Elite Harmful replace 15 provides a brand new Thargoid ship and on-foot missions

Elite Harmful’ replace 15 will open a brand new part within the yearslong conflict in opposition to the Thargoids. Frontier Developments advised Polygon it’s including new player-owned tech to the sport alongside a brand new alien fight ship. There may also be a brand new ground-based mission sort at planetary settlements.

Thargoids are an alien species that have been launched to the trendy incarnation of Elite in 2017. Whereas it’s true that humanity shot first, issues escalated considerably in 2022 when the Thargoids started an enormous and lethal invasion with the potential to remove humanity. A sequence of poisonous clouds generally known as Maelstroms have been step one. As soon as in place, they disgorged extra Thargoid forces into the Milky Method galaxy’s retro Western spiral arm. Following the lack of many billions of human lives, issues nonetheless aren’t going notably nicely for gamers who’ve been capturing down aggressors and rescuing refugees as shortly as they will for months now.

Replace 15 will add a brand new Thargoid pulse neutralizer — teased in-game on Could 2 — that may enable gamers to succeed in the middle of those Maelstroms for the primary time. What they’ll discover in there may be anybody’s guess, however hopefully it’s a solution to sluggish the aliens’ relentless advance into human-occupied area.

Thargoid hunter-class vessels are additionally coming to the sport, and builders stated these extraordinarily lively ships can stop commanders from escaping fight as soon as engaged. The Glaive — a small, quick, and closely armored new ship — is simply the primary of those hunter-class vessels and might run circles round all however essentially the most high-end builds within the sport.

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There may also be a brand new on-foot mission sort that may require gamers to stealthily infiltrate knocked-out planetary settlements — interactive planetary floor places which have been added to the sport in 2020. Gamers should try to flip the ability again on with out getting vaporized. A press-only preview video confirmed a wholly silent settlement on the darkish aspect of a planet, with gamers dodging Thargoid Revenants — comparatively tiny flying automobiles concerning the measurement of a planetary rover. These automobiles prolong brilliant yellow imaginative and prescient cones onto the bottom in entrance of them. Stumble into these cones, and a firefight will shortly escape because the Revenants deliver of their associates to complete the combat.

Replace 15 can be free for house owners of Elite Harmful who play on PC utilizing the 4.0 codebase.