*S*T*A*R*F*I*E*L*D* / Starfield

Fucksake, never have I ever save-scummed as much as in the second- last Ryujin mission.

I spent 4 hours today not doing any exploring, no missions, no killing or spacing. I spent it trying to work out this whole outpost/cargolink setup.

So far I've figured out, extractors link to regular containers that have a nice snazzy percentage meter on them. I then have those linked to a transfer container which links to a cargo link landing platform. I now have, aluminium, beryllium & europium in a network.

I don't think I need the regular containers but they work as a bit of a buffer so I'll leave these ones for now.

I've then replicated it elsewhere on the same planet, mining iron. I finally connected the 2 cargo links and a ship dropped in.

Now at this point I was expecting to find the alu,ber & eur resources in the iron link, with the idea that I keep tagging another link onto the end to get a virtual 'line of stops' and which all flows towards the head point. However, I found iron in the first link so maybe they just propagate across all ?!? Who the fuck knows.

I've now added a 3rd with HE3 to see if I can initialise interstellar links. If this works then I'm just going to Dyson Spere Project this shit and bring all the goods to me on my a beautiful location of my choosing.

They do get better. I’ve completed the story arc now and on balance it was pretty good. Just… invest in stealth, AND make sure you have a chameleon suit before the endgame.

Disclaimer: it is entirely possible that you can just shoot your way through that Ryujin mission and come out laughing- I just didn’t want to. After all

hedben

I already did enough shooting through the stealth/hacking one as it seemed impossible to actually stealth through later on- at least with my level of stealth. Tbf I shouldn't have taken andreja with me, who went a bit 'weapons hot' when i was trying to avoid it!

Sooo on a random planet I dropped a beacon to start an outpost. I then dropped a transfer container which outputs to one each of the solid, liquid and gas containers behind it. I then have duplicates of each that continuously link to more of the same before coming back to 3 neat containers right at the side of my transfer container so I can see the storage.

I can now continue to add more of each type of container to the stack at the back and update the links. Infinite autosorted storage.

Land, dump fly off. BOOM!

I'll add some crafty benches and I am rocking.


I just need to figure out how the cargo links come in because I don't want to fill it up with a single resource before I've got others up and running

Each outpost needs an in and an out pad. Fuck knows why they have an in and out box cos they can only 1 link. Now I have 4 outposts in a system denoted as below...

Outpost 1 to 4 : Op1-4
Pads : in / out

Op1 is the start and only has an out pad. Each Op hops along to the next in the chain, linking to the out pad - it might require a transfer container in-between the pads!
Op1_out -> Op2_in
Op2_out -> Op3_in
Op3_out -> Op4_in
Op4_interstellar_out

The last Op will need a run off for HE3 to power the ILS and potentially even loop it back to Op1 for fuelling the outposts potentially

Haha, yep. I had a quick look at how to do one of the resource gathering achievements and just noped out of it. That's one that'll forever sit unfinished.

I also had to fit two parts to my ship as part of a mission and ended up looking up a tutorial on YouTube. For a game that was delayed for polish, you'd think someone would've pointed out what a convoluted mess the menus in this are.

Yeah, I think so. Those quests are still present, but I think I've got a much better sense now of which quests are going to be delivering coffees and which are actually going to go somewhere interesting.

I'm about 23 hours in now, which is a surprise if I'm honest. I don't like all the menus and loading screens, but I'm adjusted to them now and the irritation in me has settled.

I like the universe. There I said it. There are some funny characters in it. And some of the side quests have taken unexpected turns. I like choosing all the sarcastic dialogue options and seeing how people react. I'm investing in the Diplomacy perks and having fun persuading people of things. And when it goes wrong and I need to shoot people, the guns are crunchy enough to mask the perfunctory combat.

I don't use any of the workbenches and I don't use the laser cutter and I have no idea about building bases or whatever it is. But Todd has said he has made a world where players can do what interests _them_, and I think that rings true. It just took at least 10 fucking hours to get past an unfathomably boring start and get a handle on some of the systems at play.

It's pretty much the first Ryujin quest. And yeah, they do get a bit more interesting (although even that one was decent imo)
There are also some awful stealth missions. The first one I finished with a lot of quicksave spam, but for the second one I'd highly recommend just going in all guns blazing. It seems to barely make an impact.

Haven't touched this quest and have read that stealth is a pain. Out of interest is it the spacesuit you are wearing which could not be helping with sneaking? Maybe take it off completely?).

Few pages have gone by, it was a question about supply missions.
The build menu specifies that inter-system supply links don't require fuel.
I can't see the supply ship in any case, so wouldn't know how to check...

ah, thought you were talking about the galaxy wide links. Do the intra-system ones definitely work for supply contracts? Always assumed they were more for your own internal use to shift things around.

When I did the first stealth quest I hadn't put any points into the stealth skill, so didn't have the on screen display and had to guess if I was hidden (which didn't work so well!)

For the second one I had that skill, I dismissed my follower and had the stealth suit on and even quaffed something that makes you stealthier, but just found the level a bit frustrating to navigate

So anyway, I started blasting.