#Scarfield

“the Phoeron” Colin J E Luptonthephoeron@functional.cafe
2024-11-07

There is no #Starfield like #Scarfield

Brand new game to Level 200 in one sitting, by ditching Constellation and focusing only on prepping for the #Terrormorph #RedMile challenge. It’s gotten far more intense in v1.20 too.

#StarfieldGame #StarfieldMods #Gaming #SteamGaming #SciFi #SciFiGaming

“the Phoeron” Colin J E Luptonthephoeron@functional.cafe
2024-11-06

There’s a new version of #Scarfield! Don’t know why #NexusMods only told me about it today, when it was uploaded on October 25th, but strangely great timing

It doesn’t include #ShatteredSpace support, but that’s fine by me. I’m gonna bail on Constellation and make a beeline for the #OceansOfBlood #Terrormorph #RedMile challenge anyway.

#Starfield #StarfieldGame #StarfieldMods #TheRedMile #Terrormorphs #SteamGaming #Gaming #SciFi #SciFiGaming

nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/7

“the Phoeron” Colin J E Luptonthephoeron@functional.cafe
2024-10-28

Hate to admit it, but I haven’t really been enjoying the new #NASAPUNK2330 after coming straight out of #Scarfield

So I’m reminding myself how good it is by tormenting myself resuming my original #VanillaStarfield playthrough on #Xbox — and I have to wonder, how did I even make it to Level 211 and through ten universes without any mods in the first place?

#Starfield #StarfieldGame #StarfieldCreations #StarfieldMods #ShatteredSpace #Bethesda #SciFi #Gaming #XboxGaming #XboxSeriesX #XboxGamePass #XboxCloudGaming

“the Phoeron” Colin J E Luptonthephoeron@functional.cafe
2024-10-25

Taking on the Scaled Citadel in #Scarfield with nothing but my trusty Starborn Gladius

… and it’s already a bigger bloodbath in the lobby on the way in than the entire Red Mile with Oceans of Blood

#Starfield #StarfieldGame #ShatteredSpace #StarfieldMods #SteamGaming #Gaming #SciFi #SciFiGaming

“the Phoeron” Colin J E Luptonthephoeron@functional.cafe
2024-10-18

I don’t know what’s worse—sleeping in until 12:30 or waking up with an Evanescence earworm

#Scarfield might actually be killing me IRL

“the Phoeron” Colin J E Luptonthephoeron@functional.cafe
2024-10-18

First #CTD since starting my second #Scarfield playthrough, and just when I was beginning to think nothin’ could crash it, too. Seriously, it’s freaky how much more stable #Starfield is with Scarfield than without—I’ve been pushing the game harder than ever before, but then I got complacent and wound up losing so much loot it’s not even funny.

Get this. I’m mid-rampage somewhere in the wilds of #Varuunkai (I lost track of even where, that’s how long this I kept this rampage going), up against a triple-threat of #VaruunZealots, #VortexPhantoms, and #Spacers, all at once, massacring them wholesale with a Starborn Dual-Dagger (from zone79’s Melee Madness pack). And I’m KILLING IT. Never-you-mind the you-can-never-win attitude of Scarfield where hostiles are always around double your level or higher, kitted out to match. I don’t give a shit, because I’m fuelled by pure PTSD-rage, and fury, and willpower, and let’s not forget, strategy and skill. And there, after I’ve already taken out all the zealots, I swirl around to take out the last cowardly Vortex Phantom that pops in behind me then finish off the boss Legendary Spacer in front of me with a single slash to the neck, and THAT’s when the game crashes.

So alright, okay, you win this round, Scarfield. But I’ll be back tomorrow with a vengeance.

#ShatteredSpace #StarfieldGame #StarfieldMods #SteamGaming #Gaming #SciFi

“the Phoeron” Colin J E Luptonthephoeron@functional.cafe
2024-10-17

First #Scarfield / #ShatteredSpace WTAF:

No matter what I do I can’t get my damn starship to land at the Dazra spaceport. It keeps dumping me at the Hollow Bluff Depot instead.

So now I’ve got to walk. And take in the many sights and wonders of the Va’ruun’kai wilderness before walking the path of the serpent and playing politics with the noble houses.

Wait, why am I complaining?

#Starfield #StarfieldGame #StarfieldMods #SteamGaming #Gaming #SciFi

“the Phoeron” Colin J E Luptonthephoeron@functional.cafe
2024-10-17

Okay. As of this morning I’m (finally!) testing #Scarfield against actual #ShatteredSpace content.

Naturally that means I also had to finally choose a compatible auto-loot mod as well, ‘cause as I’ve said before GODDAMMIT SHATTERED SPACE HAS TOO MUCH LOOT! I want to focus on testing Scarfield against Shattered Space’s unique elements, not completely overstim myself into a stupor for a third time.

Goin’ with #LazyScav by #NexusMods user #Aurelianis. Link attached. So far so good, although it might need to be patched for explicit Shattered Space support. It seems to be leaving some of the new DLC items behind and isn’t stripping corpses on The Oracle, but these corpses are also wearing new clothing and armor DLC items, so at least it’s consistent, and I still get to manually loot a little for a healthier amount of stimming.

UPDATE: never mind, Lazy Scav is working perfectly, looting absolutely everything, even equipped clothing from corpses—I just had to change cells for it to work fully. I decided to leave the auto-looting of locked containers feature off, though, because I paid for and love “Lock O’Plenty” from the Creations store, which adds a bunch of actually fun hacking minigames to improve the lockpicking experience over the infuriatingly-tedious vanilla lockpicking minigame (which I resent being so good at).

#Starfield #StarfieldGame #StarfieldMods #SteamGaming #Gaming #SciFi

nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/8

“the Phoeron” Colin J E Luptonthephoeron@functional.cafe
2024-10-15
“the Phoeron” Colin J E Luptonthephoeron@functional.cafe
2024-10-15

It took some non-trivial fiddling (all morning!) BUTTTTT (drumroll please)

I got #Scarfield #OceansOfBlood working on the latest #Starfield! No more tacky and pathetic #RedMileMaulers or better-by-far #BloodyMaulers as in the main Scarfield release (that are as vicious and cunning as one has a right to expect of space-wolves). But an all #Terrormorph #RedMile run! And the strategic combat difficulty system started working correctly again too!

Sadly the obnoxious levelling-up fanfare kept clobbering the glorious #PopcornTime combat score. God damn. I gained 58 levels in a single run.

But otherwise, it was fan-fucking-tastic. What #TheRedMile should’ve always been from the beginning.

#StarfieldGame #StarfieldMods #NexusMods #Bethesda #SteamGaming #Gaming #SciFi

Scarfield: Oceans of Blood! The Terrormorph Red Mile challenge. Running on Starfield v1.14.70.0, no less!
“the Phoeron” Colin J E Luptonthephoeron@functional.cafe
2024-10-13

It definitely feels like the entire #Scarfield experience has been ruined by the latest #Starfield version and #ShatteredSpace

For starters, the brilliant and perfect strategic difficulty system with inverse scaling has somehow been subsumed by a reasserted vanilla-style handicap-based modifier difficulty system on whiteout; EVERYTHING is a legendary armored bullet-sponge, even the bloody heatleeches

The broken strategic difficulty system is more obvious with human enemies, who don’t seem to realize they have grenades until you throw one at them, but then start volleying a (physically impossible) shower of grenades in this really tweaked out way. So I analyzed the glitch-out pattern and created an algorithm in my head to exploit the glitch out with timed attacks. Next thing I know there’s a body pile of 5 Crimson Fleet pirates all in a clump.

Stealth mechanics are also completely broken, but the glitch-outs are too numerous and bizarre to list.

But do I give up on my new and very broken Scarfield PT? Of course not. I can’t let go of anything. It’s literally a victory-by-pure-PTSD-rage playthrough at this point, bullet-sponges be damned.
#StarfieldGame #StarfieldMods #Bethesda #SteamGaming #Gaming #SciFi

“the Phoeron” Colin J E Luptonthephoeron@functional.cafe
2024-10-12
“the Phoeron” Colin J E Luptonthephoeron@functional.cafe
2024-10-12

It’s far too easy to go full-Dexter in #Scarfield

That blood spatter. Those eyes…

(this screenshot is from September 17th, 2024; finally got around to syncing them all this morning, and also, haven’t gotten Scarfield working with Shattered Space yet)

#Starfield #StarfieldGame #StarfieldMods #Bethesda #SteamGaming #Gaming #SciFi

Starfield (on PC): it’s far too easy to go full-Dexter with Scarfield; made a real mess of Moara’s ship, too. This screenshot is from September 17th, 2024.
“the Phoeron” Colin J E Luptonthephoeron@functional.cafe
2024-10-04
“the Phoeron” Colin J E Luptonthephoeron@functional.cafe
2024-09-24

Turns out the greatest challenge possible in #Starfield is how long you can tolerate #VanillaStarfield after a few days of the #Scarfield experience—I’m not even kidding this could be an Olympics-style endurance esport

#StarfieldGame #StarfieldMods #StarfieldCreations #SciFi #Gaming

“the Phoeron” Colin J E Luptonthephoeron@functional.cafe
2024-09-24

Switching over to the latest #StarfieldBeta now

Aside: somehow by the end of the #VanguardFaction questline on my #Scarfield playthrough I managed to be so OP I was running around the wilds of Toliman II gun-bashing terrormorphs, other random xenos, and pirates to death, mostly one-hit kills—yes, even the two obnoxious avian-analogues. The Crimson Fleet I ran into at a POI were well above my player level, too, 3x on average, and oh sure they at least put up a fight and kept lighting me on fire, yet I barely took any damage. So clearly I need a new level of challenge, blowing up #Starfield itself over and over by testing mods on the beta release. This should prove to be a true living nightmare.

#StarfieldGame #StarfieldCreations #StarfieldMods #SteamGaming #SteamBetas #SciFi #Gaming

“the Phoeron” Colin J E Luptonthephoeron@functional.cafe
2024-09-21

Been noticing a lot of little improvements, mostly to gameplay, in #Scarfield compared to #VanillaStarfield

Too many to list. Some so subtle I don’t have a clue how to describe them. But I can see why the list of compatible #GameplayMods is so short. The mod author wasn’t kidding when he said Scarfield touches everything.

#Starfield #StarfieldGame #StarfieldMods #NexusMods #SciFi #Gaming

“the Phoeron” Colin J E Luptonthephoeron@functional.cafe
2024-09-21

Huh. All this time playing #Starfield. The sheer number of times I’ve passed through #TheDen. The number of conversations I’ve had with #RaynaMarquez of the #UCVanguard.

And yet today is the first day I discover just how receptive she is to bribes.

And in retrospect, how many times she’s hinted at it…

What? Don’t look at me like that. I’ve never played out an Industrialist/Negotiation-heavy character build before. I figured it would make for an interesting balancer against the extreme ultraviolence difficulty level of the #Scarfield overhaul.

#StarfieldGame #StarfieldMods #NexusMods #SciFi #Gaming #VanguardFaction

“the Phoeron” Colin J E Luptonthephoeron@functional.cafe
2024-09-20

Space battles in #Scarfield are particularly epic.

Get this. I grav-jump into orbit above Sumati, square in the middle of pure pandemonium. Ecliptic. Va’ruun Zealots. Spacers. Freestar Security. All fighting each other. It’s a total mess. They all mark me as yet another hostile thrown into the foray. Even the squadron of Freestar fighters!

So you’re damn right I splashed them all without mercy. And it was priceless. Like, “first time watching The Empire Strikes Back” priceless.

#Starfield #StarfieldGame #StarfieldMods #NexusMods #SciFi #Gaming

“the Phoeron” Colin J E Luptonthephoeron@functional.cafe
2024-09-20

Round Two on the #Scarfield #RedMile

Still no #Terrormorph but my final kill count was 120 Bloody Maulers.

Yessss I admit I went back for second, third, and then fourth helpings. Scarfield’s Bloody Maulers are much more formidable foes than #VanillaStarfield’s Red Mile Mauler, but that only serves to increase the bloodlust. I didn’t want to finish the run until I was certain I’d hunted down every last one of them.

The total number, pack size, and downright viciousness of the Bloody Maulers seems to increase each run, too. So hell. I won’t get bored with the Red Mile in THIS playthrough.

#Starfield #StarfieldGame #StarfieldMods #NexusMods #SciFi #Gaming #TheRedMile

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