How to kill your first Thargoid | Elite dangerous 

I never killed a thargoid before, I used your krait mk II build, engineered it and killed an interceptor first try. Thanks a lot for the video I never thought I'd be able to do it so fast!

I'd add remain calm. Fighting a thargoid interceptor is almost a dance. Don't panic and you'll do fine. A missing detail. After heart 3 you need to watch for a shutdown field burst. Also, if you don't knock off a heart within a certain amount of time the thargoid will berserk. That means he just constantly tosses out a swarm whenever one dies off. Otherwise you have quite a bit of time between launches (1 per heart)

After 7 years around Elite, I watched this video and FINALLY got my first Interceptor! Thanks for the great video, certainly helped me.

As an aside, if your ship is fast enough to maintain a decent distance like his Krait was, you can use silent running to burn off the corrosive if you either A) don't have the ammo to waste, or B) don't have enough Xeno weapons to generate the kind of heat necessary. Just go silent, put 4 pips to engines and keep boosting. Use a heat-sink like normal if you wish after the corrosive is gone. After that, just go to your Ship panel (the panel on the right) and select reboot/repair under 'Ship.' Once the sequence is over and your ship reboots your shields are back to full. If you have 13km like in the video here you've got plenty of time to raise your heat, reboot your ship and get your shields back online and fully recharged.

I remember when thargoid captains had their fear glads removed.

Fun Fact: _All Thargoids are classed as Female._

Thanks for this. I'm slowly building my 'Goid hunting Corvette, and appreciate any and all info I can get before I put that big rebuy on the line. I've been working toward this for months, and went to go in as prepared as possible. GLORY TO MANKIND!

Celaeno is also a great system for Xeno hunting. Similar layout - A single station close to the star, but orbiting a ringed planet. Pretty too.

Thanks for the video. I was able to solo my first Cyclops after about 8 tries. Only blew up once!

very good guide thanks, me and my mate plan on trying it. Love your vids always helpful.

When I overheated the ship in order to get rid of the caustic substance, the internal modules got damaged significantly. I would recommend decontamination limpets instead.

I'm constantly running out of ammo on the flak launcher, i guess i need to work on my aim. However, in the video, you also run out and then magically refill, did you synthesize ammo at some point? You failed to mention anything about this??

Excellent step-by-step. For the normal player as well. TY D2EA

I remember my first Thargoid. I jumped into an open server and headed to an ax site. Dropped in, joined a group of other ships in my python and barely made it out alive. Haven't gone back since. Space taxi is much safer and more profitable.

IIRC the current meta is to spam heatsinks and thermal vent laser to keep your heat below 20 so the Thargoid can't target you

Thanks for this! Might give it a try!

I've found a minimum of 130 temp can burn off caustic, but higher temps will do it quicker

I just went to a nav beacon and found a ton of ships jumping out, stayed there for 15 min and got the DWE

This was really helpful! Thank you!

I've only been playing the game for a couple of weeks now. Today, I decided to do a SAR mission in the HIP 16378 System that Obsiaian Orbital had mentioned in the local news. Funny... the station name and information announcer's voice seem oddly familiar... I knew there'd be Thargoid activity at the site, but I didn't know anything about Thargoids except that they look like Cat Butt Flowers. I knew I wasn't prepared, but I thought just maybe I could grab a black box or escape pod, or other proof of the missing explorer. The Cyclops darn near bamboozled me, but I got a few good hits on it before I had to turn tail. I'll be back; Leave no Commander behind.

Just curious, when thargoid hunting first began. As all of the commanders including myself learned how to kill them. At that point in time there was only one variant of thargoids. One never had their combat rank increased per kill. I am now triple elite, so I wouldn't know if ones rank increases per kill. Does it? Nice video as always.

Thanks for the tips! I just tried to fight em cpl of times but I really had to flee away... Maybe this time I can get em 💪

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Thank you very much. It is through this video you created that will help me adjust what I need to change so I can hunt my 1st ever Goid. I have slowly been building a Thargoid Corvette Battleship for about 17 months but now to help with our mess we stupid humans have created, I have been on a personal mission to create a Guardian Hybrid. I have unlocked & collected everything to do with the Guardian technology. I could never remember which Guardian Weapons to install & now I have my library of every single Guardian piece of tech available in the game, I can now engineer the normal parts of this ship for strength & integrity using the engineers. My Corvette should be the strongest weapon against the Goids at the cost of speed & Stupid Ganker attacks as my 'Guardian X-BS' Corvette is vulnerable against human attacks but this Corvette is not built to hunt my own kind but to help preserve our Human kind. Funny, I build a Human protector ship but my own kind like to kill my vulnerable Corvette but that's stupid pathetic Humans for you. Makes me wonder why I bother to protect the Human race to be honest.

I saw you did a type 10 build a while back have you done an updated build for it with the guardian tech

Fun !! so true,, thanks for the guide,, on my way back from Colonia to do some goid damage..

thanx for this video i was have a very hard time trying to kill my first well i still havent and i have love 3 ships so far but this has given me a better understanding on how to deal with them thanx again

i cant aim -costs 7.9 million

Will you make any other videos where you show us how to kill the bigger Interceptors. This video was great, by the way. Thank you so much for doing this. I really want to become a 'Goid hunter, but it seems so Daunting.

You are the man! Thanks for another great video, keep it up!

Thanks man great advise

So the "swarm" are the drones I was on about and also they are still tough bastards and non standard weapons a definite advantage !...fascinating stuff, maybe if i keep trying I can get into the game with the same passion I had back then, honestly I absolutely loved the game, I wonder if fancy graphics take away the imagination? back then I would be positively racing as i sat down to play, Is this my age or is it simply not as good now its at 100 plus frames per second ! ??

Took a break from ED for a while and needed a new goal. Been a fan of d2ea for a while (hotas chat and betting on mining cores on a livestream!), So making a start on a KM2 build and will see how it goes!!

I was wishing you would do this video....thanks

Very helpful thank you

you are a legend mate

I'm getting back into elite and I wanna resume my plans of go after bountys and thargoids

Why does the ammo bar under the gauss cannons change from blue to orange during the fight?

Thanks!

This is gonna be the reason for the thargoid war

The right equipment. Yes, about that; I still have to do the Guardian grind.

what is that bobblehead with shield, thargoid interceptor and star

Great video o7 cmdr

Christ, you make it look easy. I'm STRUGGLING against these bastards. I'm learning that it's less of a stand up fight, and more of a back and forth.

Going after my first one tomorrow, hope I do half as good as you did lol

do you reall yneed the flak stuff to take down the swarm?

nicely done :-)

Coming here after attempting to fight a interceptor and got sent to the pearly gates wondering what just happened

Dont lasers and seeker missiles/torpedoes work on thargs?

I believe Decontamination Limpets are also an option to un-caustic yourself.

Do you think the Krait is better than the Alliance anti-thargoid ships?

Shields aren't all that effective against thargoids. Better to just replace it with a fully engineered hull reinforcement package. You get much more value for the module slot. Plus, using silent running to get rid of caustic substance is much easier because you don't have any shields to worry about in the first place.

What happens if we destroy all the barnacles. Seems like a mini quest to me. Maybe they will jump back to where they came from when they are all destroyed. They won't be able to refuel.. Maybe then scan their wake with the highest level scanner possible and maybe it'll lead to their home. Maybe we cant follow them cause of the barnacles and some effect they have on hyperspace. Always somewhat connected to the ship and stopping attempts to follow into hyperspace... And does anyone else think those galaxies outside the map seem, closer than a week or two ago.

Didnt hear you mention if your ship was totally engineered or A graded or not!?

Lasers can be used to exert, saves ammo

I suck at FA off but manage OK flying backward swith FA on to kill swarms o7

Im trying to hunt cyclops with an Anaconda but their one lighting strike just destroys me, instantly loosing the shield and taking pretty bad hull damage even if i have 5k shield and 4k hull!! Is it because Anaconda is much bigger than Krait so im taking more damage in Anaconda? Also i can't outrun cyclop in anaconda which is also a big problem but i don't last long anyway first heart and lighting strike then im pretty much gone...

Great!!

You say it's not fancy flying, but I'm still 0 for 3 cyclops. You're better than I am. Lol

I gotta get better at hunting goids in my cutter, but I need a goid hunting build and idk where to find an up to date one :/ . Also you should try and hunt goids in a cutter and see how that fares.

I realize this video is a couple of years old now but I can't see a link anywhere to the ship build being used here.

Thanks for this; I've been wanting to do some xeno-hunting for a while and now at least I know where to start. Cheers bud :)

Excellent, i am a bit on the fence about attacking such a majestic life form, like humans on earth we attack what we fear, the thargoid have not attacked players so to me they are no threat, if only we could fight with them and use the ships they use, with how the empire acts i am in no favour of the empire..

nice video and tuto as the other. With the same configuration ship and weapon I'm not able to have the same forward speed and reverse. i have around 480 forward and close to 220 reverse. i did not understood why. may be you have some explanation, nevertheless please continue all your video ;-)

To exert the first (and subsequent) hearts you only have to hit it with a Gauss cannon, is that right?

Tried this today. Two attempts, two times I barely made it out with my skin intact without doing any real damage to the stupid things.

I did it first try!!

I wish you could boost in reverse

Coulda uses this couple months ago, when I killed 2 and took some heat damage and didnt how to get rid of it

I just went to asterope to see some thargoids it was *epic*

Hitting swarms with flak cannon is way harder than its look....

Sure looks easy when you can miss a bunch of times and then just jump cut to when you score the hit :)

After 1500+ hours gameplay in ED today I killed my first Thargoid in VR. It took me three attempts to finally understand what to aim for and when. What distracted me in the beginning was that a) the ‘goid is spawning a swarm the moment you hit it even if you just diminished the swarm to a few Thargons and b) to visually identify the heart. I was too excited to subtarget it every time I approached the ‘goid. The other thing I needed to learn was at what distance to engage the swarm and how to keep my ship stable with the flight stick. Having a light grip on the stick helped a lot. Rewatching your video a second time helped understand the right distance as the swarm starts to move around once the Thargons are closer than 3 clicks which makes it very hard to hit. I used your build and it was a good decision to bring 2 flak launchers as I very much sucked at using them in the beginning. After many grindy things in the game this was very enjoyable gameplay and I will definitely go for it again now that I have my “Interceptor Killer” parked right next to my “Scout Killer” in Asterope. It’s also very unique gameplay reminding me of some of the boss fights in Doom and other older FPS. Thx for another great and helpful video. You’re the best.

this hardwork for 2m yet void opal gives 1.6m per ton lol

I'm gonna comment first then watch the vid ...It was just over 35 years ago when i first had an encounter with a Thargoid, it was on a BBC micro and it took ages, all I had was many hours logged and a Military spec laser front and rear. You had to grind away at them and they would release drones that would attack and confuse you, however when you destroyed the "mother ship" the drones became inert and could be scooped up and sold, from what I remember the Thargoids would appear from something called "which space" and where quite rare... now I'm gonna see how this compares to the vid. Have you similar memories ?

Is someone in a support role was killing only drones, do they still get combat rank?

tharged

I hope they don.t get extinct after this video...

This looks a little complicated, can I just brute force my way through? Lol

I will comment that I been playing ED since 2015. And every few updates I come back and play, I have 8 weeks of play on ED and have never killed a Thargoid. So hopefully I can kill one after this video. My next comment will be the outcome of my first endeavour

i got 2000 hours in this game never killed a thargoid yet. one killed me

can't we just blast it?

FYI... if you slow down the video to 75% speed, or 0.75, you can understand him much better. Even his accent seems to disappear... LOL

I've heard enough. I'm not fucking with thargoids. If you need merch delivered, I'm your man. But I'm not going into that world.

All that build up to the arrival of the Thargoids. All those clues. All those bases, sensors etc. Only to find out that all Thargoids are.....just a bunch of punching bags for Cmdrs. What a massive let down. Not to mention that "How we interact with the Thargoid will determine how they react to us." and the old chestnut "personal narrative". Sorry but Thargoids are a waste of time for anyone that thought there might be other gameplay attached to them other than killing them.

never did get the knack of killing a big goid solo. i'd done everything in this game it was possible to accomplish, triple elite, max military ranks, multiple billions of cr, maxed out engineers etc. spent 6 months trying to solo a cyclops, never managed, spent a fortune on rebuys trying. finally said, fuck it i'll never solo a big boy time to quit, there's no more in this game for me. that was 9 months ago, haven't played elite since.

it's easy with a conda with 4 of them guardian shotguns, if u hit it right you don't need to even kill the hearts

who else is here because of the new update?

Great video! You can't do this with normal or non-engineered weapons can you? ← Comment for algorithm + 👍 'd #OldManPaxus Rating: ☆☆☆☆

you need to use the neutron highway to get fro one of your eyes to the other

Lol

Stop killing thargoids the developers of the game stated themselves war between humanity and them is based of the average on how many players attack them and good work 👏 they are now objectively hostile it is only a mater of time till full scale war breaks out between mankind and the thargoids and the only way we stand a chance is if all the three major factions and all independent systems unite together as much as we fight amongst one another cause let's face it they are superior tech wise fuck they can move thro hyperspace like we do in supercruise with our FSD hell they can even indication a ship while there mid way jumping from one system to another if the developers decide fuck it to many people are attacking the thargoids the thargoids are going to go full scale war on us and lastly thargoids are a hivemind species like ants they don't have individuality like us and find the concept of it foreign they can't even conceive it

Played about 3 hrs of this game and uninstalled. Most boring game I've ever played.