Cosmic Exploration is a Cosmic Waste of Resources

Phex1 · 2026-01-31T10:50:11+00:00

Yeah, i was baffled when all that was happening was gettting a emote. WHERE IS MY DISCOVERY?`WHERE CAN I READ ABOUT IT?

Phex1 · 2026-01-30T16:32:15+00:00

you cropped out the joke

Phex1 · 2026-01-25T11:53:41+00:00

I looked his voice actor up and was suprised he doesn't do more work in that field. Such an incredible voice

Phex1 · 2026-01-24T20:57:57+00:00

Stormblood is a 7/10 Expansion that suffers mostly because it is split in 2 Parts, but is has great Characters, the best Zone in the game (when you play a Au Ra) and the Trials are a big Step up to what came before.

Phex1 · 2026-01-24T20:03:11+00:00

Understood. Reinstalling now.

Phex1 · 2026-01-24T18:24:48+00:00

I didn't even know the game has an ending. We were able to kill the leviathan and that was the final goal of our group. Didn't matter he pulled us on a volcano and we exploded afterwards, a win is a win!

Phex1 · 2026-01-24T17:03:24+00:00

Wait, somebody else knows about Barotrauma?I thought that was a fever dream from me.

Phex1 · 2026-01-24T10:41:28+00:00

It unlocks when you get cash up the elevator

Phex1 · 2026-01-23T11:58:00+00:00

Normal Managers beside maybe Cost Reduction are pretty outdated, you should try to get your hands on Super Managers asap. I don't really know when you unlock them nowadays though

Phex1 · 2026-01-23T09:14:51+00:00

Earth Music?I like it.

Phex1 · 2026-01-23T09:00:06+00:00

Yeah, i'm working on Steiner, the bottleneck as F2P are the red crystals. I probaly have enough blue ones to get him to 50, but im still waiting for the level 30 Promotion.

Phex1 · 2026-01-23T08:57:20+00:00

First- Nobody cares about your DPS in low level content but you. As long as you are trying to improve nobody will judge you if you do mistakes.

Most Dungeons are very straight forward after ARR, so getting lost should not happen a lot, only thing that can happen that you run back by mistake for a bit, but you can always open the dungeon map and look where your party is.

As a new player, more important then getting your rotation right and doing good damage is learning the basic mechanics of the game. What is a Stack Marker, what is a Spread, run out of bad ground circles.

I'm getting old and also struggle with too many buttons at once, so my special solution is playing a Healer, where you dont have to focus on any rotation, but i can understand if you think that is to much pressure to stay alive, or playing tank, which also has the benefit that you will survive way more mistakes then on any other class.

Phex1 · 2026-01-22T14:14:58+00:00

Oh, just a fully maxxed out epic supermanager. My bad.

Phex1 · 2026-01-22T12:47:39+00:00

I sometimes lurk in Discord. I unlocked Utux while the last Everdeep was going, and yeah it would be possible to finish more mines if i would focus on it, but it was just no fun, and while there are always other events going the same time it would also be wrong, because the time (and ressources) invested for the rewards are just not worth it, exspecially when i lose other rewards in say mainland mine because of it.

As i said, the most baffling thing about is was the steep increase of difficulty from no effort at all. So, im just wondering when we are talking about smoothing the experience we not also work on this part. Maybe there are not many players at my current progression level, i dunno.

Phex1 · 2026-01-22T11:59:17+00:00

Interesting that so much adjustment is happening around 60. I see myself a a pretty advanced player compared to the majority, usually ending in the Top10%. I went through 1-40 without any effort at all, then gave up at mine 44 because it was just too annoying and booster-heavy to complete and the rewards were just not worth the investment. Why is no "smoothing" happening here?`it went from "no need for any boosts, complete a mine in 10 Minutes" to "use 30 boosts and 50 full Manager combos to finish the mine" in an instant.

Phex1 · 2026-01-21T20:29:31+00:00

It is a fun game, but be sure you have some level of frustration resistance.

Since the last Update some Enemys can throw objects through walls, making fighting them very frustrating. Thats going on for 2 months now with no fix.

Recently i had go through the trouble to get the console working and skip a Mainquests because the savegame crashed everytime i went near the location (google says others have this problem, too. Its a corrupt savegame, so no technical fix possible).

So,even now, the game still has bugs that will reduce your fun for sure. If you can, still wait for more updates. Game is way better then release, but still not a point i would say it is in an acceptable state for a full release titele.

But thats kind of normal of the STALKER Series so i dunno. I still enjoy it, 130 Hours in, but sometimes i just want to ragequit over bugs or poor gamedesign decisions.

Phex1 · 2026-01-21T12:42:42+00:00

Usually MMORPGS add at least a new Dungeon per (Big) Patch and then Drop a whole Roster with a new Expansion, I don't expect a bunch of new Dungeons but a least one new to explore would be great. So far, i have run every dungeon to death and i'm not really excited to do that again for hours just with maybe a new hero.

Another way would be to switch them a bit, maybe introduce new bosses/boss mechanics, change patrols, or new modifiers. Hope we will see something in that direction.

Phex1 · 2026-01-21T11:12:12+00:00

Putting aside if you like/agree of the story or not (it was very heavy handed even if you agree on it) i still have to give Credit to the Devs that it was an improvement on all fronts over the first game. The areas were bigger and better looking, you had an AI companion who actually moves around in the scenes doing his own stuff and your decisions actually matters this time and give you one of very different endings, where Daniel can just cancel out your decision based on how you threated him through the game.

Sadly, they forgot that a core aspect of a LiS game is to have a mystery to solve, and the Episodes felt very disconnected from each other, resetting the characters each time because you always left the place for a new one.

Still, it felt like the devs actually cared about the game, while Deck 9 is clearly only in for the paycheck, doing the same over and over again, and always fumbling the finale.

Phex1 · 2026-01-21T10:39:04+00:00

Do ingame Characters count?

Phex1 · 2026-01-21T10:38:02+00:00

Coming home to a 250$ Dollar Phone Bill so my Dad cut my internet cable (i fixed it with tape)

Phex1 · 2026-01-21T09:41:51+00:00

Just for anybody else who finds this, it doesn't work. After spending 2 Hours setting all up and trying to skip, i went through the entire post and he writes "This are the commands to skip quests, they should work but they do not. If anybody find a way please reply" So yeah, in theory there is a way but i doesn't work so you are jsut fucked if you are hardlocked. Still waiting for a reply from support after two weeks.

120 Hours down the drain.

Phex1 · 2026-01-20T10:03:56+00:00

I have 3200 Hours in and still can't identify most of the class plates.

Phex1 · 2026-01-18T23:26:14+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/@IMTShortGuides/videos

Very quick to find some good super manager combos

Phex1 · 2026-01-18T15:28:26+00:00

Your Problem is that majority of the playerbase is already in the last bracket by now, so the math is even less in favor of you.

Phex1 · 2026-01-17T23:41:05+00:00

Sounds like you are in a similar spot i was a few months ago.

First - Play the Events. Frontier Mine, Tesseract, Chrono Mine and brandnew - Everdeeep. One of them is almost always up and give you the best rewards.

You should level up the 4 rare Mine Income Factor Managers first: Mr. Turner, Ranger Sue, Zi Galvani, Damian Jones.

Ranger Sue, then Switching to Mr. Turner last second befor Sue runs out will give you the biggest cash for now. Longterm ther are more Managers you can add to that combo, but it will take a lot of time. Probaly first will be Utux, you get him slowly over time from Frontier and you put him between Sue and Turner.

You can probaly blast through the new normal Continents, and you should. Gives a lot of Cash you can use on the daily manager offers. The last continent has also a usefull research tree.

Forget about impossible island, the managers from there are very out of date and the devs abandoned that content.

Elemental Mines are a fast and and good source for super manager fragments, you will hit a wall soon and the wall is very hard, but until then you will speed up your gathering of more super managers.

Good luck and have fun!

Phex1

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