Agreed, or ruin the universe. I sided with the Crimson fleet, and other than some space battles and news reports, almost nothing changed. I'd love if they let you do so much damage to the universe that New Atlantis became crime ridden, or something drastic like that.

Was it too dark or so bright it was washed out? Sorry you couldn't see anything.

@digitalsurvivalgaming it was dark. I was able to work it out though after remembering I can slow down the video speed so thank you

@slimdarcy9503 It was one of my earliest videos, so I'm not surprised it was sub-par. Glad you were able to get something out of it, with some extra work.

Yeah, I'm not sure what the drop chance is on the bike. I thought it was 100% until the time I didn't get offered one. Thanks for the comment.

I'm guessing the new heat mechanics are more designed to generate screamers when you're fighting in a POI and less about base heat. I suspect there will be a rework in the future to make it less dangerous to cook iron and mix cement at the same time, but we'll see. Thanks for commenting!

Agreed! Glad to help.

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching and commenting!

Thanks. Good luck!

😁 I do play Minecraft! And I have playthroughs in 7 Days where zombie murder is the priority (I'm pondering posting a Horde night from a 3 player Darkness Falls run where we're up over game-stage 700. That's nuts!) This series is to try playing the game in a way other than the intended way. (some would say the wrong way) Thanks for commenting!

I've got a bit of completionist in me, too, and have another character that will power up to NG+10, other than my main. It's been hard for me to stick with, though, because it feels more grindy and less fun. Did all the big faction quests, and enjoyed Crimson Fleet the most and Ryujin the least. Thanks for the comment!

A wise friend of mine once said (in relation to Warcraft (the single player game, not the MMO) be a governor before a general, meaning get a solid foundation before doing a bunch of fighting. I think 7 Days is the same. I don't want to have to worry about food or safety, and once you have those you can do anything else you want.

You are very welcome.

I love the green lines! It makes it easier to find the base from farther away.

Hope it helped. Any questions, or suggestions for future content, are welcome.

Thanks! 2-4 are out now, and 5 will drop July 25.

I will check on that. Thanks!

They do, but 1 isn't much heat. 6 is going to be a lot. I get by with 1 and the 3 mods.

Thanks for the data. I usually build a hot room away from my main base where I do all my forging and cement mixing. I might have to add water collection to that. I'm hoping FunPimps will scale the heat requirement back up some...

Thanks, will do!

I can't disagree with you. I wonder what kind of constraints they were working under, both personally, and within the corporate structure.

@@digitalsurvivalgaming Sidequests are mostly fun though.

@techwizard3234 Are you talking about a) getting to the body, or b) to the space on the other side of the window across from the body? a) To get to the body, start at just after the 10:00 mark in the video, through the cuttable wall at the bottom of the central staircase. b) The window opposite the body is actually right at the start of the interior area on the level. If you go to the 1:53 mark in the video, you can see a window on the left. That window looks into the area where the body with the second Project Marzana data is.

There are some pre-requisites before you can get missions from Vlad for temples. First you have to find some artifacts, and you also have to progress a certain amount through the main story. You can only get temple missions for artifacts you've already secured, though you can find temples for other artifacts through exploration. Also, the survey mission set is hidden behind some social looking conversation options. Probably not what you were talking about, but related.

If Godhood was really an option, I think I'd jump at it. Starborn powers are a far cry from that, though. I'd also consider it more if you could keep together with some of the people you've come to know. The idea that either Sam would be okay with leaving Cora behind, or having her flung to some random universe is more ludicrous than me abandoning my parents (who would get evicted from New Atlantis without my income) and the Mantis, which is just righteous fun.

Cool. Nice call out.

Awesome! Thank you so much!

You use the phrase "meaningless and worthless" several times in your post. I find that interesting, because value (arguably a measure of worth) is at least partly subjective. Certainly, in the physical world goods are produced by effort, and the minimum marketable value of a good is an aggregation of the costs to make it, but what that really ends up meaning is, if people value the good at or above the cost of production, then producing it can be profitable. If not, it can't, and usually any attempts at production are short lived. The value of an individual's relationships is also very subjective. Some people value personal relationships highly, and will go to a lot of effort to build and maintain them. Others not so much. Some want relationships with a large number of people, others prefer to only keep a few people close, but each relationship has a value assigned to it by the people involved, and even then, it can be different between two parties. So something that you (or the developers of this game) assert is meaningless and worthless can only be your judgement of that thing, whether digital or physical or emotional or intellectual. Another person, another player, can find value that you might not see or comprehend, and that's fine. We're all different, and what we value determines what we do with our time and energy. And I think it's pretty clear that millions of people value relationships and emotional investment in fictional worlds and people. If that wasn't true, changes to things like Star Wars, Marvel, and Warhammer 40K wouldn't produce such visceral responses. Those fans have an emotional investment in those worlds and/or characters, and someone changing them is painful, in a very real way. So, I'm still going to value the experiences I've had in the game. It was an emotional journey for me, that I can carry with me for the rest of my life. It's not as rich or impactful as my relationships with my family members, or even some of the other games I've played, but it's part of me, and by thinking what I would decide in some of the fictional situations I've played through, I'm just a little bit more prepared for the real situations I face every day.

@@digitalsurvivalgaming Go back and read what I said again. Maybe pay less attention to the part that made you mad, and at least a little to like... all the rest of it

@cdarklock, I read it all, twice, before replying. There wasn't a part that made me mad, even a little. I see what you're saying there, and have a different perspective. I can understand you without agreeing with you. I should probably add that my first reaction to your comment was to shrug my shoulders. I almost didn't reply at all. I suspected you wouldn't listen to anything I wrote, but as this is a public forum, and others might read your post as well, and perhaps disagree without being able to articulate why, I figured I'd give it a shot. My reply was for them.

​@@digitalsurvivalgaming Then why did I say "only you know the answer" toward the end? You don't seem to understand what I'm saying. You may disagree with SOMETHING, but it's not what I said.

@cdarklock It sounds like that's when you jumped from applying your philosophy of everything and everyone is meaningless and worthless from the gaming world into the real world. Implying more than overtly stating that when we die, we lose everything we've ever worked for. The statement "only you know the answer" implies that we've delved into the realm of religious faith (or in this case, the absence of religion), and you seem to think that when we die, we disappear from the cosmos, much like turning off a video game. I disagree with that. At least, that's what I get from the continuation of that quote, "...that answer is probably the same in both places." But if I've misinterpreted, please, do clarify.

Thanks! Good luck to you, too.

That's some legit role-playing. Kudos.

Sure thing. Thanks for commenting!

You're quite welcome. :)

I honestly think their main goal was to implement some kind of new game plus mechanic, and thought this would be a cool way to do it, and honestly, it is an interesting idea. I'm certain if this were an option in reality, there would be a percent of the population that would be interested in abandoning everything they knew to go to a different universe, I just expect it would be more selfish people, which would be overall better for the universe, right? What if there was a universe where they built an armillary and used it get rid of their worst criminals? No powers (it's implied that anyone can go through, not just powered people) just thrown out of their universe. Holy cow, they're spreading their criminals to the rest of us!

@@digitalsurvivalgaming sounds like the Phantom Zone from Superman.

Glad it helped!

You're very welcome. Glad you liked it.

I just have one regret is I didn't save my game before siding with the hunter. Because I want to side with the emissary

Glad you enjoyed it.

So many possibilities. Drop them into a star. Just one artifact in a star or a black hole and no amillary, all the starborn trapped (until shattered space?)

@@digitalsurvivalgaming exactly! I guess we'll see eh?

I never went far enough in the new universe to encounter this. Dang. I remember there was some funny dialog you had to do with Vlad before he'd offer to buy survey data. Makes me want to dig into that.

That's one of the few things I like about the Unity, is seeing the "game so far" summary. Got one where I sided with the Crimson Fleet that I'm looking forward to seeing how that looks. Need to leave Ron Hope alive one of these times and see what that looks like, too.

@dbbeilin - Dang, that's annoying. When I've had trouble getting an artifact out it's usually been from not hitting the Caleumite around it at the right angle. It's kind weird how you can have the Caleumite highlighted, but the cutter isn't cutting it. The only suggestion I can add to what Bethesda's already given you is to try changing your angle of attack on the nodes around the artifact and seeing if that helps break anything else off. It's annoying that you have to switch back and forth between scanner mode and regular mode to check and see if you can grab it, too. (dancing around, adjusting the angle on the artifact after clearing the nodes to pick it up might also make a difference). I'm a software engineer, and if you were a client of my company I'd want to do a screenshare to better see what's going on. If you can record a short video of what you're trying to do and post a link to it, I'll take a look and see if anything sticks out. (OBS is a great free software for video capture and compilation on PC, not sure what you could use on XBox) Good luck. If anyone else reads this thread and has helpful ideas, please post.

the cutter is cutting and I removed all the caleumite but the cue "Take" never comes up so I can remove the artifact@@digitalsurvivalgaming

Sorry, I don't have any ideas, other than approaching the artifact from different angles, and/or posting a video.

@@digitalsurvivalgaming where is the best place to post videos to resolve this issue

What I'd suggest is uploading a private video to your own youtube account and sharing the link. If you share it here, I'll do what I can, but you might get more feedback sharing it on a forum. Either way, I'd like to look. Not sure if anything will jump out, but I hate quitting. ;)

Glad to hear it! That POI's design was just...

One of the selling points of a great RPG (not asserting this on is great...) is the RP, Roleplaying. The chance to make choices and have outcomes differ based on those choices. To experience consequences in a virtual space without having to experience those consequences for similar choices made in the real world. One of the reasons that has value is the same reason a good play or book or movie or TV show has value, the emotional journey. Of course it's a game (or a show, or a book) but my emotional investment has a similar impact on me as it would in real life, and that's what I'm talking about. You suggest getting over it, I'm just about there. I've got a video to put together on Sam's relationship story, and the aftermath of his death at the hands of the Hunter, and maybe one about Starfield being an amoral game (which you'll probably be equally upset by) and then I'll be done until Shattered Space.

I don't even know how to respond to this. Thanks for commenting....?

You're welcome. Good luck!

It's interesting, I've experienced my fair share of bugs, but I've never had performance issues. I can respect your disappointment and/or disgust with Starfield, because people have different opinions of things. I would like to suggest that people who disagree and like the game can do so with their eyes open and their brains engaged. Conversations about graphics issues can be technically broken down, but issues about how "boring" something is are very subjective. Some people find chess boring, some find it extremely engaging, and may mock people who don't like it. I prefer not to dismiss someone who doesn't agree with me, but rather listen to what they have to say, and maybe learn something. Thanks for commenting!

Thank you. New skill videos aren't high on my priority list, but that can be adjusted. Is there an area you'd like to see?

Also left handed! Though the first thing I thought of when you said "leftie" was not left-handedness...

I sort of switch hands around for different things, but for video games I use my left hand for the mouse and right keyboard.