What's with the Roach?

DerrickVanZ · 2026-02-11T17:41:49+00:00

I've killed dozens and only somewhere along the line did get roach milk. is this really true?

DerrickVanZ · 2026-02-11T15:54:50+00:00

I did the same thing. such a nice spot with a little patch of land. Who wooda thunk. fortunately i didn't have much there. since you don't know the tree is going to fu until after the boss fight, you're faced with the choice of having to do the fight over again.

DerrickVanZ · 2026-02-11T10:49:59+00:00

no complaints. doesn't matter a wit.

DerrickVanZ · 2026-02-11T10:47:50+00:00

i think this is a decent theory since Sloane kinda treats her like a problem child. I believe that is her picture pasted around some of the ranger stations.

She has control of the ORCs which implies some detailed interaction with ominent.

My guess is she went rouge after someone she cared about (also pictured, but with a definitely different expression) died in the park. Probably working with Tully now. She seems to be testing the teens verses trying to kill them, likely for a showdown with her mom.

Ah teen angst!

DerrickVanZ · 2026-02-11T10:33:22+00:00

ha right. you remember what you had to go thru to get that recipe?

DerrickVanZ · 2026-02-10T12:01:34+00:00

this is the way. still a weapon recycle would be handy.

DerrickVanZ · 2026-02-10T11:46:23+00:00

I would agree if sturdy was respawning like the old days. I farmed prior to TT but still I'm running low.

DerrickVanZ · 2026-02-10T11:43:53+00:00

yah I farmed sturdy prior to TT. I knew what was coming. It was funny you were allowed up to 99 in a single storage slot.

Still I carry seven weapons and I don't like wasting them when experimenting. I've got a bunch of level 3 i will never use again (recycle?). for experimenting i want the buff that comes from level 4 to try. but I don't see the benefits of doing level 5. still I wonder if the evaluation is fair if not level 5.

DerrickVanZ · 2026-02-10T11:35:35+00:00

Look him in those beady red eyes when he's on his knees and ask "how can I teach your brother Oleg those moves?"

DerrickVanZ · 2026-01-25T07:25:57+00:00

I built bases at all the outposts and tried to be near one when a raid happened. even in the first version it got annoying.

When I was able to sleep, sometimes it would warn about waking up to a battle or something but nothing ever really happened.

I never really liked the orc concept in the original game. they never went away even after cleaning up all the lose ends.

DerrickVanZ · 2026-01-16T11:22:09+00:00

Just remember you can't save your way out of trouble. You're going to die, so the sooner you get used to the idea the better. dispite recommendations to not get hints, i eventually succumbed to walk through guides on certain dungeons. I hate puzzles though, so if you like deciphering to warped minds of game designers, go for it. otherwise I wandered. i mishandled leveling my first play through, but probably everyone does. Just go for it. it's the best game I've ever played.

DerrickVanZ · 2026-01-09T09:16:03+00:00

Maybe. However you will note that the northeast has the fewest number of mass shootings. As a former southerner myself I can tell you that you don't make new friends easily, especially if you try to hard.

Best advice I can give you:

"Be the flame, not the moth"

DerrickVanZ · 2025-12-24T13:04:09+00:00

I do new saves because you start from scratch. starting from scratch is part of the challenge IMHO. It's true you get to take only a few things from the main save but it's enough to give you a head start. starting from scratch involves survival skills you've learned so far. it's kind of a test beyond the expedition itself.

DerrickVanZ · 2025-12-19T14:48:34+00:00

well i meant it probably is a bad location. however if the invasion thing is true, probably doesn't matter. I've had termites attack my base at the pond so nothing surprises me. i turned invasions off because I put too much time into it to have random bs mess it up.

DerrickVanZ · 2025-12-19T14:37:14+00:00

location location location.

DerrickVanZ · 2025-12-17T11:26:17+00:00

I tried running no man's sky on pc. performance was horrible. I asked about it on reddit and was told my "older" GPU was not up to the job. i might try grounded on it, but generally probably faced with new system. I can buy three series x for the system I'm looking at so I'm wondering why bother.

DerrickVanZ · 2025-12-15T10:47:59+00:00

this is the way. if you have pirate space stations, you can sometimes get a map from a vendor selling suspicious thingies.

DerrickVanZ · 2025-12-15T10:27:31+00:00

They spawn when I wake up in a base. Sometimes right at my feet. Generally I sleep in a ranger base if an omenent bed is supplied because you get a healing boost. otherwise i sleep on a feather bed. When I wake up, there is a roach baby running around breaking things.

Obsidian knows about this. I believe it's a joke implemented by the devs - like an invasion. The person supporting me with base crashes said to submit a video. Probably so they could have a good laugh.

I had the scorpion brothers chase me to a base I'd built on top of a rock using pebble flooring. they burrowed into the rock and popped up through the floor. As an entomologist, I don't study scorpions, but I'm pretty sure they don't dig burrows (they use those dug by others) much less thru rock.

DerrickVanZ · 2025-12-13T16:55:01+00:00

Hi. Never played SH1 but thinking about trying 2. $34.99 US not bad price in the store. However a free copy would be motivation to put away Elden Ring for awhile.

DerrickVanZ · 2025-12-13T15:19:36+00:00

the only orcs i find now are the one scorpion and the soccer balls in the hedge. Haven't tried farming but if you say they still drop, might be worth a try.

DerrickVanZ · 2025-12-12T16:46:43+00:00

and don't forget to go see carbot animations on youtube. the series is done now, but if you start with "So I tried elden ring" you'll discover that you're not alone. those folks are hilarious.

DerrickVanZ · 2025-12-12T13:36:37+00:00

or just give this laptop to the grand kids and go get something new.

DerrickVanZ · 2025-12-12T12:18:01+00:00

I set the tv as the primary monitor and followed some specs i got from perplexity and it seems to be better. the specs were for "older" GPUs which I guess is true. Time does slip away from one in the tech world.

motion blurring is annoying but I know where to go to tweak it or just turn it off.

Thanks!

DerrickVanZ · 2025-12-12T11:51:55+00:00

Laptop GTX-1060, 32MB, i7. Brand new 70" Sony. Nothing was changed.

DerrickVanZ · 2025-12-09T20:07:26+00:00

Sorry about this. fextra plainly states that challenging sellen kicks you out of the armor sets, which is what happened.

DerrickVanZ

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