JoshuaSlowpoke777

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JoshuaSlowpoke777,

Are there any equivalents for BBC Micro or Acorn Electron? I’m tempted to try Elite (the original) on Steam Deck, and while I did once download a copy for free on a previous laptop (when the devs were celebrating an anniversary a few years back), I don’t know if that version is compatible with Deck.

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

Also, the devs of Factorio have a policy of never putting it on sale and adjusting for inflation sometimes, so if you’re gonna get it, now’s the time.

[@GamersNexus] They Changed Everything: Valve Steam Deck OLED vs. LCD Tear-Down (www.youtube.com)

The new Valve Steam Deck OLED didn’t just change the screen: Almost every part of the device has had some sort of revision, from the screws to the power topology of the motherboard. Some of these changes happened silently in the Voyager platform refresh for the Steam Deck, but the majority of large changes are brand new....

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

Some days, I question why humanity ever allowed public companies to exist. That very concept seems to be creating a lot of societal drawbacks these days.

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

Are… Are you suggesting that there are potential ways a public company system could’ve actually been handled better, rather than the concept itself being flawed by nature?

I’m not saying I disagree, I’m just saying that possibility never occurred to me for some reason. (Maybe it’s my justice sensitivity complex acting up)

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

Are they talking existing sales, or sales after the announcement? If this is just post-announcement, holy fucking shit

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

And it’s gotten to a point where it’s being used as a utility computer in places, if I recall. That could’ve potentially sent sales snowballing away from typical console sale figures.

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

Plus, human bites can carry a lot of bacteria and whatnot, so arguably some of that damage should be poison or necrosis damage.

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

Worldbuilding idea for a challenging campaign: give every fully-sentient humanoid character, commoners included, a bite attack that powerful. That aughta put the kibosh on any murderhobo behavior for a time.

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

Arguably, whether this turns out decent or atrocious may depend, in part, on whether it’s a straight adaptation of the games (removes sensory elements that games and film don’t have in common, causing serious issues); or if it’s something that would fit better in a film, albeit taking place in Hyrule.

It may also depend on whether portions of the production team actively dislike the source material (cough cough Netflix Witcher cough cough)

mr_MADAFAKA, to steamdeck
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Top 20 games played on Steam Deck in the past month(October), sorted by playtime.

@steamdeck

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

65-ish of the Cyberpunk 2077 hours were mine, full disclosure. Edit: or at least on Steam as a whole, any amount of which could’ve been on Deck

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

Didn’t think the modern-day incarnation of Atari even had interest in games anymore. I could’ve sworn an entirely unrelated company bought the name when the original Atari died out.

[Spoilers for early-game random encounter] Qustion regarding companion dialogue during an early-game orbital random encounter…

spoilerSo if you encounter and are hailed by a “Faraday’s Budget Tours” ship in orbit, a rather exasperated captain will ask you to help them by answering their passengers’ questions about life as a space captain. The last passenger asks the player if they “have someone in every port”, and if the player’s active...

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

I question why this news is being posted at this point, let alone repeatedly.

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

My mistake, I may have seen a post previously that suggested something more like “Diablo 4 is now compatible with Steam Deck”, and my brain immediately saw the title of a rather controversial game and mentally blocked out the post.

Advice wanted regarding melee enemies when you tend to wield guns…

Am I better off carrying one melee weapon or investing in stagger resistance perks to fight off melee attackers? As it stands, I often have to either shoot melee attackers before they reach me or beat them back with a Va’Ruun Painblade because they probably won’t give me enough time to reload my shotgun.

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

Okay, another option has come to my attention: I could start actually investing in combat-tree skills enough to go for Rapid Reloading.

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

Yeah, now that I think about it, I do carry a couple pistols and rifles on my hotbar, AND another shotgun, and one microgun. Any number of which could still be loaded.

…Yeah, at this point, I may just put the painblade away and either find a gun for that hotbar slot or enjoy the extra carry capacity lol

[Potential spoilers for Nova Galactic ship components] How’s this ship look? (i.imgur.com)

Behold, my new ship, built completely from scratch, designed to rival arguably the best default ship in the game (you could get the latter as a quest reward), but almost entirely using Nova Galactic parts. …Granted, it’s not nearly done yet, because it needs a buttload more engines, more weapons, and everything needs to be...

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

Kepler-R

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

Yeah, I pretty quickly rearranged the rooms to put the reactor further back, so I could put a thicker drive near the engines.

That, and I swapped the reactor and drive locations so I could get a better reactor brand without sacrificing a couple engine mounting slots, because I don’t think 3 Supernovas will be enough.

And all it cost me was some unnecessary passenger space. Guess the crew’s sleeping in shifts lol

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

I mean, from a gameplay perspective, it makes sense, but it strikes me as hilarious that a companion could decide that they love me in the first place one minute, and after a brief trip from Jemison to Mars immediately start discussing the topic of marriage.

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

I question just how many of us, if any, really would give Kotaku articles the time of day anymore, given what may be a reputation for over-the-top opinion pieces.

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

Based on further testing, something that can happen while with a companion during planet surveying seems to potentially trigger the bug, quest or no quest.

So the companion is relevant, the quests are not.

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

Oh, I Just was saying that surveying planets in general while you have an active companion can risk triggering the bug (maybe it even is triggered by actual combat with miscellaneous alien critters, can’t confirm that, though).

The quests related to surveying planets or critters are fine, as long as you don’t bring a companion.

However, if you want to try the quests I’ve used for this testing, both are radiant/miscellaneous quests you can get after completion of the Vanguard questline.

I tested boarding using a quest you can get by talking to Commander Tuala in New Atlantis.

The objective that gives you the gene-sampling quest involves talking to a guy named “Perceval” (you’ll know him when you go through that questline)

Weird bug: Barbacoa Wraps (food item) not showing up in inventory when crafted

Dunno if my save is just borked and I’ll have to revert or what, but I can’t seem to find Barbacoa Wraps (and possibly other damage-reduction foods) in my inventory immediately after crafting it. If it helps, I’m currently on Sarah Morgan’s personal quest. I was a little further along, but I reverted to a prior save when...

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

So from what I’ve been able to determine, the galley in my home ship isn’t working for some reason, BECAUSE THE GALLEY IN THE LODGE BASEMENT CERTAINLY WORKS. WTF

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

So, just an update: it seems that the bug seems to pertain to the Stroud-Eklund Mess Hall ship module specifically. I replaced that module with several smaller modules, two of them with galleys, and those cooking stations DO work.

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

So what seems to have been happening is that, after crafting something with the cooking station in a Stroud-Eklund Mess Hall module specifically, it’d eat the required materials and give you nothing like a faulty vending machine.

But replacing that module with several smaller ones helped because other modules’ galleys still work, as do non-ship cooking stations.

Bug: after an unknown trigger, every hostile ship I’ve boarded has no crew

So for some reason, I can’t pinpoint what causes this bug, but it seems like the quest log activity that normally appears when you board a hostile ship is no longer appearing, and that may be correlated with the fact that these ships somehow have no crew. Like, at all. No pirate crew, no captain, just an abandoned ship....

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

It was not, in fact, Peacemaker, that much I can say

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

Update: it seems to have happened again, but this time I noticed something. Both this incident and the last incident were preceded partially by a period of surveying a planet with life, with a companion by my side (Barrett, this time).

I may have even been on a surveying quest the first time, and a genetic sampling quest for the second.

So the common thread seems to be that this bug is somehow correlated with surveying a planet and/or combat involving alien wildlife.

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

I use a balanced boostpack to get through the ladder holes and thus ascend the floors faster.

One of these days, I want to create a ship that’s shaped suspiciously like the mothership from Homeworld (basically built like a tower rather than a flat building), just for kicks (and to test whether this tactic works with multiple floors in the same ladder chamber)

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

Oh boy, it’s the Skyrim Kahjiit trader chest bug all over again

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

It’s decorative, but it also has a couple attachment points for things like weapons. Notice how, from this angle, there’s a missile launcher on mine.

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

Eh, the original HAB is gone and I replaced it with a workshop, a lab/kitchen, and a few bedrooms, and I’d argue “human centipede-ing” would apply if I was just duplicating the old Frontier HAB.

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

Can’t tell if that’s an innuendo related to a certain medication, or a reference to something else entirely

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

There’s a type of aid item simply referred to as “ship parts.” Places like Jemison Mercantile and UC Distribution Center sell them sometimes, and you may even earn them by helping UC/Freestar ships beat up hostiles in random encounters.

Edit: and don’t keep them in your on-foot inventory, they weigh 10 kilos each.

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

I agree, honestly. The way I have it configured, I can even run Starfield (although the way I initially had it, the graphics looked like something off of a PS2/3 or a 3DS, and now the loading screens actually give me plenty of time to read the loading screen tips).

And the indie games (and also Elder Scrolls Online) that I normally play don’t even give me that much trouble.

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

Silly question, but if Acclaim is gone, who has the rights to this franchise to authorize a remaster? I don’t think I was ever taught what happens when a corporation dies.

JoshuaSlowpoke777,

I’m 25, and have my own income and tax filing, but I live with my parents and help out as needed when I’m not at work. I’m kinda tempted to just inherit the house someday.

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