Everything standard, start location

[Tirandys]

I started a new save, everything standard. Just wanted to say I received the warning from Riley about building at an altitude at 45 kti. Well before the water has started in the starter lake.

Not sure if this is a new change but you now have a warning about water well before the water starts rising. Only commenting because I have seen several posts about the warning coming too late.

[maestro]

This is assuming you actually build the antenna and the screen - messages.

Some people might be strapped for power or too distracted by building other stuff and/or exploring and they forget to build an antenna/message screen.

I think what tends to happen, is that the game waits an X amount of time after you build the antenna to send the first few messages.

In this latest playthrough I started, I'm pretty sure I got Riley's message containing that information quite a lot later than 45 kTi, but then I delayed construction of the Antenna because I was busy setting up other infrastructure n stuff.

[The Undead Watcher]

Just like i said in my own thread about this: It's not really obvious that the antenna get's you gameplay tips. In pretty much all of these games, communications, especially in this game since you stumble upon the logs in the wreckages, don't really scream tips or warnings about future gameplay events.
I literally though this was just so you could view the messages and logs you came across on your journey again in a more convenient location.

[Cobretti]

I don't recall the message containing a specific Y coordinate however the message suggesting you build at altitude has been in the game for a long time which is why I never understood the complaints when peoples bases went underwater, game literally told you to build high.

[maestro]

Originally posted by Cobretti:

I don't recall the message containing a specific Y coordinate however the message suggesting you build at altitude has been in the game for a long time which is why I never understood the complaints when peoples bases went underwater, game literally told you to build high.

Again, if you're out exploring when you unlock the antenna or if you're like me on my first playthrough, being always almost out of power, and/or the other poster above who assumed the messages were just lore and fluff stuff, there's no guarantees the player built the antenna that early and thus received the messages.

And I've seen other threads where players don't like having to deconstruct everything they built (because they started building before they knew what was going to happen).

I mean, 45 kTi is well after you build your first few structures and get a base started, and relocating is annoying when you've only got a T2 or maybe T3 backpack.

[Percale]

Originally posted by Tirandys:

I started a new save, everything standard. Just wanted to say I received the warning from Riley about building at an altitude at 45 kti. Well before the water has started in the starter lake.

Not sure if this is a new change but you now have a warning about water well before the water starts rising. Only commenting because I have seen several posts about the warning coming too late.

Warning doesn't come too late to avoid getting wet - you can avoid that. It comes to late if you have built up a base before you have sat comms and now have to move it.

[Admiral Ikhlas Jr]

Try starting out without using the antenna, BUT, put up the email screen.
NO ANTENNA! See what happens and please, report back in this thread,
I bet you get a bit of a surprise. I was a bit stunned.
And if it's a known bug, I didn't know that.

[stretch]

Originally posted by Cobretti:

I don't recall the message containing a specific Y coordinate however the message suggesting you build at altitude has been in the game for a long time which is why I never understood the complaints when peoples bases went underwater, game literally told you to build high.

Right back when it first came out there wasn't any warning. Fairly sure most people got caught out back then and any warning either came far too late or was added as a result of everyone moaning back then.

[MAHAL]

wenn ihr ein haus bauen würdet am see dann direkt am ufer oder erhöht? burgen wurden selten in einer ebene gebaut gescheige denn in einer senke .

mahal