>Missile Specialization: >Reduced bonus rate of fire to 25% (was: 50%) >Reduced bonus missile hitpoints to 25% (was: 50%)
OH SORRY
WERE YOU HAVING FUN
WERE YOU
WERE YOU HAVING FUN WITH SOMETHING IN THE GAME??
WERE YOU?
NO FRICKING FUN
NONE AT ALL
FRICK YOU
shield shunt sucks so much fricking ass on nearly everything but onslaught and invictus, was it higher armor percentage increase before?
3 months ago
Anonymous
shield shunt sucks on the Invictus because it's totally unnecessary. That's OP you could be putting into more dakka.
3 months ago
Anonymous
true, but the invictus and onslaught are the only things that 15% armor increase is worth a damn.
3 months ago
Anonymous
oh I misunderstood and thought the that was the mod that gave shieldless ships shields, guess I'm moronic for not realizing the onslaught wouldn't be able to have it
I don't think the Invictus can have it anyway since it doesn't have a shield by default.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Invictus can get heavy armor IIRC but no shield shunt because it doesn't have a shield.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Heavy Armor sucks on Invictus because it's only a flat increase. 500 more on top of 10,000 isn't worth the op cost. Armored Weapon Mounts and Reinforced Bulkheads are way better for the same reason, being percentage based.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Gave 50% EMP resist. Not sure if it added up to 100% with Resistant Flux Conduits, but even at 75% it would probably resist engine-disabling weaponry quite well.
Alone that it wouldn't be much, but because Shield Shunt completely disables shield, the affected ship is perfectly able to turn into a raging berserker, charging at the enemy without it's AI being concerned about flux because lmao no shield to use.
So you could easily rig up SO's high-armor ships to just chase flimsy high-tech ships. And as I heard, the modded high-tech ships we're "balanced" with really weak health for their vastly superior weaponry/flux stats, so those quickly were getting wrecked after Shield-Shunted ships simply ignored the initial barrage and proceeded to delete them. Cue the modder whining.
>Tweaked colonies (again) >Tweaked skills (again) >Tweaked hyperspace (again) >Nerfed things that were already bad >Buffed things that were already good >Changed the update number 0.96.1 to 0.97 to pat themselves on the back and generate artificial hype for a "major" update >Fixed bugs
Not him but I like at least that even if the story is filled with shitty leftist donut steel OCs, I at least get to be one of these Marry Sues instead of playing second fiddle to them.
I just hate how it currently ends. The trannies get away with the anus tech off scot free and you get shit on like it was your idea.
At least let me frick over the dyke that runs the academy on purpose, or kill the two rainbow hairs.
I don't fricking want to be David's personal Mary Sue. I want to be my own Mary Sue. I want to do what I want and get to make real choices in the story that lead me on different paths instead of just doing what everyone tells me to do and getting showered with super special one of a kind gifts just for existing.
I understand Starsector to be an RPG in some capacity, and the story as it exists is the antithesis of what an RPG's story should be. It's almost as Bethesda-tier as Bethesda themselves. You meet all the big boys of the big factions and you're everyone's favorite and you have special powers that nobody else has and you're the only one who can save the sector and bring the gates back.
Even the basic level of player agency to say "No, I don't want to do this quest, frick off" is absent. I don't even go to Diktat bars anymore. I don't want to have that quest on my intel screen for the rest of the game.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Alex is a good worldbuilder but not a good writer and Starsector was better when there was no actual "main story" and instead just things that you could read in the codex.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Alex did not write the story, he hired some random guy to import his fanfiction to the game.
there has to be a conclusion to the whole omega stuff and what actually destroyed the domain imo the crisis system was added as to give the player actual objectives in order to trigger a possible end-game, it just hasn't been added yet
3 months ago
Anonymous
I think it's just an alternative to the previous crisis system, which was pretty terrible and bombarded you with shitty events from pirates and pathers with practically no recourse but to finish their questlines
3 months ago
Anonymous
right, previous crysis system was terrible, just permanent penalties all around unless you paid the pirates or gave the space jihaddist a fricking planet buster lol, but what i meant is that it still is a nice way to railroad the player into doing specific objectives to unlock further bonuses, like the whole hyperspace thingy, but for a theoretical endgame, instead of unlocking bonuses it would unlock specific events like fleet attacks, etc, until a full blown invasion begins once it reach the maximum possible value, but you couldn't get there before, for example, finishing the main mission so there's an actual reason to do it
things that were already bad
things that were already good
They really did, didn't they? Nerfed reaper despite everyone always using the hammer barrage anyway, which got buffed in this one.
I wish he wouldn't engage with the insufferable discord homosexuals and just delete the forums. None of them actually know how to play the game and cant possibly ever offer meaningful feedback. Most of the modders are useless morons that make dumb, ugly, save corrupting broken shit and act like a troony groomer cult. The whole shitshow is repulsive.
>Most of the modders are useless morons
Yeah but the modder wars and drama where they do shit like secretly giving their custom ships a hidden bonus against their online enemies' custom ships is pretty hilarious.
Obviously every dev should delete discord, that goes without saying.
That's good to hear.
I can't be against forums though, I support anyone who still has them. Sounds like he just needs to do a homosexual fumigation
3 months ago
Anonymous
homosexuals will live anywhere. You need to open your eyes and accept that the venue isn't really the problem. Discord's just a piece of dogshit pajeet coded software like any other. The people around today will be a problem on IRC, they'll be a problem on a bbs, they'll be a problem on teamspeak, skype, mumble, forums, and they're a problem on Ganker too. Forums are just better from the angle that you don't need an account, you don't need to worry about them getting nuked, you can just search for the things you need and find them because they're on the public internet. But the kinds of people who live there are the same as anywhere. Very annoying. And Alex actively nurtures that shit by being so personally involved with it.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Forums legitimately are best because you can actually moderate them and cultivate a community since everything is out in the open.
What brings them down is admins not having the balls to stand up to troony infiltrators, but they have a much harder time pulling it off on forums than they do anywhere else (which is why they've been slowly killed off everywhere).
Sounds like you want the dev to just work in his basement and not have any community at all, which is a fallback troony objective because if you do that they can still control the unofficial discords or whatever.
So you're either incredibly naive or a super unsneaky troon yourself.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>Forums legitimately are best because you can actually moderate them and cultivate a community since everything is out in the open.
It's the same shit. Mod troony from discord is not different from mod troony from forums.
3 months ago
Anonymous
It's completely different and this pretty much proves you're too young to remember what forums and IRC were like before the troonypocalypse.
It takes years of work to weasel your way onto mod positions on those platforms to the degree that you can vote real people off the staff. It only takes an alert admin to stop that.
Before 2012-2014 nobody really knew it was a threat, but now we do.
And again, having your own community is the only way to provide contrast for discord trannies to look insane against.
Moderation is the problem, because no regular person wants to moderate a website full of morons for zero dollars and zero cents. Unless you're hiring actual PR representatives, and thus you have regular people who do their work in exchange for money, your admins are just gonna end up being the most irresponsible and mentally ill people around. The payment they take is getting to pretend they have some sort of power that they can abuse. >they have a much harder time pulling it off on forums than they do anywhere else
You're really just making shit up. I mean, it's like you've never actually used a forum in your life. They had absolutely no trouble doing it for the decade and a half where forums were the primary venue of online communities. They had absolutely no trouble doing it for Starsector. Are you joking?
>Moderation is the problem, because no regular person wants to moderate a website full of morons for zero dollars and zero cents
And yet we actually had passionate communities where plenty of people were happy to do that back in the day. This is a really modern zoomerpilled opinion so I allege that it is in fact you who is talking out of your ass.
It's also just illogical, since the whole way troons are able to trojan horse their way into shit is by pretending to be one of those people. How can that be if they never existed, for most of that period way back before online trannies were even a thing (so, your timeline is also moronic. Trannies have only been a thing for about a decade)?
It's an insane suggestion that the entire structure of online communities was a fiction invented by the people who infiltrated it, rather than something they adapted to infiltrate.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>It's completely different and this pretty much proves you're too young to remember
No it's not. This proves nothing. You're delusional. Moderation abuse existed on forums for decades. Same fricking drama and same insufferable mods. Same nepotism or god forbid forum karma farming. IRC? IRC Ganker raids. Before trannies even existed.
3 months ago
Anonymous
And now you're moving the goalposts.
Are we talking about the threat of discord trannies or are we talking about the good clean fun of garden-variety moderator abuse and Ganker IRC raids (lol, you moron)
3 months ago
Anonymous
>dismissing irc raids
Who's the newbie now? Learn your fricking history before lecturing others, election babby.
3 months ago
Anonymous
I'm dismissing them because it has nothing to do with what we're talking about and it's a fricking stupid nothing thing to bring up anyway.
IRC raids were never a problem for anybody but baby channels. Regular users just idle all day and don't give a shit if there's floodspam for a day or two. Why even mention it?
>It's also just illogical, since the whole way troons are able to trojan horse their way into shit is by pretending to be one of those people. How can that be if they never existed, for most of that period way back before online trannies were even a thing (so, your timeline is also moronic. Trannies have only been a thing for about a decade)?
Before trannies were trannies, they were just autistic men. I know you have a hard time remembering things that happened more than a few months ago, but those people haven't changed, they've just adopted new labels and new ways to be homosexuals. The moronic ways they would ruin good forums back then with their power trips and their tantrums are exactly the same as the shit they do now, but now they wear skirts and take drugs that make them more insane.
Okay now I'm 100% sure you're a troony who is really bad at your job.
We're talking about a forum for a game about dressing up spaceships that are secretly battletech robots. Autism is the source of 100% of the community's power.
What you want here is for the official community to be shut down so your troon discord can run the show.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>Forums legitimately are best because you can actually moderate them and cultivate a community since everything is out in the open. >It's completely different and this pretty much proves you're too young to remember what forums and IRC were like before the troonypocalypse.
Real oldgay times amrite? I can freely google ancient forum of some antient franchise that is still popular with same troony modder who is moderator since 2006 or something.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Just yesterday I logged onto my favourite development channel for the first time in a decade.
It went from having a couple hundred very cool regulars to being co-opted by literally who mods on a discord that systematically banned *all* the oldschool users within a couple of weeks. In retrospect they were clearly planning this for months.
There were like 8 people still idling there, and I recognised most of them.
Nobody talked, they probably all died on their toilet with their laptops still running.
Kinda sweet and pretty sad.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>It's also just illogical, since the whole way troons are able to trojan horse their way into shit is by pretending to be one of those people. How can that be if they never existed, for most of that period way back before online trannies were even a thing (so, your timeline is also moronic. Trannies have only been a thing for about a decade)?
Before trannies were trannies, they were just autistic men. I know you have a hard time remembering things that happened more than a few months ago, but those people haven't changed, they've just adopted new labels and new ways to be homosexuals. The moronic ways they would ruin good forums back then with their power trips and their tantrums are exactly the same as the shit they do now, but now they wear skirts and take drugs that make them more insane.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Moderation is the problem, because no regular person wants to moderate a website full of morons for zero dollars and zero cents. Unless you're hiring actual PR representatives, and thus you have regular people who do their work in exchange for money, your admins are just gonna end up being the most irresponsible and mentally ill people around. The payment they take is getting to pretend they have some sort of power that they can abuse. >they have a much harder time pulling it off on forums than they do anywhere else
You're really just making shit up. I mean, it's like you've never actually used a forum in your life. They had absolutely no trouble doing it for the decade and a half where forums were the primary venue of online communities. They had absolutely no trouble doing it for Starsector. Are you joking?
3 months ago
Anonymous
Nah there's definitely something fricky about discord. Just something about it seems to cater to the worst sort of powertripping bullshit.
Even IRC was somehow better, nevermind forums. I don't know what it is about discord specifically, but it brings out the absolute fricking worst in people, especially moderators and admins.
Moderation is the problem, because no regular person wants to moderate a website full of morons for zero dollars and zero cents. Unless you're hiring actual PR representatives, and thus you have regular people who do their work in exchange for money, your admins are just gonna end up being the most irresponsible and mentally ill people around. The payment they take is getting to pretend they have some sort of power that they can abuse. >they have a much harder time pulling it off on forums than they do anywhere else
You're really just making shit up. I mean, it's like you've never actually used a forum in your life. They had absolutely no trouble doing it for the decade and a half where forums were the primary venue of online communities. They had absolutely no trouble doing it for Starsector. Are you joking?
The best moderators/admins I've ever seen were guys like louiswu on HBO (well, at least a decade ago who knows what HBO is like now) who were basically older dudes with families who are fans of the studio, technically competent enough to run a website and everything on their own, and with enough vitality to actually care about and administer it while also choosing decent people to help them out.
I never see those types of laid back successful family types doing the absolutely grotesque bullshit I see from trannies et al.
Abyssal hyperspace in the bottom left of the galactic map, it makes fleets extremely slow. It's full of mostly one-planet systems and it can't be colonized. There's two premade systems with unique stuff.
some of the simpler mods can be made compatible with an edit of their ".json" file.
change the
"gameVersion": "old version"
to
"gameVersion": "0.97a"
or whatever the version is called
In my most recent playthrough my eyes were opened to the glory of the Odyssey. It was so satisfying to dance around slower ships and use the boosters smash into smaller ships sending them flying. A bit of a b***h to angle sometimes though.
XIVth Legion. Pretty much perfect for my captain's personality - minions to swarm my enemies, missiles to explode everyone with, and ballistic mounts so I can mount needlers on them and drown my adversaries in a hail of bullets. And better yet, the system allows me to barrel into the middle of a fight like a drunken polar bear and start ripping everyone to shreds.
I tried out Pegasissy because my character really loves explosives, but it's so fricking slow it feels like shit to play.
No point until all the mods update, which will take 2 weeks (and longer for unsupported and abandoned stuff like tartifarts mods)
>more lore shit and events
b***h i just want more ships and better non-combat gameplay
This release is a babystep in the right direction imo: >isn't just more ships or yet another skill rework (although it is also more ships and yet another skill rework) >it's been 3 months since the last release, this is the fastest this moron has released an update for his game since 2013 >building on and adding (so far very little) depth to non-combat portions of the game
It has been years since Alex has done something actually good for the game. Unfortunately neither he nor anyone working with him can write worth a damn.
Shit's fun but I feel like I just cannot win tough battles when I'm piloting it. I need super maneuverability and big dick alpha damage potential to win the hardest battles.
Speaking of mod flagships, love the Beldam from HMI. It's just a large energy and a large missile stuck on the end of a stick with plasma burn. Like a diet Odyssey, but in a good way.
What mod is this so I can avoid it?
Vayra sector and assorted mods by Vayra (all totally dead, author hasn't been seen in over 3 years, probably an hero, nobody's even bothered to bootleg it afaik)
>vanilla
Hyperion >mod
Sephira Conclave's Mnemosyne (aka a turbosupercharged Hyperion tuned by the mod equivalent of the Lancia Group B era chief engineer)
>Conquest and Aurora >Conquest was hated by /vg/ metagays so hard you weren't even able to mention it without metaBlack folk meltdown.
since when? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqeSrnrbuUc
This fricking thing from Machina Void Shipyards. It's like a Conquest was given phase skimmers that it could use with 360 degree shields up.
Terribly undergunned for the DP cost, but god, the durability and speed combined are just erotic.
Bonus points to the Tzaphiel from the same mod for all the Binah references and ship disabling capability.
safety overrides dual chaingun brawling eradicator (any variant)
ridiculous DPS and good defenses at a reasonable price
while being fast enough to be fun to pilot
>Aurora + safety overrides >Antimatter blasters in all forward-facing weapon slots
Zoom in, blow your load all over the opposing ship's face, then zoom out.
Yeah it's quite slow, i always slap a Cryoarithmetic Engine with Special Hullmod Upgrades on it alongside some other speed-oriented hullmods on it because it's just too damn sluggish otherwise.
I think it's top speed and system regen rate got nerfed as well in the latest ArmaA update, you can't really spam it's Havoc Drive anymore.
Last time I tried to use that weapon, it was extremely unwieldy with its weird fire delay and torpedoes emerging off center as if they weren't already slow enough. Genuinely considered using medium reaper launcher instead. Did it really need to be nerfed on top of that?
Someone probably built something ridiculous in their discord and alex saw it and decided it needed to go
Has the modding community for this recovered yet?
No, it's as bad as it has ever been. Completely polluted by troons with the worst offenders (the schizophrenic/psychotic dox and harass types) even further entrenched in the social cliques. The best modding community for this game remains random Ganker anons who make shit like the rape mod
You can probably just update the one file telling the moron game that it's compatible
I still don't understand why alex forces that dumb bullshit and prevents you from playing instead of just warning "this is for a different game version"
Literally everything else is a better choice on the XIV legion. Hammers, squalls, hurricanes, dragonfires, hydras. Shit, fricking locusts and pilums would be a more logical choice if you were going for a full carrier support build with it. There's no logical reason to put a cyclone reaper on it. Or anything else, for that matter. It was already the worst large missile weapon in the game.
I had no idea this was imminent and randomly checked the site 6 hours ago because I was bored and had nothing to play and saw no update since may or whatever.
now I go onto Ganker and see this fricking thread.
this is seriously spooky to me, I haven't thought about this game for like 5 months prior to today.
I'm not touching the game until it is actually finished so I don't have to keep fricking around with outdated mods and waiting for the troons that run that modding community to get off their dialators and update the fricking mods.
FRICKING THIS. I am told that Starsector would be on Steam when it is done. I was like WHEN?!?! It has been around over 14 yrs!!! FRICKING 14 YEARS!!! This fricking lazy slav still uses the outdated program JAVA! ugh.
>This fricking lazy slav still uses the outdated program JAVA >runs perfectly on toasters >looks good >300mb
This is the power of JAVA. Just imagine Starsector but made by baseddev.
Even if he wanted to, it’s unfeasible to rewrite the game in another language.
>using ziggurat
disgusting may aswell use cheat engine
Am I just bad at using Ziggurat, or is it overrated? Radiant mogs it to me. I also hate the phasing slowdown mechanic. Not to mention the fricking CR penalty for using Ziggurat and it generally just being shit in the campaign.
>Radiant mogs it to me
not without mods it doesnt since alpha core nukes the combat readiness
but in general anyone who uses op superships is a homosexual
3 months ago
Anonymous
nta but I altered the ai ship perk to allow enough fleet size for one radiant, there's no fun in using one if it can't be at full power
3 months ago
Anonymous
then it is better yes and i did the same except for all skills with moronic caps like that
3 months ago
Anonymous
>but in general anyone who uses op superships is a homosexual
I'm reluctant but it's vanilla and by the time you can capture it there's only like one harder fight left anyway, last time I checked.
What would be nice is a few more vanilla hyper-bullshit ships so it's actually a decision, and a lot more assfrick endgame fights worth using them in.
True as far as modded ships go though, obviously. I'd say more endgame stuff would help with that too but then modders would make even stupider stuff.
3 months ago
Anonymous
You can literally solo the doritos using an afflictor or harbinger
Even if he wanted to, it’s unfeasible to rewrite the game in another language.
[...]
Am I just bad at using Ziggurat, or is it overrated? Radiant mogs it to me. I also hate the phasing slowdown mechanic. Not to mention the fricking CR penalty for using Ziggurat and it generally just being shit in the campaign.
You just suck at using phase ships
PERIOD
3 months ago
Anonymous
You can solo any fight in the game with an Aurora, so my point stands. If you're good at spaceships you don't need it so there's no harm in using it, and if you suck at spaceships there's not much left that's tougher than it anyway so you've earned some bullshit.
Not that I think it's really that bullshit anyway. Using it just looks and feels exactly like bullshit (which can be fun).
3 months ago
Anonymous
>Using it just looks and feels exactly like bullshit (which can be fun).
no
because its mine and mine alone
go fricking find your own supership
the zig belongs only to me
3 months ago
Anonymous
Is that why you love to use the invictus so much while sucking Black person wiener?
>Am I just bad at using Ziggurat, or is it overrated? Radiant mogs it to me.
I am not even good with phase ships and yet I still kill so much with Ziggy. I think you should practice more with it.
It's not overrated but if you hate phasing it isn't for you. It's also not very flexible, the thing that makes it strong is being able to load up a full set of otherwise mediocre short-range alpha strike weapons with long reloads, then just decloak behind shit and nuke em.
You still want a decent armada to clean up and support you or you'll die from attrition, so I wouldn't say it's any necessarily more OP than other meta compositions (like fielding a single long-range Aurora or whatever, lol) apart from the implicit brokenness of being a supercap with phasing.
I'd much rather it stay like it is, thank you very much. Steam wouldn't add any quality to the game, and workshop is a terrible idea for a game like this due to how mods update and break themselves.
>when it reaches 1.0
Total Biscuit was alive and healthy when this game was reaching prominent attention
He did a vid on it in fricking TWELVE YEARS AGO
He wants the game to have the best possible launch. Early access on steam is plagued with half finished dead games and he doesn't want his to end up the same way. Release a nice stable 1.0 product that isn't shit and he'll make a frickton of money.
He's largely incompetent. I've come to realize that - alex accidentally made a decent spaceship combat game 10 years ago, and then flailed around like a fricking moron ever since then.
Luckily for him it makes enough money to live off of it.
What mod is this so I can avoid it?
3 mods in that image and all of them are fricking terrible so you probably don't even have them installed anyway
>Meanwhile Palworld made a gorillion dollars >As did Enshrouded >...and Baldurs Gate >And lethal company
He is an imbecile that let all his money float away
The reputation of the game has soured at least on this site due to the troons that run the modding community. Steam normies probably wouldn't give a shit unless same sort of debacle of malicious code within mods happens again after a hypothetical launch tho. The dev is risking quite a bit by fostering those fricking lunatics in his community.
>BROOO DIZ GAEM BE IN DEVELOPMENT LONGER THAN 2 YEAR IT IS SCAM??? DEV RUN WITH MONEY REPORT IT PLEEZ >BROOOO WER IZ UPDOOT DEV RUN WITH MONEY DED GAEM REPORT PLZ >DOOOD DIS DEV NOT MAKE FORUM POST EVERY DAY DIS GAEM DED HE RUN WITH MONEY REPORT PLZ
>160 point deployments >It's your fault if the expedition dies for any reason >ally ships shooting missiles directly up your ships ass >can't stop invasions once they are in progress >if your under commision and your colony gets captured, recapturing the colony transfers ownership of the colony to your commission.
This is literally one sperg modder's blacklist as to which mods his are compatible to play with, and you're being as much of a sperg as him for doomposting generalizing against every other mod. Also >malware
Lol
the malware incident was an unrelated mod, in which boggled's popular terraforming and station construction mod was found to contain an IP logger and telemetry.
I wonder if the one guy absolutely losing his shit on the forums about that mod (to the point alex himself told him to relax) is the guy who constantly complains about it here
Malware is always worth pointing out and bringing up.
Discord troons hate it when people talk about the psychotic shit this game's modders do and always try to shut down anyone bringing it up, like you're doing
that's hilarious, i was bringing it up myself as an example of malware because nobody else talking about it. learn to read you useless fricking mongoloid.
This is literally one sperg modder's blacklist as to which mods his are compatible to play with, and you're being as much of a sperg as him for doomposting generalizing against every other mod. Also >malware
Lol
>mods are for trannies even doe my post complains about someone blacklisting my basedmod XD now excuse me as I start another Nexerelin playthrough (ironically (I'm only pretending to be moronic))
This is literally one sperg modder's blacklist as to which mods his are compatible to play with, and you're being as much of a sperg as him for doomposting generalizing against every other mod. Also >malware
Lol
So are you gonna b***h about the Terraforming mod for all eternity even though as far as I can tell he was forced to remove all of that stupid shit a long time ago?
>Missile Specialization: >Reduced bonus rate of fire to 25% (was: 50%) >Reduced bonus missile hitpoints to 25% (was: 50%)
OH SORRY
WERE YOU HAVING FUN
WERE YOU
WERE YOU HAVING FUN WITH SOMETHING IN THE GAME??
WERE YOU?
NO FRICKING FUN
NONE AT ALL
FRICK YOU
After being mind boggled by working with the fleet limits slapped onto skills I installed Quality Captains. The skill tree is gonna need a full rework before I consider playing with out it or another similar mod. Though it'd be nice if he fixed this milestone stuff to not get in the way, but whatever.
>even though as far as I can tell he was forced to remove all of that stupid shit a long time ago?
Not everybody deserves forgiveness or second chances, especially not impersonal goods distribution. Simply stop using it and stop using anything they provide, as they don't see the fault of their own actions by their own admission.
You are free to ignore me, but I will continue to warn people that "this dev has a history of spyware, do with that info as you will"
that was one of the only times soren was in the right with one of his histrionic meltdowns. a popular mod was collecting people's location data for no apparent reason and violating the GDPR in the process.
3 months ago
Anonymous
It's moronic to sperg out about when it's right behind the dev explicitly telling them to get rid of it, and they did because they made no attempt to hide it in the first place. Continuing to cry that modding is dead or whatever else is just a pointless temper tantrum
3 months ago
Anonymous
>sperg out
Calling the people's attention to a serious issue is not "sperging out". If not one had called him out on the forums after noticing this, this would have continued unabated. And when caught red handed his response was the equivalent of "You should be thankful I'm not doing something serious with this, this is not a big deal so I don't see why I should not, shut up" which immediately garnered him the animosity of everyone. What he had done was a mistake and instead of profuse and quite frankly, groveling apology that he owed people whose security he had compromised, he let his fricking ego talk. He should have been banned on the spot for it, the fact that he was even given any room to debate his transgression is just an indication of how weak Alex is in regards to moderation of his modding community, where lunatics can band up to take down people whose content they find objectionable while at the same time covering up for their own cliques and obfuscating malicious code.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>wah alex wasn't seething as hard as I was modding is dead >immediately requesting it be disabled wasn't harsh enough
yeah it's definitely you lol, keep your tard rage on the forums where it belongs please
3 months ago
Anonymous
He removed it begrudgingly after power came down on him, displaying no desire to change his attitude and treating his actions as in the right. If you can't see how that is a fricking problem, I don't know what else to tell you. And cut it out with your autistic fricking witch hunting, I'm not the anon you talked with initially.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Ok boggled.
3 months ago
Anonymous
How many years are you going to spend crying about this?
3 months ago
Anonymous
I only remember it when I see a Starsector thread posted, so I guess for as long as these threads are made here?
3 months ago
Anonymous
How many dozens of threads has that been? How many more in the future?
3 months ago
Anonymous
Do you count how many breads you have eaten?
3 months ago
Anonymous
until either his personal demons are hated to death or everyone agrees with him, so forever unfortunately
3 months ago
Anonymous
What year is it currently?
3 months ago
Anonymous
until either his personal demons are hated to death or everyone agrees with him, so forever unfortunately
What year is it currently?
Hi USC tourists, trying to make the thread bend the knee to your favor?
3 months ago
Anonymous
What's a USC?
3 months ago
Anonymous
Unofficial Starsector Community discord
3 months ago
Anonymous
Sounds like a cesspool, but I wouldn't put it past them to be raiding these threads. The attitudes of regressives on the Starsector forums used to be mocked and reviled on Ganker and now suddenly if you bring it up, you're "crying" and "sperging".
3 months ago
Anonymous
and we used to tell you homosexuals to keep autistic off-site drama to yourselves too, but now gays like you are the only posters left
3 months ago
Anonymous
Having your game CTD due to a runtime exception embedded in a mod that checks your client for mod installations and crashes the game, or messes with it, by setting your reputation with everything to -100 at random if a no-no mod is installed, is not off-site drama. You are pathetic and the best part is that no matter how big of a cuck Alex is, he's not cuck enough to allow you to embed malicious code without consequence, so whenever you're caught, you can only seethe and do as you're told.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>its not happening, and if it's happening it doesn't matter, and if it does matter it's not a big deal, and if its a big deal then it's a good thing
etc etc
you know how these leftist fricks function...
and naturally if you call them out on any of it, ANY of it, at any step, you are the problem for pointing it out.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>if you think I'm an obnoxious homosexual you must be the worms living in my head!
Or maybe some people just want one fricking starsector thread that isn't saturated with troony mod drama. You already had your general and every /vst/ thread to beat the same drum day in and day out, it gets old eventually.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>lefty troony wishes you would just shut up about their crimes
typical.
3 months ago
Anonymous
...sorenson? That schizo frick from eve and freelancer?
3 months ago
Anonymous
no clue who you're talking about sorry. probably not the same guy.
3 months ago
Anonymous
There's an extremely autistic individual that uses the name "sorenson" across the internet. He plays a lot of space games and inevitably ends up becoming famous within his communities for his bullshit. I wouldnt be surprised if it's the same person
i dont thing releasing on 1.0 or right now would make a big difference, the audience for this type of game will buy it regardless, it will never make mainstream numbers
Oh frick is it finally up on Steam? Frick yeah le- oh it's not. We still doing that pussy pussyfoot shit, huh? Imagine losing like ten years of your life you could have lived as millionaires.
Yes. I'm convinced they're lowtier glowie assets with the frequency these groups appear around indie games that don't pay their sweet baby protection money.
I'm not seeing anything done to diable from a quick look. Tartiflett abandoned modding starsector (I think he's doing nebulous fleet command mods now) and his starsector mods are just in maintenance mode by whoever and it looks like they're 99% bugfixes
i'm still gonna wait for full release man. i tried playing it for 3-4 hours 6 months ago and it was pretty good.thankfully the devs act like they are really looking for finishing the game and hopefully they are able to do that in the span of next 2-3 years.
I think some mods have that thing, kinda. Look for anime stuff, high probability. Also, rapesector should have some of that stuff by now, but it's been a while since I looked.
I think some mods have that thing, kinda. Look for anime stuff, high probability. Also, rapesector should have some of that stuff by now, but it's been a while since I looked.
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You can probably just update the one file telling the moron game that it's compatible
I still don't understand why alex forces that dumb bullshit and prevents you from playing instead of just warning "this is for a different game version"
Why do I suck at this game? I can’t win without devastating casualties in multi-Remnant Ordo battles unless if I reload and try a million times. No matter how much I try to set up good skills/loadouts/hullmods, it doesn’t help. I guess I’m a bad pilot and my fleet composition probably sucks too.
Nothing wrong with devastating casualties.
It's when you get to the point that nothing can stand up to your composition that the game gets kinda boring.
The end game curb is ship builds for your fleet. You need ones the AI can use effectively with minimal babysitting. It helps if they're conducive to line tactics by keeping short range weapons on big ships and long range on mediums. Don't use small ones for anything but disposable torpedo boats to pad your fleet count and avoid the deployment penalty.
It's really sad that the ai just cannot handle ships like the Sunder. It's one of my favorites but there's no use in having one in your fleet unless you pilot it yourself.
slap lasers on it and keep to the back lines, it will get fricked if it is focus fired on for more than 3 seconds, but the same goes for any other destroyer late-game
They're all remnants of the /vg/ general, which like all others metastasized into autistic cancer that they keep propagating as long as threads exist. They try to bring it here too but threads just aren't frequent enough for them to want to stick around compared to their home base.
>Workshop would improve the modding scene too much
why yes i love automatic updates being forced on you
you are correct about the troon cabal problem though
>get behind
Not with that top speed of 60, or with the new phase mechanics. The phasing is just to get in your gun range, because it has distributed fire control and can't take integrated targeting unit.
Afflictor ship system increases damage taken by enemy ships for a time by 50%. The afflictor uses its light needlers to force the enemy to drop shields, then uses heavy blasters to decimate them.
these dumb schizos with nothing to do but bring up the exact same modder drama on every fricking starsector thread there is really do bring the quality of the discussion down, im so glad is just two of you arguing against each other and nobody else gives you (you)s you fricking waste of oxygen attention prostitutes. get a fricking life
tbh I got like half a sentence into your post when I realized you're yet another moron not worth listening to
can you adopt a trip for my sake? I don't want to see any more of your posts
I've been playing starsector for a long time and this is the first starsector thread I've seen. Never really cared about who makes mods but it was funny to learn about the drama. Also first time seeing the rapesector mod and I'm impressed.
rapesector is actually one of the highest quality mods I've grabbed for this game
It's up to taste and whether you want weeb waifu relationshit in your game but if you do then its actually decent, doesn't overdo the mechanics, intuitive to pick up and figure out, actually makes the game feel a little more alive with a little more depth, and does it without being yet another shitty faction mod with special snowflake ships. There's even some initial elements of storytelling.
It's still pretty simplistic but I'd say it's in the upper 80th percentile of starsector mods
Why they constantly demonize everyone that isn't like them? You could run through anywhere in oklahoma covered in dildo yelling about how much you like spreading aids and being gay and I bet 100% absolutely no one will give a shit. Good god they're such paranoid schizos.
>Why they constantly demonize everyone that isn't like them?
Because deep down they know what they are doing is unnatural so they have to convince themself everyone else is inhuman
I hate rapegays and their content, but I won't go on forums just to shit on them or complain about content they like existing, I have better things to do. This dude is mentally ill.
The funny thing about this entire picture is that they're talking about Starsector. There are all kinds of atrocities the player is capable of doing in SS. Even more when you start adding in other mods.
>all this shows is how inhuman he is! >*proceeds to dehumanize a human and talk about how they don't deserve life*
are none of these idiots self aware?
I never understood sex mods of any capacity in games that don't have an easy way to facilitate their function. In a game like Skyrim with a 3D worldspace and it being an RPG it's a no-brainer that someone would make a romance/sex/rape mod in some capacity. People who become absorbed with their own sexuality and fetishes. It's stupid to try and stop this and just be thankful that someone is taking those desires to a fictional world rather than acting on them in the real world.
I really don't know how a mod like that would work in Starsector, is it all through dialogue windows or what?
It's all dialogue windows. Maybe an occasional artpiece to reflect the change of the character in the portrait window. The main point of attraction of this usually is engaging in it as you would engage with RPG mechanics and gradually "corrupt" the character to your ends. Or some, more deranged, do it intentionally to "stick it" to the creator of said character.
starsector threads used to be very popular around 2013 but some gays b***hed about it being a general, it was promptly moved to /vg/ and it all died within a week.
Oh no it was a lot more than people "bitching about it being a general"
The threads were being raided constantly by the discord trannies, and when we tried having a general they started thread splitting to curate the OP and remove mods and shit they didn't want people to play with. The threads died because people got tired of the bullshit.
The discord troons for this game are something else, they add malware to mods, schizopost in Ganker threads trying to downplay their own behaviour, and issue false DMCA takedowns on all sites hosting mods they don't like.
The threads being shit was the fault of two different flavors of Discord gays: the main community and the edgy second community, both groups turned the threads into their shitposting grounds while getting mad at each other.
/vst/ threads used to be kinda comfy until there was no more content to talk about and only drama, and it drove out the regular players over time.
Ganker would be better without generals, unfortunately I don't know how it'd be possible to get rid of them.
I remember when we never had that shit - if you wanted to talk about a game or anything, you'd just make a thread and talk about it. You didn't give a single frick if there was another thread already, and you didn't take your question into some general thread where it gets completely lost in the noise of the thread.
You just made your post about a thing, and it spawned by its own volition an entire thread of on-topic discussion with a specific focus from the OP.
If the OP thread sucked it wouldn't get replies and eventually get pruned.
The problem was, autistic morons can't fricking let go, they NEED to have their game or whatever on the board at all times NO MATTER WHAT
And that results in stagnation and kills original content, everything gets talked to death until people are bored and the only new 'content' worth paying attention to is the drama.
And marketing agencies also jumped on this bandwagon, using generals threads to promote products and consumption (take one look at Ganker's catalog and count every "Hey you come buy product" thread to see how fricking cancerous that gets)
3 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah I really miss when we had stuff like "organic conversation" instead of a dumb cycle of monotony that ends in even more monotonous containment threads for anything that people genuinely want to talk about.
But back then people also had a concept and general ethic of of SNR that's completely dead now. Ganker used to be a "hey guys look at this cool shit I found, wanna play?" board where you could find something new any day of the week, now that's relegated to specific genre threads you'd never think to check on a board nobody cares about.
>The problem was, autistic morons can't fricking let go, they NEED to have their game or whatever on the board at all times NO MATTER WHAT
I think it's more about wanting to dictate the terms of conversation. You're right about marketeers, but it's also homosexuals that got blown out in a previous thread and want to fight over the OP text.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah I really miss when we had stuff like "organic conversation" instead of a dumb cycle of monotony that ends in even more monotonous containment threads for anything that people genuinely want to talk about.
But back then people also had a concept and general ethic of of SNR that's completely dead now. Ganker used to be a "hey guys look at this cool shit I found, wanna play?" board where you could find something new any day of the week, now that's relegated to specific genre threads you'd never think to check on a board nobody cares about.
>The problem was, autistic morons can't fricking let go, they NEED to have their game or whatever on the board at all times NO MATTER WHAT
I think it's more about wanting to dictate the terms of conversation. You're right about marketeers, but it's also homosexuals that got blown out in a previous thread and want to fight over the OP text.
>Ganker would be better without generals
Try to make non page 10 thread here. 45 seconds and your thread is page 7
3 months ago
Anonymous
That's just a function of how fast Ganker is. Old /b/ circa 2007 was like that too.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Make better threads then, that has nothing to do with generals.
If you really defend them then you have either never used /vg/ to see how cancerous they all end up or you're part of the reason why and in denial of it.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>Make better threads then,
I guess you don't play (or read/watch) anything besides popular slop. That's why you don't need general since you don't need to discuss anything. >how cancerous they all end up o
Yes. Now look at this dogshit of the board. Yet Ganker being dogshit is somehow okay. Most of /vg/ posters are Ganker posters too.
3 months ago
Anonymous
this place is far too big for that to work anymore
Ganker is just spamming the most recent fotm garbage without engaging in any actual discussion
I never have problems finding and engaging with good threads. If your shit hits page 10 with no replies it's because you made some generic "lets talk about x" post just expecting everyone else to start discussion for you.
3 months ago
Anonymous
then your taste in games is fotm garbage
a thread being "good" does not matter in the slightest only the subject being popular so the lowest common denominator sloppa
3 months ago
Anonymous
>I never have problems finding and engaging with good threads
Yeah sure, my little slop enjoyer. The different between good thread and bad thread is eceleb who made a video about particular game. That's it. >If your shit hits page 10 with no replies it's because you made some generic "lets talk about x"
Yes you need to be more creative.
Twitter screencap. Trannies. Something about streamer drama. KYS
If this is how you want to cope with not being able to start threads that's your problem, not mine lol.
3 months ago
Anonymous
no cap fr fr
3 months ago
Anonymous
if your threads as are full of newbie buzzwords as your posts here then no wonder people don't want to reply to them
3 months ago
Anonymous
>I never have problems finding and engaging with good threads
Yeah sure, my little slop enjoyer. The different between good thread and bad thread is eceleb who made a video about particular game. That's it. >If your shit hits page 10 with no replies it's because you made some generic "lets talk about x"
Yes you need to be more creative.
Twitter screencap. Trannies. Something about streamer drama. KYS
3 months ago
Anonymous
this place is far too big for that to work anymore
Ganker is just spamming the most recent fotm garbage without engaging in any actual discussion
3 months ago
Anonymous
That's a different problem. There's a lot of things 4cham would be better without.
Nothing we can do about generals now, people will declare any popular topic a general and behave the same way no matter what at this point.
The site has fundamentally changed since browsing extensions and (you)s became a thing anyway and there's no way to ever go back.
3 months ago
Anonymous
There's a whole board dedicaded to videogame generals and its a perpetual rat race
3 months ago
Anonymous
>perpetual rat race
It's beautiful. But even /simg/ can survive with only 1 post per hour.
I remember posting a simple portrait mod on /vg/ I made right after 0.8 came out and less than 2 hours later the file was removed for beaking terms. It was like a 2mb zip full of sfw pngs.
Someone was mass reporting any links probably because of some ngo drama.
I will NOT use high tech ships
I WILL use only ballistic weapons, and the occasional missile weapon
I WILL use whatever flagship can have the highest number of large slots
I WILL shoot until my vent meter is full, then vent
and I WILL be happy
Diable ships are designed so basically every ship has a micromissile launcher, but it works more on a fleet level than an individual ship level, so you either build your whole fleet with these launchers or you never ever use them because individually they suck ass.
probably that moronic cromag imperium one, too bad the shitty ersatz doom music that plays whenever you visit their planets has its volume set to 700% so it's impossible to buy one
Sex mods for strategy games is something I will never understand. I'm here to blow up ships and smuggle contraband, not read corny ERP in between actually playing the game. There's so much better shit to fap to out there.
Well you don't have to understand it, people have fun with it and you don't so you both go your separate ways and everything works out
I don't feel particularly excited about it if all it does is add a Starfield tier teh choosin one storyline and some junk like this done with mods already.
The real benefit of narrative additions to the game is that it requires a framework for dialogue etc. and that framework can be used by competent writers to create something half decent instead of marvel slop
Sounds like you should just ignore all future updates, not update the game and sit around just making mods for whatever version you prefer all day. Clearly adding popular mod features to a game is a bad idea after all.
I'm not sure if you wienermonglers noticed but it already had a framework for dialogue. The game is 60% dialogue framework. What universe are you morons from?
These are the sorts of people that just bring their blanket cynicism everywhere and just want any excuse to hate devs and suck modder wiener. Anyone who thinks Starsector has "chosen one bullshit" clearly hasn't played it or just mashes through all text they see that isn't part of their rapemod.
Anons right.
Now lets talk about the fact that we can set gates now.
Not gonna lie, im slightly hyped for this.
This fricking thing is as big as a Cryosleeper ship.
Im actually scared to know yet if there is something new protecting it.
being able to place a gate where you want is the final piece in fixing colonization because there was no point in ever colonizing a system without its own gate
I don't feel particularly excited about it if all it does is add a Starfield tier teh choosin one storyline and some junk like this done with mods already.
Sounds like you should just ignore all future updates, not update the game and sit around just making mods for whatever version you prefer all day. Clearly adding popular mod features to a game is a bad idea after all.
>Being locked out of a faction's market now only happens when fighting that faction's fleets nearby
Does that mean you can bombard a planet and then trade?
wait it really still works?
i thought it got patched out a few versions later? or maybe there was some mod autism where a mod bricked the game if you used his key?
i don't really remember.
I can't possibly imagine how a mod could get access to your cd key, and seth's key was never tampered with since that stunt got a shitload of people to buy the game themselves anyway
>and seth's key was never tampered with since that stunt got a shitload of people to buy the game themselves anyway
Honestly the most based move i've seen from any game dev
they thank him realy hard because of that video, it singlehanded doubled the amount of sales that game had
they will never destroy his cd key because of that
might give him a new one when its out
3 months ago
Anonymous
you can use anyone's cd key to get the game as many times as you want. it's not like sseth is getting special treatment, or simply being overlooked because it's convenient. alex is anti-DRM, anyone is allowed to distribute their key, anyone is allowed to use anyone else's key, and he does not care if you haven't bought it. so why would his key ever be fricked with?
3 months ago
Anonymous
>so why would his key ever be fricked with?
im not saying the devs will do anything like that
but trannies realy hate seth for some reason and they are the ones making the mods
>I can't possibly imagine how a mod could get access to your cd key
it's stored both (maybe depends on the version which one) in appdata and in the registry
also haven't heard of a mod that does anything with this though.
I can't possibly imagine how a mod could get access to your cd key, and seth's key was never tampered with since that stunt got a shitload of people to buy the game themselves anyway
i dont doubt it considering to the highs some troony homosexual went to stop the new galatic order to not WORK with his own mods
updates only break all mods because alex is a moron who thinks forcibly disabling mods with the wrong versioning is an intelligent solution, rather than what all the actually intelligent people do, which is just warn you that shit might not work but let you try to play with it anyway.
>do updates still break all mods? game is literally worthless without them
this game's mods are nothing special, certainly not mandatory. this is no gigantic piece of shit like skyrim that needs most of its systems gutted and replaced by mods to be enjoyable
The only thing in nexrelin that I genuinely like is being able to choose my starting fleet, money, etc.
basic b***h shit that should've been implemented in the game 10 years ago rather than needing a mod like nexerelin
I actually turn off almost every single "feature" in nex because of how stupid all of it is
well I guess that's 2 must have features that should be in the base game then
3 months ago
Anonymous
it's such a good feature that there's a standalone mod that's just the nex skip story feature copied over without the rest of nex, for people who don't like nex but want to skip the story.
yes but if you change the file that says what version the mod is for they will work anyway because this "big" update didn't actually change anything relevant
It's hilarious how completely unusable the Drover is now. It's not only a huge piece of shit that's worse than the Condor, it's also the single most expensive non-phase destroyer in the game.
The wiki is complete dogshit, but usually keeps track of update history.
I'm thinking about making a mod that undoes literally every direct nerf to a ship or weapon's numbers. And without compensating by removing any buffs. Just to see what it would be like if every single vanilla thing was at it's maximum strength.
wut, last time I checked the Nightwalker was "just" a phase destroyer with za warudo time powers, which made it a bit obscene with an autopulse laser or so
frick eve online ccp ruined that game years ago. Also its really nothing like Starsector. If you want a single player eve though Astrox Imperium is pretty good.
Apparently Ascendance is going to let you play as an individual captain if you want. But that game's more focused on competing with something like Stellaris (it actually started as a Stellaris mod), so it probably won't scratch that same itch. Though if you're the type who loves to play with Industrial Evolution and Ashes of the Domain then you might want to keep an eye on it.
Cabal Odyssey is probably my favorite player flagship in the game. There's just something about its ability to reposition almost immediately and deliver a devastating surgical strike on demand that meshes really well with my playstyle.
>Helmsmanship: >Changed base speed bonus to 15% (was: 10%) >Changed elite speed bonus to 10su/s (was: 5) >Auxiliary Thrusters: >S-mod bonus is: "increases 0-flux speed boost by 10, and doubles the 0-flux turn rate bonus"
It's a low-tech phase cruiser with a metric shitton of ballistic slots.
I imagine throwing disintegrators and cyroblasters on this thing and maxing out it's flux stats.
https://starsector.fandom.com/wiki/Grendel
It's a low-tech phase cruiser with a metric shitton of ballistic slots.
I imagine throwing disintegrators and cyroblasters on this thing and maxing out it's flux stats.
https://starsector.fandom.com/wiki/Grendel
>havent played this game in 6+ months >install update >start new game, get assfricked by pirates+patrols 4 times >alt+f4
guess i should've replayed the tutorial, huh?
early game tips besides installing console commands?
Pick your battles with better care. Early game it's very easy to overplay your hand. Do trading to get rich quick with any ships you can get your hands on, no matter how wrecked or damaged.
Early game is all about avoiding enemies and focus on things like trading, scavenging or survey shit for money. Buffalos and Drams will carry you hard for that with their increased fuel+cargo and scavenging one with even 4 dmods is almost always worth early on. Once you've got enough money that you can start getting actual worthwhile ships like a heron, you'll be able to easily melt pirates and their garbage ships unless you were selling blueprints on the blackmarket in which case have fun
What is most important is realizing that if you are not strong enough to fight a fleet you should be fast enough or nimble enough to escape.
If you can't do either of those make sure you have enough crew and check the minimum burn levels on your ships.
The early game has some roadblocks that can be overcome with enough player skill in battle or patience and money to buy more ships and crew.
Don't forget that a lot of pre-sets for hardpoints on a lot of ships are "ok" but with some research and understanding you can make very powerful versions of each ship.
Any recommended modded factions that aren't complete unbalanced trash? I've been using Star Federation, Mayasuran Navy, and Kyeltziv Technocracy and they seem alright
There are very few factions that are unbalanced, in fact most mod makers are so autistic about balancing their factions that their ships end up being weaker than vanilla.
I see. I don't usually dive into modded factions but I know they have a bad reputation for being pretty broken. Ironically I think the most overpowered modded ships I've seen were from RAT but both aren't things that are easy to get anyway
Yeah, most modders tend to have "cool" looking ships that severely underperform, so unless you get older mods like Neutrino or something, you are free to just go with anything. UAF tends to teeter on the edge of being overpowered, but their ships are kind of trash most of the time, it's their weapons that are good.
Waifu mods have some of the most fun weapons and ships. You haven't had fun until you detonate three fireweed chain mines simultaneously in the middle of an enemy fleet.
The most gratifying thing in this game, to me, is overcoming all odds. Creating a fleet that can efficiently deal with threats, while making adequate use of the resources I've been given. Using overpowered weapons and ships is boring, and detracts from the most entertaining parts of this game. They turn the game from one of strategy into one of mindless destruction.
my intuition is horny and has no taste, though
At least install rapesector and turn all of the homosexual OCs into breeding sows, then.
I enjoy both overcoming challenges and inflicting mass destruction, so I simply hoard everything I come across and deploy it in accordance with what I currently want to experience. But still in the end it comes down to hoarding shit. I love it.
You can do that with anything. I beat the omegas with low tech ships. When you've seen all the challenges the next step is making ridiculous shit and seeing how much you can get away with.
You guys are who Legio was made for. Bullshit fights where the opponent is cheating with ships that nerf themselves straight into the ground when you capture them. Strangely enough, though, guys who make the "it's OP so it's bad, I'm super hardcore" argument about waifu mods like that tend to hate Legio too. Can't figure out why though.
My suggestion is to start out as a trader, build up a small flotilla with some cargo ships/fuel ships to get some hauling capacity and make some starting capital, then go explore the universe and grab resources, derelict ships and whatnot to bulk out your fleet. Being stealthy and avoiding engagements is the way to go until you feel confident enough to take on people who try to frick with you.
The story quests can also help with cash and give you some more concrete objectives to accomplish.
Biggest tip I can give you is that the dev was originally making a Battletech ripoff.
Don't think of your ships as spaceships, think of them as stompy robots with heatsink mechanics, and your battle performance will instantly double.
Also the Nexerelin mod is fricking sweet and while I'd normally always recommend vanilla for a first playthrough, all it really does is add a whole 4X layer to the game (by massively improving colony mechanics that are already sorta there) without taking anything away from the pew pew spaceship experience. So it's an option if that sounds good to you.
Idk if it's updated for the patch yet though so this might be moot.
"AIs could be here" he thought, "I've never been in this system before. There could be AIs anywhere." The cool vacuum felt good against his bare chest. "I HATE AIS" he thought. Sweet Dreams are Made of These reverberated his entire ship, making it pulsate even as the $1000 recreational drugs and lobsters circulated through his powerful thick veins and washed away his (merited) fear of algorithms after dark. "With an Onslaught, you can go anywhere you want" he said to himself, out loud.
>it's actually up
bro
Holy shit OP isn't lying
frick off with your bullshi-
what the frick
HOLY SHIT ITS REAL
well there goes my weekend
>more lore shit and events
b***h i just want more ships and better non-combat gameplay
you have both read the notes
okay go to the abyss and take the abyss horror ship
go to Aoi and plap the hottest queen this side of the Persean sector.
>high-heels
UMF
>Missile Specialization:
>Reduced bonus rate of fire to 25% (was: 50%)
>Reduced bonus missile hitpoints to 25% (was: 50%)
OH SORRY
WERE YOU HAVING FUN
WERE YOU
WERE YOU HAVING FUN WITH SOMETHING IN THE GAME??
WERE YOU?
NO FRICKING FUN
NONE AT ALL
FRICK YOU
Missiles are mostly a low-tech thing. Prolly some high-tech troon b***hed about it like with Shield Shunt.
shield shunt sucks so much fricking ass on nearly everything but onslaught and invictus, was it higher armor percentage increase before?
shield shunt sucks on the Invictus because it's totally unnecessary. That's OP you could be putting into more dakka.
true, but the invictus and onslaught are the only things that 15% armor increase is worth a damn.
oh I misunderstood and thought the that was the mod that gave shieldless ships shields, guess I'm moronic for not realizing the onslaught wouldn't be able to have it
I don't think the Invictus can have it anyway since it doesn't have a shield by default.
Invictus can get heavy armor IIRC but no shield shunt because it doesn't have a shield.
Heavy Armor sucks on Invictus because it's only a flat increase. 500 more on top of 10,000 isn't worth the op cost. Armored Weapon Mounts and Reinforced Bulkheads are way better for the same reason, being percentage based.
Gave 50% EMP resist. Not sure if it added up to 100% with Resistant Flux Conduits, but even at 75% it would probably resist engine-disabling weaponry quite well.
Alone that it wouldn't be much, but because Shield Shunt completely disables shield, the affected ship is perfectly able to turn into a raging berserker, charging at the enemy without it's AI being concerned about flux because lmao no shield to use.
So you could easily rig up SO's high-armor ships to just chase flimsy high-tech ships. And as I heard, the modded high-tech ships we're "balanced" with really weak health for their vastly superior weaponry/flux stats, so those quickly were getting wrecked after Shield-Shunted ships simply ignored the initial barrage and proceeded to delete them. Cue the modder whining.
>SFW
There's a NSFW version?!
I bet you also want 2d sex in the game.
explain what they added
Stars.
Ectors.
>Tweaked colonies (again)
>Tweaked skills (again)
>Tweaked hyperspace (again)
>Nerfed things that were already bad
>Buffed things that were already good
>Changed the update number 0.96.1 to 0.97 to pat themselves on the back and generate artificial hype for a "major" update
>Fixed bugs
Besides story missions the game has been feature complete for years.
The story as it stands takes away from the game 🙁
Not him but I like at least that even if the story is filled with shitty leftist donut steel OCs, I at least get to be one of these Marry Sues instead of playing second fiddle to them.
I just hate how it currently ends. The trannies get away with the anus tech off scot free and you get shit on like it was your idea.
At least let me frick over the dyke that runs the academy on purpose, or kill the two rainbow hairs.
I don't fricking want to be David's personal Mary Sue. I want to be my own Mary Sue. I want to do what I want and get to make real choices in the story that lead me on different paths instead of just doing what everyone tells me to do and getting showered with super special one of a kind gifts just for existing.
I understand Starsector to be an RPG in some capacity, and the story as it exists is the antithesis of what an RPG's story should be. It's almost as Bethesda-tier as Bethesda themselves. You meet all the big boys of the big factions and you're everyone's favorite and you have special powers that nobody else has and you're the only one who can save the sector and bring the gates back.
Even the basic level of player agency to say "No, I don't want to do this quest, frick off" is absent. I don't even go to Diktat bars anymore. I don't want to have that quest on my intel screen for the rest of the game.
Alex is a good worldbuilder but not a good writer and Starsector was better when there was no actual "main story" and instead just things that you could read in the codex.
Alex did not write the story, he hired some random guy to import his fanfiction to the game.
That's even worse.
>the game has been feature complete for years.
not without a proper endgame it ain't
>endgame
Play gaas.
there has to be a conclusion to the whole omega stuff and what actually destroyed the domain imo the crisis system was added as to give the player actual objectives in order to trigger a possible end-game, it just hasn't been added yet
I think it's just an alternative to the previous crisis system, which was pretty terrible and bombarded you with shitty events from pirates and pathers with practically no recourse but to finish their questlines
right, previous crysis system was terrible, just permanent penalties all around unless you paid the pirates or gave the space jihaddist a fricking planet buster lol, but what i meant is that it still is a nice way to railroad the player into doing specific objectives to unlock further bonuses, like the whole hyperspace thingy, but for a theoretical endgame, instead of unlocking bonuses it would unlock specific events like fleet attacks, etc, until a full blown invasion begins once it reach the maximum possible value, but you couldn't get there before, for example, finishing the main mission so there's an actual reason to do it
How would ir even look like?
there is an endgame
it's called glassing all the core worlds
things that were already bad
things that were already good
They really did, didn't they? Nerfed reaper despite everyone always using the hammer barrage anyway, which got buffed in this one.
I wish he wouldn't engage with the insufferable discord homosexuals and just delete the forums. None of them actually know how to play the game and cant possibly ever offer meaningful feedback. Most of the modders are useless morons that make dumb, ugly, save corrupting broken shit and act like a troony groomer cult. The whole shitshow is repulsive.
>Most of the modders are useless morons
Yeah but the modder wars and drama where they do shit like secretly giving their custom ships a hidden bonus against their online enemies' custom ships is pretty hilarious.
Obviously every dev should delete discord, that goes without saying.
Alex doesn't even use discord, and there is no official discord for starsector. It's all ostensibly unofficial. The forums are a problem.
That's good to hear.
I can't be against forums though, I support anyone who still has them. Sounds like he just needs to do a homosexual fumigation
homosexuals will live anywhere. You need to open your eyes and accept that the venue isn't really the problem. Discord's just a piece of dogshit pajeet coded software like any other. The people around today will be a problem on IRC, they'll be a problem on a bbs, they'll be a problem on teamspeak, skype, mumble, forums, and they're a problem on Ganker too. Forums are just better from the angle that you don't need an account, you don't need to worry about them getting nuked, you can just search for the things you need and find them because they're on the public internet. But the kinds of people who live there are the same as anywhere. Very annoying. And Alex actively nurtures that shit by being so personally involved with it.
Forums legitimately are best because you can actually moderate them and cultivate a community since everything is out in the open.
What brings them down is admins not having the balls to stand up to troony infiltrators, but they have a much harder time pulling it off on forums than they do anywhere else (which is why they've been slowly killed off everywhere).
Sounds like you want the dev to just work in his basement and not have any community at all, which is a fallback troony objective because if you do that they can still control the unofficial discords or whatever.
So you're either incredibly naive or a super unsneaky troon yourself.
>Forums legitimately are best because you can actually moderate them and cultivate a community since everything is out in the open.
It's the same shit. Mod troony from discord is not different from mod troony from forums.
It's completely different and this pretty much proves you're too young to remember what forums and IRC were like before the troonypocalypse.
It takes years of work to weasel your way onto mod positions on those platforms to the degree that you can vote real people off the staff. It only takes an alert admin to stop that.
Before 2012-2014 nobody really knew it was a threat, but now we do.
And again, having your own community is the only way to provide contrast for discord trannies to look insane against.
>Moderation is the problem, because no regular person wants to moderate a website full of morons for zero dollars and zero cents
And yet we actually had passionate communities where plenty of people were happy to do that back in the day. This is a really modern zoomerpilled opinion so I allege that it is in fact you who is talking out of your ass.
It's also just illogical, since the whole way troons are able to trojan horse their way into shit is by pretending to be one of those people. How can that be if they never existed, for most of that period way back before online trannies were even a thing (so, your timeline is also moronic. Trannies have only been a thing for about a decade)?
It's an insane suggestion that the entire structure of online communities was a fiction invented by the people who infiltrated it, rather than something they adapted to infiltrate.
>It's completely different and this pretty much proves you're too young to remember
No it's not. This proves nothing. You're delusional. Moderation abuse existed on forums for decades. Same fricking drama and same insufferable mods. Same nepotism or god forbid forum karma farming. IRC? IRC Ganker raids. Before trannies even existed.
And now you're moving the goalposts.
Are we talking about the threat of discord trannies or are we talking about the good clean fun of garden-variety moderator abuse and Ganker IRC raids (lol, you moron)
>dismissing irc raids
Who's the newbie now? Learn your fricking history before lecturing others, election babby.
I'm dismissing them because it has nothing to do with what we're talking about and it's a fricking stupid nothing thing to bring up anyway.
IRC raids were never a problem for anybody but baby channels. Regular users just idle all day and don't give a shit if there's floodspam for a day or two. Why even mention it?
Okay now I'm 100% sure you're a troony who is really bad at your job.
We're talking about a forum for a game about dressing up spaceships that are secretly battletech robots. Autism is the source of 100% of the community's power.
What you want here is for the official community to be shut down so your troon discord can run the show.
>Forums legitimately are best because you can actually moderate them and cultivate a community since everything is out in the open.
>It's completely different and this pretty much proves you're too young to remember what forums and IRC were like before the troonypocalypse.
Real oldgay times amrite? I can freely google ancient forum of some antient franchise that is still popular with same troony modder who is moderator since 2006 or something.
Just yesterday I logged onto my favourite development channel for the first time in a decade.
It went from having a couple hundred very cool regulars to being co-opted by literally who mods on a discord that systematically banned *all* the oldschool users within a couple of weeks. In retrospect they were clearly planning this for months.
There were like 8 people still idling there, and I recognised most of them.
Nobody talked, they probably all died on their toilet with their laptops still running.
Kinda sweet and pretty sad.
>It's also just illogical, since the whole way troons are able to trojan horse their way into shit is by pretending to be one of those people. How can that be if they never existed, for most of that period way back before online trannies were even a thing (so, your timeline is also moronic. Trannies have only been a thing for about a decade)?
Before trannies were trannies, they were just autistic men. I know you have a hard time remembering things that happened more than a few months ago, but those people haven't changed, they've just adopted new labels and new ways to be homosexuals. The moronic ways they would ruin good forums back then with their power trips and their tantrums are exactly the same as the shit they do now, but now they wear skirts and take drugs that make them more insane.
Moderation is the problem, because no regular person wants to moderate a website full of morons for zero dollars and zero cents. Unless you're hiring actual PR representatives, and thus you have regular people who do their work in exchange for money, your admins are just gonna end up being the most irresponsible and mentally ill people around. The payment they take is getting to pretend they have some sort of power that they can abuse.
>they have a much harder time pulling it off on forums than they do anywhere else
You're really just making shit up. I mean, it's like you've never actually used a forum in your life. They had absolutely no trouble doing it for the decade and a half where forums were the primary venue of online communities. They had absolutely no trouble doing it for Starsector. Are you joking?
Nah there's definitely something fricky about discord. Just something about it seems to cater to the worst sort of powertripping bullshit.
Even IRC was somehow better, nevermind forums. I don't know what it is about discord specifically, but it brings out the absolute fricking worst in people, especially moderators and admins.
The best moderators/admins I've ever seen were guys like louiswu on HBO (well, at least a decade ago who knows what HBO is like now) who were basically older dudes with families who are fans of the studio, technically competent enough to run a website and everything on their own, and with enough vitality to actually care about and administer it while also choosing decent people to help them out.
I never see those types of laid back successful family types doing the absolutely grotesque bullshit I see from trannies et al.
anal sex.
I just saw some leaks.
They added the fricking Gate Haulers.
Abyssal hyperspace in the bottom left of the galactic map, it makes fleets extremely slow. It's full of mostly one-planet systems and it can't be colonized. There's two premade systems with unique stuff.
Sex with hot alien babes.
>you now remember that alex will need to hotfix the update 10 times before its stable
>just updated my mods a week ago
FRICK
Same. Frick I ant going to do that again and half of mods will take 6 months to be updated again
some of the simpler mods can be made compatible with an edit of their ".json" file.
change the
"gameVersion": "old version"
to
"gameVersion": "0.97a"
or whatever the version is called
I know did that last time but frick I aint repeating that 20 times again
>need to wait a month for the hot fixes
>over a year just for shitty colony events and some nerfs
FINISH THE GAME YOU LAZY butthole
Who the frick is noah? This reads like wfg on /vg/
If you are familiar with the nature of autism<->modding<->community interactions, this game has pretty usual case.
the splinter boards are just as shit as Ganker is, don't be fooled by their elitism
What is Ganker's favorite flagship? I can't get myself to use anything besides Paragons
Cryoflamer or cryoblaster hyperion
That shit should be illegal
It doesn't even need SO
>he uses SO
In my most recent playthrough my eyes were opened to the glory of the Odyssey. It was so satisfying to dance around slower ships and use the boosters smash into smaller ships sending them flying. A bit of a b***h to angle sometimes though.
XIVth Legion. Pretty much perfect for my captain's personality - minions to swarm my enemies, missiles to explode everyone with, and ballistic mounts so I can mount needlers on them and drown my adversaries in a hail of bullets. And better yet, the system allows me to barrel into the middle of a fight like a drunken polar bear and start ripping everyone to shreds.
I tried out Pegasissy because my character really loves explosives, but it's so fricking slow it feels like shit to play.
Lion's Guard Eagle, because it's great for exploring the sector.
I don't use a flagship
No point until all the mods update, which will take 2 weeks (and longer for unsupported and abandoned stuff like tartifarts mods)
This release is a babystep in the right direction imo:
>isn't just more ships or yet another skill rework (although it is also more ships and yet another skill rework)
>it's been 3 months since the last release, this is the fastest this moron has released an update for his game since 2013
>building on and adding (so far very little) depth to non-combat portions of the game
It has been years since Alex has done something actually good for the game. Unfortunately neither he nor anyone working with him can write worth a damn.
Rillaru
Shit's fun but I feel like I just cannot win tough battles when I'm piloting it. I need super maneuverability and big dick alpha damage potential to win the hardest battles.
Speaking of mod flagships, love the Beldam from HMI. It's just a large energy and a large missile stuck on the end of a stick with plasma burn. Like a diet Odyssey, but in a good way.
Vayra sector and assorted mods by Vayra (all totally dead, author hasn't been seen in over 3 years, probably an hero, nobody's even bothered to bootleg it afaik)
I'm basic and edgy so Doom.
We'll have to see how this new low-tech phase ship fares.
Why Doom of course. Hammerhead is my second favourite.
SO Aurora
Gotta go fast, flank the enemy, and insta kill anything unlucky enough to show weakness.
XIV Onslaught
I'm going insane without a movement ability
VIC Apollyon
Underworld Coom Aurora
HMI Suleiman
Diable Maelstrom
vanilla:
Odyssey
Conquest
>vanilla
Hyperion
>mod
Sephira Conclave's Mnemosyne (aka a turbosupercharged Hyperion tuned by the mod equivalent of the Lancia Group B era chief engineer)
Ziggurat, lol.
Paragons are nice too though, you're right.
>using ziggurat
disgusting may aswell use cheat engine
how can you be disgusted if you can't see me (i have dephased inside your butt with a fully charged alpha strike)
Conquest and Aurora
Conquest was hated by /vg/ metagays so hard you weren't even able to mention it without metaBlack folk meltdown.
Post moar. I remember seeing more ships
>Conquest and Aurora
>Conquest was hated by /vg/ metagays so hard you weren't even able to mention it without metaBlack folk meltdown.
since when? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqeSrnrbuUc
INVICTUS
SHIELDS ARE FOR THE WEAK
my man
I put 12 devastator cannons on it and gave praise to Ludd
The Luddic Church of all factions getting the strongest capital is kino
for me its the salvage rig
This fricking thing from Machina Void Shipyards. It's like a Conquest was given phase skimmers that it could use with 360 degree shields up.
Terribly undergunned for the DP cost, but god, the durability and speed combined are just erotic.
Bonus points to the Tzaphiel from the same mod for all the Binah references and ship disabling capability.
please don't post your mspaint mod here, anon
The Odyssey by a huge margin. Double plasma, sabots, xyphos, large missile of choice, and anything you can't bully you can run circles around.
Runner up would be the Aurora, that thing with .4 shield efficiency or whatever it is now with hardened shields and the skill is obscene.
Astral, 3 broadswords, 3 daggers. Sit back and rain hell from afar. Cozy carrier commander gameplay.
XIV Onslaught (shield shunt) or Invictus
You do not need to fear missiles. They can't get anywhere close.
safety overrides dual chaingun brawling eradicator (any variant)
ridiculous DPS and good defenses at a reasonable price
while being fast enough to be fun to pilot
Lion's Guard Onslaught with Mjolnirs because it looks cool.
>Aurora + safety overrides
>Antimatter blasters in all forward-facing weapon slots
Zoom in, blow your load all over the opposing ship's face, then zoom out.
new buckbreaker ship?
If we include mods then the Excelsior, otherwise I really like the Odyssey or the Fury, I'm a High Tech gay, what can you do about it.
>capital
odyssey, my beloved
>cruiser
gryphon, also my beloved
>destroyer
manticore
>frig
LP cerberus (formerly afflictor)
Altagrave EX from ArmaA
Too fat and slow, I love the sleeper valk too much.
Yeah it's quite slow, i always slap a Cryoarithmetic Engine with Special Hullmod Upgrades on it alongside some other speed-oriented hullmods on it because it's just too damn sluggish otherwise.
I think it's top speed and system regen rate got nerfed as well in the latest ArmaA update, you can't really spam it's Havoc Drive anymore.
Aposeris
basically whatever gets me the most strike craft in the air
Where the frick do you even get your hands on an Oddysey? I never fricking see them as derelicts or in any faction's sales list.
I never see derelicts either. Tri-Tach military sells them but I usually have to make my own with blueprints.
Also the black market dealer can make almost any ship in the game for you, Odyssey included.
He didn't finish the Sindrian questline, did he?
There's no tactical counter to this. Warfare has been solved
Fighters don't collide with ships.
Sounds like a bug to me
>Grendel Class Phase Cruiser
Haven't installed it yet. How does it look like?
>Cyclone Reaper Launcher:
>Reduced ammo to 14 (was: 20)
>Increased refire delay to 15 seconds (was: 10)
>changes ammo to 25
>change refire delay to 5 seconds
Last time I tried to use that weapon, it was extremely unwieldy with its weird fire delay and torpedoes emerging off center as if they weren't already slow enough. Genuinely considered using medium reaper launcher instead. Did it really need to be nerfed on top of that?
Someone probably built something ridiculous in their discord and alex saw it and decided it needed to go
No, it's as bad as it has ever been. Completely polluted by troons with the worst offenders (the schizophrenic/psychotic dox and harass types) even further entrenched in the social cliques. The best modding community for this game remains random Ganker anons who make shit like the rape mod
>the rape mod
link?
not updated for 0.97 yet
https://gitgud.io/rsdev/RapeSector
You can probably just update the one file telling the moron game that it's compatible
I still don't understand why alex forces that dumb bullshit and prevents you from playing instead of just warning "this is for a different game version"
Thanks anon
Large reaper has always been just 2 medium reapers strapped together
possibly because it is used on the hegemony legion which lets it 1v1 all other capital ships
XIV Legion is best with MIRVs anyway, so it can shit out damage on top of staying out of range.
Literally everything else is a better choice on the XIV legion. Hammers, squalls, hurricanes, dragonfires, hydras. Shit, fricking locusts and pilums would be a more logical choice if you were going for a full carrier support build with it. There's no logical reason to put a cyclone reaper on it. Or anything else, for that matter. It was already the worst large missile weapon in the game.
BRDY never
I had no idea this was imminent and randomly checked the site 6 hours ago because I was bored and had nothing to play and saw no update since may or whatever.
now I go onto Ganker and see this fricking thread.
this is seriously spooky to me, I haven't thought about this game for like 5 months prior to today.
We live in a simulation.
I'm not touching the game until it is actually finished so I don't have to keep fricking around with outdated mods and waiting for the troons that run that modding community to get off their dialators and update the fricking mods.
FRICKING THIS. I am told that Starsector would be on Steam when it is done. I was like WHEN?!?! It has been around over 14 yrs!!! FRICKING 14 YEARS!!! This fricking lazy slav still uses the outdated program JAVA! ugh.
>This fricking lazy slav still uses the outdated program JAVA
>runs perfectly on toasters
>looks good
>300mb
This is the power of JAVA. Just imagine Starsector but made by baseddev.
14 yrs!! Pathetic
just another 4 years until you're allowed to post here
You must love sucking Alex' wiener for fricking 14 years! Pathetic simp.
Even if he wanted to, it’s unfeasible to rewrite the game in another language.
Am I just bad at using Ziggurat, or is it overrated? Radiant mogs it to me. I also hate the phasing slowdown mechanic. Not to mention the fricking CR penalty for using Ziggurat and it generally just being shit in the campaign.
>Radiant mogs it to me
not without mods it doesnt since alpha core nukes the combat readiness
but in general anyone who uses op superships is a homosexual
nta but I altered the ai ship perk to allow enough fleet size for one radiant, there's no fun in using one if it can't be at full power
then it is better yes and i did the same except for all skills with moronic caps like that
>but in general anyone who uses op superships is a homosexual
I'm reluctant but it's vanilla and by the time you can capture it there's only like one harder fight left anyway, last time I checked.
What would be nice is a few more vanilla hyper-bullshit ships so it's actually a decision, and a lot more assfrick endgame fights worth using them in.
True as far as modded ships go though, obviously. I'd say more endgame stuff would help with that too but then modders would make even stupider stuff.
You can literally solo the doritos using an afflictor or harbinger
You just suck at using phase ships
PERIOD
You can solo any fight in the game with an Aurora, so my point stands. If you're good at spaceships you don't need it so there's no harm in using it, and if you suck at spaceships there's not much left that's tougher than it anyway so you've earned some bullshit.
Not that I think it's really that bullshit anyway. Using it just looks and feels exactly like bullshit (which can be fun).
>Using it just looks and feels exactly like bullshit (which can be fun).
no
because its mine and mine alone
go fricking find your own supership
the zig belongs only to me
Is that why you love to use the invictus so much while sucking Black person wiener?
>Am I just bad at using Ziggurat, or is it overrated? Radiant mogs it to me.
I am not even good with phase ships and yet I still kill so much with Ziggy. I think you should practice more with it.
It's not overrated but if you hate phasing it isn't for you. It's also not very flexible, the thing that makes it strong is being able to load up a full set of otherwise mediocre short-range alpha strike weapons with long reloads, then just decloak behind shit and nuke em.
You still want a decent armada to clean up and support you or you'll die from attrition, so I wouldn't say it's any necessarily more OP than other meta compositions (like fielding a single long-range Aurora or whatever, lol) apart from the implicit brokenness of being a supercap with phasing.
You're kidding right? Java is so fricking bad the game chugs on hardware made a literal decade later.
You have to be a fricking idiot to program anything in java.
It chugs hard on AMD shit because of OpenGL issues. I learned this the hard way, since it ran like dogshit on my rx 580.
works fine on my nvidia gpus.
Has the modding community for this recovered yet?
why he hasnt released the game on steam yet? he could be making loads of money
I'd much rather it stay like it is, thank you very much. Steam wouldn't add any quality to the game, and workshop is a terrible idea for a game like this due to how mods update and break themselves.
>Added elite effect: +25% missile ammo regeneration rate
Is that unlimited missile ammo?
They want to do it when it reaches 1.0.
>when it reaches 1.0
Total Biscuit was alive and healthy when this game was reaching prominent attention
He did a vid on it in fricking TWELVE YEARS AGO
According to them, Sseth video gave them sales beyond their wildest expectations, so they now can do as the please.
Did Sseth cause these troons to freak out like happened with that caves of chud game or whatever?
it isn't done yet, and the vast majority of game sales on steam happen on the initial release, regardless of game version
He wants the game to have the best possible launch. Early access on steam is plagued with half finished dead games and he doesn't want his to end up the same way. Release a nice stable 1.0 product that isn't shit and he'll make a frickton of money.
That kind of scheme hasn't been a thing for decades, especially for a game designed to have long legs like this. He's just a bad businessman.
He's largely incompetent. I've come to realize that - alex accidentally made a decent spaceship combat game 10 years ago, and then flailed around like a fricking moron ever since then.
Luckily for him it makes enough money to live off of it.
3 mods in that image and all of them are fricking terrible so you probably don't even have them installed anyway
>Meanwhile Palworld made a gorillion dollars
>As did Enshrouded
>...and Baldurs Gate
>And lethal company
He is an imbecile that let all his money float away
Why wouldn't people buy the game when he releases it to 1.0?
Is there a direct competitor I don't' know about?
The reputation of the game has soured at least on this site due to the troons that run the modding community. Steam normies probably wouldn't give a shit unless same sort of debacle of malicious code within mods happens again after a hypothetical launch tho. The dev is risking quite a bit by fostering those fricking lunatics in his community.
>mods
Well most people don't bother modding games so I doubt that would really change overall sales.
depends on a game
I can't imagine playing games like Rimworld or Skyrim without mods
even normies wised up and used Nexus for Skyrim
>I can't imagine playing games like Skyrim
Same
he doesn't know or care what he's talking about and just wants to smear shit around for fun
>BROOO DIZ GAEM BE IN DEVELOPMENT LONGER THAN 2 YEAR IT IS SCAM??? DEV RUN WITH MONEY REPORT IT PLEEZ
>BROOOO WER IZ UPDOOT DEV RUN WITH MONEY DED GAEM REPORT PLZ
>DOOOD DIS DEV NOT MAKE FORUM POST EVERY DAY DIS GAEM DED HE RUN WITH MONEY REPORT PLZ
Thats why
>he could be making loads of money
steam takes 30% American taxes take another 30%+ he'd be losing money.
>American taxes
You don't pay other countries taxes.
>160 point deployments
>It's your fault if the expedition dies for any reason
>ally ships shooting missiles directly up your ships ass
>can't stop invasions once they are in progress
>if your under commision and your colony gets captured, recapturing the colony transfers ownership of the colony to your commission.
Still a fun game though
don't install starsector mods they have malware
imagine writing mental illness conformism into your code comments for a mod
What mod is this so I can avoid it?
This is literally one sperg modder's blacklist as to which mods his are compatible to play with, and you're being as much of a sperg as him for doomposting generalizing against every other mod. Also
>malware
Lol
the malware incident was an unrelated mod, in which boggled's popular terraforming and station construction mod was found to contain an IP logger and telemetry.
I wonder if the one guy absolutely losing his shit on the forums about that mod (to the point alex himself told him to relax) is the guy who constantly complains about it here
Malware is always worth pointing out and bringing up.
Discord troons hate it when people talk about the psychotic shit this game's modders do and always try to shut down anyone bringing it up, like you're doing
that's hilarious, i was bringing it up myself as an example of malware because nobody else talking about it. learn to read you useless fricking mongoloid.
there's no saving people with troony brainrot, they can't think of anything else when they're mentioned
Quoted wrong moron I meant this guy:
t. ranny
kys boggled
>mods are for trannies even doe my post complains about someone blacklisting my basedmod XD now excuse me as I start another Nexerelin playthrough (ironically (I'm only pretending to be moronic))
Look up the definition of malware and castrate yourself
you mean to say:
don't install mods made by mentally ill communist trannies
If you're gonna copypaste my image at least use the accompanying text for clarity.
https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/618206091/#618255896
https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/664888234/#664892050
see above, specifically terraforming
So are you gonna b***h about the Terraforming mod for all eternity even though as far as I can tell he was forced to remove all of that stupid shit a long time ago?
After being mind boggled by working with the fleet limits slapped onto skills I installed Quality Captains. The skill tree is gonna need a full rework before I consider playing with out it or another similar mod. Though it'd be nice if he fixed this milestone stuff to not get in the way, but whatever.
>even though as far as I can tell he was forced to remove all of that stupid shit a long time ago?
Not everybody deserves forgiveness or second chances, especially not impersonal goods distribution. Simply stop using it and stop using anything they provide, as they don't see the fault of their own actions by their own admission.
You are free to ignore me, but I will continue to warn people that "this dev has a history of spyware, do with that info as you will"
is that you harmful mechanic? still seething alex told you to be quiet for sperging out?
I don't have a forum account my man, is harmful mechanic's mod also shitware? I'll add it to the list.
that was one of the only times soren was in the right with one of his histrionic meltdowns. a popular mod was collecting people's location data for no apparent reason and violating the GDPR in the process.
It's moronic to sperg out about when it's right behind the dev explicitly telling them to get rid of it, and they did because they made no attempt to hide it in the first place. Continuing to cry that modding is dead or whatever else is just a pointless temper tantrum
>sperg out
Calling the people's attention to a serious issue is not "sperging out". If not one had called him out on the forums after noticing this, this would have continued unabated. And when caught red handed his response was the equivalent of "You should be thankful I'm not doing something serious with this, this is not a big deal so I don't see why I should not, shut up" which immediately garnered him the animosity of everyone. What he had done was a mistake and instead of profuse and quite frankly, groveling apology that he owed people whose security he had compromised, he let his fricking ego talk. He should have been banned on the spot for it, the fact that he was even given any room to debate his transgression is just an indication of how weak Alex is in regards to moderation of his modding community, where lunatics can band up to take down people whose content they find objectionable while at the same time covering up for their own cliques and obfuscating malicious code.
>wah alex wasn't seething as hard as I was modding is dead
>immediately requesting it be disabled wasn't harsh enough
yeah it's definitely you lol, keep your tard rage on the forums where it belongs please
He removed it begrudgingly after power came down on him, displaying no desire to change his attitude and treating his actions as in the right. If you can't see how that is a fricking problem, I don't know what else to tell you. And cut it out with your autistic fricking witch hunting, I'm not the anon you talked with initially.
Ok boggled.
How many years are you going to spend crying about this?
I only remember it when I see a Starsector thread posted, so I guess for as long as these threads are made here?
How many dozens of threads has that been? How many more in the future?
Do you count how many breads you have eaten?
until either his personal demons are hated to death or everyone agrees with him, so forever unfortunately
What year is it currently?
Hi USC tourists, trying to make the thread bend the knee to your favor?
What's a USC?
Unofficial Starsector Community discord
Sounds like a cesspool, but I wouldn't put it past them to be raiding these threads. The attitudes of regressives on the Starsector forums used to be mocked and reviled on Ganker and now suddenly if you bring it up, you're "crying" and "sperging".
and we used to tell you homosexuals to keep autistic off-site drama to yourselves too, but now gays like you are the only posters left
Having your game CTD due to a runtime exception embedded in a mod that checks your client for mod installations and crashes the game, or messes with it, by setting your reputation with everything to -100 at random if a no-no mod is installed, is not off-site drama. You are pathetic and the best part is that no matter how big of a cuck Alex is, he's not cuck enough to allow you to embed malicious code without consequence, so whenever you're caught, you can only seethe and do as you're told.
>its not happening, and if it's happening it doesn't matter, and if it does matter it's not a big deal, and if its a big deal then it's a good thing
etc etc
you know how these leftist fricks function...
and naturally if you call them out on any of it, ANY of it, at any step, you are the problem for pointing it out.
>if you think I'm an obnoxious homosexual you must be the worms living in my head!
Or maybe some people just want one fricking starsector thread that isn't saturated with troony mod drama. You already had your general and every /vst/ thread to beat the same drum day in and day out, it gets old eventually.
>lefty troony wishes you would just shut up about their crimes
typical.
...sorenson? That schizo frick from eve and freelancer?
no clue who you're talking about sorry. probably not the same guy.
There's an extremely autistic individual that uses the name "sorenson" across the internet. He plays a lot of space games and inevitably ends up becoming famous within his communities for his bullshit. I wouldnt be surprised if it's the same person
>Harmful mechanic
>posting a e-girl paragon
Ok boggled. Now mass report this post so I can see you glow
>not bundling the nazi faction and commie faction into one mod for people who got tired of wrecking Tri-Jews
They have no fricking imagination
LETS FRICKING GOOOOOOOO
>it actually is up
Op for once wasn't a homosexual (he still is a homosexual)
i dont thing releasing on 1.0 or right now would make a big difference, the audience for this type of game will buy it regardless, it will never make mainstream numbers
Oh frick is it finally up on Steam? Frick yeah le- oh it's not. We still doing that pussy pussyfoot shit, huh? Imagine losing like ten years of your life you could have lived as millionaires.
I'm still running 0.95.1a and I see no reason to ever update.
Are the mods for this game still held by the balls by a group of discord trannies?
Yes. I'm convinced they're lowtier glowie assets with the frequency these groups appear around indie games that don't pay their sweet baby protection money.
I'll never forgive them for what they did to Diable.
What did they do to Diable? I have a stable version with the mod and haven't updated anything in years. No reason to.
I'm not seeing anything done to diable from a quick look. Tartiflett abandoned modding starsector (I think he's doing nebulous fleet command mods now) and his starsector mods are just in maintenance mode by whoever and it looks like they're 99% bugfixes
Diable was nefred to oblivion because they were supposedly too "op". Now half of their ships are borderline unusable.
Tartiflette did that himself, that wasn't random modders
He's always been a moron with balancing his shit
He did it due to "public pressure" within the modding community, aka other modders b***hing about his stuff being too op.
I just edited everything in ship editor to be better. The best way to frick troony modders is get good at modding mods.
post proof because that sounds incredibly moronic
Yep, Diable did too well in the "modded faction tournament" so they forced him into nerfing it.
tartiflette isn't the original creator of DA. the original creator was someone completely different. tartiflette is just the guy who ruined it.
space ships?
yes, kangoku senkan
I don't know what the question was, but I like the answer.
what the frick is the abyss
It's the same thing as the abyss in subnautica, you go out of bounds and the bad guys kill you
i'm still gonna wait for full release man. i tried playing it for 3-4 hours 6 months ago and it was pretty good.thankfully the devs act like they are really looking for finishing the game and hopefully they are able to do that in the span of next 2-3 years.
nice
underrated movie
Ooga booga where the abyssal eldritch horrors at
Great, is this the update that lectures me about transrights and gives forum troops direct admin rights over the game?
I thought it was out on steam, back to sleep
>no steam no buy!!
C
What are these planets out in abyssal hyperspace supposed to do if I can't colonize them? What's the point of them?
>it's real
1.0 soon
we eatin' good
ok but are there ACTUALLY waifu mods where i can galactically have relationships with chicks
I think some mods have that thing, kinda. Look for anime stuff, high probability. Also, rapesector should have some of that stuff by now, but it's been a while since I looked.
Rapesector along with the anime mods of your choosing. Raping is optional, but encouraged.
>rapesector
where is this found
loverslab?
no, just gitgud
see
should work with 0.97
tried it, doesn't work
did you change the version number in mod_info.json?
no?
just change gameVersion to 0.97a and it'll run.
Rapesector ironically lets you develop relationships and have waifus rather than rape, if you want
fuuuck this is just gonna make a whole bunch of mods outdated
i cant play without them no more
Why do I suck at this game? I can’t win without devastating casualties in multi-Remnant Ordo battles unless if I reload and try a million times. No matter how much I try to set up good skills/loadouts/hullmods, it doesn’t help. I guess I’m a bad pilot and my fleet composition probably sucks too.
post f(l)eet and people might be able to help you
Nothing wrong with devastating casualties.
It's when you get to the point that nothing can stand up to your composition that the game gets kinda boring.
you pilot a monitor with maxed flux and shield stats while parking it infront of the radiant so it cant kill your fleet
The end game curb is ship builds for your fleet. You need ones the AI can use effectively with minimal babysitting. It helps if they're conducive to line tactics by keeping short range weapons on big ships and long range on mediums. Don't use small ones for anything but disposable torpedo boats to pad your fleet count and avoid the deployment penalty.
It's really sad that the ai just cannot handle ships like the Sunder. It's one of my favorites but there's no use in having one in your fleet unless you pilot it yourself.
slap lasers on it and keep to the back lines, it will get fricked if it is focus fired on for more than 3 seconds, but the same goes for any other destroyer late-game
Just pilot a double blaster SO Hyperion and shot their Radiants in the ass until they die.
It's incredible how much better Ganker threads are compared to /vst/ threads on Starsector.
Holy shit.
They're all remnants of the /vg/ general, which like all others metastasized into autistic cancer that they keep propagating as long as threads exist. They try to bring it here too but threads just aren't frequent enough for them to want to stick around compared to their home base.
Oh frick, I completely forgot how to do anyting in this game. Only three years of waiting for updates. Ah well, time to relearn I guess.
>chainguns mounted
>reapers loaded
>safety override on
Armageddon now my fellow pathers
the quintessential early game hammerhead loadout
What does the Abyss have? Aliens or machines?
cool, time for a 100% vanilla run before going back to my modbeast version
post your ship names NOW!
CSS Full moron
CSS Bullet Hose
CSS Macross AMV
Why isn't this on Steam?
Workshop would improve the modding scene too much. Nobody can be allowed to mod without authorization from the Guild.
>Workshop would improve the modding scene too much
why yes i love automatic updates being forced on you
you are correct about the troon cabal problem though
Just use the mod loader that every game with a halfway decent modding scene has.
Just back-up your mods, moron.
already do without doing anything because there is no forced update bullshit
because it's not done
>he thinks it was the irc being raided
god youre moronic
This implies that phase ships have existed since the Domain era and they weren't specifically a Tri-Tach black ops creation.
this looks extremely under deployment costed for what is effectively an eradicator that can just get behind something
Imagine being a homosexual who cares about shit like "balance" in a single-player game.
>get behind
Not with that top speed of 60, or with the new phase mechanics. The phasing is just to get in your gun range, because it has distributed fire control and can't take integrated targeting unit.
Reminder
I'm a moron. How did that work? What are the mechanics at play?
Afflictor ship system increases damage taken by enemy ships for a time by 50%. The afflictor uses its light needlers to force the enemy to drop shields, then uses heavy blasters to decimate them.
these dumb schizos with nothing to do but bring up the exact same modder drama on every fricking starsector thread there is really do bring the quality of the discussion down, im so glad is just two of you arguing against each other and nobody else gives you (you)s you fricking waste of oxygen attention prostitutes. get a fricking life
tbh I got like half a sentence into your post when I realized you're yet another moron not worth listening to
can you adopt a trip for my sake? I don't want to see any more of your posts
likewise anon
I've been playing starsector for a long time and this is the first starsector thread I've seen. Never really cared about who makes mods but it was funny to learn about the drama. Also first time seeing the rapesector mod and I'm impressed.
It's pretty civil Starsector thread tho.
This is fun to read.
rapesector is actually one of the highest quality mods I've grabbed for this game
It's up to taste and whether you want weeb waifu relationshit in your game but if you do then its actually decent, doesn't overdo the mechanics, intuitive to pick up and figure out, actually makes the game feel a little more alive with a little more depth, and does it without being yet another shitty faction mod with special snowflake ships. There's even some initial elements of storytelling.
It's still pretty simplistic but I'd say it's in the upper 80th percentile of starsector mods
It is pathetic but I support it.
MLADY
My spidey senses were tingling.
Why they constantly demonize everyone that isn't like them? You could run through anywhere in oklahoma covered in dildo yelling about how much you like spreading aids and being gay and I bet 100% absolutely no one will give a shit. Good god they're such paranoid schizos.
>Why they constantly demonize everyone that isn't like them?
because thats what they would do to you, if they get in power
>Why they constantly demonize everyone that isn't like them?
Because deep down they know what they are doing is unnatural so they have to convince themself everyone else is inhuman
Imagine being so self centered you think other people like shit you hate just to offend you lmao
I hate rapegays and their content, but I won't go on forums just to shit on them or complain about content they like existing, I have better things to do. This dude is mentally ill.
Welp, called it.
The funny thing about this entire picture is that they're talking about Starsector. There are all kinds of atrocities the player is capable of doing in SS. Even more when you start adding in other mods.
Rape one woman and you're a criminal
Rape many, a hero
Rape them all, a god
>all this shows is how inhuman he is!
>*proceeds to dehumanize a human and talk about how they don't deserve life*
are none of these idiots self aware?
If they had any self-awareness they wouldn't be trannies nor would they be posting on reddit of all places
I never understood sex mods of any capacity in games that don't have an easy way to facilitate their function. In a game like Skyrim with a 3D worldspace and it being an RPG it's a no-brainer that someone would make a romance/sex/rape mod in some capacity. People who become absorbed with their own sexuality and fetishes. It's stupid to try and stop this and just be thankful that someone is taking those desires to a fictional world rather than acting on them in the real world.
I really don't know how a mod like that would work in Starsector, is it all through dialogue windows or what?
It's all dialogue windows. Maybe an occasional artpiece to reflect the change of the character in the portrait window. The main point of attraction of this usually is engaging in it as you would engage with RPG mechanics and gradually "corrupt" the character to your ends. Or some, more deranged, do it intentionally to "stick it" to the creator of said character.
starsector threads used to be very popular around 2013 but some gays b***hed about it being a general, it was promptly moved to /vg/ and it all died within a week.
Oh no it was a lot more than people "bitching about it being a general"
The threads were being raided constantly by the discord trannies, and when we tried having a general they started thread splitting to curate the OP and remove mods and shit they didn't want people to play with. The threads died because people got tired of the bullshit.
The discord troons for this game are something else, they add malware to mods, schizopost in Ganker threads trying to downplay their own behaviour, and issue false DMCA takedowns on all sites hosting mods they don't like.
>2013
>discord trannies
It's the exact same people
I remember we had to start adding checksums for mods as a precaution against malware and viruses being added to shit in the general by the trannies
The threads being shit was the fault of two different flavors of Discord gays: the main community and the edgy second community, both groups turned the threads into their shitposting grounds while getting mad at each other.
/vst/ threads used to be kinda comfy until there was no more content to talk about and only drama, and it drove out the regular players over time.
General threads are a cancer anyway
Ganker would be better without generals, unfortunately I don't know how it'd be possible to get rid of them.
I remember when we never had that shit - if you wanted to talk about a game or anything, you'd just make a thread and talk about it. You didn't give a single frick if there was another thread already, and you didn't take your question into some general thread where it gets completely lost in the noise of the thread.
You just made your post about a thing, and it spawned by its own volition an entire thread of on-topic discussion with a specific focus from the OP.
If the OP thread sucked it wouldn't get replies and eventually get pruned.
The problem was, autistic morons can't fricking let go, they NEED to have their game or whatever on the board at all times NO MATTER WHAT
And that results in stagnation and kills original content, everything gets talked to death until people are bored and the only new 'content' worth paying attention to is the drama.
And marketing agencies also jumped on this bandwagon, using generals threads to promote products and consumption (take one look at Ganker's catalog and count every "Hey you come buy product" thread to see how fricking cancerous that gets)
Yeah I really miss when we had stuff like "organic conversation" instead of a dumb cycle of monotony that ends in even more monotonous containment threads for anything that people genuinely want to talk about.
But back then people also had a concept and general ethic of of SNR that's completely dead now. Ganker used to be a "hey guys look at this cool shit I found, wanna play?" board where you could find something new any day of the week, now that's relegated to specific genre threads you'd never think to check on a board nobody cares about.
>The problem was, autistic morons can't fricking let go, they NEED to have their game or whatever on the board at all times NO MATTER WHAT
I think it's more about wanting to dictate the terms of conversation. You're right about marketeers, but it's also homosexuals that got blown out in a previous thread and want to fight over the OP text.
>Ganker would be better without generals
Try to make non page 10 thread here. 45 seconds and your thread is page 7
That's just a function of how fast Ganker is. Old /b/ circa 2007 was like that too.
Make better threads then, that has nothing to do with generals.
If you really defend them then you have either never used /vg/ to see how cancerous they all end up or you're part of the reason why and in denial of it.
>Make better threads then,
I guess you don't play (or read/watch) anything besides popular slop. That's why you don't need general since you don't need to discuss anything.
>how cancerous they all end up o
Yes. Now look at this dogshit of the board. Yet Ganker being dogshit is somehow okay. Most of /vg/ posters are Ganker posters too.
I never have problems finding and engaging with good threads. If your shit hits page 10 with no replies it's because you made some generic "lets talk about x" post just expecting everyone else to start discussion for you.
then your taste in games is fotm garbage
a thread being "good" does not matter in the slightest only the subject being popular so the lowest common denominator sloppa
If this is how you want to cope with not being able to start threads that's your problem, not mine lol.
no cap fr fr
if your threads as are full of newbie buzzwords as your posts here then no wonder people don't want to reply to them
>I never have problems finding and engaging with good threads
Yeah sure, my little slop enjoyer. The different between good thread and bad thread is eceleb who made a video about particular game. That's it.
>If your shit hits page 10 with no replies it's because you made some generic "lets talk about x"
Yes you need to be more creative.
Twitter screencap. Trannies. Something about streamer drama. KYS
this place is far too big for that to work anymore
Ganker is just spamming the most recent fotm garbage without engaging in any actual discussion
That's a different problem. There's a lot of things 4cham would be better without.
Nothing we can do about generals now, people will declare any popular topic a general and behave the same way no matter what at this point.
The site has fundamentally changed since browsing extensions and (you)s became a thing anyway and there's no way to ever go back.
There's a whole board dedicaded to videogame generals and its a perpetual rat race
>perpetual rat race
It's beautiful. But even /simg/ can survive with only 1 post per hour.
Keith carries that general on his back
I remember posting a simple portrait mod on /vg/ I made right after 0.8 came out and less than 2 hours later the file was removed for beaking terms. It was like a 2mb zip full of sfw pngs.
Someone was mass reporting any links probably because of some ngo drama.
I will NOT use high tech ships
I WILL use only ballistic weapons, and the occasional missile weapon
I WILL use whatever flagship can have the highest number of large slots
I WILL shoot until my vent meter is full, then vent
and I WILL be happy
High Tech ships are the quintessential "Boring powerful".
It's just such a jump in power level and effectiveness I genuinely don't like them
High Tech isn't even meta anymore. Low Tech Capitals are Gods of the battlefield now.
t. still gets fricking RAPED by the zig
Just fly your 5 billion ton piece of floating space garbage into it until it dies.
haha LIDAR Array go pewpewpew
>IRC raids were never a problem for anybody but baby channels.
What a clown. Are you forum mod?
Any mods that offer either missile massacre ships with massive missile focused ships or ships with giant frick you cannons like the Yamato?
isn't the yuri faction mod using mostly ships with missile focus?
try that, it's anime though
Diable ships are designed so basically every ship has a micromissile launcher, but it works more on a fleet level than an individual ship level, so you either build your whole fleet with these launchers or you never ever use them because individually they suck ass.
Yeah like that.
This is a really ancient webm, but what is that huge capital at the end with the ring around it? Does the mod still exist?
Pretty sure that was the old Cathedral-class from Ship and Weapon pack. It looks nothing like that anymore.
its the ministorum hubship or the old cathedral class, looks similar to both imo
So uh, are there any /vst/ autists fixing mods?
>it's real
and i was having fun with palworld
well, time too dedicate another 100 hours breaking the patch
I stopped playing when they nerfed SO, should I play again?
breaking new shit each patch is the appeal of this game
Just find something else that's busted, or download a mod.
Which mod has the most fun ships?
probably that moronic cromag imperium one, too bad the shitty ersatz doom music that plays whenever you visit their planets has its volume set to 700% so it's impossible to buy one
shadowyards
Is there a macross mod yet?
Best coomer mods/portrait packs to use with rapesector?
Where to download rapesector?
It's in the rape pit
Sex mods for strategy games is something I will never understand. I'm here to blow up ships and smuggle contraband, not read corny ERP in between actually playing the game. There's so much better shit to fap to out there.
Looks like the mod adds slavery too. I'll be using it just for that.
X-Piratez
Well you don't have to understand it, people have fun with it and you don't so you both go your separate ways and everything works out
The real benefit of narrative additions to the game is that it requires a framework for dialogue etc. and that framework can be used by competent writers to create something half decent instead of marvel slop
I'm not sure if you wienermonglers noticed but it already had a framework for dialogue. The game is 60% dialogue framework. What universe are you morons from?
These are the sorts of people that just bring their blanket cynicism everywhere and just want any excuse to hate devs and suck modder wiener. Anyone who thinks Starsector has "chosen one bullshit" clearly hasn't played it or just mashes through all text they see that isn't part of their rapemod.
Go soapbox somewhere you can get upvotes for it gay.
I'm too much of a brainlet to play anything other than phase-class ships
can we stop talking about trannies and talk about the video game please
Anons right.
Now lets talk about the fact that we can set gates now.
Not gonna lie, im slightly hyped for this.
This fricking thing is as big as a Cryosleeper ship.
Im actually scared to know yet if there is something new protecting it.
being able to place a gate where you want is the final piece in fixing colonization because there was no point in ever colonizing a system without its own gate
hopefully it's more omegas
I love those things and I want more of their weapons
I don't feel particularly excited about it if all it does is add a Starfield tier teh choosin one storyline and some junk like this done with mods already.
Sounds like you should just ignore all future updates, not update the game and sit around just making mods for whatever version you prefer all day. Clearly adding popular mod features to a game is a bad idea after all.
There are no strings attached to it as far as I can tell.
i just spawn gates where i want them because trusting map generator rng will never work
>Being locked out of a faction's market now only happens when fighting that faction's fleets nearby
Does that mean you can bombard a planet and then trade?
hostile activity against a planet bars you from trading and the like with them for a while, this isn't something new
I know it's not something new but the text implies that not being able to trade on the market is only going to happen if you fight nearby fleets.
No update will ever be as significant as the one that added the procedurally-generated sector outside the core worlds.
>Not on steam
Trash
it won't be on steam until 1.0 so in about a decade or so
for now you can download it from the site and use seeth's video key, it still works
>for now you can download it from the site and use seeth's video key, it still works
Downloading it now. Arigato hey hey people-san.
wait it really still works?
i thought it got patched out a few versions later? or maybe there was some mod autism where a mod bricked the game if you used his key?
i don't really remember.
I can't possibly imagine how a mod could get access to your cd key, and seth's key was never tampered with since that stunt got a shitload of people to buy the game themselves anyway
>and seth's key was never tampered with since that stunt got a shitload of people to buy the game themselves anyway
Honestly the most based move i've seen from any game dev
they thank him realy hard because of that video, it singlehanded doubled the amount of sales that game had
they will never destroy his cd key because of that
might give him a new one when its out
you can use anyone's cd key to get the game as many times as you want. it's not like sseth is getting special treatment, or simply being overlooked because it's convenient. alex is anti-DRM, anyone is allowed to distribute their key, anyone is allowed to use anyone else's key, and he does not care if you haven't bought it. so why would his key ever be fricked with?
>so why would his key ever be fricked with?
im not saying the devs will do anything like that
but trannies realy hate seth for some reason and they are the ones making the mods
>I can't possibly imagine how a mod could get access to your cd key
it's stored both (maybe depends on the version which one) in appdata and in the registry
also haven't heard of a mod that does anything with this though.
i dont doubt it considering to the highs some troony homosexual went to stop the new galatic order to not WORK with his own mods
is it still in java?
do updates still break all mods? game is literally worthless without them
updates only break all mods because alex is a moron who thinks forcibly disabling mods with the wrong versioning is an intelligent solution, rather than what all the actually intelligent people do, which is just warn you that shit might not work but let you try to play with it anyway.
>do updates still break all mods? game is literally worthless without them
this game's mods are nothing special, certainly not mandatory. this is no gigantic piece of shit like skyrim that needs most of its systems gutted and replaced by mods to be enjoyable
I would say that Nexerelin is mandatory.
Someday Nexerelin will be just part of game. I hope.
don't like it, it's a bloated mess to me. but you do you
The only thing in nexrelin that I genuinely like is being able to choose my starting fleet, money, etc.
basic b***h shit that should've been implemented in the game 10 years ago rather than needing a mod like nexerelin
I actually turn off almost every single "feature" in nex because of how stupid all of it is
easily the best feature of nex is skip story.
I thought that was done by some other mod
well I guess that's 2 must have features that should be in the base game then
it's such a good feature that there's a standalone mod that's just the nex skip story feature copied over without the rest of nex, for people who don't like nex but want to skip the story.
I wouldn't ever touch this game without Nexerelin, Blackrock and Diable at the bare minimum.
You don't need mods to enjoy Starsector. Most of them are just troony ship mods.
Does it frick all the mods?
yes but if you change the file that says what version the mod is for they will work anyway because this "big" update didn't actually change anything relevant
there needs to be a list of nerfs made to things, I have to undo tons of ship costs or ammo tweaks that I need a reference.
Only weak man cares about nerfs
the drover was murdered for absolutely no reason because fighters were also murdered the update after. I wont let my boy be done dirty like that
It's hilarious how completely unusable the Drover is now. It's not only a huge piece of shit that's worse than the Condor, it's also the single most expensive non-phase destroyer in the game.
The wiki is complete dogshit, but usually keeps track of update history.
I'm thinking about making a mod that undoes literally every direct nerf to a ship or weapon's numbers. And without compensating by removing any buffs. Just to see what it would be like if every single vanilla thing was at it's maximum strength.
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=28553.0
its a shame that my favorite ship is a mod one
this fricking thing is so good
i literaly cannot play the game whiout it
blud really chopped a doom in half and called it a new ship
its a small ship that can slow down time instead of just turning invisible
while invisible it builds "heat" at high quantities and you can play mines around the map
i managed to take down some giant cruisers with this thing and a lucky missile shot in the right place
wut, last time I checked the Nightwalker was "just" a phase destroyer with za warudo time powers, which made it a bit obscene with an autopulse laser or so
pretty much
but i didnt like that, i like the yellow nukes missiles that have no tracking and can blow shit up real good
Is there anything close to a 3D Starsector? Is X4: Foundations similar?
X4 isn't very much like SS, it's more like "what if Elite Dangerous was good"
>what if Elite Dangerous was good
no man sky?
X4/X3. Try LxXRM 3.1 for X3. If yo uwant fleet combat to better X4 or X3LU or X3 Mayhem.
eve online
frick eve online ccp ruined that game years ago. Also its really nothing like Starsector. If you want a single player eve though Astrox Imperium is pretty good.
>3D Starsector
mount n blade
Apparently Ascendance is going to let you play as an individual captain if you want. But that game's more focused on competing with something like Stellaris (it actually started as a Stellaris mod), so it probably won't scratch that same itch. Though if you're the type who loves to play with Industrial Evolution and Ashes of the Domain then you might want to keep an eye on it.
>(it actually started as a Stellaris mod)
which one?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1504065390
Onslaught is a bawd that loves to take it from behind
That would be Onbawd, Anon. Onslaught is someone else.
More like your mother, amirite?
Now I really want a Starlight Cabal version of the Onslaught with that name.
But they only touch high tech ships sadly.
Cabal Odyssey is probably my favorite player flagship in the game. There's just something about its ability to reposition almost immediately and deliver a devastating surgical strike on demand that meshes really well with my playstyle.
That description fits every single worthwhile player-piloted ship.
Just make a cabal variant for the hightech onslaught then
>Helmsmanship:
>Changed base speed bonus to 15% (was: 10%)
>Changed elite speed bonus to 10su/s (was: 5)
>Auxiliary Thrusters:
>S-mod bonus is: "increases 0-flux speed boost by 10, and doubles the 0-flux turn rate bonus"
man i used to run a shit ton of mods in my old copy of the game
i also had a save file that was almost 1gb
Anybody tried "Grendel" yet? how does it hold up?
It's a low-tech phase cruiser with a metric shitton of ballistic slots.
I imagine throwing disintegrators and cyroblasters on this thing and maxing out it's flux stats.
https://starsector.fandom.com/wiki/Grendel
Its literally a fricking phase eradicator
I like watching my fleet destroy a whole Pirate armada of like 50 ships which takes like 10 minutes
Does the heyhey's code still work?
can you read threads before posting in them peanut head?
yes
No, thanks to you they stopped it just now.
>havent played this game in 6+ months
>install update
>start new game, get assfricked by pirates+patrols 4 times
>alt+f4
guess i should've replayed the tutorial, huh?
early game tips besides installing console commands?
not being a fricking moron for one
Pick your battles with better care. Early game it's very easy to overplay your hand. Do trading to get rich quick with any ships you can get your hands on, no matter how wrecked or damaged.
My protip for you is to replay the tutorial
Early game is all about avoiding enemies and focus on things like trading, scavenging or survey shit for money. Buffalos and Drams will carry you hard for that with their increased fuel+cargo and scavenging one with even 4 dmods is almost always worth early on. Once you've got enough money that you can start getting actual worthwhile ships like a heron, you'll be able to easily melt pirates and their garbage ships unless you were selling blueprints on the blackmarket in which case have fun
Selling blueprints on the black market is the true end game
I learned my lesson selling all those high tech packages to pirate stations, never again
What is most important is realizing that if you are not strong enough to fight a fleet you should be fast enough or nimble enough to escape.
If you can't do either of those make sure you have enough crew and check the minimum burn levels on your ships.
The early game has some roadblocks that can be overcome with enough player skill in battle or patience and money to buy more ships and crew.
Don't forget that a lot of pre-sets for hardpoints on a lot of ships are "ok" but with some research and understanding you can make very powerful versions of each ship.
Wake me up when the game releases on Steam. Then and only then will I buy it. I don't feel like updating my entire mod library.
Good.
This is still possible in .97
Good.
>space game
>2d
into the trash
Any recommended modded factions that aren't complete unbalanced trash? I've been using Star Federation, Mayasuran Navy, and Kyeltziv Technocracy and they seem alright
There are very few factions that are unbalanced, in fact most mod makers are so autistic about balancing their factions that their ships end up being weaker than vanilla.
I see. I don't usually dive into modded factions but I know they have a bad reputation for being pretty broken. Ironically I think the most overpowered modded ships I've seen were from RAT but both aren't things that are easy to get anyway
Yeah, most modders tend to have "cool" looking ships that severely underperform, so unless you get older mods like Neutrino or something, you are free to just go with anything. UAF tends to teeter on the edge of being overpowered, but their ships are kind of trash most of the time, it's their weapons that are good.
Ignore waifu mods and go with whatever your intuition says is right
my intuition is horny and has no taste, though
Waifu mods have some of the most fun weapons and ships. You haven't had fun until you detonate three fireweed chain mines simultaneously in the middle of an enemy fleet.
The most gratifying thing in this game, to me, is overcoming all odds. Creating a fleet that can efficiently deal with threats, while making adequate use of the resources I've been given. Using overpowered weapons and ships is boring, and detracts from the most entertaining parts of this game. They turn the game from one of strategy into one of mindless destruction.
At least install rapesector and turn all of the homosexual OCs into breeding sows, then.
I enjoy both overcoming challenges and inflicting mass destruction, so I simply hoard everything I come across and deploy it in accordance with what I currently want to experience. But still in the end it comes down to hoarding shit. I love it.
You can do that with anything. I beat the omegas with low tech ships. When you've seen all the challenges the next step is making ridiculous shit and seeing how much you can get away with.
Lowtech ships are the best ships though?
I think if you're gonna use bullshit OP faction mods at least get a bunch of them and populate the galaxy so you're on the receiving end sometimes.
It'll still trivialise the hegemony and stuff but at least they're getting crushed between your waifus' thighs
You guys are who Legio was made for. Bullshit fights where the opponent is cheating with ships that nerf themselves straight into the ground when you capture them. Strangely enough, though, guys who make the "it's OP so it's bad, I'm super hardcore" argument about waifu mods like that tend to hate Legio too. Can't figure out why though.
not on steam, don't care
Have never played this
Gimme some tips for a newbie
go luddic path
commit space jihad
this might be of use
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God I miss procurement missions. Nothing like getting four absurdly high priced organ ones in a row and making a mountain of cash in a week.
My suggestion is to start out as a trader, build up a small flotilla with some cargo ships/fuel ships to get some hauling capacity and make some starting capital, then go explore the universe and grab resources, derelict ships and whatnot to bulk out your fleet. Being stealthy and avoiding engagements is the way to go until you feel confident enough to take on people who try to frick with you.
The story quests can also help with cash and give you some more concrete objectives to accomplish.
Biggest tip I can give you is that the dev was originally making a Battletech ripoff.
Don't think of your ships as spaceships, think of them as stompy robots with heatsink mechanics, and your battle performance will instantly double.
Also the Nexerelin mod is fricking sweet and while I'd normally always recommend vanilla for a first playthrough, all it really does is add a whole 4X layer to the game (by massively improving colony mechanics that are already sorta there) without taking anything away from the pew pew spaceship experience. So it's an option if that sounds good to you.
Idk if it's updated for the patch yet though so this might be moot.
frick yeah
For me it's mass luddic path brawlers swarming everything like bees.
How many IEDs tho
That's a silly question to ask of a luddic path enjoyer.
Well you didn't say "yes" so now I'm even more suspect.
>raid core world planets
>run away when patrols show up
>wait for them to leave
>rinse and repeat until planets implode from anarchy
Frick combat.
they nerfed that this patch, wait period from hostile acts went from one month to four
I wish it was possible to align with AI and help them conquer the Persean Sector.
Just make every colony administrator an alpha core and conquer everyone
this dude is gonna die before he releases his game on steam
WHERE ARE THESE PORTRAITS FROM?!?
UAF and Iron Turtle/Turtle Shell whatever thing.
uaf and ironshell
Mushashi manufactory for some nice broadside action
Mid STRONG
I claim the last post in this thread for the glory of Ludd
Beep boop motherfricker.
Actually the last post is surprise a Hegemony AI Inspection Fleet.
You WILL surrender your hard drives for examining and you WILL suffer the consequences if any AI images or chat programs are found inside.
[Order your colony to resist the inspection]
I HATE THE FEDS
I HATE THE FEDS
I HATE THE FEDS
I HATE THE FEDS
I HATE THE FEDS
I HATE THE FEDS
your station? destroyed in orbit
your ground forces? unable to resist
your AI cores? straight into the furnace
I've never lost a core to a fed and I don't intend to break with that tradition.
"AIs could be here" he thought, "I've never been in this system before. There could be AIs anywhere." The cool vacuum felt good against his bare chest. "I HATE AIS" he thought. Sweet Dreams are Made of These reverberated his entire ship, making it pulsate even as the $1000 recreational drugs and lobsters circulated through his powerful thick veins and washed away his (merited) fear of algorithms after dark. "With an Onslaught, you can go anywhere you want" he said to himself, out loud.