Is it worth attacking a Thalamus wreck?

[Buggy Boy]

Just wondering if it's worth the risk when playing solo, is there anything there that couldn't be had from a regular wreck or other less dangerous means?

[Malthar]

the ♥♥♥♥ load of paralaxys you can get from the lucocytes is pretty good, can be sold or used to make Endocrine boosters later.

[Maximum stupidity]

I mean they are relativly easy to deal with when you know how. I usually go with a one man infiltration while I listen to the metal gear ost, once you kill the brain you can park your ship above the wreck and get the loot

[FourGreenFields]

If you're fine with destroying some loot: Haha, coilgun with explosive ammo go DAKKADAKKADAKKA

Paralyxis you can get from pets too. There's adrenaline glands to be looted, but that you can also get via pets (eggs).

Ultimately though, if you have the choice whether or not to face it, it's likely easy enough to deal with that you can just treat it as a wreck with slightly better loot.

[Chimz]

The same amount of loot as a normal wreck. So a good load of medical items and some guns, possibly some unique ones too.

And it's rather easy. Inject yourself with an Anaparalyzant, pick up a Plasma Cutter, then just cut your way in, find the brain and destroy it.

IYou can get the whole thing done in max under 2 minutes.

[CryonicSuspension]

No but it's good experience for if one ever pulls you in without you realizing it because only you will know how to solve the problem.

[DuckieMcduck]

Unless you're doing the clown quest line to find the unique items, no.

[lunaris80]

yes, dealing with them are actually easy. use plasma cutter/welding tools instead guns.. character with pyromaniac have easier time but you can do it without one.

I usualy use ship with lower and upper airlock so I can just sacrifice the ship and tell everyone to exist using upper airlock.

[Kairi ♡]

Yes, as once you destroy brain, you have completely safe wreck with all the stuff inside, since everything inside dies with brain.

You have options on how to deal with Thalamus, depending from your preferred approach.

Approach 1: infiltration.
Required gear: anaparalyzant(or weak gun with plenty of ammo, if you are skilled), strong melee weapon to rupture organs/brain(boarding axe for most, crowbar for engineers), plasma cutter to get through doors(or also crowbar for same reason) and of course, your regular diving equipment and oxygen tanks.

Approach wreck from side or below, cut/open your way through, avoid getting within reach of guns and rooms with cell spawning organs, locate brain, kill it. Now you can bring some containers and pack all loot in it.

Approach 2. Ship gunnery.

If your ship has upgraded periscopes and plenty of ammo, you can try this way. Approach wreck from above, while staying out of Thalamus gun's range(larger wrecks even have railgun to worry about), and just fire away, until you hit the brain. If you have depth bomb launcher, dropping dirty bomb on Thalamus can cleanse it even without breaching hull.

Approach 3. Emergency encounter.

If you got pulled in out of nowhere, use approach 1, but stick to upper deck of wreck. Remove ammo from guns and break living "gun sacks" for harpoon gun to make Thalamus unable to harm your ship, move it to the side, and proceed to repair your ship/clean up terminal cells. You can then move on to clear the wreck or just continue your journey.

[Insano-Man]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από UnluckyDuckie:

Unless you're doing the clown quest line to find the unique items, no.

Well, it's fun.

Speaking practically, though, I usually clear them out chiefly because they're a major threat. In my experience, it's safer to deal with them as soon as they're identified - within reason - to make sure they don't grab the sub when it's doing maneuvers against other enemies.

The big spike is dangerous. It's a whole lot more dangerous when there's a pack of threshers on you.

I've also found that paralyxis is usually my bottleneck on endocrine boosters, so there's that.

[Buggy Boy]

I appreciate the advice on how to deal with Thalamus but I'm already aware of that (kill the brain), nice tip to take the anaparalyzant before hand. It was more a question of any special loot availability, which it seems there isn't much of really. I'm pretty sure I can find unique items in normal wrecks, adrenaline glands and other items in big monsters (Crawler Mothers, etc).

Not interested in the clown stuff, it's irrelevant for solo play really.

[Felix]

Thalamus wrecks are usually easier than normal wrecks and you don't even have to use a gun. The green cells have so little health you can kill them with a plasma cutter. Just make sure you have Anaparalyzant on you.
I'd say looting wrecks in general is worth it until the mid - end of the Great Sea region at which point you should have more than enough resources to just book it through the Hydrothermal wastes.
If i had to give a number i'd say the first 3-4 thalamus wrecks are worth looting imo

[lunaris80]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Buggy Boy:

I appreciate the advice on how to deal with Thalamus but I'm already aware of that (kill the brain), nice tip to take the anaparalyzant before hand. It was more a question of any special loot availability, which it seems there isn't much of really. I'm pretty sure I can find unique items in normal wrecks, adrenaline glands and other items in big monsters (Crawler Mothers, etc).

Not interested in the clown stuff, it's irrelevant for solo play really.

Theres no husk/mudraptor inside. Unless you wear cultist robe, since you can clear with just a plasma cutter thalamus wreck are pretty much free money.

[Bucholz]

I use every Shipwreck mod i could find, so every wreck is different. I loot them all just out of curiosity.

[Greb]

I take the gameplay where I find it, I wouldn't want to pass up a Thalamus even if the loot was terrible, just because it's a source of enjoyment, which sometimes the game does lack a little bit. Skipping gameplay I.E fun? Most dangerous thing you can do, your crew will mutiny!

Especially in my last campaign where I could count the wrecks I found on one hand, of which none where Thalamus lol