How do you get back to the garage?

[MamaBear]

I think I must be missing something obvious. Just now I completed the first mission, I gathered up the glowing yellow orbs and fed them into the passenger seat of my car but I could not figure out how to open the portal to return to the garage.

I tried driving to the two new yellow triangles on the map but by the time I got there, they turned red. So I gathered another yellow orb and fed it, same thing.

The yellow diamond indicator icon was still glowing in the passenger seat but I couldn't find an option on E the map, to click on to get to the gateway.

What the heck lol - My car then disappeared?!? and I had to abandon the mission.

[DeRunRay]

So you go to the little map in your car. And pin the yellow triangle you want to exit from, it should active and a large beam of light comes down there for you to drive into.

by Pin I meant make a waypoint. I think it even makes you confirm it.

[Illusia]

you'd click on the glowing yellow diamonds on the map to tell your arc device (passenger seat map) to open a portal. Then, you drive like hell to get to the big glowing beam in the sky so you don't get scrambled.
you can't open them if you're too close. the bar on the right side tells you how much energy you need to collect to be able to open a portal (i think red bar?)

[Chrius]

On the first map, after you get the yellow orbs 2 orange icons will appear on the arc map (every time I did that map, they were near the side of the map where the radio tower is).
If you hover over them, a circle will appear, you have to be outside this circle to activate them (just click them on the map). If you're too close to them they might show as an X.

After clicking them you have to run to the position of the icon you clicked, because the zone will become unstable, and you will die if you stay in the instability.

[MamaBear]

Thank you everyone. I think that is the problem I had. For whatever reason, that part of the quest did not work properly for me. I could see those two diamonds on the map, but pinning a marker to them, hovering over them, etc did nothing. No tool tip, nothing. Bummer. Must have been bugged.

[BooRito]

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[Speedkiller92]

how do you get back to the garage in a stable area can't just leave the map then click on your garage do you constantly go back and find the anchor and then teleport through the hole

[weirdee]

Originally posted by Speedkiller92:

how do you get back to the garage in a stable area can't just leave the map then click on your garage do you constantly go back and find the anchor and then teleport through the hole

You will always have to teleport back, because whenever you head out, you're diving into stable pockets that are isolated from everything else by the kill wall, which will cut you off from heading back physically after you enter them.

Incidentally, any node labeled with the "Dead End: Do Not Enter" modifier is literally such, and you will not even be able to teleport back in these zones as they have no accessible portal points back.

[Raptor85]

Originally posted by MamaBear:

Thank you everyone. I think that is the problem I had. For whatever reason, that part of the quest did not work properly for me. I could see those two diamonds on the map, but pinning a marker to them, hovering over them, etc did nothing. No tool tip, nothing. Bummer. Must have been bugged.

even if you're looking at the monitor be sure to actually "open" the monitor with "e" or you can't actually interact with the screen. you also don't want to pin a marker, if you're far enough from them with enough energy, and the screen is open, they become interact-able and you want to click them directly, not place a marker.

[Speedkiller92]

Originally posted by weirdee:

Originally posted by Speedkiller92:

how do you get back to the garage in a stable area can't just leave the map then click on your garage do you constantly go back and find the anchor and then teleport through the hole

You will always have to teleport back, because whenever you head out, you're diving into stable pockets that are isolated from everything else by the kill wall, which will cut you off from heading back physically after you enter them.

Incidentally, any node labeled with the "Dead End: Do Not Enter" modifier is literally such, and you will not even be able to teleport back in these zones as they have no accessible portal points back.

now I really don't know how I feel about this game because if you want to go resource hunting good luck and you'll have to travel far to find a portal

[Raptor85]

Originally posted by Speedkiller92:

now I really don't know how I feel about this game because if you want to go resource hunting good luck and you'll have to travel far to find a portal

Pretty much every zone has portals (and it warns you if it's a dead end), you can teleport back whenever you want. Once you get the flow you can basically just go straight to the section with the loot you want, load up, and head back, even midwall trips only take 10-20 minutes to get a nice full load of the later mats and if you plan your route well you'll be charged and ready to warp by the time you get there.