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Post by melbella on Mar 11, 2024 23:56:26 GMT
The key is when you do an NG+ when you land in New Atlantis the game will show the first quest and say: Wait....you have to actually land in NA first? I've just been looking at the quest when it pops while on my ship, and if the log entry says MAST district I reload (but I have to fly to NA in order to get the command menu to show up).
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Post by dazk on Mar 12, 2024 0:39:59 GMT
The key is when you do an NG+ when you land in New Atlantis the game will show the first quest and say: Wait....you have to actually land in NA first? I've just been looking at the quest when it pops while on my ship, and if the log entry says MAST district I reload (but I have to fly to NA in order to get the command menu to show up). You are correct I should have said on the ship.
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Post by alanc9 on Mar 12, 2024 1:12:31 GMT
After a break I picked up Starfield again. My second character is on very hard, with the wanted trait. This is a ridiculous combination as you get routinely ambused by hard as nails Ecliptic bounty hunters who only get stronger as the game progresses. Regular combat is fine on very hard, but these ship fights in particular are really tough. So my skills are very heavily weighted towards ships (there's actually a bounty hunter on Mars who can remove the trait, but it seemed insultingly cheap at 3000 cr, so I never did). I also avoided Constellation for a long time, not even use the Frontier (I jumped the wall at New Atlantis and fortunately found a spacer ship to steal very quickly). Eventually caved and joined Constellation though.
The plus side of Wanted is that you can level fast. My Wanted character caught up with my first PC without doing nearly as much play.
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Post by alanc9 on Mar 12, 2024 1:15:14 GMT
And now I'm not sure if I can be bothered to keep going? I found a few new points of interest, including a Botanics lab, which was quite cool. Killed a huge legendary Spacer ship, which was not nearly as hard as it looked. And finally did Sarah's personal quest (and then let her die, which felt a bit more meaningful than with Barret). Think the only major thing I haven't seen now is any of the weirder NG+s. Anyone know if they just appear randomly, or do you have to have a few goes round? Wondering if I can just save scum it? Otherwise, I'm not sure it's worth the effort?
The key is when you do an NG+ when you land in New Atlantis the game will show the first quest and say: 1) Go to The Lodge in The MAST District or 2) Go to The Lodge Option 2) means you are going to get a unique start to the game, so if you don't get that go through the Unity again, it took me four times a couple of times. saandrig pointed this out so credit to him. Very helpful. I don't think I ever would have noticed this.
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Post by dazk on Mar 12, 2024 1:27:32 GMT
The key is when you do an NG+ when you land in New Atlantis the game will show the first quest and say: 1) Go to The Lodge in The MAST District or 2) Go to The Lodge Option 2) means you are going to get a unique start to the game, so if you don't get that go through the Unity again, it took me four times a couple of times. saandrig pointed this out so credit to him. Very helpful. I don't think I ever would have noticed this. I had it slightly wrong did you see melbella post, it's when you first get your new ship in NG+ not on landing in NA.
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Post by dagless on Mar 12, 2024 21:23:41 GMT
Cheers guys.
I did a bit of digging and apparently there’s zero chance of an alternative universe on the first NG+. But I did find a console command to tell the game you’ve been through before and also the commands to just select whichever one you want. So I’ll try that. I can live without achievements.
Also some people say that the not MAST thing only applies to some/most of alternate realities.
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Post by dazk on Mar 12, 2024 22:48:30 GMT
Cheers guys. I did a bit of digging and apparently there’s zero chance of an alternative universe on the first NG+. But I did find a console command to tell the game you’ve been through before and also the commands to just select whichever one you want. So I’ll try that. I can live without achievements. Also some people say that the not MAST thing only applies to some/most of alternate realities. There are MODS that mean you can use console commands and still get the achievements. I used this one: www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/658
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Post by saandrig on Mar 13, 2024 9:51:35 GMT
Also some people say that the not MAST thing only applies to some/most of alternate realities. I dug around a bit and people seem to claim that a few alternate realities are indeed possible only when the initial quest says "MAST". Specifically those where you meet yourself at Constellation.
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Post by alanc9 on Mar 19, 2024 19:17:33 GMT
Looks like we're all winding down a bit. I'm still squeezing in the odd half-hour or so here and there. Starfield is good for that because I can get oriented instantly. Can't do that with BG3, Stellaris, or most of the other stuff I'm into now.
I've been taking screenshots of the random POIs. Got 60 or so different ones logged on this run, and another dozen or so are things I saw on my first playthrough. That still leaves a couple dozen I've never seen in all this time, although I know where to find two of them now from orbital scans. I don't know if the ones I've never seen have very strict spawn conditions, or if there's actually something wrong with the code.
As for what I'm doing, Liana's still riding the tragedy railroad. Launched her relationship with Sam and moved on to Sarah as the other victim. Lillian's mission ended up being a bit anticlimactic, since when Valerie's forces landed they all decided to shoot at the local air whales instead of the woman picking them off with a Magsniper. Then a side trip to Sonny di Falco's estate, mostly for the only two swimsuits in all the Settled Systems you can obtain without stealing. Thinking of a beach vacation after wrapping Sarah's mission.
Speaking of which, those Stonewalkers were bad enough when I was just exploring the planet, but the leveled ones in Sarah's mission are the worst difficulty spike I've seen in the entire game. They can be cheesed if you can boostpack to the top of a rock spire, but the best approach is probably to bring a spare emergency Power Cell and skip the whole business.
Just about to trigger Short Sighted, which is where stuff starts to hit the fan. I figure Liana will faff around with Sam for a bit on surveys and SQs, and then burn straight through the main quest. And that'll wrap things up for me.
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Post by melbella on Mar 20, 2024 1:18:21 GMT
those Stonewalkers were bad enough when I was just exploring the planet, but the leveled ones in Sarah's mission are the worst difficulty spike I've seen in the entire game. They can be cheesed if you can boostpack to the top of a rock spire, but the best approach is probably to bring a spare emergency Power Cell and skip the whole business. I use the stun gun on them and make a run for it. And that's on super easy mode. Bullets just don't damage them but a couple shots of EM pulse and they are at least immobilized long enough to get away.
I have missed the game while playing HZD but will try to wait until the DLC is released before going back to it. That should give me plenty of time to play Forbidden West. And if they take too long in releasing the expansion, maybe I can finally get back to AC Odyssey.
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Post by dazk on Mar 20, 2024 9:12:48 GMT
those Stonewalkers were bad enough when I was just exploring the planet, but the leveled ones in Sarah's mission are the worst difficulty spike I've seen in the entire game. They can be cheesed if you can boostpack to the top of a rock spire, but the best approach is probably to bring a spare emergency Power Cell and skip the whole business. take too long in releasing the expansion, maybe I can finally get back to AC Odyssey. LOL I downloaded Odyssey today to at least just have a dabble in while I wait for HZD.
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Post by saandrig on Mar 20, 2024 12:08:37 GMT
take too long in releasing the expansion, maybe I can finally get back to AC Odyssey. LOL I downloaded Odyssey today to at least just have a dabble in while I wait for HZD. Fire build mayhem must be commenced!
How is Odyssey looking on the new monitor?
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Post by dazk on Mar 20, 2024 22:54:27 GMT
LOL I downloaded Odyssey today to at least just have a dabble in while I wait for HZD. Fire build mayhem must be commenced!
How is Odyssey looking on the new monitor?
Indeed let them all burn!!!!!!!! I think I played using it previously but now I am not sure, will have a look today anyway, should I just use GeForce to optimise it, think I have already? Anything in particular to do in the NVCP?
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Post by saandrig on Mar 21, 2024 6:19:19 GMT
I think I played using it previously but now I am not sure, will have a look today anyway, should I just use GeForce to optimise it, think I have already? Anything in particular to do in the NVCP? I avoid using GeForce optimization since it's a miss in 90% of the cases. For Odyssey the only thing worth lowering in the settings are Volumetric Clouds (down 1 or 2 notches) and Fog (one notch down). Everything else should be at max quality since your PC can easily handle it. That's about it. It doesn't have DLSS, so using DLDSR will load your GPU a lot. So you can just use Native resolution.
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Post by officerdonnz on Mar 24, 2024 18:51:25 GMT
After the latest patch dropped I've decided to give Starfield another go, so we'll how far I get this time. Currently level 4 wondering around New Atlantis.
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Post by officerdonnz on Mar 25, 2024 6:33:06 GMT
Serena, Bounty Hunter, Dream Home, Kids Stuff, UC Native is now level 10 and has just gained the Razorleaf The poor Frontier been so easily side lined... If you get the chance have a chat with The Hunter in the Viewport as that's where he hangs out a fair bit. It's rather interesting to say the least.
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Post by melbella on Mar 25, 2024 10:59:15 GMT
If you get the chance have a chat with The Hunter in the Viewport as that's where he hangs out a fair bit. It's rather interesting to say the least. I've tried talking to him there but he never says anything?
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Post by alanc9 on Mar 26, 2024 23:54:10 GMT
Weird. He should have one conversation and then relocate to Akila City.
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Post by dazk on Mar 27, 2024 1:46:41 GMT
If you get the chance have a chat with The Hunter in the Viewport as that's where he hangs out a fair bit. It's rather interesting to say the least. I've tried talking to him there but he never says anything? I only managed to get him to talk there once.
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Post by Cyberstrike on Apr 10, 2024 19:24:01 GMT
Started the pirate quest line with Eliza Lawless my newest captain.
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Post by Cyberstrike on Apr 14, 2024 23:19:32 GMT
Finally going to start working on the Kelper-R.
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Post by Cyberstrike on Apr 15, 2024 23:43:12 GMT
Finally got the Kelper-R customized the way I want and it was already big ship I made it even bigger with more habs and cargo pods.
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Post by melbella on Apr 28, 2024 23:24:38 GMT
Stepping back into Starfield after a Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West break. Picked up my NG+ with level 69 Mike Logan, who had a tragic first run. I completed surveys of Vectera and Kreet and am now on Niira for a bounty. Ran into the Rambler in orbit who gave the heads-up about the Altair system (Groundpounder quest). I'll probably wait until I have a more tanky ship before taking on all those Spacers.
Edit: Did the bounty, then started the survey on Niira. I have everything except I can't find any Ionic Liquids. I've landed in about a dozen spots on the planet, only 2 caves amongst them, and neither had any. Same for a couple of abandoned mines. Lots of beasties to kill though. I'll try again tomorrow.
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