Elite: Dangerous PvE - Mobius

In the last week or so I have noticed a really strange NPC behaviour.

I was running through some less popular systems. Typical jump in is Star Pops, I move to scoop and Honk the scanner. As soon as I get the honk, the NPC wagon train starts. All of a sudden something between 5-12 NPC's all of a sudden spawn in at the jump point and my scanner fills with contacts. It is like a scene from Entourage.

At least when this happens I know I am safe as no messages pop up in communications about "Follow Me" or "There you are" or "Lots of Tasty Cargo" or "You have something I want".

Has anyone found this happening? I am not talking a couple of ships, I am taking a frickin Station load of ships suddenly popping in at the jump point. They are not appearing randomly in the system, it is all at the Jump Point.

Only time i have notived this is when I junp into cruise instance with another commander and my local instance is panicking to populate the npcs spawned for his island into my "game".

They seem to spawn on my location for some reason, and then they rush off at ludicrous speed to wherever their supposed to be in system in any and all directions.

I've seen this probably five or six times, all in Solo. It's weird.

I pretend it is my scanner slowing making sense of the information around it and updating itself once it identifies what it has picked up

smartroad wrote:I pretend it is my scanner slowing making sense of the information around it and updating itself once it identifies what it has picked up

That would work, if it wasn't spawning 30 glowing light balls wooshing out of your headlights

TorTorden wrote:

smartroad wrote:I pretend it is my scanner slowing making sense of the information around it and updating itself once it identifies what it has picked up

That would work, if it wasn't spawning 30 glowing light balls wooshing out of your headlights

Those are "weather baloons".

Sapient6 wrote:Those are "weather baloons".

Oh Yes, the same "Weather Balloons" they found at Roswell, right?


Glad to see I am not the only one seeing these things. I really have to get Shadowplay or OBS working over the weekend and capture some of this stuff.

Yea I see that quite a bit......A mass spawn.....

First time it happened....I was WTF.....

I dropped out of warp to dock and when I noticed a NPC saying " Im gonna boil you up!" (always love that one). Thought it was somebody else until I saw the lasers hitting my shield, boosted to the station so the stationguns took him out.