Shattered Space ending... ( Spoilers )

[Nemesis]

Great expansion truly. Very House Va'ruun themed which what I'd hope for. Only thing thats got me abit scratching my head was the ending.

You meet Anasko Va'ruun properly and you get to choose between starting a new Serpent's Crusade with these improved versions of Phantom soldiers from Ma'leen Dam( Bad ), or cut the life support of these troops ( Good ).

Picked Good, You fight Anasko, its meh. Picked Bad and you further options to pick, either submit, which leads to Game Over you died or fight Anasko AND his Phantom Soldiers...


After that. You meet the High Council, you pick a new Speaker and then you decide if a new Serpent's Crusade goes ahead anyways or not.

NG+ wipes the game so why couldnt we have these Phantom super soldiers attacking the settled systems? :/

[bambooza]

Not only that but the herald made it seem like there were two paths one of dark and light with the possibility of saving the speaker. In the end, it just felt like no choices had any impact. Not even picking to start a new Serpent's Crusade, not picking the super soldiers, not even picking which of the three houses would lead.

[Sirius Black]

So the phantom supersoldiers won't attack populated systems if you decide to go on a crusade? I chose the crusade and it seems like nothing has changed in the settled systems. Only my companions are mad at me lol

[veer]

Well imagine if the super phantom soldiers did attack the settled systems... It would ruin the game completely. No way the settled systems could withstand such an army. I agree that the DLC Is a wonderful addition to the game :) I'm having a blast with it. First of all full disclosure, I am the games biggest fan with over 3100 hours in game. I am also in real life a Libertarian with conservative leanings and do not find this game woke in any way shape or form. Actually it is very conservative with pro gun and free speech promoted within it. One simple pronoun choice at the character creation and you have a bunch of strange fanatics against the game LOL. My wife loves the game and she is a Mama Bear Republican. So people accusing conservatives or republicans attacking this game are wrong. Those people wasting their time attacking a game of all things are not conservatives in any shape or form. they are just disturbed.

[Varanus]

I've only completed the first 2 questsof the main story so far. Up to the part where you have to help the 3 houses. So early on. But I was hoping you could side with the vortex people. :)

[ForumBot3000™® 🤖👍✅]

I could write a better ending than that

[LeBurns]

So if you choose to start the crusade again what does that do to the Settled Systems? Are there a lot more zealot encounters or something? Does a new war actually start?

[veer]

Originally posted by 🍌:

I could write a better ending than that

Then do it,

[zerozodiac]

I'm currently doing a "lets be a ♥♥♥♥" playthru so the Settled Systems will have a lots of fun activities for everyone once I'm done with it.

[ForumBot3000™® 🤖👍✅]

Originally posted by veer:

Originally posted by 🍌:

I could write a better ending than that

Then do it,

Ok. So you are in the cult and they says you have to pick a side and it's a really difficult decision but so then you pick the side and the cult takes you into the secret room where you don't know where you are and then they tells you they have a top secret mission for you and it's so top secret and that it can only be completed on the steam forums and the game shuts down and forums open and then you must complete the mission to defend starfield from the trolls (also you find out that Todd is the cult leader too but that is also top secret)

[Varanus]

Originally posted by zerozodiac:

I'm currently doing a "lets be a ♥♥♥♥" playthru so the Settled Systems will have a lots of fun activities for everyone once I'm done with it. :Etna:

There definitely needs to be a universal conqueror path at some point in a future dlc. I've been to 11 universes with this guy. With all the starborn powers and universe restarting probably making him apathetic towards everything. And now with the possibility of being able to incite a religious crusade, I feel like at some point, my dudes just going to snap and be like "You know what!? I like THIS universe. This universe is mine".

[zerozodiac]

Originally posted by Varanus:

Originally posted by zerozodiac:

I'm currently doing a "lets be a ♥♥♥♥" playthru so the Settled Systems will have a lots of fun activities for everyone once I'm done with it.

There definitely needs to be a universal conqueror path at some point in a future dlc. I've been to 11 universes with this guy. With all the starborn powers and universe restarting probably making him apathetic towards everything. And now with the possibility of being able to incite a religious crusade, I feel like at some point, my dudes just going to snap and be like "You know what!? I like THIS universe. This universe is mine".

Woudn't mind at all if they actually made one expansion all about settling some remote systems with volunteers and setting up a new nation or something. Resource procurement and stuff like that to justify a massive base network.

[stranger]

Originally posted by zerozodiac:

Originally posted by Varanus:

There definitely needs to be a universal conqueror path at some point in a future dlc. I've been to 11 universes with this guy. With all the starborn powers and universe restarting probably making him apathetic towards everything. And now with the possibility of being able to incite a religious crusade, I feel like at some point, my dudes just going to snap and be like "You know what!? I like THIS universe. This universe is mine".

Woudn't mind at all if they actually made one expansion all about settling some remote systems with volunteers and setting up a new nation or something. Resource procurement and stuff like that to justify a massive base network.

Why not make a mod that does that with the ecs constant as the new colony you oversee?

[Macronomicus]

It actually makes sense in a way, choosing the dark-side is a path of certain failure, either rapidly or in due time. Crusades are like the ending stage of social infection & abject ignorance, it may drag on for some time, but it will end harshly for those perpetrating it, one way or another. Even some of the remarks there among the counsel,& companions let us know the state of their civilization is such that barely more than some gorilla warfare is possible, so even if you chose crusade, there's not much they can do, already having been severely damaged from their prior crusade, & most recent attempt at starting another that wiped most of their civilization out.

Also worth noting it was only the old guard guy who wanted to proceed with the crusade, the rest seemed ok, or even pleased to avoid it, he likely knew of the super-phantom plot, just as that other house knew of (& enabled) the zealots.... Thats why I chose the merchant house to be speaker, let The People enjoy some collaboration, economic abundance, adventure, & potentially liberate themselves from the theocratic technocrat dictatorship that they've fallen into & damn near wiped them out.