Saving the Sunbeam? (*SPOILERS*)

[nephilimnexus]

Can it be done? Can the player prevent the alien weapon from blowing up your rescue ship?

Short answer: NOPE!

Long answer: I noticed that whole situation with the Sunbeam isn't automatic. Rather it is a triggered event wherein the timer only starts after you've listened to a certain number of incoming radio messages. Once you've heard the third message from them it starts a half-hour timer and at the end of it the alien gun reveals itself and blows the ship apart in a scipted cinemactic.

So I went back and started the game over, only this time I made a point of never checking the radio. Instead I went through and completed the rest of the game first, inluding the Sea Emperor ending that leads to the curing of the plague which, in turn, allows the player to go into the alien gun building and cut the power entirely. No more quarentine, no more automatic blast thingy.

It was only after I had shut down the alien gun building that I went back and checked the radio in order to activate the Sunbeam coming to answer the mayday signal. So I sat on the beach for half an hour, smug in knowing that I had managed to avert a tragedy but also knowing that I wouldn't have to build that silly escape pod later. After all, the defense system was turned off so the Sunbeam could now land safely.

Hahahaha, oh who are we kidding, right? Of course the alien weapon just magically came back to life blew the Sunbeam into bits anyway. Even more impressive was that it managed to do this without even deploying it's gun. The completely inert base without so much as light bulb left running still managed to fire a death ray out of the thin air where the gun would have been had it actually, y'know, deployed.

I guess next time I'll just have to cure the plague, build the escape rocket and then contact the Sunbeam after I've left the planet? Who knows? I still find the whole thing amusing, yet kind of sad. Kind of afraid to try to build the the rocket now, though. Who's to say that thing won't magically power itself up again just to shoot me down?

[The Archangel Zarael]

Lol...That's probably the only thing that bothered me about that game in general....How can the gun COME BACK ONLINE MAGICALLY

[Reanu Keeves]

Multiple treads,same complaint, same answers. Devs have said they are working on a save the sunbeam event. They just had a deadline and didn't get it into 1.0 in time. Let them work on some more stuff. 1.0 just came out. They are a small dev team. Cut them some slack.

[Hillbilly_Dave]

Yes, you can save the Sunbeam. At least, that's what I've been told. I've never done it myself. They won't land and rescue you but you can save them. If you don't listen to any radio messages until after you get cured and shut down the gun, when the Sunbeam does come they will just say they can't land because of reasons and will leave. You saved them.

[Reanu Keeves]

Originally posted by Hillbilly_Dave:

Yes, you can save the Sunbeam. At least, that's what I've been told. I've never done it myself. They won't land and rescue you but you can save them. If you don't listen to any radio messages until after you get cured and shut down the gun, when the Sunbeam does come they will just say they can't land because of reasons and will leave. You saved them.

Not implimented yet. That's the event they are workign on, most likely.

[Barsik_The_CaT]

Can't you do it if you super rush the game? The only thing that seemed to stop you from using the magic gun control console is being infected, so if you manage to find a cure before the Sumbeam arrives...

[Reanu Keeves]

It. Is. Not. In. Game. Yet. You. Can. Not. Do. It.

[TheTool]

I just did it.
Started new game.
Consoled the rocket base in.
Consoled the mats in to make rocket.
Consoled the ability to take off without disabling the gun.
Took less than 10 min.
Aurora never even blew.
So , yea there's one way to do it.

[Reanu Keeves]

The fact that you consoled everything doesn't count even in the slightest for this discussion, though. >_>

[Hillbilly_Dave]

Breaking the game doesn't count lol.

[pazartesi_gorusuruz]

Why is there a million threads on the same topic? Is the search function broken? I don't even have the game yet and I know this by heart by now. *THE CURE CAN BE OBTAINED BEFORE CHECKING/REPAIRING THE RADIO AND THUS THE GUN MAY BE DISABLED BEFORE SUNBEAM SHIP COMES BUT NEVERTHELESS BECAUSE IT IS SCRIPTED, THE SHIP WILL STILL GO DOWN*

And yes the developers are supposedly working on an alternate early ending incase you cure yourself before triggering Sunbeam plot. I had about enough of this ♥♥♥♥

[nephilimnexus]

Originally posted by Hillbilly_Dave:

Yes, you can save the Sunbeam. At least, that's what I've been told. I've never done it myself. They won't land and rescue you but you can save them. If you don't listen to any radio messages until after you get cured and shut down the gun, when the Sunbeam does come they will just say they can't land because of reasons and will leave. You saved them.

I look forward to seeing this implemented.

[Takk]

I can see the confusion, though. On the Subnautica Wiki it says you can save the Sunbeam by disabling the weapon. In that case, the Sunbeam still won't be able to get to you due to all the debris left behind from the Aurora, floating in the atmossphere. I've also seen videos of that and heard the audio log. Here is the transcript:

"Aurora survivors, this is trading ship Sunbeam. We've tracked your distress signal, but your ship's left a giant debris field up in orbit, we can't attempt a landing. We're gonna have to head home. We'll send our data to Alterra as soon as we can. Hold on in there. Sunbeam, out."

So yeah, you used to be able to save them but somehow, now you can't anymore?

[YamiSphinx]

Originally posted by pazartesi_gorusuruz:

Why is there a million threads on the same topic? Is the search function broken? I don't even have the game yet and I know this by heart by now. *THE CURE CAN BE OBTAINED BEFORE CHECKING/REPAIRING THE RADIO AND THUS THE GUN MAY BE DISABLED BEFORE SUNBEAM SHIP COMES BUT NEVERTHELESS BECAUSE IT IS SCRIPTED, THE SHIP WILL STILL GO DOWN*

And yes the developers are supposedly working on an alternate early ending incase you cure yourself before triggering Sunbeam plot. I had about enough of this ♥♥♥♥

I mean you could just stop searching for it. XD

[General Idea]

Originally posted by YamiSphinx:

Originally posted by pazartesi_gorusuruz:

Why is there a million threads on the same topic? Is the search function broken? I don't even have the game yet and I know this by heart by now. *THE CURE CAN BE OBTAINED BEFORE CHECKING/REPAIRING THE RADIO AND THUS THE GUN MAY BE DISABLED BEFORE SUNBEAM SHIP COMES BUT NEVERTHELESS BECAUSE IT IS SCRIPTED, THE SHIP WILL STILL GO DOWN*

And yes the developers are supposedly working on an alternate early ending incase you cure yourself before triggering Sunbeam plot. I had about enough of this ♥♥♥♥

I mean you could just stop searching for it. XD

Why have you resurrected this old post?

[pazartesi_gorusuruz]

Originally posted by General Idea:

Originally posted by YamiSphinx:

I mean you could just stop searching for it. XD

Why have you resurrected this old post?

Cause he is the level 80 necromancer