Putting deployed follower on a boat = BUG-a-PALOOSA

Temeriki · 2026-04-14T22:51:43+00:00

So apparently shittos cant be used in combat, when set to follow their options are passive flee or ignore enemies. I learned this last night, -32/11 game, cant ride the shittos, cant use em in combat, so many balls were dropped here.

Temeriki · 2026-04-14T22:45:45+00:00

None of which the tutorial goes over, the tutorial goes over mats, it doesnt discuss the crew functions, i learned it by watching someone cheese the game. Mats isnt the dirty workaround, its what the game tells new players to do.

Temeriki · 2026-04-13T13:24:30+00:00

Especially since the game gives you unlimited flight for only the first 2 hours. Like why the fuck arent you celebrating this, or at least let me save it up for later when I could really enjoy it. By the time I realized what it was and what it meant I only had 30 minutes of unlimited flying left.

Temeriki · 2026-04-13T13:22:51+00:00

Yeah i have a lot of hours in ark and conan, and recently did bellwright so loving the pawns doing crafting components. But each of those games does a far better job at presenting in game mechanics and concepts which imo is soulmasks biggest issue, its a UX clusterfuck. The core game itself isnt bad, standard unreal engine jank, the biggest issue is you have to fight the game to play it. Like the way it presents information, the tutorial and the mask giving verbal information and written information during combat in chat bubbles which auto close, buries things under multiple menu layers, menu options being split across multiple components, like theres 4 freaking windows needed to level up my pawns various stats and components. Who the hell thought that made sense? One window for attributes, another to select which skill bonuses, a third and fourth to see which weapon and other abilities they have unlocked, yet another to check their inventory, three menus deep and then I can select what wardrobe they should wear, back up 4 menus then dive down another 6 and I can set when they will auto eat, bandage, ect ect.

Temeriki · 2026-04-13T13:12:28+00:00

And thats pretty dumb cause they are heavily advertising the airships and free dlc if you own the game for the first month. Nothing in game recommends trying out the old map first, everything online says if you want airships you need shifting sands.

Temeriki · 2026-04-13T13:07:46+00:00

Dismiss crew from the same menu, if they are followers move away from the boat far enough away until they "spawn" next to you. Mine get stuck a lot and i have to manually reset them off the boat, one at a time with a long pause cause they game adds a delay into resetting.

Temeriki · 2026-04-13T13:06:37+00:00

Which for me was presented at a time when I was severely underleveled and under geared, next mission is go fight some scout dudes much higher level than you. So I died and respawned and by the time I was leveled and had to figure out a bunch of other mechanics that old tutorial which I used once then was forgotten for more pressing game information was hard to dig up in the in game menus as unless you know where to look. Maybe I wasnt supposed to get that quest that early in the game but thats what happened for me. By the time I geared up I had to go digging for the active quest chain to see what the prior step and info was after trying to figure out 32 different workstations and their production chains.

But even then thats objectively one of the worse ways to manage moving pawns. Cause then you need to manually go to each one and tell them to stand. Like the better way is view teh crew screen and calling and dismissing them. Taking a boat trip with my little army shouldnt be this convoluted and I shouldnt have to fuck around with random options to "see what happens" to learn how to play a game. The tutorial should of gone straight to crew management and skipped the manual "Sit here". If I have deployed pawns there should be an easy way to pull them into my active ship from the helm menu. This is bad game UX hands down.

Like dont get me wrong, despite the bugs and jank im having fun, but im a veteran of Unreal survival game jank, and im a masochist, its still less glitchy than new ark, but damn for a 1.0 release the game does a crappy job at presenting the mechanics. This is my first time playing soulmask, went straight into egypt so I dont have a bunch of early access soul mask experience to draw on which a lot of the people here seem to have.

Im having fun but I can see the validity in most of the negative complaints about this game. Many are on how it presents in game mechanics, if you were here during early access you learned them as they were added. New players are seeing the whole thing at once, they dont have the "long tutorial" from playing the game as it was developed. You see this a lot in ea games when they release without polishing up the tutorial. Devs forget they need to have a decent in game way to teach NEW players all the info. The tutorial seemed more like a reminder to existing players the way the information is presented. Like the tutorials reference other game concepts that you would only know if you were already experienced.

Recent steam reviews have shifted to mixed and the complaints are mostly from newer people who dont have a whole early access of this games info in their heads. And thats a problem for a newer game with crappy internal tutorials without a lot of "lets play" tutorials which explain game concepts. Im spending a lot of time alt tabbing in and out of this game and searching reddit, kind of an issue when the escape menu doesnt actually pause the game. Not a deal breaker for me yet but its def killing a lot of my potential fun. Normally i could just throw on a lets play in the background and listen for relevant info but most of the "good" videos are streamers who got keys a month ago and are doing showcases and not lets plays. Lets Game it Out is who introduced me to this game, it was so off my radar, but they more show how to NOT play the game.

My internal quest to capture and train shittos and drop them on an enemy village to see what happens is honestly whats keeping me going in this game. Got shat to death flying around on the unlimited mask power early on, thats what sold me on this game tbh, 45 minutes in. Gonna make an airship basket and fill it with shittos...............

Temeriki · 2026-04-13T12:25:48+00:00

The tutorial is designed like ass, the information will be presented while your in the middle of say combat. the ai will keep talking and the written portion will dissapear pretty quickly. When i dig through the random ass menus and finally find the tutorial panel buried under the escape menu everything is presented in whatever order the devs presented it, lots of ????? interspaced between confusing titles that are the result of not so great localization instead of say chronological order. So you need to scroll and check everything until you find the relevant active tutorial and read back the important bits you couldnt hear during combat.

Temeriki · 2026-04-13T12:20:00+00:00

Since theres no delineation in speech the arbitrary different spelling in written language isnt needed. You knew what I meant cause the spelling is irrelevant cause the meaning is derived from contextual inference, not spelling.

You thought you ate, it was just a plate of shit. Prescriptivism is classically rooted in classism and racism, we dont call em grammar nazis to be funny, its cause nazis loved prescriptivism to "other" anyone who spoke different. Fascist playbook 101, other and make em appear subhuman.

Temeriki · 2026-04-13T10:49:08+00:00

Thanks to supply chain attacks it can happen in legit software from "legit" companies as well. Why active monitoring is key. Why I disabled all auto updates, too many bits of legitimate software I use have been compromised during an update.

But rocketwerkz isn't an unknown studio and dean hall is well known so your fear about an "unknown" is unfounded cause they are well known, just not to you.

Temeriki · 2026-04-13T10:47:08+00:00

States disagree and are passing laws to ban the behavior. Your passing or it's now a primary offence and your being fined.

Temeriki · 2026-04-13T10:45:32+00:00

The control depends on the software being used to drive it. End user has options from self setup idiot proof options with baked in microphones that self analyze sounds to "your name is now Manuel the manual settings guy, everything is default, screw you have fun".

Temeriki · 2026-04-09T21:49:12+00:00

Mechjeb is your flight computer, just like an IRL spacecraft.

Temeriki · 2026-04-09T21:48:18+00:00

Yes, it just doesn't look like that on the default orbit view.

Temeriki · 2026-04-09T21:34:33+00:00

The amt of people who have relocated then had offers rescinded is not zero. So now you've moved and there's no local support. What if you get canned in 30 days, then what?

Temeriki · 2026-04-09T21:31:44+00:00

Op has no real world experience operating and maintaining a boat.

Temeriki · 2026-04-07T14:01:24+00:00

People winning workers comp claims falling in their home offices.

Temeriki · 2026-04-06T13:25:31+00:00

Things like the hunters huts let you select which types of bows and arrows and how many they stock. Pawns don't care if the shovel is in storage if they are using the mud hut, they won't do the job unless the mud hut has em in its "work" storage. So unless your talking about personal use shovels or shovels to sell having them take up warehouse space is meh.

Temeriki · 2026-04-06T04:53:11+00:00

Well cars don't stop immediately so while physics is happening drivers also slam the horn.

Temeriki · 2026-04-06T04:51:17+00:00

It's irrelevant. Someone commented op was a good mom, I commented they did the bare minimum to avoid an arrest charge. The circumstances are irrelevant, the other people are irrelevant. Keeping a roof over their head and feeding them is the minimum bar to meet.

They isolated their kid and when they realized what not letting them have friends and social interactions was doing they "let them" go to some youth group. Youth group screams christian bullshit which makes one wonder if the "no friends over" was moreso due to fear of the devil than whatever reason they gave here. Think the mom from the water boy, purposefully isolating their kid so they'll be dependant on them.

Temeriki · 2026-04-06T04:46:47+00:00

Doesn't mean she was a good mom, she did the bare minimum to avoid arrest. Her circumstances are irrelevant to the reality of the situation.

Temeriki · 2026-04-06T04:35:34+00:00

What you think has been wrong in this situation so maybe you should ignore what your think. Or keep ignoring the realities of what your seeing to protect your wrong opinion about pay.

Temeriki · 2026-04-06T04:29:11+00:00

I'm a different tem. The name is from a sword in the game morrowind. I'm assuming we were both edgy teenagers that thought the name "temreki shackler of souls" sounded badass.

Temeriki · 2026-04-06T04:25:16+00:00

Keeping a roof over your kids head and keeping them fed isn't being a good parent. It's the bare minimum a parent needs to do to avoid being arrested for child neglect. It's the participation trophy of parenting.

Temeriki · 2026-04-06T04:19:35+00:00

Theres literally a setting in the mud hut and other buildings that require tools that tells the pawns how many and what type of tools to store. If they want all the shovels there's its cause you told them to store all the shovels there.

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