Gaming

Skooma?

I'm just carrying an enormous number of microscopes. In third person.
Edit: oh, and I'm carrying lung damage too. *cough*

Are there moon sugar and khajiit, too?

*cough*
Well I've walked on the moon but I don't know if it was made of sugar.
*cough* *cough*

And then I stumbled into the middle of a big shootout where my axe was pretty useless.

You can only cough when you're alive.

It's not actual Skooma, but it's something that is illegal to have on your ship and has some beneficial effect. I also had a cough until I cured it... twice 

So far I am pretty unimpressed with the game, and considering uninstalling it. It's pretty tedious so far, and quite annoying with all the stuttering and freezing, the annoying encumbrance system, the messy and confusing UI, etc. and so on. I can see why everyone was so critical. It had better do something pretty incredible soon.

The snarky Irish doctor cured my cough while lecturing me about wearing the right clothing.
Even before the cough I instantly died on Mars due to the fact I'd forgotten to equip a backpack even though I could see in my third-person-mode that I was clearly not wearing one.

I didn't know not having a backpack could kill you. I'd have been less surprised if it was because you forgot to wear your helmet...

Well, I assume the backpack holds the oxygen I was supposed to be breathing. Or something.
The whole equipment thing is a bit confusing cos you have normal clothing underneath plus the spacesuit plus the helmet plus the backpack and they all have ratings for different things which stack together and not much of this is made clear in the game. I keep having to google things to find out.

I have now found the spoiler things I was looking for.
And that as well.

And I pushed on to the bit with...

Perhaps you should tip off Banj about where to find that last spoiler so that he can feel the same way

That was a Hellblade thing rather than a Starfield thing so he knows all about it already.

And in Starfield I may have to switch to a gun as my sneaky psycho axe is becoming more difficult to wield in these bigger fights.
And, while searching online for something else, I've finally found that the game does actually have a cover system after all. That was one of the reasons I felt more comfortable with the axe. But unfortunately the cover system only works in first person mode.