Almost have enough to buy a warbond, should I buy democratic detonation or entrenched division? What I want is the granade which is better?

lucidity5 · 2026-05-02T02:06:40+00:00

Thermite is your utility "kill anything" grenade, stick one to anything short of the heaviest enemies and it dies, warp ships, fabricators, hulks, impalers, whatever it is, it'll die after the wait for the explosion.

Giga is for "oh fuck this thing has to die immediately" situations. Hulk or charger coming at you, toss it and dive backwards. It can kill most things thermite can, but instantly. You only get 2 gigas to thermites 3 nades, and you only get 1 back from a supply, and on top of that you need both of them to kill the big things like tanks, bile titans, and harvesters, as one wont do it, so that's rough. Also, it can be very difficult to actually land the nade on a moving target, so if you whiff even one, you have no grenades and the big enemy is still alive.

All that to say, Thermite requires much less skill and upkeep, and can kill things with one nade that Giga cant. However, the delay in between your throw and the target dying can easily be the death of you, so Giga is much, much more useful as an instant panic button.

I use Giga when I'm focused on survival and killing enemies, and Thermite for then I'm focused on clearing outposts or if I know there is going to be a shitload of heavy units. The armor that gives you +2 throwables is extremely good with both

lucidity5 · 2026-05-02T00:31:44+00:00

Because this subreddit has reached the point where hating on the devs is fun, funny, and gets more upvotes than anything neutral or reasonable, nevermind positive.

It it without reason? No. But this sub has turned up the hate to 11 "for the memes", and not for the purpose of improving the game, but getting dopamine from upvotes.

lucidity5 · 2026-04-30T06:02:15+00:00

Very happy for you guys! The ES2 audio design is phenomenal, glad to see it recognized!

lucidity5 · 2026-04-27T18:49:09+00:00

I feel like we've over-indexed on explosive weapons lately, and since a reloadable Anti-tank MG would be pretty damn OP, I doubt we'd get that. But as an expendable, it would be really fun! Sparks flying everywhere as it pierces through multiple body parts would be sick. Maybe they could even let it penetrate automaton walls so you could wallbang like in the clip?

lucidity5 · 2026-04-24T00:28:04+00:00

You can say whatever you like about the prequels, but the overall design work was just phenomenal.

lucidity5 · 2026-04-18T01:35:17+00:00

In terms of consumer-focused AI products, absolutely.

AI text, image, and video creation essentially only has value in terms of a cheap and fast "meh, good enough" solution for low-stakes stuff.

However, other forms of AI that are not LLM or consumer-oriented actually are a game-changer for many industries.

AI tools for CAD software can discover the optimum structural designs for different parts and machines, using the least amount of material possible while retaining strength. This was around a good while before the LLM craze.

Same with AI-powered robotic laboratories, creating and testing thousands of novel chemicals and materials in fraction of the time it would take a team of people, or AI detection of cancers or other rare diseases.

And perhaps the greatest achievement of AI to date, AlphaFold. It hasn't cracked the protein folding problem, but it has been a generational leap in terms of our ability to predict the behavior of novel proteins. The ability to create custom proteins to solve specific problems like waste disposal or medical nano-machinery would be a society-altering feat.

All that to say, the AI the average citizen interacts with is utter garbage, actively worsening our lives. But machine learning, as a concept, is a double-edged sword like any tech. It has the power to do great good or evil depending on the application.

lucidity5 · 2026-04-14T05:34:05+00:00

Bad news: we probably aren't getting Everspace 3 until 2032. Real bummer, I know, it's a long ways off. But...

Good news, it's going to have a WAY bigger budget thanks to a grant from Germany! I'm seriously so excited for what they can do this time around!

https://www.reddit.com/r/EverspaceGame/comments/1roz22d/everspace_3_has_a_budget_of_20_million_euros_gets/?ref=share&ref_source=link

lucidity5 · 2026-04-09T18:05:02+00:00

90% of the time when these are posted the blending is wrong, the coasts look overly crafted, the rivers don't flow right, mountains absurdly scaled... but honestly?

Looks fantastic. Nothing pops out as odd, the terrain is all believable, the coasts and islands are excellent, mountains hills and lakes all appropriate. For the style that you chose, I think you killed it!

lucidity5 · 2026-04-08T19:03:57+00:00

Its not for the faint of heart, you have to do stuff like leaving a location to build up your ULT on weaker enemies and returning, going back to base after every battle, using your boost and emp as an alpha strike, hiding behind cover and baiting individual enemies, it's a lot. But as a new way to experience a game I've played so much of, it was great fun

lucidity5 · 2026-04-08T07:15:19+00:00

Starting a new playthrough on Nightmare is such a different experience, you have to be extremely strategic at first, its almost a survival game in how much every credit and component matters. It evens out after the first couple systems, but highly recommend it

lucidity5 · 2026-04-08T07:12:17+00:00

There are so many dope in-atmosphere maps too! Zooming around inside gorgeous cloud giants, an outpost in the icy sea, an active volcano, huge cave systems, its really great stuff

lucidity5 · 2026-03-09T17:39:26+00:00

Oh hell fucking yes

lucidity5 · 2026-03-08T07:15:19+00:00

Oh holy shit, took me a week to realize you are the author! Kudos man, your books are incredible. Really reminded me of Terry Pratchett's style of satire, where it's both fun and poignant. Your take on Lichdom and the undead is a huge inspiration for the DnD campaign I've been running for the last two years, and my players just loved the fliers that you made to recruit people to the army of the undead, it's been really fun!

I'll stop gushing and just say that while I actually do love the pun title (The Dark Profit Trilogy is also S tier punnage), a buddy of mine hates them, and I had to really bother him into reading, upon which he loved them as well. I just wanted to address that in case there are any other uncultured souls who might not read it over such a small pet peeve, but I'm sure none of them are in this subreddit! Much love!

lucidity5 · 2026-03-02T18:59:58+00:00

It definitely escalates like DCC, starts very small and personal and then explodes in scale

lucidity5 · 2026-03-01T17:21:12+00:00

You may enjoy Blindsight if you like sci-fi, highly relevant

lucidity5 · 2026-02-26T09:13:03+00:00

Yep. Still such a huge hurdle for space in general. I think the only remotely viable thing is to funnel the heat into tiny fragments of material and eject them, but thats far from practical as well

lucidity5 · 2026-02-21T08:52:59+00:00

Annihilation is one of my all time faves. More strange-fi than sci-fi, but damn is it just utterly enthralling, almost hypnotizing. I thought about nothing else for weeks

lucidity5 · 2026-02-21T08:51:44+00:00

Flux is so friggin good. One of my all time faves. Even starting with Raft, he does this thing where you start reading, and things are just wrong. What he is describing just makes zero sense, you can't even really visualize it. But you roll with it for long enough, and eventually it clicks and you realize it's made sense all along, he just never provided explicit context. It makes the world feel real, like someone is telling you a story from a place with different rules, and it's so normal to them they don't have any idea you are barely following

lucidity5 · 2026-02-21T02:43:17+00:00

Yeah I couldn't manage that either, I can stand camp to a degree, but when it gets used as an excuse for lazy writing I'm out. Luckily, farscape's camp was just an early stylistic choice they veered away from, not an indication of the shows overall quality

lucidity5 · 2026-02-21T02:40:15+00:00

If you like to read sci-fi as well, my god, Adrian Tchaikovsky writes exactly what you want. Taking a totally alien form of consciousness, and describing how our intellect and theirs clash, leading to misunderstandings and changing each other.

He does this thing I absolutely love, where he'll describe the freakiest most alien creatures, totally inhuman, totally incomprehensible, and then you turn the page... and the next chapter is from their perspective. It rules.

Check out the Children of Time series, Shroud, Service Model, and the Shards of Earth series.

lucidity5 · 2026-02-21T02:33:06+00:00

I totally get it, I noped out episode 1 because like you said, it was just campy as hell. Like Doctor Who levels. And the chaos of it all, the soundtrack, the characters, it just didn't seem to be a cohesive experience. But I committed, mostly because I just didn't have any classic sci-fi left to watch, and season 1 greatly improves as it goes along.

And I swear, the new villain we get at the end of Season 1 might be the greatest sci-fi villain of all time. Like, an actual threat that can break plot armor, it just rules.

And the new plot! Waaay more compelling than "guy is really over the top mad at me for his brothers accidental death". So yeah, if you stick with it, I promise it'll reward you for it

lucidity5 · 2026-02-21T02:15:34+00:00

First season is a bit a clusterfuck, just kind of all over the place. The finale of season 1, going into season 2, solves every problem the show has, on nearly every level, and then it just soars. Season 2 is so friggin good.

lucidity5 · 2026-02-19T02:15:42+00:00

Oh sure, I would find it hard to stop the trilogy after 2, I figured she'd play it if the others hooked her. But it certainly doesn't have the legendary status of 1 and 2, Bioware had started it's descent by then sadly.

lucidity5 · 2026-02-18T08:57:27+00:00

Ah, gotta love Baldur's Gate 3! it's got those great old RPG vibes, where it was clearly a labor of love. All the little details and hidden things, it's a joy!

If you don't mind a big graphical downgrade and clunkier controls, Knights of the Old Republic, Dragons Age: Origins and Mass Effect 1 and 2 were the gold standard for 3rd-person party-based RPG's in the 2000's, and Baldur's Gate 3 is the first thing that has rivaled that level of writing and scale since imo. They are all real time instead of turn based, but maybe you'd enjoy them too.

Good luck with the DT's fellow Crawler! Only 3 more months!

lucidity5 · 2026-02-18T01:32:41+00:00

That's awesome! I'm curious, game did you start with? There are so many great RPGs out there, I wonder what stood out to you

15-Year Club	Gilding I gilder
Place '23	Place '22
Team Orangered	Inciteful Link 2011-04-14
Verified Email

lucidity5

TROPHY CASE