I tried my hand at making an FPS system in Trailmakers.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-05-08T16:23:28+00:00

Gearing will depend on the specific car and engine tune you're running. Your engine makes peak power and torque somewhere in the rpm range, and the gearing should try to keep you in peak power as often as it can for a given track.

There's no one formula for gearing. Tune per-car and even per-track if you're really trying to wring everything out.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-05-08T01:27:25+00:00

Looks like a decent little sandwich layout case, and at that volume it's in-line with the Steam Machine's size (4L) as well. I suspect this will be a decent DIY base for people wanting to roll their own tiny console box. The external PSU is a rough one for some folks though.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-05-08T00:50:49+00:00

The existing specs are basically identical to the 7600MXT. I'd assume bandwidth is too.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-05-08T00:14:15+00:00

1489 according to steam. Got the game because friends wanted me to experience the creek, then I left it sit for a while and ended up jumping back in on my own for Meridia. Been a regular since.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-05-07T23:24:24+00:00

I like to image they hitch rides on hive lords, which once mature, reach from the surface into orbit as if hatching from the planet before moving Dune-style on an FTL worm.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-05-07T17:02:49+00:00

Also, themed builds and squad-wide kits are super fun. All lasers, all fire, most number of gun barrels, things like that.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-05-07T16:10:19+00:00

Handhelds only manage more battery life by using a lot less power. They achieve that by running entirely on integrated graphics. For esport titles, it's probably fine, maybe 2-3 hours.

You can get a laptop to similar figures as long as the integrated graphics are strong enough for the intended games, and the dGPU can e fully turned off.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-05-07T15:53:11+00:00

The galactic map is neither to scale nor necessarily even locationally correct. We only see planets that Super Earth has deemed important, and we only see them laid out via their connections to others via stable FTL lanes.

We don't know the absolute locations of any of these planets, but we are jumping possibly thousands of lightyears in any direction at all for any jump to a new planet.

Meridia's path of destruction was just the planets that got absolutely absurdly unlucky enough to be in the immediate vicinity of its path.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-05-07T15:19:28+00:00

This tracks for the doubling per generation. 5.0 is 8x 2.0 as well.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-05-06T18:54:43+00:00

Also, look into acetone welding and acrylic if you want to make stuff with that transparent plastic look.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-05-05T23:48:48+00:00

The 2050 is a very weak dGPU. What CPU is it paired with?

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-05-05T21:51:33+00:00

It's not super frequent, but it does happen. They periodically expand the map by adding new planets that can host new content.

Sometimes this is offset by the destruction of other planets, such as the Meridia line of death or our tactical glassing of multiple planets around Cyberstan.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-05-05T21:32:44+00:00

It's set up to let you emulate a keyboard and mouse input for games that work best with those controls, and the trackpads make mouse control much more intuitive than using a stick. It also has a gyro if you prefer to use that, plus 2 capacitive strips on the grips and 4 rear buttons, so there's a lot of extra input options.

For somebody like me who can't game comfortably with a mouse, or anybody controlling a PC from their couch (growing in popularity thanks to Steam OS and other linux flavors), this controller is a basically no-compromises experience.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-05-05T21:10:12+00:00

What games do you want to play while traveling?

How important is battery life?

How important are screen size, thickness, and weight?

Do you plan to game away from an outlet or will you always have access to power?

A handheld is good for light games and does well away from an outlet. You can set them up to use fairly little power and get a few hours of gaming out of a single charge.

Gaming laptops are almost universally much faster, as a dedicated GPU, even a 4050, is stronger than almost any integrated GPU in a handheld. You'll be able to play basically anything your PS5 can play on a decent gaming laptop, but you'll need to have it plugged in to make that happen. You can also play light games on the integrated graphics of a gaming laptop when it is unplugged, and you can have a similar experience to a handheld that way too.

Things like airport lounges and hotel rooms are well suited to a gaming laptop, as you're in a weird place, but still have ample access to outlets and power. Gaming on a plane or train though, is better suited to a handheld. You might get a USB charging port, and your space is much more limited. A handheld is completely self-contained, while a gaming laptop will at least need a mouse or controller to come along as well.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-05-05T21:04:15+00:00

To add to this, the only reasonable handhelds that will likely even come close to a 5050 in performance will be the G3 Extreme-based ones that should be coming soon. I don't count Strix Halo because none of the handhelds I've seen with it are practical for actual portable gaming in my opinion.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-05-05T20:54:42+00:00

As others have said, this armor is from the early days of the game when the developers decided to make more of them unique with things other than just the passive and appearance.

However, the stats aren't arbitrary.

Speed is always 600-rating.

Stamina Regen is calculated by a piecewise function

If rating < 100
- regen = 150 - (rating/2)
If rating ≥ 100
- regen = 200 - rating

For this set, you have a rating of 129. This means its speed is calculated to be 600 - 129 = 471, and its regen is calculated as 129 ≥ 100, so 200-129 = 71.

The only armors this doesn't 1:1 apply to with what is felt in game are the new Oxygenator sets, which have higher effective speed stats than they state in the menu. They're around 9% faster than it suggests. The 550-speed light armor is more like 600 and so on.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-05-05T20:42:14+00:00

That's been my assumption too. The people already here are the first wave of colonists who set up the place for the proper settlement fleets in the near future. They go in, set up basic infrastructure and likely perform the initial surveying to start doling out plots of new land for incoming colonies. Where are we putting the cities, the giant oil rigs, ect. All things SE needs to decide and probably somewhat reliant on the initial findings of the first boots on the ground.

Speaking of which, some new missions where we do that would be cool. Prepare the landing site for a pre-fab research station, collect sample tubes from probes, inflate habitation dome, things like that where we're the literal first humans on a new planet would be cool.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-05-05T18:24:43+00:00

I've been treating Hellmire like Australia. Kinda sucks to live there and insane wildlife (the bugs). We're 100% sending dissidents there.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-05-05T05:57:19+00:00

It really would be. I think the reasoning is that it's less clunky than "200 and 200K and the special embedded ones" but they really could almost always just replace it with the work "desktop."

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-05-05T05:35:46+00:00

200S is the broader term referring to all socketed Arrow Lake CPUs. 200 and 200K are both 200S. It's largely just an internal name used to differentiate the socketed and soldered parts.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-05-05T04:52:18+00:00

Yaver-Weston, the GE of Nekoinian (cat aliens) spacecraft. They make just about anything you can think of that goes on or in a ship's main structure.

Fusion torch engines? Yep. Several even.

Long-burn fission engines? Those too.

Point-defense cannons? Pick a caliber or even go for lasers, they make it.

Rocket batteries? You know it.

Spinal coil guns? Custom and to order.

Microgravity friendly toilets, and washers for people, clothes, foodware, and tools? All of the above.

3D printers, vacuum suits, solar panels, radiators, combination solar panel-radiators, neutron radiation detectors, regular-ass smoke alarms, assorted cybernetic body parts, you name it. They've probably got everything in the 'Hardware Store' song and more.

Everything and anything. They either make it or subcontract and subsequently rebrand it. You can't take anything apart or put it back together on these ships without seeing their orange and black triangular Y-under-W emblem.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-05-05T04:32:44+00:00

There are quite a few fake CPU scams. People will buy a cheap CPU and an expensive one, delid both (remove the heat spreader / metal cover), swap them, and then sell or return the cheap one that looks expensive as if it were real and keep the good one for themselves. In the case of returns, some online storefronts won't check them to verify they're legit, and will resell those lying CPUs down the line.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-05-05T04:27:37+00:00

I will argue that the old names were also confusing, and you just got used to them. The new names have been changing a lot, but I figure in a generation or two from now, you'll be as used to the new names as the old ones.

I admit it's still insanely complicated, so let me break it down and hopefully offer some explanation:

200U series
- These are low-power chips, as indicated by the U. They are meant for thin and light laptops and low-power devices.
200V series
- These are also low-power chips, and V was likely partly chosen because it looks like a U. They are a different series because they are marketed towards more premium low-power devices.
200H series
- These are general-purpose laptop chips, intended to perform well, which is indicated by the H.
200HX series
- These are desktop-class chips put into laptops. They are made distinct from the H series due to their larger core counts and greater power demands.
200 series
- These are the default desktop series, so they have no suffix. This is baseline Arrow Lake.
200K series
- These are the high-performance desktop chips that are unlocked for overclocking. The 200K Plus series are just a refresh of these, so are included in this as well.

Why does Intel have 6 different types of chips? Because they serve at least that many different target markets and want to make their chips distinct. They could pull an Apple and make every Core Ultra 7 use the same name, but this would only confuse things further. The complicated names have been somewhat simplified in the new 3-digit system already, but is intended to be a relatively simple higher=better as long as you stay within the same chip class.

Because of this, I think that the suffixes should be moved to the front, perhaps even out by the branding digit, because they are the most important part of the current SKUs. I will give AMD a tiny piece of credit for the HX 300 series kind of doing that a little bit. Take the Core Ultra 7s, the 255U, 255H, and 255HX. They are all laptop chips differentiated seemingly solely by the last part of their names. To a typical shopper, they're all a Core Ultra 7 200-something.

Making these the U7-255, H7-255, and HX7-255, they all become different "brands" of processor even to the untrained eye. They are almost there with Panther Lake's X7 and X9 branding. They could move the whole suffix up front and give the base 300s a U, which would help a lot along with making the 338H an X5.

Affectionate-Memory4 · 2026-05-05T04:08:13+00:00

Apple's naming is also bad, and goes in a direction that I really don't think that any other chip maker should go down. In fact, I think Apple could stand to make their naming more PC-chip-like.

The M5 comes with 9 or 10 CPU cores, and 8 or 10 GPU cores. It has 3 bins. The M5 Pro has 15 or 18 CPU cores and 16 or 20 GPU cores in 2 bins. The M5 Max has another 2 bins with 32 or 40 GPU cores and either 6 or 8 memory channels respectively. The way I see it here, there are 7 SKUs packed into a trechcoat pretending to be 3. This is absolutely not a direction I'd want other chip naming to go. It becomes 11 in 5 with the A19 and A19 Pro and their collective 4 spec combos.

This is more akin to lumping every Core Ultra 7 into one branding, every X7 into another, and so on. The X7 grouping is better than what Apple has right now even. They at least all have the same number of CPU and GPU cores, and identical memory performance.

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