STARFIELD

[full ocean]

But sometimes it works and you get a point. 🤷‍♂️

[spark bloom]

i need to get my physical to tier 4 and work on rejuvenation

it's gonna be very important at higher levels for a melee

[full ocean]

This NG+ I've decided to be a criminal. I'm really bad at it. 🤣

Yeah Rejuvenation looks amazing. 👍

[spark bloom]

level 4 in duelling helps, but it's not enough in big fights or against single hard-hitting monsters

[full ocean]

Lots of points there tho. I'm going Stealth, Fitness, that will be 8 points, need something else at 4 points as well to unlock Rejuv.

Weight Lifting.

Gotta have more carry weight.

Fitness 4/4 looks amazing. I'm at 3/4 almost there! 100 more full O2 sprints to go

[spark bloom]

i'm going 4 stealth, 4 weightlifting (for stagger defense), 1 point either HP or O2, 3 points martial arts (i'm melee build) and then 4 points into rejuvenation and 4 into concealment

ooops, forgot i have contraband again lol

Ha, I got more carry weight than some ships

[spark bloom]

damn i screwed myself over

picked up a fancy boost pack with +20 carry capacity and then almost instantly died xD

[scenic plaza]

The way this game progresses, you become god like once you have all the skills you want

[spark bloom]

sure, but i want all the skills

82 skills x4 levels - 3 from background = 325 level ups

damn, for martial arts i need to do unarmed damage xD

but for this playthrough the goal is around lvl 41

Man, there's absolutely no pattern to these crashes either

No time in game, no activity in game, no intensity of things happening in game

Like right now I was running through the clinic..... and it's been less than an hour since last crash

[spark bloom]

man, Ryujin has some nice rewards in their quests

really nice for a stealth build

and that's clothing, not armor

not to mention getting a free skillpoint in Manipulation (which is tier 4 in social)

[scenic plaza]

i havent touched Ryjin yet, next playthrough

[granite barn]

JayzTwoCents did a specs video lol https://youtu.be/8dJvlguMLUk?si=6u0lojAtT17-is6P

"poorly optimized game"

[spark bloom]

Eh.... I'm not noticing any real performance issues. I'm not saying the game is perfect, but performance isn't a problem for me

crashes are most likely due to my hardware (as in the instances that are in my system, rather than overall)

[spark bloom]

well, i borked my freestar missions, guess i'm not getting a free ship there

[full ocean]

NP, do it your next NG+!

[spark bloom]

yeah not too worried, plenty other ships to obtain

ryujin reward is far more valuable lol

+25% sneaking

i could sneak up to maulers in the red run like under 10m in front of their faces to scan xD

[full ocean]

Without spoilers - something important I just realized - you actually NEED to do multiple NG+ runs if you want to collect all the powers. I collected all that were available in my first run, and now there are some level 2s of things I already knew available, and there are new things that weren't available before I started this NG+. So again, don't rush it, but definitely do plan for multiple NG+ play thrus.

[spark bloom]

i need to find and fight a bunch of human enemies lol

i need to disarm them

[scenic plaza]

Im an idiot.. I keep getting blown up in space combat. I just realized I should spec into shields

[scenic plaza]

Im finding new weapons, but Im wondering if its level locked or if its NG+

[spark bloom]

yeah, i always max out shield and weapons, the rest into engines

possible that it's level locked

[scenic plaza]

no not maxing out shields, putting skills points into shields

[spark bloom]

oh skill points into it.... no need lol

just need a big reactor

then put 12 points into 6 vanguard guns, 12 points into vanguard shield (both a class) and you're set

[scenic plaza]

ill spend more time upgrading my ship on this run

[spark bloom]

yeah my current plan doesn't involve any points spent in ships or guns lol

ng+ will probably see points in guns first

[dark bison]

Im curious if with new runs if the planet materials change or if it's the same each time

[spark bloom]

nice next 4 levels are gonna be rejuvenation

[spark bloom]

I'm trying to find a ship to steal lol and there's just no landings around me

Yaya found one

[granite barn]

ah that must be what these magazines I find on random tables are for!

[scenic plaza]

yeah keep collecting magazines

you get all sorts of perks

[full ocean]

I'm such a horrible thief

Only 2/4 and at 6/10 success attempts 🤣

I get thrown in jail so often

So, another NG+. First thing, arrested for pickpocketing. Off to the Crimson Fleet!

🤣

[spare dew]

TIL ballistics will push you backwards in zero-g environments lol

[spark bloom]

Ooooh

Bandit not quite, since the skill talks about power attacks (v), but this is also sweet

[spare dew]

do different planets have ship components when building or are they all the same? Thinking of just making a shit ton of money and then deciding on a cool design lol

[spark bloom]

i think planets will mostly be the same

now when you visit a shipyard

or a ship builder at your outpost

that's where you will find differences

[spare dew]

hmm, ill see how this goes once i get some missions done then.

[spark bloom]

hey at least my freestar missions unborked when the turn-in NPC decided to go for a walk

[sharp stirrup]

has anyone found where to hire crew willing to do crime?

[spark bloom]

maybe red mile? although i've only seen muppets in there

[sharp stirrup]

I have to use the robot as the rest start complaining as soon as we start robbing and looting

[spark bloom]

like level 1 payload skill xD

[sharp stirrup]

is red mile the bar in key?

[spark bloom]

porrima iii

[sharp stirrup]

thanks haven't been there (or maybe I forgot), will check it out, even level 1 is better than constant complaints

[spark bloom]

not too shabby, considering every other melee weapon is like 20-30 damage lol

[spark bloom]

Lol these fights are so slow..... I'm leveling rejuvenation, so I need to drop to under 25%hp and then heal back to full

It's painful sometimes waiting for these apes to bring me down that low

[spark bloom]

22 times done, 4 more to go lol

[faint gulch]

Are you looking for weapons that have "Advanced" or other stuff like that?

[spark bloom]

damn, nice damage from that thing

i'm looking for any melee weapons lol

[faint gulch]

Yeah that's a bit tougher to find

[spark bloom]

i've been running with a bog standard Barrow Knife for ages until i found the va'ruun one

hm, i need to do a bunch of melee sneak attacks to level concealment....

also haven't checked out how useful tier 4 of rejuvenation is in combat.... out of it it's nice

[faint gulch]

So are you playing as just sneaky melee stealing all the ships?

You know I just realized that is THE BEST way to make money because the ship vendors have so much cash

[spark bloom]

haven't been doing much sneaking lately with all the skills to level lol

[faint gulch]

Everyone else keeps running out of money for me

[spark bloom]

eh, maybe if you have trade leveled up

they do have a lot of money, but the margin on registering and selling is a bit low

i find it only really worth if you want to get a new ship to build and don't wanna touch some presets like Frontier, Razorleaf (or whatever the mantis ship) etc

[faint gulch]

Just accidentally ate nd took a bunch of food and drugs instead of transferring to the ship...

Uh oh

[sharp stirrup]

anyone found a decent shipyard to upgrade/build the ship? I've found one at Titan. wondering if there are any with unique parts

[faint gulch]

Also, you might want to get into drugs @spark bloom there's stuff like this

[spark bloom]

put down an outpost beacon, place large landing pad with ship builder

[faint gulch]

There are all of the main manufacturer shipyards with totally different parts

And there is a guy somewhere that can give you a ||shielded cargo area for smuggling||

[sharp stirrup]

don't think I have skilled outpost engineering to be able to build those

[spark bloom]

don't need any points

[sharp stirrup]

ah nice will try it. I've been to one or two manufacturer shipyards, their selections are quiet limited

[spark bloom]

otherwise:
Sol system has Deimos (Deimos station around Mars)
Valo is Hopetech (Hopetown on Polvo)
Narion is Stroud-Eklund (S-E staryard around Deepala)
Volii is Taiyo (Ryujin tower in Neon City on Volii Alpha)
Red Mile on Porrima III (Porrima system) can get you shielded cargo

or if you have access to it - Key in Kryx system (crimson fleet)

[faint gulch]

There's also Nova at the starting place

[tropic night]

Akila City shipyard has a lot of Stroud and Taiyo parts

[spark bloom]

so tired of the game losing ship power assignment

like i'm at a point where i have max in weapons, engines and shield, and still 1 point in grav drive.... so leave it there and stop fucking dropping engine power

[sharp stirrup]

if it had profiles that you can make and then quickly switch them with Ctrl+1/2/3 it would be great

[spark bloom]

yeah that'd be awesome

like travel profile, combat profile, "i forgot i had contraband" profile

[spark bloom]

man getting melee sneak attacks in is tough..... ranged sneak is so easy: chameleon + suppressed weapon

19/30 for rank 30... i imagine it'll be at least 50 to get to rank 4

[ebon umbra]

https://discord.com/channels/75630661951557632/1150184021888864366 now exists … Xist.

[full ocean]

There is an ability that REALLY helps with sneaking.

[spark bloom]

oh? maybe i should really push the storyline then lol

[full ocean]

IDK. It's not all that important really. As you said, it's super easy to sneak with a silenced ranged weapon.

[spark bloom]

yeah but i need to get melee sneak attacks for concealment

[full ocean]

But for melee sneaking, yeah if you progress the story, at some point you'll get an ability that makes it easier.

Not sure exactly when, it may be random.

I'm moving mainly to the spoiler channel now guys since I'm so far into the story, but I'll still read this sometimes.

GL HF to those of you who haven't yet finished the main story line! See you after you've done so! (TAKE YOUR TIME!!)

[spark bloom]

oh great..... a forced companion..... i have introvert trait and companions ruin sneaking.....

[full ocean]

Agreed. When they force you to have companions for a while, it's annoying if you are trying to be sneaky stabby.

Just focus thru that question chain exclusively until they go away, unfortunately.

They'll stay with you forever even thru unrelated side quests.

[spark bloom]

i mean the good thing is these guys make for fantastic ship crew

which is up to 5 for me

right now i got Sarah, Barrett and Sam on board already

ez way to get melee sneaks is on heat leaches or the other worms

Yup, non-hostile fauna is the way to go lol

75 for rank 4 T_T

gonna take me a while and a lot of exploration

[full ocean]

Stealth 4/4 w00t

It took a really really long time, and I didn't do it with melee. 🤣

[spark bloom]

oh i've been done with stealth for a long time

i'm working on concealment, the tier 4 one

this one

[full ocean]

I'm spread out all over the place

I don't have any T4 abilities

[spark bloom]

i have 4 points in combat (duelling), 4 in tech (3 security 1 boost pack), 2 in social and the rest in physical lol

i'm lvl 28

oh and i have 1 unallocated point for when i eventually complete concealment 4

[full ocean]

Yeah you went full on melee

I just want Rejuv level 1 so I don't have to use med packs to heal anymore and I don't have to sleep.

I'm an insomniac.

[spark bloom]

it's not that great at lvl 1 to be honest

better than nothing

i wanted it especially early on

when i had like no medpacks, no hp and had to use a medpack every fight

[full ocean]

My current favorite melee weapon.

[spark bloom]

yup

that's what i'm using too

cuz most other melee weapons i find are about a 100dmg less

[full ocean]

Yeah this thing is amazing.

[spark bloom]

especially with x8 damage bonus and power attack xD

[full ocean]

Is it me or do you guys stop buy the Blend soda shop a little too often? 🤔

[spark bloom]

that's you lol

[full ocean]

IDK, he needs to restock faster... 😉

[scenic plaza]

NG+2 and Im going to play through a bit long here. Wanted to do a sniper and I rolled a chameleon perk on the armor, so it was meant to be!

[faint gulch]

Do they actually have a NG+ system or are you guys just doing new games?

[full ocean]

The NG+ system is built into the game in a way that I think is unique to Starfield.

I can't really reveal it without spoilers. If you don't want to play the game and just want to discuss the spoilers, ask about it in #1150184021888864366 and I'll discuss with you there.

If you want to play the game, then just play it. Know that when you finish the main quest line, that begins the NG+1 game. The intent is that you will complete the main quest at least one time, probably actually more than once.

[spark bloom]

i had all 3 pieces be chameleon at one point xD

if you wanna play sniper - i suggest going to Akila early

there's a quest chain by the barracks there that rewards you with a legendary unique VSS

it's the Old Earth Hunting Rifle

so it comes silenced and scoped from the factory

[scenic plaza]

Dont look into it, just play the game at your pace and ignore anything people say about NG+

[spark bloom]

considering that I can't really even upgrade my ship too much.... i have way too much money

861810 credits

[scenic plaza]

Im just starting off.. I went straight for the mantis ship

[spark bloom]

i ran all factions (still on the terrormorph part of UC) and that's roughly it

gonna finish UC to get the good armor and then probably push the main storyline to get to NG+

[scenic plaza]

its lovely story telling

[full ocean]

Yeah, I'm usually not big on RPG stories, but Bethesda hit a HOME RUN with Starfield.

This story is really, really good.

[scenic plaza]

I didnt think I would be into RPG stuff either. I never intended to like Skyrim and thought it was the last time I would play a game like that.

but I appreciate good writing

[full ocean]

Yes, the Skyrim story was also fun to play as it unfolded.

[scenic plaza]

more so, they tackled the problem that Skyrim fans had about replayability

there was a mod called "live another life", but all it did was make you wake up in a different spot on the map, like in a cave, or in a dungeon.

and that was the extent of replaying a character that the modders came up with

[spark bloom]

i feel like putting points into trading right now would be inappropriate lol

[spark bloom]

LOL i just used anti-gravity on a dance floor... it was hilarious

[ebon umbra]

Anti-gravity?

[faint gulch]

Up to 628k credits

[spark bloom]

why are you so poor Lefty?

[ebon umbra]

Verhen is very fat with that mass

[spark bloom]

yes, 240.... is that lb or kg?

like how fat am i?

but yeah, i got 4 levels in weightlifting and then found a journal that adds 5 carry weight

aaaaahhhh another one "you gotta go do sneaky things, but X will help you with it"

no they won't

[spark bloom]

i just choked on my food

[tropic night]

Geek Squad

My starter ship is getting bigger ; )

[spark bloom]

Yay, finished melee stealth attacks.....

It was traumatizing

10, 30, 75

[scenic plaza]

I decided to modify the Razer Leaf and now Im broke

[spark bloom]

i've crossed the 1mil threshold

i don't have points in piloting or starship design, so i'm pretty much done with upgrading my ship

unless i want to build something bigger and with more cargo

but at this point i think i'm just gonna push to NG+

i'm lvl 35, i've gotten pretty much all of my combat skills in place

[full ocean]

So ships, bases, just ignore those in the first play-thru IMO, other than to experiment with them for fun, knowing they are going to disappear.

Yeah, I'm only like level 44 I think, and I'm on NG+2 currently.

I was like level 30 when I finished the main story the 1st time.

[spark bloom]

i'm like lvl 42 or 43 on the other character lol

[full ocean]

I only have the 1 toon 🤣

[spark bloom]

didn't even get far in the main story

also gotta say, melee feels a bit like an afterthought

there's barely any options, no different types either, no modding of the weapons

you can barely find anything

i guess there's a slight animation difference between a knife (stabbing) and every other melee weapon (hacking)

[full ocean]

Yeah, agreed melee isn't super fun because there isn't much variation, and whether you block or not doesn't seem to matter nearly as much as whether you have a med pack in your inventory or not.

[spark bloom]

don't get me wrong, i'm glad i tried it, especially considering that concealment skill requires you to melee

but had i known - i might've spent at least some points differently

[full ocean]

I mean it's my favorite way to kill people, because it's free.

Everything else costs ammo so I only do it when it would be annoying to run all the way to the NPC to shmack it.

[spark bloom]

bah, my other character has like 7k 3kv batteries which i offloaded to Sarah together with a loaded Orion

6.5, 7.7 and 3kv are so plentiful

what i was always low on was light fuses, 9x39 and i think .45

this character has almost 1k 11mm rounds

which is what i use when i need to use a ranged weapon

just gotta download the mod to make ammo craftable

[full ocean]

The shitty guns get tons of ammo to drop

The high powered guns that make NPCs fall over dead all have very limited ammo

[spark bloom]

it's not always shitty guns

[full ocean]

You need to buy all you can from every vendor for those

[spark bloom]

Orion is good (3kv), drum beat is pretty good (11mm)

[full ocean]

Like the 40MM gun

[spark bloom]

maelstrom, beowolf, etc sure

[full ocean]

You can shoot thru walls and stuff falls over

But 40MM ammo is very scarce, hard to find.

[spark bloom]

dude..... you think 40mm is rare?

i have ONE round of 45mm xpl

also i think miniguns use 7.77

[full ocean]

Yeah, even if I never shoot 40MM rounds, I don't end my NG+ with more than say 100 of them, and that's having bought 85 from vendors (everything every vendor ever had)

So 100 for an entire play-thru is pretty rare.

Other guns you can empty 100 rounds in a few enemies and w/e you just pick up more ammo.

[spark bloom]

oh other than the minigun i prefer semi-auto

and i modded my deadeye on the other character with dual trigger and it's infuriating tbh

it's nice against bullet sponge enemies where you can land 2 shots in a row and not waste them

[full ocean]

Same thing for 12G rounds. VERY RARE. But if you get a good 12G and you keep it for the end, you can DESTROY groups of bugs with 1 shot.

[spark bloom]

but when you're 1-shotting everything with sneak attacks anyway - annoying

[full ocean]

So it's great to have even though you can only realistically use it a few times in the play thru.

Yeah I'm talking about scenarios where you can't sneak attack because you're being assaulted by waves of enemies.

[spark bloom]

minigun xD

[full ocean]

Usually, sneak attack, agreed. 👍

[spark bloom]

btw if you're playing w/o a follower - gotta go into tier 2 in social

isolation is really good

oh wait.... or any crew....

does that mean shit assigned to my ship counts against this?

actually i can check after this mission

[scenic plaza]

Wife just told me we have a big list of things to do... so I will need to wait until tonight when everybody has gone to bed so I can squeeze in my five hours! Wish me luck! 😄

[spark bloom]

good luck

[winter yoke]

[spark bloom]

lol wtf just happened..... sneaked up on an unsuspecting alien fauna - power attack and i'm dead

i think i just 1-shot myself

[faint gulch]

@spark bloom now I see why you made a new character... but yeah... I'm NG+ now.

Don't want to spoil anything for anyone but it seems like your first character is definitely an experiment.

To figure out how to play the game that is.

[spark bloom]

more or less

[tropic night]

that's exactly what I do;
you will sleep when you die

[scenic plaza]

Yes brother. You understand the ways.
You can not been seen sitting at your computer playing games when there are things to be done around the house.
That heavy thing in the garage, it needs to move from the left side, to the right side of the garage.

Also, the most impressive thing about wifes is that they could be on the complete other side of the house, but the second you sit down and relax, there is immediately a new thing that needs to be done! 😄

[spark bloom]

btw, not to spoil anything, but if you get a marker for a quest on Charibdys - i suggest going there, it was kinda interesting

[spark bloom]

sometimes i am happy that i'm single and live alone

[spark bloom]

i think Bethesda screwed up when trying to recreate Port Canaveral.... where are all the gators?

[tropic night]

it's a hatching season; female gators protect their nests and males are in Atlantic City, trying to stay as far away from home as possible

[spark bloom]

Lol

[tropic night]

I mean, seriously ; )

[spark bloom]

Man these constant crashes are really starting to get on my nerves

[tropic night]

ask @winter yoke ; )

[spark bloom]

Perfect.... less than 20 minutes since the last crash....

I can't even think what could be causing them

No pattern whatsoever

[full ocean]

This is what the Crimson Fleet loves to see.

[faint gulch]

Chrome was causing BG3 to crash for me

[spark bloom]

Well, this isn't just the game going down

It's bringing the entire system with it

It can be hours, it can be minutes

I can be walking, fighting, talking, looting. Anything

I'd be a lot less pissed if there was some identifiable pattern

[spare dew]

Dont worry, Todd Howard is on it!

[spark bloom]

unused skillpoints roll over into NG+ right?

i don't have to spend them all right now

[ebon umbra]

I put most of my points into piloting so I can get better ship components, and into social so I can persuade well.

Think I’m almost level 20?

||just got the thing from the first temple||

[full ocean]

Yes, I rolled over the first NG+ with 6 unused skill points.

[scenic plaza]

woo! Go August!

[ebon umbra]

I have no idea how far along that means I am.

[scenic plaza]

there is no finish line

so you could be anywhere

[ebon umbra]

Main storyline.

[spark bloom]

i'm still missing 3 temples and frankie (or whatever his name is) isn't giving me any locations 😦

[spark bloom]

damn now it says 12 temples lol

it's ok, i'll find them in NG+ lol

[winter yoke]

Space gators

I really liked the idea of it wanting to escape this planet

[spark bloom]

LOL i needed a ship with good jump capabilities, but still A class

max crew 3, jump range 30

[dark bison]

outposts with helium 3 storage on them will boost your jump range along those routes

[faint gulch]

Or just slap on more fuel tanks

[spark bloom]

oh it's not the fuel, it's the grav drive limitation

[faint gulch]

That's just what the build says, I have 270 fuel on my original play and it could jump that far.

Theoretically you just put more fuel on it and fly across the whole cosmos

[spark bloom]

you're talking about multi-jump path

i'm talking about single jump

[faint gulch]

Ohhh

You're out there

[spark bloom]

yeah i need a 28 single jump range

which isn't hard with B or C class

but with A i had to go minimalist

i just changed the ship a bit to make it look a bit more presentable

still no shield though lol

is Vasco ok?

one of these days i'll make a decent looking small ship lol

[full ocean]

Yeah to do the last parts of the main story quest you need a ship with a really good grav drive on it

[spark bloom]

well i only needed it for going after some temples

[full ocean]

You don't need all that much combat ability on it as long as it has a good drive.

[spark bloom]

so far at least

lol i only put the guns on it so i get crew

otherwise - no shield even

[faint gulch]

I never had any issue with being unable to jump with the extra fuel pods, but I think I had the best A-class grav drive

[full ocean]

I had stolen a bounty hunter ship, A class, I was able to upgrade the grav drive on it enough to do the last main quest missions

I think you need like 21 jump strength or whatever

[spark bloom]

NOOOOOO she finally caught me

sarah is on my ship and is trying to talk to me, including Walter in the conversation

who is NOT on my ship, so she bugs out the conversation

[spark bloom]

6 temples to go lol

[spark bloom]

well, Vladimir is out of tips for temples, so time to move on

That was 1 fancy cut scene

i'm missing 2 powers 😦

[full ocean]

Yeah there is a limit to how many you can collect - NG+ is the only way to get more - finish the main story.

[spark bloom]

i mean, 22 out of 24

[full ocean]

I'm in NG+2 and I still don't have them all.

[spark bloom]

you can probably collect all of them if you just explore

[full ocean]

I have a lot of level 2 and 3 stuff

[spark bloom]

pretty sure i've found a couple by accident

[full ocean]

That's possible, you're right I have happened upon some accidentally while exploring.

[spark bloom]

Gotta figure out what I'm training next

[full ocean]

😲

This is... Insane.

[spark bloom]

yeah i think i have one of those on the other character

i still don't know wtf uses 45mm xpls

[full ocean]

Total amount of 40MM I've picked up in this ENTIRE NG+2 = 93

I haven't shot 1 round of it.

I've bought everything I could, and I've picked up everything I could.

But look at this gun, that's why.

It has to be rare ammo.

[spark bloom]

should i even bother putting points into suit upgrades?

cuz i am liking the NG+ suit and it's unmoddable

[full ocean]

I wouldn't.

[spark bloom]

yeah that's what i'm thinking too

[full ocean]

But maybe custom suits are needed in late NG+, who knows?

I'm only NG+2 currently so not far in.

[spark bloom]

i'm thinking focus on science this run

instead of combat skills

i have reasearch maxed, now working on weapon upgrades

after that chemistry and special projects

that way i can craft all the components

[ebon umbra]

That you only have 93 rounds?

[full ocean]

The weapon.

All 40MM weapons are insane, that's why the ammo is so rare.

I actually have one that's higher damage than this, that does guaranteed DOUBLE damage on full health targets.

So it basically hits for 540 on the first shot and it's armor piercing.

Without spoilers, this gun is useful for the end of game boss fights.

Ammo is so rare, can't really use it outside of that though if you want to use it there.

[faint gulch]

#1035315915102883880 message

That's what I was using

99+368 and that's each shot that the shotgun fires so it was way more.

[full ocean]

That gun is broken. 🤣

[spark bloom]

particle weapons are strong

i'm using a lawgiver right now lol

[faint gulch]

Yeah, just have to find one.

[spark bloom]

fun little rifle

also i'm already at 100k credits lol

i did the first story mission to get into constellation and get rid of Sarah

and then went to Akila to get the sniper rifle

[full ocean]

@spark bloom probably should switch to #1150184021888864366 to talk about NG+ stuff.

[scenic plaza]

If you are RPing as a normal person and wearing normal armor, then maybe

[spark bloom]

damn that's a lot of damage lol

tempted to buy this thing and mod it

[cloud kite]

https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/616

this mod sold me on the game

I'm spending so much time in the game now

[full ocean]

I can't see that, it says I need to enable adult mods in my preferences... 😁

[ebon umbra]

https://tenor.com/view/rev-chris-in-jesus-name-no-nope-no-way-christopher-lee-gif-16257414

[ancient zodiac]

Huh

[pallid moss]

[spark bloom]

nice hax

[pallid moss]

alum iron xp farm 🙂

[spark bloom]

sure

1xp at a time

i'm only 280 levels behind you xD

[full ocean]

Looks like you need a better gun!

[ancient zodiac]

285 on the shotty and that fella is level 24 😂 Some NPCs on Very Hard have some godly powers lol

[full ocean]

ah, Very Hard difficulty explains it.

[ancient zodiac]

no the health regen there is definitely a bug, shouldn't do that 😄

[full ocean]

I am going to start over on a higher difficulty though, why not. 🙂

[ancient zodiac]

there is such feature afaik but not quite like that

[full ocean]

I've seen enough of the game on Normal Story difficulty and none of it has been a challenge at all, though I've really enjoyed the story.

[ancient zodiac]

I skipped the story and all tips/reviews and straight went to explore the world on hardest possible difficulty. Still feels a bit too easy if you don't count these random bugs you face sometimes 😄

[full ocean]

Yeah, as Lefty said yesterday "it's a story-based RPG, it's not going to be difficult"

Which is true. Still lots of fun tho. 🙂

[ancient zodiac]

unfortunately so. But nevertheless I really enjoy the game

[full ocean]

Yeah it's a great game.

Too bad it's only singleplayer, it could be fun to crank the difficulty up and play with friends.

[ancient zodiac]

will prolly keep me busy until IAE drops 😄

[full ocean]

OK I cranked it up to Very Hard and we'll see how many minutes I last.

On Normal play-thru I didn't die for several days.

Like Human days.

I started over too so I don't have good gear.

[ancient zodiac]

I guess it's easy if you already unlocked bunch of stuff and have high level gear. Early game is always the hardest

[full ocean]

Right that's why I started over. 🙂

[ancient zodiac]

still got the perks I believe

[faint gulch]

@ancient zodiac NPCs definitely use medical stuff.

[full ocean]

Nope, it's a fresh restart. Perks last thru NG+ but not New Games.

[faint gulch]

Also most of those shots are missing. Need to pause between shots.

[ancient zodiac]

check the clip 😄 I've seen them use meds but this fella uses something else which I assume is not intended 😄

[ancient zodiac]

ohhhh, gotcha

[faint gulch]

I already watched the video. It might be a bit gamified but it looks like an NPC using meds to me.

[ancient zodiac]

you see how the health goes down a bit then straight back up, same as I get one health pool completely away and it instantly goes back up. Even the 65 level ones regen health 20x slower

[faint gulch]

There are also foods that instantly heal.

[ancient zodiac]

sure

[faint gulch]

Not that much from what I've seen, but if you're playing very hard it's probably scaled.

[ancient zodiac]

nah very hard healing works but a lot slower and not constantly like on this.

usually when they use meds it's first of all slower and not something that keeps happening without pausing

[faint gulch]

Aliens.

[ancient zodiac]

forgot that part

that explains everything

[scenic plaza]

I dont see why Bethesda will not go the same route at Fallout 76. All the assets and structure is in place, just change the setting to Starfield and you have multiplayer.

[ancient zodiac]

I see it eventually happen just like it did for F76 and NMS. The other topic being the lack of ground vehicles which I kinda understand since the areas you can explore on ground are not THAT large and it would make those areas feels a lot smaller unless the vehicles were really slow. Would still love to have something to use to carry my loot around 😄

[valid geyser]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfrWXMk2wIg modField

[spark bloom]

you still need to do the challenges to rank up skills xD some of them more annoying than others

[full ocean]

So having cranked it up to Very Hard diffulty just for giggles, I can tell you that right away I'm using a lot more med packs.

It was impossible to make it out of the "intro to ship combat" without using ship repairs DURING the fight.

Definitely a few steps up in difficulty. 👍

[spark bloom]

on a new game - sure

i cranked up the difficulty in my ng+ - no difference

[scenic plaza]

The closest thing to persona transport we have seen in a Bethesda game are mounts like horses or dragons. I guess they could do a mech if they wanted.

[ancient zodiac]

Exactly why I prefer doing things the hard way the first time. On second run you already know how to avoid things or make them the easy way so to really get the hardest experience it must be done on first run

[spark bloom]

well, NG+ isn't a 2nd run, since you pretty much keep the character

[ancient zodiac]

that's what I'm saying

[spark bloom]

and getting a good sniper rifle is VERY easy

[ancient zodiac]

dunno about that as I'm still ways away 😄

[ancient zodiac]

Maybe they could make this somewhat usable 😄

ooof spoiler alert

gotta mute the channel again 😂

[spark bloom]

is it a spoiler? my bad

[scenic plaza]

telling people what rewards they get at the end of a quest!

[spark bloom]

fair enough

although i didn't specify which quest

[scenic plaza]

I just finished the Terramorph quest line... the rewards was not what I expected. 😄

[ancient zodiac]

Yeah, my bad tho. Better not to follow channels about the game if I try to keep it clean for myself (:

[faint gulch]

Yeah... telling quest rewards definitely can change someone's feel/expectation while playing the missions, distracting from the feeling of a fresh play. It definitely seems helpful but I don't like it.

In other games it's probably not as big a deal but in Starfield it's part of the experience for sure.

[granite barn]

I want the disappointment to be a shocking surprise the first time lol

[scenic plaza]

that why I went on a media black out for the past week

other than in here

there were not any bad spoilers... I kinda had some ideas about some

[spark bloom]

i think i found something that's a bit more difficult on very hard mode

sneaking

i keep getting spotted really fast even with chameleon

[scenic plaza]

Its a bit more realistic than previous bethesda sneak

[spark bloom]

no but i mean between normal and very difficult

on normal with my sneak i can sit in the open with chameleon and shoot at things

and they won't know where i am exactly, so i'll keep getting sneak attacks

now i can be stealthed - after 1-2 shots i'm already spotted

[faint gulch]

I can't tell if you're joking but that is a legitimate want. The game is art and I'd like to experience it with a fresh take on my own accord.

Disappointment or something surprisingly good or satisfaction or the sense of hopelessness or feeling like those damned whoever are cheating me so I'll get them back... all part of the experience.

[granite barn]

Not joking, it's more fun doing quests not knowing there's a letdown at the end than trudging through missions waiting for the big sad.

[faint gulch]

Gotcha, we're on the same page.

There's always some debate of what is and isn't a spoiler. I think in here everyone is courteous and understanding, other places not so much.

[spark bloom]

that's why i deleted my comment

we came to a conclusion that it doesn't belong

[full ocean]

I'm enjoying my complete (not NG+) restart.

[spark bloom]

and at least i didn't spell out the quest, just mentioned where it is

[full ocean]

Even tho I know what's happening.

[spark bloom]

🙂

[full ocean]

Game is still fun. 👍

[faint gulch]

I would start over but I've made choices and decided to stick to them as part of my character development. You mentioned having a game breaking bug so, I get that too.

[full ocean]

Yeah, unfortunately a key quest in the Crimson Fleet chain that I was doing was totally bugged and I couldn't progress so... New Game. 🙂 I could have just reloaded a save from the day before or whatever, and maybe I'll do that at some point.

But I figured this is a good chance to go Very Hard difficulty and see what it's like.

So far, I have to be a lot more cautious about taking damage -- it hurts to get hit.

Otherwise, not a ton different so far.

[spark bloom]

it does hurt to get hit

like i had to start using medpacks if i'm not careful

although i did go into a lvl 60 zone

lvl 4 in zoology is nice when doing surveying

only need 4 kills (instead of 8) to get full data

[scenic plaza]

is advanced better then refined wrt weapon stats?

[spark bloom]

not sure

there's advanced, refined and calibrated

would be nice to see some stat comparisons

[faint gulch]

Yes

[scenic plaza]

time to upgrade my Orion then 😄

[frail gull]

just edit your save

[scenic plaza]

if you steal a ship and sell it, does all the junk from that ship transfer to your home ship?

I seem to be at max weight

and it looks like a bunch of desk fans

[spark bloom]

if you modify your ship

the decorations stop being decorations and start being junk

[full ocean]

How do you sell a ship?

[scenic plaza]

spoiler!

😄

when you talk to a technician to modify

[spark bloom]

you can sell through modify?
i sell through "purchase"

either way it's not that profitable

i've gotten more money for guns than for ships

cuz you need to register the ship before selling

and the register cost is about 10% less than the sell price

[frail gull]

hmm i havent seen sell cause i have stolen some SHIT ships

[full ocean]

On the plus side of being in a fresh game, I'm really excited to pick this up!

It does 4x more damage than my previous gun. 🤣

[spark bloom]

when i started my current character - i got super lucky

looted a semi-auto maelstrom with suppressor and short scope

either on Vectra or on Kreet

and then a chameleon helmet pretty soon after as well

made stealth gameplay a lot easier

[faint gulch]

There's a big difference in damage between automatic and semiautomatic. Always change rifles to semi.

If you're going to use them.

[faint gulch]

I'm not a hax0r...

[scenic plaza]

Ive been running around with hypothermia for two days

wth kind of healthcare system is this?

[faint gulch]

One that doesn't matter

Don't think I've had any appreciable impact from conditions

Except one time I was in a toxic gas cloud for a while and had a lot of yellow on my health bar.

[scenic plaza]

I was crippled

had to find some specific aid item

that one sucked

[faint gulch]

Just hang out in your ship or settlements and conditions go away

It's a tooltip

Pretty sure I have video games to play through the end of the year... This is pretty wild.

Starfield for another couple weeks, Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty, City Skylines 2 end of October, saved up new Star Citizen content, and there are a couple others on a list somewhere...

[scenic plaza]

Cyberpunk will be great!

but if I go play that, then it might be a while until I come back to Starfield

so I need to burn out here first

[faint gulch]

Big question is what type of character to play in Cyberpunk.

Last time I was all over the place.

[scenic plaza]

played through 3 times

Netrunner is like the wizard of cyberpunk

cast some spells and everybody around you dies

for the 3rd playthrough it was good

[faint gulch]

I am a wizard but I like sneaky one shot headshots with a pistol.

[scenic plaza]

bullet spells you say?

[faint gulch]

Someday Star Citizen will have crafting and outposts like Starfield, and a sprawling Cyberpunk city and body mods like Cp2077. And hacking. Someday.

So, underrated thing in Starfield, the mission boards.

I've done a few but tonight I might do a few more. They have scaling difficulty so it's interesting.

[spark bloom]

i run XM-2311

cuz you can fit a short scope on it

[faint gulch]

Since I focused on weapon modding first I can start with pretty much any advanced weapon

Add a suppressor if I can, make it semiautomatic, give it special bullets when I find the rare crafting material.

[spark bloom]

i am tempted to switch my shotty from slugs to explosive rounds lol

just to try them out

although slugs make it my "sniping rifle" lol

[spark bloom]

i gotta stop playing starfield while in a meeting xD

[spark bloom]

@scenic plazalooks like it's basic -> calibrated -> refined -> advanced

from low to high

interesting, sounds like some ship parts are level-locked

and i don't mean Piloting or Ship Design skills, i mean character levels

can you have more than 1 companion following you?

nope

cuz it'd be hilarious

[scenic plaza]

you can always have the robot on your ship, he doesnt take a slot

[spark bloom]

i was thinking boots on the ground

and i know why the robot doesn't take a spot

he sits outside like a moron xD

at least on ships w/o cargo bays

[full ocean]

He's an extra bag that stays with the ship.

Not as convenient as the ship or your own inventory, but always stands outside the ship, so useful in a pinch.

[spark bloom]

i was still laughing hard when i saw him outside

because that ship was tiny and didn't have cargo bays

the range at which enemies can see through chameleon on Very Difficult is ridiculous lol

but hey, it's 1 way to increase difficulty lol

[granite barn]

Has anyone noticed if companions use ammo, or do they have unlimited magic ammo?

[spark bloom]

they need to have 1

and then it's unlimited

so basically: give your companion a minigun and 1 round of 7.77

[full ocean]

Yep, same as Skyrim worked. They need 1 ammo (of the appropriate type) and never any more.

[faint gulch]

You know... I keep realizing I need to do that but I keep not doing that.

But I'm gonna deputize one of my followers so I'll be a deputy with a double-deputy.

Freestar ftw

Yeehaw

Do they also equip suits you give them?

[spark bloom]

you have to make them equip whatever you give them

so first pass it over, then I think B is to equip

[cloud kite]

nude mini gunner?!

thank god for mods

makes this game bearable

[faint gulch]

👀

[spark bloom]

bikini mini gunner || apparently you can nab a bikini on Paradiso ||

[spark bloom]

I hate standing corpses lol

[faint gulch]

Just a reminder for everyone that's currently living in this channel:

Go to Port Olisar before 3.20 goes live for a spectrum badge.

It only counts if you've been there since September 7th.

[pallid moss]

Thank you!

Any idea when . 20 goes live?

[faint gulch]

What

[spark bloom]

I'm almost lvl 50.... after that 10 more levels to the best ship parts

I'm thinking at 50 I'll finish special projects, then go for piloting and ship design

lol i was freaking out that starfield wasn't launching after the last crash.... then i noticed steam was updating lol

[scenic plaza]

are they level locked at 60?

[spark bloom]

yeah from what i saw on youtube

so i'm expecting some personal weapons are also going to be level locked

[pallid moss]

I think some ships and weapons start to appear at higher levels.

Ie tiers of stuff.

[spark bloom]

my understanding is that there's 3 things locking you out of using the best components to build a ship (buying or stealing a class C is a different matter):
piloting skill (lvl 4 for class C)
starship design (some components are locked behind this skill)
character level (only heard on youtube, so can't confirm personally, but supposedly lvl 60 is the last gate)

to be fair, so far my most favorite weapons are class A (vanguard obliterators)

vanguard shield is probably in top3 in terms of capacity
you can get 30LY jump range with class A grav drive

engines might be the most efficient (thrust per power) in class A as well

so the only thing you REALLY need from class C is reactor

and cargo from ship design

[faint gulch]

Done going to Port Olisar. Time to choose a follower to be my space deputy.

[spark bloom]

i think i got my look sorted out

maybe need a minigun

that should be your deputy's outfit: minigun and bikini

[full ocean]

Upgraded the starter ship on my actual new game.

[spark bloom]

i usually swap the weapons out for particle beams

that way i don't have to deal with having split weapons

[full ocean]

No credits! Ammo so expensive...

I had to drop it down to Hard mode. With Very Hard I was broke all the time.

[spark bloom]

ammo is very expensive

i think it was made to be a money sink

cuz otherwise i have more than i know what to spend on

[full ocean]

I'm level 10 now and cruising through fine in Hard. Maybe if I get some good weapons I can increase it again, but at this point Very Hard just makes them bullet sponges and credit sinks.

[spark bloom]

yeah, outside of sneak attack x5 hits - enemies are very much just bullet sponges on very hard

i think there's a mod that changes that

by increasing the damage output both for you and for the enemy

[spark bloom]

the problem on very hard is that even with the massive sneak attack boost, w/o any combat skills training i need at least a rifle to 1-shot things, if not a shotgun with slugs

[spark bloom]

kudos to bethesda: when you switch to a bikini - the sound of your footsteps changes to barefoot

well ok, maybe it's actually the sound of flip-flops

rather than barefoot, but very different from boots

[spark bloom]

this is actually funny.... 1 stall has plungers stuck on the wall, the other has a book, tissues and lotion? (i know that it's a soap bottle, but still)

[full ocean]

I saw a bathroom like that at a truck stop not too long ago.

[scenic plaza]

hey thats my exact gun right now with slugs!

[scenic plaza]

yeah Im also modifying my Frontier on the next run. Ive kept it stock so far

[spark bloom]

I have a few guns on me

pistol cuz why not
rifle for my main long range snipes
shotgun with slugs for closer range when i'm still stealthed but need a bit more oomph
and a magshear for when i can't go stealth

magpulse, not shear

my bad

so on a pistol the difference between Refined and Advanced is 43 dmg

refined is 129, advanced with the same mods 172

LOL.... saw a pirate ship land
killed pirates
boarded their ship
ship got blown out of the sky by bounty hunters while i was working on taking it over

btw, if you can get a rifle with Penetrator rounds..... they do exactly that.... just nabbed 2 kills with 1 shot

ok bed time, gotta go to the office tomorrow 😦

[scenic plaza]

gnight

[full ocean]

Now that I am playing a fresh game, I'm taking my time upgrading the starter ship.

[scenic plaza]

doing every sidequest, talking to every stranger

[full ocean]

Not quite. I know the ending! 🤣

[pallid moss]

Proud of you. TEST colors. 👌

[full ocean]

This symbol tells me I have an Outpost in the Narion system.

[faint gulch]

Yes it does.

[spark bloom]

Also the lack of glow on a star system means you've never visited it

On one hand I'm tempted to cheese exp
On the other I feel like it would detract a lot from me enjoying the game.....

I need to see if I can clone my current character into a new one (due to already having some annoying skills ranked up)

Keep the character for a clean playthrough and use the clone for cheese

[tropic night]

...and red means you cannot directly jump to it

[full ocean]

I'll tell you what, getting Personal Atmosphere on a brand new game (level 12) is a game changer.

Leveling up Fitness is so much easier with Personal Atmosphere.

[scenic plaza]

Started NG4 last night, Rejuvination skill achieved and now I can stop worrying about picking up every single health related item! 😄

[full ocean]

If I put all 7 of my next points in it, I can get Rejuv at level 20.

It might be possible, but I've had to put utility points in other things early game.

Trying to keep it focussed as much as I can tho.

What's the hp/s regen? It says "slowly" so I'm thinking a few minutes of out-of-combat and you're regenned?

[spark bloom]

Right

1st rank is very slow

And I don't really see any in-combat regen at rank 4 even

So med items are still required

Just not as much

Or rather medpacks

At least in very hard

On normal I almost completely stopped using them

[scenic plaza]

I alway seem to be out of medpacks, so I would constantly take 1hr naps, just like real life. This game is amazing!

[spark bloom]

Yeah, when I was just starting this character it was very rough

Since I was trying my best to be melee

Honestly, I don't regret it

[scenic plaza]

Right in the start, Sarah gives you a weapon. My NG2 playthrough was using what ever weapon she gave me, it was the big sniper rifle 😄

[spark bloom]

Damn.... my NG+ started me with a knife

So having high melee skills helped lol

[scenic plaza]

and my NG2 armor role was chameleon which was awesome

[spark bloom]

Oh I have chameleon from concealment skill

For me ideal armor rolls are o2 increase (or usage reduction), one that has a chance to stagger nearby enemies (super nice for melee)

Carry weight maybe

Not that useful, since my base right now is 240

And at least in my current run I stopped hoarding resources

Like my crafting skills/research are complete for now

My weapons are fully modded to my liking

And I'm skipping outposts until at least next ng

My plan for the next 10 or so levels is piloting, starship design, aneutronic fusion

With increasing difficulty I find my ship options lacking. So need to push core competency there

After that either some core outpost skills, or improve ground combat

Some of the high tier combat skills are nice

[full ocean]

Google: starfield where to buy lubricant

It's game related I promise

[spark bloom]

Uh

I'm in the office today, so I'll avoid controversial searches

[full ocean]

It's not controversial at all, it just seems like it should be. 🤣

Great thing to have in your search history.

Make sure you are billing somone by the hour when that timestamp occurs.

[spark bloom]

Last night my biggest issue was getting europium for the long scope

I actually had to go mine it

One of my NG+ runs I'll avoid buying any resources, but not right now

Right now it's "oh, I found a new cool gun..... akila, new Atlantis, cydonia to buy all the required mats"

[full ocean]

I'm still nowhere near there 🤣

Level 13, I can't even mod guns. I'm just hoping to pick something up.

[spark bloom]

I'm like 51 or 52

[scenic plaza]

risky click

[spark bloom]

Also if you wanna level fast, apparently gotta do what Macaque did: craft adaptive frames

Outpost to farm iron/aluminum, then craft a lot of adaptive frames (1 exp each)

[scenic plaza]

but the early grind is what makes the game! Gradually becoming all powerful is the natural progression

[faint gulch]

Pretty sure that's based on your skills

I got a pistol and that was one of my main weapon skills.

[spark bloom]

Could be

[full ocean]

Level 14 priorities. Weightlifting 4/4

[spark bloom]

Nice

[scenic plaza]

hmm, that would help with all the resources im hauling, but I dont have the points right now

[faint gulch]

Just kill a bunch of aliens.

Fly your ship right through them

[tropic night]

ℹ️ FYI, Nvidia owners:

GeForce Game Ready Driver
Version: 537.34 WHQL
Release Date: 2023.9.12

Starfield Performance Improvements
Today, NVIDIA is releasing a Resizable BAR profile for Starfield which increases performance on GeForce RTX 40 Series and GeForce RTX 30 Series desktop and laptop GPUs. In our testing scenario, GeForce RTX 40 Series desktop GPUs see on average a 5% increase in performance. The Starfield Resizable BAR update will be pushed via an Over-The-Air (OTA) update from NVIDIA and will be automatically applied for gamers running the latest Game Ready Driver (537.34) or the previous release (537.17).

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/lies-of-p-mortal-kombat-1-game-ready-driver/

[full ocean]

FYI (this is news to me) if you have a max level romantic partner in the game you will get a 15% xp boost from sleep rather than 10%

So I guess get yourself a partner.

[faint gulch]

Heh

"sleeping"

[full ocean]

Andreja where did you run off to?

[scenic plaza]

That cowboy was hitting on me... do I have to broke back this thing?

[faint gulch]

Yes

Record it though

Great for YouTube

[spark bloom]

Lol my first playthrough I ended up marrying Sarah, since I haven't even met Andreja on that playthrough lol

[full ocean]

Sarah does not approve of sneaky stabby, so she was an annoying nag I had to dismiss.

Andreja is cool as long as you aren't a blood thirsty murderer.

[spark bloom]

I'm on an introvert character with isolation skill maxed out

Having a follower is like cutting off my right arm and breaking one of my legs

[full ocean]

Sounds like something worth doing. 👍

🤣

[spark bloom]

Or I guess rather than breaking a leg - making me smoke a pack of cigarettes every day for the last 20 years

Since introvert is to deal with o2 usage

Also looks like extrovert characters can gaslight guards to get out of trouble

[scenic plaza]

Im taking the time to listen to conversation around locations now. The devs put a lot of dialogue into the game and we just seem to rush past them

[pallid moss]

I'd recommend scumming the levels, then just play normally to rank up those achievements.

Or challenges. Whatever they're called.

[full ocean]

IDK, honestly I don't mind getting the levels.

I was level 46 when my game broke, now I'm 16 again. I'm definitely doing some crafting this time tho to accelerate my XP gain. 🙂

[scenic plaza]

i saw that crafting glitch, its cheating!

like crafting knives in skyrim

at least they are consistant! 😄

[full ocean]

It's not cheating!

It gives outposts a purpose.

XP reward for the time you invest in them.

Just like XP reward for shooting things.

[scenic plaza]

oh, I modded my game. Set Field of view to 100 using .ini file

thats my modding for now!

[scenic plaza]

interesting feature

day and night cycles differ on different planets and moons

so if you sleep 1hr earth time, its not 1hr local time

[full ocean]

Yes, I discovered that one of my outpost planets is producing materials WAY WAY faster than the others.

And the reason seems to be the time dilation on that planet.

[scenic plaza]

hmm, interesting glitch maybe. 1hr to produce X amount

but if daylight cycle is faster

[full ocean]

I don't think it's a glitch. If I sleep in the bed on that planet for only 1 hour, it tells me I slept for actually 6 hours "galactic time" or whatever.

So I think it produces 6x more materials than a planet with a 1:1 time ratio.

[spark bloom]

Nah I think they messed up

They should've done output per minute of global time, rather than planet time

[full ocean]

IDK, all I know is I'm tearing down my other outposts and moving here. 🙂

Because DAYUM.

[scenic plaza]

ONE WEIRD TRICK TO MAKE $1M IN STARFIELD!

[dark bison]

I have all my outposts in 3 systems funneling back to my main on in Narion. I don't have every resource going there yet but I'm getting close

[pallid moss]

Or like crafting shelves in Fallout 4.😉

[pallid remnant]

OMG lovein this game...only lvl 3 but the story so far has me hooked.
I'm still learning hove everything works but WOH!

[full ocean]

Ask if you have any questions, there are a few of us really enjoying Starfield at the moment. 👍

As a tip when you are starting out, and you find minerals with 3 yellow stars (like Caelurite), it's good to mine it and sell it to vendors. Hold BOTH MOUSE BUTTONS when mining to mine faster.

[pallid remnant]

I will, at work now but when I get home I'll jump into chat

[full ocean]

1 Local Hour (5 Hours 52 Minutes UT)

I think it's working as intended.

[scenic plaza]

damn

what location is this?

I need to get to lvl 60 to unlock some ship parts

[full ocean]

I DM'd you in case others would prefer not to know, or to find it on their own. 🙂

[scenic plaza]

good point

[pallid moss]

It is; also Venus.

[scenic plaza]

Im enjoying this playthrough better than the first, havent done the crimson fleet stuff yet, feels like a lot more to go

[pallid moss]

Did a little of Crimson Fleet my first run. Doing UC now on my second.

You can redo the simulator as many times as you like.. 👀

[scenic plaza]

yeah, that ranks up your spaceship piloting

[full ocean]

SET THIS CUSTOM INI

This will make it so the game continues to run in the background. Long dialog? You can alt-tab and do other things while it plays. Loading screen? Alt-tab and it will still load while you do other things.

[scenic plaza]

😮

[spark bloom]

yup, you can use it to farm piloting, projectile, laser, missile and targeting systems

[pallid moss]

I fracking love you..

About to continue the UC quest. PM tips. 👀

[tropic night]

Christ, I had to use console to complete Groundpounder quest... -- enemy wasn't spawning for the 2nd dogfight stage on Altair I orbit and none of the workarounds worked. I gave up and manually completed the whole quest. Bummer.

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Another reason to like Akila City (my favourite location in game):
||https://twitter.com/JamieMoranUK/status/1701801787089399993||

and ||https://twitter.com/MoreHandsThanU/status/1701821670665711888||

[dark bison]

always good to look around

[pallid moss]

Ooo..

What are classified as Allied Armaments?

[spark bloom]

It's probably a manufacturer, similar to Laredo

[full ocean]

I'm missing something with outposts....

I have 2 outposts with transport links set up

Base 1 exports AL

Base 2 exports FE

But after a while, the containers get all mixed up, and it has AL in both or FE in both, and it stops swapping resources.

What did I do wrong? (Or do I need to ensure that automated processes use up all resources between ship deliveries? It will get fubar if all resources aren't removed from the container in the appropriate time?

Very confusing. 🤔

[faint gulch]

The ship transports anything in the box.

[scenic plaza]

Oh damn thats funny! This is Bethesda's was of doing inventory systems, there is likely a chest buried under that ground there that is connected to the store. Their inventory is a physical item like anything else but the player was never meant to clip to it like that obviously! 😄

https://twitter.com/BethesdaStudios/status/1701977071465988391

Bethesda Game Studios (@BethesdaStudios)

First, an enormous thank you to all of you playing Starfield and your support. We are absolutely blown away by the response and all you love about the game. We’re also reading all your great feedback on what you’d like to see improved or added to the game. This is a game we’ll be…

Twitter · Sep 13, 2023, 3:12 PM

FOV slider and eat button for food!

[full ocean]

So it seems like if I use the contents in the box, everything is good.

If I don't, then the box contents just keep effectively switching. A->B->A->B->...

Uhh

This warrants investigation.

1h = 58h !!! 🤣

[scenic plaza]

My experience so far has been surprisingly bug free for a Bethesda game. The only small issue I had was an enemy NPC i needed to kill in an early mission that somehow either spawned or glitched into a locked room. The only way to kill her was to wait for her foot or log to glitch through the door.

Other than that, this is the most bug free Bethesda game yet.

[scenic plaza]

they fixed it!!

noooooo\

oh wait I read that wrong

hours

not minutes

lol

[full ocean]

This is a different system

I gotta check to see how the output varies

[scenic plaza]

you in a black hole?

[spark bloom]

i'm thinking Breach might be an Allied Armaments weapon.... see the avengers symbol on the grip?

[scenic plaza]

those breach rifles with slug are OP!

[spark bloom]

yup, it's my secondary "sniper rifle" xD

[scenic plaza]

if I can land an instigating one, it would be the last rifle I use.

[spark bloom]

ooooh an instigating advanced one.... yummy

but

my calibrated magsniper is 100 dmg more than refined breach

too bad it can't be silenced

and i wish i could put a scope on magpulse, that thing is awesome (albeit non-silencable either)

i wish it was easier to tell biomes apart

like i'm looking at a moon right now:
Hils, Deciduous Forest, Tropical Forest, Rocky Desert..... all look the fucking same

all claim Biome Complete, but i'm still missing 1 fauna species

like give me 2 ship scanner modes: biomes and resources

[pallid remnant]

I just installed Starfield from Steam. Downloaded SFSE from Nexus and some mods using Vortex. Tried to launch Starffield from SFSE and got this. Any help?

[spark bloom]

looks like the path configuration is bad somewhere

that \ might be the issue

\

goddamn discord escaping the 2nd \

lol

\Starfield.exe

suck a chode discord

[pallid remnant]

Yes. How do I reset it.

[spark bloom]

is there something in sfse.ini?

I haven't used the script extender, so not sure

[spark bloom]

also you say that until you try a sniper rifle with penetrator rounds xD

[pallid remnant]

What does Shattered Space bring to the game?

[scenic plaza]

Im guessing shattered space

dimensions crashing into each other

cats and dogs being friends

[full ocean]

Ship Design 1 really adds some nice modules you can use to upgrade your ship

But damn it's all real expensive 🤣

I just had 24k!

But I needed ammo

Now I have 6 credits

[faint gulch]

24k on ammo... wat

Well 18k but yeah

[full ocean]

Vendor had .43 Ultramag, 12G, CLL AND 40MM so I loaded up

All my end game weapons got a big ammo boost

But I lost all my money

[full ocean]

What an OP! CObalt, NIckel, PlaTinum, H2O Vapor

Not sure what to do with H2O yet but CO + NI are super valuable

[spark bloom]

i currently use .45 ACP occasionally (pistol), .50 for sniper, 12x25 for breach and 6.5mm MI for magpulse

[faint gulch]

Drugs or feeding aliens

[pallid moss]

Where do you find the most 45 ammo so far?

[full ocean]

Why leveling lockpicking is worthwhile:

!!!

There's like 150k in there

[spark bloom]

yeah too bad you aren't getting 150k out of it

and it'll take forever to sell, considering trade guys have like 11k lol

[full ocean]

Yeah it will sell for 10% of that maybe

Well the trick is you sell him 10k of stuff, buy a 20k weapon, sell 20k more of stuff

[spark bloom]

i hit 4 stores in Akila:
general goods
rowland arms
trade association
laredo arms

[full ocean]

But then sometimes you pick a Master lock and the container is literally empty. 🤣

[tropic night]

scam!

[full ocean]

Actually not bad they sold for maybe 15% of the value

Started with 33k, ended with 43k plus a bunch of really amazing combat consumables

So net increase the 11k the vendor had, but actually I got all the value, just not as credits

[scenic plaza]

that makes locks worth it!

ive been ignoring them

[full ocean]

I don't see these often

But it was a nice score!

[full ocean]

So... The Bounty Hunter ships in Hard mode are... HARD.

I mostly warp away from them, that's how hard it is.

[scenic plaza]

every youtube channel "THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!"

[tropic night]

I thought some weapons don't have ammo counters, until I noticed that on one of my screenshots hhaha... 😄

[pallid moss]

Sidenote; Jump drive that bends time and space. 10,000 credits.. 200 rounds of ammunition.. that'll be 60,000 credits. 🤷‍♂️

[scenic plaza]

what? do all weapons have counters?

[pallid moss]

.. maybe not all Old Earth?

[tropic night]

I think so

[tropic night]

yeah... I wonder if DLSS would work with all RTX gens or 30xx and 40xx only (...or even worse: 40xx only!)

recently updated Nvidia driver improves performance on 30xx and 40xx only (...by 5%...)

[buoyant zephyr]

I finally ||became a space wizard||

And now I’m focused on finding more temples.

[tropic night]

...and energy weapons have some charge indicators, like that:
(I need to hide it, as it might be a spoiler ; )

[pallid moss]

.. you use the mining laser as a heavy weapon for combat?..

[spark bloom]

it's why i pushed hard to get C class ships

[full ocean]

Yeah I'm still on the starter ship

Lots of upgrades!

Still weak AF to bounty hunter ships

[spark bloom]

i have 4 turrets and 4 really strong weapons
12 power shield

all fully powered

but it's still not enough to just grav jump to Kryx lol

i get murdered there

[full ocean]

O.o 2.7 GB Update

Time to see what they changed!

[spark bloom]

locks often let you take shortcuts or bypass keys

and you only need to get it to lvl 3

[full ocean]

So... They broke Lockpicking! 🤣

[spark bloom]

did they?

[full ocean]

The update broke it. There are some locks that are impossible to pick now.

[spark bloom]

good thing i haven't updated yet lol

[full ocean]

Some are fine, but some are just completely impossible.

[spark bloom]

ooooh

i t hink i ran into that a few times

1 expert level lock made me waste like 3-5 picks before i got a working combo

[full ocean]

Yeah, sometimes doors aren't working now.

Update definitely added some bugs. 😦

[spark bloom]

i wish you could silence mag weapons xD they're kinda fun to use

[full ocean]

TIP: Auto-hide space suit when in town:

https://youtu.be/MtNDuzervXg?t=6

This way you don't have to manually put your suit on and off all the time.

[spark bloom]

same with helmet

you can auto-hide helmet in areas where you can breathe, but still need suit's protection

[full ocean]

Guys to make it easier for others to find this channel, it has been promoted to an actual channel rather than just a forum thread.

Let's please move new discussion to #1151712099744108634 so others can find it more easily! 🙏

[faint gulch]

I ain't doin it!

Yeehaw space mother truckers

[scenic plaza]

too many people not finding this channel

:starfield:

hmm, where is that icon

[faint gulch]

Are you saying people are dumb??

[scenic plaza]

just half the people

[faint gulch]

Crazy talk

[full ocean]

I'm saying I am dumb, at the very least. 😄

[buoyant zephyr]

Just the dumb ones.

[pallid remnant]

In Missions under the "Activities" is "Check Your Ship's Inventory" . Is this going to ever go away I've checked it lots of times?

[spare dew]

It went away for me using the terminal in the cockpit

[full ocean]

Just as a reminder guys, since the request got lost above, please move new discussion to this main thread: #1151712099744108634

🙏

[pallid remnant]

@spare dew You mean the trminal behind the piolet seat? Thats the only one I know of... where is the other, maybe you need to open both.

[pallid remnant]

Will do

[pallid moss]

Are they not silent? A chunk of metal propelled by magnets?....

[spark bloom]

idk

but i'm pretty sure they break stealth

[pallid moss]

That's balls. 😟

[frail gull]

WOO star field

[frail gull]

I still need to finish this game :S

[tropic night]

I was waiting for DLSS, and now that the game finally has it, I can't stop playing stupid Starcitizen

[frail gull]

yeah i saw they added it.... textures still are shitty

[tropic night]

I spent few hours in SF today and I had a blast!

It's funny (or sad) that side missions and simple exploration are more exciting than main missions... Flying to unexplored places, fighting bad guys in underground facilities, solving puzzles, and finding new stuff... And no 30k nor any other technical problems...

[alpine acorn]

It does look fun. But I'm poor so I wait for the game of the year super deep discount 😄

Plus all patches and dlc that may come

Also you described what I will be doing in SC haha

[tropic night]

That's what I do now. I imagine it's SC ; )
Visuals and beautiful music help a lot.

[scenic plaza]

Im waiting for the expansion, did everything there was to do multiple times 😄

[hollow nacelle]

ya im ng+10 on that game

[split escarp]

what a shit game lol i left the mission to lvl up a bit and went back to pick up last artifact and pasage was blocked by rocks so i cant finish the game now what a bull shit

[hollow nacelle]

I'm +10 on that game

[tropic night]

A ground vehicle is in 🎉 DLC coming next month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my6_xHewliI

[ancient zodiac]

I guess it's about time to go back and continue the game

[tropic night]

Shattered Space DLC should be released on Sep 30

[tropic night]

well, Starfield Cyclone RC is pretty cool. It has weird controls, but better handling than SC's Cyclone...

[frail gull]

LIES the Cyclone is perfect

[scenic plaza]

Im waiting for Shattered space DLC before getting back in. I will need to relearn everything!

[hollow nacelle]

Ya same. Im ng+10 and plus 6 on my ship lol. Ready to beat both bosses at the Sametime. But I haven't played in like 9 months

[ebon umbra]

This.

[tropic night]

Shattered Space goes live in 15 min

[tropic night]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4KpYy3Bs6E

[frail gull]

how is it

[tropic night]

People like it.

I plan to play it on the long winter nights. Assuming I will be alive and there won't be a WWIII, nor anything like that ; )

[frail gull]

haha reviews show as mixed atm thats why i ask

[spare dew]

Didnt even know the expansion was out, maybe ill try gathering some motivation to play again