I do not like how crafting works: I absolutely hate the suit printer.

[Wig Bang]

It is so annoying to keep track of what gets crafted where.

I just scanned a medical station in the infected greenhouse. Then I researched it at the research station on my ship.

Now I've spent multiple minutes paging through my suit printer and the device fabricator and cannot find it.

So.. I get that the suit printer is meant to make the game annoying. I understand that. Games have to intentionally be annoying nowadays. That's a design heuristic and I respect that developers are required to do it or they aren't able to be listed on platforms like Steam.

But now that they've had their fun wasting my time, what hoop do I need to jump through to craft the medical station?

Also, please don't tell me to look in the database.

That's a fanboi fallback. It's a cope. It's called coping when you defend something that's indefensible.

The database is badly designed and an absolute chore to page through. The UI of it is bad. The layout of it is bad. And I'm not about sitting there and reading endless pages of stuff to find small details.

If I wanted to do that I'd be playing Myst/Riven and other games like that. Games which I beat and enjoyed via hours of careful reading and analysis of the world's lore. (just heading off another likely cope to be thrown at me by fanboiz)

[Philtre]

The medical station should be in the Upgrade Station.

The suit printer is meant to allow you to make certain items before you get the Fabricator / when you are away from the ship. It would be nice if the recipes for the basic resources were also in the fabricator, but I suspect that would confuse some people as well.

I suppose the in-game database could be a bit more user-friendly (although I think it's adequate as it is now), but I don't understand your objection to using a database in general, unless you want all games to just be so simple that you never need specific information about the items and equipment it has. Which I would not support.

[Wig Bang]

Originally posted by Philtre:

The medical station should be in the Upgrade Station.

The suit printer is meant to allow you to make certain items before you get the Fabricator / when you are away from the ship. It would be nice if the recipes for the basic resources were also in the fabricator, but I suspect that would confuse some people as well.

I suppose the in-game database could be a bit more user-friendly (although I think it's adequate as it is now), but I don't understand your objection to using a database in general, unless you want all games to just be so simple that you never need specific information about the items and equipment it has. Which I would not support.

Specific information doesn't require a cluttered convoluted unsearchable database that is organized by category instead of tag.

The way it is you have to look at a bunch of similar categories and guess which one the thing you're looking for might be in.

That's a full stop for me.

As it would be for any highly intelligent person.

[Midnight]

The suit printer would be fine if the items it prints were ALSO in the "normal" fabricator. That is were you spend the majority of your resources so it makes sense to have the suit printer items there as well