I was making good progress in my Reforged Galaxies "dead is dead" play through starting on the arctic planet. Had made a nice mechanical drill sporting SV with 3 gatlings that I used to score some cobalt and titanium from the moon. Built my flamethrower and my drill, I was giddy! I was just about to go burrowing under my base (created a COMPLETELY above ground base for a change, possibly the first time EVER in this game . . .) to carve out space for 144 farm plots to corner the market on emergency rations and dino stew . . . then I remembered! I just learned that nifty new SV laser drill tech! Had a look but I lacked enough Zascosium alloys . . . ah okay. But I AM going to revamp my SV_Javelin to have more mech drills. Saved it with the armor on as SV_JavelinMk1, stripped off the armor and saved it as SV_JavelinMk0, then I proceeded to use my brand spanking new Advanced multi-tool to strip it down to just the cockpit and the core . . . added a small gen, small fuel tank and intended to add a small down thruster to keep it hovering (can never be sure if the thing is going to plummet when rebuilding in survival). So there I was: standing on top of the cockpit with the little temporary generator and fuel tank stacked up also on top of the cockpit right behind me, going to town with my drone . . . I plotted out that I wanted exatly three block space between each of the four mech drills. That seemed like a good idea. Got those all set up. Added the three gatlings back and the ammo, started adding thrusters . . . medium T1s, FOUR each on all planes, and SIX on the back . . . (some of you are probably starting to sweat . . .). Got all my thrusters added, and I was cordoning off the ammo with the "useful but not essential blocks" (ventilator, fridge, wireless, that sort of thing) so I could then fill out the whole belly with a harvester container-extenstion platform and that is what my little adventure came to an end. BOOM! Game Over man. So today I learned: overloading a generator can kill. Be safe out there survivalists.
Left Dread and found the Pathfinder. Dropped an orbital salvage platform (Adv Constructor, Deconstructor, Furnace) pulling 26kWh in that orbit, plus 2 emergency hydroponics pods. This will serve as temporary FOB while I explore the system, then I'll pack them up for the next...
Started Project Eden for the first time. I am one of those guys who usually get bored after the first planets as i did most of the "main things" and all i do after that is playing around in creative mode to build a ship of which i don´t even know what to use it for. I hope PE adds enough to keep me going, hesitant to start Reforged Eden as Vermillion has PC problems and i don´t want to be stuck on an unplayable save for a few days because you can´t prevent auto updating (yeah you can copy the game folder i found out but then i´d have to deal with the blueprints i made in the meantime). As i am not that proficient in EGSs survival mode i chose an easy start. And had to restart as i forgot to turn CPU and W/V on. Again. I set up my personal survival tent next to the admin structure i spawned and while it was a nice site for the early days i realize i´d want to move to an underground base. Especially after the first Zirax attack that almost cost me the tents core. Now i have no shower anymore. I can almost smell the stench after carrying the loot back and forth from my old place to my new one. Blergh. (Note to myself, my ships carrying capacity are sh** altogether). Sheer luck made me investigate and survive one of the alien structures. I opened the door and a horror and two warriors came out. Of course i wasn´t armored in any way. Praise the shotgun. Found a Multi Tool and T2 shotgun. Idk about you guys but i think Multi Tools should be removed from the loot table, the same for Drills from the trader. Technically i´d never have to unlock them, and rn i am running around with a T2, before i even built a large constructor to build a T1 one. After some roaming around in my lvl 5 SV i found two abandoned drone bases and one abandoned factory. This´ll get interesting. After carefully dipping my toes into a drone base i found a heavy armor in a red egg. Now the rest will be peace o' cake. And i had to have a look at the MCRN Leviathan. This thing is HYPERMASSIVE. Very well done, especially all the interiors, shows really what you can do in EGS. I just wonder who would need so much space? By thumb gauging i could place 25 of my early SVs onto one side. And the small carrier i am working on since experimental A12 one the other and it´s not even bothered by its weight. WOW.
Extremely. Drop it, use it till it's time to move on, disassemble and toss in a crate till the next stop. Unpack, rinse and repeat.
Updating my workshop with several designs and fixing some mistakes I've made with my blueprints https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198067586019/myworkshopfiles/?appid=383120
Started all over with Easy difficulty and no real cheats. On a large swamp. I like the large swamp. More danger but more resources. Easy cobalt, neodymium, even sathium and gold. Loads of radiated areas with pentaxid but no radiated fog. Experience matters. Killing Kriel scum will help me getting the Zirax neutral (?). No drone base attack until now, it's easy and I'm pretty well located. Even tho I'm ready. I'd just like not to have to manage a conflict right now. Built the Sanctuary base from @jrandall, in a solar-optimized version revamped by @Foekilla. Just great. Hopefully there are enough trees around here to help me bridge the power needs until I can build secondary pods to save power consumption in the main base. But devil is in the details. It's quite impossible to get alien teeth around here. You need it for medication. Only the rare scorpions in the radiated zones will drop some. I guess it's the price for having golems around. Love this game ! PS : I know 99% of people will laugh because I'm on Easy but hey, I'm still a noob. Still things are so aggressive I cannot imagine what would happen to me in more serious settings. I' new to survival, not to 4X. That's the thing. And about drones, I think I totally overestimate them. Shot many in space in a previous game. But on Easy ofc.
Currently i am making some custom POIs for sombody elses server. These POIs are supposed to tell a story so in each POI you get token/keycard that you need to acces the next stage. Stage 1 and 2 include training and teaching rooms. Stage 3 gonna be a prison =).
During looting of the second drone base i got infected, which ultimately lead to my death on my way home in a janky behaving transporter hv about 400m from my base. I really need to work on my food and medicine situation tomorrow. After looting both drone bases i thought i´d take a shot at the abandoned factory. After all the drone bases haven´t really changed so factory could be the same, right? Oh boy... I didn´t even find the entrance to the lower levels (yes on my way out i found the door ) so i just shot my way through those enclosed rocket-like holes on the outside. Almost died to the alien laser turrets and after sinking a few magazines of sniper rounds into one of them i decided to just make a run. And i did until i fell through the floor. After way too many scorpions i found the core and the loot. And of course my small poi looting sv was too small to carry all the loot. Slightly disappointed i didn´t find an epic loot egg, maybe i missed it. Biggest threat though was running out of ammo. At least i got from level 15 to 19 with the factory alone. Also i really need to work on getting a cv. Especially with the nugget version of the ressources there isn´t really a use for the hv.
The Legacy POIs are actually a challenge now. Just wish the sounds for those annoying Legacy mobs were not QUITE so annoying . . . I still prefer my historical method of: burrow under and blast in at bottom. It is no longer a sure-fire way to find the core quick and disable it (they've got more cunning about hiding those things), but it seems to throw the intended sequence of challenge the POIs developers had "off-balance" and force the computer opponents to come at me "on my terms" instead of on their terms. A lot of the floor traps are a lot less of an issue when you already cleared the level UNDER them Still have not assaulted a Zirax base, but I know from some play time a few weeks ago where I had Zirax to Friendly levels (from hunting on Omicron) that there have been some fantastic new Zirax POIs introduced and probably quite a bit of change to the layout of the longstanding one's too. So I'm assuming a whole new kind of experience the first time I go after one of the Zrx facilities.
There are Two Purple/ultra Rare Loot Containers on the Level were the Core is. One hidden behind a Trap door( you need to flip a switch to open) and another one before you enter this last rooms (look up to the ceiling)
To start with, thats an awesome looking set up. Ill add that someone gives you grief for playing a game you paid for in a way that makes you happy then the deep seeded psychosis is on their end. From my experience, an "easy" game started on some worlds isnt exactly easy. A recent playthrough of mine on a swamp world was quite challenging early on due to the number of nasty critters that ran around. To keep with the thread, as far as what I have done: I finally mined up enough to put the Skaar Raider into the factory, just need to level up to 25. So I spent some time last evening trying to raise my standing with Polaris by hunting in their lands. When that got boring I flew over to the burial chamber on the planet. Looted a bunch of fruits...but then got distracted by a nearby squad of zirax soldiers, so I flew over and blasted them...then another group...and another. For some reason it never dawned on me that a great way to gain experience is to fly into zirax territory and shoot their foot patrols. I am somewhat holding off on building much because of the upcoming update and I am concerned about wasting a lot of effort just to have to restart anway.
I've become a fan of swamp world starts. The first few hours of gameplay can be harrowing. I have a gaming group of local friends that regularly does co-op survival games together, and we did a swamp world start. We probably had a collective dozen deaths in our first evening of play, with five players. Fun times.
Today I... Classified ... decryption ... ....stand by.... ....stand by.... ....stand by.... ....stand by.... ...decryption failed... ....?: They've greatly improved their defenses ... f*ck ....?: We'll have to bribe someone from the simple staff, otherwise we'll never know what the big F is doing ... three days later ...?: ..on the screen ... what the f*ck is this ... ...?: sir, they say this is an advanced development of LIF Industries ...?: .. It's f*cking I can see it myself ... what is it !? WHY IS THIS ?! ...?: ... The only thing that we managed to get at the moment is that this is a colossal ship with a wild number of non-standard solutions ... ...?: ... f*ck what big F is preparing his army for ... ... End transmission
With my next start (tomorrow I guess with the new release), Ill probably go back to a swamp. The nice temperate start is nice...but man just not enough critters and stuff to hunt. Have to search around even to find some spiders. My bases guns only bark at Zirax. But on that swamp world those suckers were always wailing on creepy crawlies getting too close.
