{"id":143383,"date":"2022-11-30T00:03:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T00:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/elite-dangerous-aliens-go-on-the-offensive-with-update-14-a-preview\/"},"modified":"2022-11-30T00:03:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T00:03:25","slug":"elite-dangerous-aliens-go-on-the-offensive-with-update-14-a-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/elite-dangerous-aliens-go-on-the-offensive-with-update-14-a-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Elite Dangerous’ aliens go on the offensive with Update 14, a preview"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elite Dangerous<\/em>‘ next big update goes live on Tuesday, bringing war to the billions of virtual inhabitants of the Milky Way galaxy. After months of build-up, the game’s alien race will now begin an all-out assault on human occupied space. It’s up to players to choose how to engage with this new gameplay \u2014 either guns blazing, through humanitarian missions, or by helping to solve the game’s notoriously complex in-game puzzles.<\/p>\n
The alien race known to humans as the Thargoids first made their appearance in 2017, about three years after the game originally launched. Initially, massive Thargoid ships pulled players out of hyperspace merely to inspect them, like giant dolphins toying with a swimmer. But these close encounters eventually turned hostile. Fast forward to August, and humanity’s last best hope of a super weapon failed \u2014 but not before it antagonized the Thargoids into taking drastic steps to ensure their own safety. <\/p>\n
Now a new threat has emerged, and it seems to be directly targeting humanity. For weeks now, so-called \u201cstargoids\u201d have been moving at faster than light speed, with eight of them heading straight for the Bubble \u2014 the tiny sphere of populated space with Earth at its core. On Tuesday, those stargoids will finally slow down and begin their terrible work.<\/p>\n
[Warning:<\/strong> What follows will spoil Elite Dangerous\u2019 <\/em>Update 14 in detail.]<\/p>\n
Eight mysterious clouds will arrive in the Bubble starting on Tuesday, each one more than 180 km across. The clouds will each have a name and a marker visible on the tactical display. Players will be able to scan for these markers, target them, and eventually fly inside them. Once inside, they’ll be treated to some of elite<\/em>‘s stunning audio, but also to particle and lighting effects unlike others that have come before.<\/p>\n
During a press briefing shared with Polygon last week, we learned that dozens of mysterious cross-shaped entities reside inside each of these clouds. The entities are propelled by whiffs of the same green gas in which they float. It will be up to players to study their movements and learn how and why they have been sent to the bubble.<\/p>\n