just enough energy from other power sources to kick start the fusion process feels like bad design that they don't have back up power supplies so they can do what ever they need to do to saftly shut it down.

[@ShadowHunter120]

@@naturelass One of the main reasons that we don't have fusion yet is that we can't get enough power into any of the prototypes to trigger a self sustaining reaction. We're trying to harness the power of stars when we can't even replicate a lightning bolt yet.

[@Kalumbatsch]

In the real world, once the magnetic confinement gets disturbed in any way, the reaction stops immediately and nothing happens. You need something like antimatter to get shit hitting the fan into your plot.

[@Verto2]

@@naturelass well, maybe the emergency power supply was destroyed, so they etheir run on main generator or die.

[@ShadowHunter120]

@@Kalumbatsch yep.

[@YannickMertens-fk9nr]

Seeing a damaged station makes me think how cool an abandoned or destroyed station would be

[@mikeyoshea4814]

Yea just imagine when oddesey releases, you climb out your ship you can still hear the roar of your engine shutting down then, complete silence. Nothing.

[@compmanio36]

@@mikeyoshea4814 Exploring a dead and "abandoned" station on foot, in the dark, with a squad of friends. Then you hear something clang in the darkness. You're not alone.

[@SomeName_AlsoHandlesSucc]

@@compmanio36 Omg imagine in Odyssey there is a small chance for aliens to take refuge in abandoned ships. Scarrry

[@hazmatbp]

@@SomeName_AlsoHandlesSucc It makes me so sad to see all these comments about how cool people though odyssey would be

[@SomeName_AlsoHandlesSucc]

@@hazmatbp 😔

[@venomtailOG]

The audio team at Frontier are at the top of their game

[@TristanG10.000]

THE SOUND DESIGN JESUS. What a work of art.

[@StalwartSpaghetti]

Can you imagine being the first person to warp in and see this.

[@razaelll]

With thargoids jumping away 2 seconds after you come in.

[@paprikaa117]

"ah, i always loved this st- now pardon me did I miss something or is this station on fire?"

[@michaeijcaboose2037]

"ah, finally back home. I wonder if I'll get #34? Ol' reliable..." *exiting supercruise* "Alright; now we- Oh dear."

[@anti-john8786]

Imagine you’re trying to escape from a starport and grant access to a ship to land you run up to evacuate and the pilot just says “nah got no cabins” and flies off

[@Black-Coyote5.0]

😂😂

[@gothgetassgss6852]

In any other game this would be a cutscene

[@Garenzo314]

In any other game, the rest of the game would be fun and engaging.

[@LuisSoto-fw3if]

@@Garenzo314 lmao true. I find it relaxing to just go from. Point a to point b just buyinhg and selling stuff, then again I grew up playing lineage 2 and the grind there was real

[@CAL1MBO]

@@Garenzo314 So true... RIP

[@zemotika]

@@Garenzo314 I like it simply for the sight seeing.. I’m a huge astronomy nerd so this game is absolutely beautiful... but PVE is pretty fun imo as wel

[@mikethespike056]

@@zemotika same, same

[@jerryscanas]

It actually makes me emotional they captured the fear and anxiety perfectly

[@fantasybabydino]

"Commander, looks like you're trying to be a hero. Well now's your chance. Head the the passenger lounge and help with evacuation or bring in aid supplies. I hope you're in a position to take advantage of the economic

[@jordank6961]

Nah. Ima just leave XD

[@XxCreateFlowxX]

The economic

[@EpicWinNoob]

**Curiously lands to check out the issue** "Glad you're here, please help people escape or bring supplies to try and help fix the station" **Has no cargo spaces nor cabins** "Welll, about time for me to be hitting the ol' dusty trail"

[@kalilal1824]

LOL what a piece of shit. It's hilarious.

[@Laughing_Dragon]

@@kalilal1824 I mean, if you dont have the space to help people, how does that make them an asshole XD!

[@boarfaceswinejaw4516]

@@Laughing_Dragon yeah, when you gotta deliver pizza and booze you cant just throw it out and stock your ship with people. smh.

[@orzlar7928]

@@boarfaceswinejaw4516 In elite you cant. You have to have cabin modules installed to stock people.

[@Sebastian_00110]

Just imagine food being delivered on a motorcycle while being carried like italian waiters. It's gonna go to the floor my guy. Although the game is programmed to need the cabins, by common sense u also need them to transport ppl.

[@zkmarkov2984]

The detail in this game is insane. Your hud starts glitching from the interference coming from the fusion reactor. And the sound was uniquely made.

[@Name-nw9uj]

I'm more interested in why uranus comes AFTER neptune in your cockpit

[@Drakey_Fenix]

A little mishap it seems.

[@7even254]

@@Drakey_Fenix 5 days ago nice, question does shit like this still happen?

[@Zloy_nub]

@@7even254 9 hours ago, nice, yep, with recent thargoid incursion, there are some damaged stations

[@NobleSlicks]

@@7even254 Last I checked a few space stations

[@silvussol8966]

Well, that was their original positioning. Then they switched orbits. It’s true, look it up. Uranus and Neptune started out in the others position.

[@2k7u]

Seeing one of these beasts beaten like this is truly an horror experience.

[@darkwarrior6465]

Still find it funny when the station is under evacuation you still have to get clearance to land

[@soaringeag1392]

I think the idea was making sure you had a place to land to assist in the evacuation

[@youcansave15ormoreoncarins75]

I think it's because they need to guide survivors or find a spot for you that's actually functional for you to land at, and as so to not block search and rescue

[@UAZ1KK]

I think. As we can see landing pad is a quite big system, that have to be prepered before landing. You cant just land on it and go to hangar its need some time.

[@aconite72]

Emergencies require order to sort out. What if an emergency shuttle was trying to fly out carrying critically injured survivors and you barge your way in? Landing/takeoff clearance is even more important in this case. If there's not, there could be collisions in the confusion, gridlocks on the pads, miscommunication, etc. etc.

[@jonaselze9316]

I think it's because of the games programming. The game needs to designate a specific landing pad for you. Also, It's for the commanders. They see their number and know exactly where to land. Just imagine yourself getting in there with your T9 (Don't ask me why someone should try anf fly THAT into a burning station, but you get my point) and at first you have to search for a bid landing pad manually. You might end up trying to get yur Butt down on a medium pad or accidentally flattening some T7 which you didn't see or so. And all that while you only have seconds to plan as your ship is slowly coocking you from the inside...

[@Shetyre]

station burning boss to flight control: "youre an essential working, youre comming to work right?"

[@samc1881]

the guys scared voice is depressing

[@RasmodeusQ]

it may be bad for me to want more suffering but this is way more interesting than normal passenger missions, if these pop up more I'd actually use my cabin modules

[@postomnis6134]

It only happens when the thargoids attack, but tbh I think they should attack more often, make them a bigger threat. Make frequent community goals to defend the bubble from a large scale thargoid Siege

[@RasmodeusQ]

@@postomnis6134 Id finally have a reason to use the top of the line cabin modules that I seriously though would be way more profitable than they are imagine getting rescued on an ocean cruise by a better more luxurious cruise ship

[@paradoxx_4221]

now is your time

[@augustday9483]

"Don't worry Cap'n, we'll buff out those scratches."

[@FSXflyermaster]

Just gotta take it to LS Customs

[@matthewgumabon7498]

“Now is your chance to be a hero. Bring aid supplies to that station or help with evacuations!” *Inventory empty* *No passenger cabins onboard* Welp, my bad y’all. I’m out. Good luck with all this. 😅

[@HolyTrinity458]

It's insane how they make the situation feel, regardless of the lack of visually terrified humans, Elite Dangerous manages to capture a feeling of urgency and fear of the exposed reactor cooking its self to death. Or at least that's what I think is happening. It makes you feel terrified and hope that no one is on the station. Now only if they captured this in a storyline format it could be amazing, like implementing the citizen's and occupants of the station with the introduction of odyssey.

[@g59enjoyer48]

I wanna give a big hand to the audio team for an amazing job, dear god the amount of atmosphere they pumped into this

[@russianoftheinternet8907]

I was at the oracle a few weeks ago, glad to see people helping with the war effort

[@cinemamovies1916]

That fusion reactor is just asking to explode. Now that I think of it, it would be cool if it exploded after everyone is evacuated.

[@Kanitoxx]

Good thing about fusion reactors in general is that they need magnetic confinement to work, and that consumes a lot of energy and have to be geometrically adequate to perform fusion, so a damaged fusion reactor would just shutdown if there is too much damage, it won't explode :D

[@Drakey_Fenix]

​@@Kanitoxx Yeah most people don't seem to understand how fusion reactors work. Conditions need to be perfect for fusion to even take place. If you damage a fusion reactor or take away any of the conditions it needs to work, it can no longer sustain fusion and it will simply shut down. Fission on the other hand is much more sketchy though, and a lot of things can go wrong, as history has told us.

[@iplaygames8090]

@@Drakey_Fenix Well technically we havent dabled in fussion that much so we dont realy know what happens if confiment fails after a reactor powerfull enough to make net gain is running for some time.

[@SahasaV]

@@iplaygames8090 It's just the fact that fusion isn't inherently self-sustaining, fission is and that's what causes chain reactions. In fusion the containment is what sustains the reaction, so a containment breach means reaction failure.

[@ccaron91]

@@SahasaV That is not necessarily the case, think of it like this: stars are essentially self sustaining fusion reactors, so clearly if a reactor is large enough it will sustain itself. If lets say they have a self sustaining reactor that only needed containment and collection (that would be fine in space though definitely not on a planet) then containment was heavily damaged, it would be like releasing a small star. I think that is more or less what is going on here. They have a large (though admittedly much smaller then one would think for this kind of issue) plasma ring that is being magnetically contained, the containment is breached and now it wants to first explode out and then fold into itself like any end of life star would.

[@Cesium237]

“Can you help us evacuate?” “No, I’m just gonna have a quick look around.”

[@itscptnbambi]

Station: is literally falling apart as he approaches Drakey: Ah, this spot is perfect!

[@segerminator]

In videos like this I realize that I havent even scratched the surface of the game.

[@Surefire11B]

This game's sound design is SO Alien-esque it can be absolutely horrifying at times. Love it.

[@Apoc2K]

The dash glitching out while you're flying past the exposed reactor is such a nice touch.

[@pimpsandwich9521]

Damn, this was cool. sound design and all the little details really sell it.

[@StrikeWyvern]

That damaged reactor's roaring is cool as hell I gotta start playing this game again

[@corporalsilver6981]

The sound of that exposed fusion core is incredible. It sends chills throughout my body.

[@Heckleburger]

Someone was watching Aliens when they designed the siren sound effects & visuals.

[@atomicarmyleader]

I’ve been studying this game on and off for about 6 months now learning the basics and watching videos. I was set on buying the game, but now seeing this, You made it seem like a scene from a movie, flying around the station showing off the atmospheric audio and visual of the station. I can’t believe this game.

[@41666bg]

In VR it's NUTS

[@lordlynkz]

I did not expect this video to stress me out so much

[@somedude4805]

Oh wow, I need to go and look around these damaged stations. I’ve only been going in and rescuing folks, I haven’t looked around at the damage. Gonna go check this out right damn meow.

[@TylerRubeum]

This breaks my heart to watch, knowing that there are people that have been killed or seriously injured in need of evacuation.

[@EliteTester]

0:19 New Material Discovered: . . . . . . . . . . . . . Space cancer.

[@slypask9185]

I now want to boost into the exposed part with a breached canopy...for science of course :D

[@Tonatsi]

fusion reactors are the opposite to fission reactors. they dont have radioactive emmisions, and just shut down if too damaged, no explosions, ever.

[@EliteTester]

@@Tonatsi oh shit right, at most it's just superheated plasma, the ship should be more than well equiped to deal with that

[@UpToSpeedOnJaguar]

@@Tonatsi There's still stray neutrons and shit flying around ain't there? like theoretically if those plasmas were exposed? I can imagine it's highly unrealistic to see it actually operational in the state we see it in the game exposed like that.

[@Tonatsi]

@@UpToSpeedOnJaguar no stray neutrons, it's just plasma, and yes, considering that it's exposed to the vacuum of space, as long as the magnetic containment field is active, there would be nothing to destabilise it

[@NightOwlGames]

"oh thank god help has arrived........wait are they leaving? NOOOOOOO!"

[@alainpasqualini1869]

Stunning atmosphere, too bad the game itself is an endless cycle of grind

[@guzzledgumps2322]

Kinda like real life when you think about it. 🙃

[@quaronncz464]

let's be honest here, which multiplayer game isn't an endless grind?

[@wadimek116]

@@quaronncz464 forza horizon 4 is focused on fun aspect

[@sorkez6028]

It's a space sim soooo, u know it's supposed to simulated anybody's life in space and unfortunately it might not be as thrilling as a action packed game but it's definitely good like that

[@Mecha_Hitler]

@@quaronncz464 gimpto bizmo!

[@cosmiccrypto3910]

The Sound Design + the Effects just give me goosebumbs from how good, horrifing it is!

[@jzero90921]

i love the red lights and the announcements coming over with the buzzer right before

[@heatherroecker3323]

The sound design of this game is incredible

[@muddrudder2656]

imagine this in the odyssey update. fighting through raiders or therigoid infected people.

[@CMDRArcanic]

the sound design gives me fucking chills

[@zeratul7975]

Oh god, that looked terrifying... The eerie sounds,those blaring red lights... 😱😱😱

[@MrSebasterd]

This, but with on foot combat in the station against the aggressor (thargoid, pirates, etc) would be an amazing experience. The atmosphere is already tense and unsettling which to me makes for a great place to have close quarters combat. I'm getting Dead space vibes.

[@meau2049]

this is actually kinda scary. seeing something thats supposed to be a safe space for everyone in complete chaotic ruin is pretty terrifying

[@h.a.9880]

The addition of the wobbly christmas tree on the dashboard in contrast to the severity and seriousness of the situation is very "Firefly". Love it.

[@copernicus9991]

Boy, that gave me goosebumps. An absolute masterpiece of sound design

[@FT59012]

1:52 It reminds me final mission from Mass Effect 1 when you have to get into citadel tower.

[@kezplays1296]

you're my favourite person in this comment section. just. wanted you to know that home slice.

[@Cepheid_]

I thought this was a recent video and I got excited so I could finish my GODDAMNED CORVETTE GRIND but my hopes and dreams were crushed. I'm only one rank away but I just can't bear the grind.

[@Drakey_Fenix]

The grind is awful, but it is that way because Frontier Developments designed the game to be played in a way where the ranks just slowly increase while you do other things in the game. And then one day you get surprised with the new rank you got. But no one really plays the game in this way and people just want everything at once, which the game wasn't designed for. The game has gotten much easier over the years compared to how it used to be back in 2014, now you can earn enough money for an Anaconda within a few days, which i personally think is wrong. And also seeing almost every system in the human bubble being filled with Fleet Carriers is making something so majestic as a fleet carrier feel like a Sidewinder, it would've been better if they were a squadron based asset instead, as they were proposed to be from the start before people complained. There is almost no incentive to play the smaller and mid tier ships anymore due to this imbalance in credit earnings. Back in 2014 a simple mission gave you 200 credits as reward. So you can see how long you would've had to play to gain any traction. But more and more people complained over the years and so things are much easier now. People still want it easier though and complain that the current earnings still is way to grindy.. which i think is sad. I have personally left the game and haven't touched it for a year since the announcement of the next content coming to the game in late 2020. I already have everything and once you have everything you kinda lose the urge of wanting to go on. I suggest you get something else to do in the game rather then just wanting the ships, once you have them all you will be bored as fuck as you feel that there is nothing else to work towards. Even exploring which the game is heavily focused on feels really unpolished and once you have seen around 20 planets and landed on a dozen, you have pretty much seen them all, with the only difference being a different sky. (Edit as of 05/09/2020, the upcoming content was pushed back into 2021) (Another edit as of 2023-01-04) The DLC Odyssey failed and not enough players were brought back into the game. The DLC was filled with bugs and had lacking content, considering the years we had to wait. Frontier Developments have put Elite Dangerous on life support with no more major content updates planed. I am done with this game.

[@xxGjbbyxx]

​@@Drakey_Fenix"I have personaly left the game and haven't touched it for a year since the announcement of the next content coming to the game in late 2020. I already have everything and once you have everything you kinda lose the urge of wanting to go on. I suggest you get something else to do in the game rather then just wanting the ships, once you have them all you will be bored as **** as you feel that there is nothing else to work towards." I agree with that for the most part. My take agree: Who knows what's out there to find? See, for me, that's the gameplay. See, I grew up watching Star Trek. The Star Ship Enterprise was one ship mainly (There were a few others). That one ship (There were a few others) for years kept exploring. Has anyone ever wondered why FD, would add so few of ships into such a vast Galaxy? Something tells me, it is way much more about what's out there, than just the ships we can acquire. I think I read or heard it mentioned that FD wanted us to get out of the bubble and go exploring,... even to expand the Bubble (gameplay). But, how many are actually trying to do that? My take disagree: Why would I stop with ED (because of acquiring all the ships) when there is so much more to do than acquire ships and upgrade them? It's not always the case for everyone after they get all the ships they want to consider that as the end-game. If anything, its the wanting and getting the ships (I want) that are keeping me from exploring what's out there in the Galaxy of ED; 400 billion star systems (Only a very, very, very tiny bit of it is even touched). I see ED, as being much much bigger than that. I can understand why after acquiring all the ships and upgrades, can be the end-game for some when that is all they really sought after. I guess that's fine too,... for "them". As always, this is imo. Simply Gjbby. GOD First!!! GOD Bless!!! Love All!!!

[@Drakey_Fenix]

@@xxGjbbyxx The issue is that once you have seen around 20 to 30 planets you have pretty much seen them all. They all look the same and so does the surface when you land on them, It is just barren surfaces with random points of interests that you see on every planet over and over again. Exploring could be so much more in this game but instead it is an unpolished/limited section of the game. For a game that promotes 400 billion star systems in a 1.1 scale Milky Way galaxy, It is remarkably unfinished and boring. I have probably spent around 500 hours alone on being down on planets and surveying. I just burned out on it and the whole game in general. The new content update called Odyssey has to contain a lot of new game play mechanics and interesting features to bring me back to the game and the same goes for a lot of other players that have burned out for similar reasons.

[@xxGjbbyxx]

@@Drakey_Fenix That's not how I see it. I have seen well over 20 different bodies, and continue to see more all the time. When I got into Elite it was because I had gotten a VR HMD, and many reviews used ED as a showcase for the VR HMDs. But what I didn't know was that ED, wasn't just a game. Sure it has some gameplay elements, but once I realized that its a Space Sim with a 1:1 scale of our real Galaxy, I realize what I had gotten into. No way should planets (moons) have much more on them than what they already have. Actually, there are no stations on those planets (moons) (and Earth-like planets with theorized vegetation may be ok too, I guess,... it depends on how overboard they go with it) in real life, so I get what I expect to see when I travel to them in-game. Now what the game presents as possibilities as far as compositions and whatnots, and a few stations is as far as I can go for realism. I hope that FD keeps ED as close to reality, as possible (I know for some that may make it boring). If I want anything more, then I'd turn to NMS, or SC. So after my many hours of being in ED basically on a daily basis, I'm not bored of it at all. I see ED as a space simulator with some gaming elements. Why I asked, why would FD put so little amount of ships in a game with 400 billion star systems in it (It's virtually a replica of what we have in real life; Our Galaxy). When I look at our sun, our moon, the stars in the night sky, I am amazed, at what I can do in ED, that I can't (or won't) do in real life. I've seen many pictures from other players that show something that I have yet to see, all the time also. So, I have the thought; I want to go there and see it for myself. And how can I say, that all has been seen when we've not yet explored 0.05% of the map. I realize how minuscule of an amount that is. We haven't seen anything yet. I'd say with that small of an amount, we're still looking at the cake, so how can we know the flavor as far as exploration goes?! I want exploration. Give me exploration. And how can I say, that all has been seen when we've not yet explored 0.05% of the map. I realize how minuscule of an amount that is. As always, this is imo. Simply Gjbby! GOD First!!! GOD Bless!!! Love All!!!

[@Drakey_Fenix]

@@xxGjbbyxx If you say so

[@Kaylathefoxo]

as others in the comments have said, the work on the sounds are impecable, it was one thing that drew me to the game, the sounds felt so ominous when going up to destroyed stations or meeting the thargoids and they can be so soothing when visiting cool stars or planets, the weapons sounds are amazing too.

[@Drakey_Fenix]

I fully agree on this. A lot of love went into the sound design in Elite Dangerous. Good sound design makes a huge impact on games.

[@aranayailyaris73]

I love that outfitting is still enabled even while the station is on fire. You could install some passenger cabins right there :D

[@CQF4]

1:38 welcome in hell

[@ChristophBurschka]

3:17 "I hope you're in a position to take advantage of the economic boom"

[@mishterpreshident]

that was some damn fine piloting, commander. i fly one of those, and pretty well, but not THAT well. That was smooooooth

[@Drakey_Fenix]

Thank you!

[@arris9447]

The latest NMLA attack and evacuating stations were really cool to do, even more for a new player like me. But this state of destruction, that exposed reactor, awesome. And that sound. Didn't take long for me to notice that they are doing excellent job with sounds in this game.

[@anthrazite]

Just recently arrived in the Witch head sector with my new AX ship to hunt thargoids, it's time to show those evil pests their place! Glory to Mankind!

[@Technosplosion]

I weep for anyone who were not able to take advantage of this for Federation or Imperial rank

[@PatrickRatman]

we just had another bleedin thargoid attack but its all alliance! >:( I DUN WANNA DO COURIER MISSIONS FFS.

[@fileoffish1403]

Well... this aged like milk

[@Detstorm]

how has that statement aged badly, none of the stations under attack right now are federation or empire.

[@fileoffish1403]

@@Detstorm pretty sure there’s powerplay factions in there

[@Detstorm]

@@fileoffish1403 Theres no powerplay in the Witch head nebula or coal sack nebula. Even then, powerplay focused activities do not directly increase your rank with the Federation or Empire, its a separate system. And his comment is on rescue missions, theres no powerplay station rescue missions. What are you talking about?

[@tcape72]

Awesome video, Thanks! I have to tell you, in my opinion, this is one of the most accurate space sim games out there. I feel like I could fly a space ship for real after playing this game.

[@bigfoot9049]

The sirens right as you approach the mailslot gives me serious dead space vibes

[@QuantumRads]

My question is, why did they grant you docking permission for a space station that is evacuating.

[@iplaygames8090]

I dont see any escape pods on board. Do you?

[@Parsifal1107]

God I effing love this game

[@enzothepalekid]

this is scary but cool at the same time. It creeped me out by a lot.

[@dylantweed1110]

the fusion thing is scarier than being hyperdicted in a paper asp explorer with a thargoid sensor on board.

[@metazare]

I've never actually seen this happen. Is there any way to save the station?

[@ix8065]

maybe not the station but you can save people from it

[@Meerkat040]

@@ix8065 The station can be fixed by delievering material to the station. however it takes a VERY long time and cant be done alone because how much material it takes

[@ix8065]

MeerkatProductions oh ok didn't know that, thanks

[@HernanM019]

@@Meerkat040 Can these stations get destroyed completely by Thargoids?

[@Meerkat040]

@@HernanM019 Nah, the stations can't be wiped out completely. Just badly damaged like the one in this video iirc.

[@visorak168x]

Would be better if Thargoids were attacking the station.

[@MaxstallfishDenton]

This should looked like in Dead Space 2 -)

[@leoromeli7611]

For someone like me who has never ever come across this before... This is truely haunting...

[@erbradipo-2224]

what do you guys play with? Keyboard or something like HOTAS? I really wanna start playing again now that I have more time to spend and was wondering what was better

[@wellsilver3972]

YOU MONSTER\ YOU DIDNT HELP EVACUATE

[@robertlcgarcia123]

Had no cabins on board couldn't even if they wanted to

[@Core395]

A Fusion Reactor is just a micro-sun in ring Form. The Fusion happens when we put Tritium ( which is part of Hydrogen ) and He3 ( Helium 3 ) in a chamber and ignite it. Then the magnetic fields are holding the more then a few MILLION Degree hot Plasma in a Flow. Some of the Radiating Heat is used to generate power. The Rest goes out through the Radiators located just behind the ( now broken ) habitation ring. So if the Stations reactor has a breach it would be smarter to just shut down it down...I mean come one, you can SEE the Plasma rotating and if you fly near it you get baked...so why is it still online, dont they have reservepower?

[@CouldYouYesnt]

Perhaps, but consider also the station is *damaged*, it's entirely possible they CAN'T shut down the reactor, considering the damage that area took

[@fileoffish1403]

The station might need whatever power they’re getting from the reactor to keep life support up until everyone gets out

[@Core395]

@@fileoffish1403 Well...i mean to power such a Huge Station, even Lifesupport it does need much energy...but still, if the Magnetic Containment fails and the Plasma gets thrown out in every direction, everything in 5 Kilometers Range gets literally melted until the Plasma cools down...

[@CouldYouYesnt]

@@Core395 And thus, why they're evacuating

[@Core395]

@@CouldYouYesnt its a Loop of Risk...

[@Patriot_Fredplay]

One of the most bone chilling moment I have ever witnessed.

[@evaciano1154]

I've never even thought of a station being damaged. Damn

[@RememberTheWayOutIsThrough]

hello mr derg thing owo

[@Drakey_Fenix]

Derg thing? x3

[@Drakey_Fenix]

angelderg

[@foxandroses]

FoxAndRoses in game

[@stevethelegend1789]

UwU

[@ciozara]

Small world.

[@stroky4868]

imagine just flying into a destroyed evacuating soace station and you casually hop into outfitting

[@BloodDX2]

With Odyssey around the corner im excited to see if FDev will be able to incorporate space legs into these kinds of stations in the future. Perhaps actually launching on foot rescue missions into the bowels of the damaged stations to pull people out who are trapped, or to perhaps hunt down some form of Thargoid "spawn" that are seeded inside the stations to wreak havoc.

[@boxtop2035]

I've been to plenty of damaged stations but never saw the fusion reactor. That is cool as hell

[@judgedread9724]

Wow. Entering the docking bay is wholly unsettling.

[@dylanharding5720]

The station has an artificial atmosphere once you pass through the mailslot, it can sustain human life and would sustain a fire too. Your ship does have its own artifical atmosphere too, which apparently is used to help your ship pass sound to the pilot (in addition to keeping you breathing ofc) If your canopy is breached you lose your artifical atmosphere, and lose a lot of audio (only having what you hear from your suit, that being your breathing and a muffled covas), but entering the artifical atmosphere in a station stops your reliance on emergency oxygen and gives you audio again.

[@Lu-ng3oq]

0:19 absolutely terrifying!!

[@vincent1423]

The audio designer deserves a raise

[@britomicgamer922]

0:11 the sound from that reactor is just unsettling

[@bebop417]

the reactor core sound is insane

[@demicus]

I remember doing this during initial event. It was such a new experience. Player warships patrolled both the stricken station and the emergency evacuation transport cause pirate players saw the potential spoils in attacking, while others like myself just ran run after run of evacuees in transports. Never expected my little Dolphin to get so much use!

[@Thekikoblazko]

This game has so much potential. I wish they invested more on things like this