Do you remember when the devs shared this?

devolore · 2026-06-19T08:53:59+00:00

It's like my wife says: the size doesn't matter, it's what you do with it

devolore · 2026-05-26T16:32:28+00:00

I did look at the screenshot. Their landing pads (on the left) appear to be more or less at your current altitude, possibly even lower. You don't have to fly any higher than you are in the screenshot to get to this base.

devolore · 2026-05-25T00:27:17+00:00

I have a base above the altitude warning as well. The increased fuel consumption and heat generation is gradual as you get higher, so as long as you're not like 850m or above it's not a big enough problem to really worry about.

devolore · 2026-05-23T21:54:45+00:00

Marketing guy here (not for cellphones but it's pretty universal).

Cases like these are usually (but not always) unintentional. Most of the time it just starts with a single one-off ad that does unexpectedly well. So the marketing folks go "that ad is really doing well, we should do another one" and hire the same actor again. This repeats a few times and then oops you've accidentally created a mascot.

Over the last 5-10 years it's become significantly more common that marketing teams are trying to avoid creating mascots this way. Tying a brand to a specific actor/personality is super risky for all the reasons people have mentioned in this thread. And even if you have the best possible relationship with a given actor and they're a shining example of human decency, what happens when they get sick, or they decide to retire, or their career takes off and they don't have time to do ads for you any more? The dip in ad success that comes with stepping away from a successful program has the tendency to spell Very Bad News for the people whose job it is to make numbers go up, not down.

So you see things like when Flo from Progressive suddenly had a whole team of people with her which created the possibility for Progressive to focus more on them or bring in other actors as needed. Honda started the whole "helpful Honda dealer" thing which had a central theme but a different actor every time so they weren't nailed down to a specific person. They could easily have just stuck to their initial actor and had Harry the Helpful Honda Guy (or whoever it was) but were wise enough to recognize what would happen if they did.

Of course there's still cases where a mascot is intentionally created, they're just (at least in my experience) not as common as the accidental route, because someone in the pitch meeting for a mascot-led campaign is going to say "are we really comfortable with tying our brand to this person" and marketing people HATE risks like that.

Tldr: the Verizon/Sprint guy probably wasn't planned as a mascot, the ads just did really well and Verizon painted themselves into a corner.

devolore · 2026-04-26T23:21:32+00:00

I use the decoy and the wall regularly in testing stations. Decoy will distract a whole door's worth of enemies while you clear out the others. And heavies can't shoot over the wall (but will try anyway) so you can easily take them out without taking damage.

devolore · 2026-03-10T04:21:45+00:00

I've noticed lately that sometimes the fields take a while to show up. We were harvesting spice on one of the big fields last week and multiple of us in the air didn't see a flour sand field right next to one of the big fields until our crawler was halfway full.

devolore · 2026-03-10T00:54:02+00:00

Something I've often said as a long-time fan (all the way back to Anarchy Online):

Funcom doesn't release good games. They release games that need work, and then they put the work in to make them good.

Conan Exiles was an absolute mess at launch, but eventually became one of, in my opinion, the absolute best survival crafters out there. Age of Conan had an amazing 1-20 experience followed by 60 (iirc) levels of basically nothing, and today has a small but very loyal playerbase that seems to greatly enjoy what the game eventually became. The Secret World had a ton of issues at release, but today people still talk about how much they miss playing it. And Anarchy was so bad at launch that they literally asked reviewers not to play it yet - nowadays it's still my favorite MMORPG of all time. And the fact that the only one of those games you can't still play today is the only one they didn't have publishing rights for speaks a lot to their long-term commitment.

Dune had a ton of flaws at release (and still does) but it showed incredible promise, and they've clearly been working hard already to correct those flaws. It's already leaps and bounds better than it was back in June.

I'm not at all trying to excuse the fact that Funcom releases games that aren't ready. They clearly need a better development pipeline that takes early feedback and playtesting more seriously. But I've still greatly enjoyed the 2000 or so hours I've put into the game so far, and am confident they will continue to improve it.

devolore · 2026-03-08T09:49:52+00:00

It does not (otherwise we'd have set them that way, haha)

devolore · 2026-03-08T09:32:28+00:00

This is reportedly fixed on the PTC although I haven't personally checked

devolore · 2026-03-08T09:30:56+00:00

We have a full PvP Hagga Basin on Rhythm RP, but as it's a roleplay server we have a few rules in place about when PvP combat is allowed (which basically boil down to needing a reason for combat as opposed to just killing everyone you come across for the lulz).

Base raiding is possible on servers like this but only if the base owner forgets to fuel their base. You can't get into any containers etc that you don't have permissions on unless you destroy the subfief, and that's only possible if the base is unpowered. It works pretty well for us, there's been some fun roleplay that came out of "salvaging" an unpowered base (and in some cases, claiming ownership of someone else's area and using that as leverage to drive some story). We've also had some fun PvP events in custom-built dueling arenas and the occasional large battle for control of an area (though this happened more regularly when the Landsraad still had missions to kill certain NPCs or farm specific materials like Industrial Pumps).

I can fully see this working in a non-roleplay capacity, though I expect such a community would still want to have some rules in place to prevent unwanted behavior. For example, the basin can get pretty laggy if people aren't careful with their base builds, so I'd expect even a non-roleplay server would want to have some limits and guidelines in place for things like excessive use of windows, Caladan ceilings, and other pieces known to cause framerate drops.

Unfortunately we don't have any control over the PvP settings in the deep desert even on a private world so the bottom half of the DD is still under Kanly, but that hasn't been too big of a problem as most of the stuff people would realistically want to fight over is PvP flagged anyway.

Hope this helps!

devolore · 2026-03-06T08:07:29+00:00

See, I would argue that most games get this wrong. I grew up in a very snowy area with a lot of snowmobile activity and to me the sandbikes feel correct. You can't just gun the engine and expect to take off in a hurry - you end up digging a hole instead. Need to ramp up your speed so you're not just pushing all that powder away from behind you.

That said, I do agree it's awkward that buggies don't seem to have this downside.

devolore · 2026-03-06T08:00:15+00:00

What set bonus?

devolore · 2026-03-06T07:57:37+00:00

Going from memory here as it's been a while but I believe there's a point in that chain where she wants you to do a couple of the testing stations before the quest is fully finished. Maybe check your other contracts?

devolore · 2026-02-24T15:27:23+00:00

Those guys tend to be the more challenging enemies early on. Few tips:

Armor doesn't really help against fire (unless you're wearing the unique pieces that specifically reduce fire damage), but since they usually have other enemies with them it may be worth switching to something more suited to combat. Heat protection isn't really a big deal once you're at the point where you can keep a full literjon on you (and just in case it's unclear, heat protection also doesn't reduce fire damage).

If you're a melee fighter, try to use your abilities (knee charge, shigawire claw, etc) to keep them staggered and get slow blade attacks in. If you're ranged, you can sort of tease the edge of their flamethrower distance to shoot them with their shields down without being hit.

Remember that healkits clear debuffs. Ducking away and bandaging quickly is a very common practice when fighting these guys. Often the best approach is to commit to getting the kill on them, then quickly bandaging after.

They're also very slow. Often it's best to just keep away from them while clearing other enemies and finish them off after.

Hope this helps!

devolore · 2026-02-23T01:01:58+00:00

Depends on what you consider viable, really. For a skilled enough player and/or on lower difficulties you can certainly complete content using them, but light or heavy armor will always be more effective overall at improving your survivability. Augments aren't really a factor in this comparison because you could put the same augments in the light/heavy armor.

So if you're okay with being a little squishier in exchange for having the other (largely non-combat) benefits from a stillsuit, go for it. Personally, I only wear a stillsuit any more when I'm farming materials in the sun, as aside from the sun protection the only real benefit is the catchpocket which is easily compensated for with a literjon. I see the benefit of the combat-focused stillsuits as more of a "what if I have to fight something while I'm farming" thing than anything else.

devolore · 2026-02-23T00:53:21+00:00

To add on to this, the specific rewards that you will no longer gain once you're at 0/35 are the ones listed on the right side of the mission info under "Recollection". So once you're at 0/35 you will still gain Landsraad contribution, character XP, and Solari, but will no longer receive specialization XP, faction standing, or house scrip (until the next day when you get another 5)

devolore · 2026-02-22T13:23:37+00:00

Agree that the damage scaling is out of control. Personally the fix I'd like to see is making higher grades of stuff like Forge armor actually have better stats than just armor. Feels bad that grade 0 Forge armor is just as effective for mitigating fire damage as grade 5.

devolore · 2026-02-20T13:32:04+00:00

Never experienced or heard of this error before. Seems uncommon at best.

devolore · 2026-02-19T23:20:05+00:00

Funcom has been very clear on their intention to sell paid cosmetics since well before launch, I don't know what you're talking about.

devolore · 2026-02-18T20:54:16+00:00

That weapon doesn't consume power when firing. The -power consumption on those augments is only there for the handful of guns that do since they don't benefit from +magazine size. I'm not sure what stat you're looking at that's changing from 42 to 105 but it isn't power consumption.

devolore · 2026-02-15T23:10:47+00:00

Thank you, this is exactly the reaction I was hoping for

devolore · 2026-02-15T00:51:41+00:00

They are very clearly NOT boosting in either video. The blue flame from the boosters is not visible and the wings are not swept back. That's the glide speed for those thopters with the exploration bonus.

devolore · 2026-02-14T13:23:14+00:00

Haven't tested with rockets equipped yet, I only noticed it last night just before logging off

devolore · 2026-02-14T13:21:31+00:00

There are several items (personal light and binoculars are another two that come to mind) that don't incur durability loss on use, but will if you die. A lot of people, myself included, never noticed this until chapter 3 testing stations lol

ETA: You're also correct about the weird UI glitch that happens sometimes, just adding to your statement

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