“Retaliation mission” Gulp. RIP Doomslug, an always reliable and effective ‘naut 😢🫡💪🏾🎖

Nice seeing someone give Starsector the coverage it deserves. Keep up the good work, Phrosphor; also, I know it might be a bit late, but maybe you can look into the mod me and some of my friends worked on, the Epta Consortium mod. It's basically Tri-Tachyon giving rights to some AI cores, and the cores decide to become traveling salespeople. yes really. massive teleporting Robo-salesmen spacestations in deep space you can stumble into while adventuring.

I'm late, sorry 😔

5:30 is when gameplay starts

Just started to watch this series so I'm an episode late. Some few tips - pirates tend to camp outer jump points of the system. Especially during a system bounty event - its a good idea to check the stations for people selling off their old freighters at the start as they are very cheap, be warned though, they are cheap for a reason as they are filled with D mods. - Killing pirate fleets outside the system still gives you credit rewards as long as you are within its proximity - picking up ship parts are actually worth it, as systems with shipyards will pay a lot for them especially during conflicts. Sometimes there also shortage events on said planets that will also pay more for those parts. - the bounty from the mod doesn't regenerate but doesn't expire. They offer extremely rare ships and also ships with story points. - storypoints can be also earned from leveling up and selling ships with storypoints to bar events. - if you want to avoid fighting pirates and they are chasing you, drop some few cargo pods, preferably filled with scrap metal to destract them. - phase cloak ships act like "submarines", you can also use it to go behind the enemy ship which is sometimes unshielded. Hope to see more videos of this game.

I missed it live, unfortunately, but I enjoyed watching it later as well. Nice to see all the progress of this stream

Hell yes ! What a fantastic game well worth a playthrough

This is HILARIOUS. They went from Beta #24 to using "Milestones." Doesn't change the fact that the developers are absolutely and utterly clueless. STILL no end to the game, now seven months later, and none expected for another YEAR or more.

Who's back re-watching this in 2024?

Hey, I'm new to this game and I've just played the OSP campaign, is this campaign available for download anywhere? Thanks!

Regarding your dog, we just pretend its your pet tark, residing besides your chair in the middle of the bridge 😀

Not dumping the metal and take more supplies is just a noob mistake ^^

I think it would be intresting to get the tanker to be able to reach those far away missions

that civilian reminds me of a security guard npc in one of my xenonauts 1. games he only had a shotgun and wrecked 3 androns. absolute legend

Couple suggestions based on your ship outfitting. 1) Grok has a flux distributor. You don't want to include that on a ship until you have already maxed out your vents. It is less efficient. For a cost of 4 OP you get 30 flux dissipation with the flux distributor. Each vent you add gets you 10 flux dissipation so the same 4 OP will get you 40. 2) Grok's heavy blaster is very inefficient from a flux/damage end of things. Between that and the IR Pulse laser you are going to have a really difficult time managing flux when pressured. A good rule of thumb (though it is tough to manage with a wolf) is to try and make sure your weapon flux/second is as close as possible to your flux dissipation/second. Right now, with all the guns firing you are generating over 900 flux/second and passive venting less than 300. This is sorta expected with the heavy blaster, and totally workable as a player piloted ship if you are careful with timing your shots, but the AI is going to really struggle, especially given how short ranged the blaster is. 3) Burst PD is good, but overkill on a frigate. Don't forget the OP cost. You really just need to worry about something to cover your rear from missiles if you end up out of position, regular old PD lasers only cost 4 OP vs 6 for the burst. 4) If I were to rijigger your weapon loadout... Given what you have available I would suggest putting the heavy blaster combined with the ion blaster on Grok since the Cabal upgrades hurt your flux, and buy those sabot missiles for kinetic damage against shields. Once the enemy drops their shields, either because the sabots overloaded him or to avoid tanking them on the shields then shoot with the heavy blaster. The ion blaster is very low flux and can disable enemy systems. Put the graviton beam and the IR pulse laser on the other ship along with the harpoons. Let him hang back and work with the other wolf since the graviton beam will penalize shield efficiency when targeting enemy shields. Put those anti matter blasters on your Lunaris. Phase ships work best when you can hit someone with a very powerful alpha strike and then go back into phase, and there are very few weapons short of torpedoes that can put out alpha damage like a couple of anti matter blasters. As a note, this is probably where you want to put those Reaper torpedoes you found.

hold alt to move all on hover, edit settings.json to "altMouseMoveToMassTransfer":true, filepath: Fractal Softworks\Starsector\starsector-core\data\config Look couple of paragraphs down under, Can be changed by mods

God I hate KZbin's censorship so badly. It is as despotic as PL sci fi predicted communist censorship will be in the future.

I said it too late on the last video but a wolf-class would make a good ship under the name ISS (or whatever ship naming convention you wanna use.) Phage.

I love your playstyle so far! It's scrappy, desperate and fun to watch. Here's something I recommend: Just get a freighter and refit it to grant it the Additional Fuel Tanks mod, that's an easy way to get early range without spending money on a tanker. Make sure that both your shuttle and any other auxiliary ships have two hullmods that increase crew/cargo/fuel to make what you have as efficient as possible. It might also be worth looking at replacing that Harpoon with a Reaper/Atropos launcher since the Harpoon is more for disabling engines than doing direct damage, and it really sounds like you're mostly using that missile slot for a finisher. Lastly, I highly recommend just skipping the scrap metal entirely when you're salvaging since it's basically worthless, unless you're able to turn it right in. And on that note, always make sure to look to see if the salvage button (6) is lit up after battle. That domain probe had salvage remaining and you might have been able to score even more cores (tho likely just ship parts and relics, but those are better than the sheet metal in your holds)! Also, the Galatia Academy story missions aren't timed, apart from the scientist delivery missions, so you can always just accept them and once you have the range you can do them.

Salvage exploration fleet

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One Happy Meal please, with the Fizzy Juice. Super Size Me.

Oh yeah, I see that you are reading the UI and mistakedly thinking "I have enough" when the text is orange; if it's yellow, the statistic is highlighted but not made worse or insufficient. Usually, orange means d-modded or noticeably inefficient, as a rule of thumb, while green means the opposite. For ship statistics, it will usually show you the final total after modifiers, _not_ the base value. A (+/- x) next to a ship modifier shows how the base has been changed, but it does not affect what the final total looks like. To sell AI cores, you land at stations or settled planets and open the comms menu, where you find the station/planet head administrator and tell them you have AI cores to return. Certain factions will give more of a reputation bonus or more of a monetary bonus in return for the AI core(s). Also, usually you have two opportunities to salvage after large enough ship battles. First, from the wrecks directly after the battle, and then from the resultant debris cloud created by the fighting. All this starter info can understandably look daunting at first, but you can quickly get accustomed to it after applying them for a long enough playthrough.

Modded is the only way to play Starsector.

0:31 fizzy juice and happy meals?! 😂😂😂 just about spit out my food I’ve actually never done smuggling for money off the start. It’s always been exploration and combat missions. I take down bounties over my fleet size by repeated engagements. Fight right up until I have enough Peak Performance to retreat (or I’ve killed enough to safely flee), retreat, and then force a re-engagement. This way I am losing minimal CR, but can wear down the enemy over multiple fights. I cant remember exactly how peak performance DOESNT reset, but I think it resets after each engagement. IE if you fight, and they run, and you force another fight, both of your Peak Performance resets, but your CR stays the same.

Didn't expect the second part to come out so soon, great to see! And of course commodities in this game is so core to the gameplay, you did choose a rather tough start with only a single phase ship., but still excited to see how you deal with it. Selling those ai cores were huge

gotta get some torpedoes for that phase frigate. nothing more satisfying than hitting a cruiser in the ass with reapers and one-shoting it.

Always great to see more StarSector! Just started a new playthrough myself, first time on .97, took time until all my must-have mods were up to date. Also great to see you have SRA in the game, it's a great mod faction and the Mimir is my absolute favourite player ship out of hundreds i've tried. (Because of the look, the fantastic mobility & ship system, not the lolcannon) Let me suggest a few QoL mods you might consider adding to this game: Advanced Gunnery Control, Leading Pip and Weapon Arcs all improve weapon handling. AGC lets you set behaviours for the AI controlled guns of your ship, Weapon Arcs lets you display range and arc of your weapon groups and leading pip adds just that to your current target. Fleet Size By DP is something that imo should be in the vanilla game, it changes the game so that various limits on your fleet are determined by total DP, not number of ships. This makes fleets of many small ships a possible playstyle much further into the game. Stellar Networks is a great UI improvement for the intel menu QoLpack has many QoL changes that can be individually configured

Try the afflictor phase ship with anti-matter blasters, it is incredible.

I think an easy name for the main high tech frigate is Phage so USS Phage or whatever ship faction acronym you choose.

I like the idea of this game, so eventally bought it, but I just can't get into it. I'm not sure why. I read lots of guides and watched plenty of helpful youtube videos. I guess it's just not for me.

Get yourself the dram and the tramp. Compensate the drams smaller cargospace by giving it expanded cargo holds modspec. If you want to earn bigger cash, make a blackmarket run with "fizzyjuice" or heavy weapons. The modspec insulated engines is great when smuggling, makes you ships sensors profile smaller. Otherwise save the cash for a more potent frigate or destroyer upgrade 🍌

34:02 we can call them the "rimworld special"

24:43 Did they make plot armor into a resource?

Really cool game! Bought it yesterday! Sometimes one can really miss out on good stuff because of steam 😅

Talking through your decisions really makes the video for me!

should be a free dram in that scrapyard, along with some more combat ships. they all have Dmods of course, but given your current situation, the bright and shiny hulls are really beyond your reach. as for what you should do next, given that mod you downloaded that makes exploring basically impossible, I suggest you pick up combat trading, which is to say selling goods in systems that are experiencing turmoil. also, always check the bar for the "concerned trader" as they offer shipping contracts that can pay well. one other suggestion, i always slap either expanded cargo holds and efficiency overhaul onto my freighters, or a converted hangar. the first one makes them pretty good at hauling, the second gives them a snowballs chance at actually making it out of a retreat situation.

the barren planet just outside the asteroid belt would've been a veritible treasure trove, unfortunate you didn't check it before you left. there's also a domain era probe to scavenge in galatia, pretty sure it's 'north" on the system map, you would use sensor burst to find it. oh, hey you found the probe.

The issue with Starship Legends is by default your ships will get negative quirks if they eat up hull damage, which given, your playstyle, will end up with you having you ships laden with negative quirks. You can change the weighting by editing the mod config file.

The Shuttle has to be the fleet Skyranger

stumbled upon this channel and seems like a gem! seeing a lot of games i really quite like

Man, these episodes are coming out fast and furious

Been waiting for this!

On balance (and appreciate this is a 5month old video) you focused too much on mission control, Boost is more important in the early game to winning the space race and grabbing the best moon sites to springboard onto Mars, and getting orbital research running. Mission control is important but unless you can actually launch things into space its useless. You can switch boost for mission control once the space economy starts rolling

A quick question- do you get memory leaks with this mod setup?

How did he get the autosave mod to work? It wont let me use outdated mods, and I really want it

Playing Starsector without Nexerlin is not playing the game properly ^^

Excited to see Starsector on this channel. Looking forward to seeing how this series progresses over time!

Cool! This looks like it's going to be an awesome series - i don't have any experience with Starsector but from what I've heard it looks very cool but overwhelmingly complex for me to play so I'm happy to see someone like you tackling it!

Yes, Starsector