The Keyser Söze Challenge : Starsector Ep1

[@johnwalsh6683]

The greatest trick the Lunk ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

[@ketsuekikumori9145]

You can't exist if there's no one to tell the tales.

[@itgoesdown1542]

You can't exist if there's no one to pay taxes.

[@basbekjenl]

This challenge is the definition of two dark ships passing in the night. Everyone is quiet, no one makes unnecessary noise, it's not a glamorous or glorious pirate life but you become notorious with your actions while no one can prove a thing everybody knows.

[@emlerm]

Many games and little time. Guys i think we have to clone Francis,

[@tobycat5799]

I dont think theres enough whiskey for that

[@Tactcat]

you can do active sensor bursts to increase your profile to 2k in order to lure patrols away to where you did it then you just get out of the way and go visit the planet

[@starryknight64]

(to the tune of the theme song for "Paw Patrol") Dodge patrols! Dodge patrols! Francis will avoid them! Whenever the patrols go 'round the galaxy Francis and his strategies will come and save the day! Pirates! Fuel! Drugs! Supplies! Stealth! Marines! Yeah! He's on his way! Dodge patrols! Dodge patrols! Francis will avoid them! Dodge patrols! Dodge patrols! He's lucky they don't see him! No job's too big No bar's too small Dodge patrols, we gotta go! So here we go! Dodge patrols! Whoa-oh-oh Dodge patrols! Whoa-oh-oh-oh! Dodge patrols!

[@christophemalgouyres]

Always happy to see more Starsector, thank you Francis!

[@Genesis8934]

"Does anyone actually read the names" "IHateSpendingMOneyButYou'reApparentlyWorthIt" "NeverGonnaGiveYouUp NeverGonnaLetYouDown" lol

[@egoalter1276]

Starsector Names are usually pretty cool ready. Very Culture inspired.

[@anthonyzepeda2171]

I was about to rewatch the starsector series! Glad you read my mind and making a new series instead. Also want to play but couldn’t find it on steam but a quick google search shows a different site.

[@Revenant483]

Yep, not a Steam title. The developers site looks cheesy, but it is legit and a really good deal for this game.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Their website looks like it was made in the 90s and then never updated 😁 Fun game though, I like that they give you different ways to play it. Well two really violent or sneaky.

[@Revenant483]

@@FrancisJohnYT I know right!?

[@ripmorld9909]

When you want to smuggle in a system , you should always fuck with their sensor relay if they have one . By “inducing false readings” into it , you can often distract the patrols long enough for you to get in and out. Stealth is surprisingly optional when it comes to smuggling , but that revolves around some transponder fuckery that I don’t think you allowed yourself to do.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

The sensor reading thing is really handy when their are way to many patrols, I should use it more often. Actually I will use it to often. The only thing I'm not allowed do is turn on the Transponder, Keyser Söze is never seen.

[@Liberatios]

Never heard of this gem of a game, thanks for covering it

[@gogudelagaze1585]

He has an entire series on it. Great stuff. The game itelf is REALLY good

[@Revenant483]

Great episode Francis!!! Always a good time with Starsector!

[@layzbonez815]

I love this series. Thanks for introducing me to an awesome game and now I can’t stop playing my space smuggling fantasy. 10/10

[@ryosaeba9306]

Nice episode :) The only thing I dont watch from Francis is Oxigen not included, because one day, one day maybe, I want to try it myself blind, I never saw anything. And then watch his stuff and feel how stupid I am.

[@jakobdanowski1325]

Play with nexerelin god dammit. But even without it, love seeing you play starsector again.

[@ham8426]

A good way to find high tech ships is to find a contact with TriTac. Preferably trade or military i think as they're more likely to offer ship sales, nano-forge orders or send you on bounties to TT traitors who frequently have mostly TT or High tech ships which come in low quantities and are made of glass.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Turns out the underworld guy can give you production runs that at least get you Revenants (cloaked cargo ships) though I have not seen Phantoms yet. I want to run a fleet of Phantom, Revenants smuggling and raiding but never actually being seen.

[@ham8426]

Can't quite recall where i found my first phantom, probably as an abandoned ship in the outer rim. Revenants do seem to come up from time to time in TT shipyards, though they might be only in the military stock, not entirely sure. Also not sure if they'd be worth it over modded Buffalo or Atlas's, phase ships are costly to run.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

@@ham8426 Playing completely unseen is not really worth it. Their are a bunch of missions you can never do as they require you to have your transponder on. For every cloaked ship you add to your fleet you are harder to detect. So with nothing but Revenants and Phantoms we should be able to sneak into anywhere. Fun note, Phantoms and Revenants benefit from the bulk transport speed bonus skill. So get +2 speed from that, thrown in augmented engine +2 and Navigation +1 skill and you have a fleet with a base movement of 13 and a stealth movement of 9!

[@HenrikEbert]

You had plenty supplies, but you yeeted yourself into hyperspace storms like a lemming ;D

[@ahmataevo]

Solar shielding tends to work better since almost all hyperspace is storms, there are absolutely no clear paths to anything outside the core worlds. 20% energy weapon resistance helps in some fights.

[@HenrikEbert]

@@ahmataevo So go fast but shielded?

[@ahmataevo]

@@HenrikEbert - It's what I usually do. In the core worlds at least some storms can be navigated around, but anywhere else, forget about trying that.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

If solar shielding shows up I would grab it, but I think you have to find it exploring somewhere.

[@jerome8124]

Love the Rimworld series but I'm always up for Starsector, keep it coming and thanks as always.

[@pz7510]

this is quite a neat concept for playing this game, I haven't touched it in a long while but this seems a fun alternative way to run a game :)

[@Mantis_Toboggan_TrashMan]

It's crazy I had no idea this game existed until three months ago.

[@gogudelagaze1585]

Today, we shall demonstrate the importance of not being seen

[@ripmorld9909]

Also buy all the proximity charge you see , and buy a falcon P. With that you can take down the [VERY REDACTED] ship at alpha site. It would provide a lot of buff as it is a phase ship

[@FrancisJohnYT]

The [VERY REDACTED] ship at alpha site is great, the problem is it's unique. "As the Ziggurat is a unique, distinctive ship, while it is in the player fleet other fleets will always recognize the player even with the transponder disabled." Kind of messes up our Keyser Söze vibe unfortunately, I want to be sneaky, stealthy and then smash and grab stuff with our marines.

[@cordogminner9077]

"scupper" is such a great word

[@20985229147]

I can't believe none of the Jangala patrols bothered you after all the black market trading you did with the Transponder on

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Oh pretty sure they did, I think we lost 5 rep with them. I cut out the footage in the second pass as it seemed non relevant.

[@chcolatedolphin778]

Let’s gooooo starsector content

[@macelharen]

12:48 - first evil giggle 35:15 - after thirty minutes of slowing himself down in stealth, he complains about storms slowing him down for a few seconds xD

[@tedarcher9120]

I'd like to see more Starsector shenanigans!

[@BrKnOblivion]

Fantastic game and idea. Keep it up

[@KainYusanagi]

Damn, amazing. Great job, Lunk!

[@oscarnieves6451]

ay, back to the old drunken francis song

[@emmettraymond8058]

Always excited to see Starsector on the channel! If you like space games like this, have you ever considered giving Endless Sky a look? It's a free, indie space game in the spirit of the old Escape Velocity games.

[@Ceowulf20]

Escape velocity, what a series of games!

[@emmettraymond8058]

@@Ceowulf20 Yep. An old series of top-down space games where you can trade, fight, explore, and meddle in the affairs of space empires.

[@AstroBioMan]

Endless sky is ok but it doesn't stand up to the EV games in my experience. Starsector is a real spiritual successor to them imo

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Escape velocity was my intro to this genre, it's how I ended up getting sucked into the X2 series. I recently looked up a video of Escape velocity, it's looks so clunky and terrible from this far in the future. But I burned way to many hours on that game back in the day. I don't think Endless Sky is quite as good as Starsector, it looks like an upgraded version of EV. No stealth, also the combat looks less deep. Though will have to investigate a bit more and see if I'm missing something.

[@emmettraymond8058]

@@FrancisJohnYT honestly, that's a pretty fair assessment. There's a fair bit more story to Endless Sky than Starsector, but the combat is in every way more clunky. Some of the builds you can make by combining stolen tech from various races are pretty fun and OP, but it's probably worse watching. Really, what we need is a better campaign mod for Starsector.

[@Lcscreamer]

Aaaaaand we’re back

[@ed-edd_andeddy]

l belive The Independent doesn't care about transponders and their patrols don't hunt you down for it.

[@OleksandrKolyvushko]

does the family continues it's story in the star sector?

[@ntma]

my man living the life

[@ts_vexx6883]

More pleez! I cant wait for you to do some things other than rimworld :)

[@CrackeryZachary]

I was really missing this game.

[@illegalotter]

Love this game and not heard of it before. Thanks for showing it off. I did notice when you went into the last system from hyperspace that you turned the transponder back on. Not sure if it stays on and you need to tick it off again or not.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

That was a hotkey thing, it's linked to number one. I normally hit 2 to go dark when I enter a system I must have hit one instead. I am pretty sure I hit go dark immediately.

[@randallporter1404]

@@FrancisJohnYT Run *_Invalid:_* restart. 😄

[@JStankXPlays]

STAR SECTOR!!! OH YEAH!!

[@josefrees]

This should be fun

[@DeepProbe]

18:40 "I don't see anything ... that would help us" ...as long as you don't want to be involved in any fighting at all... But at this very moment cursor treacherously parked over "Afflictor (P)", which straight up better in any possible aspect than "Shade (P)" you own...

[@brokentoes6721]

I'm super glad you're doing a play through. Although I'd greatly wish you'd do a modded run with rules. Asher does that but I greatly prefer your content.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Asher looks to use a lot of mod, that is way more that I would be willing to use. I think it would get way to many people lost.

[@AstroBioMan]

There is a ship that's a phase capable hauler but you generally have to find the blueprint (hard enough by itself) and then build one at a colony, and frankly you'll hit the mil way before that would happen anyway.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Lucky build option from a contact and we got access to some Revenant phase ships (phase cargo) makes things much easier.

[@AstroBioMan]

Yep that was the one, randy was being nice with that contact for sure

[@hexrobel1071]

I swear you play the best games i like

[@jslocomb]

Lunk is Legend

[@randallporter1404]

Lunky Chunks, the source of [Lunk's] power and part of a balanced breakfast.

[@Espersontheone]

I was planning on going to bed. I guess not lol. Star sector let's go!

[@inybisinsulate]

The fighting looks so hard to figure out but this playstyle seens to circumvent the only weird part of the game.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

I think the game is mostly a fight simulator but I'm more interested in being sneaky and seeing how far we can stretch that.

[@inybisinsulate]

@@FrancisJohnYT What I've seen of the fighting is a confusing mess, glad you can avoid the entire system hope they never patch it out.

[@egoalter1276]

Combat is excellent in the game, ai have no clue what your problem with it is.

[@fluffytowels1145]

Tri-Tachyon is your friend, they only care about your money and if your transponder just happens to be "broken" it's no excuse to refuse a perfectly good trade or pull you over(sour trade relations).

[@Bronimin]

yep, just grab Navigation for transverse jump and run drugs from tritach to the pirates if you really hate fun and want the million credits as fast as possible

[@LeCheckmate]

Oh hecc, hype

[@MikaelLevoniemi]

Not supposed to to through the subspace clouds without proper upgrades. Those storms become crazy expensive with bigger fleets without sun shields.

[@fluffytowels1145]

That's just the fun tax

[@NstHarlequin]

Let’s goooo star sector

[@JessWLStuart]

Fun video!

[@dmcs2003]

Love the crazy ivan at the 28:06 minute mark :-) Was that the bottom of the hour?

[@pklemming]

The game seems to have a significant lack of major war crimes.

[@olesammygrant]

Just wait until he develops the military power to collapse economies and make fat profits selling organs and drugs to the factions he devastated

[@ShapezPuller64]

Until you consider you're selling heroin and battle mechs to space luddites with a flair for terrorism - the war crimes, like real life, are indirect!

[@gogudelagaze1585]

Yup, no war crimes whatsoever (let's ignore raiding all the faction capitals for their relics and bringing them back to the stone age in the process)

[@AstroBioMan]

You can bomb a planet to the extent that it becomes uninhabited and every faction in the cluster gets mad at you, that's some genuine warcrime stuff

[@FrancisJohnYT]

I am currently wondering if we decivilized all the food producing worlds would all the rest of the worlds eventually fall apart to?

[@krissteel4074]

Always keep recreational drugs in your hold More invaluable life lessons for the kids from FJ

[@maciejbuczkowski8358]

@FrancisJohn we love you and we want new games!!! Please Ps. I can suggest some😅. Thanks for your work, „they’re not paying you enough” ;)

[@JohnSmith-eu2dt]

Dwarf Fortress would be cool. Would be nice to see Francois dissect this game, break it hilariously while explaining it to us noobs.

[@fnutarf2085]

Hearing Francis pronounce all the names in starsector makes me realize I've always read them wrong :/

[@FrancisJohnYT]

..... yeah don't be trusting my pronunciations every. I am terrible at pronunciations.

[@88Lee]

No, his pronunciation is bad.

[@egoalter1276]

Or maybe he is readimg them wrong. We shall never know.

[@grandfremdling3841]

Fine

[@totheknee]

36:58 - Leaves 25k on the table. 45:03 - Makes 14k profit. 😆

[@Tieberious]

Hmm this is fun

[@rosmelylawliet]

Wow, I wanna buy this game ASAP; it sucks that it's not in Steam or anything :S

[@FrancisJohnYT]

It's only sold directly by the developer on their website, it looks like something form the 90s. They are still updating it though I don't know if they will ever move to steam.

[@brianhauptman]

The closing song needs the "lyrics" from a few months ago.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Nope nope nope nope nope, that never happened and we do not speak of it 😁

[@enamis1]

yesss, i'm still on the fence about buying this and since we have such similar taste in games i'm glad i'll get to see you play this

[@JStankXPlays]

It has a steep learninng curve but its really good

[@KainYusanagi]

Check out the mods for it too. Recommend IroncladLion's videos on ScalarTech and UAF.

[@jmatya]

He has a complete series about it, check out his earlier videos

[@Self-replicating_whatnot]

You should remove the transponder from hotkey bar, if you are doing the challenge like that. Just to stress the point.

[@Dinvan]

You can get near 0 sensor profile with phase ships :D

[@FrancisJohnYT]

With 3 phase and 1 regular we are about 100 sensor profile, will need a few more if we want to dip below 100.

[@crowman1795]

Francis, please, for the love of Omnissiah, use Nexerelin! It's an amazing Diplomacy mod that you won't experience in the base game.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

I hear lots of good things about Nexerelin, but I tend to stick to vanilla with QoL in games. I just don't like straying to far from base as I fell like it alienates people who have never played the game.

[@serorcinus8570]

I hope you play Songs of Syx someday

[@alexanderperezcampos6766]

I'm not familiar with this game but does he turn on the transponder at 49:58? I'm not sure how to tell from the ui if it's on after that jump but it seems like he clicks on the first option

[@ed-edd_andeddy]

you can tell weather a something is active by the lines that circle the icon. He miss clicked and activated the transponder but immediately turned back to stealth mode.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Doh, it's to do with the numbers beside each option. When you go to jump into a core system you get three choices. 1 Turn on transponder 2 Leave transponder off 3 Don't jump Then for shortcuts on the taskbar you have option 2 for going dark. So I figure there I double clicked by accident and turned on the transponder, but since I reflexively hit the number 2 on jumping into a system to cloak up it auto removed the transponder, got to be more careful.

[@randallporter1404]

@@FrancisJohnYT You need to chastise your first officer... again. 😮‍💨😆

[@endlessdreamz7404]

surprised your not doing this with Nex mod

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Next time I come back I will have to give Nex a spin, I keep hearing good things.

[@JohnSmith-eu2dt]

Could you elaborate what extra work you're doing on the episode? I'm curious.

[@JohnSmith-eu2dt]

@@d.6325 I assumed it was more work in regards to editting the video as opposed to gameplay.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

It's all gameplay, you can't just power through a raid of pirates quick. They have low shields so you can't gun them down, they have doom and triples so you have to stay hidden/invisible. So it's lots of micro and lots of using psy powers. So even if it only takes you 30 days to set up a mountain base, you still have to fight off about 30-35 pirate raids while doing it. Not exactly exciting watching so I cut it out unless something funny/interesting happened.

[@r2dezki]

Hey Francis, ever heard of Plan B: Terraform?

[@FrancisJohnYT]

I was thinking of wiping out the competition and stealing the whole market.

[@trr7fd]

will you play dwarf fortress?

[@emlerm]

he will after the Rimworld playthrough.

[@trr7fd]

@@emlerm why did he start starsector then?

[@emlerm]

@@trr7fd I don't know. It looks like the Rimworld episode needs some preparations and Making a challenge episode of Starsector seems way simpler than starting an Dwarf Fortress playthrough. We all have Francis content withdrawal, so hang in there man.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Starsector is the type of game you can power through in under a week and still do some crazy stuff. I just put this up real quick as I was not going to be able to do the Rimworld episode. Takes forever to build anything when you are getting attacked every day.

[@bruhder5854]

Has there been any news on when this game will come on steam?

[@FrancisJohnYT]

I don't think it will any time soon, the team (two people) that make it seem to be happy not giving a cut to steam. This get enough income from the way they are doing it now to survive. They might change their minds at any point though so it's not set in stone.

[@IcoKirov]

Having Transverse Jump and not using it is hurtful to watch.

[@Sebastian----]

Is this game still alive?

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Yeah it's about 10% the size of Rimworld in active community.

[@azurosforest2666]

1kk$ not that much... you got half of that in first video.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

True, but don't want to be doing the same thing for to long it might get dull.

[@azurosforest2666]

@@FrancisJohnYT i see... i hope you figured out how to end this playthrough in unexpected way!

[@Hichamhasan]

Nope, definitely not for me