The battery charger was a hard wall for me.

[Zorlac]

Meaning I was at a point where everything I had was low on batteries, and I was low on copper. I finally found the parts for my battery charger, and now I feel so much more free in the game. Anything I was worried about before, I don't now because I can just switch out a battery and keep on going. I was 16 hours in before I found the second part for it.

I've been playing on Xbox for a while but really just started playing heavily when the official console release hit. Now if I could just find the third fragment for my mobile vehicle bay I'd really be in business. What was a wall for you guys when you were trying to progress? My first game actually spawned with no sulfur and I played 2 hours before I realized it was bugged.

[believor in Prawn]

hell yeah
i was so annoyed having to 24/7 trying to get more copper for batterys
and using my batterys to mine it with seaglides and flashlights to go into caves
battery charger is a prawnsend

also dont try to get the power cell charger because the moonpool charges what ever is inside so it can charge all vechiles

[scorpion22374]

Originally posted by Twitch.tv/zorlac666:

Meaning I was at a point where everything I had was low on batteries, and I was low on copper. I finally found the parts for my battery charger, and now I feel so much more free in the game. Anything I was worried about before, I don't now because I can just switch out a battery and keep on going. I was 16 hours in before I found the second part for it.

I've been playing on Xbox for a while but really just started playing heavily when the official console release hit. Now if I could just find the third fragment for my mobile vehicle bay I'd really be in business. What was a wall for you guys when you were trying to progress? My first game actually spawned with no sulfur and I played 2 hours before I realized it was bugged.

battery charger is an early game blueprint . look in wrecks not in crates. hint lifepod 17 is an early game treasure trove

[Amanoob105]

Way, way, (way, way, waywayway) waaayyyy back when I first started playing this game for the first time what for me was the bump that getting over openned up the world was finding all the cyclops parts.
Learning to drive it took a little time (followed by a lot more time relearning it after they added in it being able to take damage ) but once I did the world just became so much more open to being explored.

If you're looking for MVB parts, try the boxes in and around the many kelp forests. Their normally good places to find them. Normally.

[scorpion22374]

Originally posted by Amanoob105:

Way, way, (way, way, waywayway) waaayyyy back when I first started playing this game for the first time what for me was the bump that getting over openned up the world was finding all the cyclops parts.
Learning to drive it took a little time (followed by a lot more time relearning it after they added in it being able to take damage ) but once I did the world just became so much more open to being explored.

If you're looking for MVB parts, try the boxes in and around the many kelp forests. Their normally good places to find them. Normally.

[Shadow Draxis]

Wait till you get the cyclops. You're gonna want the power cell charger for sure since you can't dock it.

[Zorlac]

Originally posted by scorpion22374:

Originally posted by Twitch.tv/zorlac666:

Meaning I was at a point where everything I had was low on batteries, and I was low on copper. I finally found the parts for my battery charger, and now I feel so much more free in the game. Anything I was worried about before, I don't now because I can just switch out a battery and keep on going. I was 16 hours in before I found the second part for it.

I've been playing on Xbox for a while but really just started playing heavily when the official console release hit. Now if I could just find the third fragment for my mobile vehicle bay I'd really be in business. What was a wall for you guys when you were trying to progress? My first game actually spawned with no sulfur and I played 2 hours before I realized it was bugged.

battery charger is an early game blueprint . look in wrecks not in crates. hint lifepod 17 is an early game treasure trove

Not gonna lie, I fond nothing around lifepod 17 and it's surrounding areas. So many people directed me to it for stuff and there was just nothing near it for me.

[GarbageCollector]

For me it was always finding everything. And I do mean, almost literally, everything.

Some stuff was clued in nicely. Found the first Degassi island as I was supposed to, found all the lifepods without much issue, found the jellyshroom cave no problem. Pretty much everything else was a real drag. I had to to go the Aurora three times before I found the entrance to the interior. I was looking "southwest" of the enforcement platform for ages. Didn't see the opening to the disease facility until I went back a second time because google confirmed that yes, that big building really was it. Even after googling it took me several hours to find the thermal plant entrance too. I actually like how the game doesn't hold your hand 100% of the way and lets you figure stuff out, but a few of those times it was just like... can't you leave some sort of trail at all? I'm pretty sure I never would have found the thermal plant or the Aurora entrance without googling to confirm they really were just right under my nose.

Edit to sound like less of a whiner: There's a good chance I'm just dumb and blind.

For the technology progress, for me the big thing was magnetite. I had a lot waiting on that one. Once I found it I was rockin'

[s0laris]

My very first playthrough it took me ages to find the second moonpool fragment and the last piece of cyclops engine.

You can live without battery charger without wasting copper, you can just take out the battery and create another scanner with it and it will be fully charged. Costs you one titanium only and thats in abundance. Alternatively, if you racked up a lot of sulphur, you can create repair tools, it requires no battery. Just keep a couple sulphur for the cutter and the cyclops fire extinguisher if you want to build it.

[NashEquil]

Originally posted by s0laris:

My very first playthrough it took me ages to find the second moonpool fragment and the last piece of cyclops engine.

You can live without battery charger without wasting copper, you can just take out the battery and create another scanner with it and it will be fully charged. Costs you one titanium only and thats in abundance. Alternatively, if you racked up a lot of sulphur, you can create repair tools, it requires no battery. Just keep a couple sulphur for the cutter and the cyclops fire extinguisher if you want to build it.

Awesome advice! Nice find!

[believor in Prawn]

Originally posted by Shadow Draxis:

Wait till you get the REDACTED . You're gonna want the REDACTED for sure since REDACTED

[ppppppppppp]

There is an easy work around with the batteries shortage, when you batteries are dead, simply take them out of whatever piece of equipment needs new batteries take 1 piece of Titanium and go to your fabricator, make a scanner (1 battery 1 titanium) and it will use the dead battery, then empty the new scanner of its fully charged battery and place in your old device, this way it costs just 5 power and 1 titanium to fully recharge a battery and there is zero downtime waiting for the battery to recharge. Important to note that the fabricator will usually use a fully charged battery over a dead battery, so when making new scanners make sure all your good batteries are stored in a locker or something.

I would advise making a trashcan to throw all your old useless scanners away after removing their batteries.

[scorpion22374]

Originally posted by Twitch.tv/zorlac666:

Originally posted by scorpion22374:

battery charger is an early game blueprint . look in wrecks not in crates. hint lifepod 17 is an early game treasure trove

Not gonna lie, I fond nothing around lifepod 17 and it's surrounding areas. So many people directed me to it for stuff and there was just nothing near it for me.

3 wrecks in that area always have the battery charger bp

[darkdisciple1313]

You'd think that a company that has technology advanced enough to send a ship to the far side of the galaxy would have no need for additional electrical power for whatever devices are being utilized, but no...this many years in the future and we still have to rely on the Energizer Bunny to power our verdammt flashlights.

I only mention that because the first few hours I played this, I didn't pay attention to that fact, and couldn't figure out why my flashlight went *piff*. I had one of those forehead-slap moments then, and said something similar to the previous paragraph.

Still, I agree that finding that one piece of tech that helps things along can make or break a game like this. Things get much easier when you don't have to find a 7/11 to buy a twelve pack of D batteries, or whatever the futuristic equivalent might be.

[ppppppppppp]

I personally don't mind the use of batteries, sure it might seem unrealistic to think that there might be something more productive than batteries, but lets be honest here, even if such a thing did exist, would a company willingly give up something that makes money? I don't think so.

Aside from that it gives variety to the game, and you DO discover better power sources as you go along, such as Ion batteries and cells.

[Zorlac]

Originally posted by scorpion22374:

Originally posted by Twitch.tv/zorlac666:

Not gonna lie, I fond nothing around lifepod 17 and it's surrounding areas. So many people directed me to it for stuff and there was just nothing near it for me.

3 wrecks in that area always have the battery charger bp

Not in my game man. I promise you, I explored them thoroughly.