The Queue

Sometimes you’ve just gotta yell at those clouds. Sometimes the clouds are dragons. Sometimes the clouds are Old Gods. And sometimes the clouds are patch notes.

None of them take much notice of your yelling, but what else is there to do but shake your fist at the sky?

Anyway, this is not a cloud, it is the Queue. Let’s answer some questions.

Starfield has a lot of influences. The spaceship design borrows heavily from old 60’s and 70’s NASA launches like the various Apollo missions, while also feeling not dissimilar to Space:1999 if y’all remember that one. In terms of gameplay, it’s a bit of a mixed bag, with a clear line of descent from Skyrim and the Bethesda Fallout games — in many ways it’s a successor to Fallout 4 with all the addictive spaceship and outpost building you can do.

I took a nice, relaxing weekend in the Smoky Mountains with the partner and some friends, inclusive of a long and at times terrifying hike up one of said mountains. It was awesome! Nature is pretty freaking rad, and the views were incredible. But you know what I couldn’t get out of my head the entire time?

Thorim’s dang “In the mountains…” line. It’s seared into my brain. Forever and ever, permanently associated with anything mountain-related. I am cursed.

Anyhow, this isn’t about that. This is about you.

And The Queue.

It’s like I walked into the Queue in my favorite dress to find that Cory was wearing the same one. But I had really awful Doctor stuff this week and I’m not changing my outfit.

I do like getting to fly a spaceship. The freedom to just point at a star and say I wanna go there! Firing deadly laser beams at pirates! Blowing up asteroids for shiny rocks!

Thankfully Starfield has scratched that itch pretty well. I do wish that there was a little more to do out in space in Starfield though. Maybe that’s coming in the future.

While I imagine a leading an armada of captains into battle, it’s time for — The Queue!

It’s a whole new World of Warcraft Murlocs. Why not plan our next vacation on Azmerloth? It’s just like our Azeroth, just slightly more aquatic. A nice change of place. Let’s go to Azmerloth!

I blame Eno for this.

Happy Wednesday, everyone! Yours truly is about to take a very extended weekend in the mountains, which means a couple days away from my latest obsession: Wooing Shadowheart in Baldur’s Gate 3. It’ll be exciting! But I’ll miss you, Shadowheart.

Anyhow, this is The Queue, where we provide As to your Queuestions. Let’s get started.

Look, sometimes when we write, we fall down bizarre rabbit holes from which there is no escape. No judgement.

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions and some answers might be more thorough than others.

I told Mitch in our staff chat that if the new Legendary wasn’t something bears could use I would riot — and here we are!

The patch is literally called Guardians of the Dream and they can’t throw bears a bone!? How dare they! Calling it Dream Render is right, consider my dreams well and truly rent.

It’s fine. I’m fine.

I’m sure they’ll give us some more updated models and I’d be surprised if we don’t get to use the new stony Furbolg bear form that we’ve seen. So I guess I’m getting something that lasts longer than a raid tier, but still! No better time to give us Druids a cool weapon than when we’re hanging out in the Emerald Dream.

While I sharpen my pitchfork, it’s time for — The Queue!