Mantis had great rewards

[msy]

From Mantis I got her legendary spacesuit, helmet and pack. Better than most of my gear and with a couple features none of them had.

And her ship was better than the ship I got from the Rangers, definitely better armed.

[Vlad 254]

I love the quest and the rewards. Matter of fact I always make sure i do that quest as early as possible so I can get the Razorleaf.

[RasaNova]

Fun mission, great ship (I love when pirates see you in space and get scared) and great stats on the suit, I just wish it didn't look so stupid.

[DANEDANGER]

Did you know, when you make a save right before that mannequin your able to reload when you have opened the box and see the suit has bad legendary effects on it. When you reload it also rerolls the effects meaning the suit wil be different on reload for as long as you have that save files in front of that mannequin with it being closed

[jonnin]

Amazing quest... a modest POI for incredible rewards.

From a higher level view:

mantis ship isn't too hard to fix up, relatively speaking. Lots of unnecessary stuff leaves room to get it fully upgraded easily. It gets bonus points for scaring off some attackers.

The armor is iffy... its the best in the game early on, but getting a set worth having at NG+++ levels ... its really hard to get 1-2 good modifiers AND a high enough DR to wear all 3 pieces. Take what you can get... if one or two of the pieces is endgame quality, call it a winner. My last 2 NGs, I have had white armor either all the way through or so far through it that a decent upgrade was just a few before time to NG again... it rains good guns but good armor is so rare...


everyone has their ideas but my latest razorleaf fixed the entrance (forward facing) and habs (one level) and upgraded it (guns, shields, etc). Only B class but it can hold its own. I had to make it a little longer to fix the habs but the soul of the original is there.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3292960195

[CurrySpirals]

A lot of fun moments after too. From pirates fleeing in fear when they see your ship and having people thank you for saving them, telling Cora you’re the Mantis, picking your tracker alliance name. One of my favorite missions in the game.

[Ihateeverybody]

Yeah they backed the wrong conceptual horse in my opinion. They should have went all in on the Mantis rather than space dragonborn.

That whole artefact thing. Ugh.

You could have still had the powers but reworked as skills or suit enhancements. Speaking of, they really SHOULD have offered Vartiations. The vanilla is just bad, fortunately several modders have stepped up on that score.

[momopovich]

Originally posted by Ihateeverybody:

space dragonborn.
.

Starborn : "reborn" human that went through some unidentified universe hoping portal, reconditionned in a space suit and space ship of unknown origin. Abilities to use gravitational anomalies (powers), respond to artifact "signals"

Dragonborn : mortal blessed with dragon blood and soul by the god Akatosh

The two things are completely, i mean entirely different.

[Ihateeverybody]

Originally posted by momopovich:

Originally posted by Ihateeverybody:

space dragonborn.
.

Starborn : "reborn" human that went through some unidentified universe hoping portal, reconditionned in a space suit and space ship of unknown origin. Abilities to use gravitational anomalies (powers), respond to artifact "signals"

Dragonborn : mortal blessed with dragon blood and soul by the god Akatosh

The two things are completely, i mean entirely different.

I honestly cannot tell if you are being sarcastic or not. No fair, if you are you have to Lable it.

[Cutlass Jack]

I liked the stuff I got from my parents more than the Mantis stuff. At least they didn't give me a space-onesie that makes me look like I have poopy drawers and no fashion sense.

The Mantis was also a terrible parent, unlike mine.

But I did enjoy the quest.

[momopovich]

Originally posted by Ihateeverybody:

Originally posted by momopovich:

Starborn : "reborn" human that went through some unidentified universe hoping portal, reconditionned in a space suit and space ship of unknown origin. Abilities to use gravitational anomalies (powers), respond to artifact "signals"

Dragonborn : mortal blessed with dragon blood and soul by the god Akatosh

The two things are completely, i mean entirely different.

I honestly cannot tell if you are being sarcastic or not. No fair, if you are you have to Lable it.

Can you elaborate why ?

If you disagree with my post can you point out where ?

[msy]

My ship building skills are pretty amateurish right now. I am practicing with the junk ship I escaped from the chop shop in.

[Ihateeverybody]

Originally posted by momopovich:

If you disagree with my post can you point out where ?

I think its the comma in "The two things are completely, i mean entirely different."

If it had been a period or a semi colon it would read more definitive. The comma makes (at least to me) that you maid a sly winking slip of tongue.

I mean my own personal opinion that the Starborn is EXACTLY like the dragonborn is pretty set. It would be like arguing that the Transformer Jetfire is totally different from the Robotech Plane

https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jetfire_(G1)/toys#:~:text=Released%20in%20the%20second%20year,Macross%20VF-1S%20Super%20Valkyrie.

[momopovich]

Originally posted by Ihateeverybody:

Originally posted by momopovich:

If you disagree with my post can you point out where ?

I think its the comma in "The two things are completely, i mean entirely different."

If it had been a period or a semi colon it would read more definitive. The comma makes (at least to me) that you maid a sly winking slip of tongue.

Interesting

Not a native english speaker, not going to argue about this

Originally posted by Ihateeverybody:

I mean my own personal opinion that the Starborn is EXACTLY like the dragonborn is pretty set. It would be like arguing that the Transformer Jetfire is totally different from the Robotech Plane

the collectible power mechanic is similar, everything else is different especially story wise so your transformer analogy doesn't apply at all

[jonnin]

^^ That is the thing. The mechanic is identical AND it also DOES NOT FIT. The game takes a good fake-science (eg grave drives, energy weapons, habitable planets) story and randomly (its pointless, doesn't even advance the story) added SPACE MAGIC that no science can explain (its a mutation that lets you use the force to lift objects?? ). Its garbage that doesn't belong here, left over from skyrim because they had a drunken 2 am brainstorm session on what features to add.

[momopovich]

Originally posted by jonnin:

added SPACE MAGIC that no science can explain (its a mutation that lets you use the force to lift objects?? ).

Its very much explained (to a certain extent of course). Starborns manipulate gravitational anomalies that result from interactions with other universes. The hints are very strong if you pay attention to the "entangled" mission, the power animations and the stuff inside the temples.