HERE IS THE CUTE PATOOT

CUTE BUT SPOOPY the best combo

NEVER MIND SHE HAS HER EYES CLOSED

THAT'S THE BEST PART OF THE SCREENSHOT lol

worse angle but eye balls

hwahwahwahwahwa

Okay now I actually play lol

THE SEARCH FOR A GUILD

Bruh this sucks

They have no guild catalogue so all recruiting and searching has to be done outside of the game in the official discord in forum format

And idk if you guys have dealt with forum format but it's ass and when you have a lot of people recruiting all at once, it's impossible to find what you need

Both for the recruiters and the potential recruits

Also side note

As I was leaving one of the trials someone ran passed me, turned on voice chat and just yelled DO YOU SPICE???

I did not reply, I was too busy dying of laughter

GOOD NEWS I found a guild

BAD NEWS I had to make a new character on a new world so I could join them. Bye bye progress

I was so picky about guilds

If they said HEY MANNNNNNN

I was like nope

Because I know the first thing that'll happen in vc is OH YOU'RE A GIRL?

nooooooooooooooope

So I joined one that was advertising like

Older people with lives - pvp and pve enjoyers. Need gatherers

CHECKS ALL MY BOXES

I love digging in dirt for resources I could do this for hours days YEARS

I JOINED their VC before I joined the guild

No comment on gender no comment on anything

Just someone going. Wait who asked that question? I don't recognize the voice

ARE THEY ALL MEN?

yes.............

Is that a problem? So far no.....

The lengths I must go to just for being a female who games

Have I met a single other female playing this game? No. But it is a desert, it is EXTREMELY isolating for an MMO

And that's the point of the mmo, vast, lifeless, but resources aplenty

It's an introvert's DREAM

I'm liking this guild, they've been reasonably competitive so far and chill in vc

Because I had to fully restart to join them, I'm WAY behind

Now they can literally scoop me up and just give me end game vehicles and gear but I asked them not to cause I do wanna do the progress journey on my own

But it means I can't help support their push for landsraad because the mats they're gathering for it is way out of my capabilities

But they've been really cool and chill, very play the game how you wanna

I made an oops earlier where I knew my sandbike's engine was about to go. So I crafted a spare but then I accidentally left it in a storage crate at my base

So on my way back to my base after traveling stupid far from it, the engine icon is just bright red, it has 5% life left in it and I'm lol cursing in vc for leaving the engine at my base

But one of them was very quick to be like I can drop what I'm doing and come to get you

Which was very kind! But instead I walked any time I wasn't at risk of Shai-hulud eating me. So between the rocky islands dotted around the basin

And luckily that was enough to keep the engine running just when I needed it but it completely died as soon as I got to my base lol

But it feels very supportive! So I'm pretty happy with this even though I got a warning on discord for guild hunting

Meanwhile, Spice is a fucking trip

It's like a 5 min burst of power, you can see hp bars, what weapons are equipped and see enemies at a huge distance

But after those 5 min the withdrawal symptoms are TERRIBLE

There's a cool down before you can stock up on spice again

And after that cool down you just start hallucinating

Seeing enemies that aren't there. Seeing sand storms that don't exist

The music changes and the atmosphere

I will hand it to them, it's immersive af lmao

...tempting

lol it's really fun but you need a guild for sure

hmm, perhaps i'm not ready for that level of intensity

but i hope you have fun

Ya, there's some things that are pvp spots and it's better together

You can buy the mats from those spots from npcs but it's costly

Otherwise you could solo

But man the spice addiction lol

The addiction has levels to it

If you keep consuming and keep using it, the amount you need goes up each level and the hallucinations and the cool down also get worse

Or you can use it more sparingly and remain at level 1

I have only managed level 1, I don't have the spice supply to try a higher level. Most spice I have is scavenged from noc, not spice plumes

*npcs

Phone alas

it's so cool how they thought through the whole addition mechs

Yeah... and the hallucinations are wild

The whole screen gets like a glossy purple hue that blurs at the edges

It makes you choose carefully when to use it because fighting while hallucinating is a bit rough

do you ever get over it or do you just need to find more spice

oh okay i guess that answers my question lol

The withdrawal lasts about 5 min at level 1

So you have 5 good powerful minutes and 5 oh shit the world is spinning minutes lol

I have been waiting for hallucinations to end before consuming more spice but the addiction bar is going up anyway so I think the time between needs to be even more

I didn't get to play too much today, between tags and dealing with T H I N G S

BUT.

I did a little and I decided to run through a bunch of PoIs that had Calibrated Servoks because I'm finally trying to upgrade to wind turbines

I thought they were dumb expensive to upkeep but because you can only place x amount of power suppliers, they are best for long term sustainability

When I outgrow this base and have to move on, I can decon them and move them with me without much fuss, just inventory space fuss

And the guildies, such gents, have already offered to help carry all my crap with me lol

But we are a bit off from that

I prefer to move near trading posts and the next trading post I can upgrade toward is .... 3 maps away from my capabilities

CAN I BEELINE there? Yes. Is it dangerous to do so? Yes.

When you drive by PoIs you will get shot at and my bike might go down fast up there so until I get my bike to at least mk 3, I'm not budging

I definitely am getting the hang of this game, fighting npcs wise

I still go down when I get cocky but I've definitely learned how to pick them off

I am that person who brings a knife to gun fight lol

But shigawire........ so good

Shoot me, np. I will just grapple your face to my face c:

and stab

muah

lol I was in a PoI with another guildie who is doing a sniper build

And I just run in balls to the wall and they hang back and they were like How the fuck do you parry them every time

LITERALLY ME

Oh, this parrying is easy compared to Clair

And they were like......... Oh. That game.

yis

Speaking of, I might play some tomorrow. I am feeling better to get back into NG++ but we shall see. I might end up busy since classes start Monday

Also

TODAY I learned

You can crouch

LOL

All this time I was like ........ this cover kinda sucks. My head is sticking out and I am as short as you can go

WELP turns out you can hit a whole button and then height slider doesn't even matter.

Crouch, in my defense. Was not in the tutorial

If it was, I was probably too busy doing some barbarian rage warcry as I charge in with a shiv

Anyway, next time I play, I need to harvest Carbon. So. Much. Carbon. It is Steel time and everything I own needs to be upgraded before the dura completely fails me

AND SOON Aluminum which meeeeeeeaaaaaaaans Ornithopters

I can't wait to be a menace on the sand and the sky

My guild has their base in the middle of a radioactive field.......

So you need a radiation suit to get into the base

why are you like this

I mean, I guess I could just BOOK it. It won't kill me right away but lol

WHO MADE THIS DECISION.

I was about to go to bed, but the guild is scrambling to grab everything from our Deep Desert outpost before the Coriolis hits in the morning

The Coriolis acts as a weekly "map cleaner" in the Deep Desert

It changes the locations of PoIs, the loot tables swap and any outposts get deleted

You can build in the Deep Desert PVE zone, but you can't keep it

We mostly use it for refueling, repairs and storage

Someone..... did not clean out the storage after a spice run

So we just have entire ornithopters FULL of spice

I just finished my last run but lol

The guild leader was so annoyed. We were intending to just go to deconstruct the outpost so we could keep the supplies for after the Coriolis so we could rebuild the outpost faster in the morning

But then I checked one of the crates and was like Oh no............

another crate

OH nooooooooo

So a 15 min task turned into an hour

SOOO WE MISUNDERSTOOD THE CORIOLIS A BIT

Apparently we get a whole 24 hours of warning where there's NO other sandstorms just an update every hour that says 6 hours until the Coriolis, 5 hours, 3 hours etc

But during that 24 hours, it's UNBEARABLE to play

There's literal wind gusts constantly, visibility is horrible

You can't see more than 50 meters in front of you

I accidentally drove straight into quicksand twice lol

I finished the story missions up to the epilogue and logged out

It's really hard to play with literal sand whipping across the screen constantly

I hope they tone it down

I'll probably just play Clair tonight lol

Oh good grief. They pushed back the Coriolis by a day for NA servers because there were connectivity issues yesterday

So people weren't able to log in to collect their Deep Desert outposts

But this now means we only have 6 days before next week's Coriolis

And it also means logging in to another day of constant sand blowing through the screen making visibility impossible

So all I did today was decide on an end game base location and move all of my stuff to the new spot

It took about 5 trips, including the first trip that was just for scouting

I tried to find a base location that was near the edge of the world map for easier access to it, with a wide enough road for a buggy to get in and out from, close to a trade post, some plants for emergency water, and fuel cell cluster spawns

The one downside is it's in the shadow of a cliff and gets very little sun. This is usually a good thing but it means my base will actually need light fixtures if I wanna see any of what I'm doing

I'm a decent distance from the guild's base so I could easy make the bottom half of my base for guildies and the top half just for me to use since

WELL at least in my opinion

In a really good spot for Erythrite crystals as well which is needed for cobalt paste

Which is needed for a lot of higher tier recipes

Sooo having a quick drop off near by might be helpful

Idk but I'm happy atm with the spot

We'll see if I keep that enthusiasm as I actually play and things come up that I'll need

When you accidentally fat finger the spice hotkey and have to sit in timeout in the guild base until the effects wear off

Don't mind me, just watching our little Muad'Dib while spice'd out of my mind nbd