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Frick off, Grey.
PLAP PLAP PLAP GET PREGANT!!!
Is it possible to have the weapons render beneath a ship's sprite?
Pic related, the black shit in the red circle is part of the arm that's currently being rendered above the ship.
btw, the christmas theme is comfy as frick
aren't there like "detail" weapon mounts or something in the ship editor? i don't exactly remember but look at diable ships anyways. they have that stuff i'm pretty sure
you use a decorative mount with a higher render order, or handle it in a layered rendering script if you have really particular needs
Speaking of, does anyone else experience a glitch with the Watch Dog mobile armor. For me, the left arm is glitched and doesn't even appear.
Lol, I thought that was working as intended. Guess I'll bin that ship for now.
Didn't the dev release a hotfix for that?
Someone needs to do a mechslaught
Yes. But it didn't "fix" for me until a new save.
i will never fricking understand why can't alex make it so we can give orders to allies.
your own faction fleets is fighting with you? uhh.. hello?! we are defending our star systems?! who the frick are you to defy my orders?! on my ships?! built by my great forges?! have a nice day! i mean that with a hundred- with a thousand percent!
less idiotic and sorta understandable is just allied fleets of other factions. but even then let me fricking help you if i have like 85 relations you Black folk at least take them as very soft suggestions
pic is me talking to my fellow fleet commanders
responded to the wrong comment cuz im fricking moronic but its still sorta correct:
read The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command and you'll understand
My fellow starsector bros, I want to ask about Sephira, how good is it? Does it justify the bloat of installing DME, Magellan, and whatever Sephira fork out there?
its good
its also bloat
its good, dont need to get magellan for it tho
>how good is it?
its a powertrip mod for gays
>Does it justify the bloat
not in the slightest
its kinda fun but broken beyond measure, I just wish there was more documentation somewhere/anywhere about who to get where and if the ravens actually exist
>turn to cursor feature suddenly doesnt work in battles
>works in simulations
I hate this game.
>2023
>still no weapon sorting by design or role
Time for some buckbreaking.
>aurorans are assmad over metal exports
>go to extract some VIP for Sebestyen
>hegeBlack person patrol chipms out and attacks me claiming they will suffer me no more
>wipe them out
>yOu CaNt dO tHe mIsSiOn iT wIlL tAkE mAnY mOnThS tO cAlM dOwN
What a fricking joke of a design
Can't you just raid it?
No
Really? There are other kinds of missions where you need to extract something and it uses the normal raiding, is it really just available through the dialog? That's fricking stupid if true
Does the buckbreaker damage bonus also applies to pd against missiles and fighters laucnhed from Buckbroken ships?
>Does the buckbreaker damage bonus also applies to pd against missiles and fighters laucnhed from Buckbroken ships?
Your question is worded in a confusing manner:
Only the buckbreaker ship gets bonus damge, any fighters it launches do not gain the bonus.
The damage applies to the faction ships named, not to their weapons (missiles) or fighters, unless those fighters are from the named faction.
My question was : if a UAF ship launches a missile at my ship, ship that has Daemon Slayer hullmod, will the pd of this ship deal 5x damage against said missile or not?
depends on the missile
UAF missile yes but a vanilla missile on a UAF ship no
Im assuming its the same shit with fighters??
For fighters you are right, for missiles I'm not so sure. Im unsure if the game engine treats missiles as ships when it comes to damage calculations.
Knights Templar for 0.96?
Link for old mods fixed for 0.96 in general?
Its in the Treasure Trove of Corvus
Noah is a b***h, all my homies hate noah.
Can I get an onslaught for Christmas?
No-ah.
We have Onslaught at home.
I'm not a fan of asians.
>Can I get an onslaught for Christmas?
Pick a 'slaught, any 'slaught.
https://dropmb.com/Zsiqn
But being as it's the festive season, might I recommend the party 'slaught:
>https://dropmb.com/Zsiqn
It do not be working doe
LINK IS DEAD
🙁
zelda is gonna be pissed
I don't actually mind this onslaught of Onslaughts. It's a strong frame and a tried-and-trusted design. It makes sense that many different variations would use it as a base.
And it really is just cool. I enjoy piloting it, I like having it in my fleet and I like fighting against it. It has a very unique look which is justifed by its gameplay mechanics and the sound of the TPCs is fricking cool.
I would say it's Starsector's most iconic and best ship, design wise.
Please Alex just release the new update
If i hear the name Noah one more time i'll genuinely go insane
kek there isn't an update coming for a long time.
Welcome to the madhouse enjoy your stay.
Anonoah
Is Arma getting an update?
Nope, you just delayed it 6 months.
It's in beta and nearly completed. You can check it out on the devs github.
Be a good person.
reckless officers are for Passionately Loving and Protecting (PLAPping)
I have an idea for a mod and I would appreciate your opinion on it.
Basically it's to make "difficult recovery" of a ship cost resources instead of a story point.
>Why?
Story points are abundant early on and become increasingly rare as the game progresses. If you find a derelict Paragon at the start of a run, that one story point it might cost to recover is a meaningless cost. On the other hand you would never spend a story point to recover even a low tier capital if you already have a lot of good ships.
So my idea: Difficult recovery does not cost a story point, but instead gives the ship a "critical damage" hullmod which locks its CR to 0. This hullmod automatically repairs over time by consuming vendor trash resources like metal, transplutonics etc from your inventory, if you have them.
The total resource cost is based on the money value of the ship. Low tech ships require more metal, high tech ships require more transplutonics, ships with more weapon slots require more armaments, something like that.
This has a bunch of effects which I really like
>difficult recovery of shitty ships becomes much cheaper than difficult recovery of good ships
>vendor trash gets an actual use outside of selling it (I really like this in Nomadic Survival)
>recovering a good ship early on is actually difficult
>recovering a good ship might take time and active effort as you need to procure the specific resources
>high tech ship resources (transplutonics and volatiles?) are actually kind of hard to come by in large quantities, unlike metal for low tech ships, which fits the theme of high tech ships being high maintenance and delicate machinery.
What do you (You) think? It will be coded by yours truly, shouldn't be too hard.
you are autistic and obsessing over things that do not matter. fixing your current obsession would simply mean that you move on to another one, making it a waste of effort.
in this particular case, you are also confused about the time value of money (or rather, ships). of course a paragon now is better than a paragon later, and the marginal utility of another ship drops as your fleet grows. so what?
rather than adding depth to the choice of how to spend your story points, this change would remove it, turning something that requires a judgement call into a triviliaity that's just paying money with a lot of pointless complexity and busywork overlaid
>high tech ship resources (transplutonics and volatiles?) are actually kind of hard to come by in large quantities
>volatiles
>in large quantities
anyways let me just grab a few extra shepherds and strap mining equipment to all of my non-combat ships
The real problem with your idea is it sounds like you've never actually done much combat in the game. What you're suggesting basically makes it even dumber to recover ships.
your idea is shit and the solution is far simpler
>get more storypoints
Behold, my capital.
Stick to posting on reddit.
Stick to sucking off Black folk instead of posting here.
Damn noah didn't get any presents yesterday I guess.
>doesn't name his world "Capital World, [name]"
Do you even Grand Republic? The Rutherford Society wouldn't be caught missing such a detail.
>hazard rating of 0%
Anon-sama I kneel, please teach me your secrets
Its called mods.
just cheat bro
>crashed terraforming drone: -50% hazard rating
>habitable: -25% hazard rating
>mild: -25% hazard rating
I'm guessing the mild and habitable is also from mods, as in this planet probably wasn't originally Terran and got terraformed using the cometary capture system from "DIY Planets - Terraforming and more!"
Although I'm kinda curious why anon picked a planet with a transplutonic ore, as you can't put soil nanites for extra profit.
>you can't put soil nanites for extra profit
obviously that is modded out too
It was my starting planet so i wanted something jack of all trades and i was aiming for lowest hazard rating possible. I have second agri planet with soil nanites and farming/light industry combo.
which mod adds the crashed terraforming drone?
Unknown skies. You just have to change the version number
Mods aka cheating.
diy planets plus tacs on a 125% hazard planet.
I started with removing radiation with irradicator core and then i just built water capture infrastrcture and climate scultping with terraformer brainprint.
Its a israeliteel of the sector, i need to find a way to defend it more.
wad mods ?
Impressive, very nice.
Let's see Paul Allen's Capital.
(Look at those not subtle Hegemony law violations, the tasteful thickness of the hazard rating, oh my God, it even has a planetary shield.)
Mirrin those stats.
I spread my cores around more and i still cant find pristine nanoforge..
The most reliable way to get a Pristine Nanoforge is to just steal it, unfortunately.
Yeah i know but only planet i know where one is, is Chico and i really have no force to raid the fricking 15k ground forces planet..
Guess time to trade around the secotr and quietly look around for less defended nanoforge methinks.
Altough i do have two corrupted ones in storage so i could just colonize some ore rich worlds around me..
>unfortunately
that's how it should be
The hell is that long ass planet condition?
Watered Planet.
Probably from the Comet Capture building from either TASC or DIY planets.
the art is leftover vanilla stuff, i think it was intended for the world's primary biome
>another gay anime OP
Please make a normal one next time, I'm begging you
You knoah they won't.
Where the frick is the buckbreaker update
we got new factions to break
EVEN FRICKING YURI EXPIDITION GOT AN OFFICIAL UPDATE BEFORE THE BUCKBREAKERS DID
WHAT THE ACTUAL FRICK MAN
YOU'RE NOT MAKING A FACTION HERE
ITS LITERALLY JUST A HULLMOD AND SHIP PACK
Calm down noah.
Frick off noah
Whoa no need to be such a noah.
so take the hullmod and delete all the useless bloat garbage the mod comes with like the ugly ass ships
No
Frick you
I want my supercapital
Noah General
noah generally smells
>flagship crew reached "inspired" level of confidence in my captain
Ngl, feels warm and cuddly as frick.
now tell them to eliminate a radiant
Is aria updated to 0.96? If not,any good replacements? Looking for low tech factions focused on machine guns and shit
no it was canceled for racism, bigot
Bootleg'd on corvus
Got a link to the discord?
noahscumdungeon dot biz
>noahscumdungeon
lmfao, this is an actual site!
Google it famalamadingdong
Who would win,the supreme might of the auroran navy
Or one explosive dick
I was so wishing the IED would ram between the two hulls... but no...
The noose when you complete the lifecycle of a troony.
obsessed
Noah u.
to be fair thats the worst UAF supercapital,try doing that to the one that spams railguns
My RS run when my fat, ugly bastard captain busts inside the Queen.
Noah? I hardly know her!
Her?
okay, I'm reinstalling after like 4 years away.
Whats a good couple faction mods. I want a few to flesh out the map for nexerellin, but nothing too crazy powerful or lore breaking, ideally.
Raider/pirate factions would be especially good, since I'm planning on violating many of the statutes of man and a few of the divine.
Luddic enhancement for one,unfortunely i only got weeb mods
Sweet, I'll look into it.
Someday I'll do a full weeb modlist, but it is not this day.
Star federation mod from FTL is the one i liked, San-iris and H.M.I mining faction are good too, especially for new weapons
they are balanced faction mods (FTL ships with built in hull mods may be stronger their peer abit, tho still glass cannon types)
DIY planets? ye just rely on the quest in the bar for periodic supply of artifacts
Roider's Union is a good one.
What will you do if Nia is an actual female (girl)?
ask some specialists on the 'arty for some locating services
then dispatch the rapesquad
He's a dude tho.
>Repairing the D mods of a ship is more expensive than the ship itself
Excuse me
That's how it works in real life.
I feel like D-mods should be more impactful. A ship with 5 D-mods is like... 70-90% as strong as a ship with 0, depending on the exact mods and the type of ship. If you have derelict operations, D-mods actually make your ships stronger per DP.
>the exact mods
You mean exact skills
Derelict Ops is so overpowered it had to be nerfed 16 times over the course of its existence
it was balanced when d-mods had twice the impact, but alex nerfed them to irrelevance since autists kept whining about them
Your bloated broken ass mod has new [redacted] ships?! Thank you, now I will install it.
>Armaa
>Cayman ship pack
>Tahlan
>YURI
MORE MECHS
>not making your own mechs
Low test
pilabunkuh
"DIE!"
can anyone suggest even more mods with even more mechs
i think machina void has some
Haven't used those other mods, are they worth using for their sechsy mechs?
Why are the weapons in All the Domain Drones+ so op. Motherfricker
Because it was a mod based on another mod whose creator believes all Remnants tech are gay and should suck compare to Derelict? The same guy who wrote a SI about him kicking ass using a Derelict fleet. Come on now
I wouldn't mind his boner for squares and guns so much if he didn't ignore the fact that the derelict drones are ancient early gens compared to the last gen Guardians. More powerful derelict drones should be later gens and reflect that.
Pretty sure you're getting your cube mods confused. The one who's dev thinks hightech is gay is actually way more restrained somehow. They both have fighters that get LACs, but the ATDD+ one is a swarm of 0 OP flying turrets with a ton of health. The other mod has them at 7 OP per wing and weak enough for the whole wing to die to a flak cannon in like one shot.
I think both the mods in question actually do that, with ATDD+ having the advanced ones be a bunch of mutants, and the other one, DEX I think, has some be mutants that were put together wrong and some be experimental designs that were given to the derelicts for testing.
That said, the Invictus is basically a giant middle finger to the idea that more advanced ships are always better, so you can't fault them for that.
>That said, the Invictus is basically a giant middle finger to the idea that more advanced ships are always better, so you can't fault them for that.
Well yeah. Two Guardian and a bunch of Ramparts can easily overwhelm even Omega. You only need the right ship
The Guardian is super cheesable due to its' infinite missiles though, you could probably just wipe Omega with just it alone using the right build because of that.
Do wish the derelict mods did more with the Guardian. Its' not like Alex is ever going to expand on it in any meaningful way.
It's fine for the ships to be stronger because domain drones in vanilla really are trash, but the weapons completely invalidate every other large ballistic HE weapon.
And the fighters are best in slot too, with nothing stopping you from using them on non-automated ships. IIRC it's 10 OP for 3 fighters per wing, each having 2x light autocannon and 2x light mortar. That's an absurd amount of dps for what should be a weaker warthog
I mean look at this shit. So much range, dps, flux efficiency and an insanely high per shot damage making it very strong vs armor. There's never a reason to use a large HE ballistic other than these two.
And compare the fighter drone with the warthog, lmao. It even has an accelerated ammo feeder.
Why does it have 5000 engagement range
the real question is why is the warthog still stuck at 2000
>casually outtanks most frigates
the AAF doesn't even do anything for the vulcan kek
>No Brawlers for sale
>No Brawler blueprints
>using any brawler except LP one
are you trying to gimp yourself
get real frigates like wolves, tempests, lashers, vanguards, centurions, etc
the only midline frigate that doesn't suck as a warship is the centurion
Brawler is fun, frick you.
Don't listen to them they don't know the fun of brawler swarms. They probably never even pilot a frigate themselves.
I only pilot ships capable of 1v2ing doritos
Yeah ok nice programming socks, noah
t. Noah
You'll never have a man frick you in the ass Noah
get over it
Yeah you wish noah.
>Try pitting the yuri frigates vs armaa mechs in the simulator
>the mechs just dash in and sword them to death while dodging all the missiles
well,frick
I love democracy
me when i'm the sole monarch of my faction for over 30 cycles with no succesor in sight (there is, in fact, no democracy)
i dont understand how to setup this bigboi
Not by putting Gauss Cannons on it
the leftover OP are for aug drive field
Look at the weapon flux compared to the flux dissipation, you don't need a ballistic rangefinder to exhaust it. You're much better off putting heavy armor and armored weapon mounts on it, or even expanded missile racks or ECCM package.
And your fleet is going to be kind of shit if you're not ok with a speed of 7
>rear mounted HVDs
>vulcans in back where they’ll barely be able to reach missiles before they hit
>dedicated offensive weapons on broadside turret mounts, instead of using those slots for devastators
>no expanded magazines for TPCs
>railguns in front small hardpoints
>single LMGs
>using ordnance points on augmented drive field
>single mount LMGs instead of vulcans or LDMGs
>trying to have an onslaught in a frigate/destroyer fleet; basically forcing you to not deploy the onslaught and wasting supplies on maintenance for a ship you rarely deploy, forcing your frigates to slow down and lose their main advantage just to escort the onslaught, or deploying your onslaught and waiting minutes for it to reach the frontline
>no flak/dual flak in non-frontal medium slots
to be fair, he did say he didn't know how to set it up
oh and one last thing that I forgot, before being reminded of it since
posted when I was typing
take off the ballistic rangefinder
it’s an onslaught
barely any of its DPS will come from the small and medium mounts
>but muh HVDs/maulers/heavy autocannons/railguns/whatever
the onslaught does not have enough flux to support focusing on those weapons for DPS. a few token heavy autocannons/HVDs on front turrets will be fine, but no more.
oh and please do not make a follow up post that displays a “revised” fitting that still has no expanded magazines. if you don’t put one on then I will fricking shove 50 reapers up your ass for tech heresy.
ordnance points on augmented drive field
frick you if it moves slower than 20 burn it may aswell not exist
>he doesn't tug his capitals
The Scolar swarm grows
>4 corrupt nanoforges in a row from exploring
>1 pristine nanoforge from domain era mothership
It's like nobody even tries to scavange for relics and advanced tech, or they exist only to be touched by my hands.
According to Kanta's aid the corrupt nanoforges are not that uncommon to find, that's why she rejects it as a peace offer. Ass for the pristine one, you can chalk it up to scavengers lacking the firepower to fight the drones and the factions being too busy fighting each other to track down every drone ship floating around.
>Corrupted nanoforges are canonically dime-a-dozen garbage.
Best I can think of is that no one will risk precious resources on a foolish exploration? Gotta save those to suicide fleets into a player starbase.
then again, we do see salvage fleets all the way out.
Yeah, there really should be more spooky stuff out past the core. I would love to see more being done with exploring.
If I install a mod mid playthough will loot from it turn up in mining/research stations? I just realized I forgot to install DIY planets, so none of the artifacts used to stop weather conditions were popping up, but will I get some now that I've installed it from research stations or do i just have to spam the quest in the bar?
Am I having a case of repetition bias?
I redownloaded my mod list when I did a clean install. Now Hegemony officers have timid personalities show up more and some steady personalities when capturing via RS. This wasn't happening with the same mod list previously
Is there any way to manually land my mechs? Do I really need them to waste all their ammo or get damaged to make the autopilot trigger the landing?
Recall Fighters ability will make them land instantly when the ability pulls them back if they need it.
Target a friendly carrier and switch to autopilot, iirc it'll land even if the mech is only missing a bit of ammo.
Do other factions interact with survey data in Nexerin? Do they go colonise all the level 5 planets if i sold the survey data?
I just colonized them while you were posting this.
They don't if you sell survey data. But if they have a Survey mission and you take it, they will do it
their colonization timer speeds up a bit, but it has no influence on where they settle
Fricking racist imperialists.
>Do they go colonise all the level 5 planets if i sold the survey data?
no and you are being gaslit that it does anything
pagsm researcher buys survey data so it doesnt clog up the market screen of someone you sell it to
you can look up the code yourself. you can read simple java, right?
No
provide proof otherwise you are full of shit
For you, nocode-sama. And yes I think you are right, you could buy survey data, confirm, maybe wait a day, then sell it.
fine i concede
Now that I'm reading it properly, the chance gets decreased (permanently) when you buy the survey data, so it's not that simple.
However a multiplier below 1 is ignored, so you can buy the survey data back once the faction has colonized a planet with no consequence.
You could do this:
1. sell a lot of survey data to a faction, which increases its survey multiplier by a lot
2. wait for it to colonize a planet, which resets the survey multiplier to 1
3. buy all the survey data back, which sets its survey multiplier to a really tiny value, but it gets treated as if it was 1 anyway
4. wait for it to colonize again, which resets the multiplier
and repeat that, but it seems tedious.
If I'm reading this right, Nexerelin spawns one single colony fleet every 270 days. If you sell survey data to a faction, it increases that faction's chances of being picked for the colony.
So selling survey data does do something, it gives the faction additional colonies. But it doesn't affect which planet gets colonized, only which faction gets a colony.
survey data doesnt disappear from the market when you sell it so if what you say is true then you could buy and sell the same data over and over to have one faction get all colonies
every time this one autist shows up to say its right there in the code but never actually proves it since its not there
tldr its bullshit
Been playing with Nexerelin and some faction mods, so i have a question.
Does Mayasura mod questline only to retake the whole system? Or there's something more than that?
Do Diable SRABs benefit from ECCM package?
If n*ah didn't make rapesector, why do xhis mods pair so well with it?
Checkmate imperialists
>he doesn't type "stormgod" into console when he loads his save
>he needs to type anything instead of having the clouds disabled by default
I like how they look 🙁
>enter hyperspace
>funny lightning clouds cut your fps in half
I don't have that problem even with a decent sized adjusted sector my issue is always in combat over a certain size no matter what I do.
dumb faction idea
>Space Waste Management Service
>spaceports now generate trash as commodity
>new planetary building: Recycling Plant (trash demand, produces some metal and supplies)
>lots of really durable combat freighters, most ships have ground support package (TRASHMAN IS HERE TO CLEAN UP YOUR MESS)
>ships eat wrecks in combat to regain combat endurance and hull
>mining drones haul combat wrecks to ship
This is just Mortal Engines, but in space.
Yeah, and?
>HMI junkers but good
We just chuck ours at the sun. Sometimes it accidentally gets gravity assisted and launches out of the system at relativistic speeds, but space is big.
Frick Legio
All my Noahs hate Legio
I'm trying.
is it working?
No
I will frick
Do indy markets count as a "faction" towards independents getting a new planet?
Yes but they don't colonize so it doesn't matter.
Also if I'm reading this right, selling even a single tier 5 survey data increases the chance of that faction colonizing 25x, so there's not even a need to buy it back. Pretty interesting actually
Why don't they colonize? thats rude.
Why am I obsessed with jerking off to anime women made by a random noname artist doing free work for an indie game?
You're a troony.
I'm a woman?
No-ah
Any major change you'd like to see in starsector even if you know it ain't ever happening?
Boarding.
It existed and it sucked. I don't trust him to make a better version. Maybe someone will do it with a mod.
i wrote up a design for it, pretty good imo, and then decided to not implement it because wth, that's not my job.
with paid mods you could be enjoying boarding RIGHT NOW, for just a few bucks
No one here is going to pay you to do anything but have a nice day, Noah.
i'm going to be very clear here - i'm not nia. you have paranoid delusions. seek professional help.
Yeah, we know. Your name is Noah.
schizophrenics make connections between things that are unrelated, which leads to them eg. mistaking one person for another. this usually starts exhibiting between 20 and 30, but you've been at this for a while now haven't you?
That's not schizophrenia. You need to take your meds, sit down, and study.
Formal thought disorder (FTD) is also known as disorganized speech. Evidence of disorganized thinking, it is a hallmark feature of schizophrenia.[4][6] FTD, a disorder of the form (rather than content) of thought, encompasses hallucinations and delusions[12] and is an observable sign of psychosis.
It can be subdivided into clusters of positive and negative symptoms and objective (rather than subjective) symptoms.[13] On the scale of positive and negative symptoms, they have been grouped into positive formal thought disorder (posFTD) and negative formal thought disorder (negFTD).[13][12] Positive subtypes were pressure of speech, tangentiality, derailment, incoherence, and illogicality;[13]
antipsychotics can also be used to treat your AGP, incidentally
It's called putting 2 and 2 together. You should have some soul sometimes.
FTD is a symptom not a diagnosis. If you can't understand the difference then I can't help you and you should seek professional help.
No, I am Noah.
Noah you aren't
How can you just assume that? You don't Noah me!
Well I know you get noah b***hes, have noah money, and have noah idea how to mod.
Another Level-up rework
way more exploration content
some sort of a wrap up for the story
Actual victory conditions that give you something to work towards. The early and mid game of Starsector are really fun and it would be nice if there was a way to just wrap that up and move on to the next run.
I see people complain about the lack of endgame in Starsector but I think that's an unsolvable problem.
At some point you will just have the single best or most fun to pilot flagship with the best weapons, combined with a fleet that is already capable of beating anything in a game. And I think at that point, what you really need is a formidable challenge which ends the run. Maybe make it varied depending on your actions in the run. Maybe add some kind of metaprogression across runs like starting with a special ship (frigate / destroyer level, nothing strong) on your next run, just to kind of tie it in together you know.
Endgame crisis. Survival mode that builds off of that.
More EM warfare on and off engagements. I want missile IFF getting disabled. I want tiny fleets turning into big ones when you see them up close (and vice versa).
Formations, so that low tech AI doesn't get bullied as often. Their biggest weakness is their unwillingness to fight as one. Make fast ships work for their openings.
Quests
FRICKING QUESTS
WHY AM I COLONIZING PLANETS AND MAKING A FLEET THAT CAN STAND UP TO AN ACTUAL NATION IF THERE'S NOTHING TO DO
Haven't played in a century or two and suddenly got hit with the itch again. What mods do you guys generally recommend these days? Is Nexe still a big deal? Any major compatibility issues I should be keeping an eye out for?
Nex is still around. Speed up, combat chatter, underworld, those are the "vanilla plus" mods off the top of my head but I dont have my list in front of me right now.
I'll take pretty much anything honestly, as long as it's not some major fundamental game overhaul I'm more than happy to just kitchen sink it.
I'd like a logistics ship that's basically a prison barge for keeping sex slaves in, that your crews can visit to rape captured female UAF personnel and such. When fully stocked up the logistics ship would give a bonus reduction to your fleet's supply consumption & fuel usage, representing your crew's heightened morale improving their work ethic and quality standards, leading to less waste and better efficiency.
Yeah I bet you would, Noah
what about the cost of shuttle maintenance and fuel just to constantly ferry personnel between the barge and the rest of the fleet
Represented by the ship's own upkeep costs. I would envision this being a large ship, about the size of an Atlas, so it's not something you'd take with a small fleet, it'd be more of a lategame unit.
wouldn’t it be more efficient to just distribute the prisoners among your fleet
less shuttlefrickery, and you’re not putting all your eggs in one basket
-nerfs your favorite mods-
Imagine playing mods made by this homosexual, couldn't be me.
Seems like most of these threads use a ton of troony and/or coomer mods on purpose. But its ok they just do it to "rape" them honest, anon.
in not of*
It is amazing how much the thread changed in a year or so, back then you would get laughed out of the room for using shit like iron shell and tahlan.
Y-you're just obsessed anon!
>back then you would get laughed out of the room for using shit like iron shell and tahlan
Not really
Yeah ok, noah.
*Teleports behind her*
Heh nothing personal
*Proceeds to rape her*
Her?
My wife
Give me some hullmod mods, even some outdated ones as long as a simple change of mod_info.json
i love how this thread demonstrably, without fail, always devolves into circle-jerking about discord trannies
I don't love that, but its what always happens on any general that has long stretches of nothing happening and a mod community, its what happens when people have nothing to talk about
At least if you ask a question you can still get answer, some generals are so insane you don't get even that anymore
what would you say are some of the most insane?
>most insane?
The entire /vp/ board, no thread in particular just look at the catalog now and that's basically how it is all year, if you want the "General thread gone wrong" experience go there, specially when there's a dry spell of games not coming out soon
>if you want the "General thread gone wrong" experience go there
if you want a good example of that, look at the "/vp/ plays" threads
which are pretty much "<board> plays X" threads in name only
they don't even follow the same basic format of "one guy runs the game/thread while other posters provide peanut gallery commentary and make decisions when opportunities to do so happen" like they used to
it's now basically just a chatroom for tripgays and schizos that whine about an evil boogeyman who is responsible for pretty much anything bad (and well deserved) that happens to them (while blatantly making shit up), and they also seethe about people posting lots of dialog screenshots of a text-heavy game on an imageboard
certified insanity even by /vp/ standards
fun experiment if you're bored: go there, post an image of sandshrew/sandslash, and see how many of the schizos go into a meltdown over someone who got fed up with their shit
>"/vp/ plays" threads
I forgot about those, they pick and drop games on a dime, i don't think they finished a game besides pokemon reborn, of which they made several smut fanfictions of in the thread
there were more back in the good era before that fricking wagie Black person had the idea to make threads near-impossible to follow by encouraging everyone to do their own playthrough in the thread with zero regard for stuff like pacing
i think i should have been more specific considering there were both more games that were actually completed (or what could be considered completed enough due to not being fully released) and more handholding smut
but yeah pretty much everything after the (second) reborn LP ended up being garbage due to the newer, worse format
Modded Minecraft General on /vg/ has an autist that programmed a spambot to vomit random garbage into the thread 24/7.
/gsg/ has devolved to the point they forgot how to use the reply function.
>i love how this thread demonstrably, without fail, always devolves into circle-jerking about discord trannies
I love how the discotroons 'hate' us but can't resist posting here.
Its weird, for all that we mock them they're way nastier to each other than we ever are to them. Motherfrickers are like overgrown middle schoolers, any sign of weakness is an excuse to rip into one another for no better reason than because they can.
But hey, these are also people who gleefully crow about having 130 IQ while wasting their lives making subpar 3rd party add-ons for an obscure space sim, so them being dysfunctional maladusted schizos to a level anons can't hope to match is hardly surprising.
I think the issue is that there is nothing to talk about. The last update has jack shit so anons default back to gossip.
It's just a lot of coping and seething going back and forth with furries trying to keep the focus on hating anime and trannies.
guys armaa updated
you can download the beta from the thread now
Don't care about your homosexual-ass robots
Shut the frick up you gay Black person
did it add anything good
>a couple of new mechs
>new pirate-like faction
>New Meshan administrator can become a contact that gives you a bunch of stuff at certain relationship levels
>new contact on New Meshan that can become a unique officer
>new hullmod that's basically the quick boost system from AC
>option to turn in valkhazard to ArmaA (can get a VX Custom with silversword in return)
>Aleste can switch to a blade breaker skin now
Just from the top of my head.
tl;dr yes.
zamn alright cool
Link?
brainlet-kun....
I REFUSE to scroll up
>Armaa
Yawn
Where the frick is the BUCKBREAKER update
Daemonslayer needs new targets to kill
Can I plop the new update on an old arma save file?
Pretty sure it isn't save-compatible.
which mechs are worth using other than the druggie one i cant remember the name of
>armaa music changed
The old one was a littke weird but now that its gone I kinda miss it.
How can mechs fight like ships?
They act like fighters, which are themselves just very tiny ships.
I haven't played Starsector for over a year but getting the itch to come back to it. What's new?
Uhhhhhhhhhhhh they're is a new quest for the church, a boring one for sindra, and an annoying hostile activity system which might become something interesting. Yep, that's pretty much it.
>a boring one for sindra
NTA but you just made me realize its been 11 years in game and i still havent visited Sindria system..
I see. I'll come back in 2025.
Wait, there is that one new ship that's kind of neat. A giant moronic dreadnought with no shields and all large guns. It's unique and kinda fun, shame about the borderline NPC only crew requirements.
The rest of the new ships vary between boring and insultingly underpowered.
Onslaught more like -ACKslaught
>fought like 6 IX battlegroup fleets with radiants in them
>still no Radiant (IX)
Just give me the ship you homosexuals
addship kkk_radiant_ix
>noah mad as frick his mods will never be as good as Arma
I get it, its still sad though to see him sperg out here like this.
Why there's a Nia npc in UAF?
He does the balancing for UAF now
That actually explains a lot, it's so over bros...
for rapesector
Why is there a Noah character in the Bible?
Wtf...
Its all very israeli.
How do i run Dassault Mikoyan mod without Blade Breaker homosexualry?
Say something nice about Nia
Noah could fertilize a nice oak tree or something probably.
>Say something nice about Nia
Noah has a lovely adam's apple.
I don't actually care if Nia is trans or not and the mods are playable. I actually don't know why people make so huge deal of it as I am new to the community. If they are toxic to others? Sure - dick move, but I don't see it related to anything. As for the mods - Some are even enjoyable.
noah put hidden code in his mods that nerfs factions he don't like while actually fricking using "player" as a slur
also he put hidden code to make his OC faction win every autoresolved thing
and then there's literally everything involving legio infernalis in general
That is a dick move. And honestly? I feel more of a "child" thing. Is that still in his mod?
>Is that still in his mod?
The majority, yes.
He removed the code specifically targeting other mods after being called out but left the rest in. If you want a bit of perspective you can read what remains on the forum:
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=14935.msg362926#msg362926
If it seems short/fragmented just be aware Alex had to delete ~100 posts of back and forth with Noah arguing why his nerfs were intended/a good thing. Eventually someone mentioned Noah needs to a see a shrink and he used the mental health defense card to claim any criticism of his actions was triggering*. Hence why Alex went on his big purge.
*Noah has genuine, diagnosed, mental health issues.
Mental health card is... I wouldn't say a legit thing on an online forum? Not a justification at least. Maybe it could explain some stuff but it is still 'yikes' tier.
I definitely see why Nia/Noah (that part I still do not understand) is so hated in the community.
At the very least... Any code targeting other mods seems like a dick move to me.
Thanks for explaining anon.
It's also important to understand that Noah basically exists in a state of permanent perpetual spergfit that he takes with him anywhere he goes, which is particularly of note because he actually frequents these threads, sanctimoniously sperging at even vague criticism while furiously denying his presence anonymously.
This creates a perfect storm for anons to blame any post they don't like in the thread on Noah, and then have a fair chance of actually being right.
The Noah blame does feel a bit excessive at times but yeah, it does make way more sense now.
Kinda dug his own hole with his toxicity.
The final question would be if there is really that high concentration of trans people in Starsector or if it's just used as a slur in old net style from before snowflakes were so common?
Almost every modding community for every game has been completely overrun with trannies over the past 3-4 years. Modding scenes are already hyper-autistic with truckloads of drama, so they fit right in.
I suppose? Is Nia/Noah actually trans though? Or just moronic?
PLAP PLAP PLAP
Does the troony modder cabal still run this game?
They may have had some power. But not after Sseth made the video.
Dont frick with the UNSC son..
ONI will always succeed in making war crimes
>armaa now has big hair anime portraits.
We are so back.
post proof? do they have cute anime girls?
A sample.
There are also the contacts you get but these are some of the pilot ones you can choose for ladies. The guys are fly as frick too. I'm liking this update for the faction, really fleshes it out a bit more including a pirate flavored faction that I'm digging. You can start with sleepers and have enough contacts between those to fill in your early game.
>AI slop
no thanks buddy.
t. artist troony
oh shit Black person mech run time
Not exactly happy they are using AI gen when you can hire an artist, but whatever.
Artists cost money and this mod is free.
free as in worthless
Free as in fun!
And it's girls are better that other anime mods.
You can have a free mod with art the modder paid for.
I love that old anime style.
Why destroyers are so shit and always die
Because the AI is stupid and because beam weapons are OP
Not as small and fast as frigates and not tanky as cruisers, I think that relying on long range weapons such as HVDs are the better choice for the AI not do dumb shit with them.
Does anyone use Exotica Technologies? It seems cool but also potentially extremely bad
you get rightfully laughed out of the thread when your ship has shit like this
I have that ship and exact number of S-mods…
Bros…
but i love my overpowered bullshit! 🙁
at the time my mech has 6 s-mods now, this is an old screenshot
can my fellow Armabros show me what mods add more mechs? also can anyone drop the arma github link? i heard the version there is newer than the forum one
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=28545.0
interesting new mod, especially the "paintjob" part.
Caymon's ship pack, Diable and Tahlan Shipworks are the only mods i can think of that add a noteworthy amount of mechs.
The link on the forum for ArmaA has been updated, you can just download the newest version from there.
I'd love paintjob as something separate from cheevos
Yuri straight up have a Macross Valkriye now, combine it with diable arma submod and you can get a transforming mech squad going
Is dogshit, clutter for the sake of it and can be replaced by hullmods. Quite literally moronation the mod.
>anime posters are too moronic to check a thread
yeah makes sense.
finally got one of these fricking niglets
it's pretty cool, i don't regret fighting entire the IX battlegroup for it.
Such fricking ugly color schemes.
Shut up! It's edgy and cool.
kek
At least its not as bad as the black and maroon color scheme on a certain edgeboi mod.
needs more red
Why do they need these moronic green triangles on their hulls?
DUDE WEED
HEGGIES, LEGALIZE IT!
Are there any mods that you guys recommend AGAINST? Mods that are blatantly unbalanced, buggy, or otherwise shitty?
I don't want to accidentally turn one faction into rapegods in Nex or add a bunch of insanely overpowered ships to the game.
Anything people talk about raping the "waifus" of.
Shut the frick up homosexual.
kek calm down noah
Why do you keep thinking about Noah? Obsession isn't healthy Noah.
When its telegraphed so obviously like that its hard to not noahtice it.
I don't mind having cute girls in my game as long as they're reasonably sorta close to the artstyle. The OP image is fine, for example.
>dazs
Yeah that tracks, Ore Refinery is the only thing he had that looked appealing.
>alfonzo
Even Luddic Enhancement? It's been a long time since I played and it was vanilla but I do remember the Luddites kind of sucking ass.
>thedragn
High Tech Expansion looks cool but was actually the reason I initially made that post. Grabbed Apex too, anything wrong with those two?
>anything with mechs
But I like mechs. I'm a little sad the UC Gundam mod seems to be dead, because even if I don't really want the EFSF and Zeon as factions the actual ships looked rad and shitting Kampfers all over everything sounds fun.
On that note I'm absolutely taking recs for any good mod with mecha shit in it.
Also is PAGSM some kind of in-joke or an actual worthwhile mod? Diable too, it doesn't seem to be updated but I remember hearing questionable things about it a couple of years ago.
>PAGSM
You'll either like it or hate it. It's a meme mod, but a very well-made meme mod with some good ships, weapons and NPC interactions.
>Diable
Other than being continuously nerfed into the ground, it's great. Author abandoned Starsector modding so that'll never happen again, at least.
>continuously nerfed
It might have been a balance thing I was hearing about then, my memory's foggy.
Is getting Diable to run on 0.96 just a matter of tweaking the version number?
Apparently, though yeah its been a bit beat up. The higher end mechs in Diable are still fun to use on a carrier but you really need to cheat it a bit with their current costs.
There's already a bootleg update on the forum thread
PAGSM is a joke mod, but it's also really well made, has likeable characters, a neat capital ship, and some fun weapons.
>On that note I'm absolutely taking recs for any good mod with mecha shit in it.
It is pretty much only Arma and the strikecraft submods. The only mech mod worth a frick besides ArmaA is Diable.
>The OP image is fine, for example.
Nah, troony coomer bullshit will never be fine.
Okay, Noah.
Noah U
In regards to Waifu mods most people seem to use UAF. It does have a lot of wuite overpowered weapons and ships though - but I didn't really mind.
Don't listen to that. Some of those mods are OP, some are not.
Anything by Dazs
anything made by dazs alfonzo or thedragn
anything with mechs or faction "expanded"
anything with s-mods or hullmods in general like epta or special hullmods
anything by boggled
>anything with mechs
Wow, racist.
>I just like giant robot suits killing things, especially with swords 🙁
>faction "expanded"
I like makeshift pieces of shit like PMMM ships and Luddic IEDs.
>anything with mechs
How dare you.
don't pretend to like mechs, noah.
>no vayra
Been dead and irrelevant for so long it's hardly worth mentioning.
They don't cum until someone maligns them. It is part of the kink.
Avoid Bultach.
Missing ships mod is very janky, pretty unbalanced and shitty in general. Would never ever recommend anyone to use this mod.
Legacy of Arkgneisis has mostly overpowered weapons and is kind of buggy.
Ashes of the Domain has dangerous levels of ESL speak, I don't know how nobody ever was like "hey this writing / grammar / spelling is atrocious" and helped the guy fix it.
Aside from that it's a weird mod in general, the research thing sounds maybe ok on paper but in practice it results in you just not being able to use a kind of industry until you find the tech data thing. It also completely ruins the colony item system because the unupgraded base industries can't use items, and the max upgrade industries can't use them either. It throws that system out of the window and I don't see why. And it adds a bunch of super high end industries but I don't get the point since they produce things that aren't in demand by any faction bases, so their exports make no money.
Stop Gap Measures exclusively adds dogshit ships since that's its theme, resulting in AI fleets being bloated with patheticly weak ships. No point in using it.
All the Domain Drones+ has overpowered large ballistic HE weapons and fighters (see
), but I like it otherwise. It's probably worth fixing with some csv edits since it's just a few things.
>Ashes of the Domain
I only use Cryosleeper module (makes cryosleepers useful for once) and Capital module (don't like IndustrialEvolution bloat and pets).
HMI because that drill ship is fricking stupid, I dont even know if its still I thing but I hate it
Are you sure that's HMI? I don't think there's anything like that in it
>Are there any mods that you guys recommend AGAINST? Mods that are blatantly unbalanced, buggy, or otherwise shitty?
>Anything people talk about raping the "waifus" of.
pretty much this.
How do you get Barrow from SOTF? Do i need to come there with automated ships skill or otherwise its gone forever?
Did you put your programming socks on BEFORE you loaded the game?
Black person what
thats heckin bad you can't do a racism here
What do you mean?
Search for a cryosleeper named "Hypnos", beat his ass, loot his chip and then call Courser and tell him to repair it.
I mean his ship, is it recoverable or not?
Altagrave EX... my beloved...
It is, but i don't know if it's guaranteed to show up as recoverable after you beat him so you might want to save before you fight him.
where are gungriffons, fos and asura from?
Made them myself
may I have them please?
https://files.catbox.moe/y8hf3h.rar
here you go, i didn't really pay that much attention to balance so beware. They shouldn't be OP though.
thank you
Something's wrong with with the More Mechs mod, it won't show up in the launcher and trying to install it with a mod manager makes it complain about the mod_info file.
Never heard of the "more mechs" mod but is it listed as .96 in the version in mod info?
In the zip file downloaded from the link in the post I quoted there are two mods, one of which is called "ArmaA - More Mechs". The other mod in the zip file is called "ArnaA - Lostech Mech" and installs just fine, its the other one that won't work. Both have mod_info files and I can't see any glaring issues with the file in the offending mod that could be causing this. Yes, it is listed as .96.
I'm stupid and accidentally removed a comma.
https://litter.catbox.moe/brg2vz.rar
The included mod_info.json should work.
>https://litter.catbox.moe/brg2vz.rar
homie it's just a 404. Can you just upload it to somewhere thats not a hoodlum ass shady shit website?
>ebonics-spewing moron doesn't know what catbox is
How did you even find this board? Shouldn't you be on Ganker?
I come to check up on everything Starsector related seldom. So, sorry if I'm not a basement dwelling Black person like you cause I actually have a life to tend to outside this Congolese cobalt mining forum
>I actually have a life to tend to outside this Congolese cobalt mining forum
Don't lie to yourself Noah, the discord ain't any better and you know it.
Ok ok dragonfire DEMs are sick
How do i make a module render below a ships built-in weapon?
tag UNDER_PARENT
Well good thing they aint hostile...
Jesus that's a terrible faction color.
How long until you think we get a faction who's color is radar backdrop blue?
>How long until you think we get a faction who's color is radar backdrop blue?
#Genius
I'm very tempted to do it.
I think it's actually a good faction color because it looks so out of place. It's fitting.
it's significantly too dark m8. is your monitor set up right?
is that a Homeworld reference?
The ship is a nearly 1-to-1 port of a Chaos ship from fortykeks, so no its not that based.
I think one of the other plague ships has something kinda like the Naggarock's inertialess drive though.
half the noah spergin is one literal schizo with a vendetta against me. i'm not nia/noah you fricking moron.
I made a ship with a module but i can't select the module on the refit screen. The module gets ignored by autofit as well for some reason.
Can anyone help?
check so you're not missing SHIP_WITH_MODULES on the mothership
the mothership does have that tag, but i still can't select the module.
that worked, thanks.
it needs at least one weapon mount, or it gets treated as armor
It has four normal weapon slots and one built-in.
there's something picky about the tags, .hull and .variants that causes this, but i can't remember exactly what
i suggest looking at a working implementation and copying that
I finally find the damn issue
It was because i forgot to give the module any ordinance points
Thanks for the help though
ah yeah that'll get it armor-flagged too
C'mere b***h..
Welcome to my harem, b***h.
I want to SEX her
Her SBR version is hotter though
Oh? For real?
Think of the advertisers!!!!!!!!
Oh cool, a free planet lol.
Janny do your job and kill this porn posting homosexual
Kys troony snitch.
>waaah you are le troony!!!
You are two short steps away from trooning out, coomtroon.
>reeee how dare you post gameplay reee
Kys troon.
Yet you've already done the transition it seems
For my next run I'm going to eradicate the Legio. What faction should I start with?
>USL contact switched to Aurora for some reason
God i hope it wont frick my save up..
The Planet probably got invaded by UAF at some point so nex changed all their nationality to the new conquerors'
Reloading a save thankfully fixed that.
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I HATE VIDEOGAMES AND ESPECIALLY MODS
>troony projecting again
Go to bed.
Really though how hard up for cooming are you that you need anime breasts in starsector in every graphic of the game?
He will not have achieved coomvana until anime breasts are beamed into his eyes every waking and unwaking moment.
kek
anon meditating on a pedestal in front of the cumputer starting to activate his inner coom
If there was an update today you would see the rapeposting fall by 90%. There is nothing new to talk about besides rape.
Thats *almost* fine I'm talking about coomirus maximus with straight up breasts in his portrait selection above kek
Motherfricker needs VR already so he can fully enter the coom zone.
Do Anons recommend Better Variants to give NPC fleets more competent loadouts?
I recommend you get Jesus in your life.
I'm going to try it on my next run, it looks good.
people getting personally offended and pearl-clutching by rapeposting need to get out more tbh
>*faction_name* grand invasion fleet
>65% of ships are transports and freighters
Why do they tempt me with war crimes so much
it's an invasion fleet, of course it has loads of transports
Do you normally manually pilot your shit or do you prefer to play a fleetmaster style? I'm not very good at the piloting but phase ships are so cool...
>manually pilot your shit or do you prefer to play a fleetmaster style?
i only pilot doom myself but most of the time its fleetmaster
Early game: Hammerhead as it has a balanced suit of slots for any roles you need to fill, and it's one of the few ships that can save you from your frick ups.
Mid-game: Eagle (P) as 0.96 AIs sucks at using missiles
Late Game: Monitor to distract the Doritos.
smol
wow those flux stats are dire, what is the kinetic alpha strike on it? also on that 2400 flux all at once on those needlers seems... heavy.
what's the ship system
it's a lot better when the build isn't so memeish
forgot the pic
wouldnt it be better to just shield shunt this shit and maybe drop some frontal smalls?
What's a decent way to play the early game and not get raped by pirates and shit? Nexe if that matters
I only got in one battle and instantly lost a ship
If you want to not get raped by pirates, stay away from them. Use emergency burn if you need to. If you need to trade with a pirate station, do it while going dark so the pirate fleets don't see you in the first place. There's a few in asteroid belts where you are basically undetectable while going dark.
As for actually accomplishing anything, you can make money with missions like spysat deployment and the other delivery thing. Or you can sell drugs in places where they are high in demand, see the part about approaching stations while going dark.
You can also be a scavenger and salvage debris and derelict ships after battles. The easiest way to do this is by going to a system with warring factions or with an active bounty, which usually indicates a large hostile presence.
>You can also be a scavenger and salvage debris and derelict ships after battles. The easiest way to do this is by going to a system with warring factions or with an active bounty, which usually indicates a large hostile presence.
Yeah but hoow do i Do that when I can't win a fight at all?
Sorry I should have been more clear, you wait for two fleets to fight each other, hence the part where you go to a system with factions that are at war with each other. Ideally you would be on decent terms with one of the factions so you can join the battle and get a bit of XP and post battle salvage. Either way, there's a high chance of derelict ships appearing on the map after a battle, which you can either scrap or use yourself.
What's the best way to stop getting other fleets to frick with me endlessly? Everything but shuttles is super expensive
If you don't want fleets flying at you, try to not be in a system where hostile factions have a station. It will keep spawning small scout fleets which are quite territorial.
Since you're using Nex, you might have accidentally started with a faction that everyone hates, you can check the intel screen to see what other factions think of you. Factions at hostile (-50 relations) or worse will attack you while factions at -50 to -25 relations won't attack you, but they won't let you trade at their stations.
If want to just avoid combat, you should be fast enough to avoid pretty much anything if you only have small ships, just make sure that you have sustained burn on. Or if you want to be near them without getting attacked, use "go dark" in an asteroid belt. If a fleet gets close to you, a little indicator will appear around you to show the range at which you can be detected.
>Non-Combat Smuggler route (no Mods required):
Collect around 5~10 Hounds (any variant) and mod them as in pic, so that their speed goes over 220; usually D-mods doesn't matter. How disengagement works in this game is based on the fleet's combat speed (not Burn speed), so for most encounters (including late game ones) you can disengage without any issue. With a fleet of hounds you can ignore pirates and safely smuggle between their black markets and legal markets of civilized worlds stacking up cash for a colony or better ships.
You can also do this for exploration too, but I advised to bring a "militarized + SO'd" Dram acting as a fuel carrier for the hounds.
>Combat route
This largely depends on the mods you put in, and other shit like commission or you role-playing as a boy scout not using the black market. In vanilla generally you want to collect frigates and destroyers that can stand on their own without escorts in the early game. Good contenders are Hammerheads, Wolves, Shrikes, Lashers. Hammerheads in particular good ship for you to learn combat. You can also pirate a Wolf to distract some ships to follow you while your fleet can pickoff the rest (this gets better if you get a Monitor later)
One thing to remember is that pirate ships like Cerberus do not have shields by default, so they're easy pickings for you (study the codex or wiki for each ships traits).
Based. I do the same thing with both the Hound and Cerberus. Cerberus is 33% more maintenance but 33% more base cargo and fuel capacity so costs are basically the same.
Later on you can find the Revenant phase tender and do phase smuggling. Unless a fleet is right on top of you they won't see you.
>Revenant phase tender
Best shit about the Revenant: if it's the only phase ship in the fleet and if you put a phase anchor in it, it cannot die in combat! So it's great for solo smuggling. You'll lose around 20 crew everytime though.
buffalos + dram flying between tritachyon and the best paying pirate market carrying as many drugs as you can
Bullshit your way into a few good ships using quests, then bully pirates for junkpile salvaged ships you can throw at progressively stronger enemies until you're able to actually make money and get something decent.
Buying drugs and selling them to pirate stations in need (hover over them and push F1), then flying to planets marked (Military) and buying ships off the black market is a good start.
I want to punch Nia's womb
Nice try, Noah
punching something that doesn't exist
or giving a troony an acid shower
Is there any mod that allow me to join the Derelict Empire at the start?
Don't think you need a mod, just boost your relations should work fine?
Closest I can think of is the special Dustkeeper start from SOTF. Otherwise the closest thing I can think of is something the dev for DEX talked about with wanting to make a quest that has you steal ID codes to take control of the drones.
Of course knowing that guy no telling if that will ever amount to anything.
>He doesn't sell drugs and run guns to terrorists
homosexualry.
will i be okay just using the standard outfits for most ships or will i get fricked if i don't customize everything individually
the ui is pretty hard to understand
It's recommended to at least know Flux Dissipation vs Weapon Flux ratio as a mechanic. As a general rule, especially if it's going to be piloted by an NPC, you want the Weapon Flux/Sec rate as close to the Dissipation rate. There's a lot of asterisks & exceptions that you can learn later (i.e. Super High Capacitor Total, Ignoring rates for Point Defense Weapons, etc), but if you don't want your fleet to get overloaded and die try to match dissipation and weapon flux.
You should also learn each damage types as well, and how to use missiles.
Standard fits are okay but you have to check to make sure autofit was able to get all the weapons and hullmods it wanted for a fit. If the right weapons are unavailable it will try to go for the closest match which sometimes works out and sometimes sucks.
It's worth spending time playing around in the sim to experiment with your own builds so you understand how your ships handle with different hullmods and flux setups. Don't sell weapons, stockpile them somewhere like the abandoned terraforming platform in Corvus and eventually you'll have every weapon you could ever need for a build.
in almost every case you will not have the exact weapons the setup wants to use so you will end up with all kinds of wacky loadouts
v0.2.3z4 update
https://gitgud.io/rsdev/RapeSector
>that purposefully decided upon color scheme
kek
>finally have an option to one click break prisoners that aren’t worth personally raping
thanks rsdev
>still no rapedsector
in the bin it goes.
I personally want gay version of rapesector
gapedsector
>fricking legio twinks so hard they defect to your faction
Yup, i'm thinking based.
frick off rapedsectorgay
frick you that isn't what rapedsector is about you troony don't try to put gay shit into it reeeee
How much are you willing to pay for rapedsector.
You do it for free you homosexual troony.
I don't think so buddy.
I'm not your buddy, noah.
>phase
I don't think Noah would make rapedsector.
>still no option to romance AI cores
>or an option to punish them for losing a ship
AI cores are the size of a freaking room
How the frick are you getting a medical beaker that size?
You'd need something more like Carmen's cum tank for that
>AI Cores are the size of a room
Is that actually mentioned anywhere or just headcannon? Because the only art that we have that even implies the scale of the things suggests they're more like the size of a beach ball or something.
You must have some huge ass beach balls if they're the size of a fully grown adult man in a space suit
Those are children. Small ones at that.
Honestly I realized right after I posted that that I was misreading the size by a fair bit.
Still, that's like the size of one of those shitty fiats, not nearly ENIAC-sized like Anon implied.
AI Cores and Nanoforges "build out" so their actual facility is massive but the core of the unit itself isn't all that massive.
Where is it mentioned that AI cores do that exactly? I was under the impression they were just computers, not also giant nanotech supercomputer seeds.
your cpu requires cooling way larger than the actual processor
The "lore" of the game states the cores have to be put in giant baths to function and the nanoforges build their own infrastructure. Both require a bit more than a small box on a shelf.
The bit about AI cores needing cooling I knew (it's pretty straightforwards), I mean the infrence Anon seems to have made about AI cores building their own support infrastructure the way nanoforges do, as far as I'm aware that isn't mentioned anywhere.
I am that anon and I thought I read they do the same. I am remembering wrong. They require infrastructure not build out their own*
Do you not fricking see the size of this thing?
or maybe you're just fricking blind
AI cores are as big as you want them to be
you're by far the best noah between all the noahs
Would you call him Nia if asked?
noah way i would niaver do that
Not very noahtivational.
Better?
>Planned
>add facility to remove daemon hullmod debuff
LOL
>Rampant sabotage, espionage, smuggling entire wide sector
>Aww gee shucks your transponder can't be turned on, come on in!
Is the forum down? Can't access it.
Site and forum is kill, alex finally pulled the plug.
Well, it was nice while it lasted.
Alex had enough of the rape of anime girls.
What shit do I need to do to deal with Remnant fleets? This ain't working, even putting my whole fleet on one ship isn't enough to punch through their shields.
Remnants or doritos? Massive difference.
It just calls them Remnant. The dormant shit I find in some systems.
Well for one thing you need some more combat ships if you're going to be fighting them instead of running from them. I think your biggest ship there is a destroyer class mech.
It's mostly just a bunch of frigates with regards to the combat ships yeah, that and one carrier thingy. The Yuri frigate with the ballistic shield has been putting in work. But I'll be honest, it's hard to figure out where to actually buy decent ships, almost all the ones I find are damaged and I don't know enough about the combat system to determine when/if I should deviate from the stock designs (so I just carry around every gun I loot). I just founded my first colony so I'm still waiting on the income there to start, and I'm not really sure how to use any of the Nexerelin shit - I'm ostensibly part of ArmA but outside of starting off in their sector and with good relations I haven't seen any indication of that.
Outside of that money is a perpetual problem because it only comes in bursts from very long scanning missions or in tiny trickles from the occasional trade/salvage profit.
Have... you actually beat the story and stuff as it stands with 100% vanilla?
Modded ships by default have fricked loadouts and should not be trusted (hell, a bunch just straight up don't have loadouts) and you should really go through the game once without mods (not even nex) other than like speedup. You really do NOT have the fleet to have a colony. You're asking for pain on top of pain.
>Have... you actually beat the story and stuff as it stands with 100% vanilla?
No, I put like 50 hours into it vanilla a couple of years back and don't actually remember it having any sort of story.
What did you do during that 50 hours? The reason for asking about doing the story as it stands is because it takes you actually engaging with the game a bit and making a decent enough fleet able to get through some tough scraps and/or use the game mechanics o work around them. Using mods on a game you don't understand is only going to cause problems. I would highly suggest either making a new save (if you use SMOL for mods you can just make a new profile easily) or at the very least doing some of the missions on the main menu.
Using mechs when you don't understand the combat system is asking for brutality. They are glass cannons.
>What did you do during that 50 hours?
Pretty sure that was in like 2018 or 2019 so like I said, foggy. I remember having a lot of money and some territory and a big fleet but never tinkering much with the ship designs myself and just using basic refits for everything, and remember burning out because it was kind of trivial at that point.
>or at the very least doing some of the missions on the main menu.
I glanced at those but I'll be honest I'm extremely shit at manual piloting so I didn't feel like they'd be very fun since that looks like what they're there to test.
I'm awful at the combat but you're going to have to learn somehow just how awful you are yourself and midway in a modded run when you don't even understand how to fit ships is just asking for straight up pain.
Yeah I could maybe restart but if I play 100 hours on vanilla I'm going to burn the frick out before having the passion for a modded playthrough and then I'll be back here in the exact same boat in 2026. It's not like I'm not savescumming the shit out of everything as is, I haven't technically lost a battle in about 5 hours on this character if you don't count the one G-Hazard that manages to explode every single engagement.
As far as I can tell it's not like there's any form of formal tutorial for fleet shit anyway so I'd just be doing the same thing I'm already doing and stumbling blindly through it.
Why are you even using Gunhazards anyways? They're complete trash, you'd be better off with literally any other Cataphract.
I started with them because it seemed like the most basic "normal" option. How would I know whether they're good without ever using them?
They're genuinely useless. The only scenario where they don't get pulverized immediately is when they go 1v1 against a ship that completely lacks any sort of PD. Just sell them and get a Leynos or an additional VX Custom instead.
What would you recommend then?
Like i said, a single Leynos or VX Custom would be infinitely more useful than a dozen of Gunhazards.
You could also use a Brawler or a Wolf if you you're okay with normal ships, they can definitely pull their weight during the early game if you don't frick up their loadout.
You're burning out because you don't actually do combat. Combat is what keeps people playing this game for hundreds of hours and what makes most people want most mods in the first place. Go learn it.
>have a bunch of mods installed
>don't know how to do combat yet
Literally why? Honestly man, turn off the faction mods, play vanilla/nex, pick an exploration start with an Apogee, and go explore and fight derelicts. Then learn to fight real ships. THEN mod when you're actually familiar with combat. You'll thank me later.
Honestly nex shouldn't even be in a first run. You'll think shit like ground combat is vanilla. A lot of people assume features of Nex are vanilla and get surprised when they find out otherwise.
>go explore and fight derelicts
Or you know do the Missions. The first 3 is actually excellent as an extended combat tutorial.
Also if any beginners want to have a easier time in learning the "momentum" of your ships and the general tempo, try changing the config to the pic. I did than and it helped a lot, and there wasn't any muscle memory associated in changing it back once I got used to the general nicks of it.
Wouldn't it be easier to just enable strafe lock in the settings?
I tried strafe locking, but it felt weird to keep on pressing shift to unlock it. The default pressing shift down and release felt more natural/faster to me.
Also I felt at the time it was more important to learn the basics, rather than breaking into the enemy line and try to go around their shields. The default is better when doing something like an afflictor assassin run.
>keep on pressing shift to unlock it
You can literally set it into a toggle so you don't need to keep shift pressed anymore
>install some mecha garbage before even knowing how to play the game
what the frick were you thinking?
>mecha garbage
frick off noah no one wants to use your mods
Big robots are cool.
I'll keep an eye out for those. I scavenged some Hounds and dropped the Gunhazards and they seem to be doing well, plus I'm going to spec into that one perk that gives D-Mods a chance to fall off every month.
Will attempt this.
Maybe, but I played a shitton of Bannerlord doing nothing but painting the map while doing the same "F2 and run in a circle with horse archers" strat. Same with Total War, every time I play a faction that isn't about setting up a massive gun line and AFKing it's a miserable experience.
Also the Command Point system feels insanely limiting in practice, if I'm only controlling one ship at a time and can't do anything beyond "hey everyone kill this guy" every few minutes then it seems like focusing so much on piloting that one shit is dubiously useful.
The difference is that Starsector isn't M&B or Total War. Flying a ship and shooting other ships is just really fun in this game. It also makes it more interesting when you find a new ship or new weapons, as it's not just a slight increase to your fleet strength but a new toy to play with.
>Big robots are cool.
Honestly though Arma's biggest appeal aren't the big robots (Mobile Armors) to me, but the little cataphract and striker fleets. The Armors feel more like your default ships, while the small ones actually expand the gameplay. They need to nerf curvy laser though.
The Wingcom stuff is what does it for me. I've used it with just broadswords and whatnot and had a lot of fun. I prefer recruiting my own crew to be officers rather than hiring them. You can change their callsigns and portraits too so it makes it easily customizable.
>They need to nerf
No, adjust it yourself. Diable died the nerf death, Arma doesn't need to.
Was the trick really just to fly in close and let the kinetic point defense guns autofire? Frick.
Yeah I have no idea how those are supposed to work or how fighters work in general (pretty sure they're autopiloted like weapons launched from carriers?) but they sound really fun.
Fighters from carriers work off a regroup/engage command. When you target an enemy then engage they will beeline for it.
>This works outstandingly well with cheap as frick Valk Ps from Arma (5 cost) with their swords and even better with Valk EX's (11 cost) They also work great as PD in regroup mode.
Recall fighters ability on carriers is a great way to also have more flexible control especially with glass cannon mechs. Alestes cost a lot to field (21 each iirc) so its nice to use those + recall.
So is it a viable tactic to turn any battlefield into a hornet's nest of Valks?
Fighter spam is a bread and butter move that keeps getting nerfed in vanilla so modded far superior mechs makes it pretty viable.
Yes but your computer will hate you for it regardless of hardware. The game just can' handle it and breaks down. An early game tactic I use is smol 1-2 slot carriers with valk Ps until I can start fielding Valk EXs (the ship form) with their own strikecraft. 20 mechs with swords = death
So where does your personal piloting skill factor in?
Is this supposed to upset me or something? You crying about how people play in a single player game?
Me personally I use small glass cannon shit like the Valk P and sword stuff to death myself. Not that you actually wanted a response, you're just projecting on the thread.
>also I'm fricking awful at the game and would never claim otherwise 😀
I am actually confused by his response.
If you're not solo'ing entire 240dp fleets with a brawler (P) you're a homosexual.
Okay, but what does that have to do with answering a question about fighter spam being a viable tactic?
Nothing. Hence my response.
Don't mind the autism. Unfortunately carriers are very boring to pilot, there isn't really any room for you to do anything. Sometimes the AI puts the carriers way too far in the back so I guess you can do that better. But it really is just pressing R on an enemy ship and then pressing Y.
If you want a ship that is difficult to pilot, get a super close range ship with Safety Overrides. Or maybe a fragile long range support ship like an Atlas MK2, but it can be frustrating if the AI does a bad job at covering you.
>Doesn't know how to build carriers
>Says they are boring
kek
It's more fun to fire a torpedo rack than to command a bomber to do it for you, same with firing a weapon instead of having a fighter do it. Carriers are just not very interesting which is probably why His Lord Majesty Alex The Great nerfed them.
>It's more fun to fire a torpedo rack than to command a bomber to do it for you
Correct, but if I have 15 bombers with 15 torpedo racks and I get the fun of telling them all to fire them, that's more fun than firing one myself.
>instantly fires 20 reaper torpedos at you
Nothin personnel, kid
Target an enemy by hovering your mouse over them then press R
then press Y and see if your HUD displays ENGAGE on your fighter squadron UI
>Was the trick really just to fly in close and let the kinetic point defense guns autofire? Frick.
Always. Machineguns are much better for punishing shields than they are for point defense.
Why do Watchdogs have only one arm cannon now? what happened to the other arm and the nipple cannons?
Old bug from old version.
Pre the update that just came out even*
Shut the frick up Nia
We don't misgender people like that here, anon. Its Noah.
>go on long awaited cruise to paradise world
>end up getting pressed into manning the guns to do battle with another cruise line
Persean sector vacations are crazy
should've seen it coming when they saw that they were berthed on a hotdroppable combat transport tbh
>tourism fleets above favonius
>it's a fricking free for all death brawl
Why?
are the forums down? wanted to see some mod changelogs and that shit isn't loading.
I guess it's gonna be like that for months.
fantastic.
Now they will finally have to place Starsector on steam so players can use the steam forums since paying to maintain one requires too many dev resources
I'm sure people who pre-ordered already gonna get steam keys for free right ?
lol
Prease Understand
But I don't want to understand
Modtroony reaction?
>mod mafia nukes the website so yuo have to join discord for mods now
its over.
It's over
I'm new to starsector and I've been trying to beat the menu missions before getting into serious >10 campaign playthroughs since I want to focus on combat, but 80% of the battles there feel BS?
For example, "For The Greater Ludd" gives you a Hammerhead, but also a bunch of Carriers that do nothing since the main enemy flagship is covered by support frigates specialized in killing fighter wings. I can manage to solo kill the enemy flagship if I go SO and reserve my two missiles to hit his back, but then the remaining frigates manage to kill my other ships and outpace me, finally kiting my armor-deprived hammerhead to death. Piranha bombers seem only useful for taking some armor off their flagship, but other than that they are just floating hitboxes against faster frigates. Carrier fleets now seem frustrating to play with.
Besides the first two missions, I only managed to beat Forlorn Hope and Ambush so far (both on first try too), which kinda leads me to believe the specified difficulties on the missions are a complete lie. Thoughts?
Carriers were fricking massacred awhile ago, so it's not surprising you can't beat it.
Yeah from my newbie perspective, honestly the way carriers are designed feels counterintuitive from a mechanical standpoint. Their fighter wings are meant to attack then fly away/respawn and resupply. It's seems like they were originally intended for a "chip damage", "outsustain" playstyle, but wouldn't dragging the fight for too long decrease your own ships' battle readiness and worsen the fighter wings too?
If in that mission I had two wolves instead of three carriers, the amount of concentrated firewer would be easily enough to match the enemy's, all the while having a lower resource usage and DP.
try to fit one or two claw wings/thunders in the fleet, the emp can easily cripple frigate PD for the other fighters to come in, or invert how you play that mission, use the SO hammerhead to catch the frigates
Well I'm gonna try the EMP strategy, I didn't get to use this mechanic yet. If I try to catch the frigates first though, the AI usually does hit-and-run maneuvers that despite my Hammerhead winning, it leads me away astray the battle and the enemy flagship manages to do a breakthrough to capture the objetives, worsening the carriers' performance even more
>It's seems like they were originally intended for a "chip damage", "outsustain" playstyle
There's a variety of different fighter types. Torpedo bombers are probably the best off atm since they can just fire free, infinite (but slower to come out over time) high damage missiles from standoff range before returning to rearm, with EMP-spam fighters (as good EMP weapons are generally opportunistic, low-range weapons - fitting for fighters) close behind. Both of which are actually best used as safe, disposable, "burst" weapons. Using fighters to wear enemies down and maintain shield pressure is what the developers murdered, and it leaves things like Perdition bombers in a really awkward spot where they are literally only useful against shieldless, PD-less cruisers/capitals.
>but wouldn't dragging the fight for too long decrease your own ships' battle readiness and worsen the fighter wings too?
Yes. Carriers respawn fighters slower the longer they sustain casualties. They can only recover the respawn rate by sitting on standby for awhile, which forces all fighters to orbit the carrier and defend it with PD weapons.
A lot of the missions are outdated, some can be labeled as "Easy" and be very hard or the other way around becouse some ships/weapons were either nerfed or boosted from earlier versions, for example, carriers used to be a lot more OP than now (or so i've been told)
>Forlorn Hope
>first try
How the frick?
he probably looked up a youtube video for a good fitting and kill order
You can play campaign without mission. You can pick the fight on campaign level.
I actually did it with base loadout since I assume tutorials must also be outdated due to balance changes. The trick is to sacrifice your armor to facetank and destroy the Onslaught early on, after that every other ship gets almost insta-destroyed by your autofire as you keep backing away to space their fleet.
Missions don't use the same things as the campaign and the tutorial is only relevant to the controls.
You know you can refit your loadout to whatever the hell you want right?
You're never supposed to go with default shit
Hey guys I'm the anon from thank you for all the tips back then. After beating other missions I jumped into the campaign but I was caught up doing scan and spy quests so my fleet turned out to be considerably lighter with two Phase frigates plus Wolf and Shrike.
In my second battle I was pursued by a pirate 8-fleet with a couple of lvl5 commanders and lotsa Underworld ships. Needless to say, it was hard to win (out of ~27 tries I got about 4 flawed victories and one lossless picrel), but I believe most of the difficulty came down to managing the Shrike, which felt like one less ship for 2/3 of the battle.
When the battle starts I pick Afflictor because then I can overwhelm one pirate "Predator" Wolf early, by far the most dangerous entity in this battle. My other two frigates focus on the second Wolf and I hope they win as I go deeper into the battlefield to draw aggro from the Mule flagship and escort. The main problem is the AI on the Shrike, while unassigned it stood out of battle the entire time as if being piloted by a cautious officer. I have very few command points early game, so I can rarely assign individual pick out orders, but otherwise thee Shrike AI just refuses to engage by itself. I had to spend one command point to get it to eat the damage from a Gremlim drifting by and another one to make sure it went to tank the flagship. Is it a problem with the loadout even though everyone uses similar weapons? Or is the AI just shit with this ship?
Also my all-energy ships couldn't defeat the Mule even though we all ganged up on it lol so I had to "claim victory" and let it escape to beat it in auto battle
Alpha AoTD Vaults Of Knowledge 2.0n has been out for some days on the Discord. The changelog says it reworked pre-collapse facilities and there is a new hud, but are these really relevant changes? Didn't get to play get but seems just like another a qol patch unless I'm missing something
programming socks
That mod really needs to integrate the colony item system into its added buildings. As it is, it's a side grade from vanilla colonies and honestly not a very good one.
RapedSector when?
Be the change you want to see, you AGP-addled Black personhomosexual.
I don't have the time to pull off something like that, I would definitely pay for someone to do it though
speaking of paying people to do things
i should pay a hitman to get you to stop shitting up the thread
You should pay for a noose.
After blue archive mod
Learn to mod and get some ai writing.
Noah I will not.
is this flying fist worth rescuing
One of the fastest cruisers you will get.
triple-blaster SO aurora is a beast
Yes in vanilla its one of the top tier cruiser (mostly due to it's slots and ability), better than it's moronic sister Fury.
Post your mod lists or mod recommendations
bros i want a big missile capital ship because most of my ships are beams
which is best missile spammer
and which faction usually sells it
The Peegasus.
reaper torpedos taste like cinnamon
Its obviously spicy red pepper
Holy shit the Doom is so unfathomably fun
>phase shits
Yes, yes it is... that's why Alex had to nerf it...
Hey google how the frick do I make money early game
SELL
WEAPONS
TO
TERRORISTS
holy frick why do you guys make this shit hard?
Sorry I forgot how realistic this game was.
kek I'm being a bit of an ass here but seriously on a fresh game even in pure vanilla its not too hard to salvage some dead fleets, buy a hauler, and run guns.
Wait do you mean like actual ship weapons or some kind of commodity?
An actual commodity, the terrorists pay good for them every time. All the time. Actual ship weapons aren't really worth the price per weight I find. Some other commodities used to be good but Alex nerfed them, especially food because people profiting off the prologue is apparently wrong.
The actual market item heavy armaments. Pathers always want them especially on new games.
Why not both? Thats what you keep missing.
I'm saying you don't have to black market trade when you run guns. Its easy money and no fleet risk when you only have a hauler. Though its easy to get some shielded cargo.
also doesn't require you to turn your transponder off at all. you can make easy money without having to black market.
>also doesn't require you to turn your transponder off at all
I will use this opportunity to shill Starpocalypse, which removes that "mechanic" for stations that aren't owned by pirates, pathers or the independents.
>make 200k off of selling guns to terrorist (thanks anon)
>immediately see this
Give me one reason not to burn all my cash immediately.
That looks like some jank bullshit. I love it. Do it and sell more guns.
Also this is why I was so flippant about it above. Selling weapons to terrorists helps everyone.
>shitty flux stats, atrocious shield, no armor
>80 fricking ordnance points
Realistically, what do you even do with this ship? I can think of like 5 different ways to build it and all of them are terrible
3 valk ps at 15, wingcom suite, a big gun
That's a good question, let's find out.
I unfortunately don't have any of this
on me.
bombers + an interceptor, flux missiles on the ship?
How about some Wanzers? I'm still pretty early game (literally level 1) so I don't really have any skills to let me maybe cram more shit in. Not sure how effective that mortar is when I was thinking of using it mostly as a carrier, but it probably won't hurt.
Can you put a gantry on that? Might work out ok. Run some sims against a couple of small ships.
No gantry option that I can see.
I tried the mortar and it doesn't seem great, plus if I let the AI engage it seems very averse to closing distances at all, which makes sense considering the thing is a carrier that flies like a brick.
Dropped it to put some more PD and a couple of basic missile batteries on. I might actually go so far as to drop the interceptor wing for another wanzer, because the two Avalanches I have party extremely hard.
Yeah but I don't know what a Colossus Mk III is or where to find one. :^)
you get a ton of them fighting regular pirates
Lunchbox is a kitbashed Collosus Mk III. You will only find them reliably through salvage either by destroyed pirate fleets or RNG.
The distance issue is because you gave it a gun with long enough range. The default Ai is steady so get used to that behavior. You need aggressive officers if you want anything more then that.
Is that right? I've had a bunch of carriers with either purely medium range or purely long range loadouts and the AI didn't really like getting either one into actual shooting range.
That is because the steady behavior is to edge around the enemy's own attack range vs their own unless you already have a decisive advantage like superior numbers. They will almost never use anything that is too out of sync with the longest ranged gun they have btw. Aggressive behavior is to go right in and be a lot less mindful of enemy attack range.
If I remember right Diable might have changed it so that only certain ships have gantries instead of you adding it like you would a wingcom suite now that I think about it.
give it a large missile launcher because it is not going to want to be within its optimal range if it’s equipped with a gun
using missiles would let it be more useful from a distance where it’s not in immediate danger
I think you should drop some of the pd weapons (probably all except the front 2) and get a dedicated targeting core, otherwise your big gun won't really be able to shoot anything. And it looks a little heavy on HE damage, unless those fighters only do kinetic
Personally I think you wasted your money if this is what you are going to do with it. You could just use a regular Collosus Mk. III and give it a bunch of small guns to shoot the hell out of frigates while it spams fighters all over the place.
Never used colossus mk3? This is ~1.5 colossus at 2 twice the DP, without the ground attack buff, civhull and with AAF as system and different mount
-blocks your path-
no-ah because I 360 and walk away
>blocks
>Implying he's capable of stopping me....
Looks like meat's back on the menu boys!
frick you want? i'm going to the cafeteria. move or favonius becomes a desert world
>when all of your officers are aggressive psychos in mechs with swords being injected with drugs every combat engagement to be even more aggressive and dangerous
Feels good man.
is that drug module available for other mechs now?
I.. think its a blueprint now? I just like using hoodrat shit with my friends.
Has been that way since half a year or something, the hullmod is just rare.
You can get it from New Meshan's administrator after you do a HVB if you're playing on the newest version though.
Average gundam pilot
If it won't let AI to solo capital, then it's shit
How do you deal with the inevitably increasing size and overhead of a decent fleet? Do you cut yours down to a lower number of "elite" ships, or do you just pray it doesn't slow you down too much?
Cut it down &swap for the specific mission (at abandoned station or your colony), then curse Alex for not putting in multiple hangars in vanilla so you can switch your fleet easily.
why the there's so little content mods
no i don't want generic kitbash #19038519 or anime OP bullshit #23215 I want a fricking questline.
Like shit, jangala, kazeron and chicomoztoc alone could have half a dozen quests each. This game lends itself to making storylets but nobody seems to care for them, instead writing 5000 words long ship description.
PAGSM, Persean Chronicle, Sephira Conclave, troony_SECTOR
The backend for making new ships is incredibly easy, you can do it with notepad and excel.
The backend for dialog chains and scripting varies between 'lol hope you know how to compile your own jars looser' at best to 'an unholy burning frick-frick monument of incompetent autism that fails at everything it sets out to be' at worst.
Thus, despite amounting to some basic scripting and unengaging text-boxes, modding in quests is vastly more difficult than making ships, weapons, or even entire factions, despite those on paper having way more stuff that goes into them.
Thus, modders follow the path of least resistance and avoid rules.csv like the plauge.
uugh.
Any good faction mods to play with Nexerelin?
First time playing with Nexerelin installed, went for a pirate playthrough but I noticed there are almost no pirate fleets anymore? Only their core worlds are guarded, while stations are always devoid of any minor fleet. I wonder if it's a bug
From what I've been told, the way Starsector is coded makes things like Rules.csv an absolute nightmare. It's only just recently that mods are starting to put some semblance of a campaign into their factions and chances are they're sharing the method with each other to make the process easier.
How's Bultach Coalition? I wanna see the space station with the giant gun work.
used to be good then the modder went full moron
what did he do
made everything completely overpowered
it used to be a fun low tech dakka faction with some balance atleast
makes sense, i had it briefly installed but they raped tritach instantly so i uninstalled it
>Cool mod
>modder is absolutely obsessed with trying to win the mod arms race
>buffs mod to the point of unusability to ensure their cool donutsteel faction always wins in a janky, modded 4x mode in a single player game
Many such cases, it seems like every faction mod either does this or cucks out to tournament balance eventually.
Got out of the closet and loudly confirmed that he's a furgay
He listened to the discord.
It originally started as a mod for the the Orks from 40K, was doing quite well, people liked it and, most importantly, it was fun. It was gaining traction.
Then they started scaring him that GW were going to issue a takedown, They convinced him that removing the references wouldn't be enough and he would have to change all his sprites, and of course, they would 'help out' 'for free' if he came to the discord. So being plucky and naive he went to the discord and went along with their plan
First they changed his spirtes - and he didn't speak out
Then they added their scripts - and he didn't speak out
Then they changed his lore - and he didn't speak out
Then they rebalanced his mod and he realized he no linger had control
So he tried to bid the discord adieu, and saw the nature of the beast. They 'reminded' him that their sprites, scripts and lore were their own protected works and he couldn't use them without their permission, if he left the discord and continued development without them they would get his mod taken down and (potentially) sue him. So now, our Bultach bro is stuck in discord hell working damage control on his labor of love under the watchful eyes of the discord of heathens who have assumed control and don't want his mod straying from the vision they set out.
Rules of Acquisition - 218:
Sometimes what you get for free costs entirely too much.
Should've left anyways and dared them to do anything.
what a cuck
>They 'reminded' him that their sprites, scripts and lore were their own protected works and he couldn't use them without their permission, if he left the discord and continued development without them they would get his mod taken down and (potentially) sue him
Literally not even a real thing.
He's literally outed himself as a furgay
Is there a way to determine the locations of where to buy specific ships? Arma stuff in particular, since they don't have their own faction outside of the Independents.
Stellar Networks is good for that. Somewhat Vanilla friendly too, although makes smuggling bit easier.
>https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=20836.0
I think you can disable the Stellar Network functionality for black markets in LunaLib if you wanna make things a bit more 'balanced'.
Thanks
>'balanced'
why yes i find flying between different markets trying to find the correct rng roll engaging gameplay
which of these should i get, should i even bother nanoforging a capitalship
should i just settle on an okay system
i'd rather just sit back instead of fricking around hegemony military markets to buy an onslaught or a legion, same goes for TT or PL
from my experience everything in the screenshot is good except the prometheus and retribution ( i haven't played with the retribution) and the prometheus is just an actual meme. rember... if unsure, grab onslaught. cannot go wrong with big dakka. or legion if carrier. fat brick absorb big boolet. pair fat brick with long range weapon and bric is immorta.
paragon frags hard
retribution is a massive piece of shit. build two.
>retribution is a massive piece of shit
>It's blueprint is quite rare
>It's derelict is also quite rare (Legion XIV is more frequently found in most maps)
>It's a capital that can't kill other capitals
>It cannot SO or extend it's weapon range via Dedicated Targeting Mods
>It has a shitty flux vent base, low armor, and hull... Yet its ability is designed to go CQC and NPC will use it as a CQC ship.
Although this build (no story points) can consistently kill 2 Dominators (50DP vs 35DP), and it's relatively cheap (should you use it? NO.)
Ironically, you post a heavily armored ship just as I'm finishing my new gun. Pottery.
>AP Machine Gun
If not for the Assault Chaingun's DPS of 500 (1000 to armor), this shit would be fricking broken. There's very little point for the heavy needlers and auto cannons that already had a existential crisis in vanilla.
>If not for ... this shit would be fricking broken
So you're saying it's not broken...
Bumped the flux eff to 0.5 (24per shot) and I'll do a little more testing. If you want it tweaked let me know how and we'll see how it goes.
62.5 unadjusted armor damage per second is very, very good. bump to 1.0 eff if not worse
you'll have to do the math on this one, break out the spreadsheet
The game needs more inefficient high DPS close range weapon.
giving it only 10k base hull is just homierdly, even a conquest has more
like, sure, it's a battlecruiser, no armor, but at least let it hulltank a bit
isnt that supposed to be lowtechs thing, having better armour and hull
really there's gutter tech and hegtech. alex should lean into it and have the heg stuff armor tank and the church stuff hulltank
Worse, the Conquest-tier shield makes it fricking useless in AI hands because it will scurry away like a rat and refuse to engage.
Perhaps it should be indicative of even before making bomb-launched ships became a fad, a bunch of modders rushed at the chance to make "Retribution but good".
The one from DEX remains my favorite of that, because despite the moronic name that machine was made for dual forward hammer barrages and then dying in the backblast because it has no shield. Perhaps machines aren't all Servants of Moloch after all.
>should i just settle on an okay system
a 150 haz barren with no resources is an ideal colonization candidate. just make sure there's a gate in the system
>just make sure there's a gate in the system
Why?
NtA, but there's a quest that can reactivate them for you to use in the vanilla game. Not a must, but useful investment later.
>barren with no resource
>ideal
tell me your secrets
>Found a derelict Altagrave
>Try to refit it
>Can't beat a cruiser in simulation
>Exit the game after 2 hours trying
>install special hullmod upgrades busted edition next day
>launch starsector
>new game
>sleeper start
>escape TT
>find op upgrades
>destroy capitals with AC levels of speed and firepower mech
>enjoy life.
literally this is my post and it's one of the most fun "flagships" i had in the entirety of playing this game.
>put a destroyer up against a cruiser
>a destroyer that's mainly supposed to escort bigger ships
>"wtf why doesn't it win"
Why isn't there a cat faction mod?
Is there any reason to not just buy up as many of the advanced/hightech/specialized weapons as possible so I won't get fricked over by the retrofit presets? Gensoukyou in particular seems to only have its shit available reliably on its own worrlds.
can anybody recommend any niche mods people don't really talk about? i'm really missing more of those
examples are: forge production; scavenger trading; nomadic survival; really converted hangars; neutrino detector mk2
just mods that add little cool stuff
survey corps ship pack maybe, its 0.95 but changing version number works
Substance abuse? Adds consumable liquor to add some "minor" bonus and penalties.
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=24378.0
lol. lmao even. amazing.
What mod is this?
sephira conclave which adds yet another two bazillion danger sigma male planet
oh yeah i should install this one
looks cool, will install. love me some good apogee.
worst of all this planet has been in my save for a decade and hasn't decivilized yet
What file do I need to edit to make flux adjusting speed a little bit faster?
hold down shift
the primary driver of power creep is alex
if you had a cruiser that was in line with the falcon and dominator three updates ago it's unsable thrash now
*unusable
that is some beautiful art right there. where to find more?
if you don't have the vision to know what you want to do and the spine to tell others that you're doing it your way, then that's how it goes
>he uses gaytes
>i love spending 10 minutes to get from one side of the sector to another
>i love spending thousands of fuel because i have 3 capital ships
>i am a moron
are you fricking moronic
no wait, he is! that is literally written in the greentext. incredible.
>I suck a lot of dick
>I love sucking dick all the time
>I suck a LOT of dick
are you a dicksucker?
no wait, he is! that is literally written in the greentext. incredible.
let me go a step lower lmao
>I suck a lot of dick
>I love sucking dick all the time
>I suck a LOT of dick
are you a dicksucker?
no wait, he is! that is literally written in the greentext. incredible.
Noah u
No(ah)t the uno reverse card! 🙁
I really wish that gate travel wasn't so boring and clunky and shitty. Alex clearly acknowledges that they are boring and doesn't like them either, as can be seen by the fact that gate travel isn't incorporated in the pathing.
Hopefully the new hyperspace travel system will be fun at least. The update is going to come out any day now, right? Right?
oh yeah update is coming soon don't worry anon don't look at the length of time between previous updates
Actually this will be 0.96.1, so it shouldn't take that long. Surely... Maybe...
gates should have the option of jumping to a random unactivated gate, with the catch that it's then shut down for a month
hello to all my fellow Armabros or just Mechbros in general, i updated my audio plus but mechs with new tracks and some volume changing here and there.
short example of new shit includes:
- Added Shining Call Me Again USUDA campaign overworld non-core level only
- Added Break point MIDI campaign overworld level
- Added Brandnew AC Runs About to combat level
- Added ArtificialSkyII Orchestral USUDA to hyperspace level
i've added a dozen more tracks and compressed them for epic 3mb vram gains.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/153KlwzjaRFBiT7X-cHeo5-VJq5YNSuJY?usp=sharing
>but i don't like your mod. you're a homosexual. have a nice day! nobody cares. seriously. never publish this because i won't install it. even if i have arma. could you please explode your balls?
open the pic.
not gonna download it because i already have a list of armored core music i listen to while playing but cool, good work
this is the one based answer i will wholeheartedly accept
Speaking of, who's the artist for the new tracks? sounds like Hagane
this guy
https://www.youtube.com/@user-sq8qx6mr2w
look at the description of his videos, there's a google disk link with a shitload of his remixes and whatnot
Hell yeah motherfricker
Does this work alongside AudioPlus or replace it?
you should replace it. don't enable the default one or your pc might just implode
throwing in and replacing files also works but if you have custom tracks maybe they'll be wiped from sounds.json
yeah i'm pretty sure you can. i don't think the creator did any code change whatsoever so just change version number
i didn't know if people would complain about misc tracks but it seems we win these
pic is related to me adding new tracks. i probably wont for a good while. if anyone can recommend any hyperspace tracks please do
>yeah i'm pretty sure you can. i don't think the creator did any code change whatsoever so just change version number
I just tried it, didn't worked
Oh well, i'll try it when i finally update my shit
Can i use this on 0.95.1a? How?
>But why?
Becouse i hate having to update all my mods, i usually update right before a new version so i can have everything i want up to date instead of waiting
>run into a massive Pather fleet
>Tanc a Lelek starts playing as soon as I deploy
Oh hell yes
Oh frick yes
i had a look at what songs you had in it anyway and its got some cool shit, especially these usuda AC vocaloid tracks i've not heard before so thats certainly cool, good work lad
please download the newer version from
i fricked up badly by not deleting 2 weapon files and it crashed the game everytime an autolance or a phasebeam fired.
Does anyone have feature requests for Starpocalypse
put it in your ass
At what financial status do you usually start moving into colonies or more organized fleet actions as opposed to randomly doing whatever bounties pop up?
its less financial and more fleet to defend it for me.
I need at least 1 million spare + a decent equipped fleet and at least a few planets in a system that has a food world.
If you find a really good system you might as well just colonize it as soon as you can, it will generate profit almost instantly. There's basically no reason not to as long as you have the bare minimum required to colonize and maybe build a patrol HQ.
Otherwise I would rather spend my money on ships until I'm up to a comfortable fleet with a good flagship, maybe 1-2 capitals, ~5 cruisers and a bunch of destroyers and frigates. Once I'm at that point I'll go on exploration missions if a good opportunity presents itself
I scavenge during the bounty hunts and exploration missions for indurstry parts while also looking for habitable systems. When I have a few million credits and a good system picked out I move onto colony management. Then I realise I don't have nearly enough special parts or AI cores or blueprints to make non shitty fleets and I stop playing.
Being a rogue captain sailing the galaxy and going on adventures is the best part, having to babysit a moneyprinter is just boring.
Colonizing so late makes it a money sink that only produces money, which is kind of pointless.
Try building up heavy industry earlier, so you can actually use the ship production to improve your fleet. It also gives you an objective to work towards: stealing a pristine nanoforge and not dying in the process or aftermath.
Anyone having the game crash when managing squadrons with wingcom?
Tested with only Arma, on a Linux machine. Nope manages just fine.
is there a hegemony site that sells xiv legion often?
>xiv legion
I don't think you can get those on vanilla markets, you have to find and recover them, for modded games you might find them on Prism Port with Nexerin installed but im not sure
Iron Shell has them (i think) but they're a bit rare
exactly 4 spawn in the sector as derelicts. Good luck finding them anon
reading wiki it says i can find blueprints and derelicts in persian space
does it mean persean owned systems or exploration missions by persians
persean space refers to the entire sector, it's the persean sector, PL only took it's name.
Also there are no legion XIV, blueprints only regular legion, wiki may have been unclear on that.
Historian bar missions can spawn xiv legion bps
I always find one of them before the end of my first cycle, if not two. Get out there and do some exploration missions.
Happy new year was filthy animals
These ships are op but man are they fun
Is it possible to add additional weapon slots to a ship variant through editing it's .skin file?
no, just make a new .ship
>Is it possible to add additional weapon slots to a ship variant through editing it's .skin file?
Technically no, but there is a workaround:
You can add a weapon to the base hull by creating a ship file with just the mount. Make its type decorative so it's inactive.
Then you can activate it in your skin file by changing the type to something more useful.
which one should i settle first
theyre in the same system and right next to each other
>both have transplutonics
Shit worlds without nanite enriched food
Yet another newbie falls for the Earth realm good trap. If you just want passive income for food then you need to stop looking for these kinds of worlds.
install the cheat that removes industry blockers from transplutonics like a human being and settle the one on the left
If this is your final choice go for the one with the more resource variety as that will give you more credit even with the +50% hazard rating. You're not going to put high maintenance industry on a habitable world anyway. But as this
guy said, try to look for a better one without transplutonics if you can for your bread basket world.
Even vanilla has like these kind of world with in a gated system (PIC), so it always pays to look for more. Also don't let the Terran categories fool you; sometimes tundra and arid with solar arrays might be near perfect with low hazards.
both have rare ore
both are shit
SHIT
can anyone tell me what this means?
my game keeps crashing in combat.
Disable mods one by one to see which one causes it.
seems like the edited Audio Plus version an anon posted about earlier was causing the issue.
Disabled it and it works now, maybe it's incompatible with the Battle Music mod or something.
fug
is that really the case?
any chance you have lost sector installed? or did i really frick up somehow?
addition:
any anons that have installed my audio plus version please do report if you suddenly started like the guy above crashing out of the blue. i’m still certain lost sector does this shit, but. (open pic)
Don't have lost sector and still randomly crash during battles with anime music
ok, probably delete the mod for now, if i figure out what the frick is happening i'll post another link
quick update: i think i found the source. will test and see if laptop catches on fire. if i won't post a fixed version then it's so over mechbros
What the frick did you do that the game crashes while firing a beam weapon?
removed new weapon sounds, but there were custom weapon files that used these specifically for phasebeam and the autopulser
yeah i fixed it no worries
just give me about 20 mins to upload a fix, a little busy right now
No you do it right fricking now.
If you're serious, you can fix it yourself in 30 seconds by deleting (audio plus folder)/data/weapons, which tells the game to look for audio files that don't exist
I didn't ask what I can do, homosexual. Get to fricking work.
sup again all Arma/Mechbros. it's your moronic armored core tripad player creator. i fixed the audio plus version (sorry for publishing something that explodes but i unironically realized what's the issue only after some anon posted his log in this thread and i looked at it very hard for 3 minutes)
changes since V1.1
- Readded weapon sounds to keep the universe from ripping itself apart (and probably will keep them)
- Changed the mod_info to represent my autism a little more.
TL;DR here's the link for the good stuff. should be all fixed now.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1V_O2nxmNqlAbvYK3FTI2HXtuDbYgo1G2?usp=sharing
>but i don't want to install your mod! you fricking suck. and that crash shows just how much you suck wiener!
open the pic.
sorry! please dont pile bunk me for being autistic. i was killing a bounty ingame and generally testing the beams not exploding while mounted on your ship 🙁
that's another anon lmao
>incompatible with the Battle Music
Don't have that either
and still crashes
Cool freighter, shame it's destroying 1/6th of my fleet DP because it's not a civilian hull
smod heavy armor to the 2 prongs and as many other armor and hull hp/regen hullmods as you can
Does anyone know how to change the coordinates of a star system (and its jump points) in hyperspace?
I've been fricking with the campaign.xml file for the last few hours and the most I've been able to do is get the sun's jump point to the intended location... but then it slowly levitates through hyperspace back to its original spot.
If I could figure out how to change the coordinates of the place the system is anchored to, I could probably solve this but the save file references a bunch of IDs of which only one instance exists
>go to chicomoztoc to get another pristine nanoforge
>they don't have one
Where did it go?
It was me. I took it.
I needed that.
you know, i was eyeing Kazeron's nanoforge...
>looks at the parked Vulture in the hangar bay
see you later, suckers. this one's mine!
he's fast as frick boiiii
>Vulture
A what now?
A vulture you know, big bird, often preys on the dead...
There are no vultures in Starsector unless you someone managed to merge it with Starcraft
vlutur
How is there still no ship painter?
I think LunaLib just added a feature so modders can frick around with that. I saw the ability to swap paintjobs on a single ship from some mod already.
Alex added a way to have fighters match carrier paintjobs in the last update, didn't he?
This was "hit the remove module button in the ship designer to swap the ship's paintjob"
No I understand that I'm saying the game supports some sort of paint job system now in some form.
It was just multiple different colored sprites that switch out depending on what ship design type it was placed in
and it doesn't work with ship skins
(as in .skin variants)
>remember some anon crying about arma nerfs from the new update
>open arma changelog
>valkazard nerfed to shit
it's so joever...
did you maybe mean this one? very fresh
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=28545
jeez, I was nowhere near ready to move to the new version but thats sad to hear. The actual mech or the strikecraft?
ok they aren't too bad but i'm a little sad how they massacred my combat stims (i love my combat drugs)
- Valkazard now has innate +30% refit rate penalty
(can anyone explain what does this mean exactly?)
- Syko Stims
- consume 3 recreational drugs instead of 1
- Increased Time Dilation amount to 3x, but reduced duration to 0.7s
- Increased cooldown: 5s -> 20s
- fixed potential memory leak
also the aleste has unironically been destroyed as far as i can see
- Aleste
- Left arm is now locked to Laser Blade
- Right arm is now a modular hybrid turret
>consume 3 recreational drugs instead of 1
That is overkill. Aleste mech having a dedicated sword was always the intention, unless I'm mistaken. Refit rate is how long it takes to field a new one unless I'm remembering wrong.
> Refit rate is how long it takes to field a new one
oh yeah you're right. just realized myself but thanks mechbros.
>3 drugs are overkill
my brother in anime mecha do you NOT see the
>cooldown 5s -> 20s
that shit is nerfed into the ground. you actually can't play without a shield now
can i edit some csv file to make it not shit?
>(can anyone explain what does this mean exactly?)
They take 30% longer to leave the carrier after landing to rearm/repair. So literally nothing if you're using strikecraft-focused carriers. It might be annoying if you're using vanilla/small carriers, though.
>can anyone explain what does this mean exactly?
Landing and repairing on a carrier takes longer
> - Aleste
> - Right arm is now a modular hybrid turret
I was against this change as well at first, but after playing around with a couple of mechs with variable rifles (like the Valken III) i have to admit that it's not so bad. Having a bunch of modded weapons that you can mount on them really helps.
The VX also lost its free EX wing so its more like a less suicidal Aleste for the AI
>The VX also lost its free EX wing
dumb
if it crashes (which it didn't when i went killing TT and PL fleets that had those beams, even bought one myself and it worked) then i might as well jump out my window.
but i'd appreciate a log file instead (still it shouldn't crash at all now)
Starsector isn't witchcraft, it just crashed because the .wpn files in Audio Plus specify a sound effect which you presumably deleted in your version. Don't worry about it crashing again in the future as long as either all the files are there or you just remove the .wpn files which point to them.
starsector isn't witchcraft, but i may be stupid. that much should be deduced from me not deleting weapon files in the first place
Why all fighters/interceptors are so weak compared to bombers? They barely do any damage and still die as quickly as the bombers.
They used to be tougher/faster to come out, but then everyone realized that they were just free shield pressure and it became strong to just spam them. Alex slaughtered them for it, so now they're only good for PD/killing bombers and do fricking nothing to ships.
You can't deal fighter to the devastator
What are good officer skills?
Depends on the ship you're putting them in. Just generally?
Generally is good. This one in particular would be for an Aleste-class arma mech.
Speaking of that mech I sure would like to swap out that medium hardpoint but it's impossible to click.
combat endurance, mastery of whatever weapon type you're using them for mostly
I saw it thats why I'm saying its completely over the top, If it was 3 drugs for the old way it would be one thing, still too much. I'm sure there is a way to modify it though.
I like the one that gives range and the elite shield skill because the AI is moronic
Elite missile mastery is also very good for obvious reasons
so far the worst change would be
- Dance Party on New Meshan has ended (market music has been replaced with something a bit more chill)
how dare you
how dare you?
- added bbplus skin for aleste
ok how do i get this
IN-DEVELOPMENT PATCH NOTES for the next update, posted by Alex.
https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=28553.0
>https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=28553.0
finally! more slop!
*reads*
nah I'm good
>we are getting abyss already
Nice, seems alex getting his shit together.
AlexGODS we are so fricking back.
>Added crises for Persean League, Hegemony, Tri-Tachyon, Sindrian Diktat, Luddic Church
>With narrative resolutions/agreements/etc
>And with fleets you encounter in your system prior to any crisis
>(These are a large portion of the work/content in this release)
Curious what this actually entails, it sounds cool though.
According to my calculations, the patch will be out in either one or three months. Probably one, considering the time between 0.95 and 0.95.1 is almsot the same as the time between 0.96 and now.
>Curious what this actually entails
Kill a certain DP amount of ships or/and give money/green magic point
>Curious what this actually entails, it sounds cool though.
Alex already talked about it. They are combat/narrative-driven storylines about how the different factions react to your colonies
https://fractalsoftworks.com/2023/11/24/colony-crises/
Black person frick you Alex actually delivered this time and you will not discredit him. The slipstream abilities sound like they will finally make hyperspace travel interesting and the colony crises look like a massive upgrade over the current system, which frankly kind of sucks. And the rest of the changes is good too. Frick you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Frick off, Alex. No one likes the hyperspace layer.
That's exactly the point, hyperspace is boring and this update has a decent chance at making it fun. I like the idea of creating slipstreams to ride around the sector at 40 speed.
Sure, sure Alex.
The problem is that it becomes a useless annoying mechanic once you reactivated the gates. It's still kinda relevant if you're still exploring for more parts for your dream colony or a blueprint to produce. Also doesn't help that you don't really need a big combat capable fleet to finish the Galatia questline (just a SO'd Dram if you're rushing it).
It's dogshit and I'm done updating this game.
Oh cool, so that means the next update is just right around the corner!
>patch notes
>S-mods on ships are now counted for autoresolve
were they not?! what the frick man.
>Added a new hand-made star system in the Abyss
>Added rogue planets to the Abyss
>Added new type of sensor ghost
actually new content! no way!
>"Take all" button no longer takes over-capacity fuel
i take everything back. this is the best update ever.i take back everything i said. i love you alex
>Penelope's Star is now claimed by the Luddic Church, and Duzahk/Tia-Tax'et by the Hegemony
i take back everything i said. have a nice day.
>Increased amount of fuel available for purchase at colonies by 50%
i can't dedide anymore. can somebody kill him and revive him?
>Black market trade can now fill demand
why. was this. not. in the game? everything is based on lies.
>Derelict Mothership: now always drops one of: Pristine Nanoforge, Synchrotron, Catalytic Core
this is fricking insanity. i can't decide whether i want to kill this guy or not. half is amazing half is ass. why is he like this?
Mothership: now always drops one of: Pristine Nanoforge, Synchrotron, Catalytic Core
>this is fricking insanity
I like the change, it makes derelict motherships actually worth tracking down. Right now they are meh, I don't know what the drop tables are exactly but sometimes you get almost nothing of value.
yeah i love the mothership change too. i meant insanity as all the changes. half are, as i said, what the frick? the other is lovable.
overall i'd say alex truly took the W on this one
No clue if he'd be willing to listen, but since these patch notes are a WIP Alex might be open to changes before the new update drops.
The only thing he complained about (the system claiming) can be turned off in the settings.
>why. was this. not. in the game? everything is based on lies.
I was under the impression that it was designed that way on purpose since Black Market shit is dodging the customs checks and logistical processes that get things into the hands they need to be in. Personally I'd just separate black market and clear market demand entirely but that feels a bit bloaty.
Added Wendigo-class phase cruiser: Low Tech, Rugged Construction, Accelerated Ammo Feeder
NEW SHIP ALEEEERT! WAKE UP THE CAPTAIN!!!
The phase ship AI is still trash, so this ship is going to be worthless if not piloted by the player. I don't understand the point of that
I like it.
You don't count as a person, Noah.
Do not falsely accuse anons without Noahing anything about them.
No actual anon would like the hyperspace layer.
>Safety Overrides: can no longer be installed on ships with Flux Shunt (i.e. the Monitor)
AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Since when?
Since 0.96.1a (Release Date TBA).
Beg the guy making Better Vanilla Hullmods to revert that change then
Would you prefer it if it could still be installed but with additional drawbacks?
Yes. For example make a shield be hard stuck at 300 degrees or lower so that you are not fully invincible when pressured. No SO on Monitor makes it almost unusable.
SO was always absolute black hole of balancing, alex needs to just man up and restrict it to being built in into specific pather/pirate hull variants.
Or you know not removing Ill-advised modifications after restoring or erasing both SO and Ill-advised after restoring. It's kinda weird why you can one and not the other, because the whole fluff explanation of SO having high OP is doing it "relatively" safely compared to the Path's "frick it, ludd will sort it out" method.
Honestly that's not too bad because the monitor S.O. build was OP in vanilla. I mean the doritos are a breeze with it, and it wasn't that engaging of a gameplay anyway.
doritos aren't that engaging of gameplay.
t. clapped by the zig
>t. doesn't know whats being talked about
kek anyhow
They are easy to kill if you build towards killing them, its boring to do minmax shit though.
>the doritos are a breeze with it
And yet, I have never cheesed them with it.
Glad to have options taken away because of little spastics like you.
Just do it right now anon. It's Alex for god sakes, it'll take like 6 month at least for this update to hit anyway.
>3 OP salamanders
can't wait for emp spam
>Missile Specialization
>Added elite effect: +25% missile ammo regeneration rate
Nice antimatter srm and pilum buff
>Squall: reduced missile hitpoints to 150 (was: 300)
Alex you already removed the emp damage from them just leave the poor squalls alone
>Oh you like this?
Y-yes I like it
>*beats it with a hammer* You like this?
I-I do...?
>*hits it again*
Pls..
Probably the best change. Cant wait to spam mass sniper hammerheads and tachyon sunders.
Oh shit! The Sunder with 1400 Range Tachyon Lances are actually viable (even though they're still paper level armor).
that 20% reduced shield damage will make them tanky enough especially at long ranges
I love magic!
Thanks for ruining the game Alex, I didn't wanna play it anyways!
This is moronic
>uhhhhh let's make Destroyers viable against bigger ships with more stats and costs by giving them a stat stick to offset any drawbacks
It's Safety Override but Black personfied
I'm making my own update where carriers are buffed across the board and bigger ships are faster.
Worse, it actually applies to cruisers too, which could already dominate most combat encounters with just spamming the fricking things, now they get a magic leg up they don't need, and the pecking order is probably not even going to change.
>cosmic magic buffs within 1000 meters from the capital
Wow, to bad ai refuses to follow orders and never stays close to escorted ship in my games. Just add a hullmod that increases damage by 50% while staying within 4000 su from hostile ships already.
>nerf squall
for frick's sake
>40% more range bonus on my Tachyon Sunder
He can't keep getting away with it.
Speaking of updates. Does anyone feel that the old 0.91-ish skill tree to be better? I played it again, and it just feels more balanced at least starting out.
no too late I don't like change and I've adapted to this change so no more change
>Being forced to Spain points in unlocking levels for skills instead of automatically unlocking higher tiers the more traits you obtain.
No, the new method is superior. Wether you like the new skills is another matter entirely.
>Derelict Mothership: now always drops one of: Pristine Nanoforge, Synchrotron, Catalytic Core
Wtf I love Alex now?
is it a good missile boat
If it's not costing any story points... sure I guess? For pirates though the Falcon (P) is a lot better as a missile boat IMO.
Who wouldn't have thought that Alex became a modder of his own game.
>Missile Autoforge now has 2 uses, restores the base, unmodified amount of ammo
LMAO the fricking d-modded gryphon autists stomping remnants did it again
time to continue never using this ship
>Squall: reduced missile hitpoints to 150 (was: 300)
lmao i was right
Squalls have always had too much HP for what they are:
Reaper-Class Torpedo 500
Proximity Charge 500
Breach SRM 450
Hammer-Class Torpedo 350
Hurricane MIRV 350
Atropos-Class Torpedo 300
Sabot SRM 300
Squall 300
Salamander MRM 150
Harpoon MRM 150
Pilum LRM 150
Locust SRM 60
Swarmer SRM 50
Annihilator Rocket 50
>KE missile
Sounds sturdy
whats the secret of d-modded gryphons
the autists made a loadout with squalls that shit out so many missiles that the ai breaks and just hovers just out of range because its too dangerous to go in but also refuses to go back so they just get shot to shit without fighting back
essentially its not the ship that is strong its the ai being broken and obviously alex didnt fix the fricking ai so now a shitty ship became even worse thanks to autists ruining everything
who are these autist and where do i find their secret shenanigans
so i can steal their tech
There have been even more senseless disparaging buffs in regards to the skill tree, like Support Doctrine now also giving all ships Ordinance Expertise and other skills increasing even further theungabunga raw damage%. Alex is casuallizing the game by making half of the options a no-brainer and the other half some obsolete untouched shart. Maybe he will revert these changes if we the players simply don't play the updated moloch version
I will never update this game.
I wish I could refund it.
Nothing of value would be lost if Alex died and development of Starsector ceased.
Kek agreed. Btw what is your username on the starsector forum and/or discord?
Alex needs to swallow a cyanide pill.
Anyone know what mod adds the novadart and the sunspear?
Tahlan Shipworks
They are unobtainable through normal gameplay though
>Electronic Warfare:
>Most Remnant fleets no longer have it
oh come on, why wouldn't the robonogs not put huge emphasis on ewar
They have smoded ECM hullmods instead
ECM being more then a small boost percentage points causes major routing behavior for both sides.
and the killer robots don't want to take advantage of this because... ?
it's a flavor issue, AI ships would be the biggest believers in ECM no matter how good or bad it is in gameplay terms.
That is a silly sentiment. Major routing behavior of the game's AI purely because of a range difference when no shots are even fired as soon as the battle starts is the exact opposite thing you want for a game where you only manually control yourself and not your dudes.
please read the second line again until you comprehend it you moronic autist
I comprehend it, and i think it is silly and disagree with it fundamentally.
yet don't address it (please continue not doing so). beep boop you dumb fricking robot
Your Opinion: fluff > meta
My Opinion: meta > fluff
This isn't hard to understand.
autist incapable of understanding nuance, only black and white may exist. no aesthetic sense, no ability to understand the value of an aesthetic sense. akin to a color blind man who thinks not seeing a color means he's smart, since he doesn't go around caring about the color, which obviously does not matter as it doesn't exist.
i could explain to you why the versimilitude of the game world works in concert with the raw game mechanics to create an experience that is more than the sum of its parts, but it would be like trying to explain why an artists usage of red enhances his paintings to, again, a color-blind man. however, the simile has a big issue - it would be possible if the disabled man were an honest an inquisitive type, while the autistic are fundamentally incapable of understanding a different mind, this being the core morbidity of the disease.
hopefully this explanation was more useful for you than explaining why a game has fine graphics, a plot, story or setting, sound effects and music in the first place (most people understand these things intuitively).
>needed to get the last word in that badly
This Johnny shall be setting nice and cozy in your head rent free.
>omen
>(so it doesn't look grayscale)
i was wondering about that
>Locust SRM Launcher: reduced burst size to 30 (was: 40)
huge nerf. can't say it didn't deserve it
>Heavy Autocannon: reduced flux/shot to 90 (was: 100)
these kinetics buffs are getting ridiculous. you moved the baseline alex you dumbass
Honestly, though would you still use the heavy autocannon after this? IMO the only worth while shield popper for med. ballistics are hypervelocity (for range) or HMG (for ridiculous efficiency) because sabots and med. ballistic explosions are too good for most ship slots.
HACs are already the best kinetic for several ships and you seem to be posting from five years ago
>sabots and med. ballistic explosions are too good for most ship slots.
lol. lmao.
Is it? Because I always found them to be in a mediocre range/OP cost in the vanilla weapons roster, and had better luck with using missiles as force multipliers.
>Added to WeaponAPI:
>stopFiring()
about
fricking
time
>Light Dual Autocannon: increased flux/shot back to 40 (was: 30)
was the LDAC even better than the single version? maybe, kind of, if you had a hardpoint?
Instead of preaching to the choir be the change you wanna see and point out Alex's balancing insanity in the forums. Remember: these changes are still in their playtesting phase.
the problem is that the changes are, individually, correct as they have to correct for previous mistakes. ideally many weapon buffs should be reverted and the whole thing reoriented around some stable point, such as the 10 OP 1.0 efficiency 333 DPS pulse laser being a viable average weapon, axiomatically.
but ideal things are rarely practical, so ahead with go with the readjustment to 0.8 eff being typical.
I blame Nia for these changes
why is it a "missile battleship" when it only has 2 missile mounts
and it has high energy focus
hmmmm??
Because it's a skin instead of a separate ship, probably
You can change mounts and systems in. skin files... have you not seen my KoC? If not, I encourage you to have a play with it.
Yes that's what Alex did, that's why it has high energy focus and different mounts. But if you call the original ship a "missile battleship" or "light destroyer" etc a .skin won't let you call it something different AFAIK.
>But if you call the original ship a "missile battleship" or "light destroyer" etc a .skin won't let you call it something different AFAIK.
You can, why Alex chose not to is beyond me.
Because you change that in the VARIANT files not the SKIN or HULL files
You motherfrickers keep using fricking AUTOSHIT
That's not what we're talking about. It's this, in ship_data.csv for the base hull. Pegasus is a "Missile Destroyer" no matter what variant you pick and Executor inherits that designation.
But now I found what the other anon found, that you can change the designation in the skin file. From mudskipper2.skin
>"hullDesignation":"Frigate",
So now I don't know why Alex didn't change it for the exec either. This is what happens when you become a modder for your own game lol
Weird
It says Prototype Battleship on my end when I look at the skin
haven't started a new game yet since AoTD updated though so I'mma check that as soon as another update rolls out
andrada's clearly gone senile
It would be better if executor had only 2 large turret slots instead of 4 awkward hardpoint slots.
Because Putin designed it and Putin is an idiot.
Still one of my favorite vanilla ships going by aesthetics
still? dude it's still got that new ship smell
Do I blame the new ArmA bounty itself for how the battle isn't ending after I destroy all their combat ships or the new MagicLib bounty board feature?
It's the Cyclops bounty with the Zanac[EX] that's hanging up by the way.
console endcombat
Oh, right, I forgot I can do that.
you can also try 'nuke' and see if you get something in the killfeed
A giant mech that throws mechs at the enemy.
Closest you'll get.
Does that assault pod work now? I am not going to be touching the new arma update for awhile.
Yup
It shoots a pod that releases 4 tiny mechs, it's pretty neat weapon
Cool. I like stuff like that. The talon rails are fun for example. Need one that just shoots a neverending stream of Valk Ps. Still going to wait awhile since I'm in the middle of a campaign.
I blame alex for the crashing.
They're still a bit fragile and can be destroyed easily before they can unload the strikecraft, and have an annoying tendency to prevent the battle from ending, even with the enemy fleet destroyed, until their hull slowly drain to zero and they "retreat". This only happens some times, though.
You are supposed to play with vanilla ships and weapons to defeat modded ones, not use them.
A mech made of vanilla ships connected together. Not a kitbash. Whole ships.
I love the long range long cooldown massive damage guns on the UNSC ships but they are really ugly to look at. Any other long range faction mods ?
Kadur Remnant is not updated sadly, was my favourite even though they kinda suck balance wise
have you tried changing the version in the mod info
idk if it will work for kadur but give it a go huh
There's a bootleg'd version in corvus
imma bootleg you
bit rude
be the bigger man and glass him
you'd like it
need...Valk LPCs.....*coughs blood*
>mechgay in late stages of AIDS
checks out
go download your coomer mods, noah
mechbro down bad, new meshan mechdrop stat
>attack UNSC planet
>station isnt a giant MAC cannon throwing OHKO shells across entire battle map
Talk about blue balls...
>half-assed mod is half-assed
Surely using cropped top-down images of the ships rather than doing any actual sprite work should have tipped you off first.
Can someone smarter tell me how range increase bonuses factor in for Safety Override range reductions? Are officers with Elite Integrated Point Defenses and/or Cybernetic Implants for extra range going to be useful for piloting SO ships or is it a waste of skill slots?
The SO range modification is applied after the everything else, so any range bonuses are pretty useless.
SO reduces range beyond 450 to 25%, so any range increase is also only 25% as useful assuming your weapons have more than 450 range.
1000 range becomes 450 + (550 * 0.25) = 587.5
A 10% bonus increases the pre-SO range to 1100, but then becomes 450 + (650 * 0.25) = 612.5
Basically, it's not very good.
By the way, there's a mod which dynamically adjusts the range tooltips of weapons, Unthemed Weapons Collection: https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=27074.0
I don't know why the author combined that utility with a miscallaneous weapon mod, but if you don't care for the weapons you can just download the utility from the second download option.
Pic related is with SO, before and after installing a dedicated targeting unit. As expected the range is only increased by 1000*0.35*0.25 = 87.5 and not 1000*0.35 = 350.
Well thanks that explains a lot. I will be getting this mod for sure. I guess Unstable Injector is just better if I want speed + range without limiting the latter too much, especially on destroyers since SO loses the softcap past frigates
The hammerhead is not going to lose out by being an SO ship. The only problems I can foresee is if you don't have aggressive/reckless officers if it is a bot ship.
The Hammerhead is indeed made for SO as you say but I was planning to try out a Manticore officer loadout this time, and that ship is specifically valued for its extra range innate hullmod, so it's not something to sacrifice to such extents
Give me one reason not to change every frontal mount on the executor to energy.
no
The hardpoints are probably better left as ballistic.
manticore is ass, here's the ideal way to use it
>ship is not overpowered
>therefore never touching it
Alex's ideal Starsector player
it's not fun either, homosexual moron
Equip them all with missiles.
A mech that has a giant boombox that it uses as an energy weapon.
does it play milk from armored core all the time?
Alex release the update. Now.
>release the barebones QoL update
>delay/break all the mods with actual content by several months more until someone ports a working patch
It's not just QoL and it shouldn't break any mod compatibiliy and if anything it would be useful to release a beta version so mod developers can update their mods before the final release THOUGH
Off the top of my head the added pirate policy interactions and reworked insurrections are going to glitch mods like Nexerelin and IndEvo the hardest so at the very least don't count on porting saves; Alex also said the update will probably be renamed to .97 due to the relevant amount of changes
Does it really glitch Nex or IndEvo? Nex' interaction with hostile activity is already kind of fricked as sending a strike fleet to a pirate base doesn't lower hostile activity. And now hostile activity score won't be as relevant anymore, so the patch might actually improve the interaction with Nex.
I was curious so I looked at what happened on the 0.96a release, and most mods just kept working. Some broke because Alex did a little trolling and changed function signatures by adding parameters without providing a backwards compatible function with a default value for the new parameter. Yeah Java sucks. To be precise, Alex fricked showCustomDialog() so every mod with a custom UI just broke. He also renamed some other variables from what I can see.
Anyway, the point is that on this patch, none of that is happening as far as I can see. And even on 0.96a it took very little time for mods to get fixed, for example the stable release of Nex was done 9 days after the patch dropped. If something does break and the modder disappears I can just fix it myself, I will definitely not be waiting for months either way.
>glitch mods like Nexerelin and IndEvo
Good, i hope they will glitch out of existence.
if i want a beamcruiser to "hold the line", eagle or champion
champion my beloved
thanks dear
what about a long ranged ballistic cruiser
>long ranged ballistic cruiser
No such thing
just get SO ACG eradicator like everyone else has already
Eagle is the only thing that is recommended for long range ballistics because it has nothing better to do with its three hard points at the front but the Eagle is old and busted compared to the Champion new hotness. It is genuinely not worth your time unless you got RNG lucky.
Eagle (XIV) is actually pretty good though.
What makes it so good?
its just a regular eagle but with the xiv hullmod so it has more OP and armor than normal
Why is Alex obsessed with skills and nerfing everything?
You might have fun in a single player game.
He buffed Phase Lance and added a new Phase Cruiser
PhaseGODs stay winning
So where's the buckbreaker update?
its time
post starsector lewds
kwab
A carrier that carries a mech in its mechlike arms, cuddling it. If you anger the carrier, the mech wakes up and comes after you.
Guys i need help. Vanilla doesnt have enough story to keep me interested till the end and late game battles are atrocious with surreal amount of enemies you have to deal with 4-5 ships.
Is there any mods that help to deal with at least one those problems?
Rapesector
Do the fencing minigame
>late game 4-5 ships
You choose to fight with the slowest ship in a line