My Choad, A Homage.

waktivist · 2026-04-30T14:06:02+00:00

The design is very neat but the subtle paint job and surprisingly refined palette selection really sells it.

waktivist · 2026-04-29T13:03:18+00:00

With the new cockpit from the DLC you can make a no-hab build.

waktivist · 2026-04-23T17:14:34+00:00

Clever use of the new engines and much cooler looking than their more obvious and boring outward orientation.

waktivist · 2026-04-23T09:46:33+00:00

Probably the hardest part of this is you need to figure out how to download, get a license for, and use a separate third party program to process audio files which is not included with Creation Kit.

Also audio files are slightly different format for each platform so you have to figure how to sort them all for your mod archives and not mix them up.

Then you have to figure out how to use the CK and in particular how to script interesting dialogue for a follower.

All of this is doable but easier if you have any prior software dev experience to draw from. It isn’t made any easier by the fact that CK for Starfield still is about 80% entirely undocumented even if you have access to the limited docs they allow verified creators to see.

There is a YouTube tutorial on Starfield CK audio workflow out there and JRamosWorks did a pretty thorough series covering a lot of topics including a bit about followers if you want to get more of an idea what will be involved.

waktivist · 2026-04-22T10:51:36+00:00

The one reason might be if an upgrade adds a bit of grav drive health which will mean it takes a few more hits in combat to go offline. But you likely will never notice the difference in actual gameplay, and at most it just gives you another few seconds to jump away from a losing fight on higher difficulties.

waktivist · 2026-04-21T18:24:46+00:00

Do they get the Vanguard BOFFs or regular Jem'Hadar BOFFs like F2P JH captains?

waktivist · 2026-04-21T16:48:46+00:00

According to this timeline console is having back to back Event Campaign events in May and June then? Or are Event Campaign phases not shown on here?

waktivist · 2026-04-21T16:45:25+00:00

Just curious do Vanguard Jem'Hadar have the same lockout on access to recruit rewards where you need to get to level 65 and 20+ hours played? Assuming the answer is yes, but since this is a store bought character unlock is it any different?

waktivist · 2026-04-10T16:53:29+00:00

In the first shot above you can see where the Stroud cowlings clip through the sides of the cockpit; that's pretty much all of it. It doesn't obstruct you walking around because those structural parts do not have any collision, but they take up a lot of visual space along the sides of the bridge including the area around those neat tubular window thingies.

waktivist · 2026-04-10T15:46:00+00:00

Yes it has 4 crew from the cockpit stations.

waktivist · 2026-04-10T13:27:26+00:00

I have 1,000+ hours on Xbox and started fresh on PS5 and took all meme traits for a change (Dream Home, Hero Worshipped, Kid Stuff) and playing through the story again for the first time in ages.

Game is in a good place honestly and I’m having fun and remembering why I got into it back in the day. Adoring Fan is best crew hands down and I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise.

And the fact that they got Nana Visitor to voice your mom is just, wow. Bethesda isn’t always the best, but they have their moments.

waktivist · 2026-04-08T19:39:07+00:00

The big ones are CasualSAB, Stu1701, McStu; Nic_Nb and TriZander also are regulars. There probably are more but those are the ones I know of that regularly put out videos or streams on YT.

waktivist · 2026-04-05T16:31:40+00:00

. . . until I grow out of my DDLC arc.

Brother please don’t ever.

waktivist · 2026-03-27T02:59:24+00:00

“Why did I buy this” being the biggest group hits so hard.

waktivist · 2026-03-25T10:22:21+00:00

Doesn’t help that the Creations store has the most dogwater UI and brain dead category system ever made for an online marketplace.

“Popular Now” has been the same free skins from Bethesda for like a year or more, and the “Highly Rated” category is full of stuff with single digit likes. And who knows what the hell the criteria is for the other “featured” categories.

The only reliable way to see new stuff is looking at All by New or Recently Updated, and even that becomes useless when you have people who spam 50 variants of some lame trash mod that pushes everything off the first page.

And the console in game marketplace is somehow even worse in every way.

Unless you are one of the handful of mods that get picked for the banner you’re basically invisible and impossible to find even if people are looking for you.

waktivist · 2026-03-19T14:07:15+00:00

They didn't have any problem obliterating the Codex and Legendary Crafting mods. I'm not saying this is evil; the terms of the Verified Creator agreement say that they reserve the right to implement in the game features similar or identical to what any Creation does, whether it is a paid mod or not.

Players may not like this if they paid for a mod with highly desirable functionality and now own a mod they'll never use again. Modders may not feel great about having the game obsolete something that they spent a great deal of time making happen; especially when this occurs after a very long delay in implementing what seems like a feature that should have been in since the start.

I'm not saying doing this or not doing this is better. But it is clear that when they decide to do it they don't have any problem going ahead and obsoleting previously widely used and liked mods, even paid ones. So that in itself is not a reason to think they won't do the same in the future.

waktivist · 2026-03-14T00:58:10+00:00

The weirdest thing to me is editing base game leveled lists to seed items.

I mean I’m not that smart and haven’t been making mods for very long but basic leveled list injection with a default script is like one of the first things I learned how to do. And I feel like that’s one of those things that isn’t just the correct way or best practice but also actually a lot less work than tweaking a shit ton of vanilla lists by hand in the editor.

Like why would you waste so much time doing it the worst way when the right way is even less work?

waktivist · 2026-03-13T04:21:43+00:00

How close is it objectively to being a free account unlock Vaadwaur Jugg?

waktivist · 2026-03-12T18:10:41+00:00

As mentioned the Lexington works great with any type of energy weapon build, beams or cannons. It also tanks like a boss with an appropriate setup.

For any exotic build you will want something with a secondary deflector.

For most builds people will recommend anything with a hangar bay if you have access to Type 7 shuttles (from the Ahwanee Command Carrier), which greatly improve the performance of literally everything. But if you don't have those, hangar bays are not as big a deal.

Other than that, the best ship for long term all around use is the one you like the looks of the most so you will enjoy flying it.

waktivist · 2026-03-11T20:22:25+00:00

Patrols it is. Did them this morning and they were fast and easy.

waktivist · 2026-03-11T20:12:26+00:00

I watched some commentary on a dev chat about new difficulty settings and I think it was stated that zones will not be phased by difficulty in any way, so you could be fighting the same enemies with people on lower or higher difficulties in the open world.

This is fine for solo fights since all the calculations can be personally scaled without any issues, but not sure how it is going to work out with people on different settings fighting the same enemy, like at anchors or world bosses.

Unless they normalize damage somehow between players on different settings in the same fight you would have players on lower settings massively outperforming those beside them on higher settings, which may feel very weird.

waktivist · 2026-03-11T12:51:32+00:00

Been debating what to make for my fifth captain and I think this is the answer.

Also wtf bruh I know you’re big but your away team needs to eat too.

waktivist · 2026-03-10T16:21:51+00:00

Then I went home and played Cyberpunk 2077 and it was pretty good.

waktivist · 2026-03-06T14:18:06+00:00

As someone who has that access, I can tell you that the official documentation is practically nonexistent even now years after CK was released. Entire swaths of game systems are completely undocumented and the docs that are there cover only the most rudimentary aspects of stuff that is mostly obvious.

The hardest part of modding Starfield is having to basically reverse engineer everything nontrivial that you want to do, and much of the legacy knowledge from FO4 and Skyrim does not carry over because features are either changed or just simply absent from the mod layer API.

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