Workshop items continue to disappoint

[Kopfjäger]

After grinding enough exotics to research and craft the "best" workshop pickax, I took it for a trial run. I mined 2 oxite, 1 titanium, 1 aluminum, 1 copper and 4 exotics veins. My new "best" workshop (1400 exotics) pickax lost a quarter of its durability.

[william_es]

yeah, I don't get some of the items. Not just the durability, but the descriptions bug me.

This is the stuff we're supposed to be grinding for, and they have such horrendous descriptions.

They might as well add flavor text like "Ugly, but affordable" or "smells like day old fish". That's the tone of much of the text.

[MEG]

The only "thing" from the workshop worth to buy are the knifes! Imho
- the canteen
- air bottle
- 1 suit
- the armor
- the mushrooms
- maybe the green items +5 space

[Sunny]

Good Items to Buy

- canteen
- Armor
- Ore Backpack or Speed Backpack are pretty nice
- 2x 5% Speed
- 2x 5 Inv Slots

You have only 10 Slots to bring your workshop items to the planet.

5 for the armor
1 canteen
1 backpack
2 for the upgrade slots ( speed or Inv slots)

One left => knife or Axe

The Air bottle is a waste of Credits like the Furnace.

I got the last tier knife and axe and they are OK but not worth the farming.

Working on the Spear beacause running speed is all in farm missions.

[BigKid]

The problem with those workshop items is that they take even more of that "Icarus" feeling away from you.
You go down on the planet with water&air tanks, a bow and a tier2 toolset and with no thrill you have a solid base in the evening and a steady oxygen supply and are smelting more iron.
Nothing left of that feeling of the first hours on Icarus.
Or you skipped base building, set up cave base and already prepare to make steel.

The workshop items are meant to motivate you to keep playing and do the missions - but many of them also outplay key game mechanics. Take away challange and thrill and what stays is grind and repetativeness...

I would limit the drop ship slots even more - probably add some extra for the armor only so it stays usuable. I think you should be forced to tailor your loadout to the mission you plan to do.

And then some just do not work. That's bad but unfortunately not atypical for the state this game is still in.

[william_es]

They just need to add a suit equipping section to the loadout screen.

Have a screen like your basic inventory, with a "paper doll" of your character. You select suit first because that would effect what slots you have (food, oxygen, water, modules), then put everything directly into the suit slots on the loadout screen.

Then your armor, modules, canteen, air bottle, etc wouldn't be taking up any drop ship slots. The game auto equips your armor while you're in the drop capsule on the way down anyways.

[Kopfjäger]

It is the durability of the workshop items (pickax, knife & ax) that is discouraging. Eventually, a player will be reduced to crafting an on planet item to replace the broken workshop item.

The item slot limitation is another subject to not be happy about.

[Grambo]

The durability is too low by a large margin. The 400 exotic axe can chop down 20.. .yes... 20 trees before it breaks. I got more wood in the same period of time by just rolling better with a stone axe and getting more 1%s.

Total waste of time.

[Aberiu]

The only reason its price is justified is the overencumberance buff which allows you to carry tons of stuff at a relatively decent speed. I've been running with it for a couple missions and I can say that it's working, but you really have to be careful, avoid storms and groups of predators and plan you movement ahead. But it does save you incredible amounts of time, since you can carry unlimited weight.
Just don't think of it as a solution to your mining problems. It's not a pickaxe, it's your bottomless bag. As a pickaxe it's mediocre at best.