Open World with missions to earn currency?

[Palad1n]

Will we ever see missions of some kind come to persistent open world gameplay? I just can't get into these missions where you are forced to start over time and time again to try and earn currency to unlock suits and other things I would like to have.

Ever since they wiped all our player data, I lost all interest in trying to redo it, because I would rather have a base I can continue to grow and upgrade over time, while doing missions on the same map.

The 2 open world maps currently available has the hot and cold biomes and gives a lot of places to explore, but the caves do not regen resources over time. It would be nice to see some options given to us regarding this, to allow resources to regenerate.

Not sure if the experimental thumper can be used in this way, to regenerate cave resources? I am still a long ways from being able to build it, as leveling is very slow, only lvl 33 currently and not finding any creatures to tame yet, which is odd, considering this is a big game play element, so not sure if you need to unlock a certain amount of that technology before the game will spawn in certain tames or not.

Ideally I would like to get a buffalo creature and get it set up to help move my base to a new location, or have some sort of ability to call down a lander cargo container to put all my stuff in it, and then set a beacon down at the new location, and have the cargo container delivered there. That would be really cool feature.

I have heard rumors that we may get missions with persistent worlds, the ones that let you earn currency and not just select a basic reward of some kind. Hopeful to see more improvements and options on earning currency soon.

[Mr. Fibble]

I'd pretty much ignored the game because of the temporary and timed aspect but am now under the impression that there's a persistent option that does have respawning resources and a mission board.

Is this not the case?

[Deleted]

Use the thumper far away from your base if you do not want to be homeless. Thumpers can regenerate ores inside the cave but it has to be deployed outside the cave or a cave within the thumper's radius.

[Vintorez]

The next major update that's not the DLC, called Hypatia or something like that, will let players take full proper missions in the open world mode.

[Rocket]

I have heard rumors that we may get missions with persistent worlds

It has been confirmed in multiple announcements and updates that exotic earning will be coming to open world with the Hypatia update, that is due after the launch of New Frontiers.

Currently New Frontiers will contain, for the first time, full missions done inside open world. With Hypatia will be back-port this to Styx and Olympus and allow exotics to be earned in open world.

We have to add some content and functionality to support this so it needs more time in testing before we can release it, which is why it is not in the new frontiers update.

[Palad1n]

Originally posted by Rocket:

I have heard rumors that we may get missions with persistent worlds

It has been confirmed in multiple announcements and updates that exotic earning will be coming to open world with the Hypatia update, that is due after the launch of New Frontiers.

Currently New Frontiers will contain, for the first time, full missions done inside open world. With Hypatia will be back-port this to Styx and Olympus and allow exotics to be earned in open world.

We have to add some content and functionality to support this so it needs more time in testing before we can release it, which is why it is not in the new frontiers update.

Looking forward to all of this, thanks!

[Rocket]

You’re welcome! I have been doing a big play session in New Frontiers to make sure it is ready for you all. I have been really enjoying the open world, and being able to do the missions like that.

It is a shame that Olympus and styx will not have the story missions in open world until Hypatia, which comes later, but it is a necessary evil due to us needing time to test them all and make sure they are okay.