Thargoid Laser

Neo_Jesus · Post by **Neo_Jesus** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:59 am

My friend found a Thargoid laser ...for sale in a black monk monistary i cannot find anything about it on the wiki however....could someone inform me of what it does exactly

drew · Post by **drew** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 7:02 am

It's green and it kills things?

Sorry, can't really help!

Cheers,

Drew.

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 7:03 am

It's an invisible beam, self-targetting weapon but unfortunately it doesn't actually work when fitted on one of your puny human ships

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:42 am

It's just another bug of Realistic Shipyards. Please, ignore it. And as Thargoid already said: It won't work on your ship anyway.

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 2:41 pm

Yeah, but an obsessed collector would be willing to pay big Cr's for one.

Lestradae · Post by **Lestradae** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:36 pm

Commander McLane wrote:
It's just another bug of Realistic Shipyards. Please, ignore it. And as Thargoid already said: It won't work on your ship anyway.

Yep, and a known one at that, and fixed for the upcoming successor of RS.

And really don`t buy it: If you try to look out the window where this laser is installed or try to open your status (F5) or missions (F5-F5) screen, your game will probably crash.

Aegidian put the Thargoid Laser in, and RS switched its TL to a number where it might become buyable under certain conditions which shall not be named (spoiled). Next version, the Thargoid Laser`s TL will again be 99 (unreachable).

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:32 am

TGHC wrote:
Yeah, but an obsessed collector would be willing to pay big Cr's for one.

That would be some sick obsession.

He first would have to sacrifice one of his ship's weapons, and second would risk nasty crashes (as per Lestradaes post above here).

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:32 am

I played with it for a while a few months back (to see if there was anything salvagable with it) and it doesn't crash things, or at least didn't back then.

You just get a "no weapon" cross-hairs (iirc), and it fires like a normal laser would in terms of heat-up and sound. Just no beams appear, and it doesn't do any damage to anything.

Lestradae · Post by **Lestradae** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:36 am

That`s interesting - it did what I described in my game.

Thargoid, could you open the F5 status screen, and if yes, was the Thargoid Laser listed there?

And, which OS are you on again?

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:41 am

WinXP.

This was under 1.71.2 (I'll try it again under 1.72 when I get time).

It shows up as "Thargoid Laser(n/a)" or something like that (the n/a I guess is part of the problems with it). Give me a little while and I'll repeat the test and see what I get and report back.

Lestradae · Post by **Lestradae** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:01 am

Thargoid wrote:
It shows up as "Thargoid Laser(n/a)" or something like that (the n/a I guess is part of the problems with it). Give me a little while and I'll repeat the test and see what I get and report back.

Please do

If the Laser could be made to work as intended somehow, I`d have uses for it

Cheers

L

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:13 am

Just retried it quickly on 1.71.2 under WinXP.

Lists on the equipment screen (F5) as "Aft (nil)" (having purchased an aft TL). On the view screen it's the simple straight line 4-part cross-hair (like a pulse laser iirc). Gives laser temp and sound when fired, but nothing else.

Doesn't crash anything though, at least for me. Will test it on 1.72 later on.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:39 am

I had more or less the same experience as Thargoid. Which still means you can't make it work.

A turreted laser isn't meant to work on the player ship.

And could we please bury this thread at this point?

Lestradae · Post by **Lestradae** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:39 am

Commander McLane wrote:
And could we please bury this thread at this point?

Well, doesn`t work is doesn`t work. Perhaps it would work as a player ship`s turret ... but that doesn`t make a lot of in-game sense.

So bury it it will have to be