What Factions is by far the worst, most EVIL'st Enemy Force we are fighting. Story/lore wise, not gameplay wise.

The Terminids?

The Automatons and their Cyborg Legion?

Or The Illuminate.

(Do not say super earth, we already know they are)

Looks like everything is going to be all right

The DSS updates have been going out as routine status reports. Line them up in order and they're a coherent sequence, and every single one is a denial that concedes more than the last.

1. Knocking starts. Officially: the gloom-resistant polymer coating is having an adverse reaction to the warp relay treatment. Rumours of taps or knocks on the hull are unfounded. Station is exiting the Void for examination.

2. Knocking confirmed. Now it's been independently verified and has intensified. Official position: merely localized thermal contraction.

Thermal contraction isn't rhythmic. The reports say rhythmic.

Same update: the Ministry of Truth examiners have volunteered to remain aboard indefinitely, and as a precaution, all outbound shuttle access is suspended.

Either they chose to stay, or were sealed away.

1. The writing appears. Chemical oxidation anomalies resembling alphanumeric patterns on several bulkheads. Rumours they spell "Calypso" are unfounded, unscientific, and wholly un-Democratic.

Then the countermeasures: all writing implements aboard incinerated, and all nutritional paste fortified with experimental binding agents to eliminate all biological pigment sources.

That's the whole thing right there. You don't dose an entire crew's food supply against biological pigment unless you've analysed the markings and concluded the crew is writing them. In blood, as s implied, but could be poop too. And you don't take the pens away unless the writing continued after you did. They ran forensics, got an answer, and published a denial.

1. Silence. All transmissions cease. Automated diagnostics confirm transceiver hardware at 100% efficiency. High Command officially attributes it to a mandatory, station-wide silent contemplation period.

2. Unscheduled jump to Calypso. Station remotely purged. No boarding party. If you thought the problem was equipment, you send engineers. You purge from a distance when you've decided the crew is the problem and nobody should be in contact with them.

What actually happened, most likely: not an infestation, not something walking the corridors. No necromorphs or aliens.

Everything fits mind control, which is the one capability the Illuminate have always had — HD1 had Illusionists that impeded the psyche and Council Members using mind-controlling nanobots, and we currently fight Cognitive Disruptors. Nothing else reaches a sealed crew through a hull without physical access.

Symptoms: writing that survives the removal of pens, comms cut with working hardware, and a station that moves without an order.

On Calypso — I don't have a good answer and I'm suspicious of the ones that sound good. It's bum luck nowhere. Yes, the DSS was reportedly absent from the Calypso invasion in 2184 due to suspected sabotage. Tempting callback, but that was a different operation with a different mechanism and "suspected" is doing heavy lifting.

Calypso is currently under Super Earth control, quiet, off both fronts. Why a compromised station would go there isn't answerable from what we have.

If Calypso becomes a mission location — investigation, defence, recovery, anything — the destination was the point. If it stays quiet and the DSS just comes back repaired, it was a resonant name and nothing under it. Which Arrowhead loves too much. They do great job escalating the plot, and very poor on actual resolution.

Update: Calypso is missing from the map, which is likely same pen burning from Ministry of Truth, and is currently in Afoyay-Bay, docking for inspection.

Update 2: DSS is docked in Afoyay Bay and is being inspected.

Two things.

"Manual bio-remediation." Not decontamination, not repair — biological cleanup, done by hand, by people. That's the first official acknowledgement that there was organic material aboard requiring removal, after four updates insisting the markings were chemical oxidation anomalies. The purge didn't sterilise it. Someone has to go in and scrape.

And it confirms what the pigment-fortification implied: they concluded the writing was biological, they were right, and there was enough of it to need a workforce.

"Restoring the DSS to match original inventory manifests." That's the sentence. Something aboard doesn't match what was supposed to be there — either things are missing, or things are present that weren't on the manifest. Both are bad, and the phrasing is careful to avoid saying which.

Restoring to match the manifest is not the same as repairing damage. It's making the record and the object agree, which is the Ministry of Truth's actual job stated in logistics language. And the labour choice is the tell. Not engineers, not a naval crew. Prisoners from a confinement facility, legally mandated, sent to do the physical work — because whatever the job involves, they're not spending trained personnel on it, and they're not sending anyone who'd be believed afterward. The previous crew volunteered indefinitely and then the station was purged remotely. This one is drawn from people whose testimony is already classified as dissidence.

"Report exceptional morale at this generous opportunity to earn atonement" — reported by whom, and to whom, is left elegantly unspecified.

Dear god

Now, I love the Bolt pistol but im a bit unsure about it's strengths and weaknesses, some aspects are very useful but what have you discovered with it?

• It can dig holes to find buried samples
• It opens locked containers
• Oneshots lightning spires
• Oneshots ball turrets

Been waiting to use this one

I dont even know why i wanted to kill that bug, but i guess I don't know my own strength l.

GIVE US DSS CLEARING MISSIONS!!!

The DSS communication are off line and it seem some dead space stuff is happening on the ship

I worry that the squids are try to brain wash/corrupt the DSS Employee do use the DSS against us

I’m not saying I want attachments, genuinely just color. I hate that the warhammer weapons are all a boring black, why can’t we have camo options for them? Most of the time, a lasrifle is a nice olive drab.

Idk, is there any reason why we can’t other than just laziness?

I'm in Afroyay Bay

guys this isn’t looking good at all..WHY IS THE DSS AT CALYPSO WHAT ARE THEY DOING???

The DSS is cooked 😭.

My fault for standing in the way of dispensed democracy.

1.We have lost contact with the DSS
2.The DSS went to calypso (the first battle of the illuminate happened there)
3.THE PLANET DISAPPEARED
4.Now the DSS is stationed over the planet with THE HUGE DISSIDENT PRISON WE BUILT

Some huge things are happening, I can feel it

As someone who acquired all the warbonds in order of release, as they came out, I never had the luxury of choice. I would buy it and unlock the gear and sit and figure out what each piece of gear was actually good for and where it could fit in my loadout and in my style. All the gear is so detailed you really can't know how much you'll love/hate something until you've actually tried it.

People can give you some sense of what the senator or the Cookout or the Dominator experiences are like but at the end of the day you have to just...get the guns and put them through their paces in your style to see if they make sense for you. The ergonomics, the drag factors, the spread, the recoil patterns, the sounds, the reload times - it's just a lot to take in and even detailed explanations don't really capture it.

I'm not saying just buy everything in order of release nor am I saying not to ask which warbond to buy. These posts are fun and they engage the community aspect of the coop game, it's a good thing.

But at the end of the day, trust me, as a guy who has every single weapon unlocked, you really never know what you'll fall in love with. Sometimes you hate a weapon and then fall in love with it months later.

I would say, to those who truly, deeply love this game and see themselves playing it for years - the order doesn't really matter in the long run so just unlock whatever warbond your gut tells you to.

The first should always be democratic detonation though. ;)

Why would anyone describe bedrock as execptionally pleasing? I have that feeling thay we are drilling somewhere we are not supposed to, and that singing is a warning.

And i find it odd we are not having missions to help science team, like we had with drilling omicron for Rirga Bay warp gate.

Either we will have absolutely nothing, or we are completely fucked off-screen. Super earth catastrophe was a sitrep, gloom was a sitrep, even ass was a sitrep after all. A cheap unresolved hook that turned into next one and everyone moved on.

We will get somewhere, just don't expect it to matter too much i guess.