if you hunt thyroids then you'll know all about caustic damage yes folks the thyroid weapon that
will get you in the end you can dodge laser fire you can evade fargones and blast them with your
flak cannon but once touched by this icy green finger from the thyroids you might think there's
not an awful lot coming back from it but you'd be wrong so we're gonna deal with caustic damage
hey it's ricardo and welcome back to elite dangerous beyond now caustic damage has been with
us for quite a while at least since 2017 but how do you get rid of it now there are several ways
of doing this but one of the first things we're going to do is we're going to get ourselves open
to them europe area and we're going to get ourselves some decontamination limpets as you
can imagine decontamination limpets are the things that will clear caustic substances off the hell
of your ship now if you're in the pleiades sector there are only several places or one place really
you can really go and get it which is going to be alcazar's hope in fact at the time of doing this
video there are only several places where you can get decontamination limpets so it is really
worthwhile getting yourself prepared if you one of these locations that you may need this and have it
in your storage so at least you can ship it down to alcazar's hope if you're in that particular
section well i'm really just a short hop away from alcazar's hope so i'm gonna get myself over there
i'm gonna go and pick up some decontamination olympic controller and then i'm gonna get myself
some limpets very important you don't go for getting your limpets on this particular excursion
shall we say so you know in that particular area you know i mean obsidian or fantastic
station as it is however there's no shipyard and no facility to outfit your ship so i usually use
alcazar's hope anyway so here we are on approach lovely planet just um in orbit of alcazar's hope
we're going to get ourselves down there um i'm approaching this time on the dark side so i'm
going to use all the infrared functionality that came in the recent update get ourselves
down there pick up those decontamination limpets and then go and mix it up with some thyroid scouts
so once in station typically all you need to do is get yourself over to outfitting
get yourself put down in the outfitting area and um basically get on with it start spending some of
that hard-earned money now getting out the ship is going to be a personal preference to you i'm using
ax weapons on mine uh ax cannons i've got some guardian um shad cannons and plasma launchers as
well but i'm not really getting on with those if i have to be totally honest but either way
this is what we're doing so we're going to get in there we've got i've got collector limpets
i've got recon limpets or olympic controllers i should say and i'm also now gonna pop in um
a decontamination olympic controller so it's all about the limpets
so with limp it's typically what you're gonna have to have as well is cargo space
no point rocking up there with you know eight tons of cargo space and only having eight limpets with
this on the challenger that i'm using the badgers nuts i've got 32 to 40 um tons of cargo space
and i'm using up all my available slots as well so there's a decontamination olympic controller
the bigger the olympic controller it is suffice to say the more damage and it's going to remove and
repair so that's very important to think about when you consider buying the olympic controller
so let's talk a little bit about them limpets controlled by this model are a variant of a
standard hull repair limpet capable of not only cleaning off corrosive caustic chemicals from
the hell of the ship but also fixing a little bit of damage but you've got to stay in a relatively
short period of space so i'm going off to go and find some trouble now with the fergie's we've
got um a signal source a non-human signal source here now i've got two standard ships who are up to
no good in this particular area they have they're not going to trouble me though i'm doing a bit of
scanning so they can get any additional data but it's not long before the thyroid scouts turn up
you get the um abnormal wake disruption and rap they come in and it's down to you then
to start getting those ax weapons guardian weapons whatever you choose to go and engage
those particular ships and as you can see the thyroid scouts have come in i'm in combat mode
my ax weapons and my plasma charges are linked even though they're turreted though it's a good
thing to mention the turrets will auto home on your selected target and then obviously key
presses or trigger presses or mouse clicks even or button presses let's not forget the consoles um
will result in you then firing off that weapon that is on a fire on demand basis so here we
go we're going after the marauder variant of the scouts they've already fired something at
me which is trying to eat its way through its shields and you can see that depicted in the
icon at the bottom next to the shields and these sort of attacks really do wear your shields down
now i'm engaging as i'm going you can see my i'm taking a little bit of hole damage as well
this is what it's all about um now as i mentioned i'm not having too much success with these
guardian um weapons to be perfectly honest with you yeah i like me gimbal i like my quality of
life i like my simplicity but as we can see now they're wearing through worn through my shields
i'm starting to incur normal damage they fire another caustic missile at me as well and i'm
going to start really hurting now you can tell me you've got caustic damage because there will be a
green line just above the shields or just below the shields you'll see it you know you'll know
it when you see it and i'll point it out as soon as i get some now so again i'm engaging the scouts
lots of scouts debris to pick up with my collector limpets and once the battle's over we'll get a bit
of decontamination on this now i mentioned that decontamination is one of several ways of getting
rid of caustic damage we're using decontamination limpets in this particular part of the video
another way of doing it which we'll come on to and i'll demonstrate is super heating your ship using
silent running turning off all the vents so your ship starts to super cook itself that will also
get rid of caustic damage another way of doing it as well is flying a little bit too close to a sun
or star in this particular section and as a result of which that will burn that caustic damage off
so these scouts are proven to be a little bit um troublesome but we'll get rid of those
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so here we are then i've incurred a little bit of damage now as we mentioned with the
decontamination limpets not only do they repair caustic damage but even if you haven't got caustic
damage they will will repair a limited amount of normal hull damage to your ship now here is
a table i got from elite dangerous fandom and thanks very much to them for providing that
um that details the repair capacity how many limpets you can have active and the mass that's
obviously going to affect how your ship performs and the classes as well so it's very important
when you're selecting your decontamination module to think well what do i actually want to do now as
i mentioned i'm also picking up um all the debris and detrios that's come out from the thyroid
scouts as i've been battling them and with them down now what i can start to do with my 72 percent
of hull i can start picking up all those weapon parts with my limpets and then i can also start
doing a little bit of decontamination of which there isn't any there's just normal hull damage
but i can repair that and that's the good thing about it now obviously if you're using the method
where you just super cook your ship you're not going to repair any hill damage but something's
stopping you after that then getting hold of these decontamination limpets and firing one off and let
that limp it repair a little bit of damage that'll allow you to get back into the fight and you're
not always going to be bouncing around and going back and landing and going to a station as long as
you've got a good supply olympics you're going to be able to remain i suppose valid in any thyroid
fight as if the word valid is anything to do with the thyroids because unless you're winged up it's
quite a trial i mean here i am i lost about 30 of my hull and there was only four scouts
so you know if scouts are intent on destroying you they will now as you can see
firing off a repair limpet is all well and good and it has brought my hull up quite considerably
i think stopping you firing off multiple of these as well but as we know limpets are a finite thing
now i'm bouncing back into another thyroid scout um incursion as well let's see what's going on
here well there's only two here at the moment so that should be a pretty quick battle let's
just say however again only 76 percent hell i am gonna incur some damage how am i gonna fix it
and here we go they're firing all sorts of green stuff at me i'm firing green stuff back at them
it's gonna be a little bit of a battle and i enjoy it now as people who watch my channel know i don't
do a hell of a lot of combat anyway i'm more about the exploration and the trading i do do combat i
have a rank of dangerous which considering how long i've been playing the game it's pretty
abysmal really but additional third grade combat down in this section as well is certainly going to
help with that rating now there are other things to do as well down in the pleiades sector you can
go and get bio samples from good old professor palin that even though his base has been does
has been abandoned he's evacuated his base and he's gone off on the cars in spring the cast
and spring has been attacked all well and good but what is also happening is that he's still handing
out the missions for the bio samples the thyroid biosamples now as a result of which for that
you're going to need a different type of limbic controller a recon olympic controller and there
is a certain method of getting that biosample without getting your backside handed to you
so you know i'm really enjoying the scout combat even though i could say i'm not a combat type
of person but with this again they're firing all their um hull penetrating caustic missiles at me
you can see again it's been lodged in the bottom of the screen and that's going to
start incurring me some caustic damage now as we mentioned the cosmic uh caustic damage is now
detailed by next the percentage of my hull i've got a different colored bar which is detailing the
caustic damage that it's all causing now i've got some collection olympia's out there doing
their collecting of all the thyroid stuff but let's face it what am i going to do about this
damage it's dropping now down to 69 so what shall i do well do not fear everybody we've got the
decontamination olympics we've got another method as well um and that's going to go out and fix my
ship absolutely brilliant so from the outside we can see the caustic damage on the ship
you can see it it's quintessential green thurgoodness smearing itself all over
the ship you know it it's a very sort of fungal like damage when you think about it
very fungal we're going to just patch this batch olympic and we're going to get that
fixed now here's something to consider when using these methods and the pros and cons
when you think about it using the decontamination limpet is a no-brainer if you've got the free
slots all depends on your personal wealth prospects if you've picked them up if you
can be bothered to go over to the stations that sell them that i've detailed in this video however
if you haven't then you can use the super heated method the super heated method is
damaging to your ship you're going to have module damage as well you could end up losing your cargo
um all sorts of things so it's probably worthwhile having either repair limpets
or decontamination limpets if you're gonna go and mix it up with the thyroids
just saying anyway i've been ricardo thanks for watching i hope you've enjoyed this talking
about caustic damage and the thyroids and what's going on with palin as well
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