Heart of the Thargoid Maelstrom Indra - First attempt

[@Mr_Sim]

I don't know this game. Can someone explain me a little ? Why everyone in the comments are so happy to see him going in this sort of storm ?

[@ALEX_VII]

There are aliens in Elite Dangerous called Thargoids, and we are currently in the Second War with them. From the beginning of the game, Thargoid sensors and probes have been found in a bubble around Pleiades nebula, scanning the passing ships. About 6 years ago, players discovered many wrecked Thargoid motherships called Titans, in and around the Pleiades - remnants of the First Thargoid War. And now we have working Titans after years of waiting.

[@Mr_Sim]

@@ALEX_VII nice, maybe I should give another try to the game. I tested the game some times ago and I abandonned because I couldn't finish the tutorial : I was frustrated because the VR controls were insanely hard to handle.

[@ALEX_VII]

@@Mr_Sim The first thing you should do in Elite (and any video game in general) is to change the controls for yourself. The ships, ground vehicles and FPS have a lot of functions you can bind for better experience in this game (binds for one mode do not generally affect two others, so buttons can be reused). So many, that my entire keyboard is used, including 18 G-keys and 2 side buttons on the mouse. And because of that I only play in VR during exploration - not a lot of buttons on HOTAS. Another thing I would advice, is to disable side panels turning on when looked at - it can be usefull in VR, but you also start controlling menus in them instead of the ship, when it happens. Lastly, the game is not user friendly at all when it comes to information on stations and ships. Third party tools (like INARA.cz or coriolis.io) are an essential part of the game and it's mostly unplayable without them.

[@Mr_Sim]

@@ALEX_VII thank you very much, I'll try that out 😁

[@baitposter]

​@@ALEX_VII So, do people not give the devs feedback on these things, or do they just not care for QoL?

[@WELLbethere]

You absolute legend. I can't believe you also managed to capture footage of a goid going inside, and then had the balls to try it yourself. o7 CMDR.

[@tricky2917]

I mean, he didn't ask for permission to dock first. 😋

[@Krooksbane]

@@tricky2917 omg lmao

[@DAGATHire]

That was indeed a cool vid. But, well of course he tried to go into it. I mean thats what anyone would do. no balls required.

[@explorer47422]

timed it badly, should've gone in at the same time, looks like it closed just after it went in

[@ShinigamiGrin]

What’s so special? I did the same and didn’t think it was hard or scary, it’s a game you know…

[@asterosarius1550]

The whole Thargoid titan slowly appearing before our eyes admist a yellowish cloud and asteroids around gave me intense Cylon colony vibes, except when coming up to one is near enough suicide while the other is semi passive but by no means friendly

[@vihaanreyansh6244]

To complete this mission you need Jeff Goldblum as a co-pilot, a computer virus that is inexplicably compatible with alien computers and a nuke.

[@traversal6881]

Don't forget the Head and Shoulders.

[@fatfreddyscoat7564]

You can look this up but there was a deleted scene from ID that said that all computer technology was developed from that ship they had from the last time the aliens visited, which was why Goldblum could write a virus that was compatible with the mothership. Why they deleted that pivotal 30 second scene is beyond me.

[@vihaanreyansh6244]

@@fatfreddyscoat7564 Yeah, but from a sci-fi nerd perspective; that scene was removed, so it's not cannon. From a computer nerd perspective; I could pick this apart all day, and I even did when I was studying IT in the late 90s, from the fact that the aliens having spent years researching our technology, to the fact that human technology is heavily influenced by human intellect and physiology, ie the base 10 system existing purely because we have 10 fingers, it was not at all an optimal number to use! Alien technology could be similarly influenced, which would make reverse engineering it extremely difficult because of the lack of frame of reference. Or worse, their systems may have been designed and written and controlled by AI - which would be impossible to reverse engineer, without the help of an AI. Also the aliens have possibly millions of years of experience in every aspect of warfare against species they deem alien, including cyberwarfare as they started by hacking earth's satellites. So they have actual battlefield experience, hacking the systems of aliens! The reason why human technology is hackable by humans is that technology is standardised and documented and the people who write it are all educated the same way, because systems are supposed to be used by other people. Things like protocols, ports, APIs etc are designed so that other people can legitimately exploit systems, to make the system useful for their purposes, which in turn inadvertently leaves exploitable vulnerabilities open for systems to be accessed illegitimately by hackers. A 600 Km long, spacefaring, alien mothership staging an invasion of a technological species, where they are completely aware of our current intelligence and technological level, is going to have protocols in place to defend the system - as a general operational level ruleset - containing parallel systems, ringfences, firewalls, air-gapped systems for redundancy, encryption, and likely an AI, or several AI monitoring the whole thing, using hardware with speeds we couldn't currently comprehend, because they're likely not constrained by silicon. Also, there should be no means to inject your code, any data transferred between the craft and the mothership shouldn't be able to leave the system that controls the docking system and enter any systems that controls the mothership's security, and assuming you could somehow pull this off with your natty Mac OS8 the ship's security systems should be capable of closing it down so fast that your commands don't even reach the systems you are trying to exploit before the system intercepts them. Even the human-built space shuttle had 5 AP-101 computers computers on board, four would run avionics calculations in parallel, if one produced a calculation that was different from the other three, that computer's calculation was disregarded and the majority calculation was used. This is because in space silicon chips can be struck with high energy particles that that can skew computational results. So humans, knowing this could happen. built a defense for this. Decades ago. Because we estimated this was a possible point of failure. The notion that a vastly technologically superior species, that frankly makes enemies everywhere it travels, would overlook the possibility of being hacked is leagues beyond absurd. Urgh, I've just realised how much I've written. Oh well, enjoy, or TL:DR, your choice.

[@prodabber0222]

@@vihaanreyansh6244 rad

[@vihaanreyansh6244]

@@prodabber0222 Cowabunga.

[@Pandemic1313]

7:35 Literally all I could think of in that moment is Independence Day "HELLO BOYS! I'M BACK!!!"

[@kaosspire6309]

Someone else who thought the same xD

[@rudolfgernd8760]

Every time I see what great content the developers have in store for the Thargoid Mystery, it hurts so much that the game is as deep as a puddle.

[@GoobieTheGoob]

Such a cool concept with excellent mechanics but ffs, it’s so grindy that it’s not even fun to do the fun things.

[@Keloot]

​@@GoobieTheGoobif you think elite os Grundy thsn you must BE new to gaming or something

[@GoobieTheGoob]

@@Keloot 😐

[@ThePapino134]

@@Keloot dude i played form day one. doing Robigo runs for a full day to get a ton of money is absolutely grind. and thats something thta was patched a while ago there is so much grind in this game

[@greyhunter3271]

​@@Keloot the game is grindy as shit man. Also. Type slower

[@crazy__cripple8704]

O7. YOU Bravely sacrificed yourself for us for this intel

[@asdrubalvect6328]

"Now keep streaming. Our next task is to show everyone what that monstrosity uses to kill us." Valid Quote.

[@Neo-vz8nh]

Bring abrasion blaster. It can be used to blast off materiels from the Titan's hull at specific locations.

[@ALEX_VII]

Thanks! It will be in a new video when it's done processing.

[@ALEX_VII]

Done it, and more: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3SvXpSQhp6cgck

[@elvoandro7087]

Any laser can do that no need mining equipment

[@Pico_444]

3:00 gotta say, this is a masterclass in environmental storytelling. The setting, the music, the effects. Damn

[@chaomatic5328]

I second this. Just... Damn

[@Raptylos]

I can't imagine how thrilling this must have been. Well done! o7 CMDR! P.S.: Can't wait to see this in VR myself

[@ALEX_VII]

My heart was racing and I was panicking for half of the time. And expecting to finally see a working Thargoid Mothersip, after years of Xeno research, was not helping.

[@seathief909]

Sadly this is in odyssey and odyssey isn't available in vr I think

[@Raptylos]

@@seathief909 I'm playing odyssey in VR. In R14 and 15, framerates got better for me

[@ALEX_VII]

​@@seathief909 Odyssey's space based stuff is available for VR. The FPS part just becomes a flat screen. Or at least it used to work this way.

[@ALEX_VII]

@@gorgmaktheleaderofthegorgs2865 ​ Fully playable in VR: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3TdeJSMm66BncU

[@bleepin]

That is one massive lad. I hope we'll have to take it on, on two fronts. A group of players inside to fight Thargoids (if they actually add actual Goids on foot instead of just the Revenants), and a group of players outside to deal with something else

[@SteeLHorseNomad22]

When he parked in that cave like area, i was thinking it would have been cool if you could exit / walk in and see a city of sorts of alien like beings. Thinking like when they flew into the mother ship in Independence Day movie.

[@ALEX_VII]

@@SteeLHorseNomad22 That cave turned out to be a "Launch Tube": kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHrCgJKVo6d-fJY

[@SteeLHorseNomad22]

@@ALEX_VII OH DEAR GOD IT"S HAVING BABIES lmao .... nice

[@1Genisis1]

My god this is so cool! The sounds and visuals are just insain on this! This game and the Devs get so much stick but you have to give credit where due....this is amazing it gave me goosebumps just watching! Can't imagine what it would look like in my vr headset reverb g2 !

[@congruentcrib]

I wanna see what happens when we put a thargoid probe or something near where we normally enter the hive ships. See if it open up and we’re able to go deeper. Or see if we can find a way to go where ever that golden yellow portal is.

[@ALEX_VII]

Tried that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHrCgJKVo6d-fJY

[@Pecetos]

should have asked for docking permission.

[@Kaptonii]

we need to retrofit an older model thargoid ship to get in

[@luiz8755]

lmao

[@MMadous]

You and I had the EXACT same thought process. "Wait, is it going INTO the mothership?" "...I've gotta try that, hold my Hutton mug."

[@yummyzerg]

Wow... it looks really good. They did a good job.

[@AndyFirebladeMuza]

Looks incredible and very atmospheric. Now I suppose we need to wait for Aegis or some other NPC faction to research and develop a weapon to destroy them and then a CG so players can supply the required materials for said weapon in order for it to be built. I am the other side of Sag A so I am happy for vids like this. o7

[@spacekettle2478]

Thank you CMDR! o7 I'm glad it's actually much larger than how it looked like from the cockpit view!

[@ALEX_VII]

It's actually really massive - flying at 700 m\s around sometimes gives a wrong impression of scale. For example, one boost is enough to fly the length of a Fleet Carrier, and the Titan need multiple. It's at least 20km long.

[@Gomorragh]

most people forget that the sidewinder, one of the smallest craft in the game is the size of a 2 storey house. non of the ships in elite are small, if you think, the original SRV is the size of a Dodge Ram with a cargobox fitting, and the sidey can fit 2 in it

[@tibi423]

I was at the edge of my seat the whole time and I was ONLY WATCHING this. Astunding work, bloody well done! o7

[@dannyC3827]

Thanks man! That was really cool.

[@dudemax18]

"In the name of my generation, up yours!!!!" perfect ending to the video lol

[@cmdr501generalvenator3]

the last thing looks like a caustic-energy barrier, mabye we have to destroy all turrets or other module on the ships outside similar to the heat relays on human capital ships in order to make the field drop and get inside

[@ThatTaffer]

I dont think FDev developed that yet. We'll see but I think maybe in a year we will get an instanced hallway or something with enemy drones.

[@shimo_96]

4:09 Bro woke up a Tripod

[@ALEX_VII]

"The Titan is very tired, he is eepy. The Titan has had a very long day of spawning Thargoids and wants to take just a smol sleeb. He eeby and neebies to sleeby. Titab sleepy and need bed-bye time. The Titan is currently experiencing critical levels of being a sleevjy big guy and needs to go to bedb. He is ver tired and needs to slep. Just a little sleejing time as a treat. Titanene neebs to slek, ver twired boyo, just a big guy. Titalphele needs his beaty sleeb. Look at him go! He yawn big cause he skeejy, neebs to falafel asleep. Nini time! Good night, mister the Titan." kzbin.info/www/bejne/eaTTkIJ3d66meK8

[@shimo_96]

@@ALEX_VII 🤣

[@TeddyLindsell]

Just wow …what an amazing experience

[@alanhilton7336caradventure]

Damn you did this in a courier.... respect!!!!

[@oigliyj]

Probably gonna need to mine the asteroids in the maelstrom

[@wiffmastermase]

That...sounds so fucking .. nope.. nope... here. Take the whole fuckin bag. I'm leaving xD

[@stephanel928]

Chouette visite, merci, la fin est surprenante ahah :o)

[@MrNin10dope]

I can't believe you didn't try to get inside sooner once that door was open. Looks like maybe it's not possible

[@nillyman2343]

@KessilRun or send out a landing request first :-D =)

[@Neo-vz8nh]

You can't go in it (6:40), it just a heat vent. I tired.

[@rocket2739]

You're repelled if you try to enter the portal

[@glitch3818]

That's unbelievably cool. Its almost Lovecraftian.

[@Terminator1O1]

maybe if you carry a goid heart it will detect it and let you in like pacific rim

[@aircraftandmore9775]

10:08 I think it’s feeding the mothership meta alloys

[@gideonschwartz]

A hero.

[@MelonTheLemonZ]

You made it CMDR, LETS GOO

[@B1oHa2ard]

... It looks like the Cylon Colony

[@fdcsd79]

O7 great job Sr.

[@josephkiely7315]

Idk why but the back of that looks different to taranis one

[@dannyfiddler8086]

O7 commander. Hell of a job.

[@richarddeturner]

Wow that was fraking awesome. O7 Commander.

[@hurmzz]

It can move, has external weapons and ships can enter and exit, so it’s basicly a thargoid fleet carrier?

[@AlexanderFrost]

Given it's size, it almost seems like the Thargoid version of a space station to me. But it could just be a fleet carrier, yeah.

[@hurmzz]

@@AlexanderFrost yeah, it also qualifies as a space station, maybe even more due to it’s size, but less due to mobility.

[@thargor5023]

great flying

[@blodgemeister]

For some reason I'm reminded of that time the Enterprise flew inside the V'ger cloud.

[@arazriel]

Daaaang bro, daredevil flight! GG

[@mikewaterfield3599]

Suspicions confirmed, it’s a goid titan.

[@patrickcheesman7941]

Never was so much owed by so many to so few O7

[@gaijoobles8705]

Anyone know if these could be the planetary bases we have previously seen? They look incredibly similar, shame consoles can't interact with this stuff, looks so cool

[@yoshiyayokai2124]

If I am not mistaken, FDev verified what many have suspected before. The Thargoid Surface sites are crash landed Titans. Likely from the first Thargoid war and the release of the bioweapon against them.

[@shannonmcvey8669]

Wow!!! There is no mistaking what this is. So the question is; are the ones on planetary surfaces old ones that have died…or new ones that are being grown (I think the second one is more likely.

[@Red_the_pirate]

I think the devs actually confirmed the ones on the ground are old defunct ships that are being torn apart by the scavengers.

[@devoutrelic1228]

The crashed ones are casualties of our first war with them, you can still see traces of the Mycoid virus on them that CMDR Jameson used to wipe them out several hundred years ago.

[@masterploxis]

Just WOW ! That must have been a ride....

[@spicedandy7370]

Reminds me of a scene from the book Blindsight by Peter Watts

[@FurryEskimo]

Wow, I thought this just couldn’t be seen..

[@TrySomeFish]

woah o.o hands down the coolest thing I've ever seen come out of this game. Too bad it doesn't really seem to do anything.

[@rarelycomments]

lol Elite Dangerous summed up in one youtube comment

[@mochalavender9398]

I'm still coping, seething, AND malding that the Xbox version isn't getting updates anymore.

[@klojopipo]

Same, I feel ripped of as well, started playing shortly before they pulled the plug

[@inukrieger5206]

i like Elite alot but i wish there where also some cool ground combat stuff with thargoids. Like in dark caves or in crashed ships. There is so mutch potenzial to do more. i hope we see alot more and the expand elite further

[@ALEX_VII]

I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but there are only 2-3 years of updates left for Elite. The devs are just finishing and releasing content what was in develepment (active or otherwise) for years now. And this is one of the last few big updates. There were plans for FPS combat with Thargoids (the big insectoids), but we got reskinned Thargoid drones instead.

[@ThePapino134]

@@ALEX_VII personally i sptopped playing before odyssey was launched and im kinda glad i moved on. my pc never wouldve been able to run it. but im sad cause i played religiously for years but the game has lost me so much grind. so much wasted potential. no new ship released in years

[@fredh8733]

i gotta get my T10 in there and do some mining... if thats even possible??? those glowing lights in the tunnel, what material is that i wonder? thanks for the awesome video! this is very cool

[@ConnorLinley]

Bro imagine those asteroids are thick with the richest of ores!

[@Wanelmask]

Man, reading this comment section after wandering on the comments section of an ObsidianAnt video is refereshing. Anyway, great job, CMDR ! o7

[@nissan300zxtt9]

I bet it looks pretty cool in VR .

[@ALEX_VII]

It does: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3TdeJSMm66BncU

[@MJF510]

Hello boys, I’m baaaack.!

[@ysfsim]

for those who get the reference

[@Windrake101]

I made the attempt with Maelstrom Raijin. Less CMDRs over there and less lag. Got in twice.

[@mikkdc]

8:14 Docking permission DENIED!

[@mikey5396]

I tried getting close to Indra just yesterday. It blew my MkII away like it was a child's toy.

[@SebbyWaffles]

Absolute madlad o7

[@phoenixjamiexera]

Just thought I'd mention-I THINK WE HAVE THE EXACT SAME HUD COLORS

[@Atrumoris]

''Oh, that thing's a lot smaller than i anticipated.'' **Switches to external camera** ''Holy Mother of God, you crazy motherfucker get the hell out of there!!!''

[@thebagfather4633]

legend o7 cmdr

[@harrasika]

I wonder how much this was inspired by Outer Wilds.

[@Gomorragh]

ok, this proves something i have thought for years, the various "oddities" especially the thargoid heart like structures at lagrange points are more than likely how the thargoid ships are engineered and grown, especially with this having its own lagrange point type phenomenon, also shows all the structures are either these things that crashed, or that are going through a spiderlike growing and shedding phase. when thargoids first landed and the first discoveries of planetary sites and the slowly released upgrade varients i came up with a theory that each varient is just the evolution of the previous variant, Scouts crash land and seed the ground for the Barnacles (missing white ball thing on crashed scouts) they slowly grow underground and burst forth, the minerals extracted being used in later processes, each season thargoids come and go, giving them energy and taking thier refuse, like parent birds at a nest, each season they grow more clusters, some will be fed hearts from lagrange points and become the various interceptors dependant on how many hearts (also dependent on thier genetic origin point, the 2 thargoid species mentioned in lore) others will continue to grow in size and complexity, eventually emerging as a thargoid structure, with its own drones attending its needs and removing outgrown carapace. This idea also gave a reason of the thargoids nomadic nature, more as a way to visit each nursery at each feeding and birthing cycle, and in this, non of the aggression was ever an attack, it was possibly just insectlike drone activity trying to clean away refuse from and the feeding of thier larval forms.

[@ALEX_VII]

No offence, but man, I haven't read a tinfoil-hat theory like this since the Great Canonn threads. )

[@KabegamiTheGreat]

What is a thargoid? Are the thargoids the ships or do the ships have pilots?

[@stevenswadel]

Tough little ship!

[@Rigel_Chiokis]

Thanks for this video. It's the only way I'll ever see what's there. By the way, don't try to dock without authorisation! Even our stations will shoot your ass out of the sky for that. LOL

[@tylerfarrell8748]

Really Cool!

[@lozg1985]

So instead of one mother ship they brought 3 this time

[@matthewlue]

reminds me the first Star Trek motion picture. o7

[@mhc706]

first thing: insanely awesome footage second thing: i like that purple hud color third thing: this game gives me the hebegebes so bad!

[@advanceddarkness3]

This game would be so good, if I didn't have to invest 1k hours of my life to get to this point.

[@ALEX_VII]

It would actually be 100-200 hours (if you know what to do), but this is essentially the "Final Boss" so I'd say it's reasonable to be a hard to get to point. (Not saying the grind to get here is reasonable, just the "hard to get to" idea.)

[@StrangerNoDangrr]

Just me or does everyone want them to let us in the horsehead nebula

[@1PokerMan]

the mothership, mi god

[@CrimsonEsso]

Badass, shame all this content is literal 4 years too late.

[@psutherla]

So tell me.... how's it feel walking around with two Type-10s hanging between your legs?

[@mostbacony7121]

Sweet HUD colors! What’s your setup?

[@ALEX_VII]

Red: 0.75, 0, 2 Green: 0, 2, 0 Blue: 0, 0, 2

[@rogerstalder7184]

How much Capacitor does the Pulse Neutralizer use? :D need to know for my ship build ^^

[@ALEX_VII]

Not sure. It says "active power draw" is 0.33MW. My build has 14.7MJ max and 1.1MW recharge in SYS.

[@Jagernaughty]

If it bleeds we can kill it....

[@palmironeira195]

you are legend o7

[@curiousgeorge4836]

Push for the boundary when it's still yellow (i.e. close to the entering Thargoid), when you attempted here the boundary was already "cooling" - watch closely when you attempt it, the boundary was black (or inert). But I agree with other posters - try with thargoid artifacts aboard to see if that helps. Good luck CMDR o7.

[@ALEX_VII]

When the portal is open (yellow) it has a "force field" that pushes you away. I tried getting in with a Thargoid Link in hold, but it didn't work: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHrCgJKVo6d-fJY Other pilots report none of the Thargoid items worked so far.

[@Mr.Free2Play]

6 years later….you fly around Thargoid mother ships. 6 more years, you might be able to actually go in one. But that would get boring according to Arthur.

[@RudolfKlusal]

Heeey, noice! 🙂

[@yukinareha]

*F* For the fallen CMDR o7

[@buzzwatching]

you mad lad o7

[@TheRealShiba]

Ok guys... Let the Frontiers cook.

[@thetritiumdepot9270]

i see you tried to get in, use the same method as how you go in to a crashed mothership.

[@Hissymaster]

Well, there was an attempt.

[@morbidlyobesewizard2411]

one can only imagine how bad it must smell in there

[@DimSum9685]

My friend begged me to come back and help him since hes a new player. He even got me to transfer my account to PC, drastically improving my gaming experience. After a few weeks of catching up on everything elite i learned about this. I thrn say "Wanna do something stupid today?" He obliged me. "I then said ill most likely die and its terrifying. He joins my ship and we set out. Hes never seen a Thargoid let alone know what they are. He didnt even know they were a part of the game. So i fount the nearest titan, flew my corvette and went in. I never reached the Titan. After fighting off interdiction after interdiction i reached it and the second pulse killed me. Half the time he was screaming. It was epic. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@id5865]

O7 my friend

[@AndyTomT]

Did you forget to bring a problem?

[@daoust06]

what kind of mats to get the pulse neutralizer

[@ALEX_VII]

Sorry, no idea. I got mine from the Community Goal.

[@Neo-vz8nh]

1 Grelic (unclassified relic) 5 Massive wave (get thrown by the massive wave at the center) 5 Propursion elements (Thargoid craft drop) 5 Sensor fragment (droped by destroyer Tharg sensor or link)

[@xXCao_RenXx]

Very epic, would be great if they started to work on the xbox version again so that i can enjoy that too xd

[@ALEX_VII]

They most likly will not, because Frontier lost a LOT of the developers and the new hires nedeed a whole year to implement basic optimization for PC. And considering FDev is now killing off the games they released as publishers, their finances also not going to let them expand the development to other platforms again.

[@Tooterbooter]

WHAT THE FU-

[@dapple33]

Annnnd there it is CMDRs.

[@fixthepix18]

You think if we have thargoid senser it will be different like on foot?

[@ALEX_VII]

I tried to get in with a Thargoid Link (they function the same as Probes and Sensors at the crashed Titans), but it didn't do anything: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHrCgJKVo6d-fJY

[@dairygecko]

I dont even know what im watching.

[@High-Overlord-Pugula]

wow, so big