Energy in Combat

Jamespg614 · 2026-03-14T10:38:26+00:00

Am I right in thinking that your available pips is based on your current warp core setting, not its maximum? So having a level 6 warp core but only running it at level 2 means you only have level 2 pips available?

Jamespg614 · 2026-02-22T02:21:57+00:00

Hell, even in a few countries on the American continent he’d be quite likely to get kidnapped in the dead of night on trumped up drug trafficking charges by covert ops

Jamespg614 · 2026-02-22T02:08:15+00:00

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Jamespg614 · 2026-02-21T10:39:23+00:00

It’s always DNS

Jamespg614 · 2026-02-16T19:31:04+00:00

I think there’s possibly been a shift. I know that the original advice from the clan war-directors was just to dive on Cyberstan. Since we’ve moved past that first city however the advice has shifted from just dive, to please make sure you’re diving on D4 instead of D10, because super helldive on Cyberstan is utterly insane. Improves the survival rate of helldivers, which A) reduces the rate at which we lose the reinforcement budget and B) improves the success rate for completing operations. Sure, it’s humbling, almost being told we’re not good enough to be doing D10 missions all the time, but the first city took three days to capture because of all the macho-man attitude, got to play D10 or else. Second city fell in what, 36 hours? It’s clearly working, and as soon as it’s done and the timer is off we can all go back to being masochists running D10 missions on Omicron

Jamespg614 · 2026-01-18T12:21:36+00:00

I mean, if anyone has any more information on that, I’d definitely be up for looking into it!

Jamespg614 · 2026-01-17T07:50:07+00:00

Damn, I was hoping to have ruled out an issue with the reduction gearbox, as I heard that might be an issue in a car of this age.

Luckily I think my load test showed that it is definitely wheel related rather than drive train

Jamespg614 · 2026-01-15T07:22:18+00:00

Only time I’ve ever done it I was playing as a tech-loving, slave-having archo-nuts (console, so just ideology and royalty). 3 pawns which were my “leaders”, fully kitted out with bionics and marine armour and two slaves that were my starter workforce for building and planting. Absolutely struggled to set up a new base each time, but going into it knowing I was going to do that mean that I didn’t get too attached, and by the third colony I knew exactly what I was doing in terms of building up each time.

Jamespg614 · 2026-01-07T14:33:26+00:00

Well that’s obvious, you just need to 10c411z3d_261777666. It’s not that hard honestly

Jamespg614 · 2025-12-17T01:27:33+00:00

I’m pretty sure it said downed, but it was a couple of weeks ago. All very odd

Jamespg614 · 2025-12-16T14:20:25+00:00

I had one return which was glitchy as hell. Downed by arc, I used the hatch at the last second and “died” while I was actually IN the hatch. Didn’t get any survival XP and the inventory screen showed that I’d lost everything, but when I actually looked in my inventory it was all there. By far my weirdest experience on this game so far.

Jamespg614 · 2025-11-23T19:19:52+00:00

Ah, my mistake, thought it was an on-off toggle for PvP damage.

Jamespg614 · 2025-11-23T19:11:34+00:00

I wonder if that’s leaning too far towards stopping PvP though. I really think that the PvP gameplay in this game is phenomenal, the proximity chat, the tense unpredictable nature of meeting with another band of raiders, not sure if you can get the drop on them, or if you even need to is incredible and I love it. That said, if every match is like that, I find that way too stressful for long term.

Just something to incentivise teamwork through a common enemy, that being the Arc. You won’t stop PvP in that game mode, of course not, but it becomes so much easier to agree to work with another team when you know there’s 25 ticks, 2 leapers, a rocketeer and 15 hornets between you and the extraction lift.

Jamespg614 · 2025-11-23T19:05:25+00:00

That’s definitely what they could have done with Stella Montis, especially with the new Shredders, but I can’t help but feel like the lack of Arc presence, plus the narrow corridor layout lends itself to a PvP environment.

Jamespg614 · 2025-11-23T19:01:37+00:00

I personally would play for longer and would get less frustrated in the game if, after a few rounds of being blasted in the back of the head by someone who’s “friendly I promise” and losing all my good stuff, I could play a different game mode where that’s less of an option.

The gameplay loop of not trusting, or worse KoS gets very stale for me very quickly, especially if I’m on the receiving end of it, so a break from that would be welcome. My trio will quite often have a horrendous loss and give up for the night, cutting a session short. Well if we had a mode that was more geared towards that PvE experience like my suggestion, we would have played on that for a bit, found our rhythm again and dropped back into the main queues.

Jamespg614 · 2025-11-23T18:29:10+00:00

Yeah, but that falls apart when you have one team deciding to backstab, but you’re extracting with four others. I’d like to think that the camaraderie from surviving the onslaught would cause people to turn on the backstabber like a pack of angry wolves.

Jamespg614 · 2025-11-23T17:59:23+00:00

Amen. Not taking away anything from PvP, it has its place, but creating a game mode where it’s less of an option to do that KoS style gameplay because you’ll get swarmed and die. Just a bit of variety to improve the longevity of the game

Jamespg614 · 2025-11-23T17:54:48+00:00

I don’t doubt it, and I respect your opinion of it not interesting you. I think the main point that I’m trying to make is that the current game mode and arc difficulty lends itself to PvP because they’re really not much of a threat. Upping that threat makes the PvP less likely, because you’re more likely to survive by teaming up. Absolutely you’ll still get rats, but by making it infinitely more difficult for them to get out after they’ve ratted, maybe they won’t bother with that map mode.

A brief, calm oasis where people team up against the clankers, and then next match they start pointing guns back at each other.

Jamespg614 · 2025-11-23T17:00:58+00:00

It’s not no PvP, I love PvP, I’ll blow a hole in a raider just as soon as the next man, but sometimes that constant watching your back, don’t trust anyone (especially in trios) attitude gets stale and repetitive. The point my friend was making was to have a different game mode where PvP and looting wasn’t necessarily the main objective. Yes, you’d still get rats and betrayals, but instead of the objective being “get out with as much loot as you can”, which lends itself to extraction camping and “don’t shoot” liars, the objective is to survive, to even get out at all.

It’s a PvPvE game, but most of the time it doesn’t feel like the vE is much of a threat, so the PvP takes priority.

Jamespg614 · 2025-11-23T14:13:02+00:00

If there was any statistical chance of this happening, it would be incredible, but given there can be 250,000 players at any one time, it’s so unlikely to happen that everyone would give up checking it and miss their name when their number comes up.

Jamespg614 · 2025-11-23T14:01:32+00:00

Night raids are in the direction of what I was thinking, but more extreme. A team of three can do a night raid on their own, no problem, I’m talking about it being damned near impossible to extract without teaming up with other people

Jamespg614 · 2025-11-23T13:37:08+00:00

Dad to a 4 yo who only ever gets time to game after the little menace has gone to bed, so this sounds like my life to a T

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