how many different abandoned factories are there?

[Carlos Spicywiener]

One thing I liked and was hoping BGS would continue is exploration.
so far I have found the pharm, robot factory, dogstar, biotic, science outpost and maybe a couple more I cant think of. Is that it? Other than the 4 main side quests and the main quest, Is that for locations? I remember fallout 4 having like a dozen different high schools. There may be 1000 places to explore but who in their right mind is going to explore 100's of empty rocks with the same 10 locations? This game is a lot smaller than was let on. A lot smaller

[Zalzany]

As many as you want you can take quests and it will spawn in more for you to do quests at. The days of doing the dungeon resting for days and doing it again for exp and loot is over...

[Carlos Spicywiener]

Originally posted by Zalzany:

As many as you want you can take quests and it will spawn in more for you to do quests at. The days of doing the dungeon resting for days and doing it again for exp and loot is over...

No there isnt as many as you want. They are the exact same 8 or 10 locations. EXACTLY the same. They aren't even that big and there is barely any story to them. In fallout 4 there was always something new to find. This game is tiny in comparison. I mean I am at a point in the game where I am tasked with going to a pointed location, find the anomaly structure and go in a door and touch some pretty little lights. Now do it Like 15 more times. The exact same thing. I spent 20- or 30 hours trying to find interesting places to explore but all I get is the same 10 or so places. What a disappointment.

[Tiasmoon]

Originally posted by Carlos Spicywiener:

Is that it? Other than the 4 main side quests and the main quest, Is that for locations?

No. There's other settlements like Paradiso.

[Carlos Spicywiener]

Originally posted by Tiasmoon:

Originally posted by Carlos Spicywiener:

Is that it? Other than the 4 main side quests and the main quest, Is that for locations?

No. There's other settlements like Paradiso.

Sorry. I meant actual locations to explore, loot, have shootouts ect not places to buy and sell goods and find fetch quests. This was supposed to be a huge game but honestly, outside the main quests and a couple of sidequests, there is little else. Compared to Elder Scrolls and Fallout, there is little in the way of stories to find and mysteries to solve. IN either of those games you just had to turn a corner to find something new. That was the magic. Maybe it'll mature in the future

[Placenta Salad]

There's a mod on Nexus Mods that will show every location on the planet as you scan it from orbit that I used once out of curiosity, and there's dozens of different landmarks that you can travel to. It's mostly abandoned areas and each time you explore the interior of an abandoned building, it's overrun with some sort of faction like the Crimson Fleet and the design is exactly the same.

It's like the universe only has one architect and interior designer. Once you've explored the abandoned robot factory, the abandoned outpost, the abandoned starstation, abandoned mine, etc., you don't really need to do it again anywhere else because it's exactly the same thing with the exact same rewards unless you've accepted a specific quest for some extra XP or something. Getting to the elite space pirate within each area in hopes that they'll drop a really good weapon isn't worth the time.

The outposts which aren't abandoned and that still have civilians are cool sometimes but it does start to look rather similar after awhile and most of them are full of generic NPCs who do not offer much, not even trading opportunity.

I sometimes 100% survey the planets but only by ignoring all of the distant landmarks and just focusing on collecting resources, collecting the flora, and killing the fauna. Some of those creatures give some decent XP and completing the whole survey list gives bonus XP. But slowly running from place to place? No, it's pointless after the first few planets you land on.