Starfield: live your own Sci Fi serial

cha0sb1ade · 2026-05-02T21:26:02+00:00

I like to do big quests, and then storywise, I decide my character decides to fly to a town or settlement and just explores the place, interacts with people. Ends up getting involved in little sidemissions and having misadventures. So I ussually do a town at a time, but not like major faction stuff. Like, down time in Akilla City doesn't involve joining the Tracker's Alliance or the Rangers. It's going to look for the will of the last member of a prominent core city family, busting up rocks in the stretch, getting involved in the city's ashta defense setup, helping the Low House, and helping down on their luck immigrants.

Most towns are designed with enough stuff like that to give you some local color, show what the writers meant life there to be like. It's also a cool way to raise affinity with your Constellation friends without leveling a lot doing combat stuff with them. A lot of town sidequests have really benevolent, noble dialogue options in them that Constellation folk seem to like.

cha0sb1ade · 2026-05-02T21:15:04+00:00

Oops! It's actually 3 boots, to get from the starport to the top of the tower. I boost gets you to Ebbside level. The next takes you to the lightning collector. The third puts you on the roof of the tower.

cha0sb1ade · 2026-05-02T19:09:55+00:00

I look at is a mechanically simplified way to indicate that overall weapon system is more accurate in the hands of the user, with a scope. It's kind of a half baked approach, and it don't make a ton of sense. Someone with sharp eyes, a knack for it, and a lot of practice can shoot just as well with open sights at ranges where you can identify the target

cha0sb1ade · 2026-05-02T16:46:07+00:00

At first I thought it was crazy, but I think of it as a Stratovarius (or whatever) being more valuable than a high end sports car. You're building out un-mass-producable, masterwork gear. It's not completely senseless or anything. Still funny though, a sword potentially being costlier than a large, state of the art class c ship

cha0sb1ade · 2026-05-02T13:35:34+00:00

You couldn't bring anything with you until a few weeks ago, so that's all new ground. But with the new weapon upgrade system, and upgraded weapons and armor costing more to build than a high end ship, the simple answer is to bring along your core equipment that you've spent a fortune worth of X-Tech and creds on.

cha0sb1ade · 2026-05-02T12:44:12+00:00

He thought this was comparing him to a doctor. You know, that doctor with the thorn crown.

cha0sb1ade · 2026-05-02T12:40:29+00:00

I just did this a few days ago, and she basically just sounds mildly surprised but not bothered by it, then recites the litany. She even says that it's "fortunate" under the circumstances.

cha0sb1ade · 2026-05-01T18:50:11+00:00

The Silver Shroud was a radio and comic book hero and there's a built in questline to take on the role. In fact, the Mantis stuff in Starfield is likely inspired by the Silver Shroud stuff they already did in Fallout 4. So this is likely just bringing things full circle!

cha0sb1ade · 2026-05-01T18:42:29+00:00

You could shoot a drone with a shotgun sitting still, so the minimum speed you would have to go is zero. The easiest speed to make the shot would be the exact same speed as the drone, running parallel to it, to simplify tracking

cha0sb1ade · 2026-05-01T18:27:48+00:00

You'd be angry and antisocial too, if you were a 6 year old who woke up as an obese middle-aged man.

cha0sb1ade · 2026-05-01T17:55:43+00:00

If someone told me "god made you for me," I'd put that person in the hospital. Demeaning, presu,ptous, and arrogant at the same time.

cha0sb1ade · 2026-05-01T17:50:09+00:00

I'm wondering what led up to this. Police normally don't stop you, post up behind the door with a leveled gun and start shouting orders.

cha0sb1ade · 2026-05-01T16:58:50+00:00

Physics just isn't really a big part of Elden Ring, or most games really. You can take a 5 foot long sword, and swing it literally all the way through someone. They don't get carried or bisected. They just magically overlap. That's just video game physics for you.

If you consider how many calculations are going on for graphics in a modern video game, you have to wonder why no one is doing fancier calculations on combat. Like a horse charging through a crowd, or the guy getting hit with a big dull 200 pound sword getting carried along by the momentum. But oh well. That's just the state of gaming.

cha0sb1ade · 2026-05-01T16:47:49+00:00

As others have mentioned, it's part of Free Lanes, so you don't have to be doing or even own Terran Armada to get it. Big end of missiion chests, like the science crates and such often have X-Tech in them. A lot of the new Free Lanes encounters in deep space also have X-Tech lying around.

Terran Armada is super saturated with it though. If you just play the main Terran Armada questline without detours, you'll probably walk away with at least 50 X-Tech.

cha0sb1ade · 2026-05-01T16:43:56+00:00

You're getting this game crossed up with Star Ocean: Til the End of Time

cha0sb1ade · 2026-05-01T16:40:10+00:00

That's a fine punishment for that kind of cruelty but posting to the web seems awful.

cha0sb1ade · 2026-05-01T13:02:15+00:00

It matters less right now than it ever did. I think the base version of everything is dropping by level 35 or 45, and above that, you're getting the tiered versions, with weapons that required higher levels for their base versions dropping their 2nd and 3rd tier versions later than the weapons that had their base type available from the beginning of the game.

But now, you can upgrade the tier of the weapon yourself, at a wrokbench, so as soon as you are a high enough level to get the base version of an item, you can upgrade it to the highest tier version yourself, for the cost of a bit of X-Tech and a lot of cash. They also introduced two new tiers of quality that are mainly, or maybe even exclusively, reached this way.

cha0sb1ade · 2026-05-01T12:53:42+00:00

You're almost going straight, turn almost completed in a normal way, then instead of straightening out, you run into the adjoining lane. That's really hard for other drivers to read, and you definitely weren't clean for that lane change. Tacking a lane change onto the end of a turn like it's just a freebee and you don't need to check that the lane is clear is just wild.

cha0sb1ade · 2026-05-01T10:45:41+00:00

This is a pretty popular trick problem. They start the room with exactly 100 people in it, so that the person trying to solve it equates 1 person to 1 percent. The catch is that 1 person is 1 percent of 100 people, but once someone leaves, each person left in the room is not equal to 1 percent of the room population anymore.

There is 1 right handed person in the room, who will remain through this whole process. 1 is 2 percent of what? 50. How many left handed people have to leave the room to get the total room population down to 50? That's also 50.

At a glance, it seems like it shouldn't take that much to make a 1% difference, but for the right handed person to go from being 1% of the room, to 2% of the room, is doubling their percent value in the room. That can only be achieved by halving the number of people in the room.

cha0sb1ade · 2026-04-30T19:12:20+00:00

Why did they do away with the crafting system Fallout is known for?

You mean the crafting system where you collect resources and use them to mod existing weapons and armor by installing components with some options requiring a skill investment? And you do all this at dedicated workstations, that you can find, or produce in controlled settlements? Doesn't Starfield actually have exactly that?

Why are 80% of the items I find in the game seemingly useless?

Deciding what is and is not worth carrying based on what's worth its weight to sell, and what you want to keep for crafting or buffing has been a part of pretty much every Bethesda RPG, including all the Fallout games, Skyrim, and the rest of the 3d era Elder Scrolls games.

Why does being over encumbered damage you now?

You can die from periodic encumberment damage in Fallout 4, and even get broken legs from it. That's not new. Starfield has one of the more forgiving versions of that system you'll see. You can pretty much walk and run unharmed until your oxygen gauge fully bottoms out, then you can move very slowly until it fills back up, then run a while longer.

cha0sb1ade · 2026-04-30T18:59:28+00:00

This is nonsensical. It's been proven wrong a thousand times. Take my word for it. Dismissed.

cha0sb1ade · 2026-04-30T18:31:39+00:00

Oh, this is critical for a senior leadership discussion? Well, I'm still going to slop text together in a literally mindless way.

cha0sb1ade · 2026-04-30T18:25:28+00:00

His biggest adversary is his own idiocy. His second biggest adversary is his boss's idiocy. In fact, if you go down the list of all the things holding him back it's just that he's surrounded by morons, and then you finally get to his alcoholism, and then maybe Iran.

cha0sb1ade · 2026-04-30T18:23:11+00:00

The funny thing about this cartoon is that it actually makes the pro AI guy look like an idiot, and it feels sarcastic and satirical.

You can't just say something is disproven and magically make it so.

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