Alpha 8.5 - Feedback: Story Mission: ANCIENT REVELATIONS

@KozanDyphect

Huh... Hummel could have changed things so that the SV needs to be discovered(its initial iteration had it visual.) Is it a pre-8.5 game carried over or continued after 8.5 came out? If not and you started it in 8.5, when in space, could you press "F12" and take a steam screeny and post it here. My bet is that hummel changed things or it is a bug but I like visuals.

 

pretty sure it is a pre 8.5 but i have umm time relation issues .... it was started 6/13 this year after a major update or 2 made my old save no longer viable .... I do have over 600h logged playing so I have a rough idea of how it is supposed to work

 

Aha! I bet that is the problem then. If you want to continue that game you can, or if you want to start a new playthrough, there will likely be some hot-fixes coming down the pipe in the next 2 or 3 days, but it should still work even with them. Tis all good either way.

 

I liked this mission. I'd explored the Derelict before this update and I like the fact that you improved the ship and how fluid you made it as I explored on. I certainly used up some meds for the Endo paracite I kept getting haha! I brought my ship along so ran back to the med bay when I ran out of meds /snickers. I did kinda ... fire first and kinda sorta poofed the "spoilers" as I got the the teleporter .. before I realized .. something. Maybe a slight alteration of 'them' would be in order so as to ... ya know.. help out the trigger happy players out there.

 

Yeah, things are still being put together. There are still aspects to the chapter 2 ending that are being considered. How about before the derelict. Did the minefield show up okay? The small vessel? Did all the triggers in the control station function? Did you give chap. 3 a try?

 

Yes, I found the mine field just fine and approached it with extreme caution.. even shot at it a few times /snickers.. I found the ships near it and found the shuttle after some careful inspection. I had no trouble in the control station finding anything. That was clear and concise instructions. Wonderful part there! The placement of the enemies in the derelict was well done.. I had the snot scared out of me at times even though I'd been in that derelict before the mission was available. I got to a point to remember in each area to search for 'any way they could 'sneak' up behind me' after clearing the area. Well done with that.

I will note.. I took the advice the mission gave me to bring my ship closer to the derelict and actually forgot to waypoint its location before I 'space walked' back to my SV to bring it over so I had to search a bit to find it again

 

The mission is cool, but I think it would be good if the teleporter was 2 way, an 8km jetpack trip back through space to the minefield to get your SV is kinda long winded.

 

Yeah the teleporter at the start of the derelict puts you in the middle of the space - while I think it should bring you back to the 'Control Station'?

 

It might be a mistake on my part but-
"- The Mission requires you to start on the TEMPERATE Planet. IF you are already in space or at another playfield, please return to the TEMPERATE STARTER planet and start from there (will be refined)"

I started fresh on a Arid Planet built up my Base on the Planet, went to Space to look for salvage able Ships...and found a "small Vessel", a Mine Field and a control station amidst the Star ship Graveyard.

I was under the impression you have to start on a Temperate Planet to get all that Stuff in Space...but so most resources are denied... any Chance that this is unintended and just a Bug?

 

As I understand it the Dev's are a bit un-decided on this, but, in general, want the Arid to be the Alpha - 7 and prior start experience. I bet they enabled chapters 2 and 3 because of the anniversary. BUT! They may also be changing their minds back. The story/lore/chapters/etc are still very much a very fluid work-in progress. Emphasis on fluid. When I first played through it I found the SV before the mission and looted EVERYTHING, so hopefully that part still works.

 

Well, that sucks...some kind of.. As I wanted to play through my "natural" development I intended to loot/salvage the ships in the Ship Graveyard and than going on the search for the Temperate Planet in my Sol System. Only Pro now is that I have also a Admin Station in the Arid Planets Orbit..I didnt start the Part 2 sofar and stayed quite a distance from the Minefield to not be blown out of the Skies.

Thanks for the info anyway

 

As long as the SV and the central control station to the minefield are intact, chapter 2 will be functional - loot and plunder all the rest. The admin station will be important for chapter 3 - presuming that it is an exact copy from the temperate(which I assume it is.)

 

I am liking Chapter 2 so far. I was a little confused initially because the "marker" for the Control station was about 100m off of the purple ship but I figured it out. For me the transporters worked properly in both directions. (Control Station to Derelict and back again) I have not started exploring the derelict ship (I need to go back planetside to stock up) but if it goes like the Robison Protocol did I am sure I will be surprised.
Is it important to rebuild the SV or can I continue to use the SV I built to get into space?

 

You can continue to use yours. The other is just a marker.

 

After realizing that it would be some time before I could get the warp drive on my own, I decided to rebuild the derelict ship after all. It was kind of like restoring an old car....

 

Thanks to your info I "visited" this morning the Minefield within the Ships Grave Yard and got most of the Stuff I was looking for no! Now I have TWO CV Warprives as I looted one from a Loot Container of the Unknow Artifact on the Planet...

 

I liked the ending and the pacing getting there was well done. Some of the jump scares caught me off guard which is good. The derelict ship is a good "dungeon."
I did feel that the endgame left more questions than answers ;-). Since Chapter 3 seems like it is not about the alien history (I haven't started it yet but you had me at 5 beers!), I am looking forward to this storyline continuing after chapter 3.