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Good morning Urists. I powered through the night to bring you a new DF song, now with lyrics (in Toadese)! ucat udir ucat umom otin necà k otin nashon ór deb avuz råsh numol libash thol råsh numol lib
There's the problem. You bought a BSG rpg wanting it to not be a BSG rpg. They will always make this style of game. If you want a different style of game, they will disappoint you.
Ive been playing BSG rpgs since Morrowind, and so I got exactly what I was expecting, with some cool extra bits on top. And as such, I absolutely love it!
I played Outer Worlds and, I think I completed it. The setting got old and the plot.. what was the plot again..? I'm like 90% sure I finished it but I couldn't tell you what happened.
Contrast that to Starfield, I've completed two faction quest lines and they were both superb. They took unexpected twists and turns and were full of lore and interesting characters. The Crimsom Fleet quest line was epic, and payed off in just the right way for me (seriously the discovery at the end is 🤌). The Rjujin quest line was also great, and took such an unexpected turn from the initial thing of applying for an office job. Also the toy you get from the questine is really fun to play with, crazy that someone might play the whole game and miss it because they thought applying for a corp job would be boring.
At the moment I'm taking a break from story missions, and I've been taking pirate hunting bounties, and just exploring. I've found loads of random encounters and followed threads to some epic stuff. And I've still only just started the main quest line.
The game is so much deeper than Outer Worlds, while also being far broader. Also, Bethesda make open world games, if they had released something as stripped back and linear as OW, they pull have been torn apart for it, even more than they are now.
Oh man of I could customise a buggy as well, and have that buggy drove out of my customised ship, I'd be so bloody happy about that
I switched from playing on my 1440p monitor to my 4k TV the other day and all my old screenshots have a black box round them whe they come up in the menus now. I'm wondering if, when I switch back, my 4k shots will all be zoomed in...
But manual space travel would be even slower and honestly I think it would get old very quickly. I do understand the frustration, and if you were expecting it to work like NMS or Elite then yeah it's going to be disappointing. But for me, that's not the point of the game. I've had a ton of fun exploring randomly around, just jumping system to system and checking out random planets. The only part of space flight I'm actually that bothered about doing 'realistically' is ship to ship combat, and that works great, especially once you unlock the thrusters. If you manage to take out their engines by focusing fire you can disable them and board the ship, and take it as your own. Also the sidequests are great, I think the writing has improved from previous games. They often go in unexpected directions.
I've enjoyed seeing the initial backlash fade and turn around. I'm seeing a lot of posts on the subreddit saying stuff like "I initially made a bug complaint post but now I'm a few hours in and I was wrong, this game is amazing"
If you're not enjoying the first few hours I implore you to stick with it a little longer.
From the article it looks like that was an issue with ZeniMax Online Studios
Fallout76 was a bad game. Not really evil though. And I heard it got much better, admittedly long after launch. I really enjoyed Fallout 4 but I get that I was in the minority there. Either way, I don't think a company should be totally panned just because they made the main character voiced instead of silent. Re-releasing Skyrim got old, but you don't have to buy it, lol. I don't know what you mean about their launcher. Was it bad? You could always start the games from the exe as well. You'll be happy to know there's no launcher for Starfield anyway.
I think they've made something amazing with Starfield, although it starts quite slowly.
Pirate the game if you want, no judgement from me, but don't justify it by pretending its some moral good.
The plumber was being silly with the cat
Oh why not, it's a really good game. Did Beth do something evil or something?
I'll add the Discworld games. And Simon the Sorcerer!
PSA: you can grav jump to other systems without using the menu, most of the time.
(I play with a controller, so don't know the keyboard buttons, maybe someone can help out with those in the comments).
I'm loving the game, 22 hours in now. I see there's a lot of people not enjoying it, so I'm going to try to make some posts over the next few days expressing little things I like, or tricks like this that help my enjoyment of it, in the hope of helping others to find the same enjoyment.
People are complaining that you use the menu a lot for travel. It's a legit complaint, but there is a way round it (mostly).
You cab travel without using the menu all the time.
If you have a mission to go somewhere, go into scanner mode and point your crosshairs at the mission icon, press A and you will see the option to press X to grav jump there, without using the menu. You can also use the function to grav jump to different systems, as long as you find them in scan mode. You see the nearby planets and stars as you look around in scan mode.
The ability to take off from a planet
You're sitting g just around the minimum requirements for the game. You might want to try installing some performance mods, there's some available already in the nexus I think, but there will be more coming soon
Yeah the lack of city maps is frustrating. So hard to find your way to certain places without a mission to go there.
It's not that buggy. I've had maybe half a dozen minor visual bugs at most in all the time I've played
Fair enough. I'm the kind of madlad that really enjoyed Fallout 4, although not as much as previous titles. I'd say this one beats FO4.
15 hours in, I'm loving it!
It's a Bethesda RPG in space. If you're looking for No Man's Sky, it isn't that. If you're looking for Elite Dangerous, it isn't that. But it is a BSG RPG, just like I've been playing since Morrowind, and it really scratches that itch. I like the characters I've met, I've enjoyed exploring, and I'm starting to get into the lore and history. The weapons feel great and the gunplay is good. I tried the ship building and was pleased with how smooth a process that is.
I've seen a few graphical glitches, but this really is the least buggy-at-launch BSG RPG I've played. It's definitely made for a controller, but that's fine, that's how I prefer to play these days.
Oh, I don't know that one!
Just in case you don't know, CP2077 is great now, and set to get better when the dlc drops soon.
You do also get the first expansion thrown in
I woke up early and played 45 mins before i has to leave for work. I just did that dogfight as well. Work is sooooo slooooow today!
I think you mean Round the Twist, not Round the Bend. Was also an excellent show, loved it so much as a kid!
Knightmare was great!
Starfield early access hits tomorrow, I think it's gonna be tricky to convince myself to also do my washing, shopping, etc. this weekend!
Two Ghosts havering a laugh at my expense.
As a child, maybe about 7 or 8 years old, I woke up one morning to the sound of two people talking in the next room, with some laughter. Then all of a sudden two ghostly beings burst through the wall and rushed at me. The thing was, they were wearing underpants on their heads, and socks on their hands. It was clear that they were just being silly and scaring me for fun, which at the time felt like it made it all the more scary, cos it was just a joke to them. I was totally terrified, paralysed with fear.
Then I woke up again.
Help me flesh out my homebrew pirate world by asking me questions about it
First off: Sawbones, Moonie, Reeva or Mygg, if you're reading this, DON'T!
I'm running a pirate-themed homebrew campaign set in a homebrewed place which I've plonked down in The Sea of Falling Stars. I call it The Southern Isles, and its rife with piracy. The de facto 'government' is The Southern Islands Company, who run the place for profit and starve the population with high taxes and tithes, and who brutally suppress any rebellion. I've used every pirate and maritime trope I can think of in planning the plot, creating encounters and filling it with characters.
I figured this will help me add flavour to the world, and could be a good resource for anyone planning a similar campaign, or one shot or whatever.
Edit: I should maybe note I already played quite a bit in this setting and after a long hiatus I am starting it back up for Season 2, so partly this is a way for me to get it all fresh in my head again.
DMs, which character from your campaign is the most fun to play?
Please be careful with spoilers from major campaigns, particularly Curse of Strand cos I'm playing through that atm please thank you 😊
I'll go first...
I'm running a homebrew pirate campaign and I have a character called Rusty Ben who's great fun to play. He's a warforged in the form of a skeleton made of rusted iron. He wears a pirate hat and he has a stuffed parrot nailed to his shoulder. He's a great sailor, who never tires, or eats, and he even keeps watch as he 'sleeps', because warforged. He's also handy with repair work, so he's a valuable member of the party's pirate crew. He's very friendly and speaks in a kind of silly Southern US accent. When he asked to join the party's crew, he held put a gold piece and said "I can pay my own way!". They declined and one of them gave him a silver piece as wages. He was bowled over by their generosity. Another player offered him a copper piece as well, and he got all serious and said, "No, no... let me earn the copper piece."
He acts
I'm The President- KNOWER (alt rock/jazz?) - I can't stop listening to this song!
Do you love the soundtrack on the Steam release? You can listen to Simon Swermer's earlier DF related music on his Soundcloud, and I highly recommend you do!
Tell us about your current character!
I'll go first. He's a reborn necromancer wizard, with a 1 level dip into death cleric.
His backstory comes with a clichénwarning for lost memories..
He lost his memory just before the start of the campaign. He was conducting a gruesome experiment on a dog, when something went wrong involving lightning. He died, but also didn't, and came to wandering around his lab years later, clutching the skull of the dog, which had rotted away to just bone.
He didn't have a name at the start of the campaign. I let a different player name him, as his character knew mine from before the accident. He came up with the truly awful name Melvin Kingston, which I've grown to love. He had a massive fear of death, having died once already, and was quite the coward in early levels.
His memories have been slowly returning, and he's had to come to terms with all the evil things he did in his previous life. I recently took a level in death domain cleric, cos we had no healer, and I found the god Jergal, Scrib