u/xKiwiNova

I know that there have been quite a few complaints on here about the current season of SNW and it's gimmicky nature and I don't want to just spread negativity, but there is something specific that I wanted to bring up.

One of the things I've always appreciated about Star Trek is that the crew at the end of the day has a respectable degree of professionalism and maturity in the characters. Even Lower Decks I feel did an excellent job of characterizing everyone as ultimately acting like Starfleet officers when the situation really required it.

I appreciated SNW S1 and 2 for similarly presenting a mature and reasonable crew while still having them feel personable and funny. The most recent seasons though seem to have undone this characterization and leaned way too much into comic relief and inconsistent characters which just don't feel Trek-y.

I know that the puppet episode >!does have an in-universe explanation for why everyone acts like a gag character!<, but it still feels annoying and pointless to watch. More broadly though, there are too many moments in seasons 3 and 4 where characters just don't act like Starfleet officers.

I don't expect star trek to be super serious, it's never been super serious, but compare recent silly episodes to stuff like Rascals, Our Man Bashir, or Bride of Chaotica, even stuff like Move Along Home - characters still approach the setting shift like Starfleet officers. It's a fine line to walk but I feel like recent SNW has been walking almost perpendicular to it.

It's disappointing, especially because I really liked seasons 1 and 2 and actually thought they did a good job of giving the characters a modern feel while still maintaining the overarching star trek vibe. In S3 and 4 though, it feels like a lot of this has been dropped - liked the writers tried to mirror Lower Decks (without appreciating how Lower Decks manages to still make it's characters feel like Starfleet). It's frustrating to watch a show that I really liked get Game-of-Thrones'd.

On a more positive note, I did like Pelia's puppet hair.

It's these assholes called the Nameless.

You may not have encountered them because they're really small and their squads are nomadic and patrol the entire map, but they honestly might be the worst group on the moon.

These motherfuckers will steal anything that isn't bolted to the fucking ground. Actually, they'll steal everything including the stuff you bolt to the ground. Your safes might as well be glowing "valuable stuff here" signs to them.

They will walk into your shop, clock you and your guards in the face, and walk out with your inventory, personal items, furniture, and clothing in their backpack. Sometimes you and your guards will wake up while they're robbing you and they just smile politely and you have to just follow along because technically you can't prove anything.

Oh, and catching them in the act means fuckall because somehow these guys are never imprisoned and even if you tell them to get out of your store, it's not like they give a shit about what you think of them anyway.

You ever wonder why weapons from the Black Desert City are so expensive? It's because these motherfuckers rob the scraphouse like TWICE A MONTH.

Oh, and make sure you never pass out or even take a nap when these guys are around, cause they make Manhunters look respectful of the unconscious. You WILL wake up several kilograms lighter.

But it's not just the stealing, no, these guys have a bloodlust that make the Shek look like pacifists.

These guys are hostile with the Holy Nation, Empire, Shek, and other bandit factions. Sometimes I'm trying to travel or sell things in the great desert and I just see a flood of red at the city gates because, idk, some priest said some mean words to one of them member or a samurai looked at them funny.

Worst of all - I hear these guys even >! free slaves !< (TRIGGER WARNING). Comically evil, I know.

And they're sadistic too. They have some kind of device they call the peeler - rumor has it they took the blueprints from some poor guy who was kidnapped by skeletons and forced to design it - and they use it to skin people alive.

But that's not all. A few months ago, one of them attacked an innocent imperial huntress, killed her bodyguards, >!freed her slaves!< (TRIGGER WARNING), and left her unconscious, beaten, unarmed, and naked in the middle of Gut.

A few weeks later, when High Inquisitor Seta (BBHN) decided to pay their base a visit for some civil religious discussion, they ruthlessly abducted him. Nobody's seen him since, but someone found the remains of his equipment in the middle of a deathyard outside of Mongrel.

It's not just sadism though, their masochistic weirdos too. I see their patrols in Skinner's Roam some times, getting beaten by hungry bandits that they could clearly paste it they wanted to. I swear, these people enjoy it.

These guys are also really annoying to fight. Unlike cannibals and fogmen, they actually deliberately knock out everyone in the area before they kidnap their victims, so by the time your group respond they're probably long gone.

They also disarm and steal people's clothes, even mid fight, which is really frustrating. The most abnormal thing they're known for is that they retreat from battle or run away from attackers if they're out matched- seriously, who does that. Why don't they suicidally charge at anything hostile in a 1mi radius like a normal group?

Anyway, I think the Nameless are by far the worst faction in the game, even worse than the Moll's, Simion's, and Tinfist's terrorist groups.

Whenever my robot character gets close to Holy Nation patrols, they always call him "Burn the Skeleton" and chase after him for an autograph, even though he looks nothing like Burn.

If it happened only a few times, I think it could be an honest mistake, but it's become so frequent that I feel like it might be something more like a microagression; like they think "all skeletons look the same" or something.

I don't want to throw this word around too leniently but it feels like there might be some racism at play here.

Thoughts?

I'm doing a nomadic playthrough but I want to fight Eyegore at some point. Are there any mods that spawn him outside his assault, like a mod that gives him the same role as the protector of the flame?