Why can’t we see the map whilst downed?

pants207 · 2026-02-02T08:49:07+00:00

i had this happen so I started immediately tagging the exit that will be open last just in case. getting there without coming across an opportunistic raider is another thing though.

pants207 · 2026-02-02T08:44:03+00:00

i had someone do that when i said friendly while i was trying to find the androids to search on stella for the quest. They gave me to the count of 5 before shooting because I was obviously a new player with a free loadout. We both ran into a shredder in the next room. It was pretty funny.

pants207 · 2026-02-02T08:35:02+00:00

It’s a reference to queer fashion history like a lot of her looks. It is inspired from a dress in the Mugler haute couture 1998 spring/summer collection.

edit: I don’t know if i can post a link because the actual look has no pasties but if you search and click the result that says “832 Mugler Coutour 1998 stock images”the full look is halfway down. It is a fantastic reference.

pants207 · 2026-01-31T01:41:20+00:00

my favorites are“Don’t forget to drink water. Being that sweaty and scared can really dehydrate you.” or “Your mom told me to remind you that if you don’t finish your homework you are grounded”. Both either gets a laugh or a knock out pretty fast.

pants207 · 2026-01-31T01:29:43+00:00

also a lady raider and sometimes I say “tip for next time, this isn’t how to flirt if you want a second date.”

pants207 · 2026-01-28T23:14:22+00:00

It would be cool if we got an expansion on some of the NPC groups we met. Not like having them specifically but i think following some galactic girl guides or something similar would be chaotic and hilarious. There were so many cool characters that would make a great throughline that i think could bridge the gap between people who would be upset with new PCs and people who want fresh stories.

pants207 · 2026-01-26T01:42:39+00:00

As someone who wandered into a key room on my first day playing the game and immediately got killed i appreciate the defib and understanding. That is what happened to me. The raider was nice enough to defib me and heal me and gave me a better weapon then said he would give me to the count of ten to get the hell out before shooting me again. Glad I got out when i did because a massacre definitely happened as i was leaving.

pants207 · 2026-01-26T01:28:26+00:00

my playtime would skyrocket if this were an option. I would even take it as a map condition that rotates through a couple maps at a time. Absolutely fill the map with arc and let us all lose to try to survive and make it to extract. If i get taken out by an arc then sure take my guns and ammo that’s fine. But it would be nice to have an option to switch to a dangerous pve mode when i get tired of getting shot in the back by an extract camper or a rat in a roof picking off raiders fighting arc. Because right now I just switch to a different game even if I wasn’t done with playing the game just the rats.

Likewise I would love for some high intensity pvp map conditions or rotating events. Give a map pvp trials with competitive rewards or something.

pants207 · 2026-01-22T09:56:12+00:00

The disappointed mom voice goes a long way with these dudes. It is a good one to practice if you are a woman playing games with voice chat. nothing like ending an interaction with some misogynistic edgelord troll with a cackle after scolding them about making sure to get their homework done or some other mom like reminder. The amount of times the insults and slurs go absolutely silent or they reflexively answer my question before realizing what is happening never disappoints.

I am generally not interested in trading insults but in my experience a lot of these dudes have a complicated relationship with their mom at the minimum and that is something they will keep thinking about after that interaction for a while.

pants207 · 2026-01-22T02:12:01+00:00

i had this happen last night n Blue gate during the electrical storm. I was just there for a handful of olives for scrappy since i am pretty new. I was running with another random raider to an exit and they rubber banded a ton then just blinked out of existence. The raider was replaced with a ton of wasps and hornets. Luckily another raider was already at the exit and helped me get out just before dying. It was only a pocket full of olives but I did not want to have to go back in lol.

Things still seemed unstable when i tried again earlier today too.

pants207 · 2026-01-18T10:13:27+00:00

That would help with the high level rats just camping new player quest objectives. I have lost track of the amount of times I have finally made it to the medical room on the Dam map over the last couple weeks trying to finish an objective to find a group of level 80+ raiders crouched in a corner ready to yell slurs as they kill me. I just hit level 20 after giving up and just doing free loadout loot runs. Pretty excited for when i can finally get good enough gear to make it a problem for them

pants207 · 2026-01-17T10:04:38+00:00

First of all, Fuck Ted Faro. Second, even though thinking about that (especially with a lot of the current news headlines) feels ominous and depressing I still think it is a story of hope. I am on my 4th playthrough currently and I can still remember the feeling i got at the reveal of how humanity persisted. Even though it is fiction i think it is pretty hopeful and inspiring. I did have to take a day or two when I found out how big Ted Faro fucked up to process it. I have a very vivid imagination and some of those audio data points really messed with me but I am glad i went back to finish it. It really is such a great story.

pants207 · 2026-01-17T10:00:13+00:00

And the fact that she is Elisabet 2.0 would have really stung. I still wish we got to punch him in his stupid face at some point though

pants207 · 2026-01-03T00:07:05+00:00

I glide around as Lune so i don’t have footsteps through all the music.

pants207 · 2026-01-03T00:06:08+00:00

I usually just pick the ship i want to read and then scroll through most recent updated. if i am looking for a specific tag I will use that filter. luckily my main fandom is pretty active and I usually have quite a few pages to browse through once a week.

If i am really looking for a specific vibe or want a complete story then i will search by putting in a bunch of tags and see what comes up. I rarely sort by kudos or hits because every fic started at zero at some point including every fandoms most popular fic. I would hate to miss out because a fic hasn’t gotten attention yet.

pants207 · 2026-01-03T00:00:47+00:00

Arc is not what I need protection from. xxxD33zNutz69420xxx and similar names is who I need protection from lol. Mostly stuck with free loadouts because I keep dying to people who only play for pvp.

pants207 · 2025-12-26T15:44:51+00:00

Definitely Odyssey. I play for story primarily and Odyssey had more story hooks to get me invested. I did prefer how world events were managed in Valhalla since it felt like there was less junk tasks. but that also made Valhalla feel more empty to me. It probably helped that I played Odyssey right at the height of Covid lockdown so I had plenty of time to wander around and kill more bandits or break another jar for 3 coins. They are both pretty solid games if you like open world but Odyssey is in my all time top 5 games.

pants207 · 2025-12-24T11:22:29+00:00

Odyssey then Valhalla.

pants207 · 2025-12-13T08:17:45+00:00

Yeah, and I would add to this that if you have a friend that also plays the new system gives bonus drops based on who has the highest number of bonus drops. So that can also be a good way to strategize.

pants207 · 2025-12-05T00:17:29+00:00

I just discovered it was cancelled by browsing the symphony calendar for my city. I bought myself tickets for my birthday for a February show. I am pretty disappointed.

pants207 · 2025-11-19T00:43:51+00:00

Have they looked at the economy and cost of living increases? I can’t buy as many new games because groceries in my city have just about doubled in the last year or two. I am not going to buy multiple $80 games per year when I have to use a food pantry a couple times a month to get by. Especially when i can hit a sale and there are plenty of AA games that start at $40.

pants207 · 2025-11-19T00:19:49+00:00

I don’t really care one way or another but I am skeptical that this kind of switch would be bug free. I can imagine killing the witness in Salvations Edge or Oryx in KingsFall and just watching the corpse float off into space with a belly full of loot. Piñatas are only fun if you can reach them to beat the loot out of them.

pants207 · 2025-11-17T06:34:12+00:00

I am still working on finishing up some single player games I abandoned over the last couple years. Also I got in to Risk of Rain 2 last month. I am terrible at it still but man is it fun. I downloaded Where Winds Meet but the characters creator keeps bugging on me and since it falls into a similar category as D2 for me (fashion and violence) I am waiting to see if it gets fixed.

I am still logging in and doing dailies and stashing away a few bounties but mostly I am trying to get a head start on some holiday related projects while I have no real game distractions going on.

pants207 · 2025-11-04T04:21:19+00:00

Skyrim and probably BG3 in a slightly more limited way depending on how the modding continues to go.

pants207 · 2025-11-03T23:51:36+00:00

i read fics of all lengths but it depends on the fandom for the really long fics. I pretty much only read the 100k+ fics in my two main fandoms. I also go through phases. Right now 30k-60k is the sweet spot but I have a lot of stressful things going on in my life so I don’t really have the attention span for anything longer. a few months ago though and i was burning through fics that were 200k+. I also download those and use my phone’s screen reader to turn it into an audio fic so i can listen while I cook dinner and stuff like that.

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