Good things (often) come in big packages at MeUndies! Get 20% off your first order, plus FREE SHIPPING on orders of $75 or more, at https://MeUndies.com/anyaustin, enter promo code anyaustin.

I added the “(often)” in there myself because I feel it’s more honest. I’ll let you know if MeUndies gets mad at me. I don’t think they will we’re on good terms. I would hate to be on bad terms with them because it would mean I would have to stop wearing their great underpants.

Anyway, I’m gonna be honest: For the first 5 hours of the game I thought Starfield was not very good, and now 30 hours into it I think it might be amazing. I’ll keep you posted. This is why patience is important. It’s okay if you didn’t like it obviously I can see why some people might bounce off. But it’s very much up my alley. I’m not just saying that because my new friends Jess and John and Rafael might be reading this.

That was sort of a lie. I did change the words “kinda bad” to “not very good” because I got self conscious about them reading me say Starfield’s intro was “kinda bad”. But now I’m telling you that so I guess we’re even and I’ve maintained my credibility.

Be safe have fun see you guys next time. I love this video.

Oh word

11:03 😂😂 cool little detail ahead…

17:57 Ahahaha, no. Nice try, TODD.

12:15 I’m so stoked you’re bringing this up

Your videos occupy more of my time than I should publicly admit 🙂 Well done 🙂

Those details are really important, it make the difference between being invested or not, it will really change my experience next time i never play this garbage game…

11:57 I think there’s only two possibilities. Either gensane or inius. Or really just one; yes.

Gave the video a like because it was interesting. Subscribed because of the sound of the censor beep happening immediately AFTER you said “f*ck” 😂

As a factory maintenance guy working with this type of thing: I think it’s cute that you think the engineers considers “maintenance access” when building and designing this type of stuff

You forgot #4 How many loading screens are in each pipe?

This is what happens when there is no other interesting content in a game for people to document on.

This kind of high-effort mundane content always brightens my day.

Developers fear him

Hit game? I mean that’s a bit of a stretch

Damn why is this game so shit, such talented people worked on it 😢

Oblivion remaster unemployment surveys??? Please?🥹

I feel like this has become an engineering channel and im ok with that. Get Learnt, Brain!

“hit” game?

please put more hair clips into your hair in the next video, this amount is not sufficient.

I refuse to believe bethesda thought that hard about this and didn’t just say “pipes look industrial just put lots of pipes in” given that 99% of the planets are barren, it doesn’t look like they gave a single shit about environment design

Put your thinking clips on class!

This video is based

The game is absolute garbage – no the pipes dont make any sense

I’m so excited for Any Austin to talk about Oblivion!

who cares there nothing in them its not real game sucks

the absolute state of breadtubers

Well I think it’s clear to say right from the start of the video that you put way more thought into this than the developers did.

its lazy map making to fill stuff up

what else does any austin have in store for starfield… or is he just going to move on to the oblivion remake

I am disappointed that in the far future of Starfield, they’re apparently still using metholox rockets instead of some godawful contraption like a lithium-flourine engine with extra hydrogen chucked into the exhaust to boost the ISP.

“hit”
now you’re rubbing it in

John seeing the pipe as part of heating / cooling is very similar to pipes you’ll see in places like Siberia that have “central heating” that pumps steam / hot water into apartment blocks in heavily insulated pipes like these.

Pipes.

Did he call Starfield a “hit”?

0:03
“..the HIT video game..” lol
Yeah, umm, no. Pronouns, no thanks.

You are crowned as the next Mat Pat after this

“Hit video game starfield”

Damn so we just LYING here

(This is a joke btw)

Wait until Any discover Star Citizen…

Will you do an osha, workplace safety walkthrough of starfield?And tell us what you think?

dude made starfield look interesting, wild.

I like the part where you acknowledged that reasonable justification can be made for most things with enough thought, so finding reasonable justification and reasoning cant even be used as super significant proof that your theories hold ANY water, but then you emailed the guys who made it so you can show us how smart and right you are lol

Hi,
Process engineer here who has build a bunch (10+) of LNG and other cryogenic liquid storage systems. Honestly, not much of the equipment nor your explanation makes any sense..

1. Spherical tanks are primarily used to reduce surface area to volume ratio to reduce boil-off rate. Used primarily in gas carriers with huge volumes and at low pressure (ie. liquid methane carriers, Moss tank, type B tank acc IMO). Tanks with elliptical or dished ends are very common up to ~20 barg – LNG will not be stored above this pressure.
2. High pressure is not required for LNG, alternative is -162°C is for 0 barg pressure.
3. The vertical tanks look like distillation columns, but would have no function as probably pure methane is already in a large storage tank.
4. Are there “bubbles” in the liquid – the answer is no. Not a great idea to store oxygen/air and a flammable compound in the same place. Bubbles of NG could be there, but usually bubbles will be homogenous with the liquid, at the saturation temperature or pressure. Designs don’t consider this. This type of buffer tank would be used typically for a flow control valve/flow transimitter, but the size looks much to big.
5. Where are the oxygen tanks to supply the space ship?
6. Vapour recovery systems, or Boil-off gas handling can be grouped in a few different types: subcooling, reliquefication or consumption. All of these more or less will require a compressor, unless you use the boil-off gas for a low pressure burner with slightly higher tank operating pressure
7. A pump is not required to move liquid so long as the operating pressure gradient can be ensured between the different units.
8. Tank isolation for LNG is typically vacuum insulation or polyurethane (200-400mm). Rock would be at ~-150°C and is not a good insulator in comparison.
9. There are no pressure relief valves on the tanks.
10. All the pipes are way too big considering the size of the tanks. For a flow of ~200m3/h you only need DN100 or 4″ pipes, with insulation they will be up to around 6-8″.

Make a night city architecture/design video pwease.

Where do i find the songs that he puts at the end of the videos?

Your videos remind me of literary analysis, where you deconstruct a text or narrative and make a thesis and support it with evidence.

My suggestions are to look at the campus infrastructure and odd and unremarkable spaces of Rockstar games Bully with the music turned down to zero.

Also, compare that to the college campus in the first level of Tony Hawk 4.

11:04 nice bleep censor

Prime 4 vagina doors?

I’m going to choose to believe that the reduced health hazard rating on liquid methane in Starfield means that humans can drink methane in the future

“hit” videogame, that word sure is doing a lot of heavy lifting

No, Starfield does not make any sense.
You called it a hit even though everyone hates the game now.
Only gullible people bought that game.

..and now I know this, too. Thank you, Austin. 🙂

God I love this insanely dry observational content. I watch them all. More please!

I’m sure someone else has already corrected you – but Liquid Oxygen is just cold, at room pressure. Not high pressure unless you’re trying to do weird things.

Methane being rocket fuel is actually surprisingly realistic. Pretty much all the “next gen” launch vehicles in the real world are using a methane/oxygen mix either partially (New Glenn) or exclusively (Starship.)

” hit “

Excellent, banger as usual

“Hit” bit of a strong word to use for that disappointing spaceship crash

Hell yeah

I’m so happy I found your channel. I used to work in fire protection and used NFPA guides day in and day out, and it was neat to see that pop back up. The hazard identification shown in Starfield could be for acetone by the way, so definitely not liquid methane.

It makes me happy to see someone go on the kind of research adventures you go on, it really shows that it’s important to know *how* to find information out. Good deal.

“boot up Starfield” I will not, but I enjoy your videos thoroughly!

Call it a hit game the way i hit uninstall after 2 hours

Ohhhh this is what super smart people do when they’re playing their video games. Meanwhile I’m just zipping around with my jetpack looking for stuff to get into all the while thinking my ship’s fuel is Helium-3 not Methane. 😆

Really outdid yourself with this one buddy

Truly loved this vid so much

that was a great video

“hit 2023 game starfield” none of these words go together

Austin breaking out those letters like Steve on Blue’s Clues.

I love Starfield.

next title for the video.
do this grass made any sense (insert game name here).
ofcourse it isn, because it use electricity!!

If you take the tour at New Homestead on Titan (which a lot of people unfortunately probably miss, I don’t think any quest ever leads you inside where the tour guide hangs out), the tour guide talks about the importance of New Homestead’s methane refinery to the evacuation of Earth!

11:02 i think you missed the censor. Just a hunch though.

A lot of these remind me of the distillery tour I took last week

Your videos cover such underrated aspects of game or level design and are frankly a joy to watch. Seeing people explore this stuff is almosf like when fans or even film company guys explore the props and set design for film or movie sets. You get to see a whole new side of the medium and the passion that went into it.

once again anyaustin digs into a video game i haven’t played, contacts people involved in the real creation of the game or the systems depicted, and delivers a smashhit. :’)

I started watching this, thinking it was all an elaborate joke, then half-way through realized “no, this man is genuinely invested in solving this mystery,” and by the end of the video I felt grateful for the effort put into making this for us. It was really nice that BGS reached out to verify your theories. It was an interesting watch.

really appreciate your recent gestures toward analytical rigor and source checking in your videos. it’s really good to remind people not to just accept the first answer they come to and actually put in the effort to fact check themselves and what they find

I can’t believe those designers got back to you that’s absolutely crazy and cool!!

I love your videos anyaustin

Here’s the problem with using that standard for the Yellow stripes, the top most cylinder is painted orange which is for toxic or corrosive material

Mr. Austin would you consider a video on more NFPA stickers in video games? You could do a game of Guess That Hazard 🙏

The mundane of our world has spilled over into the magic of others 🤔 why do I like it so much

Conclusion: fiction is arbitrary, and the final interpretation is up to each individual, but the inspirations or references might give it some context of its overall meaning/purpose

I know this isnt the ‘purpose’ of your videos, but i must say, I find I come to watch your videos when I’m overwhelmed by anxiety. Its like youre saying “no worries broseph lets just talk about pipes for a minute”

Listen, I get sponsors like raycon, nordvpn, fucking raid shadow legends, but … underwear??? *underwear* …

Seeing that you actually got ahold of the developers was an insane moment. This video legitimately had me on the edge of my seat the whole time. Absolutely love your content.

wait… starfield came out 2 years ago… jesus

Dude your videos are the most random things I have ever seen but damn do I love watching them. 😂

Starfield’s true aesthetic: Pipecore

Oh boy, this brings out memories of my first engineering job. This is literally just line tracing, one of the first things they tell you to do when you’re new to a plant.

Seeing Starfield described as a “hit” was a little jarring ill be honest

I love that you were able to bring chemical processing analysis into the picture.

idk why i watched this but thanks youtube

Please always try to get answers from devs, this is great.

I still play Starfield, absolutely love it!

Actually, some types of rocket engine may not actually require an oxidiser, starfield engines might use Plasma-Magneto-Dynamic engines (or whatever the actual name would be) which accelerate and ionise the fuel with electrical power and magnetic fields rather than by burning it.

If methane is ever vented into the air, it’s burned because CO2 is a lot better than methane. This is why chemical plants often have those fires at the top of towers.

I know someone at Bethesda is so happy right now

Austin, please check out roads in cities in Oblivion. They’ve been driving me crazy, especially the imperial city. There appears to be a road in the middle, but instead of an incline there’s just stairs on the road itself? Maybe it’s not a road, but one of those medieval above ground sewer things? Can’t be, because of the stairs. I need you, each city is weird in how its built and I refuse to believe that it’s devs not thinking it through

Them still using the colours from today in the future for hazard marking is giving rail tracks being based on like Roman chariot wheel distances

since then starfield is a hit game it was lamest bethesda game ever

plot twist 4:30 🤯

Oblivion remastered have been released!! We need answers to where Cyrodiil’s rivers come from.

I love it when Austin talks about his underwear

You should try to map the electricial grid of New Atlantis based around that side quest of fixing the brown outs

Austin as your best friend i am so happy we have progressed to having actual fact checking from the designers themselves this is incredible

Please, for the love of all. Dont ever call Shartfield a “hit” game…

This is peak YouTube, amazing work.

I’d like to imagine your missing pump was probably built into the base of the spherical tank. Since it was buried over halfway in the ground, it can be assumed that it wasn’t “buried” so much as dropped into a hole in the ground and then covered over. Just like any electric pump we have today, it could’ve been built right onto the base of the tank & buried with it.

Bro put more thought into this one fuel system than the devs put into the entire game.

I am a stationary engineer and I work on heating and air systems. Big fan of pipes and liquid methane and storage tanks

As a mechanical engineer I can say with some authority that games always get pipework and other mechanical equipment wrong. It seems good until you take some time to properly look at it. Saying that I wouldn’t expect a game designer to put all the effort into designing something that would work IRL. They’d have to get qualifications/experience that they don’t really need and it would be massive time sink for very little gain. It’s actually quite Impressive that they at least try to think about how some of the IRL processes work though.

“”””””hit”””””” game

Imagine how bored you have to be playing Starfield to make an 18 minute video about the space station pipes.

Important space pipes!

I’m so excited for further Starfield videos. I’m one of those few people who think this game is surprisingly awesome.

hypothesis: one of the key advancements in SF is an oxidizer so potent that a man-portable tank of it contains enough for a shitton of space travel, so there’s rarely need to refill on it and when you do you can just slot in a new tank like it’s a propane grill.

These videos are my jam, a mix between video game analysis and random facts that I find interesting but I’ll never use in my entire life 🎉

The lack of isolation valves bothers me

In the case of the fuel storage tanks near the landing pads…YOU ARE THE FATHER

The UN number 1075 is for butane

When you opened the letter my boyfriend cheered

What you’re doing is not deductive work, it’s creative work. A game designer in Starfield doesn’t have to bother with completely accurate industrial infrastructure since it’s all just set design.

i am genuinely excited to learn what those numbers and symbols mean in that chemical diamond sign.

Thinking there is any reason or thought behind starfield is crazy

team up with bizly already you coward

– genius? insane?
– insane genius

I love that you’ve validated the work those guys put in.

Looking at it, it looks like someone just spammed a bunch of pipes because they thought it looked cool and industrial.

There’s no rhyme or reason to them.

Can we get an oblivion video next, they have bodies of water and trees. Stuff you like.

Uhmmm.

I’m not a geologist, and I’m also not very trained in thermodynamics, but based on what I learned during my first two years of engineering classes, I’d expect the idea of burying a tank for temperature reasons to be astronomically stupid.

Gagarin’s atmosphere is mainly composed of O₂, which is a bit strange, but we can probably expect some kind of greenhouse effect from the atmosphere — though it’s probably negligible here. Gravity is close to Earth’s, so we can expect a similar planetary size.

The rock is probably granite? I’m not sure, and it’s not that important, but it has decent thermal conductivity below 400°C.

Over the course of the day — and we have no information about its actual duration — the surface rock (granite) would heat up, and since the tank is buried and in direct contact with the rock, it would eventually rise to the same temperature… so around ~100°C. To cool the tank down, you’d first have to cool down the surrounding rock, which is not ideal because at night the rock will radiate all the heat it accumulated during the day. (And keep the tank at ~100°C, which we don’t want it to)

Simply insulating the tank above ground from stellar irradiation during the day would be a much better solution for cooling problems.

Time to go back to oblivion with the remaster

i love autism

“what cheaper way to do that than to just bury it in the ground”

Pretty much every way of keeping a tank cool is cheaper than burying it in the ground. Especially hard, rocky ground

USCSB chemical safety channel will show there’s another expected piece: the reactor

“Hit Video game Starfield” alone that was funny af you meant “Shit Video Game”

6:41 is gold

people do literally anything to not having to play the game itself it seems

Why is this shi5 on my main page i have a job and irl hobbies

Hit?

You should have just asked what they did because you bet they would give you wildly different answers. Of course they will agree because there probably wasn’t any real thought into kt

He’d have a field day with Neir Automata

I don’t even care that I’m listening to an underpants salesman

Me hearing the hazardous material system: “Wow, sounds like they actually did some research!”
Me a few minutes later: “Wow, sounds like they just found one example and pasted it everywhere…”

Dont the spaceships clearly have fusion reactors as thier fuel source in the ship builder?

Congrats on your future high paying consultant work with game designers.

great vibeo

Damn this channel has blown the fuck up.

THE “HIT” VIDEO GAME of 2023 STARFIELD……… yeah way to lose all credibility under 5 seconds

this actually makes me want to play starfield? hello?!?

dude, starfield in general doesn’t make any sense

@Z-Super1999
0 seconds ago
the vapor recovery tanks are in the air (30feet) because there temp doesn’t matter as much other than it being easier to relocate while being in a gas. in the heated days .

Fun fact after some research. Blue 1 red 3 and yellow 0 on the nfpa diamond is a label for thsse chemicals. Acetone, gasoline, alcohol methyl, jet fuels jet-b and jp-4

I will never get tired of AnyAustin’s analysis videos
I miss the unemployment series tho

“Hit game”
Ehhhhhhhhhh

Moreover is shaking rn

Need cybercry 2077

That was so satisfying, thank you so much!

You are one smart fellow

love the video, love starfield but when is the oblivion remastered employment video coming austin!?

Lol “hit” game .

You do know starfield is a video game right? So you wasted 19 minutes on nothing and then scammed a promo to talk about your junk…. BTW… Starwars wasn’t real either. Just because you act smart, doesn’t make you smart.

Also, side criticism, if you’re going to wear an outfit like that, pull up your pants. Your belt seems to be fighting gravity

7:39 Sam o nella?

Starfield wasn’t a hit. Everyone hated it and Bethesda should have spent the time on Elder Scrolls 6 instead of that crap.

that one evironmental artist would be over the moon that their efforts to model a functional rocket fuel system were not in vain

Hello Austin, a couple of corrections Liquid methane is low pressure nearly atmospheric and very low temperature. Pumps normally are submerged inside the tank. But liquid LNG is already quite pure so you wouldn’t need much else processing unless you need to vaporise it. That being said smaller tanks are pressurised so it might be true for the ones near the docking area.

That vertical tower could be a separation or even a liquefaction exchanger in that case the flow would need to be reverse so difficult to make sense of.

My 2c , yeah also a chem engineer 😅

Oh Christ you’ve opened Pandora’s box. Next you’re gonna have to review Mirror’s Edge’s air conditioner ducting

I suggested this exact idea back in the comments of the skyrim woodworking critique! I am in disbelief that this video came to exist, and I know full well you almost certainly did not see that comment!

Industrial Rorschach Test

Modern day poet

Austin really capitalizes on the “On the spectrum” demographic

vintage any austin iykyk fr

I bet it’s in here somewhere but. We need a census on the imperial city in the oblivion remaster

Have you thought about changing the name of the channel to Any Autistin?

My satisfactory builds have less pipes

Oh, huh, these are cool ideas

-starfield dev (probably)

GENIUSANE

It seems like a weird kind of disconnect between different levels of writers and designers to model many details of modern infrastructure down to the hazard markings but not into diegetic justification for why the culture has kept those elements frozen nearly or at least apparently nearly intact.

I know exactly what i wanted to do with my time…

perfect outro

I genuinely hope this channel makes game devs put more effort into the minute environmental details cause I doubt they think anyone takes note of these details

Neat video Austin , thanks :’)

You should do more starfield videos lol😅

Re: the email: I see that you got the important stuff out of the way first. Good job.

Finally some Starfield love. The hate bandwagon really has gotten old at this point and the game doesnt deserve it. It really is a very fun game with a beautiful story, fun and compelling quests and writing, and very very immersive space gameplay. Its frustrating how much hate it gets and how now I cant even listen to a Skyrim video without a 30 minute anecdote about how bad Starfield is. Thank you Austin. Best Youtuber ever

3:37 sounded like the FaceTime ringtone and it made me say “oh shit someone’s calling” out loud. Bravo

The “fucking” with the delayed, completely missed bleep had my dying

No oxidizer? No problem if they us thermal nuclear right?

Hypothesis/cope: since the methane is being stored and used inside spaceships, which have notoriously poor ventilation, they’ve made it safer to breathe as part of the refining process. So, if you have a leak, you don’t necessarily need specialized filtration systems to quickly remove it from the atmosphere; you can just let the crew breathe it for a bit without dying.

We found him, guys. It’s the guy that was still playing Starfield

It doesn’t matter if the pipes are accurate, the game still sucks!

Gagarin is one of my favorite looking planets

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Looks like Bridgeport CT.

5:24 well, it actually sounds reasonable, and then you remember that Bethesda deliberately went for the “nasapunk”, literally trying to make a design that mimics modern stuff but a bit in the future, lol xD

And honestly – I like this Starfield’s style, mostly. It has something to it

“Hit” is not the word I would use for the game

It should be helium -3 for fuel…

We need an Oblivion Remastered unemployment rate video now that its released 👍

Never expected anyone to mention starfield ever again, especially after oblivion release

It would be so cool to see an Any Austin analyze Cyberpunk 2077’s Night City in some shape or form 😊

6:55 so what materials score 4 in all categories?

Oh, so that’s where pipes come from. Neat.

After playing Starfield for awhile, helium-3 is fuel used for ships and would be the spherical shapes near spaceport are holding. Im ship builder allot of helium-3 tanks are spherical. As for the liquid cooled methane. You can learn of its uses it powering the settlement by going to New Homestead on Titan a moon of Saturn. By taking the tour.

You put more effort into this video than Bethesda did into the game

I used to design piping like this for factories as well as its main use power facilities a lot of people take tours and think oh just for liquids and gases none of them assume that a lot of the pipes used for high voltage as well

Those large cylindrical tanks could just be holding pressurised oxygen or normal breathable air for the interior of ships

Would also be labled as flamable

Seeing you get a response from Bethesda was so satisfying.

Nerd

Up voted.

does the tank say “methane” in all variant universes?

What’s wild to me is even those tiny pipes on the side of the tank shown around 00:26 aren’t even attached to the tank. They just didn’t pay any attention. Also, weird that most of these pipes clips straight into the tanks instead of having something like a sealing cap around the connection.

SPEAKING OF PIPES

giving the devs way too much credit. they probably used some AI tool to generate the area without a single thought.

your music is so good!

i think it would be fun to write a song with you cause you think so out of the box 💖

This is genuinely become my favorite channel. More enumeration! Do Morrowind in sections based on the great houses (Imperial, Hlaalu, Redoran, Telvanni.) It could be a four video series.

The people of starfield clearly lay pipe for the love of the game rather then for any function purpose

This reminds me of an image online,
My teacher: The blue curtains represent the author’s feelings about…
The Author: The curtains were effing BLUE.

I already knew about fire diamomds thank to sam 9 nella

can you do a video on satisfactory / factorio pls

This video is wonderful, and it’s awesome that you reached out to the environmental designers for the game! I hope it made their day 🙂

Is anyone going to mention that he has previously Google searched: “prime 4 vagina doors”???

does anything in starfield make sense, why actually did they have 16 trillion poly square fruit, why not just pack seeds if ur so worried about weight in ur magic scifi ftl universe

Did you really say that starfield is a hit? No no no. It was a miss, huge miss.

*bethesda developer watches this video:* “Yeah! That’s EXACTLY it! You’re smart as hell to figure it out, man! There’s DEFINITELY method to it!”

No

Talking about Starfield doesnt make any sense.

appreciate the critical and rigorous methodology you casually teach. go u bro ✨

Bruh! I just spit my dinner out everywhere with that second delayed BEEP!! If intentional that is god tier comedy.

Its crazy how after a decade of people saying “BUY ME UNDIES” it takes the “guy who talks about rivers, and pipes” to convince me to purchase.

It is very interesting for him to attempt to derive meaning from the fine details in this game when their ballistic weaponry would be literally incapable of firing due to design flaws. Bethesda only does so much research about why things are the way they are, or they only care so much about being faithful to that.

Okay you got me pretty good by just sort of throwing a bleep in the same room as the f-bomb and being done with it, that is some wall banana MOMA shit and I appreciate it.

What are prime 4 vagina doors?

Austin, there are two mice inside you. One is a genius, and the other is insane.

I would love to see a “where water goes” video on satisfactory

Thinking about the research you do to make these videos makes me want to un-alive myself.

I would think the the pump would be an internal pump in the middle of the unprocessed holding tank?

Factorio

My question is: how does the methane enter the system? Does the game include tanker ships that carry methane to the various holding facilities?

where are the custom captions? one of my favorite things about this channel is not having to rely on autogenerated captions

You should make a unremarkable places video for this game, I think it would be a hit, you could even make a series on it.

the whiffed beep at 11:05 was the funniest part and i hope you never change it

You definitely thought about this more than the people making Starfield.

Call Starfield a “hit” is a bit of a stretch. Great video though!

i really think these kinds of environmental details are things i hold high when i dream about the “best parts” of an open world exploration game. its too bad that there seems to be a lot lacking in other places of starfield, enough to lose interest, but design like this still is very exciting. if nothing else i see bethesda trying to level up. maybe they will be able to use these learning experiences in their next big drop to make it great.

Also, starfield space engines use hydrogen as fuel. You can see this in the shipbuilding menu, where a requirement is to have a certain amount of hydrogen tanks. This doesn’t necessarily disprove anything, as I’d assume spaceships need more than just fuel to operate various facilities, but that’s just something for consideration. I bet if you researched practical applications for methane you might find an application that a spaceship might use.

Im already aware of the Fire diamond from the Sam O Nella video but this was a nice refresher!

I hope that game designers genuinely see your videos and feel appreciated by them.

I also think its hilarious to imagine someone telling their boss they need more time on a level because the pipes aren’t realistic enough

11:03 The delayed bleep just killed me. 😂

No, it’s not fuel they are just fart smells, not smart fellas

imagine questioning if anything in starfield makes sense (it doesn’t)

good video aside from asking me to boot up starfield

Similarly to the hazard diamonds and the UN1075 placard in this, seeing the FEMA search and rescue assessment markings in Alien: Isolation was really… neat? Interesting? A piece of visual world-building that I appreciated, anyway; it’s nice when the devs use existing iconography where it’s reasonable to expect it.

Honestly we need analysis videos like this, but for Star Citizen.

“The more pipes, the more scifi” – Todd Howard probably

That’s so cool that you actually reached out to them and got a response! And very useful to finally know and understand what those diamonds mean– I always knew they had something to do with warning about chemicals but never how to actually decipher them, haha

I love Austin’s meticulous attention to detail.

Love that miss-timed bleep haha. 11:05

I’m just happy you’re happy ’bout that mail you got!

as a mechanical engineer pipes going nowhere and doung nothing raally pisses me off

that’s insanely genius. I have learnt so much!

2023. Guh where did the time go

“hit” starfield was most defiantly not a hit

you might hate this kind of comment but more GTA or LoZ content please lol love your channel tysm for actively posting

You love to see it!

I love these videos!

The only problem with this theory is that the game very obviously states that the fuel for the ships is Helium 3, that doesn’t make the methane thing wrong, it just means that those tanks probably aren’t used to store fuel for the ships.

I normally keep such minor complaints to myself, but Austin might have a lot of pedantic viewers who feel similarly, and it might be worth raising: I hate hearing that extraneous ‘and’ people like to shove into numbers, particularly dates.
Edit: Obviously, this comment alone is just a negative comment for Austin to ignore, but if I’m right and similar comments exist, and/or this comment gets a significant number of likes and agreeing replies (but what’s a significant number in this case?), it would/will be valuable feedback.

Autism

Half these tanks are actually just Coffee going through the decaffeination process😭

Starfield? A hit?

Just as a heads-up: 130 could be Unleaded Gasoline!

It’s great that these small design details and the people who worked on them get a showcase! They’re definitely underappreciated!

Love your work Austin. Every video of yours is like having a shift with a coworker who is deeply unusual socially but is my favorite person to work with because he never runs out of interesting shit to say. Big fan of the completely unaddressed hairclips as well.

You should collab with JuniperDev

Nice. Imo it’s the best video so far.

Please do Arma Reforger waterways or electrical lines. I’ve followed them and they’re great.

Its just too bad I care less about Starfail then I care about the worlds largest ball of yarn……..

More of this please. I have just fallen in love with mechanical engineering and safety signage standards because of this. Amazing how many cool things humans have designed.

What’s their explanation for valve placement and access?

Another brilliant video learning some random facts about random things all because of random stuff found in games 😂

Thank you, Austin! As someone who actually really enjoyed Starfield, I love seeing something positive about it the game when the internet is full of negativity about it.

Can’t wait to point at one of those labels like “wuh oh! That’s pretty unstable!!” and win lots of friends and influence people

Please make a video on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. There’s so many interesting details that I think you and us (your audience) would enjoy.

Regarding standards persisting for long periods of time, we still use many arbitrary standards that originated thousands of years ago.

Your editing skills are getting so good yo
Proportional to the number of hairclips

What’s in his hair in these videos?

Great, now if only Bethesda spent their time and resources polishing their games instead of sending press releases to fanboys

That’s so cool you talked to the people that created these things! Love these videos

This is probably the first time I’m actually impressed by Starfield!

Who would have guessed its because of the ingame piping!

pls do odd unremarkable for oblivion remastered 🙏🙏

No one gonna ask about the previous searches at 5:07? just me curious about the prime 4 Doors?

7:50 shocked that Any Austin did not look up the 4-digit DOT placard next to the NFPA 704. That one is Hazard Class 3 – 1075 (Liquified Petroleum Gas)

Ight ur dragging it bro find a new format

Ah yes, my favourite employee from department of labor, Anya Ustin

I happen to work at a rocket engine test facility so here’s some thoughts no one asked for.

Liquid methane/oxygen don’t necessarily HAVE to be stored at a high pressure. They just need to be at a high pressure if you want them to be warm. You can keep a tank of liquid methane at ~ambient pressure as long as you can keep it at -260 deg F (through a well-insulated tank). Same for LOX @ -297F.

You definitely wouldn’t want to keep your LOX and LNG right next to each other / on top of each other if you can help it. That’s a recipe for disaster.

Overall, pretty good stuff! Warms my heart to see more parts of the space industry being represented in fiction, not just the flamey fun part.

Never played star field. Awesome video

Amazing as always! Great work!

wow, this video really was a banger

This is amazing. As a level designer, I always want to pay attention to why things are placed in my levels and how. Because exactly like this, the devs could have just placed pipes and tanks for decoration or guiding the player. But they took the time to do research in order to justify the environmental storytelling.

After this video I learned little about starfield but a lot about pipes 👷‍♀️oh and how to read the diamond , I don’t remember what you said ,but it was cool you said it

“hit” and Starfield in the same sentence?

Is it a hit?

i wish my pc could run this game with stable frames…

the audio?

For all the problems with bethesda games, they do a good job with their art, sound and level design.

Aren’t the rockets in Starfield nuclear-powered? If so, then for this fictional universe the only “fuel” you would need is methane. It gets used as reaction mass that’s piped into the little nuclear reactor at the back of your starship and then propelled out of the rocket to produce thrust.

Well if they copied real world stuff for inspiration…

Then you probably aren’t seeing a refueling station but a pumping station and tanks for transferring the gas to and from a cargo ship. Which would need transfer tanks and whatnot. You would also need some kind of inert gas in the lines to prevent fire/explosions so those tanks on top could be that gas as it would need to come out before you opened the system or you would end up mixing it into your already clean system.

That misaligned bleep pleased me

12:03 genius and insane is a fine line, and often walk hand in hand. ❤😂

я тибя люблю

I’d love to see this man cover the portal games, whatever he wants to cover I don’t mind I just wanna see him discuss the portal world

Dam… I was really hoping to see you in me undies.
😂 🤣

I’m straight btw.

This is the perfect game for you, Austin, it’s the most boring game I’ve ever played! lol you have a plethora of boring places you could find

The question for me is, if I send back my meundies , does that mean someone else will wear them? Makes you think…

Wow, that’s awesome that he actually got feedback from the developers on this one.

Austin pr3supping himself episode. Love ya boss

Another great video! I hadn’t heard the term “packins” before, every studio I’ve worked at have called them “kits”, like a model kit. Just goes to show how terminology is extremely not standardized across studios, even within the same country or language.

can you do videos about cod infinite warfare? pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee its very similar to starfield

The tanks near the spaceship landing pad are more likely to contain Helium-3, which is used as a grav drive fuel ingame

Unjustly Overly hated game.

Same reason why in FF7 Rebirth there are pallets on top of mountains. And barrels. Don’ t ask questions, just consume.

I love this channel so much. I imagine there are plenty of devs who would love to answer questions like this. You just helped make an artifact for a future age

11:05 somebody missed the bleep Lmao

Damn imagine designing a whole realistic methane storage system in a game and the game itself is never that in-depth.

been watching you since the egg busting days. in a way I suppose what you’re doing now is just more egg busting, which is amazing and im glad to see how much your channel has grown.

Cyberpunk pipes?

the word “Hit” in hit 2023 videogame is doing a lot of heavy lifting…

don’t wanna know why you were googling those things…..

11:04 who did this censor lol

I would love to see you visit Star Citizen. It focuses on realism and the designer’s have done a great job.

maybe the pipes contain underpants. who knows

Starfield is a 2023 game?

It’s because of stuff like this that I just can’t help but really enjoy Starfield.

omg im so happy to see starfield content

Dude I was so happy for you when you got that email lol. So cool

Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling…

Love the mis-timed beep lol

Austin should do an unemployment survey of the Imperial city from Oblivion

My first thought, “This is what I end up building in satisfactory, tbf”

Without watching the video beforehand I’d like to say you’re giving Starfield too much credit assuming that… Love ur videos btw

Ok I’ve been watching his videos for months now, and at first I thought he was just training his hair to comb backwards, but it’s been a long time. Is this just a fashion statement or is he still training his hair back?

I’ve just done gas training at work at the steel plant and I feel I learned more from this video

This video is the most fun I’ve had with the game.

I think it’s just about time to name the channel “Awesome_Austin”. I really like your vision and interpretations of such things that i personally did not really think while playing. That’s really cool! Thank you!

Any Austin / Milo Rossi collab when???

Starfield is really though through. I heard they even had consultations with NASA about space stuff when they were developing the game. It is just shame that other elements are breaking it.
Still I enjoyed this aspect of starfield, seeing all those designed areas and some of them are truly worth screenshoting.
Thanks for great video and and thanks devs for taking time to correspond with you

Dude, the intentional mismatch for censorship has been a GREAT joke every time. I’ll be watching one of your videos while I work and burst out laughing. I love your sense of humor being tossed at these games, it’s very funny.

Star fields worlds are suspiciously well thought out. Each planet has seasons, different day lengths, orbits, moons that can be seen with phases and positions in the sky. I feel like the game was originally supposed to be much different

i
yes
i enjoy this
very much

heres a video suggestion for you, just how accurate is spider-man 2’s New York?

I’m sorry but I just can’t get myself to be interested or engaged with starfield like I can literally any other game you’ve featured. Satrfield just put such a bad taste in my mouth

Perhaps I treated you too harshly, Starfield.

“the hit 2023 videogame starfield”
do you mean the tremendous flop that is so fundamentally screwed on every conceivable level that even bethesda modders, whom are some of the most fanatically devoted to their hobby people in the world, even gave up on it?
yeah i just had to say it
starfield sucks

“Enjoy video games” What a breath of fresh air having a nice video about one of my favorite games and it leaving me appreciating it even more. Catch a smile out there. o7

Methane boils at -161~ celcius. Those pipes would be so icy if there actually was liquid methane in them.