Earlier this week, someone handed me 30 salvaged frigate modules at the Anomaly. I was grateful at the time, but even then, I felt weird about it. Now what reason do I have to go out of my way to do crashed freighters or derelict freighters? But hey, whatever, now I can get my freighter into green and blue systems without having to grind those modules for ages first, I suppose.

Then yesterday, some guy randomly handed somebody else at the Anomaly 30 cargo bulkheads. I was immediately wary and honestly hoping he wouldn’t start handing me things. Then he handed me 30 cargo bulkheads, without me saying anything, THREE TIMES. 90 cargo bulkheads. Then I saw that same guy handing out a whole BUNCH of stuff to another guy who asked for some cargo bulkheads of his own. Just pile after pile of crazy valuable stuff, hundreds of millions of units worth. One of the things he handed him was a pile of over 1,000 Quicksilver. Handing someone Quicksilver can only be done with fake Quicksilver which has been save-edited into the game as an inventory item. It’s just a worthless inventory item with the Quicksilver icon. It’s not actually Quicksilver, and you can’t use it as such.

This is what made me realize that probably ALL the stuff that guy was handing out is save-edited. This made me realize that probably those 30 salvaged frigate modules the other day were save-edited, and now I feel even scummier about taking and using those. I got rid of all the cargo bulkheads except two because it just felt so much like cheating. And when I looked up the sources for getting cargo bulkheads, I realize that taking those would absolutely ensure I had NO reason to ever do a crashed or derelict freighter again, since those are places to get cargo bulkheads, and I already have much less reason to do them without needing salvaged frigate modules.

If I had taken those, there would be whole huge chunks of the game and content that I would have literally no reason to experience and explore. I don’t even know what people’s intentions are doing this stuff, but all it does is ruin the game since now I have no reason to earn those things myself. And the ones I did use don’t feel earned. It feels like I cheated. And then even when I decided to get rid of them, I have all this pressure on me to make that decision in the first place, and then to decide how to go about it. I don’t want to deal with all that. It’s one thing to hand out a few valuable or useful things to newer players, but when you bombard them with potentially literally months’ worth of grinding that it would take to naturally get those items, you’re just taking away any incentive to actually PLAY THE GAME.

I really don’t want to sound ungrateful to those who are a bit more reasonable and just give a small bit of help here and there. But unloading massive amounts of crazy valuable stuff onto new players, especially if you save-edited it into the game in the first place, just seems like a crappy thing to do. I can’t be alone in thinking this way. In fact when I’m in the Anomaly, I get kinda nervous that someone is going to start handing out massive amounts of stuff like that. Especially when I actually see somebody handing out that kinda stuff, I get nervous that they’re going to turn to me next, and then I’ll have to deal with all that hassle and those feelings of taking something I didn’t earn and ruining my motivation for experiencing different parts of the game.

I shouldn’t be getting NERVOUS that somebody is going to hand me a buttload of stuff in the Anomaly every time I go there, man. It makes me just want to avoid going there and interacting with people, but then the multiplayer stuff is normally some of my most favorite parts of this game.

Whoever you are I have two things to say to you 1. Thank you my starborn runner has next to unlimited space and tech slots thanks to you. 2. How the fuck did you get that many that’s insane

Hi all!

I remember seeing the trailers and all the chatter around this game back when it was still being announced and I recall thinking to myself that I needed this game in my life. Well, the launch didn’t go so well, to put it mildly and I just forgot about it until recently.

Decided to get it and give it a shot, since so many online articles were claiming that it redeemed itself and is now the game it claimed to be at launch, so why not.

I have to say that it’s been a while since any game grasped me this hard. There is a sense of wonder and mystery that I can’t put into words, and the feeling of being free to do whatever I want is amazing. I have not gotten very far into the game, only just entered the Anomaly for the first time and spend a few good minutes drooling at all the cool ships. There was even a blue kinda organic-looking one, no idea what that could have been. Oh and one that had a red light in front, moving from side to side just like KITT, that looked amazing and I need it!

So far I have done the tutorial base, but since moved off to another planet, found a nice little Paradise Planet with cool Fauna and nice landscape, so I settled there with a new base. Along the way, and exploring different planets I found some weird bones that sold for quite a bit ( at least for my standard ), found a strange ball that maybe I shouldn’t have picked up since it angered some sentinels and I just barely escaped, and found a very strange planet where my ship was reporting “anomaly strength” at whatever %. Not sure what that was about, but felt cool.

I know that I still have a long way to go ( probably ), but so far I’m having so much fun just exploring and getting side-tracked all the time because I saw something interesting, which leads me to something else and then another thing and I just end up losing track of what I was doing in the first place. But that’s fine because I get to do so much stuff.

For my next steps, I’d love to get a new, cooler, ship, explore more planets to see what they have to offer, adopt a companion and find out what they can do – I have one at the moment, but not entirely sure of their utility – and find out more about trading. I’m starting to notice that prices of some things vary from station to station and I’m sure some clever people out there worked out some trade routes or something similar. Finally, discover more about the storyline, it seems interesting so far!

I went in this game blind, don’t know much about the story or what the endgame looks like, and I’m loving it this way.

Thanks for reading an excited player’s blabbing this far!

Weeks ago I learned the blueprint for a conflict scanner, but I couldn’t finish installing it because I needed a walker brain. I left it unfinished in my ship, flashing at me as a reminder.

Yesterday I was on a planet with aggressive sentinels, and decided to pick a fight to see if I could get a walker brain. One important thing to note is up to this point I thought a ‘walker’ was the quad-leg dog sentinel. I’ve killed one or two of them before and only received a quad servo, but I thought maybe you got different things, and I was just unlucky not to get a brain. (Trying not to laugh at myself as I type this.)

So I start a fight with the sentinels, and after killing two of the dogs and getting quad servos I start to get annoyed at what I think is my bad luck, when I hear the announcement that a sentinel walker was on the way. I finally clued in to the fact that what I thought was a walker was not in fact a walker, and I needed to quickly come up with a plan.

I’m sure there are better ways to kill walkers, but I jumped into my ship and took off, and spent the next few minutes flying low and slow passes above the walker while strafing it with my photon cannon. Eventually I killed the walker, got its brain, and now I have a working conflict scanner.

This game is so fun!