items require WAY too many Electronics

[Ainchant]

Love the game, my ONLY complaint thus far is the requirement for tier 3/4 equipment and the ridiculous amount of Electronics for things. 60 Electronics for the fabricator takes literally a day to farm by yourself, then if you want to actually make something in the fabricator it takes another insane amount of electronics to make that. I spent 5 days on a drop, mined 8 caves bare.. and had to leave due to time because I couldn't collect enough copper to build The fabricator, the material processors, the radar and the excavator. I get that the upper tier items are difficult to make, but when it takes 5 real days to make them all, then I leave planet.. and the very next mission I have.. I have to make another 5,000 electronics.. I just don't want to play anymore.... it sucks, to be frank. Can we please reduce the amount of electronics needed for items?

[Daz]

Material costs for almost all mid-high tier items is well extremely high, to be fair. 1 iron ingot makes a single bullet, 40 steel to make a bolt-action rifle... A bar of gold for electronics. Just increasing the yield from some of these recipes would balance it out.

Then you'll get the Elitists complaining that the games too easy now...

[Adr]

Completely agree here - 60 electronics to make the fabricator. That's 180 Copper ingots and 60 gold. Then its 80 electronics to make the materials processor.... Just to finally get to a point where you get to grind to make the T4 stuff - by which point the benefit of having that high level gear is gone as you have mined everything within a reasonable distance.....

And don't even start me on the bones grind to make epoxy for pretty much everything..... I love the hunting part of the game but it quickly gets to the point that all i'm after is bones bones bones.....

Making any of the arrows above flint is also not worth the investment in time/resources as losing them becomes prohibitive vs the effort to get the mats (which are needed for other stuff as a higher priority) to make them....

Absolutely loving the game so far - but it needs some serious balancing grind wise. Make the benches cost less maybe and the items cost more?

Just some kind of decent balancing to actually make it worth while getting the high tier stuff so you still have something to do with them once you have made them......

At the moment I don't go past platinum pick axe and recurve bow - the grind is just too much to look at Titanium tools and the composite bow along with all the powered benches etc.... I get to the point where I get tired with a prospect as I know i'm already OP to complete the mission so I end up completing and bugging out. I don't think my timer has gone below 4 days once....

Unless I'm missing something - I still haven't unlocked Riverlands so maybe it will all become clear.....

Would love to hear peoples thoughts.

[anmana]

There is a statement Tier 4 Items get a rebalancing in the new year. They are aware of the trouble and with bad rng some people had they have been unable to complete some missions though they cleared every available cave (do not know if that is true but why should the lie).

@ ADR: There are allways one or two mission where you have to build up. I can recommend the caves at "C3 - down right" and "F2 - Top left" for some ore looting when it comes to that Biome. You may even want to build in the caves but just don´t use wood (no Caveworms, no Pneumo at this moment in the caves, but no shelter either).