New Player Here - Where do I start?

[Vamp]

Hi All

I have played for about 11 hours and my character is level 13. I started with the open world. I have not entered the missions yet.

To date, I have only been messing around as I am not sure what I am supposed to be doing.

I did place the workbench and I am in the process of getting the next mission (communication thing I think) up, but the game does not really help with how to do so.

For instance. Tier 2 requires Iron that I had to google to learn it can be found in caves. I then had to google to find the caves, so I am a bit lost.

My questions are:

1) Where do I start? / What game mode is recommended? (Open World or Missions)
2) Is there a story or "ending"
3) Where do I learn how to actually play the game?
3.1) With regards to the tech tree
3.2) With regards to the talents
3.3) With regards to what I am actually supposed to do

Also, can you freely swap between Open World and Missions, or will I loose my Open World game if I choose the Missions button?

Thank you

[Hyrael]

I would recommend doing the first few missions as they're more of a tutorial and show you where to find ores and exotics etc. I did the missions up to around lvl 15 then swapped to open world and started doing open world missions and mining exotics to get all the starter workshop gear. Your open world save or "prospect" is separate from missions so don't worry about that. Note tho if you take the dropship back to the station on a mission its mission over and that "prospect" is deleted. If you take a dropship to the station while in open world, it doesn't delete the save. In fact you need to do this to change jumpsuits, then take a dropship back to your open world save.

[КрендельФигов]

A set of tips for beginners
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1149460/eventcomments/4409668685901316214/?ctp=4#c4409669422407137165

[Vamp]

Thank you

I figured the Open World might be the wrong start, but I have also read that you need to level up for the missions so I guess that was a bit misleading.

Will start with the missions to see what that is all about.

[Rei]

ye the mission mode (forest session) is somehow teaching u to basic gameplay for the game like mining farming, using radar, how to build things to gain advantage.


Just choose easy mode to reduce the grind.(much lower number of mission item is required).
If u want challenge just play hard mode in open mode later.

[Missdizzygamer]

Google is my best friend for this game !

[william_es]

Do missions. They literally are the tutorial for the game. Different missions introduced different aspects of the game. Like one focused on farming. You're literally told to grow veggies and gather food to be sent up to one of the orbital stations. Other missions are on building, mining exotics, hunting alpha predators (good intro to boss fights later on).

Also, in the beginning when you're low level, you don't have any of the cool tech recipes unlocked. The stuff that makes open world base building fun, and that gives you goals to grind towards.

The open world mode is sadly, a noob trap. You're building huts out of stick and leave, running around with pointy sticks. Wait until later, when you have all the recipes.

So, do missions, in the meantime. They have clear cut goals. You know what you're told to do, and where you're going to do it. While doing missions, you're earning exp, getting money, and can unlock talents and tech recipes. The whole thing with all your progress being reset in missions is actually GOOD! You don't have to worry about anything. Do you need to tame your feeds back at your base? no, they're aren't here in this mission! They're safe in your open world (if you have one) where time is frozen.

Build only as much as you need to finish the mission. You're just there to do a job and then leave. You're not building white picket fences and planting roses. So as you do more missions, you'll learn what is just barely needed to get by. Most people who hated missions were doing ridiculous amounts of resource gathering. One person posted pics of storage crates full of stuff. Why did they waste time doing that?

[Spaceminnow]

I recommend an "easy" Outpost...
Call^ it "home"... :)
Get some the "basic" survival tech...

Step up to "Open World" medium...
When^ you feel ready...
Explore...

Train your prospector...

Try "missions"...
When^ you feel you have a "good" understanding of basic survival...
"Missions" can be very hard...

If^ you drop with a "low" level prospector...