what would change in the game if you could stop the aurora explosion?

[Spartan-737]

so im just curious how you think the gameplay would change if you could race to the aurora an avert the drive core going B O O M personally i think the only change would be a happy ending for Ryley because the auroras insurance papers arent destroyed meaning hes not in turbo debt

[admiral1018]

In-game, probably nothing. The only things that change when Aurora explodes are that the ship opens to exploration and the radiation zone slowly expands (it exists before the explosion too).

You can actually clip through the Aurora hull using one of its soft spots and repair the drive engine before it explodes, but this doesn't seem to do anything. The explosion is scripted, and the radiation will still be there afterwards.

[HuskyDynamics]

In theory, if the Aurora didn't explode you might end up getting locked out of some things if there were no alternative route to accessing the interior. The PRAWN bay, for instance, is the only location in the game that has enough PRAWN fragments to fully unlock the suit blueprints, but if it's still sealed deep in the Aurora you might not be able to get to it,

[Spartan-737]

Originally posted by HuskyDynamics:

In theory, if the Aurora didn't explode you might end up getting locked out of some things if there were no alternative route to accessing the interior. The PRAWN bay, for instance, is the only location in the game that has enough PRAWN fragments to fully unlock the suit blueprints, but if it's still sealed deep in the Aurora you might not be able to get to it,

in mind you could probably laser cutter your way in

[dreamrider]

Originally posted by Spartan-737:

Originally posted by HuskyDynamics:

In theory, if the Aurora didn't explode you might end up getting locked out of some things if there were no alternative route to accessing the interior. The PRAWN bay, for instance, is the only location in the game that has enough PRAWN fragments to fully unlock the suit blueprints, but if it's still sealed deep in the Aurora you might not be able to get to it,

in mind you could probably laser cutter your way in

Game mechanics wise, there would have to be provision made for an exterior, space hull cut point. That does not exist in the current version. So, unless other changes were made, toggling off the Aurora Explosion would cut off the PRAWN Bay, and make completing the PRAWN impossible.
You would also never be able to get the Neptune blueprints and leave the planet.

But I think that I would be able to live without he flashlight from the pipe corridor. I've never been able to find it anyway.

[admiral1018]

Originally posted by dreamrider:

But I think that I would be able to live without he flashlight from the pipe corridor. I've never been able to find it anyway.

Haha, it's in the water in the main Prawn bay, before you even need to ever the pipe corridor.
Doesn't include a battery though. There's also an extra fire extinguisher down there, which is actually useful.

[Justice]

Not entirely true, there is gameplay mechanics by preventing explosion. For starters radiation around Aurora will gradiualy fade. Several days after fixing reactor radiation will completely gone.
Which mean you wont need radiation suit anywhere

Edit: oh you meant Aurora spaceship explosion, not reactor? Well pretty much the same thing with no radiation spread to begin with, but no access to Aurora either

[Spartan-737]

to be clear im not asking how the game play would change if the aurora just flat out didnt explode and thats it im asking how you would model an alternative aurora section if it didnt explode

[admiral1018]

In that case, we know from the PDA that these sections would exist:
- Accommodation for 150 people
- Multiple canteens serving healthy fresh and rehydrated food
- Leisure facilities including VR suite and virtual cinema

We see accommodations for maybe 20 people in the game now, and I assume it's part of the engineering crew from the odd placement right behind the Prawn bay. The other barracks, bars, leisure facilities, and bridge were likely all in the section of the bow that blew up and from which we enter.

Keep in mind that most of the Aurora (0.25 cubic km) is just storage space for the phasegates, so this is most of the stern portion of the ship -- likely the same area that's empty now if you clip into the ship's interior. This is the reason the Aurora is so massive with a crew of only ~150.

[Sputnik]

Actually

You can gain access to the rest of the interior of the Aurora (I won't say easily). You have to build a leaning tower up one side until you can drop onto it's shell. Then you immediately clip though and fall through the ship which is largely a big empty egg.

I won't say it's worth your while either.

[admiral1018]

Originally posted by Sputnik:

Actually

You can gain access to the rest of the interior of the Aurora (I won't say easily). You have to build a leaning tower up one side until you can drop onto it's shell. Then you immediately clip though and fall through the ship which is largely a big empty egg.

I won't say it's worth your while either.

You can get inside without needing to build also. Here's a video showing one of the "soft spots" where you can pass through the hull. This video shows the ship after the explosion, but there are soft spots like this before as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31VXMFvSh7g

[Sputnik]

Cool bananas

[DrLamp]

There used to be a hole in the underbelly of the craft. That was how you got into it. Later they changed that. So that would be my answer, you would squeeze in through a small hull breach which we know there were plenty of before the big boom. The big explosion just blew the front of the ship off.