Rescue Hope 2 crew from pod should be rebalanced.

[Keeper Of Insanity]

Quest gives you only 14 days and my rover was at opposite side of quest location and night has come out when I get this quest.

My suggestion is to remove day counter or lock moon phase to day during this quest.

Sadly, it ruined my entire playthrough.

[Taurec]

I had the same problem. I then sold a lot of resources on the market in a flash to buy a second lorry.
In the end, the mission still failed because I wasn't able to produce the required parts quickly enough. Why is the parts factory so horribly slow?

Unfortunately, I didn't have enough money to buy the parts. I would have had to sell more things, but loading the capsule would have taken too long again. -.-

Very unsatisfactory!

[nima]

new game and then hold your rover near your base ... where is the problem

[JeanDeaux]

I keep running out of parts to even finish building all the equipment required for the housing, I can't find any more parts on map and I can't build any because the facility to make them requires humans... "grief".

[Schobbob]

also lost the crew, honestly wouldn't mind if they got rid of all timers in game, don't like to rush things in this kind of game

[Alukat]

Well, it gets triggered when the time for building the room ends and you've even been told that it's gonna happen... so you get plenty of heads up to return the rover to the base before the pod crashes.

The timer is just fine.

Btw, you can send both the cargo truck and the rover to the crash site to save some time on the rescue op.

[Keeper Of Insanity]

Originally posted by Alukat:

Well, it gets triggered when the time for building the room ends and you've even been told that it's gonna happen... so you get plenty of heads up to return the rover to the base before the pod crashes.

The timer is just fine.

Btw, you can send both the cargo truck and the rover to the crash site to save some time on the rescue op.

But we were never told that we had to rescue crew members.

I thought they would land near my base at the landing pod.

[Razguul]

This quest is ridiculous.

[Nahaz]

I can't even find the crew when I search for them. I have both vehicles at the zone. I have initiated a scan 100 times and still nothing. I eventually get the message that the crew is probably dead because I took too long to find them.

The quest is silly and needs to be easier to understand or have a step by step on what I need to do, Right now I have restarted the game 3 times and I am getting sick of having the same issue.

[Alukat]

Originally posted by Nahaz:

I have initiated a scan 100 times and still nothing.

in the same spot? that does nothing.
You need to drive a round a bit untill you get a ping and the, imo way too small, dot appears.

first attempt of the quest failed for me because i didn't pay attention to the explainations.
out of the next 8 attempts 6 have been successful
one failed due to bug, where the location just could not be found.
one failed due to bug, location found but the game didn't put any crew or ressources into the event for being picked up.

having a savegame before the crashing cutscene is helpful, if there's a bug reload and then it may work properly.

[BernyJay]

Lol i ran out of battery litterally right beside the pod :( OH well i guess

[Nahaz]

Originally posted by Alukat:

Originally posted by Nahaz:

I have initiated a scan 100 times and still nothing.

in the same spot? that does nothing.
You need to drive a round a bit untill you get a ping and the, imo way too small, dot appears.

first attempt of the quest failed for me because i didn't pay attention to the explainations.
out of the next 8 attempts 6 have been successful
one failed due to bug, where the location just could not be found.
one failed due to bug, location found but the game didn't put any crew or ressources into the event for being picked up.

Okay, I figured it out with a little bit of help. Instructions were not that clear but after someone wrote down what to look for I got it down now.

First, When you do a scan you will see the sonar ring and in one part of the radius you will see "Noise Spikes" on the scan. When you move closer in that direction and scan again you should get a blip sound and small dot. If you don't, then repeat the step. When you get a dot, click on it and move your vehicle over it. The dot will change into the lost pod where you can investigate and now send out a rescue vehicle using the expedition option.

Maybe I missed the animated tutorial on this procedure, or maybe it doesn't exist, but it should be explained similar to this to make the quest easier to comprehend.

Thanks for your input Alukat

[Gilgwath]

Originally posted by Keeper Of Insanity:

Quest gives you only 14 days and my rover was at opposite side of quest location and night has come out when I get this quest.

My suggestion is to remove day counter or lock moon phase to day during this quest.

Sadly, it ruined my entire playthrough.

I agree, it turned night right as the pod came down. Could never get there in time. The game encourages you to go out and find out whats out there and then you get slapped for doing it, because you were not thinking 20 steps a head when learning a new game and distracted with other about 7 other things.

[x-siffror - Tsume - Shadow]

Im one of the people who has the achivement from doing it. (Before the patch)
The only way i could cheese this, was.
I made a save a week before the crash cause i expected shenanigans.

After reloading. I repositioned my rover and cargo truck in the area. Then quickly relocated to where the second crash happens. At max speed, i returned to base with 1 days left of oxygen for the crew.
(It is very 'cutting it close' to say the least)

[lwbainbridge]

Originally posted by Razguul:

This quest is ridiculous.

Yes, I agree the quest is ridiculous. Too many steps. your staring resources are way too low. making salvage easier to acquire in the beginning would at least give a fighting chance if you carefully managed your resources, but it is way down the tech tree.

Considering the amount of research you need to do and the tight schedule you have to get everything researched to build anything and if you make one mistake in the order of research your screwed. The guidance in the mission is vague and they only tell you to research one thing at a time. Since you can parallel research you could research water and O2 production at the same time and you should probably research farming as well, but you wont know that. You definitely will have to fail several times until finally find the steps you need to research, but you will run into resource an power problems.

In my last run through the station crashed just as nightfall came, and cheapo CRUST doesn't equip their rovers with batteries so it does't run in the dark and I only have a timer of 22 days to find them and 14 days are spent in the dark so no way are you going to make it on time.

Not worth it too much frustration. I say Let'em Crash!

[VladK02]

This is a problem they need to patch, yes.

If the pod lands at night - mission fail.
If the rover is too far away exploring other locations - mission fail.
If you start game and random map generator gives you bad resource patches on start - you will likely fail too.