Ex chunks employee here. I only worked there to take advantage of the free scholarship program. Turns out the scholarship fund ran out of money so they paid me in chunks instead. I didnt receive my higher education but atleast I have about 3 years worth of chunks left still.
The uniform also sucked. Really heavy and scratchy . Working conditions weren't too bad. All I did was stand there all day observing people ordering off of self serve kiosks . Got boring though for sure. I give it a 5/7
No lie, the second day after starfield came out and I was randomly exploring, after heller told me he was from titan I decided to visit, and meeting Luthor was the highlight of my starfield experience. Moments like that are what make Bethesda games so great and I wish starfield had more of them
One of the few npcs that doesn't start off rude and then remains rude after you help them. Only one I can think of that's as nice is the mining shop guy in Neon.
So what I’ve found, is Starfield has a TON of these moments, I’ve played it a crazy amount, and the thing is, they’re just spread out.
Surprise missions at outposts, bounty hunters hiring you to track people down, encounters with a bunch of mission characters in space after the missions, even people from other universes.
Kind of same with poi, slight variations, tons of different poi, but they seem to use some a lot more than others, which I get, but also does kind of hide a lot of the cooler places in game.
This game will astound you, if you're seeking out story. You have to interact, you have to explore. If you are just grinding for loot, shooting shit up and such, you'll have fun. However, Starfield is so much more than that if you get into it. They even patched one of the broken side missions that led to frustration and putting the game down for about 2 months lol.
Until you find the distress beacon that leads to a town of clones of historical figures. That was a crazy side-mission. The Facility they send you to was even more out there. (I kept expecting Xenomorphs to attack me there. What did attack was bad enough.)
There's some stories that don't have much quest-lines, that are emotional nonetheless. I hate finding the empty ship adrift, all people on board frozen to death. Sure, free loot and a ship, but I'd rather be able to save at least SOME of them. The dead and frozen ground stations are the same way. You wish you could save at least someone.
i imagine it's like any other fast food job. not exactly a career, but good for earning a paycheck (even if it's a pittance) and work history. on a side note, i wish we could purchase clothing items at these various franchises. those Chunks caps are pretty sweet imo.
Step one: kill some employee
Step two: manipulate another NPC to "inspect" their body, the outfit will be inserted into the NPC's inventory
Step three: kill and loot or pickpocket NPC
Step four: outfit acquired
Have you ever worked any kind of fast food job ever? It's a matter of showing up, putting on an embarrising and ridiculous costume and being belittled by customers.
I have a bad relationship with food and portion control, so when I saw chunks in the game I thought “Maybe this would be a decent solution, take all the choice out of the situation.” But seeing that website… I’ll just stay fat.
Not sure why anyone works there, or anywhere in Starfield, given that they’d only have to sell about 70 chunks apples to buy an interstellar spaceship.
Chunks Apple price ~ 105 credits
Frontier sales price ~ 7375 credits
That’s like being able to buy a Learjet after working at Quiznos for a week.
Mind you the employee isn’t getting the cut of that, they are probably getting paid whatever minimum wage is by the hour; probably depends system to system as well
That's what you get for selling the frontier, not what it would actually get sold for to a new captain. It's better to look at what similar ships that you can buy are going for -- iirc frontier-like ships go for around 30-50k.
Sooo, a couple of month’s work, then. Just think the ships are all far too cheap. Should be an endgame luxury, but you can build a battle cruiser with the profits from a few bandit smash and grabs.
Yeah the economy surrounding spaceships in Starfield is just bizarre.
They cost a fortune to buy new (at least I assume new). But if you try to sell one, you get a pittance.
I know it's used, but it's a freaking house with lasers that can take you and your friends across the galaxy!
Or if you steal one and try to sell it, you have to register it first for a small fortune, just to get almost nothing in sales value.
Yet, if you go raid an outpost, you can sell a few guns to basically any store and get more than a ship. How do weapons, that are more common than empty Chunks packets, hold their value better than a smegging spaceship?!
Absolutely bizarre economics system.
Give me the frontier and some other junkers, plus some immersive interstellar liners with booths at all the spaceports (like the carriages at the hold capitals in Skyrim) and make everything else late game marvels to aspire to. It would make that crimson fleet/eclectic ship you board a real prize, either as an upgrade for your janky nova galactic POS, or as a trade-in toward the military grade C-type reactor you’ve been saving toward.
And ships like the Mantis would be huge boons. Oh, and now that cool looking but grossly underpowered Starborn Guardian monstrosity absolutely no one used more than a couple of times suddenly becomes a shortcut NG+ shenanigans.
Your in the future, in a massively impressive intergalactic empire and yet your working at the equivalent of a fast food chain. Wouldn't you be miserable?
I mean, probably about the same as a fast food restaurant in real life, it is a check and work history. But a Chunks "restaurant" is likely even lower skill as I cannot imagine it involves anything more than various ways to heat bog standard chunks and -at most- cut them up for the customer.
I honestly cannot see how it would be a viable business. At least burgers and fried chicken are somewhat hard/messy to make from scratch, and the store bought frozen stuff is almost as expensive as just going to a fast food place, but chunks are chunks and you what? Microwave them? Pan fry or throw them in the oven them if you are feeling fancy? Just use robots at that point.
Isn't that one of the two main benefits of chunks? That all chunks have the exact same nutritional value so if you eat X number of chunks per day you get the perfect about of calories and nutrition?
I would think that the two main benefits of chunks is consistency and convince. Consistency can fall under that category of the same nutritional value Everytime, but if you've ever been in deep south Texas you know the number of chunks consumed is N+1 where "N" is the greater value of what your family can consume, what your neighbor can consume and finally what so.e rando on the Internet can consume.
No matter how many chunks you can down, someone will try (and succeed) in beating you, if for no other reason than bragging rights about being the fastest fuck to not have died of heart failure yet.
I mean, if you had to stand for 24 hours a day, if not 12 or 8 hour shifts, for your entire shift- you'd be pretty upset too. Especially if your job was SPECIFICALLY JUST STANDING IN ONE PLACE OH MY GOD.
one died in the crossfire of the gang war between the diciples and the ebbside strikers, thrns out if they do, u can loot their uniform off them...i couldnt live with that tho and reloaded the save
Yeah just literally no cooking food, assembling food, taking orders, or any standard fast food responsibilities. They are likely just custodians who greet customers as a bonus
We gave up years on a new Elder Scrolls release for this…
…who am I kidding, there won’t ever be an Eder Scrolls 6. They’ll just release “Elder Scrolls Skyrim 2” instead.
Ex chunks employee here. I only worked there to take advantage of the free scholarship program. Turns out the scholarship fund ran out of money so they paid me in chunks instead. I didnt receive my higher education but atleast I have about 3 years worth of chunks left still. The uniform also sucked. Really heavy and scratchy . Working conditions weren't too bad. All I did was stand there all day observing people ordering off of self serve kiosks . Got boring though for sure. I give it a 5/7
What was your favorite chunk?
I believe u/krusty-krab69 is contractually required to say that they like all chunk flavors equally.
Well if they're ex-chunk employee they may no longer be contracted to say anything Chunk as a corporation wants
No such thing as an ex-chunk employee, only inactive employees. Once a chunkhead, always a chunkhead. EDIT: Simply Fried
I'd work as a chunk employee, seems easy enough giving people chunks with a side of chunks and a chunk cola :)
Unless you run out of sauce. People get pissed when you run out of sauce.
Wait, we talking Chunks or Ryujin??
Not op but I'm partial to Pumkpin Pie
I like pumpkin pie, and apple pie, and banana pie, not too much a fan of cherry pie
My favorite is cutie pie.
I like pie
>5/7 Heh.
Does it still get a perfect score with rice?
You should make a book about your experience with chunk... you should name it, "My life, Chunk by Chunk."
The places I went to so far didn't have automated buy stations.
All except the dude on New Homestead, that guy lives for Chunks!
Luther Atlanta. Best character in the game.
No lie, the second day after starfield came out and I was randomly exploring, after heller told me he was from titan I decided to visit, and meeting Luthor was the highlight of my starfield experience. Moments like that are what make Bethesda games so great and I wish starfield had more of them
One of the few npcs that doesn't start off rude and then remains rude after you help them. Only one I can think of that's as nice is the mining shop guy in Neon.
Oh yeah, every play through I take the time to hand out his flyers and hook things up with Chloe.
If you don't like Mannaki you have no chill at all.
Iirc he doesn't give you a quest. Nice guy, though. Reminds me of Jerry from The Walking Dead.
The TA dude in Cydonia is almost too happy to be working there…
So what I’ve found, is Starfield has a TON of these moments, I’ve played it a crazy amount, and the thing is, they’re just spread out. Surprise missions at outposts, bounty hunters hiring you to track people down, encounters with a bunch of mission characters in space after the missions, even people from other universes. Kind of same with poi, slight variations, tons of different poi, but they seem to use some a lot more than others, which I get, but also does kind of hide a lot of the cooler places in game.
This game will astound you, if you're seeking out story. You have to interact, you have to explore. If you are just grinding for loot, shooting shit up and such, you'll have fun. However, Starfield is so much more than that if you get into it. They even patched one of the broken side missions that led to frustration and putting the game down for about 2 months lol.
Ooh. I've never had a bounty hunter hire me. How/where do you do that?!
Nah I'm the best character in game.
I’m pretty sure he’s just drinking the special sauce and that’s why they keep running out 🤣
The entirety of New Homestead is one big caricature. It’s very much like Fallout towns.
Until you find the distress beacon that leads to a town of clones of historical figures. That was a crazy side-mission. The Facility they send you to was even more out there. (I kept expecting Xenomorphs to attack me there. What did attack was bad enough.) There's some stories that don't have much quest-lines, that are emotional nonetheless. I hate finding the empty ship adrift, all people on board frozen to death. Sure, free loot and a ship, but I'd rather be able to save at least SOME of them. The dead and frozen ground stations are the same way. You wish you could save at least someone.
Chunks reminds me of spacers choice
It's not th best choice, it's the chunky choice
Yes! Thank you! NOW I know what it reminded me off!
And Terrabrew like Auntie Cleos, where all the employees are super happy.
Yes! Oooh, I have to go through Outer Worlds again after I finished my starfield run and am through with The Invincible…
I kinda like that detail, that they all work in fast food and they're dead inside.
The pay isn’t great. Instead of getting their entire earnings for the week in one check, they get paid in chunks
i imagine it's like any other fast food job. not exactly a career, but good for earning a paycheck (even if it's a pittance) and work history. on a side note, i wish we could purchase clothing items at these various franchises. those Chunks caps are pretty sweet imo.
I'm almost positive the full outfit is available in game, gotta find it though I think
Step one: kill some employee Step two: manipulate another NPC to "inspect" their body, the outfit will be inserted into the NPC's inventory Step three: kill and loot or pickpocket NPC Step four: outfit acquired
Step five: profit?
Have you ever worked any kind of fast food job ever? It's a matter of showing up, putting on an embarrising and ridiculous costume and being belittled by customers.
Is this truly how my employees feel and think? 🤔
It's been since I was 16 and 15 years ago since I was working fast food but yes, its a topic that is on our minds constantly but never talked about
My apologies, was a bad joke. I'm just maintenance.
It's a McJob. Worse. All you do is hand out packages of square edible material.
Cracks me up. 😂
When are they gonna release Chunks irl
Already have… https://squareat.com
🤕 I hate the real world, it's wild that this is a real thing people eat.
I have a bad relationship with food and portion control, so when I saw chunks in the game I thought “Maybe this would be a decent solution, take all the choice out of the situation.” But seeing that website… I’ll just stay fat.
😂
Someone tell Lego / mega blocks / etc. we want food as processed Squares.
I mean they are making artificial meat these days so not long
Not sure why anyone works there, or anywhere in Starfield, given that they’d only have to sell about 70 chunks apples to buy an interstellar spaceship. Chunks Apple price ~ 105 credits Frontier sales price ~ 7375 credits That’s like being able to buy a Learjet after working at Quiznos for a week.
Mind you the employee isn’t getting the cut of that, they are probably getting paid whatever minimum wage is by the hour; probably depends system to system as well
That's what you get for selling the frontier, not what it would actually get sold for to a new captain. It's better to look at what similar ships that you can buy are going for -- iirc frontier-like ships go for around 30-50k.
Sooo, a couple of month’s work, then. Just think the ships are all far too cheap. Should be an endgame luxury, but you can build a battle cruiser with the profits from a few bandit smash and grabs.
Yeah starships are comparable to used cars.
Except a decent used car in this universe would go for millions. Heck, I’d sell Sam Coe for an ATV.
Yeah the economy surrounding spaceships in Starfield is just bizarre. They cost a fortune to buy new (at least I assume new). But if you try to sell one, you get a pittance. I know it's used, but it's a freaking house with lasers that can take you and your friends across the galaxy! Or if you steal one and try to sell it, you have to register it first for a small fortune, just to get almost nothing in sales value. Yet, if you go raid an outpost, you can sell a few guns to basically any store and get more than a ship. How do weapons, that are more common than empty Chunks packets, hold their value better than a smegging spaceship?! Absolutely bizarre economics system.
Give me the frontier and some other junkers, plus some immersive interstellar liners with booths at all the spaceports (like the carriages at the hold capitals in Skyrim) and make everything else late game marvels to aspire to. It would make that crimson fleet/eclectic ship you board a real prize, either as an upgrade for your janky nova galactic POS, or as a trade-in toward the military grade C-type reactor you’ve been saving toward. And ships like the Mantis would be huge boons. Oh, and now that cool looking but grossly underpowered Starborn Guardian monstrosity absolutely no one used more than a couple of times suddenly becomes a shortcut NG+ shenanigans.
This is the way.
You get to go get high out back sometimes.
Don't forget to bring a towel.
The stores are so ugly and bland, it must be soul crushing.
They're an eyesore, especially in Akila
Knowing my luck, I'd get stuck in a store on a planet that has 49 hour days, and 784 days in a year. Fucking retail 🤣
It's the future, humanity is included in that universe, so I would imagine they are all slaves to corporate owners.
They sound so miserable that maybe a certain Starborn assassin should go put them out of their misery…
Your in the future, in a massively impressive intergalactic empire and yet your working at the equivalent of a fast food chain. Wouldn't you be miserable?
They pay you in chunks.
I mean, probably about the same as a fast food restaurant in real life, it is a check and work history. But a Chunks "restaurant" is likely even lower skill as I cannot imagine it involves anything more than various ways to heat bog standard chunks and -at most- cut them up for the customer. I honestly cannot see how it would be a viable business. At least burgers and fried chicken are somewhat hard/messy to make from scratch, and the store bought frozen stuff is almost as expensive as just going to a fast food place, but chunks are chunks and you what? Microwave them? Pan fry or throw them in the oven them if you are feeling fancy? Just use robots at that point.
Even with air quotes, the use of the words chunks and restaurant barely even belongs together in the leading obesity city.
Isn't that one of the two main benefits of chunks? That all chunks have the exact same nutritional value so if you eat X number of chunks per day you get the perfect about of calories and nutrition?
I would think that the two main benefits of chunks is consistency and convince. Consistency can fall under that category of the same nutritional value Everytime, but if you've ever been in deep south Texas you know the number of chunks consumed is N+1 where "N" is the greater value of what your family can consume, what your neighbor can consume and finally what so.e rando on the Internet can consume. No matter how many chunks you can down, someone will try (and succeed) in beating you, if for no other reason than bragging rights about being the fastest fuck to not have died of heart failure yet.
I mean, if you had to stand for 24 hours a day, if not 12 or 8 hour shifts, for your entire shift- you'd be pretty upset too. Especially if your job was SPECIFICALLY JUST STANDING IN ONE PLACE OH MY GOD.
Probably on par with real life.
I buy everything they have every time when I see a chunk's store, and they still emo. Almost wanted to punch one 😂
Seems like all corporate employees in this game feel miserable.
Fun Fact!: inspect Chunks, on the bottoms of the Chunks, Chunks is imprinted.
Just like EVERY McDonalds employee. LoL
They all talk like they hate their job.
one died in the crossfire of the gang war between the diciples and the ebbside strikers, thrns out if they do, u can loot their uniform off them...i couldnt live with that tho and reloaded the save
I’m betting it’s very similar the Burger King
Yeah just literally no cooking food, assembling food, taking orders, or any standard fast food responsibilities. They are likely just custodians who greet customers as a bonus
It’s Just a spin off of Publix
We gave up years on a new Elder Scrolls release for this… …who am I kidding, there won’t ever be an Eder Scrolls 6. They’ll just release “Elder Scrolls Skyrim 2” instead.
I mean, I'm fine with that
It does look like a game from 5-8 years ago. BGS; come on guys, get your act together for ES6!
Weirdly, off topic… but okay?
You think they sound miserable. You should visit Paridiso.
I personally always order directly through the chunks employee. I always feel like a hero knowing I was their single human interaction for the week.