Dinosawer Posted November 12, 2016 Author Share Posted November 12, 2016 AI - It's like Pirate Swoks - it has a 1 in 20 chance of spawning in systems in that region that are not offgrid, regular or home to a faction; and spawns after 8 consecutive jumps in such systems if it didn't before. Only thing I'm not sure of is what that means exactly - I suspect offgrid = mass and regular = energy; which would mean you find it by jumping between systems that are neither. Which is easy enough to test. :) Artifact delivery questline can be found on bulletin boards (generally of military outposts, maybe on others too) as "looking for Xsotan Artifacts", "hard", for 10000000 creds or so. Quest log will point you towards the location when you find it. You're looking for a beacon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gn_leugim Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 Well, the onli time I found AI was on a "mass" yellow spot on the map, namely at a wormhole sector. Never again I found it though :\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gn_leugim Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 Well, the onli time I found AI was on a "mass" yellow spot on the map, namely at a wormhole sector. Never again I found it though :\ Just made it spawn, jumped into several empty, non faction sectors, and after 6 it spawn... ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethentianknight Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 Can the artifact quest be taken by different people? i can't find it, but I heard one of the other players on the server managed to take it a while ago. Does it only show up in certain distances from the core? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxelware Team koonschi Posted November 13, 2016 Boxelware Team Share Posted November 13, 2016 You can reach the center when one player has 4 artifacts and the other one has 4, you don't need all 8 each. You can work together. And yes you can exchange the artifacts, that's no problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinosawer Posted November 14, 2016 Author Share Posted November 14, 2016 He was asking about the "Looking for artifacts" quest, not the artifacts themselves. You know, the one that leads to the boss battle with The 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxelware Team koonschi Posted November 14, 2016 Boxelware Team Share Posted November 14, 2016 Ah I misread that. Yes, it can be taken by multiple people, and it shows up in the regions around the barrier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinosawer Posted December 29, 2016 Author Share Posted December 29, 2016 I managed to do it too \o/ The "you need 8 ships" thing seems needlessly fiddly to me - especially since the Xsotan decided to raid while I was halfway through placing ships around, and destroyed half of them, so I had to start over. And then one of my artifacts had mysteriously vanished so I had to cheat it back (I really had it before, so it wasn't cheating really). And then I had to do the ship thing again. And then I had to go round again to get all my artifacts back from all those ships. So by the time I opened the wormhole I'd spent about half an hour just getting it open. Also, I seem to not have gotten the achievements Into The Unknown Center of the Galaxy Historian despite being online on steam when I did the things. Also also edited the first post with more deets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxelware Team koonschi Posted December 29, 2016 Boxelware Team Share Posted December 29, 2016 I'll have a look at the achievements, that would be annoying if it didn't work correctly. Your trouble with opening the gate is unfortunate, but I want to encourage people to build multiple ships and playing co-op, which is why you need 8 ships. It should be relatively easy to accomplish using the strategy mode, you can just send your ships to the asteroids and back with a few clicks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinosawer Posted January 26, 2017 Author Share Posted January 26, 2017 Relevancy bump for release as I haven't gotten around to putting it on the wiki yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedamngod Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 I have pinned the topic for now, so it will be visible for anyone who has trouble finding more information about this :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabeux Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Are there any more tips/clarifications for finding the MAD Energy Lab? I hate spoiling myself things, but after fighting the AI twice and corrupting my save - which forced me to 'butcher' it a bit in order to restore it - I must have spent more than two hours trying to find it.. and it's the last thing I need. ::) To be sure, do you need to jump into Hidden Mass, or Empty Systems? The two times I bumped into the AI was blindly jumping forward without looking for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinosawer Posted January 30, 2017 Author Share Posted January 30, 2017 There's more on the wiki, yes. In this case I'm very sure you need to jump into hidden mass systems (not empty ones) between 150 and 240 distance to the core. In some of them, a MAD Energy Research satellite will be floating (often in an asteroid fields, but it's easy to find, blinks on the map iirc), which you can destroy for an upgrade. After you destroyed four of those, the Lab will show up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabeux Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Thanks for the tip. I actually gave up and looked on the game's code for info and got it. And since I had killed The AI two times before and lost the artifact (due to save loss or derpiness, not sure), I 'cheated' by rewriting some scripts. After that, I had everything to push to the end. And finished it. ;D I have to ask though, is the heavy reliance on RNG luck a good thing? Finding The AI and the MAD Energy Lab took me way too many hours of jumping around. In both cases, back when I didn't know which ranges to look, I was jumping on a ton of Hidden Mass sectors and would never find it since I was a bit too far or a bit too close of the defined range. My suggestion would either give more hints as to where those things are, or make the probability of an encounter rise over time. Maybe even making the probability of an encounter higher if the player hears from a ship about the subject (The AI or the Energy Lab). Maybe I was just insanely unfortunate that made 50+ jumps not be enough, but oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostslayer1020 Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Quick question... Are there more than one of the "gates" that require the 8 different Xsoltan artifacts? I was playing on a server with my friends before we knew what it was and figured it was the mad scientist lab, so we destroyed half of the asteroids... If there is only one per game then we will have to bite the bullet and start over, but if there are multiple gates then it shouldn't be a problem. Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinosawer Posted January 30, 2017 Author Share Posted January 30, 2017 Yes, there are in hidden mass systems all around the core barrier (for exactly that reason :P ). Just jump a bit further along the wall and you'll run into another eventually Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subquake Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Questions for those who got to the center of the galaxy. I reached the center [0:0] and ... defeated the Wormhole Guardian, got the loot, but nothing really happened after that. What now? P.S. Can you somehow repeat the last fight with the Wormhole Guardian? I played in a multiplayer server, does that mean that other players won't see him, it's gone forever? Also what can you do with... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinosawer Posted January 31, 2017 Author Share Posted January 31, 2017 Haven't killed the thing myself yet, but I don't think anything really happens after. You won. Hurray! It's supposed to respawn after a while, yes, for MP reasons. When you first talk to a resistance outpost in the core you get three mission: -gather Xsotan technology, research it, and eventually create a wormhole device that lets you open wormholes to call allies in the final battle against the guardian -Gather allies by getting good rep with faction and asking their aid -Kill the guardian Those tech pieces are for the first quest - research them at a research station to get ones of higher rarity until you get up to legendary, which is the wormhole device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurielD Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Huh interesting, I only encountered one of these, then just visited that Wormhole Guardian at the center after flying to the core through a wormhole that dropped me into the circle-rift thing, which let me hyperspace jump into the core. I thought I must have missed out on some stuff, because none of the Xsotan story seemed to be revealed. The one I've seen is that Smuggler, who stiffed me out of 500k! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxelware Team koonschi Posted January 31, 2017 Boxelware Team Share Posted January 31, 2017 Yeah the aftermatch of the fight needs some more love. But I've got a few things in mind for that. You can definitely repeat the fight (quicker than anticipated right now, but working on that, too). Biggest priority for us, when we created it, was to get the fight done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinosawer Posted January 31, 2017 Author Share Posted January 31, 2017 Ah, during the fight those wormholes are generated, so you probably jumped through one of the jumpholes someone else caused :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subquake Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Yeah the aftermatch of the fight needs some more love. But I've got a few things in mind for that. You can definitely repeat the fight (quicker than anticipated right now, but working on that, too). Biggest priority for us, when we created it, was to get the fight done. I was very surprised of what I saw in the center, great job. The fight was intense and cool. It took me more than an hour to beat him solo. I loved how the boss spawned the minions from all over the galaxy, however after a while I noticed a flaw, if you don't kill all the minions and leave at least one alive, he won't spawn more and that's why I managed to beat the boss solo without any ally help. My suggestion is to improve the script, so that it checks periodically how many Xsotan ships are in the sector and if there are less than X amount, it would initiate the wormhole portals to spawn more minions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabeux Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 Yep, the final fight is pretty intense and cool. My room got too hot (AMD CPU, y'know ::)), so I decided to strategically park my ship around a bunch of wrecks while the guardian was at 50%, and took a shower, then came back to finish it. haha! It took a long time, probably 1 and a half hours, because I rushed in underpowered with around 10-15k omicron and mostly Xanion gear with 200k shields, 80k HP with Trinium armor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurielD Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 Ah, during the fight those wormholes are generated, so you probably jumped through one of the jumpholes someone else caused If that was a reply to me then no, I was playing single-player. The wormhole I'm talking about generated an exit inside the actual 'great barrier' itself, which let me explore the center without 'unlocking' whatever is supposed to unlock that... so I now assume it to be a bug :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinosawer Posted February 1, 2017 Author Share Posted February 1, 2017 Oh, I thought you went through one the wormhole guardian made. In that case, yes, probably a bug. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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