u/OGBigPants

I’m fairly new to the scene and I am loving it, but I only learned just yesterday what a wolfhound is. Most of my knowledge comes from MW5 Mercs and the most prominent lore, so tell be about mechs I don’t know so wel!l What mechs do you love but rarely see, whether in games or on the Table-Top? What makes them special?

There was a little interest in the playthrough, so I figured I would keep you updated. To rehash the rules for anyone that missed them; No guns of any kind can be fired at enemies. This includes the disruptor, glue cannon, and huntress. Damaging guns of any kind are fully off the table (shotgun, pistol, Q-beam, etc). The glue gun can be used only for repairs, I wanted to limit my ability to skip areas while still being able to fix things and put out fires basically.

So I have completed the demo and seen the full video! If you're like me you must have played that (rather generous) demo a hundred times. Getting to the office was more or less normal, but man do those mimics hurt on nightmare. With that first neuromod swapped into the display case I chose physician, knowing full and well that I will be trading a great deal of hits. (Anyone else notice that ALL display case neuromods are real? January says he swapped this one but he seems to have swapped the rest while he was at it). I skipped the bonus content in my locker because that would be cheating, so I get this popup every time I enter a new area trying to remind me, which is funny.

The early disruptor was of course off limits, but it makes for as quality metal as anything else. Turrets, however, are not! So I befriended them and used them to clear out mimics from the foyer. I grabbed pretty much everything I could because I really don't know what I'll need yet. Heading down to repair the looking glass servers I got wallopped by phantoms, and metabolic boost was massively helpful. It brings me back to when I first played the game and would sit by water fountains slowly healing to full...

I got the looking glasses back online and quite a few neuromods to boot, investing them into necropsy (for an early boost to neuromod fabrication), physician 2, hacking 1, leverage 1, repair 1 and 2, impact calibration 1 (should I have focused this path more? probably), conditioning, and stealth. It's a wide spread meant to give me a lot of options!

Anyone ever wonder how the looking glass actually works anyway? Like sure you could replicate the effect with a position tracking system but that would only work for one person... Like how does the screen even look if you record it with a camera or something? I get that its sci-fantasy tech but I feel like this goes overlooked.

Anyway, I also picked up a couple suit chipsets - Wrench swings having a greater chance is cause knockback is absolutely phenomenal. And eliminating the drunken effects of alcohol may SEEM unimportant, but did you know that (in the game) alcohol makes your swings hit harder? So says the loading screen at least. Who knew?

Now we are off to blow up the ship by heading to deep storage! Though I'll probably explore a lot first. I'll update you when I feel like I have made sufficient progress.

A quick note about the idea behind this run - I know it's not the hardest thing ever, and some people have pointed out likely tedium and it being boring. To me it's more about a novel way to experience a game I have loved and played to death. I do not plan to avoid combat or speedrun the game. I plan to do every quest I can and save all the crewmembers that I can (though I won't be losing sleep if I miss any). I just wanted to add this little note to say that I'm not really looking for advice or criticism here, just wanted to share and log my thoughts as I play. Until next time!

Edit: If you don’t have anything new to add, please don’t. Really wasn’t expecting this many comments and 90% of you are saying the exact same thing. I got it okay?

I have a rather young cat and he is very sweet, but of course being so young he constantly wants attention. This is fine and I give him lots, but sometimes when I don’t he will do things he knows I don’t like to get a reaction (pushing things off shelves, scratching furniture, etc). Internet says the best method is to ignore it but I don’t want him doing these things.

How do I discipline him? He reacts well to positive reinforcement but he is not in any way intimidated by me when I try to stare him down or anything like that, he just thinks we are playing. Again he is a very sweet cat but I am simply not going to give him 100% of my free time and I would like him to stop breaking things.

Edit: I guess you don’t is the answer. Gotta cat-proof and ignore the behavior it seems. Thank you yall!

This is the challenge I am going to subject myself to. I don’t think I’ve actually beaten nightmare before, let alone nightmare survival, and now I plan to do it without firing a weapon.

To be specific, banned weapons are the shotgun, pistol, q-beam, disruptor, and even the glue gun, as well as any others I might be missing. I am planning to leave the boltcaster on the table and maybe to use the glue gun for repair purposes since there’s not really a replacement for that.

Curious if anyone else has tried this and whether you’d like to be kept updated on my journey, as well as any suggestions! Of course this will rely heavily on the wrench and typhon neuromods, so it should be fun!

In mooncrash Basilisk makes specific reference to Kasma operators on Talos 1. Anyone know who they might be?