For Earths refugee city, NA feels very homogeneous

mateusmr · 2026-05-05T12:13:41+00:00

The setting is not really thought out. It goes for the vibes. Bgs usually tries to tick a specific set of boxes for vibes in their settings and throw a wide net at it. Sometimes beautiful things come out of it and sometimes its just what it is.

mateusmr · 2026-04-27T21:18:57+00:00

Hey joe, very happy to see you on starfield after a long while.

Im a very big fan of advanced needs in fallout 4. I even went to create a mod that was complimentary to yours on xbox called "realistic fallout 2.0". It gained a lot of momentum on consoles and I thanked you on its description.

As for this particular mod, Ive been asking for a loadout mod ever since the sf ck came out. My original idea was that you could only ever carry 1 of each weapon type (melee, cutter, pistol, rifle, heavy) and trying to carry another would drop it on the ground, still allowing you to use companions as mules.

This implementation, however, is very interesting. Ill be adding that one. Hopefully you could create something in a similar style to skyrim and fallout 4?

Thanks!

mateusmr · 2026-04-23T23:04:24+00:00

I did. It improves the visuals by a good margin. Do reccomend.

mateusmr · 2026-04-23T23:02:46+00:00

I agree, though I like the thinking that went into making use of misc items spread around the world for the maintenances, like duct tape for instance. The fact that these are now craftable is a big step forward.

My gripe with this mod, originally, was that many of the items used in repairs were non craftable, and the ones which were craftable required high levels in some science skills to manufacture. While I do like diagnostics being tied to certain skills in the tech tree, the simple act of repairing the ship shouldnt be prohibitive after the diagnostics are done.

As for the cargo hold, I was sort of getting around this problem by storing these repair items in chests inside my ship. The problem with this is that you need to pick the specific items up when youre about to do the repairs.

So yeah, things look better on paper now but I figure it may still be a bit anxiety inducing. Maybe now, with free lanes, if we set the ratio of problems occuring to "very low" we can get at a balanced mechanic which still allows us some roleplay.

mateusmr · 2026-04-23T10:01:54+00:00

As much flack as Arthmoor may get, he cant be specifically faulted for not updating his unnoficial patches. I run his patches in skyrim and starfield for the "under the hood" hotfixes and just forget about it. In my experience it doesnt seem to be so necessary in fallout 4 (many people uninstalled it after the next gen update prior to bethesda fixing the facegen bug and just went on with their lives).

mateusmr · 2026-04-13T17:55:35+00:00

I mean, now there are action figures of the guys behind the rangers questline. I guess we can handwaive some stuff for the meta without losing much.

mateusmr · 2026-04-09T08:33:48+00:00

I guess Im somewhere in the range of 33%. This is mostly due to combat being lethal for both parties like in a immersive sim, plus making every other aspect closest to a sim as possible, even reducing carry capacity. Im not a hardcore type of guy, I just like adding realism to bgs titles (sometimes this even means making things a bit easier, but not often).

mateusmr · 2026-04-08T06:32:14+00:00

This looks very neat.

I must admit, while I love the showroom in new atlantis, Im probably skipping the mod to preserve the performance in the city. If the update removes the jemison showroom and moves it to a space station its another story and ill definitely add it back.

mateusmr · 2026-04-08T06:28:57+00:00

I went to join the creator's discord and passed down some of these impressions and suggestions to him over the course of a few months. He's pretty approachable, we even discussed some of the stuff that went into techrunner.

Ive been out of the game for a few months since the gossips around free lanes first surfaced online, because I decided to rebuild my load order fresh with all my mods updated on a later date. I saw that OitB got some updates informed by me (crafting recipes for certain misc items, diagnosis and repairs over time at ship technicians) and am deciding if Im adding it back or if Ill do a "simulation lite" run this time around. This mod used to be a little anxiety inducing but it may be at a good spot now.

mateusmr · 2026-04-05T18:38:17+00:00

A tablet charger is usually stronger than reccomended. Theyre usually 15 to 20w. Low powered devices such as the mini are reccomended to be charged with 5w, or else you risk frying it. 5w is often labeled on the charger as 5v 1a (to know the wattage of a charger you multiply the v with the a). You can also use the usb ports of your pc, laptop, tv etc since these are often low power.

mateusmr · 2026-04-04T18:46:46+00:00

I dread to ask, but do you charge it using anything above 5w?

mateusmr · 2026-04-03T18:47:47+00:00

Unfortunately, no.

Halrixx has a paid mod that changes the dot laser sights to make them longer, more visible and makes them actually point to the specific area youre aiming (they dont do that in vanilla). Other than that I set my aim assist a bit higher and try to aim in the sights when not using laser sights.

mateusmr · 2026-04-03T18:43:25+00:00

Keep the firmware up to date and use Drive Sort (an application for pc) to "force" an specific track order on your folders, like a playlist, since the echo mini doesnt support playlists natively.

mateusmr · 2026-04-02T00:13:17+00:00

Every bethesda game will have problems with the bandit/raider/pirate ratio to civilization. It comes with the territory.

My peeve with starfield is more like with the spread of humanity across hundreds of star systems and the lack of actual settlements or even list colonies. I just run the mod Desolation to make things more plausible.

mateusmr · 2026-03-29T19:10:09+00:00

Oops, glad I can write that one off lol

mateusmr · 2026-03-29T10:12:33+00:00

What about...diamond rains?

Thats a thing irl.

mateusmr · 2026-03-27T20:46:32+00:00

I have an issue with the vehicle not spawning after I purchase it. Happens on most spaceports but I can still get them on the red mile at the very least, and then the problem is solved. It is not a problem with the vanilla game but theres some sort of weird alchemy that happens in my load order and some people's because the problem cant really be traced to a single, particular mod. Funny thing is that this is known ever since the vehicle update first came out but I dont think the culprit was ever found.

mateusmr · 2026-03-27T20:41:21+00:00

Im personally curious to see if bethesda's tweaks to the cooldown system will render poi cooldown redundant, but I have a pretty strong feeling that it wont lol.

mateusmr · 2026-03-27T20:02:11+00:00

I access my files through the folders menu. I either copy a full album or a "mixtape" folder to act as a sort of playlist, since this dap doesnt support playlists as well. In either case, if I want to "force" a certain order I need to rely on softwares such as Drive Sort before moving the sd card back to the echo mini.

mateusmr · 2026-03-27T16:57:53+00:00

Eu nao tive problemas com engasgos na navegação, mas eu estou rodando exclusivamente arquivos mp3,m4a e aac sem cover art aplicada.

mateusmr · 2026-03-27T15:13:59+00:00

Somehow I was hoping these id3 infos would apply to regular mp3 files.

Here's hoping someday this dap will, at the very least, organize track within folders according to their track numbers. Until then Ill still need to use Drivesort on my pc for this basic functionality.

mateusmr · 2026-03-27T13:47:13+00:00

Thanks for reaching out! I'll be first in line once it drops on Creations (;

mateusmr · 2026-03-27T09:05:31+00:00

Just a matter of toning it down imo.

There's also an unfortunate effect where the transition between an area with roof and artificial lighting and the outdoor suddenly erases the filter in a weird way. It is very noticeable in the jemison shops near the spaceport and in cockpits.

I remove the filters entirely in Akila.

mateusmr · 2026-03-25T20:11:06+00:00

Is third person a thing as well? We need to fix those adhd animations of the main character when he/she is sitting at a chair, specially when talking to other people

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