WRECKIN' A WRECK - Ostranauts v14 - Ep 7

[@xveers]

It's called an angle grinder because the cutting head is turned 90 degrees from how a normal grinder's is set. A normal grinder has it's wheel axle pointing directly out from the tool (like a power drill). It's working surfaces are often the sides of spinning wheel; this grinder's used to smooth surfaces, polish edges, that sort of thing. An angle grinder has the axle turned 90* to the side, so now the edge of the wheel is the working surface, allowing you to use it as a cutting tool.

[@clovermite]

Great explanation! If I remember correctly, in addition to cutting, it's also often used to sharpen objects by literally angling the grinder so it creates a bevel in the object based on how aggresively you tilt that working edge of the grinder.

[@snafu2350]

Very good, tho I like my off-the-cuff explanation too: "it's called an angle grinder 'cos it's used to grind angles in angle-iron" :)

[@Hawkido]

@@snafu2350 Not to be confused with an Anal Grinder...

[@emperorSbraz]

it also sometimes angles the user's face to 90 degrees

[@billheughan637]

What I've found that seems to work pretty well in my first game, with the coffin start is: if a derelict is in decent shape and has a battery, patch up any holes, fix the battery, and let the ship pressurize with the leftover tanks. Then you can remove and repair stuff at your leisure without an EVA. Also in my experience you have to stop right as you step into the airlock and let the door clip through your character before moving forward. Definately didn't learn that the hard way (since the coffin doesn't have an O2 bottle).

[@AceStrife]

..coffin start?

[@Arthaius]

@@AceStrife - I am assuming this refers to getting one of the super tiny ships with barely any space inside.

[@billheughan637]

​@@AceStrife as the other commenter mentioned the coffin is the nickname for the smallest ship you can get. with 0 life support systems and a miniscule cargo hold it's a more difficult start until you can graft on a few new cabins

[@Rybakov22]

@@Arthaius "Coffin" is a nickname for CSI Retrofit: a C4 Intermodal shipping container with thrusters. It doesn't have life support or any space you can place things to. It is, however, ridiculously cheap with mortgage being slightly north of $100k with payments being around $250 per shift. One of the ways to get rid of mortgage is to run gigs to neighbouring ships: you can pay off your mortgage with delivering about 5 bottles of vodka to nearby ships. Alternatively, you can investigate deaths on derelicts, though you will need to find derelict in question first.

[@Arthaius]

@@Rybakov22 - So, basically it is one of the super tiny ships with barely any space inside.

[@Skyhighatrist]

The airlock does not do airlock things without intervention. If you want to minimize gas loss when cycling the airlock, install a Turbo Pump and canister, then you can manually cycle the airlock. In addition to that, you need a N2 canister and sensor to get your main cabin up to proper pressure.

[@joelmitchell7597]

I think your confusion about air pressure can be helped by knowing that air is mostly nitrogen. If you want earth like atmospheric pressure, you need a lot of n2. Also, undiluted o2 is very flammable.

[@dftp]

It even says so in the in-game manual. About 20-22kPa Oxygen and about 78-80kPa Nitrogen would be optimal.

[@Dark__Thoughts]

Yep. Earth's atmosphere (and thus the air we breathe) is around 78% nitrogen and only around 20% oxygen. I'm always surprised how few people actually seem to know this.

[@ColonelEviscerator]

Even though you *can* dock at 100m/s, you really need to try and match velocity as much as possible. The game does add velocity from your ship's motion to the derelict...and you can end up drifting very far from K-Leg in long-term salvage operations. Becomes less of an issue with a reactor and torch drive.

[@knalpot1]

Tip is to set up a turbo pump to get the contents of o2 and n2 canisters and pump it into spares. That way you dont have to refill at the station

[@Zythan]

You need to walk into the airlock. Let pressure fix, and the airlock close. then walk thru the next door. You are just venting all of the pressure directly out by not actually using the airlock, the idea is the Airlock only let's a small amount of air out. Your venting your ship every SINGLE time.

[@Hawkido]

As for tools, you need a full EVA suit (you can mix and match minor variations of suits), a light tool (Portable light works great, a Data Tool (Currently the PDA is the only Portable Data Tool I have seen), a Pry tool (only pry bar fills this purpose), Torque tool(screwdriver or Green Drill), Cut tool(Angle Grinder or Laser Welder) and Weld tool (Red StirWelder, or Laser Welder), and Soldering tool (Green Soldering Iron, or Laser Welder). The Laser Welder Acts as Both a Cut tool and a Weld tool, A Soldering tool, and is an incredible Weapon in a fight. It can blast right through an EVA suit and a body part in one hit. You may want to keep a screw driver and a Soldering iron someplace in your ship for repairing the Welder should it ever need it. I prefer the Laser Welder over a gun (the Laser welder is still a touch range weapon, however, but most fights are melee). So once you get The Laser Welder you will only ever need the Green Battery Charger, The Laser Welder Charger, and the Suit Battery Charger. You won't need the Red Charger at all. You can run around with a PryBar, PDA, Green Drill, and Laser Welder. No need to carry a gun or Ammo with you, the Crowbar works as a great melee weapon, but the Laser Welder is usually a one shot as it will Destroy their suit and probably grievously cut the limb or torso inside it as well. The Laser Welder has the best battery life of any tool other than the Portable Light which uses disposable batteries.

[@AceStrife]

The red welder works for electronic repair? Thought it was using the soldering iron when I was trying. If it doesn't, then woop, free slot!

[@Hawkido]

@@AceStrife Laser Welder works for Electronics repair.

[@Hawkido]

Laser welder does Soldering, Welding, Cutting, and is a Sick Weapon.

[@Hawkido]

@@AceStrife Crap I just noticed I clumped Welding and Soldering into the same group. I'll edit for better future reference.

[@janhoo9908]

all hail to the laser welder

[@stevepittman3770]

10:04 Because the output shaft on which the grinding wheel spins is at a 90' angle to the shaft of the motor.

[@PoliceTelephoneBox]

Thank you, I was going to post that.

[@Hawkido]

you can steal a cabin worth of air from the station by right clicking your doors and choosing "Open"... then open the Air lock doors as well while at OKLEG. your cabin will equalize with the station. This will give you a free 80 KPA of N2. Then you can make a full run with just an O2 sensor and O2 pump station. Later you will want a N2 sensor and an N2 pump station to re-fill your ship. Also Turn off the sensors for your gas pumps before breaching your hull during ship expansions. This will prevent your pumps form trying to fill space with your precious breathing gasses.

[@joesoap7546]

If you really want to be cheap, though you'll pay for it in docking fee's, reverse your pumps, get your cabin to zero before doing it. I've done that many a time, but then I've also spent "hours" at K-Leg cutting open the side of my ship and expanding it before sealing up and stealing air mix from K-Leg.

[@AlwaysComplex]

by the time you read this you probably have already left, but this would of been a good ship to rip walls and floor from to increase the size of your ship again to carry more stuff back :) Your superhandy can hold wall pieces so you can strip walls and floor and load it into superhandy and then bring that back to your ship for expansion.

[@EgilsBane]

Really appreciate this series man. Had Ostranauts for years now, but kept bouncing off the "I have no clue how to do literally anything wall". The recent patch and this series got me over the hump. Much love bro, keep it up.

[@zigzera7757]

you can use spare hand lamps turned on droped on the floor to mark areas you want to go back to, rotate all the spare tools so they are upside down if they are spares helps keep track of your actual tools, and dont forget to keep track of your tools durability the angle grinder tends to burn through it and needs restored every few derelicts

[@warpswede]

Put the knife away and place the bag in your hand. You don't have to drag it. Also the light can be turned on and clipped to your suit (clip point). That'll free up another hand.

[@Brandurful]

The Blue pressure is the N2 pressure. Add a sensor, a canister and connect sensor via the screw on the control panel and it will maintain approx 80 kP. This is close to earth's air and should be comfortable to breathe. An O2 only environment would promote explosive fire risks, so that would be a thing to consider!, but fire is not in the game yet.

[@Vogelkinder]

Yes. It's paid per SHIFT. Nitrogen/Oxygen mix should run 80%/20% ideally. When hooked to an appropriate NIT/OXY alarm, they will equalize to the proper levels, automatically. And yes, airlocks do airlocky things, if set-up properly. Also, you can mix the helmet for the EVA Suit with the Pressure Suit; you'll get more info from a standard EVA helmet.

[@chrisgodsey1919]

Quill, dunno if you have seen anything about this yet, but you have been missing a number of floor bins so far. Took me a while to notice them as well, but they tend to have what looks like a slot in the center of them.

[@Katastra_]

I left a similar comment on a previous video, I assume he is a handful of episodes ahead already so hopefully he figures it out

[@MarcoAntonio-oq5vm]

Realy loving this game and your vids❤

[@NexusTrimean]

Something that might make looting easier, Any bins out open, anything decent that you aren't picking up right away dump on the floor, so you can find it later.

[@hubertnnn]

You can dock when the target circle is fully between the two circles representing your ship. So its not a constant 100m, it might be more or less depending on how well you are aimed.

[@gwkunze]

Blue number is not overall pressure, it's N2, while you move your mouse it shows the gas type instead of just the pressure.

[@twisteddman]

The "angle" in angle grinder is the 90 degree turn so the blade is parallel with the handle . an example of a non "angle" grinder would be like a Dremel tool

[@Averssem]

You might salvage it in-between the videos but just in case. There is a charging station for EVA suit battery on this wreck that you might want to install for yourself.

[@geoffreyganoe5246]

He has one from a previous scav, bottom left of cargo area under a bin.

[@Averssem]

@@geoffreyganoe5246 oh, he does? i must have missed that. my bad.

[@Arthaius]

@@Averssem - I would imagine though that it would still be worth grabbing as if I recall correctly, they are fairly pricey, could be good salvage profit in those.

[@Metaz]

Keep them coming Quill! 😁

[@vineheart01]

That is insane to think about how often you pay that loan...

[@AceStrife]

He hasn't even checked out the gig system, which makes income a LOT better.. maybe a bit too better. But yeah, at least he got a good spacious starting ship. I accidentally picked the Melody instead of Dream thinking it was the same (only read Testudo), has 1/3 the space and the mortgage is still about the same.

[@phoenix9446-d2l]

I wish you would have show when you sold all of your loot. All that build up watching you salvage the same ship the last two (40 min) episodes, and not getting to see you sell it is a bit disappointing. More so to someone who just bought the game too and trying to figure out what is actually good loot lol

[@Katastra_]

Mostly ship tech/mechanical parts, so anything reactor related, nav console, batteries, thrusters, heater/cooler, etc. always fix everything up to 100% before selling, it greatly effects the payout. Also something people might not think about as much: files found on PDAs, nav consoles, and data cards. There are some files that sell for thousands depending on if it's the station or the black market buying it and they take up no space. I've found crypto wallets, corporate espionage, interrogations, etc.

[@jordansorenson698]

I wonder if this game is simulating real life and demonstrating how us humans do not NEED nitrogen / 1 atmo of pressure to survive, so we don't HAVE to put it on our space ships. This is a cost saving method as it cuts down on weight, but it does come at the cost of massively increased flammability and lower overall cabin pressure, requiring normalization periods when docking with fully pressurized ships so as to avoid getting the bends. I could be wrong about all of this, but it's really cool if that is what the game is doing.

[@dftp]

It does in fact simulate this somewhat. You can also run on higher oxygen concentration and it does simulate higher flammability with higher oxygen levels, or rather it will because fire hasn't been implemented yet in the game but they plan to at the latest for release.

[@Amarok22]

If you select a door and choose the 'open' option, it will stay open until you manually select 'close.' One time, I accidentally vented my ship, dropping the temperature to -300°C. When I docked with a station and opened the doors to equalize the temperature, it stabilized at -30°C throughout the ship and station. Thankfully, the heaters kicked in and quickly resolved the issue.

[@janhoo9908]

the pressure values shown are partial pressure values for the different constituents of the gas. The sum of the partial pressures is the total pressure. On Earth, total pressure is approx. 100 kPa at sea level, with apprx. 80:20 ratio of N (blue) to O2(green). Relevant for breathing is only the partial pressure of oxygen which would be 20 kPa at sea level and approx. 10 kPa in 5000 m above sea level. Going below might risk health problems. Your ships atmosphere seems very oxygen rich, ~50% oxygen which is considered a fire hazard. I dont have the game so I dont know anything for sure, but this way it makes the most sense to me. XOXO edit: your dude should be really agitated by the high oxygen level at 30 kPa and work 50% harder. No, but there is something off with your cabin air I presume.

[@Pawerguy]

There are also floor bins, you missed a bunch of them, same white texture as bins, but part of the floor

[@joewalkerjr]

I found out that you can store totes and backpacks in crates for even more storage.

[@SummitSummit]

Now if only the inventory UI system wasn't so horrible.

[@jameshathaway5117]

Man with that ridiculous ship payment I'd be looking for a derelict that's close to operable and patch it up then sell the money pit. Even if the new ship needs a ton of upgrades to bring up to the level of the one you have now $10k a day will go a long way towards upgrades.

[@gerritvalkering1068]

I bought a treadmill in this game. Apparently, you can't have the 'died of dehydration' trait if you want to use it. Who would have thought

[@aapjeaaron]

Originally an angle grinder had it's grinding surface on it's face so you can abrade rough surfaces by holding the grinder at an angle with the work piece. Compared to a bench grinder where the abrasive surface is on the edge of the wheel. Then they changed the abrasive disks with cutting discs that has it's abrasive surface also on it's thin edge to cut through tough material. However do not use an angle grinder with a cutting disk as you would with an abrasive disc. The cutting discs cannot hold their own against the constant changing lateral load and have a tendency to shatter whilst still going at a lot of RPMs. I've first hand seen multiple incidents of this happening.

[@MrSmulian]

Love your content! Quick tip - once you are out of the Nav Station and on AutoTask, you can open your PDA on NAV and it will allow you to view your nav screen (while not actually controlling it) - so you can know when to take over from autotask and know when not to stop (for example if a stray ship crosses your path) Another tip - those core liners that you can see NPCs dragging around are sold for over a grand and are worth picking up! Keep making this content!

[@Dark__Thoughts]

22:26 Tool you keep walking past. You're really overestimating the lack of time from the CO2 alarm too. Just do a quicksave and stand around with the alarm going and you can see how long it will take to actually become critical.

[@SeamusCameron]

I don't really get nervous until I see the moodles pop up on my character screen. The extra pain from the headaches can slow you down iirc.

[@breid1147512]

I don't think that transponders are worth anything but if you wanted to do something illegal then they come in handy because you can disguise yourself as another ship

[@miravlix]

You can't light a match in 100% oxygen without burning yourself up. So your air should be 20K O2 70K N2 if it was the real world, to REDUCE the fire risk, but the game doesn't have fire... so you can just do pure O2, the ship should blow up every time you scratch the screwdriver if it was real.

[@oliverrahn7274]

You missed the sub floor bins

[@JPBennett]

It strikes me that this game really is Inventory Simulator 2024. Not a knock, either.

[@SummitSummit]

Yes, and unfortunately the inventory UI really needs some serious going over.

[@Caspynn.]

I uninstall orders on everything on a derelict and bring it back to my small ship and just right click and drop instead of placing it on the ground. This lets me stack everything and not be limited to the space on my ship. I think it’s an exploit I’m not sure it was the intended gameplay but I’ll have like 30 loose items in 6-9 squares on my ship lol. I also open the airlock all the way to the space station because it’s an easy way to get rid of any co2 that’s been built up on my ship.

[@jvcouk]

[I don't have this game but I'm watching Quill play] The gas info system seems to be designed wrong in the game? Perhaps it should be a single pressure value for a space, and then varying concentrations (%) or amount (moles or grams) of each gas/chemical? I think the game would be easier to understand done this way, especially if amounts are shown referencing normal/healthy values for the character.

[@SummitSummit]

It seems quite clear and correct to me. Quill definitely doesn't understand it though. He eventually figured out the difference between repair/restore, so I have hope he will figure out the atmosphere system soon.

[@jvcouk]

@@SummitSummit Thanks, though we might be talking about different things. I too intuitively guessed the difference between Repair and Restore when I saw the UI.

[@samellowery]

You should be able to change the name of the zones for sale by clicking on the name and typing.

[@Hawkido]

Go to the Pump to connect a gas pump to a sensor.

[@ThatMidnightRambler]

You should play Star Trucker. It's a really good game

[@reverse_engineered]

Have far have you gone in it? I got about four hours in and found myself quickly getting bored. Missions were all the same, the truck takes *forever* to do anything, and the upgrades were so small as to be pointless.

[@ThatMidnightRambler]

@@reverse_engineered Well it's a truck simulator..what did you expect? Lol of course the missions are all delivery missions

[@Arthaius]

@@reverse_engineered - I watched SplatterCat play that one, honestly it did not catch my interest, seemed as you said pretty boring but that could just be my personal taste. But SplatterCat is my Go-To for finding new and interesting games to check out; He is the reason I discovered "The Long Dark" a really good Unique survival game.

[@iamthebiscotti]

Watching Quill can be so frustrating at times! "There's an O2 sensor, but I don't see a Nitrogen one" as he's stood right by it on the wall

[@juurika22]

angle grinder is for grinding andles

[@jackielinde7568]

Uhg... I got this game because I was watching your YT videos... And it's driving me nuts with the lack of info, the lack of help, the jank even as soon as I hit the character selector. I'm on my third restart. I haven't even gotten to my first wreck. I started that playthrough with over 9K in credits. And I'm pointed at a wreck and suddenly have an air leak I can't find. Even Star Citizen does a better job teaching people how to play the game. Sorry Quill, but I think I'm going to give this game a negative review. And to think the dev thinks this is ready for a 1.0 release in 2025... I don't see it. I'll try and fight with it over the weekend, but unless something hops out to save it, I can't recommend it. And I'm already over Steam's 2 hour window for playtime. I want to love it and be out there wrecking ships and building better ones.

[@juurika22]

How is it hard to understand maybe games like this isn't for you. You need to learn games like this not be spoon feed by them.

[@jackielinde7568]

@@juurika22 I play games like this all the time. I'm also a fan of janky games. I love Stardeus and Cosmoteer. And I'm not a spoon feed kind of person, either. For instance, can you tell me off the top of your head (without looking it up on Reddit) what the command is to change the screen so you can see where you're leaking atmo? X doesn't do it, by the way. Just shows you what's worn out. Even Quill18 is having issues, like not completely understanding the pressure issues. I want to love this game. I really do. But I'm finding I'm spending more time fighting with it than enjoying it. And that's a bad sign.

[@juurika22]

@@jackielinde7568 no clue about the atmo problem as I have not yet run into it but when I do I will look it up and figure out the problem as I can always pause the game and if needed reload a earlier save. Also we are playing early access we are the testers so the released version wouldn't have these problems.

[@Averssem]

@@jackielinde7568 there is no button to see the leak. dev added some particle physics to show gas movement but it's not really helpful. consider that the entire atmo system was added in THIS update. that it's not perfect is understandable. and if you can't figure out a source of the leak from X interface it's most likely a bug and you should just reload to an earlier autosave.

[@jackielinde7568]

@@Averssem Thanks for the tip. I'll check it out. I can hear the leak, and know it's near the nav consol, but not seeing the gas particles.

[@jarviswats5085]

Angle Grinder, because it can GRIND at many ANGLES ;)