something wicked this way rides

Linda is free now 😔|| if SSO didnt want me to do this they should've let good ol' Jasper kill me when he had the chance || Calamity Starsky, Breaker of Games, Wheeler of Thirds

[horseslur]

SSO Twitch Streams VOD playlist on Youtube:

SSO VODs

If you're wondering what shenanigans I'm pulling over on Twitch now that I'm livestreaming on there, but missed streams or simply prefer Youtube, here's the VOD playlist for convenience :3

[mmhberry]

you log on star stable. you go to marchenghast. any time you gallop next to an npc may it be the nobles in the castle or the witches' village they're insulting you THEY CANNOT STAND YOU you do your dailies and here comes a witch or a guard to say You Are Weird And We Don't Want You Here

[horseslur]

A day late, but happy two years of me fucking around with and in this game!

continuing main storyline won't be happening for a while, given that I currently can't stream until I find a new place to live (and a job alongside it) so you guys will have to make do with periodic sparse updates when I manage to break the game in new and exciting ways.

If the new halloween story quests would like to give me uh. 1345 player exp though. That'd be great that would get me to level 22 finally. Why yes Lisa and Anne are still missing why do you ask?

[horseslur]

>seasonal actively aggressive frequent wolf appearances

>same season of near daily chore of leading several horses to drink at and vibe at the river without any supervision, going literally right past one such wolf

>daily quests of collecting runaway horses

guys i think we might be part of the problem

[horseslur]

sso is just such a functional, well-made game, from it's core mechanics to its festival minigames

[horseslur]

Thoughts on the new "storm on South Hoof" quest (and generally some my issues with SSO)

Put under the readmore for spoiler reasons, as much as there's anything to spoil.

Summary:

Playing through this quest (I want to call it a questline so so badly. its not. its like 30mins of quests that are barely a step above daily chores.) I had three main thoughts:

It feels incredibly disconnected to other quest(line)s. (Despite fixing the bridge, New Hillcrest functionally doesn't exist to South Hoof, bare minimum involvement of Madison and absolutely Zero explanation for why she's just vibing with Nightdust in the middle of a storm).

Why are we using gen 2 models for everything. It is the year of our lord 2025. More broadly, why is this quest released now and not as part of a re-introduction to a revamped South Hoof? I should not be leading escaped or injured horses along that still very much look like its 2012. Why is lifeguard Elin still an old model. (I'll accept Madison and her family being old models for the purpose of "they'd need to reskin the entire Nightdust questline. But they're on thin fucking ice.)

Most importantly, combining the previous two, why the FUCK is this a 30min fetchquest limited to South Hoof with two trips to Fort Pinta. If it's one of the heaviest storms South Hoof has seen and it's been going for a While, then why the fuck are at the very least Dundull and New Hillcrest not also affected? The entire south coast of Jorvik should be fucked up. Give me flooded Dundull. Give me a ship crashing into the aptly named coast outside the Marshes.

I can best describe this experience as Someone Somewhere had a really good idea, and then it got absolutely destroyed by lack of budget, bad management, and absolute idiots in all other parts of the process. (Like most things SSO) if given a few more months and actual Impact then it could've become one of the most impressive questlines in the game. They could've released a Storm Questline covering the entire coastline before halloween, affecting tons of different people with different problems, and still put South Hoof and Fort Pinta at the heart of it all. Instead we got instantly-healing horse balm, a singular nod to the Hermit's history, and inappropriate music choices.

WHICH IS FRANKLY THE PART THAT PISSES ME OFF THE MOST. I can take mediocre dialogues (wouldnt be here otherwise). I can tolerate mid fetchquests with no actual impact on the game. I draw the line at whatever fuckup at sse decided to 1) use mistfall/wildwoods OST for stormy South Hoof and 2) use goddamn Dino Valley OST for the race through the storm. A thousand hammers.

Of all areas in the game, Dino Valley, Mistfall and South Hoof have THE most specific and unique vibes and environments in the game, in large part to their highly specific and immersive audiotracks. Despite South Hoof's own highly favoured OST (i LITERALLY did the cross country race as a fucking freebie in this questline to listen to its music while riding through the storm), despite the fact that Any sso player will instantly recognise mistfall and dino valley's unique soundtracks and connect them to their own environments, SOMEONE decided to undermine every piece of work that has been put into each of these areas and simply start mixing them together.

Mistfall and Wildwoods were my last areas to unlock, and it truly felt like stepping into a whole new world, with its magical forests. Dino Valley is still my favourite area in the entire game, in part for its unique atmosphere that instantly invokes the realisation that this used to be a frozen lake, giant skeletons and magic witches and barren cold and all.

And yet, South Hoof, with it's open fields and own distinct Highland-atmosphere, with a soundtrack that a LOT of players 1) still love and 2) would LOVE to hear more like it, got slapped with "magical ice tundra" and "thick forest to get lost in". because this entire quest (which couldve been a quest*line*, it could have been chaos in cape west and titanic in new hillcrest and flooding in dundull and it could have *mattered*) was put together slapdash with about 10% pussy put in and a solid 4 hours of work.

SSO is a game that is desparately trying to swim away from a sinking island, ignoring the fact they have all the materials and knowledge to build an actual boat that wouldn't end up with them drowning in the ocean in a few hours. You would think they remember how good fucking quests work when making a new one in the exact location as the nightdust questline, and yet.

Gold star, you tried. Someone in your company clearly has a braincell. Now just the rest of you.

[shiroselia]

Was Elizabeth fridged, discuss

[horseslur]

FEAR NOT CALAMITY IS HERE

ITS BEEN A WHILE BUT DO NOT WORRY. I SOFTLOCKED MYSELF IN THE NEWEST QUESTLINE

so in the newest questline involving the chest on fort pinta beach which ultimately takes you to cape west, uh.

there's supposed to be a bob there!

Plot says i should talk to a guy right there. Game says there should be a guy to talk to right there. There's no guy to talk to right there <3 I literally physically cannot trigger the completion of the "Plan B" questline.

"Calamity. where is bob." you might ask. well good question!

plan B more like plan C! bc he's in the sea,,,

He is in yacht limbo. every time i talk to him he gets run over by the big white boat. i refuse to complete the questline so it resets every time i log off. I cannot talk to him here to complete the questline either.

Missing out on 25xp and a hat is, quite frankly, a price I'm willing to pay just for how funny this is.

[horseslur]

everything i've ever done has led up to this moment

[pinehill-stables]

which race in SSO do you hate the most and why is it the Jackalope Race from Scott Buttergood

[horseslur]

be me update is finally out theres not even new content im interested in do my standard dailies for trail points, then start to head to valedale to grind some light bc extra light points ride past a rubia, might as well pick it up game lags a bit. i see a +9 trailpoints appear right before my screen goes white closeup cam of the empty version of a stable of a horse i am currently not riding, with no UI and no way to get out sse was finally sick of me they've sent me to hell

[horseslur]

Update! I'm able to recreate it now.

So uh. *dont* press w (to go faster) and e (to interact with something) at the same time, or get Yeeted to Horse Limbo.

Current theory on which stable it shows you is whichever you interacted with last but I havent tested out that part yet.

Im in exam hell until this weekend but once im on break ill record it and put in an actual bug report

[horseslur]

be me update is finally out theres not even new content im interested in do my standard dailies for trail points, then start to head to valedale to grind some light bc extra light points ride past a rubia, might as well pick it up game lags a bit. i see a +9 trailpoints appear right before my screen goes white closeup cam of the empty version of a stable of a horse i am currently not riding, with no UI and no way to get out sse was finally sick of me they've sent me to hell

[horseslur]

Main storyline progress update:

justin is evil now

the katja image in james's nightmare is very much still art from SSL

i mightve given my horse ptsd

the oil rig sneaking mechanic Fully broke for me live on stream

it was fun i had to relog to be able to actually complete the quest

oh also! these quests still use justin's old model. new dark riders but old (emo) justin

[horseslur]

FINALLY FORREAL WITH FUNCTIONING INTERNET THIS TIME going live playing horse game (sso) over on twitch! finally continuing the main story<3

Watch this video on Twitch Live

[charlie-sso]

Its really a shame that Justin will likely never make an appearence in any of the side quests or festivals because he "dissapears" for a big chunk of the main quests so if youre doing these quests while hes still gone it would make no sense for him to appear.. but I’m literally just doing the “restore baronness race track” quests and imagine if justin could help HIS LITERAL GRANDMA to repair the track (since in the quests thomas canonically cant help)

I guess they could just make it possible if youre doing the quests before justin is rescued he wouldn’t appear and if youre doing them after he would … .

[horseslur]

what if you wanted to free justin from dark core but the gods (and your internet) said No, Actually

[horseslur]

going live playing horse game (sso) over on twitch! finally continuing the main story<3

Watch this video on Twitch Live

[horseslur]

I HATE IT HERE I HATE IT HERE SOSO MUCH WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN MY INTERNET WENT DOWN THE MINUTE I WENT LIVE😭