#extrememode — Public Fediverse posts

Starship combat with #Manticore is also much more difficult than #ExtremeMode

Imagine, if you will, the total insanity of taking on a large incoming #Watchtower fleet with Manticore. I just splashed 26 ships in a mindbending 3D dogfight, with the hostiles using that extra dimension almost as well as I do, while being a lot tougher. I had to stay ahead of their fire and shake off missile lock immediately, looping in and through and around them to keep out of the crossfire, because (as I learned very early in trying Manticore) once shields are broken the ship is trashed after 1–3 hits.

It’s asymmetric warfare all the way, without any clear advantage to exploit but your own wits during daredevil maneuvers. You can’t adopt a brute force approach, because you can only have a max of 9 fleet ships so Watchtower will always have you outnumbered; since the Vanilla game only allows you to own 10 ships at a time, that’s where the mod caps it too (even with mods like #Darkstar installed that increase your owned fleet capacity IIRC).

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#Manticore is a surprisingly good tactical combat overhaul #StarfieldCreation

I’m not going to sit here and say I love everything about it, but overall it does exactly what it says on the tin and provides “brutal, fast-paced combat encounters” far beyond Vanilla+ #ExtremeMode

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I wonder where I should build my main outpost in Universe 13?

(accepting suggestions)

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Thank you for showing me I’m a monster, random Ecliptic mercenary jumping off a roof while screaming bloody-murder just to get away from me

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Huh. Turns out you CAN boost yourself into orbit with the #MoonJumper if gravity is low enough.

I’m pretty sure it’s a cell boundary glitch, because it acts more like rising to the surface of a large body of water than exiting the atmosphere into space, but… still… suddenly you’re looking at the curve of the horizon and just floating there.

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Sorry Heinlein, but Earth’s got nothin’ on the Green Hills of Denebola I-B. Who even needs to breathe. That shit is positively picturesque.

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RE: https://functional.cafe/@thephoeron/117004684576231694

The quantum entanglement device sure is handy. Can’t bring credits through the Unity with me, but can bring my action figure collection and stockpile of Astras, digipicks, and particle grenades 🤘🏻

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Level 240. Invested millions into exotic gear. Fully upgraded my QED at the Lodge. Let’s try Universe 13 again.

The Unity Awaits

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Whatever you do, don’t use Elemental Pull on Masada III

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Found a really great parking spot on the roof of the Isolated Maintenance Hangar POI—and such a great way to start raining death from above on the Crimson Fleet

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I can’t believe the #MoonJumper is canonical vanilla Starfield with the #FreeLanes update. You can stay airborne long enough to pull off strafing runs, even in high-G.

Yeah.

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Went on an all-out rampage across the Settled Systems, mostly hunting Ecliptic on Ka’zaal, but faced off against plenty Zealots, Spacers, and Crimson Fleet pirates too

And using the sleep-on-Venus trick to reset all vendors, grinding hard to pawn off all that loot, I just broke 10-million credits

Level 237, NG+11

Meanwhile, I really gotta get around to building the Armillary somewhere defensible; these constant Starborn-ambushes from carrying the artifacts in my inventory are starting to get out of hand—growing in size as well as frequency

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The fearless pack caterpillars of Zeta Ophiuchi I! Muah-ah-ah-ah Ah-ahhhhhhh

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RE: https://functional.cafe/@thephoeron/116975151217705270

Château des Étoiles is all mine, and was on a roll apparently because I managed to earn another 2.5 million credits in the same sitting. So I’m still a #SettledSystemsMillionaire in Universe 12 (NG+11, Level 236) even after dropping all that cash on a textbook boondoggle.

Is it worth the 5m? Not really. Especially knowing exactly what grind I’ll have to go through to get it again in every following universe. This is like the infinite mortgage all over again—but worse.

Still, it presents a new challenge mode for every universe: how early in the narrative can you get the mansion?

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Ever seen a #Terrormorph skitter toward you over a lava field?

Jesus. Fucking. Christ.

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It’s a real grind to save up 5 million credits, but Château des Étoiles will be mine

I’m almost there. Just 500k to go

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Found the most breathtaking canyon on Schrödinger II, a short drive from my outpost—just past the tar pits, in fact—a vista like nothing the Sol System has to offer, putting both Earth’s Grand Canyon and Mars’ Valles Marineris to shame

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Galaxy Lo Mein fry-up at my Bardeen III beach-front cabin

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RE: https://functional.cafe/@thephoeron/116896754578805837

I got pissed off again that #TerranArmada won’t start in this universe, but instead of bailing on it completely I decided to make my way to Anchorpoint Station without being directed to by a quest and see what’s what

PS: now at Level 231 in Universe 12 (NG+11)

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The swamps of Toliman II 🥰

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RE: https://functional.cafe/@thephoeron/116895193819549714

I’m not ashamed to admit that I backtracked to Universe 12. I’d rather play a broken universe than a universe without Andreja

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#TerranArmada wouldn’t start in Universe 12 (NG+11), so I bailed on it completely before forming any attachments—and what do I get for Universe 13 at Level 229?

The universe where I have to face-off against the psychopath version of myself for control of the artifacts 🤦🏼‍♂️

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Me, trying to speed-run the Lair of the Mantis in this new universe, only to keep tripping myself tracking down all the dead Spacers in the wake of total #FullStarborn devastation

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I found my first #ColonyWarActionFigure! But it’s Kibwe Ikande

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#TerranArmada is non-stop action and intrigue and interstellar conspiracy which makes full use of all the new features of the #FreeLanes update in its narrative. It’s pure stimming, on every front.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a reason to go #FullStarborn on any enemy before, but now that I’m compelled to, oh my is it glorious. I’ve been wrapping all my sweet power combos in Phased Time just to savour the stunning visuals of electromagnetic and particle beam damage against a formidable robot army.

Delta irks me, of course, but that’s probably the whole point to their character.

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Shit. I’m a Settled-Systems multimillionaire already yet have barely made a dent in my obscene loot collection

There’s nothing else for it. I’ll just have to leave it all for the scavengers, like Andreja’s been telling me all along.

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No matter how many times I clear Tier 6 of the Vanguard piloting exam on #ExtremeMode it never seems to get less stressful

I suppose that’s because there is no trick to it. You’re so handicapped by design that “cheating” (i.e., using the in-game debug menu) offers no advantage

You just have to give in to seeing-red.

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Andreja: “I am always willing to carry an extra weapon. Or two. Or three.” *Casual smile*

Me: heart melts

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Andreja: “I don’t think I could tire of seeing these magnificent structures.”

Me: say that again after 10 universes, I dare you.

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