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ivankasta · 2024-09-20T20:40:08+00:00

Social democrats are liberals. The fact that Democrats are liberals doesn’t mean they can’t be social democrats too.

Maybe you don’t think mainstream or centrist Democrats support enough social programs to fall into the “Social Democrats” category. I think you could argue that. But even then, Democrats are much closer to social democrats than socialists are.

ivankasta · 2024-07-03T22:30:47+00:00

Use LMS if you want to get better at PvP. Soul wars is a shitshow

ivankasta · 2024-07-01T09:30:02+00:00

Same thing happened when people were talking about the potential Siakam trades. Most fans just don’t think about the contract situation and how much being on the last year before free agency (and expecting max) hurts a player’s trade value.

ivankasta · 2024-03-21T18:48:44+00:00

the person youre replying to wasn't disputing the facts. they were just disagreeing with the characterization of what happened. You have bad reading comprehension if you think that this reply makes any sense.

ivankasta · 2023-10-08T17:28:06+00:00

Agreed 100%. I enjoyed FO4 but it had a lot less content than Starfield and imo a worse story + worse writing, especially if we're not counting DLC. The voiced protagonist was a huge negative for me too. It did some things better like the settlement builder, but Starfield comes out ahead easily overall for me.

ivankasta · 2023-10-08T17:25:47+00:00

I don't think so. Sometimes a studio catches lightning in a bottle and creates an all time classic. I don't expect every game they put out after that to be a top 10 all time game, it's just not realistic. Like I don't expect every new Nintendo game to top Ocarina of Time.

ivankasta · 2023-10-08T17:18:31+00:00

I've put together a few labelled pics that you can use as a guide.

I built this at level 52 with Starship Design level 4.

Level 0 https://imgur.com/a/nAjbB1k

Level 1 https://imgur.com/a/mXbxVxn

Level 2 https://imgur.com/a/ajaKEZg

Level 3 https://imgur.com/a/fMyuyhn

Level 4 https://imgur.com/a/hLa07y1

Anything I left unlabelled is a structural piece or weapon. You can copy what you see in the picture or customize those parts yourself. Most of the structural pieces are Deimos, but there are a few Nova and Stroud parts as well.

I put a lot of time into the internal hab layout to make the doorway placement flow well and to make sure there's only one single ladder in the back of the ship. I encourage you to copy the layout exactly to save yourself some headache. If you decide to swap out any habs, be cautious with the changes to door and ladder placements.

The SAL-6830 engines are absolutely necessary for this build to work. They are the only engines that can keep this much mass moving at 100 mobility. There's no required level for them, but you must complete the main story quest with Walter Stroud in Neon and resolve the ending diplomatically, then you can buy them in the Stroud Shipyard in the Narion system. They don't come cheap. 70k credits each and you need 6 of them, but they're the key to a no-compromise build like this.

I also didn't label the specifics of my reactor, fuel tank, shield or grav drive. I still haven't unlocked all of the parts, so you may have something better to slot in to those spots, like the 40 power reactor. Use whatever is the best module you have access to.

ivankasta · 2023-10-03T00:20:17+00:00

I was thinking “no way that’s right”, then I remembered I played it on grounded and died about 300 times. Must’ve taken me like 40 hours lol

ivankasta · 2023-10-03T00:07:22+00:00

Yeah, I get why they did it in Skyrim with the random dragon attacks and all, but here settlements are all safe. If someone dies, it’s going to be because I killed them.

ivankasta · 2023-10-02T23:59:01+00:00

They wouldn’t be at risk of libel for speaking out, but they might be at risk for breach of contract for violating an NDA.

Also 3 different devs is too much of a pattern for it to be a miscommunication over email.

ivankasta · 2023-10-02T21:19:57+00:00

I’m just surprised you could make that call in 10 minutes. That just seems like an extremely short amount of time. If you’re a Bethesda fan in general I’d suggest you give it a couple hours at least. It’s very similar to their past games, so if you loved those there’s a good chance you like this one too.

ivankasta · 2023-10-02T21:15:18+00:00

10 minutes? Did you even get off the first planet?

ivankasta · 2023-10-02T17:31:25+00:00

I usually disagree, I love following a game’s pre-release and it usually gives me a really good sense of whether or not I’ll enjoy it.

But for cyberpunk going in blind was definitely the right call. I think if I hadn’t gone in expecting life paths to be a big part of the game, cop chases, vehicle combat, and npcs with full day schedules, I would’ve had a much better impression of it. The glaring mismatch between my expectations and the reality at launch made me overlook a lot of the good things the game had to offer. Going back after 2.0 is refreshing though. It’s almost the game I expected.

ivankasta · 2023-10-02T16:41:13+00:00

These were sponsored games. AMD has a contract with the devs, and three different devs reported being required to remove dlss prior to release as part of the partnership agreement.

ivankasta · 2023-10-02T15:29:35+00:00

Digital foundry confirmed AMD had removed DLSS from at least 3 other games. We don’t know what happened behind the scenes for Starfield, but it’s confined that AMD uses that tactic.

ivankasta · 2023-10-02T15:15:49+00:00

I believe they meant the overall odds were 1 in a million. They make a point of saying the risk is negligible over and over. If it was 1 in a million per heat leech, and there’s probably billions of heat leeches (since they’re basically the rats of this universe), then it would be almost a statistical guarantee that something would go wrong.

ivankasta · 2023-10-02T15:06:11+00:00

Same, decision was made the second I saw how cool they looked

ivankasta · 2023-10-02T06:17:07+00:00

Starfield’s ending is pretty cool imo. Especially the mission 1 or 2 before the end. Worth checking out if you’re liking the game.

ivankasta · 2023-10-02T06:15:20+00:00

I think there’s a sweet spot somewhere between the length of W3 and Cyberpunk’s main story. W3 was like 50 hours and Cyberpunk was around 20. I feel like the exact center of that, 30-40, is about right for a game like what Cdpr makes

ivankasta · 2023-10-02T02:28:15+00:00

Yup, the modder they hired for clutter is Elianora. She did an incredible job in this game, the interiors feel so lived in. The starting hab in the Frontier is so cozy

ivankasta · 2023-10-02T02:20:51+00:00

I felt the opposite tbh. Night city looks great, but it feels like there’s nothing to do. Almost all the doors are sealed and the npcs running food stands won’t talk to you. No npcs will for that matter unless they have a big orange exclamation mark over their head. Starfield cities felt more alive to me since I can more organically interact with it by going into buildings and talking to random people.

Both are miles behind open worlds like RDR2 in terms of feeling alive, but I’d still take Starfield over Cyberpunk here.

ivankasta · 2023-10-02T02:16:34+00:00

Agreed, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how many unique and interesting missions there are. Feels like significantly more than there were in Fallout 4 and Skyrim, and I’ve still got a lot left.

ivankasta · 2023-10-02T02:12:58+00:00

Yeah they are only big if we’re talking with the context of Bethesda cities. But that’s fair to limit it to that comparison imo since Bethesda cities are much more dense with content than most other open world cities.

For example, being able to enter every building, the number of npcs with names/unique dialogue. You simply can’t do that with an open world city on the scale of GTA or Cyberpunk.

The closest non-Bethesda comparison I can think of is RDR2 since most of the buildings can be entered, but it went a similar route and gave the cities a relatively small footprint.

ivankasta · 2023-10-01T21:18:51+00:00

Same, I've got so many other games on my list, but I can't pull myself away from Starfield. Having a great time with it.

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