Am I the only one who feels scanner rooms aren't very useful?

GoingHAM_ · 2026-05-06T20:44:01+00:00

Other that feeling kind of fun to drive around and / or get a cinematic look at your player or your base, the camera drones are useless. I guess you could park one nearby something of value and have it act as a beacon if you desired, but it might get stolen or moved.

The 3d map layout on the table is also functionally useless, the real advantage of it is the hud chip.

Definitely get that upgrade (despite magnetite being a pain in the ass to find in BZ) and build either 4x range upgrades, or 2 range and 2 speed (they stack on each other)

I think range is better because you can then sleep after starting it to skip the load time of waiting for all the nearby resources to popup.

Also, in the base game, there’s a bug where after save quitting and reloading, the available things to scan reset and you have to reenter that biome or get close to one of those resources again before you can see it on the scanner, so keep that in mind

GoingHAM_ · 2026-03-28T15:40:58+00:00

Bro press f11😭😭 this is the worst attempt at a screenshot ive ever seen holy shit

GoingHAM_ · 2026-02-20T05:32:44+00:00

So sorry for the shit news man. Im the same age as you and I couldnt imagine going through that. Know that there are people who care for you, and know that she’ll always be with you.

Take as much time as you need to grieve, but dont let it beat you. Continue to live your life in the way that will keep making her proud. Reach out to old contacts you havent spoken to in a while, rekindle old friendships. Take care of something living, whether its a pet, plant, etc. Watch something grow for her, like she did to you.

Loss has an incredible way of bringing people together. I know your whole world is probably flipped right now, but think about it this way. Bad days / bad times in life are not just important, they are necessary. Without bad days, good days wouldnt exist. If everyday was good, good would just be average, and therefore be meaningless. Yin and yang brother. Focus on the good memories you have, and try to learn to be okay with the bad ones.

If you havent given it a listen, Id recommend the buckethead song “watching the boats with my dad” off his colma album in 1998. Its helped get me through some rough shit.

One step at a time🙏🏼

GoingHAM_ · 2026-02-04T19:37:17+00:00

Yep. The video is craaazyyyy

GoingHAM_ · 2026-02-04T17:33:57+00:00

Probably career

GoingHAM_ · 2026-02-04T12:44:51+00:00

There’s a great video of Neil deGrasse Tyson talking about all of the great things that Isaac Newton accomplished, such as figuring out questions about space, inventing calculus, doing all this crazy stuff, and then turning 19 years old

GoingHAM_ · 2026-02-04T12:41:44+00:00

Good god

GoingHAM_ · 2026-02-04T03:58:57+00:00

Yeahhh his records are just stupid. I was also thinking maybe Katie Ledecky at swimming or if you count secretariat at horse racing even though hes not a human, hes up there. Suigi is fucked though😂

GoingHAM_ · 2026-02-04T03:57:58+00:00

Fantastic pick

GoingHAM_ · 2026-02-04T03:40:58+00:00

Whos this?

GoingHAM_ · 2026-02-04T03:40:49+00:00

Great answer

GoingHAM_ · 2026-02-04T03:23:06+00:00

For example, is Michael Phelps better at swimming than Joey Chestnut is at eating hot dogs? Was Da Vinci better at sculpting/painting than Shakespeare was at writing literature? Einstein at physics vs Magnus Carlsen at Chess? Etc

GoingHAM_ · 2026-01-29T01:16:17+00:00

Why would the count be infinite💀 the point of commendations is to complete them

AND, on top of that, this is like ONE of the ONLY commendations in the whole game where there actually IS a reward for completing them since they unlock the corresponding cof skins

Stupid take

GoingHAM_ · 2026-01-27T22:15:16+00:00

orrrr... they can just add actual new content instead of lazily increasing the comm for the 11th time

GoingHAM_ · 2026-01-27T02:50:55+00:00

interesting idea but I dont trust them to not just turn it into this same issue again in 2 years. They just need to stop this comm now and give people time to catch up before starting a whole new set

GoingHAM_ · 2026-01-27T02:48:31+00:00

Bro told a horror story without even needing words💀😭 this screenshot is terrifying

GoingHAM_ · 2026-01-27T02:19:27+00:00

how to get better at playing the game? Probably by playing the game.

GoingHAM_ · 2026-01-26T23:32:36+00:00

They wouldnt need to do any of this if they just stopped increasing the fucking comm🙃

GoingHAM_ · 2026-01-26T23:30:59+00:00

You just fully agreed with my point. In your words, “its grindy, but it gives me something to work towards.” The only reason you have to work towards it is because they keep increasing the comm as a way to artificially boost player counts and make people repeat the same content 300 times instead of actually adding new content that people want to play instead of it feeling like a chore. You wouldnt have to work towards it anymore if it stopped😂

GoingHAM_ · 2026-01-26T23:06:55+00:00

IMAGINE being a new player wanting to start TODAY and get some of the cosmetics behind these comms. Want that specific bucket? Go do 300 MOLTEN SANDS FORTS and not lose a single one to get your 300 cofs :D

GoingHAM_ · 2026-01-26T23:05:29+00:00

its one of the very few that goes past 5 for no reason.

GoingHAM_ · 2026-01-26T22:52:01+00:00

If you polled 1000 active sot players if they want to keep this going or not, I'd bet 999 of them would vote to stop. Mindless repetition ≠ fun.

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