There are actually a couple of corrupted text logs that explain why they cloned H. H. Holmes, and it seems to have been one rogue scientist testing nature/nurture theories on his own by cloning serial killers and sticking them in with the other clones. All i really cared about was completing the quest to get Amelia Earhart on my crew so I might have missed more details.
Funny thing, H.H. Holmes actually *wasn't* a serial killer. He *was* a multiple murderer, but he only killed as part of a scam or to keep witnesses/ crime partners from talking. Answers with Joe did an excellent videos on him.
Getting the Razorleaf is one of the best things in Starfield, if, for nothing else, the comedy factor of Spacers scanning you and immediately shitting themselves in terror to run away. In fact, one of them was so terrified he gave me all the credits he had. And the merchant I inevitably rescued was so confused, but his co-pilot was such a fanboy, I couldn't help but play up the Mantis just to see his reaction.
@@Janoha17 Absolutely. Sadly you can't ham it up in as many places as you can as the Silver Shroud. I mean - you meet someone who is described as a Mantis fangirl, but she had zero reaction to me in the Mantis armour.
Not a quest but just a random encounter. Every once in a while you'll pop into a system and hear a man with a thick Irish accent singing a sea shanty. I've run into him at least 3 times, and each time he is singing a different song. You can hail him and have a brief conversation before he jumps away. Honestly my favorite encounter so far.
I really enjoyed the mission 'Overdesigned', unlocked midway through the main questline, where you pitch in to help a team of engineers finalise the design of a new starship. If you take the 'kitchen sink' approach, you end up with one of the best ships in the game. The struggles within the team, between the team and management, and even the weird group meditation session all felt very true to life, lol.
Idk if it happened to you yet but sometime after this mission you'll find a random person flying the giant ship in space. If you hail them you can say you helped build that ship. The captain I found said "really? you suck at building ships" 😅
@@DB-ey3dz other people compliment you for 'it has everything I want', or "well it's a great ship, but its....*struggles*...a little complicated to fly"
Fun thing about the mantis quest, when I first did this I thought the mother was talking to me because coincidentally named my own character Leon. When I found out she was talking to her now dead NPC son, I was somewhat relieved.
Not a side-quest, but the book store owner in Akila who is really grateful to recieve old Earth books that are not Charles Dickens is one of my favorite interactions in the game. Her joy and unique dialogue for many of the rarer books is a delight.
The coffee one is just real life in space. There's a category of coffee bean that is "pre-processed" by being passed though civets, IIRC. Supposedly it reduces the bitterness, but that can also be affected many other parts of the process between bean and hot brown drink, so ...
Just to make it even weirder, they think that this is the same species of civet cat which a certain recent well-known disease jumped species to humans from. So it's true, coffee snobs ruin everything.
Yep, another example ofa bunch of quests in starfield being simple references without any real point apart from hey we saw the thing as well aren't we funny....at least this one is less tasteless than where they literally just put the heavens gate suicide cult in the game.
That bit about the coffee is a joke about the real life equivalent of The World's Most Exclusive and Expensive Coffee which is made from coffee beans obtained by feeding civets the fruit and waiting until they...erm...excrete the beans. Amanirena is a reference to Kandake Amanirena who is supposed to be a courageous Kush queen who pretty much gave the Roman emperor a medieval equivalent of the middle-finger.
@@Sableagle Oh let's see, horse theft, petty theft, fraud, involved with running a forced prostitution brothel, routinely handing out vigilante justice to petty criminals and more than likely, repeated murder. The amount of people Earp shot in "self-defense" is truly remarkable, especially when witnesses often claimed the opposite but were mysteriously evasive during court proceedings. Pretty sure there was a lot more but that's just the stuff I can remember from years ago. Why lawmen kept giving this guy a badge is beyond common sense.
@@eventyrarenActually, that's a whole ass lie pushed by yellow journalists. Holmes WAS a murderer, but he murdered as part of scams or to keep from going to jail. Not a serial killer. For example, they called one room in the "murder hotel" the "hanging room" because there was some rope in there. Answers with Joe did a great video on him that sorts fact from fiction.
The mining equipment quest on Mars, that thing went on forever! Espionage, murder, affairs, more murder, pirates, mining, substandard Demios Swag, attempted murder after 15 minutes of painfully slow walking, and at least 20 trips down a staircase in Cydonia.
My game crashed before I could finish after following some idiot for 50 miles so he could ambush me. I haven't had the desire to try it again. In fact, that quest to go fornicate itself.
I nurtured her desire to explore the universe. Bumped into her some time later and she seemed very happy (in a totally non-emotional way, btw) but kinda bummed after figuring out that the universe is infinite and she'll never get to explore it all. All in all, she was very thankful for my decision. She REALLY wants to emphasis that she doesn't have emotions but she's not fooling anyone.
There is a note in one of the operation Starseed facilities/ships explaining that the H. H. Holmes clone being taught to be Wyatt Earp was a pet project of one of the scientists, meant to examine the whole Nature vs. Nurture question
The scientist added H. H. Holmes to the population to test Nature vs Nurture (and crocked his own study by giving H. H. Holmes his own complete history, if you want to test nature vs nurture you can't use a genetic clone of a serial killer and then tell him he is a serial killer. This is just confirmation bias). Holmes is the one that came up with the idea of posing to be Wyatt Earp or ... the other cowboy he knows well enough to pose as. Because he is aware that other clones would know that Holmes is a serial killer and is afraid of what they would do to him.
Funny thing is, Holmes shouldn't have been included at all, as he wasn't a serial killer. He WAS a multiple murderer, but killed to cover his ass or as part of insurance scams. Answers with Joe has a great video on him
The coffee quest is actually quite and interesting one because it's based off of how a certain coffee is actually made in the real world. I can't remember the name of it now, but the process of getting the "special" coffee beans is basically the same, a small animal is fed the beans, poops them out, and then that is used to make coffee. It's crazy that they made something like that a mission in the game, though I'm sure it's probably because most people wouldn't imagine doing something like that
Somewhat amusingly, at least to me, NPC Spacers will recognize the Mantis's ship even if you've renamed it and rebuilt it to the point where it's nearly unrecognizable.
Pre digested coffee beans are a thing we do in real life, though without a weird land jellyfish monster. Civet coffee, eaten, digested, and pooped back out by the Asian Palm Civet is highly sought after (relatively speaking)
I love all the space race easter eggs popping up in Starfield. Fun fact: Gagarin Landing is likely named for the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to travel into space back in 1961
@@VegetaLF7 Neat! Sorry, I said likely because I'm not playing the game so didn't want to assume. I dreamed of being an astronaut when I was a kid, so people like Gagarin were my heroes for a long time. I love the nods to the OG space race.
Hunters tend to be more self-reliant and less naive around heavy machinery, so at least the doctor won't be treating them as often as she has to handle careless tourists.
@@BogeyTheBearNah, it'd just be average tourists curious about the spectacle, and likely to forget to turn on their suit's heaters and get hypothermia or frostbite...
The alien monster quest was amazing, I found a ship drifting, indestructible, no hail response, in one of the far reaching planets of the 'Starfield'. Actually started to make me feel a bit aware that this is a Horror themed quest, when I turned my flashlight and realised without it I can't see anything. Everyone dead on board with a monster somewhere in the ship in quarantine.
It typically doesn't smell much in a fish processing plant, because the interior is kept cold to slow bacteria growth (the bacteria consuming the deceased fish and expelling waste gasses is what you smell) so as to protect the end product - the fish meat, but has the bonus of keeping the unwanted guts from stinking much. As for the detached storage bins/structure the offal is kept in after being cleaned out of the plant itself, not so much...ew.
Regarding the coffee snob... I mean, it's a Bethesda game. It's generally pretty save to operate under the assumption that all the NPCs are ultimately just weirdos until they prove otherwise. Also, beer juice boxes are an amazing idea.
Fun fact: That coffee quest is based on something in real life. It's called Civet Coffee, and it involves feeding the beans to civets and... What you already know from the quest.
It may sound silly, but my favorite side quest so far… was fixing the brown outs in New Atlantis. I enjoyed working with the engineer in charge. I enjoyed the sass between her and the Trade Authority manager. I enjoyed running around, exploring the area while flipping switches instead of killing people. My other favorite quest is more involved, but as it’s part of the main quest, I don’t think it counts.
Question, when it got to the point where the engineer and the woman from the Trade Authority told you two different switches to flip, which one did you pick? And how'd the quest go from there?
@@UpperDarbyDetailing it isn't a choice of either/or, you have to flip them all eventually so it doesn't really matter who you listen to as to which to flip first, they're just giving you clues to help find them easier really
@@stacythomas9916 yes it is ... the mast worker tells you one place and the trade authority woman tells you another. Once you get close to one the other quest marker disappears. After that you leave the Well immediately.
It is possible to board, kill them all and take their ship. Take out the engines very quickly and then dock. Make sure you have the skills to target the engines and have the weapons capable of doing it quickly.
Something interesting about Genghis Khan is that his name at birth was Temujin Borjigin which was the Mongolian clan he belonged to. Genghis Khan was a title given to him by the other clans when he founded the Mongolian empire.
Also, for the Mantis ship, the Razorleaf, you can literally build a new ship in its slot on the shipbuilder and keep the Mantis effect on Spacers and Pirates. It doesn’t take the effect from the ship, or name or any part of the Razorleaf itself.
Ok so the mantis armor legendary effect are random save befor you open the display to reroll the effects but befor you land set your game to vary hard then land and exist the ship then set the difficulty to what you like if you did it right you should get a few higer rarety iteams
Interesting fact- some high-end coffees actually are made from beans that passed through the stomach of another creature. Its really messed up, especially since these animals are often force-fed the beans to keep up with demand.
I came across a tourist ship where i got battered by inane questions from the tourists onboard, i also came across a school trip as well, that cost me a lot of ship parts.
10:51 Funnily enough methylamine smells like (or rather, is actually part of the aroma of) rotten fish so it's closer to the true Walter White experience than you think.
Fun(?) Fact: "poop coffee" is actually a real thing. But instead of an alien monster it's an adorable lemur that "extracts" the beans by eating the plant containing them. Reality is truly stranger than fiction. Learned that from Animal Planet. Thanks for sparking that memory. 💩☕
The Mantis armor pieces have different random attributes, and you can re-roll if you save before picking them up to try to get effects you want. I might have reloaded a save like four times myself.
Oh, come on, Jane, how are water bears scary. They look like a piglet and armadillo merged together. They are known for tripping over their own feet. 😂
I have like 200 hours in the game and I've only done the mantis quest lol. That's craaaazy H.H Holmes is in the game. I did a report on him in school haha.
The only noteworthy side quest I've done so far is the entire crimson fleet questline. Word of advice: When it comes time to go after Kryx's Legacy, upgrade the living hell out of your ship first. Dont go to Bannoc IV without doing that. I got stuck in the final space fight for ages because I was still running the vanilla frontier.
Vanilla Frontier is a bad idea for _any_ mission. Before I retired mine for the Ranger ship, I jammed a double-decker reactor aboard and upgraded the systems.
@@BogeyTheBear I had added a couple laser cannons and some extra cargo space(and the bigger reactor and engines necessary to run said components), but aside from that, it was stock. I also didn't have the piloting skill at all.
I really want a followup to the New Homestead quest where four teenagers in a beat-up ship come to investigate the alien sightings with their robot, SQ-B2. Also, extra perk to the Mantis mission: If you're attacked by Spacers whilst flying the Razorleaf there's a chance they'll recognise it as the Mantis' ship, panic, and try to run away.
@@renobutters one of my fav eps loved the scene with cat and lister in the prison cell and when lister looked out to see and explain to cat whats happening the entire scene was lol specially with winnie the pooh getting executed by firing squad
I chose to get Baldur's Gate 3 of all the new games that are out, so I haven't played Starfield yet; but I assume that everyone else immediately blows up the ship that asks about your extended warranty.
you know what? i live in a town with a lot of tourist traffic and if i could put on a monster costume and scare them all off so i can actually park at the supermarket and do my shopping, i 100% would and i’d be cackling as i did it
Ah-ha!! I'd recovered the liquor but had no idea where to find the quest associated with it. /adds "add item item to the to-do list" to the to-do list/
dang they missed an opportunity to make the bobrov brothers live on in space and have bobrovs best moonshine in space on that space station since it is bethesda and all
Perhaps I should try this game one day seeing as the Mantis quest seems quite fascinating. This Mantis character doesn't seem like Batman. More like another old hero who passed the role from parent to child called The Phantom.
See, my problem is that to do side quests or even the main quest, I’d have to stop doing ecological surveys. And there’s so many planets that need science done on them.
Jane, you made a mistake - methane doesn't smell like rotten eggs, methane is odorless. Sulfur is added to natural gas and methane in order to make leaks detectable.
Always wondered why you can smell that additive in the unburned gas, but not if you're combusting it. It's the same gas going out into the air, after all... ...turns out that additive is essentially methane with a sulfur atom attached. So it's just as flammable as the fuel itself.
I mean, everything else in the game is better than the main story. When you think about it, the main quest is just one big fetch quest with companion interactions.
Power From Beyond is literally the exact same quest repeated 24 times. Menu to planet. Walk to temple. Do stupid puzzle. Shoot dude in the nuts. Menu to next planet. Walk to identical temple. Do identical stupid puzzle. Shoot identical dude in the nuts. Repeat until you get sick of it and quit. I'd much rather the main story to that shit.
With homes if you read the broken computers in the large room with all the clones you find out he was put in there to discover a nurture vs nature exsparimaent
I finished the game after like 50 hours and didn't know about half of these and didn't even know about one of the cities mentioned as the main story didn't take me there.
I need one more run for the monster custome… after that im gonna make a youtube series about “the adventures of maggotman”. Im gonna have so much fun in that costume!
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There are actually a couple of corrupted text logs that explain why they cloned H. H. Holmes, and it seems to have been one rogue scientist testing nature/nurture theories on his own by cloning serial killers and sticking them in with the other clones. All i really cared about was completing the quest to get Amelia Earhart on my crew so I might have missed more details.
Funny thing, H.H. Holmes actually *wasn't* a serial killer.
He *was* a multiple murderer, but he only killed as part of a scam or to keep witnesses/ crime partners from talking.
Answers with Joe did an excellent videos on him.
Getting the Razorleaf is one of the best things in Starfield, if, for nothing else, the comedy factor of Spacers scanning you and immediately shitting themselves in terror to run away. In fact, one of them was so terrified he gave me all the credits he had. And the merchant I inevitably rescued was so confused, but his co-pilot was such a fanboy, I couldn't help but play up the Mantis just to see his reaction.
Sounds like the Mantis is the Starfield version of the Silver Shroud.
@@Janoha17 Absolutely. Sadly you can't ham it up in as many places as you can as the Silver Shroud. I mean - you meet someone who is described as a Mantis fangirl, but she had zero reaction to me in the Mantis armour.
Sounds like I need to switch ships 😂
6:30 'A Hero's welcome by spacers who evidently hate Heroes.'
Jane, your wit is fkn Magnificent!
Not a quest but just a random encounter. Every once in a while you'll pop into a system and hear a man with a thick Irish accent singing a sea shanty. I've run into him at least 3 times, and each time he is singing a different song. You can hail him and have a brief conversation before he jumps away. Honestly my favorite encounter so far.
I stole the ship the first time (the Valentine) and a few hours later I found him again in a totally different ship called the same thing.
Its Nathaniel Evans, he’s Scottish and he went viral a while back singing the Wellerman song.
"I want to go home" is my favorite shanty so far
There's also a roaming space granny who will invite you to her ship for a meal and conversation. Very wholesome!
The Valentine is one of my favorite encounters.
I WILL wait for the complete shanty EVERY time.
I really enjoyed the mission 'Overdesigned', unlocked midway through the main questline, where you pitch in to help a team of engineers finalise the design of a new starship. If you take the 'kitchen sink' approach, you end up with one of the best ships in the game. The struggles within the team, between the team and management, and even the weird group meditation session all felt very true to life, lol.
Damn, I wish I'd known that as I went with the balanced and it's OK, just I already have better :(
Oh well, next play through then :)
Idk if it happened to you yet but sometime after this mission you'll find a random person flying the giant ship in space. If you hail them you can say you helped build that ship. The captain I found said "really? you suck at building ships" 😅
@@DB-ey3dz other people compliment you for 'it has everything I want', or "well it's a great ship, but its....*struggles*...a little complicated to fly"
Fun thing about the mantis quest, when I first did this I thought the mother was talking to me because coincidentally named my own character Leon. When I found out she was talking to her now dead NPC son, I was somewhat relieved.
Me too. My real name is also Leon, so it was very weird hearing some lady leaving me audio notes!
I was also confused as my character is not named Leon, but I am.
I, too, am named Leon!
I LOVED getting the monster costume myself. Especially the way the head smooshes up and down when you jump in the low gravity.
I was laughing hysterically the first time I made them panic and run.
Yeah it's a terrible idea though cause now your just going to get all the alien hunters
As a bonus you can use the costume in you’re first encounter on the ucs constant for some funny dialogue
Not a side-quest, but the book store owner in Akila who is really grateful to recieve old Earth books that are not Charles Dickens is one of my favorite interactions in the game. Her joy and unique dialogue for many of the rarer books is a delight.
Thanks, Jane! I stumbled upon that ghost ship ages ago & had no idea what I was supposed to do with that cargo.
Same
Yeah, it's been in my inventory for AGES with no idea what I was supposed to do with it. Forgot where I even got it, in fact.
The coffee one is just real life in space. There's a category of coffee bean that is "pre-processed" by being passed though civets, IIRC. Supposedly it reduces the bitterness, but that can also be affected many other parts of the process between bean and hot brown drink, so ...
Just to make it even weirder, they think that this is the same species of civet cat which a certain recent well-known disease jumped species to humans from. So it's true, coffee snobs ruin everything.
Kopi Luwak.
Yep, another example ofa bunch of quests in starfield being simple references without any real point apart from hey we saw the thing as well aren't we funny....at least this one is less tasteless than where they literally just put the heavens gate suicide cult in the game.
I bought that coffee for my brother for Christmas one year.
@sandythethird2292 ain't you a miserable person.
That bit about the coffee is a joke about the real life equivalent of The World's Most Exclusive and Expensive Coffee which is made from coffee beans obtained by feeding civets the fruit and waiting until they...erm...excrete the beans.
Amanirena is a reference to Kandake Amanirena who is supposed to be a courageous Kush queen who pretty much gave the Roman emperor a medieval equivalent of the middle-finger.
Tardigrade, the humble water bear, is adorable! Not horrifying.
According to the doc, she got the costume thirdhand as it was originally made as a school mascot costume. Go Water Bears!
14:30 For those of you who don't know, H.H. Holmes was a hotel owner who killed and robbed his guests.
@@SableagleI know, but Holmes was a proto Jigsaw from saw. Putting traps in the rooms and those sort of things.
@@Sableagle Oh let's see, horse theft, petty theft, fraud, involved with running a forced prostitution brothel, routinely handing out vigilante justice to petty criminals and more than likely, repeated murder. The amount of people Earp shot in "self-defense" is truly remarkable, especially when witnesses often claimed the opposite but were mysteriously evasive during court proceedings.
Pretty sure there was a lot more but that's just the stuff I can remember from years ago. Why lawmen kept giving this guy a badge is beyond common sense.
@@eventyrarenActually, that's a whole ass lie pushed by yellow journalists. Holmes WAS a murderer, but he murdered as part of scams or to keep from going to jail. Not a serial killer. For example, they called one room in the "murder hotel" the "hanging room" because there was some rope in there. Answers with Joe did a great video on him that sorts fact from fiction.
@@Sableagleread my reply to eventyraren for the real info on Holmes.
The mining equipment quest on Mars, that thing went on forever! Espionage, murder, affairs, more murder, pirates, mining, substandard Demios Swag, attempted murder after 15 minutes of painfully slow walking, and at least 20 trips down a staircase in Cydonia.
My game crashed before I could finish after following some idiot for 50 miles so he could ambush me. I haven't had the desire to try it again. In fact, that quest to go fornicate itself.
If you do the quest on Titan before the ECS Constant and wear it when you board the ship, you get some bonus dialogue
I’m surprised that the Juno ai mission wasn’t on the list. That mission is straight up Space Odyssey.
It was nice but a bit too short. I found it by chance, let Juno go, and haven't heard from her since. :-(
I tried changing her and then got jumped by her in an ambush a few hours later@@renobutters
I nurtured her desire to explore the universe. Bumped into her some time later and she seemed very happy (in a totally non-emotional way, btw) but kinda bummed after figuring out that the universe is infinite and she'll never get to explore it all. All in all, she was very thankful for my decision. She REALLY wants to emphasis that she doesn't have emotions but she's not fooling anyone.
@@davidwells5611 so, she's a random event after that...? Like that soldier girl from the UC that saved the Freestar colony?
There is a note in one of the operation Starseed facilities/ships explaining that the H. H. Holmes clone being taught to be Wyatt Earp was a pet project of one of the scientists, meant to examine the whole Nature vs. Nurture question
The scientist added H. H. Holmes to the population to test Nature vs Nurture (and crocked his own study by giving H. H. Holmes his own complete history, if you want to test nature vs nurture you can't use a genetic clone of a serial killer and then tell him he is a serial killer. This is just confirmation bias). Holmes is the one that came up with the idea of posing to be Wyatt Earp or ... the other cowboy he knows well enough to pose as. Because he is aware that other clones would know that Holmes is a serial killer and is afraid of what they would do to him.
Funny thing is, Holmes shouldn't have been included at all, as he wasn't a serial killer. He WAS a multiple murderer, but killed to cover his ass or as part of insurance scams. Answers with Joe has a great video on him
The coffee quest is actually quite and interesting one because it's based off of how a certain coffee is actually made in the real world. I can't remember the name of it now, but the process of getting the "special" coffee beans is basically the same, a small animal is fed the beans, poops them out, and then that is used to make coffee.
It's crazy that they made something like that a mission in the game, though I'm sure it's probably because most people wouldn't imagine doing something like that
It's called kopi luwak, nice coffee buy really overpriced.
Somewhat amusingly, at least to me, NPC Spacers will recognize the Mantis's ship even if you've renamed it and rebuilt it to the point where it's nearly unrecognizable.
Yeah, it's a function coded in to the ID of the ship itself so it doesn't matter if you change out parts. It'll always have that function.
Secret Outpost : "A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE uh... text log? Ahem... LISTEN AND OBEY!"
Pre digested coffee beans are a thing we do in real life, though without a weird land jellyfish monster. Civet coffee, eaten, digested, and pooped back out by the Asian Palm Civet is highly sought after (relatively speaking)
I love all the space race easter eggs popping up in Starfield. Fun fact: Gagarin Landing is likely named for the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to travel into space back in 1961
All the worlds in the Alpha Centauri system are named after pioneering space travelers- cosmonauts and astronauts and the like.
@@BogeyTheBear it's great! I love it!
There's a statue of him in the town square, I think it's a bit more than likely tbf
Not likely, it's outright confirmed to be named for him.
@@VegetaLF7 Neat! Sorry, I said likely because I'm not playing the game so didn't want to assume. I dreamed of being an astronaut when I was a kid, so people like Gagarin were my heroes for a long time. I love the nods to the OG space race.
As much as an alien monster will scare off these tourists, I can’t help but imagine that in the future this will bring even more people round.
Hunters tend to be more self-reliant and less naive around heavy machinery, so at least the doctor won't be treating them as often as she has to handle careless tourists.
@@BogeyTheBearNah, it'd just be average tourists curious about the spectacle, and likely to forget to turn on their suit's heaters and get hypothermia or frostbite...
The alien monster quest was amazing, I found a ship drifting, indestructible, no hail response, in one of the far reaching planets of the 'Starfield'. Actually started to make me feel a bit aware that this is a Horror themed quest, when I turned my flashlight and realised without it I can't see anything. Everyone dead on board with a monster somewhere in the ship in quarantine.
Yeah, that was a wild one. Basically Dead Space or Alien
It typically doesn't smell much in a fish processing plant, because the interior is kept cold to slow bacteria growth (the bacteria consuming the deceased fish and expelling waste gasses is what you smell) so as to protect the end product - the fish meat, but has the bonus of keeping the unwanted guts from stinking much. As for the detached storage bins/structure the offal is kept in after being cleaned out of the plant itself, not so much...ew.
Regarding the coffee snob... I mean, it's a Bethesda game. It's generally pretty save to operate under the assumption that all the NPCs are ultimately just weirdos until they prove otherwise.
Also, beer juice boxes are an amazing idea.
I think the quest Tangled was really fun and creepy, swapping between universes at random
The coffee bean thing is actually a legitimate way to get one of the most expensive coffee's on this earth.
Mantis gear is randomized, so save before taking and relaod if you want a different perk.
That costume quest sounds like a Scooby Doo plot 😂.
And cat poop coffee is a real thing.
Thanks Jane, keep the Starfield weirdness coming!
Some don't want Starfield to be fun...
They want it to be Sirius.
It's already a very Sirius game though, don't wanna over-do it.
Booo
"Pullaris" my finger. Don't be scared.
You almost made me Cassiopeia my pants
You almost made me spit out my "Betelgeuse" 😅
Fun fact: That coffee quest is based on something in real life. It's called Civet Coffee, and it involves feeding the beans to civets and... What you already know from the quest.
It may sound silly, but my favorite side quest so far… was fixing the brown outs in New Atlantis. I enjoyed working with the engineer in charge. I enjoyed the sass between her and the Trade Authority manager. I enjoyed running around, exploring the area while flipping switches instead of killing people.
My other favorite quest is more involved, but as it’s part of the main quest, I don’t think it counts.
Question, when it got to the point where the engineer and the woman from the Trade Authority told you two different switches to flip, which one did you pick? And how'd the quest go from there?
@@UpperDarbyDetailing it isn't a choice of either/or, you have to flip them all eventually so it doesn't really matter who you listen to as to which to flip first, they're just giving you clues to help find them easier really
@@stacythomas9916 yes it is ... the mast worker tells you one place and the trade authority woman tells you another. Once you get close to one the other quest marker disappears. After that you leave the Well immediately.
yeah starseed might be my favorite "out there" side quest but i think the one where you met JUNO might be my favorite overall.
Extended warranty guy is super hard to kill as well. I’ve tried to attack him a few times, but his grav drive spins up super quick and he bolts
It is possible to board, kill them all and take their ship. Take out the engines very quickly and then dock. Make sure you have the skills to target the engines and have the weapons capable of doing it quickly.
I NEED that alien costume for Halloween
Forget the Space Batmobile, I want the armored Capital ship, once you fix the wonky gravity. :p
Something interesting about Genghis Khan is that his name at birth was Temujin Borjigin which was the Mongolian clan he belonged to. Genghis Khan was a title given to him by the other clans when he founded the Mongolian empire.
Fun fact in Bali they see Luwak Coffee whose beans have been digested by a local rodent.
Ooh, I didn't know about the space version of kopi luwak. Have to go find that quest later.
Ive never played this game but the first mission sounds so funny. You literally become a scooby doo villain
It would be great to have just a short list of that starting NPCs and their locations to keep the surprise of the quests alive
You can actually pick up the Secret Outpost! note from dead spacers randomly.
Spoiler: When doing the Mantis floor puzzle, you can actually just shoot out all the turrets before attempting to cross it.
Also, for the Mantis ship, the Razorleaf, you can literally build a new ship in its slot on the shipbuilder and keep the Mantis effect on Spacers and Pirates. It doesn’t take the effect from the ship, or name or any part of the Razorleaf itself.
That first one, you're just helping / becoming(?) a Scooby Doo villain.
This video was great. Especially the Mantis bit. Quality commentary!
I got knocked for showing up to my Ryujin interview in a full spacesuit...next loop... monster costume.
Ok so the mantis armor legendary effect are random save befor you open the display to reroll the effects but befor you land set your game to vary hard then land and exist the ship then set the difficulty to what you like if you did it right you should get a few higer rarety iteams
Interesting fact- some high-end coffees actually are made from beans that passed through the stomach of another creature. Its really messed up, especially since these animals are often force-fed the beans to keep up with demand.
I came across a tourist ship where i got battered by inane questions from the tourists onboard, i also came across a school trip as well, that cost me a lot of ship parts.
That thumbnail is just... *chef's kiss*
The mantis armor’s actually randomized.
should be noted that the reason the turrets mow down the son is because defense system software broke and decided everything should die
10:51 Funnily enough methylamine smells like (or rather, is actually part of the aroma of) rotten fish so it's closer to the true Walter White experience than you think.
Fun(?) Fact: "poop coffee" is actually a real thing. But instead of an alien monster it's an adorable lemur that "extracts" the beans by eating the plant containing them. Reality is truly stranger than fiction. Learned that from Animal Planet. Thanks for sparking that memory. 💩☕
That's interesting, I have only heard of civet coffee. They're related to mongooses.
@@Candlekeepdeep that might be it? I don't remember much, just that it was arboreal.
The Mantis armor pieces have different random attributes, and you can re-roll if you save before picking them up to try to get effects you want. I might have reloaded a save like four times myself.
Oh, come on, Jane, how are water bears scary. They look like a piglet and armadillo merged together. They are known for tripping over their own feet. 😂
The warranty guy can't be killed. Sure, you can smear his ship across the stars, but then the wreckage disappears in a grav jump.
Dang he must have one hell of a warranty
@@stacythomas9916 I guess I should have reconsidered the offer.
I have like 200 hours in the game and I've only done the mantis quest lol. That's craaaazy H.H Holmes is in the game. I did a report on him in school haha.
Was your report accurate? He wasn't actually a serial killer.
Finding out that Heatleaches are just baby Terrormorphs is like learning that rats eventually turn into wear wolves.
The only noteworthy side quest I've done so far is the entire crimson fleet questline.
Word of advice:
When it comes time to go after Kryx's Legacy, upgrade the living hell out of your ship first. Dont go to Bannoc IV without doing that. I got stuck in the final space fight for ages because I was still running the vanilla frontier.
Vanilla Frontier is a bad idea for _any_ mission. Before I retired mine for the Ranger ship, I jammed a double-decker reactor aboard and upgraded the systems.
@@BogeyTheBear I had added a couple laser cannons and some extra cargo space(and the bigger reactor and engines necessary to run said components), but aside from that, it was stock.
I also didn't have the piloting skill at all.
@@BogeyTheBear I mean the first two people you meet in game do make a point to acknowledge how old and outdated the piece of junk is.
I really want a followup to the New Homestead quest where four teenagers in a beat-up ship come to investigate the alien sightings with their robot, SQ-B2.
Also, extra perk to the Mantis mission: If you're attacked by Spacers whilst flying the Razorleaf there's a chance they'll recognise it as the Mantis' ship, panic, and try to run away.
Not Dr Guilana pulling a scooby doo move in space with a fake monster!
Not gonna lie I was a little confused and concerned at the lack of starfielf content you and Xtra were putting out
I've had the booze in my inventory for forever and I completely forgot where it came from. Thanks!
0.5mm for the size of a Tardigrade? That's one big Tardigrade 😂
15:42 such a coffee excuse and they are very expensive
That clones quest is literally just an episode of Red Dwarf, right?
Star Trek did it first.
Ah yes the wax thing in series 4 iirc. Star Trek did it first but Dwarf's was more memorable per se. 😋
Apparently you can get a suit like FDR somewhere. I just haven't figured out where yet.
@@renobutters one of my fav eps loved the scene with cat and lister in the prison cell and when lister looked out to see and explain to cat whats happening the entire scene was lol specially with winnie the pooh getting executed by firing squad
I chose to get Baldur's Gate 3 of all the new games that are out, so I haven't played Starfield yet; but I assume that everyone else immediately blows up the ship that asks about your extended warranty.
I tried, but it jumped away before I could blast it to pieces.
I went from bg3 to starfield...don't do it, it makes all starfields rpg elements feel hollow and plastic.
@@sandythethird2292 I've yet to start BG and it still feels hollow, plastic, and dated.
i will have it be noted for the record some robins do wear pants, tim drake started it and it has SINCE CONTINUED through steph and damian
in defense of the coffee snob terrabrew does sound like a pun about how bad their drinks are 🤭
you know what? i live in a town with a lot of tourist traffic and if i could put on a monster costume and scare them all off so i can actually park at the supermarket and do my shopping, i 100% would and i’d be cackling as i did it
The extended warranty guy sounds like Kif from futurama it's the only reason I haven't blown him up yet.
I'd sell the beans to SpaceBucks out of raw spite for that snob. I hope you can tell him what you did
The first one sounds like a Scooby-Doo cartoon plot, haha
If you're interested in a good quest, get arested in the sol system, easiest wat is just to throw some contraband on your ship and jump in.
Fun quest.
Now I want to be a tardigrade for Halloween. 😮
That first quest ... that's some serious Scooby-Doo shit right there.
This outpost would be at rest, if not for you meddling tourists!
I can't believe one of the missions is LITERALLY to be a Scooby Doo villain
the warrenty is up on your spaceship, I had just upgraded the weapons on my spaceship and they popped along for me to test them out.
Amelia Earhart kind of looks like Todd Howard in this game! 12:52
The Monster costume is cool!
If you join the Crimson Fleet then exploring the gravity ship becomes kind of sad and boring, no fighting involved
Ah-ha!! I'd recovered the liquor but had no idea where to find the quest associated with it. /adds "add item item to the to-do list" to the to-do list/
dang they missed an opportunity to make the bobrov brothers live on in space and have bobrovs best moonshine in space on that space station since it is bethesda and all
Mantis suit changes its perks everytime, and the monster suit you get is a copy - she keeps the original.
Perhaps I should try this game one day seeing as the Mantis quest seems quite fascinating. This Mantis character doesn't seem like Batman. More like another old hero who passed the role from parent to child called The Phantom.
Y'know what, going to go out on a limb here-there should be a game where it's all side quests like these...
I'm one of those weirdos that enjoys surveying planets... And unfortunately I have a massive backlog of Surveys I still need to sell to Vladimir!
Well you'll get plenty of chances since you have to visit him eleventy billion times to finish the Power From Beyond quests
See, my problem is that to do side quests or even the main quest, I’d have to stop doing ecological surveys. And there’s so many planets that need science done on them.
Jane, you made a mistake - methane doesn't smell like rotten eggs, methane is odorless. Sulfur is added to natural gas and methane in order to make leaks detectable.
Came to write this, but thanks to you, I don't have to.
Always wondered why you can smell that additive in the unburned gas, but not if you're combusting it. It's the same gas going out into the air, after all...
...turns out that additive is essentially methane with a sulfur atom attached. So it's just as flammable as the fuel itself.
@@ChewieLewis damn straight im a nerd.
Since Aurora is contraband outside of Neon, would cans of Blend also be considered contraband or would they pass a scan?
they don't cause a failed scan
the first mission featured, I love how its all scooby doo.
I mean, everything else in the game is better than the main story. When you think about it, the main quest is just one big fetch quest with companion interactions.
Power From Beyond is literally the exact same quest repeated 24 times. Menu to planet. Walk to temple. Do stupid puzzle. Shoot dude in the nuts. Menu to next planet. Walk to identical temple. Do identical stupid puzzle. Shoot identical dude in the nuts. Repeat until you get sick of it and quit.
I'd much rather the main story to that shit.
With homes if you read the broken computers in the large room with all the clones you find out he was put in there to discover a nurture vs nature exsparimaent
1:43 Scooby doo still airing even in the 24th century 😢😢
I finished the game after like 50 hours and didn't know about half of these and didn't even know about one of the cities mentioned as the main story didn't take me there.
doesn't sound "finished" to me, might wanna explore more on next ng+ run through :)
I need one more run for the monster custome… after that im gonna make a youtube series about “the adventures of maggotman”. Im gonna have so much fun in that costume!