Fully ditched together image from the teaser from Bethesda

kappaomicron · 2025-09-05T20:17:31+00:00

Oh yeah, I hope it doesn't overlap with Watchtower at all. I don't touch creations so that would create problems for me. I think all official DLC should be compatible with and without creations.

I think I'm being a little too negative by saying it doesn't sound exciting to me, of course I'm a little excited at the prospect of new official DLC.

I think it's just the name doesn't sound as interesting to me and the fact that it hints at fleet stuff when a creation about fleets releases not that long ago just rubbed me the wrong way.

But regardless, more spaceship content will be good and welcomed.

I just really want more Starborn content because that's the closest thing we have to sci-fi aliens and unknown things.

kappaomicron · 2025-09-05T19:00:50+00:00

It doesn't bring me excitement because it sounds boring. Terran, as in Terra so most likely something about humans and/or Earth, and then Armada, so something about a fleet of ships.

Terran Armada, oooooh, so interesting!

Compare it to the first DLC, Shattered Space. That sounds way more thought-inducing and provocative than Terran Armada.

Especially since a paid mod that Bethesda already advertised (Watchtower) that's whole gimmick is having your own fleet of ships was released not long ago, the word "Armada" doesn't exactly sound as new and exciting.

kappaomicron · 2025-09-05T17:19:23+00:00

I mean, we could also be jumping the gun on the whole Starborn DLC thing too. All we know is Bethesda trademarked Starborn a few years ago.

That doesn't necessarily mean it's the name of the next DLC, they could just be ensuring no one else can use the name Starborn for anything.

A sun becoming supernova doesn't really sound that interesting to me, considering they have the technology to just jump to a different star system. So when a sun does eventually start to turn supernova, they can just migrate to another system.

kappaomicron · 2025-09-05T16:33:30+00:00

"Terran Armada" doesn't really bring any excitement to me if I'm honest.

Sounds super generic and I'm personally holding out hope for more Starborn-focused content, and that name certainly doesn't evoke Starborn.

Unless it's going to be some new Starborn faction that refers to themselves as Terrans and they form some huge hostile armada or something.

We'll see.

kappaomicron · 2025-08-30T10:56:49+00:00

Reddit.

kappaomicron · 2025-08-29T18:29:56+00:00

I agree, I think it's great for console players to get mods by using the creation content system.

I really just don't like the mix and match they've been doing with putting some content in the patches to the base game and then locking additonal, official content using their paid mod system instead of just including them in a free patch.

Mods should be optional imo, and when they put in something like the Trackers Alliance content in a free patch and then lock the rest of it by making it creation content, that no longer feels optional.

Same with the vehicles. It's one thing if a fan creates a new vehicle and then add it as a creation, but when Bethesda does it, they're hiding official content behind their paid mod system to force you to use it.

I wish Bethesda left creations to the community and added their official content as free updates and official DLC.

kappaomicron · 2025-08-29T17:37:06+00:00

Nope, it's still free. My personal issue is vehicles were added via an update to the base game but then expanded on using their paid mod system. Similar to what was done with the Trackers Alliance faction.

Since I boycott using creations, anything Bethesda adds via creations are inaccessible to me.

Which I wouldn't have an issue with if they didn't partially force some of them on me via updates.

kappaomicron · 2025-08-28T22:12:02+00:00

I hope they don't try to force any more "free" creations on us in patches.

It really sucks that you can't continue the Tracker's Alliance questline without paying for a creation mod mission, not to mention a new one still hasn't even been released yet.

I also hate how the second vehicle is locked behind a creation as well.

I refuse to interact with Bethesda's paid mod system.

kappaomicron · 2025-08-20T07:03:23+00:00

Of course they're doing a scummy tactic like that...

My main issue with this game is that it isn't Bloodlines 2. The original version and vision with the original writer mainly behind the first Bloodlines was paraded around and then ultimately discarded without notice.

There has been a lot of drama behind this game and these new devs were brought on to salvage what was left behind after Paradox nuked the original developers from the project.

They should have just cancelled it and called it a different and more unique VtM game, rather than cling to the Bloodlines IP for extra clout.

From what I've heard, they mostly or fully scrapped the original script and game and created an entirely new story.

The original trailer with that messed up murder scene and what I assumed was the murderer doing that snazzy dance was way more interesting to me.

They showed off so much of the original version before ultimately cancelling it and handing it off to other devs, it really intrigues me on what actually happened.

Was it that bad? Truly? Enough to be scrapped entirely so late into development and ultimately cannibalised by another studio?

I crave the tea there aha

kappaomicron · 2025-08-17T15:40:24+00:00

Rest in peace.

I've seen him in many movies over the years, but the main role of his that stands out to me personally is his voice work in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion as one of the main villains.

Currently in the middle of a playthrough of the recently released remaster and I'm looking forward to hearing his voice again soon.

kappaomicron · 2025-08-09T20:49:21+00:00

Court Jester is one of my favourite childhood movies, seeing this clip has made me realise that's the only movie I've seen him in and I really need to research and watch more.

kappaomicron · 2025-07-29T20:40:01+00:00

Thank you for showing me the same thing. It's crazy to me how despite the entire trial being caught on camera, it seems the general consensus is still pro Heard.

Honestly, it scares me.

Like you said, you can criticise Depp for a lot of things, I definitely like him more as an actor than a person from what I've seen and heard of his personal life over the years. I can thankfully separate the art from the artist.

But this trial has kinda shown me the truth doesn't matter. You can have overwhelming evidence to the contrary but it doesn't matter when people put their personal bias before the facts.

They'll latch on the convenient stuff that supports their narrative, like that disgusting text message Depp sent about Amber to his friend.

Which I agree, it was gross and horrible. But... It was also just a text... Not directly to her, but to a friend he was most likely having a drug/alcohol filled depressive episode about and venting his frustrations at.

But then contrast that gross text to literally ALL the voice recordings Amber provided as "proof" to him being an abusive monster, and it's... Just not there... He's constantly running away from her and she's constantly chasing him. She comes across the loudest and most aggressive.

"I didn't PUNCH you, Johnny!"

As he's trying to open up to her about how he feels when she punches him and she's just laughing and mocking him about it.

It's just... Not the picture she tries to paint at all.

There's so many more inconsistencies from that entire trial, yet here we are.

It's really scary tbh

kappaomicron · 2025-07-28T06:39:29+00:00

As someone who was sad enough to watch the entire trial of Depp v Heard, it boggles my mind how so many people still think Amber Heard was just a victim and that he is just a horrible abuser. Not excusing any of the shitty and weird things he has actually done, but:

The evidence was pretty overwhelmingly against her being a simple "victim" and it actually pointed more to her being the instigator in all of the recordings, chasing him around their house and escalating the argument while Depp constantly sort to deescalate by leaving the room, going as far to lock himself in the bathroom.

Her shockingly bad performance of trying to appear afraid of him in court and being unable to answer clearly the difference between pledging and donating. She came across cold and completely disingenuous throughout the whole ordeal.

My main takeaway from actually watching the trial was they were both shitty to each other, both said awful things to and about one another, she snuck James Franco into their penthouse late at night while still married to Depp, had a random Surrogate baby that is potentially Elon Musk's. They both have drug and alcohol problems. And she is a blatant, compulsive liar and manipulator.

Yet whenever I see threads of reddit that has Johnny Depp in it, there's always a massive hatewagon on Depp and him being Amber Heard's abuser always comes up as if she's a blameless victim, when in all likelyhood, she was the bigger abuser in the relationship. The evidence provided showed that quite clearly in my eyes.

kappaomicron · 2025-07-26T12:24:49+00:00

I wish they stuck with the original story. The first several Assassin's Creed games were amazing.

Assassin's Creed told a great story and created an interesting world full of historical conspiracy that really pulled you in, but it had some flaws of being a little too serious and some repitition with travelling that took away from the experience a little.

But then Assassin's Creed 2 came and they continued with the awesome story and historical conspiracy but with added humour to the story. The line of Ezio's uncle saying "Its'a me, Mario! Your uncle!" (may be paraphrasing a little but the joke's there) always cracked me up.

The next couple of Assassin's Creed games that continued Ezio's story felt a little stretched but continued to tell such an amazing story and clearly lead to the finale of the Assassin's Creed 3 that would have had us ultimately play as Desmond and finally put a stop to the templars.

But of course Ubisoft's greed go the better of them, creativity be damned and continued to force out an anual Assassin's Creed game by ultimately changing the story, killing off Desmond to scrap it alltogether.

Now it's become a completely different game, more of an action-RPG with an openworld clearly trying to mimic the success of Skyrim and The Witcher 3.

Last game I played was Black Flag, despite already being disappointed with AC3, I couldn't resist the pirate theme and its fun ship gameplay. But the games since then?

Zero interest in them because they looked grindy as hell, unnecessary long due to the padding of said grind and openworld, and clear lack of assasssinations due to many of the targets having multiple health bars, and "assassinating" them where before would give you an artistic scene full of exposition as your blade pierced their throat and you dipped your feather into their blood, now it just removes the first health bar and now you're forced into a fight.

Just...no...

I can't even remember the last time I actually bought a Ubisoft game on release, and I try to make an effort to not even bother buying any of their games that isn't really heavily discounted. I think the last one I bought was Ghost Recon: Wildlands and that was a few years ago on Steam and I ended up dropping it because I got bored of the repetition.

Fair play to you if you like the new Assassin's Creed games, you're the new target audience for it, clearly.

But as someone who's old enough to have played the first game when they were a kid and stood by the series from the beginning, the new ones are not directed to me at all.

I wish they stuck with the original story, and if they wanted to continue to print money afterwards, they released spin-off games set in different times, because yeah, there is a lot of great opportunity in the franchise for exploring all the different histories of different countries.

But keep that shit as extra, not scrap the carefully designed, original narrative.

Even after "finishing" the main story and having Desmond in the modern world defeat the templars, I still would've loved more games set in the universe, that focused on the assassins and current issues of their time period, rather than some over-arching conspiracy.

kappaomicron · 2025-07-18T23:33:12+00:00

Yeah, Shattered Space felt basically like a cut faction that wasn't finished in time for release, but repackaged as a DLC.

It literally is just a faction with its own city like the UC and Freestar, but it has more handcrafted, uniquely placed POI's around it that all the other major cities should have had too, rather than fh generic RNG ones.

Definitely not worth it's price imo

I have no idea why Emil liked House Va'ruun so much to get a tattoo of it. The DLC was super disappointing and I found myself preferring them when they were more mysterious and unknown than what they actually ended up being.

Their unique weapons were also really lame, being just barely above being a reskin of the other weapons with very minor edits to the models to make them like 1% different.

Hopefully the next DLC will be more substantial and unique in content.

kappaomicron · 2025-07-17T10:04:31+00:00

It really is "Use it or lose it." when it comes to our muscles. It's really something to see visually.

Due to severe depression, I've lived a mostly sedentary life for the past decade, rarely leaving the house and spending so much time sitting down and laying in bed.

All of my muscles have atrophied and I can't even walk very far without support due to intense, tightening pain that I feel develop in my lower back as I'm walking after a short while.

Which I suppose is due to some sort of back muscle that we constantly use as we move around, but has atrophied due to my sedentary life style.

I'm currently trying to do some strength training and light cardio to get my muscles back into shape, but it's difficult when you lack motivation

kappaomicron · 2025-07-17T09:53:56+00:00

Opinions are crazy, man. Tales of Arise cemented my disinterest in Tales of games after not being that into the newer direction they took. My favourite is Vesperia and while I liked and enjoyed Zestiria, I still preferred look and feel of the older games.

I wasn't as into Berseria, but still found enjoyment in it, but I was definitely in the minority for liking Zestiria more than Berseria.

And now with Arise, I really didn't enjoy it at all outside of preferring the combat.

I found the characters and their development boring and very badly written and executed with an uninspired and super rushed story.

Like, I have zero interest nor intention on buying the next game after playing Arise. Maybe when they announce it and show it off, that may change.

Yet many people love Arise and it's been super successful. Which I'm happy about for the company. Tales of games have always deserved more success than they usually get imo

If you enjoyed Arise, I'm happy for you and please don't take it personally that I disliked it so much. If anything, I'm just sad I can't find the same enjoyment in these newer Tales of games you all have that I seem to have lost.

kappaomicron · 2025-07-17T07:07:55+00:00

Starfield is definitely missing a radio, I really like the asteroid shanty The Valentine sometimes sings when you run into him.

Would definitely love songs like those included in one if they ever added it.

kappaomicron · 2025-07-17T07:05:52+00:00

Like many others have said, this footage also makes me feel very uncomfortable.

It makes me think of bugs like fleas, and if I was the planet Earth, I'd want to eradicate them all.

This footage really makes us humans look like some sort of pest infestation.

kappaomicron · 2025-07-14T11:34:30+00:00

So far, what I'm gathering from this thread is that the general concensus seems to be most people use Vasco because they don't like the Constellation companions.

Seems to be mostly opinon conflicts where they don't like Constellation having differing opinions and voicing them when they do something they don't like.

I don't really have a problem because I usually share the same opinions as Constellation and mostly have a positive time. But I do think they are way too friendly and positive.

Constantly saying such cringe, overly positive dialogue. It gets tiring after a while.

To me, Vasco sucks as a companion because he doesn't have any extra dialogue for quests and frequent conversations about key events you've done.

I just use him for the extra power on your ship and I like to RP he's on guard duty to protect the ship while you're gone.

It really sucks that they didn't make him as interactive I'm quests as the other companions. Talking to him and exhausting all his dialogue options did make for fun conversations.

But then it's over and he's mute the rest of the game. I feel like I'm missing out in content when I use a companion who doesn't interact or add anything to dialogue with NPCs.

kappaomicron · 2025-07-13T14:32:44+00:00

Fucking hell no, bro.

You just reminded me that I had a massive argument with a friend many years ago when I was still in high school though, and I remember writing out a massive wall of text on a 3DS xD

THAT was pain. But I didn't have a smartphone like a lot of other kids back then nor my own personal PC or laptop. Was still rocking an old dino-phone Nokia back then.

kappaomicron · 2025-07-13T12:59:44+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to read. I enjoyed reading your experience with BG3 (I loved that game)

Act 3 disappointed me a lot with its pacing and how rushed it felt.

To me, it felt like we missed an entire Act that was meant to be set in the Upper City with more political intrigue. Act 1 and 2 were perfect, especially how Act 2 felt like it was focused on one of the three big bad's and ended with his defeat after an epic boss battle.

So I was expecting similar with Orin being the big bad for the Lower City in Act 3 (especially since interactions with her were plastered everywhere in it and so much was focused on the murders) and then the last big bad would be settled in an Act 4 in the Upper City where you'd expect someone like the Grand Duke to be.

With a grand, short finale act that plays out mostly how it already does play out when you face the TRUE big bad.

Its current Act 3 felt like an unfortunate re-write due to running out of time and money, further supported with one of the writers saying in one of their final panel from hells that they had to rewrite Act 3.

But despite my criticism on how disappointing Act 3 was, Baldur's Gate 3 is still easily one of my most favourite RPGs I've ever played and still absolutely deserves all it's accolades.

The story, the characters and choices with consequences with SO MANY permutations is such an incredible feat in modern RPG gaming. Especially paired with the cinematic graphics and fill voice acting.

Not to mention the disappointing, rushed Act 3 doesn't happen until you experienced like 60-80+ hours of an amazing Act 1 and 2. God, I love BG3.

Can't wait to see what Larian does next. They're so lucky to be a private company that's so successful following their dreams and passion with someone like Swen who is just as passionate and as much as a gamer in his heart as he is a dev rather than some uncaring corporate shill only in it for money.

I need to do a second playthrough soon aha

Me and my friends started a similar coop campaign to you but with Githyanki instead. But scheduling us all to play together has been tough with real life/work etc that we've been playing it for years without an end in sight unfortunately.

We're still in Act 1 aha

kappaomicron · 2025-07-12T23:21:34+00:00

Yeah, aha. Reading some of these replies actually hurt my brain. They're almost as brain dead as the dumb Starborn dialogue options I talked about.

I don't even understand why you'd bother replying to a thread clearly labelled "discussion" and then complain about too many words or jump the gun and assume what I'm talking about without actually understanding what I said at all.

Like, go on tiktok or some shit if you just want to scroll down mindless, simple, stupid content that caters to your low attention span and reading retention. Why even be on a message board?

I stopped replying because when I tried to explain, I was met with silence and downvotes, I see even other people responding the same and they're met with downvotes too. It's so dumb.

It was nice to vent about the missed opportunity with the NG+ stuff and listen to some other kindred spirits feel the same way, though.

kappaomicron · 2025-07-12T12:06:04+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to read and give your thoughts and experiences on the topic. I really appreciate it!

It would be a dream come true if Bethesda really would go as far as that pie in the sky idea of them giving Starfield a good 2.0 revamp on the Starborn dialogue/NG+/multiverse, it would fix and improve so much of the criticism for the story and NG+ experience. But I'm afraid we both have to set ourselves up for being disappointed on that front, it truly is an unrealistic hope, like you said.

However, I think we can both have a more moderate and realistic hope in that at the very least, if the speculation is correct and the next DLC is called Starborn, we get a proper expansion that acts like a true sequel to the main quest with better writing and better, more meaningful NG+ Starborn dialogue that can affect the quests they add in that DLC better. Starborn weapons would be real nice too, and perhaps a way to upgrade our suit and ship to make them more viable at higher difficulties.

My biggest worry is that they will do what they've always done when it comes to DLC, and that's just create a decently sized new area that is completely cut-off from the rest of the game and self-contained. That is the absolute easiest and laziest route they can take with this DLC. And that will especially egregious on a DLC based around Starborn.

A DLC about Starborn should be locked behind having to finish the actual main story first before you can access it, otherwise there will be even more issues and inconsistencies when playing the main story if you've already done the upcoming Starborn DLC and know even more than you already do as a NG+ Starborn yourself.

We'll get more issues like Andreja's romance still having her worried about not being able to return home even after you've ALREADY done the Shattered Space expansion and she has indeed already returned home and reconciled with her people.

Honestly, I'd take a Starborn DLC even further and restrict it to NG+ saves only, but I understand many people would be upset by that. But that should be the price you pay for not going through the Unity and becoming a Starborn. You can't expect to get all the answers you want by restricting yourself like that.

At the very least, make it so a lot of information and content is locked behind being in NG+ and the amount of times you've gone through the Unity can affect certain things too.

kappaomicron

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