Sandy Bridges mission

[Unsakred]

I love this game and have 200+ hours so far.

The new Sandy Bridges mission is just a slap in the face, though. Set up 4 radars then alt-tab out for an hour and a half? Really devs?

Nothing happens at all during that mission. 1 floor and 4 walls, place radar x 4. Done. Now you have to wait for an hour and a half while nothing, absolutely nothing, happens. I sat in my base the whole time waiting for the guy to say something; maybe one of them was being attacked? No. Nothing. You wait 90 minutes in your base with nothing to do.

I'm quickly losing faith in this game. It's the same four missions over and over, like New World.

[Mummy]

Have you done the payday extraction where you sit for over 3 hours watching the drill? Not fun.

[annarevia]

I´m doing the sandy bridges mission too.. all four radars are set and save and now i wish we had had only one and half hour to wait left. We have to wait 4 ingame hours now !! are you kidding me ??

[Pach]

... if you have all 4 beacons properly deployed, the mission should be something like 1.5 hours of waiting (yup, nothing happened on mine, either).

1 beacon = 6 hours
2 beacons = 3 hours
3 beacons = 2 hours
4 beacons = 1.5 hours

Note there is one beacon you can deploy in a cave. I deployed a small base there, and sat outside (stealthed) so I wouldn't get pnemonia, and basically watched TV.

To the left, might be a good map to mine materials for the scanner/extractor while you wait for the primary to finish... :P

[Trik]

Try to do hard mode version of this mission is 5h waiting. One good thing extra exp. So used this time to cheak all available caves for exotics. Have found 3 nods. And lvl up from 84 to 91

[WhoopinOnYou]

This proves they are not listening enough to the players. They have another mission that's identical, where you house 4 radars and sit around for 1.5 hrs and wait to leave. There's already been a ton of negativity about what a waste of time that is and yet they come out with a carbon copy mission with the same wait time.

Either they are ignoring the feedback or just want to do things their own way and don't care about how bad it comes across.

As a fan of this game, I was to spend my time doing something productive towards the mission objective. To finish the objective and wait hours to leave is sloppy, lazy and not well thought out by the dev team.

[smitty]

After I got 4 beacons deployed, my teammate and I had some fun killing animals, building some structures, running around. Wasn't that bad. But yeah it would have been more fun it there was something like animals trying to attack the beacons and you needed to maintain them.

[WhoopinOnYou]

I decided to do this mission a little while ago. I deployed the beacons and built a stone house. I've been been sniping wildlife from the roof for the past 30 mins or so. I have 30 mins to go before I can leave.

I know it's called extended survey, but It's just pointless. You don't defend the beacons and there's no objective to do while the beacons are going through their process. It feels like the there's a lack of creativity that's being replaced with longer mission times, just for the sake of making it longer. I'm not hating on the game. I love the game. But it really needs an influx of fresh ideas and creativity going forward. This forum has been bombarded with great ideas and improvements. I hope they are taking notes.

[AJChimaera]

Not started that mission yet, but personally I'm tired of the cliche of having to defend radar placements due to some inexplicable problem the local wildlife have with "our tech". Having to wait around for a while as things just tick up is a bit of a drag, sure, but as someone else said it's a great time to search caves for exotics, maybe even tech up to T4 and search for an extractor vein.

[Trik]

No accessible veins on this mission:(

[MarvelouZzz]

An hour and a half?
Dude have you tried the hardcore one?
I need to wait for 5 real time hours while have to keep my char fed and hydrated.
5 freaking hours dude.

[belstrahdt]

https://steamcharts.com/app/1149460

[Natjur]

They have run out of things to 'delay' you. Too many have worked out there is not much to this game and given up. Now the devs are like, "lets see how far we can push this and see if people will just 'sit' in game for hours."

Guess some people will put up with anything to 'finish all missions'

[Enforcer]

You want to know what i did in the meantime? Level up my toon. You can't have too much xp.

[Enforcer]

Originally posted by AJChimaera:

Not started that mission yet, but personally I'm tired of the cliche of having to defend radar placements due to some inexplicable problem the local wildlife have with "our tech". Having to wait around for a while as things just tick up is a bit of a drag, sure, but as someone else said it's a great time to search caves for exotics, maybe even tech up to T4 and search for an extractor vein.

Nothing like that is happening. Just plant them and if you are too bored of waiting just upgrade the shelters to stone while the timer keeps ticking so you don't have to repair them after every sand storm.