Where do I start?

[LeftPaw]

I have bought the Prospector Edition which has the base game, Styx, and the fronter expansion. I have never played before I want to know which game should I play first that allows me to learn the game without being to difficult. I also don't want to put many hours into it just to have it all wiped, which I believe is a problem with some parts of the game.

Thanks.

[Rekal]

Missions on Olympus would be my suggestion until you get high enough level to have tech unlocked that actually matters if it gets wiped. Part of the benefit of running missions is the constant gathering and rebuilding. All of that grants XP. If you go straight to an Open World and build only once you'll be sitting there wondering what to do next and have to grind for your levels instead of just getting them naturally as you play and learn the game doing missions.

Don't think of missions as wiping your progress every time you complete, think of missions as an objective you are paid to complete. How much work you put into it doesn't matter as long as you complete your objective. You can complete most missions easily with a crafting bench, a forge, a mortar and pestle, and an anvil bench all tucked into a cave. When you're level 20 that formula gets you steel equipment. The T3 Platinum and T4 Titanium are only marginally better. Not worth the build up effort for almost all missions.

So like I said try out some missions first where you go in knowing you have nothing to lose. Literally -- death has no XP penalty, just the walk of shame back to your gear which at low level can easily be replaced by just grabbing stuff off the ground. You'll walk away from the missions with money for the workshop, character levels, and player experience plus knowledge so when you decide to settle down and build big in Open World (I'd recommend having masonry bench unlocked at least for stone building) you won't make some of the rookie mistakes you made on the missions.

[LeftPaw]

Originally posted by Rekal:

Missions on Olympus would be my suggestion until you get high enough level to have tech unlocked that actually matters if it gets wiped. Part of the benefit of running missions is the constant gathering and rebuilding. All of that grants XP. If you go straight to an Open World and build only once you'll be sitting there wondering what to do next and have to grind for your levels instead of just getting them naturally as you play and learn the game doing missions.

Don't think of missions as wiping your progress every time you complete, think of missions as an objective you are paid to complete. How much work you put into it doesn't matter as long as you complete your objective. You can complete most missions easily with a crafting bench, a forge, a mortar and pestle, and an anvil bench all tucked into a cave. When you're level 20 that formula gets you steel equipment. The T3 Platinum and T4 Titanium are only marginally better. Not worth the build up effort for almost all missions.

So like I said try out some missions first where you go in knowing you have nothing to lose. Literally -- death has no XP penalty, just the walk of shame back to your gear which at low level can easily be replaced by just grabbing stuff off the ground. You'll walk away from the missions with money for the workshop, character levels, and player experience plus knowledge so when you decide to settle down and build big in Open World (I'd recommend having masonry bench unlocked at least for stone building) you won't make some of the rookie mistakes you made on the missions.

Thank you. I will take your advice, it sounds like sound advice to me.

[LS-33 "Wraith"]

My group went straight for open world BUT we are a very task focused group and build big bases so we maxed level pretty fast with the nonstop gathering and crafting mixed with the xp share.
I would offer to help and show you the ropes but this last update doesnt like my computer and crashes after at most ten minutes normally shorter.

[КрендельФигов]

As far as I understand, you recently started playing Icarus. Here is a list of additional resources to help you.

1) First (including everyone reading this): always regularly save your Icarus to a separate folder on another partition of the drive (or flash drive). (disable Steam clouds, otherwise, when you manually return your saves, there is a chance that Steam cloud will return the original saves.)
-------->! You need to save the entire directory c:\Users\”name your windows account”\AppData\Local\Icarus\Saved

2) Potential places deep mine; exotic deposit; Enzyme Geysers; caves indicating through passages under the mountains (if any) for all maps.
https://www.icarusintel.com/

3) You can follow the link to yours and at the bottom of each page there are pictures.
https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Olympus
https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Styx
https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Prometheus
One of these pictures will be labeled something like this (Creature spawn zones with levels and ratios.)
On it you can see approximately where some animals spawn and at what level they will be. It also doesn’t hurt to determine where you shouldn’t go at early levels.

4) Not all information on Wiki is up-to-date, but most of it is.
Everything related to exotics: https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Exotics
Mining from deep mine (you can also use electric drill) https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Biofuel_Deep-Mining_Drill
Everything related to Enzyme Geysers https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Vapor_Condenser

Everything related to fishing
https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Basic_Fishing_Rod
https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Fishing_Zone

5) This is a link to a playlist for completing missions (some aspects of the delivery of quest items were changed after the merger of Missions and Operations), there are tips and sometimes the nuances of completion are shown.
Doomie Gaming Icarus 1.0 New Player Guides
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE7yQAzBjupYyA0wGMCU7eXFufjuSsrIS

[LS-33 "Wraith"]

Thanks for the resources, I had found about 50-75% of those myself.
I started playing it after the black friday sale time frame, but i have played many games similar and figured that the maps and such existed.
someone showed me the XP/level work around to get more talent points (as an old school gamer i still have the old unedited files backed-up)
I am working on different clocking for cpu and ram and turning down my ram clock seems to have stabilized the game, didnt seem to like the old setting post update i guess...so avoid 29-3000 freq for DDR4 while using 11th gen I9 i guess.