This game can make you feel really stupid

In any other game, I wouldn’t consider myself a newbie at 50 hours but in NMS I’m a kinda embarrassed newbie. I love exploring and keep getting milestones for how far I’ve walked but I was getting increasingly frustrated waiting for the game to give me an exocraft. It was really starting to piss me off! I don’t like spoilers so I didn’t google. I just kept playing and eventually changed settings to better handle being in firestorms and places where I was dying before I could get underground fast enough. Yesterday, I was doing A Trace of Metal. I got a message. Install the sentinel arm. I spent an hour rereading everything in my log and all the missions I had done. How the heck was I supposed to install this arm on something called a Minotaur when I didn’t have a Minotaur?

So, I looked in my build menu and wondered what happens if you build a Minotaur Geobay. The game says it’s a parking place for a Minotaur BUT I don’t have a Minotaur to park! Okay, so in the theory that if you build it they will come, I built it. Dang and blast it, it creates the Minotaur!

So, all this time I have wandered around on foot, being knocked around by extreme weather and I’ve had a Roamer Geobay just sitting there because I didn’t know this was how you get an exocraft. I feel really, really stupid.

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u/Hervee — 5 days ago

Canadian made citric acid

Hi all, I’m trying to find food grade citric acid that is made here and available online. Not via Amazon though, thanks. I’m in the Lower Mainland.

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u/Hervee — 12 days ago

Water Filters

I’m looking for reliable, tested Canadian water filters for hiking & camping. I’ve seen a few references to this but not much information or reviews. Has anyone used this brand or can recommend any Canadian brands?

https://www.pristine.ca/aboutus

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u/Hervee — 15 days ago

Interesting place to land

Newbie here that, rightly or wrongly, decided to build a base station at every place that looks useful. Warping into some of them leads to interesting parking for my ship. Apart from the fact that I can’t fly out and have to warp or go somewhere to summon my ship is there any downside with building loads of bases?

u/Hervee — 21 days ago
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We're One BGS, the Bethesda Games Studios union. Yesterday's layoffs were not a cut of "14 layers of management". We lost dozens of programmers, artists, designers and testers.

Sharing here on Reddit a statement we just posted to Bluesky:

>Yesterday’s layoffs at Bethesda Games Studios were not a cut of “14 layers of management”. We lost dozens of programmers, artists, designers and testers. Many of whom worked at BGS for decades.

>If Bethesda fans are worried this will harm the quality of our future games, like TES VI, let Microsoft know! One way you can do it is here through the XBOX Player Voice feedback platform: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/69b8ec0b-7479-f111-9b47-6045bdbd0989

Thank you again, fans, for your continued support. 💙💛

u/Hervee — 1 month ago

How many people have played more than 3,000 hours?

If you’ve played over 3,000 hours are you still actively playing Starfield? Are you still finding new things? How many times have you gone through Unity? If you have a lot of hours how much of it is from active play and how much from leaving the game open while you do other things?

I went through Unity for the first time when Free Lanes and Terran Armada were released so I don’t know if all the new dialogue is new to me because I’ve played so long, if it’s new in the game, or if it’s because I’m newly Starborn. It doesn’t matter because I’m finding so many new and interesting things that I’m having a load of fun.

u/Hervee — 2 months ago

How to clean without damaging?

I have this small sofa table, probably a quality reproduction in its time, that I need to clean. Suggestions for restoration would be welcome too although I won’t be attempting that for some time. It was purchased as a lacquered table from an antique shop 80 years ago (I have the receipt) but I can’t see any evidence of lacquer on it. I’m scared to wipe it in case it lifts the surface but hope someone can advise on how to clean it so I can use it for now.

Edit: Forgot to add: I want this clean but it’s important that anything I do doesn’t damage it or cause an issue with restoring it. Big question though: is it able to be restored and, if so, is it something I could attempt or should it go to a professional? Thanks.

u/Hervee — 2 months ago

Is there any way to disable DLC on a per game basis?

I hit some annoying bugs with Terran Armada in my game so temporarily abandoned my character and started a new one. At level 5, walking around New Atlantis the blasted broadcast started. I don’t want anything to do with Terran Armada at level 5 (or 50, I’m leaving it for late game) so I loaded a save from before the broadcast and tried to find a way to disable Terran Armada. For now, I’ve uninstalled it. But this means I can’t switch back to my main character without reinstalling it.

Is there any way to have DLC blocked from one character but available to another?

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u/Hervee — 3 months ago

The Saga of Kreet Terrormorphs

328 days ago I posted about getting attacked by a terrormorph at level 1: r/Starfield/s/moUt1hGCjQ

Today, after starting a new character, I landed at the Kreet Research Station and scanned a Civilian Outpost just under 1000 meters away & since I had loot from boarding one of the three pirate ships I decided to check it out. As I approached an Ecliptic ship landed and five Ecliptic started attacking the outpost. I used all the ammo in my Eon and ended up running inside while Vasco fought them off. Nek minute, huge roar and the outpost shook, everything went flying and homesteaders started running around screaming for help.

Last time I fought two terrormorphs on Kreet and neither of them could get to me when I stood at the top of stairs. This time the blasted thing was jumping everywhere, going after me while a remaining Ecliptic was blasting away at the homesteaders. Vasco kept going out of action to repair himself and I used the last of my med packs while firing away with my cutter. As you can see in the photo, I got him!

So, now level 3 and every homesteader is dead, I have some automatic weapons but only 30 ammo. No med packs.

&gt;!I do, however, have a power pack and one point in boost. Back to the research station I go but I didn’t go in. I walked around the building and spotted where to jump. I jumped, landed right in front of the pirate captain, persuaded, then found the door from the research building was open. I got the boss chest and found the rest of the building inaccessible (could still go in from the front) so I don’t know if I had safe passage or not.!<

Thus ends the saga of the Kreet Terrormorphs. I didn’t hang around surveying etc this time so didn’t encounter a second one as I did last time.

u/Hervee — 3 months ago
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Farm gate chicken

Does anyone know of a farm that sells poultry? I’d like to support local farmers, if possible, rather than supermarkets.

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u/Hervee — 3 months ago
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PSA: When looking for information don’t overlook Bethesda’s site

Bethesda’s website has a number of helpful guides and posts about specific missions. Bookmark it and check it out.

For example:
New Player Guide: https://help.bethesda.net/#en/answer/61265 (screenshot attached so you can see some of the information they provide. Tap the screenshot to see it fully).

If you are experiencing an issue with a mission, please visit: What do I do if I have an issue with a Mission in Starfield?

u/Hervee — 3 months ago

Invisible milliwhale

I came into my ship from a Terran major incursion and discovered a milliwhale on the ship. It stuck with me and followed me into The Den but seems to have disappeared. It’s not on my ship but it’s chirping and chittering is following me everywhere! Is this an unusual bug or has anyone else encountered it?

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u/Hervee — 3 months ago

Some incursions are bigger than others

I’ve hit my first bug with Terran Armada and it’s a good one. I blew up the Terran Enforcer on the right. I watched it explode before it reappeared. At the same time, the Terran Repeater (middle, left) appeared out of nowhere while also at the same time a milliwhale magically appeared on my ship. The Terran Enforcer ghost cannot be selected but is physically there (I tried flying through it to see). The repeater is there but I don’t have any incursions in my mission log. Hopefully, this won’t cause problems.

u/Hervee — 3 months ago

Role playing ship names

Gangster by background and dragged up on the mean streets of Neon so, naturally, I fell in with the Crimson Fleet and all my ship names reflect that. Meet the Ark Royal, named after Sir Walter Raleigh’s ship that was instrumental in defeating the Spanish Armada. My Ark Royal is taking on the Terran Armada. The original Ark Royal became a privateering ship so using the name seemed appropriate.

Before Unity my main ship was the Golden Hind, named after the ship of captain Francis Drake, which circumnavigated the world & was involved in lots of privateering.

The others have included Adventure Galley, the ship of the infamous Captain Kidd, Queen Anne’s Revenge the flagship of William (Blackbeard) Teach, the Royal Fortune which was Black Bart’s ship and Stede Bonnet’s ship Revenge.

I will probably have to read more pirate stories if I keep building ships! lol

Obviously, I’m into role playing and I’m curious: do you name your ships and, if so, how do you decide on names?

u/Hervee — 3 months ago

Kirkland Signature New Zealand Butter

Has anyone seen this in Canada recently? I know it’s available in the USA and understand it’s occasionally available here but I keep looking (in BC) and haven’t seen it.

u/Hervee — 3 months ago

Well, this was a first

I took off from my outpost on Bessel-IIIb and was jumped by three Starborn. While I was moving into range for the attack a Freestar civilian ship started firing on the Starborn ships and took them out. I got their quantum essence without firing a shot! Has anyone else experienced this?

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u/Hervee — 3 months ago

If you’ve completed the Terran Armada DLC then this might be of interest to you.

Reading the computer journals & data slates then talking to the Admiral, Ode Balewa, we learn that the Terran Armada was formed by Balewa (then a UC Rear Admiral) and Freestar General Tolliver Royce who faked the annihilation of both of their fleets in the Battle of Cassiopeia. The deserters that survived the Battle of Cassiopeia went on to form the Terran Armada.

Sarah’s ship, the UC Dauntless, was in the Battle of Cassiopeia and was one of the ships that went down. Game lore around Sarah’s time stranded on Cassiopeia I never fully explained why it took so long for her to be found and rescued. Knowing now that the UC & Freestar were led to believe that all ships on both sides were lost it makes sense that the UC didn’t look too hard for survivors on the planet.

But, consider this: we know that there were survivors from the Dauntless. Two, at least, set up home and had a child. We believe that the others died but the only evidence (not proof) is in the graveyard, ID tags hanging on markers. Maybe Sona’s parents were the only survivors that chose to stay on the planet. Maybe the others are not buried in the graveyard and the graves are another part of the coverup for deserters? Maybe the majority of the Dauntless crew wanted to go with Admiral Balewa and deliberately kept Sarah out of it because she’s such a strong UC supporter? What do you think? It’s all assumptions but I love the way that the Terran Armada lore has hooked into Sarah’s story.

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u/Hervee — 4 months ago
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When Starfield was shiny new we were privileged to have the very best post about ship building that has ever been posted. For whatever reasons, Reddit removed the account and we were left with only the Wayback Machine copy. Now, he’s back with an updated post.

Read it. Save it.

r/Starfield/s/Ev9lX88IXK

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u/Hervee — 4 months ago