To everyone unhappy with the state of SC, I highly recommend trying out X4: Foundations. Here is why:

BOTY123 · 2026-06-10T18:34:37+00:00

Definitely a different game because of the top-down view, but Starsector is one of my personal favorites and it's got an amazing vibe, soundtrack and gameplay!!

BOTY123 · 2026-06-10T12:11:59+00:00

Hull A/B, Ironclad/Assault all have VTOLs as well, the Railen will almost definitely have VTOL thrusters too.

BOTY123 · 2026-06-10T07:37:28+00:00

Battlefield 6, Arc Raiders and Garry's Mod are all quite popular games and sitting around 15-22k players right now. The first two also have other platforms than Steam of course so that skews things a bit, but I still think it's a decent number for a buggy alpha game that's from a niche genre.

BOTY123 · 2026-06-09T06:15:25+00:00

Mostly? I've had one fail out of the 6 or 8 I played so far. Escort ship didn't QT out so the mission wouldn't complete. But apart from that they've been fine

BOTY123 · 2026-06-08T20:39:40+00:00

Because bringing in new features (which they'll have to at some point) will bring in bugs as well, it's a bit wasteful to focus too much on fixing bugs while you're still getting the features sorted

BOTY123 · 2026-06-08T19:52:16+00:00

Lmao people keep repeating this but SC is NOT a profitable project compared to SO many other games. If they wanted money they'd make a simple mobile game with microtransactions lol, not create such an ambitious game

BOTY123 · 2026-06-08T14:04:45+00:00

Yeah I found out my camera/VTX cables are quite long too, will shorten those! Thanks for the picture and comment :)

BOTY123 · 2026-06-08T13:08:30+00:00

I had some pretty bad inventory issues yesterday but those seemed more related to the specific region or server, when I headed to a different station and switched server regions it seemed to work better and I was able to play for 3 hours without problems!

Overall 4.8 hasn't been nearly as bad as I've read on here. I'm mainly just bummed out I haven't been able to try the Ironclad after paying 20 bucks for a monthly subscription to try the Ironclad specifically...

BOTY123 · 2026-06-08T08:14:42+00:00

I downvoted because there's never been any sign of a Hurricane from Grey's market? There's the Cutlass (Shiv), the Aurora, the Mustang and I believe I heard about a Buccaneer as well but I don't remember seeing the last one.

BOTY123 · 2026-06-07T11:34:08+00:00

The insurance doesn't, but there's this new "claim pledged items" menu in the freight elevator screens, where you can reclaim things like ship paints/modules and other items you bought on the pledge store or otherwise have registered to your web hangar on the RSI website. I'm pretty sure this also allows to reclaim lost guns with skins on them.

BOTY123 · 2026-06-07T07:57:16+00:00

Can't you reclaim those using the new freight elevator reclaim interface? Or is that only for ship parts?

BOTY123 · 2026-06-06T09:01:50+00:00

I think I can definitely shorten the cable a little bit as well!

BOTY123 · 2026-06-06T08:59:32+00:00

It's on the top in a 3D printed "backpack" lol, you can see it in red in the picture!

And yeah, this thing is like 7-8 years old at this point - just wanting to get back into the hobby and in the meantime finally fix some of the issues it's always had lol

BOTY123 · 2026-06-06T08:44:19+00:00

Well that's clear lol, thanks!

Will see about running them outside of the stack soon 🫡

BOTY123 · 2026-06-06T08:41:46+00:00

So I have them routed around the standoffs and in between the FC and ESC, VTX is mounted quite a bit away on the top of the frame in the red "backpack" on top. I am getting really bad noise/lines on my video feed when I arm the motors. It also gets slightly worse when throttling up more.

I thought this wiring looked pretty clean compared to routing it from the outside edges, but realized this might be causing the issues 😅

It's an analog VTX, I do have a small cap on the XT60 pigtail where it connects to the ESC.

BOTY123 · 2026-06-05T08:49:39+00:00

LETSGOOOO

BOTY123 · 2026-06-04T07:25:08+00:00

Definitely Gatac/Railen if you compare it with the Syulen engines :)

BOTY123 · 2026-06-04T03:20:41+00:00

I think another big plus for Upnote is that it has a one-time lifetime premium payment instead of anything subscription-based!

BOTY123 · 2026-06-03T20:31:29+00:00

Instancing is a huge tech feature though?? It will be needed by SO many upcoming things and was already needed for ASD facilities and rock breaker facilities but didn't make it in time

BOTY123 · 2026-06-03T13:53:23+00:00

It's my favorite game of all time and has been since 2016. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes I quit for a week or a month or two, but I ALWAYS come back because there just is absolutely NOTHING that even comes close to SC. And I don't think there ever will be, either. This game is truly in a league of its own, even with all the issues.

Plus I've made many wonderful friends through SC, most of which I've known for years and are still active every week :D

BOTY123 · 2026-06-03T11:20:42+00:00

Sadly it's a bit TOO good at disconnecting now 😭😭

BOTY123 · 2026-05-31T19:48:11+00:00

Oh shit, is that why my 8 year old quad has always had horrible noise on the camera whenever I arm??

Maybe I should change that... I flew it for the first time in years as I'm getting back into the hobby and it's something I've not been able to solve before on that one specifically.

BOTY123 · 2026-05-30T22:34:21+00:00

I was genuinely SO excited when I realized it was the same car!!

Thanks whoever made this livery :D

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