Open World Missions

[Iron Horse]

Is being able to do missions from the open world limited to Styx, or can you do them in the base game as well?

[Tanyon]

Right now it's limited to just the frontiers map Prometheus.

It is supposed to come to Styx possibly next week with the first Hypatia update.

Then the second hypatia update will do Olympus open world missions.

Then we need the exotics from missions in open world which I'm not sure will/will not be included in one of these updates or it's own.

[Iron Horse]

I've been playing around with Olympus. I don't mind difficult; however, playing alone, the level of difficulty should scale well. I was hurting on the Desert Biome, and sort of lost interest. (What is the deal with so many predators in an area with sparse vegetation anyway?) Open world mission would be a game changer. I am level 35, but I really have no reason to place talent points since I don't tier that high during missions. There is a mount system, but what is the point if you just reset every mission?

[Iron Horse]

I played a lot of Empyrion. I don't really care to compare the two. They are different games. The persistent world in a survival game is nice. I am pretty patient about some of the titles that have been early access.

[Tanyon]

your level, talents and skill points are all persistent regardless of Open World, Out Post or Missions.

So you definitely want to put those talent points to use they define your character/playstyle and make a huge difference especially playing solo because they provide you with a solo tree which gives you even more talent points to make your character stronger and makeup for the fact you are playing alone and not in a group.

Eventually every map will have persistent worlds and missions you can launch from your main base. So if that is what you want then you probably have a couple of months till that is fully implemented on all three maps.

I used the mounts once. they were god awful and I never used them again. There is a talent tree for them and modules though that make them better but I would rather just not bother. Now to me it seems like they are cool just to have if you want some pets. Also, once again when we have persistence across all maps they might make a lot more sense to have.

[FPStewy]

Originally posted by DarthTanyon:

Eventually every map will have persistent worlds and missions you can launch from your main base.

I used the mounts once. they were god awful and I never used them again.

Are you saying that we'll be able to "portal" from map to map.

Also this game begs for a Glider a Gyro or flying mount.

[Tanyon]

Originally posted by FPStewy:

Originally posted by DarthTanyon:

Eventually every map will have persistent worlds and missions you can launch from your main base.

I used the mounts once. they were god awful and I never used them again.

Are you saying that we'll be able to "portal" from map to map.

Also this game begs for a Glider a Gyro or flying mount.

No you will have to have a different OW on each map and whatever map you are currently on you will be able to start missions from that map from your OW base. But if you want to do another mission from another map you will have to get into your drop pod and go up to station and launch the ow on that map.