I'm actually having trouble with the Patrol Vessels (PVs). They killed me about a hundred times and blew up my starter HV in seconds after spawning it. How do you defend against them? My sniper rifle and HV minigun turret didn't damage them at all, and they pretty much 2-shot me. Is there a way to remove them or make them less frequent in my area?
Dig in and avoid, pretty sure that's what I did. I never really had an issue with them. Sure, I had to be mindful of their presence and sometimes I couldn't get back to my base right away as a PV was a bit too close. However, building underground, and having a safe place to park an HV/SV was key.
some feedback from my side: I like the new starter planet. Especialy early on the feeling is great, when you dont have a ride yet and you need to avoid the patrols. At least in my seed, the available resources from neutral POI was only enough to get a jump capable SV, forcing me to scavange other planets with an SV only, I liked that a lot! Suggestions to make it more appealing to people looking for a chalenge: Make the zyrax hate you more at the beginning: It feels too easy to get the zyrax friendly by killing a few mobs in their teretory early on, nullifying a huge part of the risk from drones and the patrol vessels I would also up the spawn rate of PV's, but I understand that may be too much for newer players. A short notion towards an underground base from IDA at the start may help newer players who want to try a hard start. Occationaly I found small POI (e.g a "thruster compartment" "base") that I could salvage without killing the core thats in (bug?) I would ramp of base attacks: During all my time on the planet my base has never been attacked, which seems odd given the war state of the planet All in all, a great addition in my books!
