What do you do after the sunbeam get blown up?

[Dadphaestus]

I’m stuck and have no prior knowledge of the game and for some reason fully expected to the get out and then have the choice to survive or something. I’ve repaired the aurora and have the first vehicle, along with a moon pool but what’s next?

[saranacX]

Basically mind your radio and PDAs, try to go deeper, and keep your eyes peeled for wrecks for scannable tech.

[pmcollectorboy]

You should've also gotten the entirety of the prawn suit body if you finished the Aurora.
Also some transmissions of lifepods come through incomplete. They'll be in your clues section and you'll need to indirectly find them.

[Amanoob105]

Go deeper. If for any reason you can't go deeper, look in the places you can get to for anything that can help with that. A very large part of the game is about exploring, so pick a direction and see what's out there.
(Then run screaming from what you find out there .)

Scan EVERYTHING (yes, all caps EVERYTHING)!!!! And then click on everything else.
You don't have to read all of it, the game even has a "codes and clues" section of the PDA for this, but there is useful info mixed into the lore it gives you.

If the radio points you at something, don't just explore that one little spot. The radio won't last forever, it's just a training wheel to help get you out into the world.
Sooner or later, the wheel will come off. But at least it leaves you with some free beacons to help find your way about.

Other than that? Do what you want. Some look for the next piece of the story, others try to poke their noses into any place they can find and people like me get carried away with the base building.
....Very carried away.....

[miklkit]

You are done with the training parts now. No more training wheels so sink or swim, the choice is yours.

You might want to build a comfortable home, which requires exploring to find materials.

[Suzaku]

Put simply, you need to go deeper. If you can't, then you need to search for blueprints that let you go deeper.

When you needed to go further, the seaglide was nearby. When you wanted to explore to 200m, you found the seamoth above that. Now you must find your next vehicle/depth module to grant you access to greater depths.

The tool to reach deeper is within your reach; you just need to find it.

[Pembroke]

If you're past the Sunbeam episode then you presumably have also explored the enforcement platform? If you got all the data downloads there you should now have in your Codes&Clues hints about the locations of other places you want to find and explore.

Also, keep listening your radio. You'll still get new messages and new points-of-interest offering more clues. After the last radio message and/or the last PDA location marker, however, you'll be on your own and have then to piece the rest of the story together by yourself. The clues *are* there, so keep exploring.

And as others have already said: When in doubt go deeper.

Also, start taking note of "oddities". Like, ever wondered why some particular places seem to be infested by Warpers...

[alienstookmybeer]

Originally posted by Pembroke:

If you're past the Sunbeam episode then you presumably have also explored the enforcement platform?

This is the best answer. After you've fully explored the island facility you should understand why the Sunbeam was destroyed and have some clues where to head next.

[Cougarific]

^Only if you take the time to read your PDA - which the game never *forces* you to do up until that point.

Lots of players get stuck here because they're not in the habit of actually reading the stuff their PDA is storing as Data Downloads.

[Heavenly Vanilla]

Everyone saying to go deeper, read the PDAs, and check the radio are right. The best thing you can do is to keep exploring and keep looking for more equipment. As long as you keep going, new points of interest will keep coming.

[Dante Ironclaw]

Give up, rescue aint coming for you, just find a nice place to live out your days..

Or you know, just do what an advanced alien species couldn't do, fix the planet and escape by yourself

[miklkit]

Originally posted by Cougarific:

^Only if you take the time to read your PDA - which the game never *forces* you to do up until that point.

Lots of players get stuck here because they're not in the habit of actually reading the stuff their PDA is storing as Data Downloads.

Ha! Real men don't never read no instructions!

[darkdisciple1313]

Originally posted by miklkit:

Originally posted by Cougarific:

^Only if you take the time to read your PDA - which the game never *forces* you to do up until that point.

Lots of players get stuck here because they're not in the habit of actually reading the stuff their PDA is storing as Data Downloads.

Ha! Real men don't never read no instructions!

Which is probably why the next game in this series features a female avatar. At least she'll read the directions. :P

Seriously, what is with folks not reading things? That's half the reason I play games like this, not just to figure out what's going on, but to experience the lore that's there. Helpful hints are also a plus. Then again, I once tried to put together an IKEA shelving unit without the directions and actually got it built in less than two hours, so instructions are not always all that.

[Cougarific]

Originally posted by darkdisciple1313:

That's half the reason I play games like this, not just to figure out what's going on, but to experience the lore that's there.

Especially with a smart, super-talented lead writer like Tom Jubert.

For new players, if you're not already aware you do not lose Food or Water while seated, so build a chair or bench in your base, sit down and do some reading!

[pmcollectorboy]

Originally posted by Cougarific:

Originally posted by darkdisciple1313:

That's half the reason I play games like this, not just to figure out what's going on, but to experience the lore that's there.

Especially with a smart, super-talented lead writer like Tom Jubert.

For new players, if you're not already aware you do not lose Food or Water while seated, so build a chair or bench in your base, sit down and do some reading!

Yeah and you even have the magical power of passing the time in a bed and waking up not needing to piss. :D

[Trent]

I ran into the same problem with the PDA messages. I would forget about them because something terrible was closing in on me when they first popped up.

The new game needs a secondary notification that pops up once the player is in relative safety.