Elite Dangerous: Escaping a Glaive 

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Not really, you can kill a Glaive for example with the advanced AX multi cannons. A caustic sink launcher will help as well...

That's always the answer. Mod shards, unless you're a wuss.

Shards won't help you in a Maelstrom!

@@cmdrreggit well you can always switch for full ax multi-cannon, but i fly my mamba in maelstrom , conda in too slow

@@Noir-bt9yh I recently built an AX-Missile Cutter for use in Maelstroms...But I keep my Shard Cannons on standby - just in case! o7

... causing "Exceptional Internal Damage" _AND_ triggering an FSD Reboot... O_O

0:32 -- Glaive's main weapon(s) (forward gun(s)) cause a "Shield Breach" attack... 0:43 -- ..and its "gold lightning" attack triggers a "Random Module Reboot", as well as limiting velocity and _disabling_ Boost! O_O Yikes. ... not to mention *_ABSOLUTELY KILLING_** the shields* ..!!! >_

The fighter would get melted in seconds.

@@raghav1026 I'm refering to non-caustic burn damage, not incoming fire. You can survive about 2 minutes in a guardian fighter.

Outrunning is not an option, addidionally FA on or off, the electric attack stops your ship in place, so your speed goes to 0, also the electric attack effectively interrupts fsd boosting. With the intervals I experienced it shooting one at me yesterday in my VMkiv I had no choice but to self destruct. Oh it also does not care if your temperature is at 0. I got successfully hit by the 3 rounds it shoots and the electric attack consistently with 0 degrees post heatsink drop.

I dont't know what weapons he have, but depending of the situation, small ships dont have a chance against thargoids, usually small ships for combat run only hull builds and Heatsinks to avoid the damage, since with shield is useless with their piercing weapons. And glaive is not that big.. the interceptors are bigger, but is very fast and they spam lightning and shield recovery too much.

Short ansver: I was not planning to fight the Thargoid, just see what it can do. Long ansver: I was on my way to the Thargoid Maelstrom to visit their Titan "mothership", but my Hyperjump to that system was interdicted by a pair of Thargoid Hunters - Glaive variants, which are supposed to be the weakest ones. The Hunters are special made to counter engineered human ships (like mine), with high speed and maneuverability, missiles that can disable modules, lightning that can break physics and cancel any momentum the ship has while stripping it of shields and charging the Glaive's shields, and the main Pulse Cannon. The Glaive is also one of the smaller Thargoids. And unlike bigger Thargoid Interceptors, the Glaive has no hearts to regenerate his HP, so it's easy to kill with Gimballed Enhanced Anti-Xeno Multi-Cannons. But this is my Xeno-Research ship and it's only weapon is a Long Range, Thermal Vent Beam Laser - the main use of which is to vent the ship's heat, not deal damage. That being said, it would be possible to kill it with just one LRTV Beam (6km) If I would stay out of reach of his main Cannon (3km), but I wanted to see what he can do. While I have 2 more weapon slots and could install the EAX Multi-Cannons to be able to defend myself better, their mass would affect my speed, and this ship needs to be as fast as possible, while being able to do research.

@@ALEX_VII Interesting! The level of detail & the importance of physics seems intriguing. Back when I played flight stick space sims, it was all the way back in the Freespace era.

0:56 -- Were you flying with a Turreted weapon mounted? I'm noticing *_the Glaive's shields going down_*, from this timestamp [56sec] whilst it's NOT in your forward firing arc . . . but your HUD shows _NO WEAPONS_ . . . ? ? Actually, going BACK to 0:37 , the Glaive _already has 0 shields_ PRIOR to "gold lightning" . . . but when that "gold lightning" STARTS, you (automatically?) LOST target-lock . . . .. and when you RE-TARGET the Glaive from 0:56, the Glaive has "48%" shields _and counting DOWN_ ..!!

Actually, now I think more about it ... maybe the *Glaive Gold Lightning is **_actually a SHIELDS STEALER_** ??* (The lightning seemed to STOP _just after_ YOUR shields got to 0%.) ... but it seems the Glaive "can't maintain" shields, as it rapidly falls (from 0:56 ) back to "0%" by 1:05 . . .

(The build of the ship is in description.) There is a game mechanic that instantly gives you the info on the ship that has fired on you. And I had a Xeno Scanner so it worked with the Glaive too, giving me basic info without me scanning it. Also, you can ignore the "deployed hardpoints" messages for Thargoids. They can't actually retract their weapons (that is why they are always a triangle on the radar) and it's just a limitation from how the game works. Using the lightning regenerates the Glaive's shields, regardless of the target having shilds or not. Thargoid's shields decay over time, and the decay rate can be speed up with laser weapons (with addition to the weapon's basic damage). But at that time I only had one gimballed Long Range Thermal Vent Beam. The Thargoid lightning also disables some modules, sensors being one of them, so you can loose targeting data for a second until the senors reboot.

The names of the Thargoid's classes come from the first thing the persons who first saw them thought. And this naming system is stupid. Scouts were the first Thargoid ships humanity encountered prior to the First Thargoid War and were belived to be "scouting ships" for the Thargoid fleet. In reality, Scouts are something of a "simple worker" ships and their main attack force, and the scouting work is done by the Interceptors, Orthrus in particularly. The Interceptors were first encountered before the Second Thargoid War (current one) when they started interdicting ships mid hyperspace jumps. So they called them Interceptors, when in reality they are the "Scouts". And now we have the Hunters, made to be the counter to humanity's advanced engineered ships. But considering they appeared only after we disturbed the Titans, their main role might be more of a "Defender" of the Thargoid's motherships.

@@ALEX_VII Defender makes sense, though the technical term for an aircraft primarily meant to operate in a defensive role (Think MiG-25 or F-106) is "interceptor". So yeah, the naming scheme is not accurate at all.

They are a new middle model - Hunters. A bigger threat than Scouts, but lack some of the Interceptor's features: Thargon swarms, EMP, Hearts. I'd even say they will be the biggest threat in surface conflicts, since the Interceptors can't use Thargon swarms there and Hunters are faster and more manuvarable.

@@ALEX_VII Maybe I can try to take on one of them in my Krait, but I fly an half-engineered build 'cause I got frustrated with farming. Do they spawn only around the Titan and Maelstrom Systems ?

@@LoScorpioneRosso1 The only ones I've seen are either leaving the Titan or guarding it, and sometimes in Hyperdictions. Not sure about AX Conflict Zones, but I wouldn't recommend getting near any Scouts, until FDev fixes them being stuck in Enrage mode. 5 of them can deal 3k damage in less than 15 seconds.

There is not a lot to see: Main Pulse gun, Module disabling seeker missiles, 4x Caustic Missile barrage, Lightning strike at will, Shields after lightning, high maneuverability, fast acceleration and high max speed. On it's own it's not a big threat, but a pack of 3-4 would be a problem.

@@ALEX_VII The caustic missiles can become a big problem for such a small ship though. It wasn't shown in your vid, so I'm just pointing it out.

@@cmdrandreyuenari4150 I think he only uses them if he's being damaged. I have one Caustic Sink Launcher with 8 charges and a single charge should be able to counter 3-5 missiles (depending on who shot them). But if you are in a small and fast ship you can outrun the Caustic missiles anyway (they fly at ~350 m/s).

@@ALEX_VII Yes that's right, they fire the caustic missiles after they took some damage. And caustic sinks help a lot. Just if you're not prepared they cause quite some hassle :D