hello it's Ricardo and welcome back to Elite dangerous scene and the arrival of the maelstroms
the thyroid maelstroms we think are attached to the stereoids there's been an awful lot of chit
chat about what's going on inside them when you approach them you do start to incur an awful lot
of caustic damage there are what we call caustic generators inside them small mine like devices
spewing forth the thyroid caustic gift there's nice lighting effects and and red shoes but we
haven't really seen before because green is typically synonymous with the thyroid however
if you do go in there and you venture into a Maelstrom you can shoot some of these caustic
generators and gain some new materials these new materials will probably be used for more
items in game let's take a look see how you get them and what's involved foreign [Music]
as I mentioned the color green seems to be synonymous with thyroids and caustic damage
in the elite dangerous universe and Galaxy now with the arrival of update 14 we're
getting these maelstroms the maelstroms with a different color Planet more Reds more oranges
lots of lightning but just as dangerous inside you're going to find interceptors
if you can actually get there without being destroyed and being interdicted on the way
also in addition to these interceptors you're going to find caustic generators little mines look
like cowl drops a little bit if you know what you mean and they're spewing forth this thyroid gaff
so this needs a ship build a ship build to go in there that we can get in there
destroy these caltrop-like devices these caustic generators and hopefully
pick up some materials it's going to be a long arduous process and if you haven't got a pure
engineered chip then be prepared to see the rebuy screen quite a few times here's my build
so this is the ship that I'm going to be using to farm my caustic mechanisms and caustic shirts
that we get out of the Maelstrom it's a salt chip Federation assault ship tough old thing at the
best of times so what have I done well my main weapon is going to be the beam laser 3C got the
modifications on the long range weapon I haven't really engineered it up that much to be perfectly
asked just enough to get me in the game and it's got thermal vent on it now the good thing about
this is that thermal vent yes we all know thermal vent reduces your temperature but going into the
Maelstrom I'm going to start incurring caustic damage and I'll be able to burn that off really
quickly by just pointing it into space and firing it that's going to increase by temperature of the
ship and burn off that thyroid caustic damage as quick as you like now I've got some of these
ax multi-enhanced cannons here and I think oh well you know you're not really a combat
ship I'm not really a combat ship but I am going to be interdicted quite a bit between
where my carriers packed and into the Thor maelstrom I may have to defend myself now I don't
mind taking out a few Scouts and picking up some of their materials as well so that's why I'm doing
that what else have I got right so at the moment I got heatsink launchers these are the engineered
type I haven't actually been to the serious ships yet to get the engineered ones and I need
some materials to do it and I've gone for a pulse wave analyzer as well now this pulse wave analyzer
don't want to use this for mining don't we but by firing off the pulse inside the bellstrom it does
reveal some of the caustic generators okay so what have I got inside here miniature Jade uh composite
but for my armor um or for my hell I should say having the name any engineering on that yet so
I could be a bit better I've got a power plant a 5A there overcharged and monstered these are one
of the power plants that we got from some of the community goals 6A thrusters a bit of engineering
down at dirty Drive tuning because I need to be able to boost out the way pretty quick got me
frame shift Drive blah blah Live support nice and light power distributor again there you go sensors
see the sensors I've got here lightweight I really could do with something long range on that but
we'll see how it goes this is the build of the ship that I'm using uh you may have better builds
so what have I done in here whole reinforcement oh yes I've gone for some of that and it's got quite
two Pips of reinforcement there I've got a little
bit of cargo uh for my Limpet again for the whole reinforcement four Pips there
I've got module reinforcements I realized I needed to protect my modules things were failing
left right and Center it was then getting the off-putting I've got some heavy duty reinforcement
there on the 4D I've got a collect Olympic 3B now y3b 3B because it's got the maximum range 1540.
now I need a bit of range because these things will explode and then shoot their
Bounty off into space I got a frame shift Drive booster to get me there as soon as I'm in the
system it's going to rot because it has the same Proteus effect around a milestone on the system
of the Maelstrom anyway decontamination Olympic controller because well I thought it might help
uh I've got an anti-corrosion cargo rack simply because I had one knocking about a little bit of
cargo space and I got a planetary approach Suite which I'm not going to need right not going to
need this just there so job done in fact you know what you know it's a required module I can't get
rid of it uh there you go so that's my build now it's not bad it's not bad at all right um I've had
varying levels of success with this I mean I think Frontier at the moment don't want us in there
right and it's eating through holes left right and Center so we're gonna go and give it a little bit
of a little bit of a go we are uh from the cold 285 sector ig-0 c6-5 and this is the home right
of the Thor maelstrom so we're gonna plot a root there 24 light years no dramas let's get in there
while jumping into any thyroid controlled system or area now is going to incur interdictions not
only interdictions as you jump into the system as you can see here I've been mugged off by two
interceptors but also you're going to get interdicted in system as well they're gonna
pull you right out of frame shift I tell you what that's something to behold and whether you stand
and fight it's up to you I've had limited success doing that because these are angry thyroids I'll
tell you that or whether you're just going to turn tail and run hence the need for good boost
and probably uh an engineered power distributor to allow you to maintain that boost as well so
you're going to look at drag drives you're going to look at dirty drives and a good engineered
power distributor now on approach the Maelstrom I have found as well that even dropping heat
sinks generally means nothing it's very hit and miss if they want to pull you out they'll
pull you out and they'll try and mug you off so anyway here we are approaching Maelstrom Thor
backed with a lovely sort of like ammonia-based Planet there's the Maelstrom that's like a big
old gut Cloud a blot on the landscape of that planet as you get closer you know it's not just
any old plot it's a good old gaseous cloud of which you can't really get too far into
without incurring too much damage and too much attention from the thyroids inside
now my plan the first part of this is to scout round the outsides of this
um I've got my being laser deployed I got my enhanced ax multi-cannons but they're going
to be no good in here I'm just going to use good old beam laser hitting the pulse wave as you can
see pulls up the sort of cowl drop type caustic generators shooting these is what's going to give
us the caustic mechanisms these caustic mechanisms we're going to collect as well so I've got my 1B
collect Olympics on the go 2B or 3B collect Olympics whatever I've got attach it 3B I
think which gives me um longer range but as you go in you start shooting these caustic
generators they're good caustic generators you get too close to them they'll knock you back and
then knock the materials further away from you so generally if you go and you approach one of
these caustic generators here it is and you can't Target them you've got to line these up manually
right so you're going to get a bit closer and they're going to move about as well
and they're gonna spew forth this caustic gas which is going to start eating into your Hull
also as you know right anything that comes close to a milestrom even in
the system is going to start degrading Guardian technology as well so any Guardian kit like FSD
um boosters they're going to be virtually useless and they're going to be damaged
Beyond repair as you can see I've hit one then I've include a bit of caustic damage got a bit
too close but as you then start to think well okay well where's all these materials gone
why haven't my Limpet sprung into action that's typically down to the fact that they're outside
the limb pitch range even of the 1570 um I think kilometers you get even with the class B limpets
so there you go I've got corrosive mechanisms there's a caustic Shard knocking about and Target
them I'm gonna have to just dive in there with the cargo scoop open and see if I can pick them
up and just take the damage on the chin just to gain the materials now this might not be
the best way it's the way I'm using it it's the expensive way of using it certainly up until the
point where Frontiers say yes but we really want you in these in these maelstroms as well you can
see an Interceptor floating around typically they don't get involved with me I just get out of the
way they seem to be uninterested and unbothered with the you know snooping Commander inside these
maelstroms it's almost as if they're gonna say hey well you're gonna die if you stay and you're
too long anyway I'm not even gonna bother as you can see my limpets are now starting to
pick up the corrosive mechanisms and the caustic Chads and as I get closer to those materials I'm
able then to go and get them collected so typically that's what I've been doing now
what I found with this is very hit and miss sometimes you can get a decent haul I say a decent
hole 50 to 20 of these said materials depending on how lucky you are if you skirt around the outsides
of the Maelstrom certainly you're going to be able to pick up some items if you're lucky but then I
find you shoot the caustic generators and you're having to dive in a bit further as well after
decontamination Limpet it kind of just buy you a little bit more time not much using the old beam
laser with thermal vent shooting into space raises your temperature of your ship quite considerably
you only get the cooling sensation or the cooling effect if you actually hit a particular item
so that's pretty good for generating heat and burning off some of that caustic damage
but like I say it's an arduous process at the moment it's not particularly easy I don't say
it's particularly enjoyable but it seems to be one of these necessary evils if you want to try
and get ahead of the game and you want to start collecting the caustic mechanisms and caustic
shirts now as I mentioned these seem to be used for caustic sinks now these aren't in game yet
when update 14 dropped it was in the right hand panel in the manufacturing sort of like section
of things where you make your heat sinks where you make a new ammunition that sort of stuff yeah
so what I'm saying is that even though they've taken that out we're gonna we're gonna need these
things for something I dare say we're also going to need those unidentified artifacts that we've
been placing inside um thyroid Machinery as well it's been worthwhile stocking up
on them so typically that's what I've been doing corrosive mechanisms you will once you
get there the first time uh be flagged with a message that says hey this is a new material
great brilliant Embrace that take it have a look see what the old um Pirates log says you know what
does the Codex say about this and also have a look around and see how other people in the community
are also harvesting these new materials now with this ship as you can see I'm incurring an awful
lot of damage that's fine by me it's a 2.3 million rebuy it's not the cheapest you can possibly do
and if you went in there with a bigger ship you've got to weigh the cost that well you're gonna start
coming out of the Maelstrom and then hopefully not get interdicted get him back to your carrier
right for a repair or just writing the ship off and just going through it burning through
it and collecting the materials that you need anyway that's my point of view on
Caustic materials the caustic crystals and the caustic mechanisms in the maelstrom's
in Elite dangerous I've been Ricardo hope you've enjoyed the video I'll see you soon
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