No dude. It's clearly swamp gas.

I thought it was light reflecting off Venus.

It was a weather balloon reflecting the light of Venus into a swamp gas cloud which cause the phenomenon :)

no its mustard gas dont touch it

U.S. government in a nutshell.

yeah i probably wouldn't be able to see the alien because my entire cockpit would be filled with shit.

Lmao!!

interdicted out of hyperspace no less, i don't play elite dangerous i wanna, but the DLC and everything is a little too expensive for me, but i do know a little bit, but can you get interdicted while in a hyperspace jump? cause if not that first encounter must've been fuckin' terrifying.

You only can get interdicted while in Supercruise. That´s the reason why I would be so terrified ^^

well then that is certainly terrifying o.o;

I'd hardly call being yanked out of hyperspace and probed with a blinding yellow light while movie trailer horns blare through your cockpit "peaceful"

well the encounter was sort of a man inspecting an ant hill... you dont know why (cuz youre an ant duh) but youre sure glad he didnt use the boot on you.

Brave SJ your definition of peaceful it's very...odd.

Well, I assume it was first contact for both sides. The alien see it's component or device zipping through space at FTL somehow, so it interdicts the object finding a human ship wrapped around it.

Sam this is first contact in the ED game, not the Elite universe. There was a whole war between humans and Thargoids in the time before this game. They are very aware of us.

It sounds great, but why does it sound great?

Berelore, that sounds like the start of a Vsauce video.

Pardon me for interrupting you, but... SOUND! IN. SPACE. Pretty unscientific but still cool.

Дмитрий Кунченко The sound you hear is, by the game's lore, synthesized sounds made by a device within your oxygenated ship. When your windshield gets blown out, it even gets more difficult to hear it as the air runs out.

Oh! Thank you!

I don't play it either. I wonder if my laptop could even run it.

What laptop do you have?

If you've got £600 spare and dont mind a desktop or if you usually play consoles (you're static anyway), then you can get a PC that will play this on Ultra at 60 FPS constant. You could spend £300 on a right budget ass gaming PC and play it on Medium with like an RX 360 Graphics card and AMD FX6300 CPU, but it's down to preference and budget I suppose.

I have a hand-me-down laptop. HP pavilion g6 2228nr

Uck, I had an old Pavilion g6, it fell apart and always sounded like it was trying to break orbit whenever it was playing anything more demanding than a youtube video, you might be able to get it to run on lowest settings but it would probably still be kinda laggy whenever you have more than one object around you at a time

But imagen you wouldnt have saw this video on KZfaq and would have encountered it by yourself at some time without anyone telling you... haha ... sure the possibility of this happening is very rare, since .... internet! .... but just the imagination you would encounter it all by yourself would make me very exciting.

Oh look! You found the difference between a video game and a movie!

I've been thinking about buying this game for years but holding off until I get a VR headset. As I was watching this I thought I wish I hadn't watched it because of how cool and scary it would have been for it to happen randomly!

For most CMDRs, this event only happened "randomly" while they were actively trying to trigger it for hours. That's the problem with most of the random stuff in this game. Even randomness is a grind in Elite Dangerous.

+Holmesy87 you mean you haven't been getting the chrome eagle paint job or the riches from 17 Draconis?

There's a chrome Eagle paint job? =O My cousin finally got Overwatch and we've been playing that all the time, damn him! xD

Scott Manley how do you make money from 17 Draconis? I haven't played for a while.

+Holmesy87 it was a reward for people who participated in a Christmas Community goal.

+treesniper12 www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/5hugpc/psa_make_hundreds_of_millions_at_17_draconis/?client=safari

True, but the worst server cluster.

I was lucky enough to go to a talk hosted by one of the lead sound designers and the stuff they do to make this game sound great is amazing.

Chris Ward to bad rest of the game sucks

What server cluster, it is all peer to peer after you connect to the login server

"Friendship Drive Charging."

Cody Roberts Yeah bounty is what I used to do the most, I have a vulture wich used to be pretty good for that, way before the engineers, now with all that stuff is probably a bit outdated, never got one of the bigger ships, bounty leaves decent money to survive but nothing to really get rich unless you grind a lot, I tried my luck with some community goals and was able to get 5% in one some time ago, gaining around 20mil, that's probably all I got, I don't really remember, all my keybindings on my Xbox controller got reset in one of the updates and Im not able to configure it again for some reason, and the default doesn't seem natural to me, I really need to sit down and fiddle with it. Thanks for the offer tho, I might come back some day, that game keeps calling me back.

I was I was't poor as fuck and could afford a new PC so ED didn't blue screen for no reason whenever I launch it. I've unfortunately isolated it to degraded hardware.

Not sure how well it works now but before I stopped playing for a few months (work), I saved enough to get myself an Anaconda in like 20 hours of gameplay by doing long-range remote smuggling. Made real bank real fast.

Do i need a decent computer to play this game?

keloid long yeah I would describe it as decent, you dont need a top notch one but a pretty good one is required, specially if you want the horizons expansion, it gets a bit more demanding. I have a fx8350 and a 980ti, 16gb ram, and have no problems, I used to have an older card and it will run good enough on med/high, to give you an idea.

Alien hackers rigging our elections maybe?

So, aliens support conservative and anti-establishment values? The aliens support Russia? The aliens know Hillary would just nuke them?

Sked NEC. Its quite possible:)

That happened in the history of the Elite universe anyways. With the Thargoids. Although Americans don't exist in the 3000s (except for people from the American continents on Earth, I suppose).

Well to be fair its a videogame and shooting at them would be more fun than talking to them. We can already do all the peaceful stuff with every organisation in the bubble and adding peaceful aliums would add very little in terms of new and interesting gameplay. Its time to bring out the bogey man so we can stomp all over it.

that sounds fucking lit tbh, what's the documentary called?

Cultist of Mars not sure, can't remember, it might be a discovery channel thing?

Gaia

Don't forget the part where they were discovered by Nazis!

wait... there are ads on youtube?

Yeah, the whole alien encounter has a distinct 'Shadows' vibe

they are working on a way to get closer.... CLOSE RANGE???

WELCOME BACK COMMANDER

Who will tell us not to use explosives now?

Calm down there, Bradford.

I was thinking the same thing. The whole encounter must be intense in VR. I've played the game in VR, and it's one of the better games for sure in VR right now!

FlashFrags most likely: nothing

Boamere still worth a try tho! i understand its scripted but i wonder if the script keeps going on with certain interactions

FlashFrags it's already been tried. nothing happened.

Izual0Zephyr link?

Or dare i say shoot the UA while it is still on grid

Cuz it's meant to be played as a simulator, not a game like an mmo that gives you things to do.

You make your own fun. Don't expect to be led around by the game.

The steam page, and their advertiseing pre-launch says differently, very misleading, myself and many others bought into it because that's exactly what they were (and are) selling it as. An MMO. I don't need it to give me things to do, but when everything you CAN do is grinding numbers up (literally, all of them) or combat, that limits how much enjoyment you can get. Tradeing, Smuggling, mineing, bounty hunting, Com goals, powerplay. ALL of them, is litterally grinding for cash, or grinding for an arbitrary number, and incredibly tedious, not to mention, some are utterly worthless compared to others for money gain. Combat gets boring after a while, because the AI becomes predictible, exploring is ok, but after a while, you've seen all the game has to offer, (like no mans sky, all proc gened) In the end, theres not much to do in the massive pool of space. Add to that, they haven't made any attempts to make the faction systems and background sim make sense, and be interesting, they all function the same, with different stats, they are facelesss, with no character represented aside from text. Outside the visuals, it's a very, VERY bland game.

Same, it's a damn cool game with a lot of potential but right now we're just waiting, grinding, hoping for more content and updates. It'll be at least another month or 2 til we can interact some more with these aliens I bet.

Then I suppose you can just buy the game find an exploit, get billions of credits, play the game for 30-60 hours, throw it away and then complain about how the game gives you nothing to do. But hey, there's no grind any more.

+capnazrael he doesn't have an efficient hairstyle

suddenly the image of a bald ancient aliens guy terrifies me more than the aliens in the video

First person also had an Anaconda shooting at him. He had to make it come after him again to get good footage without the pirate shooting him during the clip. it was CMDR DP Sayre

E:D's sound design is amazing, and this just topped everything else in the game... so good.

i thought he meant in real life at first

the games name is in the video title.....

There's a link at one point in the video that lets you watch the encounter without his voiceover.

I couldn't find the link... would be awesome.

Why? , He probably ejected into space because of how quickly he shat himself.

I really want a game to make me do something like that :D

manrightchea waaaaaaaaaaaaaaar

Afro Chill Dude I honestly think these ships are alive in some capacity, it definitely has organic aspects and the center does not really even look like a cockpit but like an eye..

I've been thinking the same thing. One day we're going to find one of the wrecked ships gone from their resting spots only to find in Galnet that Cannon has managed to ferry the wrecked specimen to Palin's research facility and began to dissect it, attempting to learn more about how the living-hell these things work.

That is assuming that you need an unknown artifact to get the encounter, and that you need a corrosion-resistant cargo hold to transport the artifacts. I've heard rumors that some people have encountered them without carrying unknown artifacts, but if those aren't true, you can still carry them without the corrosion-resistant cargo hold.

But without the special cargo it will destroy your cargo right ?

You can use A lot of AFMU's to repair your cargo rack, which I reccommend if you're trying this. You might have to drop out and repair the cargo hatch though every so often, but as long as you jump in, align, scoop, it usually doesn't have enough time to damage you too badly. That was the old method of transport.

omgcow Ok thanks man !

Good Start. PPL UPVOTE THIS ****!

@@Mr._E._Shark I know this comment is old, but while I like where he was going with the Morse code idea, I don't think aliens would know about Morse code, since it's something we invented on earth. However, they might be able to communicate through light flashes using binary, since that's pretty much universal. In absence of any way to communicate properly since alien to human would be exponentially different and more difficult than say, translating English to Russian, since there'd be no common frames of reference. They'd have to do something super cool using the aforementioned binary using light flash patterns in a way sort of how the instructions for the golden record on the voyager probes work. From the JPL website- "Written around it in binary arithmetic is the correct time of one rotation of the record, 3.6 seconds, expressed in time units of 0,70 billionths of a second, the time period associated with a fundamental transition of the hydrogen atom.".. Like I said, super cool. Lol

He said they do at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fdeRfLqluammYXk.htmlm24s

You would expect something with so much money (the stations that buy all the materials) would also have corrosion resistant holds as well, or the entire station made out of corrosion resistant metal or something.

+CMDR Luka Tomato because I'm a nice guy

Because he isn't American.

Because he isn't TRIGGERED.

+Drunken Monkey Kombat actually... I just became a US citizen today.

Ha! Then why didn't you shoot it?

+Dark Shift Music without abusing game mechanics I made a 5million in 2hours in a war zone this morning. With abusing game mechanics.... over 50million per hour.

Scott Manley It's the god Scott himself! You made 5mil just by shooting random people in a warzone for a few hours?! I seem to have chosen the wrong line of work. Also, abusing the game mechanics? I'd like to know more about how to do that! Maybe I should wipe off the old X55 after all. :D

+Dark Shift Music war zone is easy, just go to a high intensity zone that spawns a capital Ship, choose the faction that owns the ship and stay close to it. Murderous firepower of ship + support will keep you safe. Regularly leave to cash in combat bonds. Game mechanic abuse -go and read about 17 draconis massacre mission stacking.

Scott Manley Hey Scott, thanks for the help but I've been trying to do these combat zones for like 4 hours now and I'm down 3mil from death and refitting. Can you link your ship fit or something? I found a zone that spawned a capital ship but I kept dying. The first run I had was promising, I netted about 100k in 15 minutes and ran out of ammo. I tried to refit with gear I thought was better but then it just went downhill from there...

+Dark Shift Music don't go in with an expensive ship, use something light and fast, you just need to get enough hits on a target so you get the bounty. Also power management is hella important always, lots of people don't realize that 4pips in shields makes you massively stronger against damage.

Very, in fact I stopped playing because I was bad at it and didn't know what to do originally, but I returned a few months later with a bit more information and it engaged me for hundreds of hours.