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I've looked for vpns that spoof geolocation, but I can't find it, Bouvet Island isn't on HMA so I'm wondering how someone managed to make that? https://osu.ppy.sh/users/27874223/osu
Let me begin with a story.
Directly south of Vault 111 is a location called "Ranger Cabin". No quest will ever send you to this location. You can see it from the bridge at Sanctuary, but there is nothing visually interesting about it to draw your eye. The player will never walk close to it on the way to somewhere else unless they happen to be going between the exact right locations, namely Sanctuary and Wicked Fleet Lockup. There is basically no reason the player would ever visit this place - except that its map marker is visible from Sanctuary and Red Rocket.
But what does the player experience if they do happen to visit this location? There's a holotape from a young woman who has just run away from home after telling some secret to her parents, who did not react well. The date of the recording? October 22, 2077 - the holotape is next to her corpse. Also in the cabin is an issue of the Wasteland Survival Guide that makes you permanently take 5% less damage from melee attacks, and some junk - the experienced player's eyes will light up at the presence of a hot plate, which grants circuitry, copper, and a screw.
This is basically the "Bethesda world exploration tutorial". Start at any point in the world and walk towards a map marker and you will be rewarded. Crafting ingredients are nice, but you'll also sometimes get permanent stat buffs, and you'll almost always get some environmental storytelling through the combination of the object placements and notes/audio recordings. And while the example is from Fallout 4, the same basic pattern is there in Skyrim as well - the world is filled with interesting camps, mines, ruins, huts, and the like to explore while traveling between cities.
But what form will exploration take in Starfield? They've set it fairly far into the future, so clearly there will be a lot of exploring inhabited areas. But the trailer and the concept art also includes some fairly lifeless environments (in the sense of no life forms being present - they are visually stunning). Which then leads to the question - what are you actually doing gameplay wise in these areas? What does Bethesda place in the world to make exploring it interesting if they can't fall back on notes and holotapes, and what makes for interesting loot if you are exploring an area with no civilization present?
Does anyone have any ideas of how they might make the exploration of uninhabited planets as engaging as the exploration in previous Bethesda titles? Even better
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Last month, my team responded to a SOS in the southern Pacific. When we arrived, we were unable to locate any of the stricken individuals, or any evidence of their whereabouts. All we found were two curious items in a local cave system: a journal and an audio recorder, both of which owned by a man named Albert Vess, an archaeologist.
The contents of the journal are disturbing, but perhaps worse still is the audio recording.
Since reading the journal and listening to the audio I’ve been feeling strange. Unwell. My mind feels like mush and my moods have been erratic. No medication has helped. My doctor thinks I just need some rest but I’m not sure. It’s… hard to describe?
I don’t know why, but I feel like the island has something to do with it. I feel like the journal does. I’ve transcribed it below in case anybody can help me better understand it but be warned, it’s an uncomfortable read.
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06/01/21
The valley is steep.
For an island in the middle of the Pacific, it feels almost unnatural. Certainly uncommon. I’ve done plenty of these expeditions and I’ve rarely encountered geography such as this. The shoreline is sparse, thin. It gives way to a scatter of trees and a sharp drop-off into a hollow of palms and brush. It’s incredible. Claustrophobic.
It’s where we’re going. All four of us.
Bernard, the research lead. Darian, the cave spleunker. And Allison, one of the most accomplished archaeologists I've ever met.
And of course, myself.
My stomach is still upside down, recovering from the sail it took to get here, but the worst is over. Once we finish our survey of the ruin below, we can set up camp and get some shut-eye. It’s not so bad, really. And we’re so very close.
This, I think, could be the discovery of a lifetime.
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The sun is setting in the sky.
When we looked down into the valley this afternoon, we never anticipated it’d be this slow-going, or that the canopy of leaves would be this blinding. Alison recommends we make camp and get some rest. She says the ruin will be there to excavate in the morning, and we’ll be better off with more daylight to spare.
Bernard disagrees. He says we’ve got lanterns and rations, and that the scene survey won’t take that long. Besides, he’s not planning on doing any excavating until he knows the ruins are actually there.
His remark catches us off guard. I r
... keep reading on reddit ➡Also, how would you fill the blank in the following sentence : "don't walk on those ______streets." In the previous sentence, the speaker is warning not to go to streets that are covered with plants etc.
Such as this one: https://www.dropbox.com/s/b4g4jglmt7rck9k/IMG_8402.png?dl=0
The house is way up in the mountains, and while the previous owners maintained it reasonably well no one has actually lived in the house for probably 20 years. To prevent water issues The previous owners basically shut the well down and drained the pipes. Upon turning the water back on the water ran rust red for a while then cleared up. I assume that was the water blowing out loose crap that built up in the pipes, but is there anything I can do to check the quality of the well water and/or the pipes? I’m happy to provide any additional details
If we want to see what’s out there, and go where no one has gone, there will have to be something to do on the seemingly empty planet that will occupy us while playing.
An example might be ancient civilizations were once on the planets, and were wiped out.
So was the proscribed method of intimidating humanity upon the first incursion into their home system: an uninhabitable dwarf planet the humans called Pluto at the edge of the solar system was blasted with apocalyptic firepower.
As the human species is one of the only ones on planet earth that managed to spread out to every continent and every biome, it would be an interesting question to ask whether there is a spot somewhere on earth that's almost perfect for a human settlement yet remained uninhabited until today (?)
PS: Im aware that there are many uninhabited places on earth where humans could theoretically survive, but I am asking for places where it seems almost odd that no larger city or such can be found.
as the title says, my colonies are instantly destroyed after colonization phase ends, not getting resources refunded either. Im playing modded, trying to colonize planetary habitats. Will provide a modlist if requested, however ive never had any problems with the mods before, thought it might be a general bug.
Autobiography about a child who's family moved to a desert island/uninhabited kind of place, and lived a real version of the Swiss family Robinson.
At one point they go fishing with a net they've made.
Working on the expedition, just went to three star systems that had no species indication on the world map, neither have given me the objective for finding an abandoned system. Makes me wonder if there's both abandoned and uninhabited. And I am the one who discovered said systems.
I am looking for the title of a children's book. I vaguely remember the story. It's fictional and adventurous. It's about a boy, who shipwrecks and ends up on an uninhabited island filled with monkeys. He learns to live there with the monkeys.
There was a monkey painted in green and brown on the sleeve.As far as I can remember, the boy was the only human on the island.The other living beings were the monkeys.
In the end, he leaves the island.No clue about his family or where they were sailing from and to.
The author might be Japanese (I can't remember this 100% for sure).
My memory is quite vague about this book.
//Edit: I have found the book! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1033346.Kensuke_s_Kingdom
