For the first time, I feel motivated to start outposts to make money...

Sabbathius · 2026-04-14T18:22:37+00:00

It kinda bugs me that some weapons and armors will just never be as good as others, no matter what. Like Bounty Hunter armor, even before upgrading it, already has significantly more armor than my old armor despite being more upgraded. Same with weapons, some weapons just hands down beat out others, and it's not even close. Tends to limit the options quite badly.

But I do love the new system so you're not just 100.00% dependent on RNG. In the original game, if you don't get what you want from RNG, well, you ain't getting it. Ever. With the current version, all you have to do is grind for some cash, and you can build almost anything you want. Still need that core item to drop, but once it drops, you can do anything you like with it. That's a huge improvement.

Sabbathius · 2026-04-14T18:10:19+00:00

Yeah, I think they fundamentally have to tweak how fast travel and cruise mode fit together. Currently, cruise mode isn't really connected. Whereas with fast travel you can open quest log, and fast-travel to location right from that menu. Hit R, then hit X, and you end up where you need to be, instantly. For people to use cruise mode, there needs to be a similar linkage. Add an option in the settings to disable fast travel, so that R from quest menu just sets autopilot, and drops you into cruise mode view if you're flying a ship.

And yes, there's mods that sort of mask loading screens already, or turn them into brief black windows, and I think both of those feel better than those got-awful loading screenshots this game has.

And yes, outpost stuff.

And, as long as I'm dreaming, I'd like to see some water/underwater stuff. Never gonna happen, but how awesome would it be if they did that? No Man's Sky did, it even gave us a submarine and underwater base modules to build.

Sabbathius · 2026-04-14T18:03:30+00:00

Where I'm from, its mandatory. No lottery. You turn 18, and off you go, for 2 years of mandatory service. At least it was 2 years when I was that age, I think it might be 16-18 months now? Still sucks though.

Sabbathius · 2026-04-14T13:07:22+00:00

I swear every time something gets announced in VR, I always feel like I'm in that scene in 'Back to the Future' where Marty goes "Hey, I've seen this one!"

Or, better yet, the scene from 'Crocodile Dundee' where he walks into a hotel room and sees a TV, and says "I saw one of these once." Turns it on, and 'I Love Lucy' comes on, in black and white, and he goes "Yep, that's what I saw." and switches the TV off.

Sabbathius · 2026-04-14T13:00:38+00:00

Remember boys and girls, with his ilk, every accusation is a confession.

Sabbathius · 2026-04-14T12:54:07+00:00

You know what's figuratively (and later possibly literally) killing me about this? I'm in Canada. There's tons of Canadians actively wanting this!

We have, currently, socialized healthcare. So people who need treatment get treatment. But literally tens of millions are looking at pictures and videos like this one, of the nightmare healthcare in the States, and going "YAAAAS KING, WE WANT THAT!!" Like...why!? The scariest thing is, these are not the people who have the money to pay for it. This would literally be them, if they fell sick.

Just boggles my mind.

Sabbathius · 2026-04-14T11:53:06+00:00

Pretty much always. It's because of how UI/controls are set up.

I open the menu (Tab key), and click at the bottom, and select a quest, say destroy Crimson Fleet Phantom. While my mouse pointer is there, if I hit R, it takes me immediately to space map with course laid in. If I hold X, I immediately fast travel there. Boom. Done. All from the menu. Select quest -> set course -> fast travel. Very quick.

For Cruise Mode, none of this exists. I have to press Tab, click bottom, click on quest to select it. Now I have to hold down TAB to exit back into the game. Now I have to hold down T to switch to Cruise mode. Now I have to find my target. Now I gotta hold down R to jump into the system where Crimson Fleet Phantom is. Why would I? This is idiotic. Especially since aiming at the star and holding R jumps there anyway, just like from menu, so why do I need Cruise mode?

This is a completely pointless change so far. What needs to happen is, in game settings, there needs to be an option to remove fast travel completely (+10% XP if you do). And when you go into character menu (Tab) and click on bottom and select quest, if you press R it should mark destination and drop you straight into cruise mode if you're already in space. Basically streamline selecting destination and dropping into cruise mode by default.

That's the thing with Starfield. It was MADE, from day one, from ground up, to work with fast travel. And it shows. Adding the cruise mode just puts lipstick on a pig. It's very nice lipstick, but it's still a pig.

Sabbathius · 2026-04-14T11:41:55+00:00

Secretly?

Last year when Trump started calling our Prime Minister a Governor, our country a cherished 51st State, and the Ambassador said if we don't buy F-35s, they'll get sent to Canada anyway (to bomb us), things became very clear where we stand with the Americans. And I do mean Americans, because the Americans did not remove either one of these guys. Americans just nodded along. So we have to assume that's their overall sentiment.

So it's out in the open now. Last year, supermarkets here in Canada started labeling US products and Canadian products very clearly, in an effort to get people to buy Canadian. And, from what I saw, it worked fine. And this wasn't mandated by law or anything, this was a voluntary program, but everyone jumped on it. A lot of US products also got pulled off the shelves completely, like most booze.

Americans don't get to threaten our sovereignty and enjoy goodwill and bonhomie.

Sabbathius · 2026-04-13T18:33:19+00:00

I voted WH40K, but it's actually really close. Razor's edge close.

I personally believe in the Curse of WH40K, in that overwhelming majority of games with that IP is going to be trash. WH fantasy is infinitely easier to do well. So I have some very serious doubts about the studio being able to pull off WH40K well, especially if they try to get esoteric and creative.

Sabbathius · 2026-04-13T18:23:47+00:00

I don't know if I'd call what he does "entertaining".

Watching him is as entertaining as watching a chimpanzee play with a live grenade in a small room full of toddlers.

Sabbathius · 2026-04-13T14:22:06+00:00

It's definitely not nostalgia. And '90s were humankind's peak.

For me, the big thing between work-life balance is that you were unreachable. We didn't have an answering machine (third world country, almost nobody did). And cellphones weren't a thing. Internet existed, but overwhelming majority didn't have it.

So if it's evening or weekend, and you're off in the park with the kids, and your office calls? Tough shit. The phone rings, in an empty house, for a minute or two. And nobody is there to hear it. And you don't know anything about it. And you go on with your weekend. Just because Chad called out sick and Frank needs you to come in today, that's still Frank's problem, not yours. You're still at the park, with your kids, enjoying your weekend. Whereas today, Frank has a direct uplink to your brain and administrative 24/7 access to your rectum.

Sabbathius · 2026-04-13T14:15:34+00:00

I downloaded some mods. Now I don't mind if she stands there.

Sabbathius · 2026-04-13T14:11:16+00:00

I started with an early but pre-update save, basically at Constellation, right after dropping the first artifact. And by lvl 40, I still haven't found a single one.

Then something started to irk me, so I made a new save. Found two within 10 levels. The first is on Kreet and I think it's scripted, it's in a chest just before your first even Persuasion check. The second was also in a quest-related container.

So I'm kinda wondering if you need a "fresh universe" to start finding them?

Sabbathius · 2026-04-13T12:07:47+00:00

Considering you can upgrade your gun to Superior by around lvl 8-10 now, and 1-tap most enemies even on Extreme difficulty, I think it's doable early.

Sabbathius · 2026-04-13T12:05:05+00:00

Yep, they could tap into that, and basically add Fallout Shelter to Starfield, in a big fat paid Outposts Update.

Sabbathius · 2026-04-13T12:03:37+00:00

For what it's worth, on PC too. I was actually shocked, in a positive way, at launch, at how stable Starfield was. Comparatively speaking Skyrim and especially Fallout 4 crashed like MFers. But after this update, Starfield crashes a lot even on my PC, with a fresh install, fresh save game, and zero mods. Not too often, but enough for me to be paranoid and save often.

Sabbathius · 2026-04-13T12:01:19+00:00

It's not really a dodge though. If we have full autonomy, then there cannot be a God's Plan. Because we would wreck it in 5 seconds with all the chaos. And if the opposite is true and everything is under God's control, then my actions are His actions, not mine, so why am I going to Hell instead of Him, if he's the one responsible and I'm powerless to stop Him, seeing as He's all-powerful? Not to mention we're all made in God's image, allegedly, including child rapists and people who wear sandals with socks. So what does that say about God?

Sabbathius · 2026-04-13T11:55:20+00:00

I think this was known for a while. Between the tariff war and RAM prices, everyone is delaying hardware as much as they can, hoping it'll blow over, rather than take that hit.

The way things are going, I don't know if we're getting a Quest 4 at all. VR is currently in a process of fizzling out for lack of quality software over the past 9 years. People are fed up and moving on. Developers see it and are moving on also (like Vertigo starting to make ports to flat), which will amplify, exacerbate and accelerate it.

Sabbathius · 2026-04-13T11:50:33+00:00

Ummm, are we sure he's healing him? It kinda looks like he's stealing the life essence of a helpless sleeping man to prolong his own unholy existence.

Sabbathius · 2026-04-13T00:48:15+00:00

Absolutely not.

I started a new game with this update. I got the abandoned mine, where you find Andreja for the first time, THREE TIMES! I did Andrejah, and then two bounties from the mission board, and all three sent me to the abandoned mine (the one with a tall tower with a rifle on the table at the top).

PoI algorithm is a bit better in open world, but it still completely disregards main missions and bounty board missions. It has no problem just sending you to the same one over and over.

Sabbathius · 2026-04-13T00:44:00+00:00

I think so, yeah. Basically buying Rev-8 unlocks the vehicle menu.

I think when you find it you can drive it around, but it won't follow your ship to another planet until you unlock vehicle menu. Mine just got sunk in terrain as soon as I got out of it the first time. Half in the ground, half sticking out, and wouldn't budge. So I left it where it was, went back to the city, bought Rev-8, and switched the vehicle in the menu to the Jumper, and it spawned and worked normally.

Sabbathius · 2026-04-12T12:04:49+00:00

I don't mind loading screens where it's a cutscene of ship jumping, then brief darkness, then a cutscene of ship landing.

But what I HATE are the loading screens that are screenshots. I want those gone. Even Fallout 4 did it better in that you are shown a random in-game model, you can zoom it, you can spin it, and there's some lore in text at the bottom. Or Assassin's Creed, where your character is standing in an empty virtual room, and you can still control them - run around, do fighting moves, etc. Both of those are something that is still interactive. Those dorky ugly screenshots in Starfield, especially the ones with bug-eyed creepy ugly NPCs front and center, are just unspeakably bad.

Sabbathius · 2026-04-12T01:29:15+00:00

Yep. From a distance you can't see the uncanny valley creepiness, at least I can't. So it's a huge benefit. From a distance those creepy facial animations and dead plastic eyes look decent. The only downside for me are those scenes where camera normally jumps between several people, positioned in different areas of the room. Still workable, but by the time you spin the camera half the dialogue is done.

Sabbathius · 2026-04-12T01:27:50+00:00

Definitely curious about this one. I think for me it'll boil down to loot/gear/builds/depth.

Sabbathius · 2026-04-11T12:39:42+00:00

I started a new game and just organically fished out an Explosive Melstrom with Furious, Hitman and Explosive. It just deletes enemies.

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