time limit?

[twiggy]

i was exploring the waters outside the aurora and i got a message saying that i only have 24 hours before radiation from the aurora will mess up the wildlife.
does this mean that i have to find some way to fix the ship before i essentially get game over or make things more difficult?

[Suzaku]

No, there is no real time limits that affect the game. There's only 1 timer that will show up on screen, and you can decide to be there or not for it (though I do recommend being there for it).

[rdbury]

The time limit is a bit unfair since it's very easy to get it before you're anywhere near ready to explore the Aurora. There is a particular piece of equipment you'll need to get very far, and it may take longer than 24 hrs to find the blueprint, gather materials and finally fabricate the thing. The time limit only affects whether you get an achievement for doing something you're going to do anyway. So if you don't care about achievements then just ignore the time limit part of the warning. You shouldn't ignore the warning though, since you'll still be better off fixing the radiation at some point; it's just not as urgent as the 24 hrs limit implies.

[dreamrider]

To clarify:
The script reference to the "24-hour time limit" on fixing the radiation leak(s) aboard the wrecked Aurora is NOT the one "timer" that Suzaku was referring to above.

(That countdown timer comes later and is very obvious.)

The radiation time limit is pure color commentary. It is drama. Nothing extra will die. Nothing will be affected if that time limit goes past.

By the time that you hear that warning, it is ALREADY necessary to wear the Radiation Dive Suit in order to work in/around the Aurora.

AND, in fact, you CANNOT jump the gun and get INTO the Aurora to pre-emptively fix the leak(s), before the Aurora explosion blows the nose off an opens her up.

[twiggy]

Originally posted by dreamrider:

To clarify:
The script reference to the "24-hour time limit" on fixing the radiation leak(s) aboard the wrecked Aurora is NOT the one "timer" that Suzaku was referring to above.

(That countdown timer comes later and is very obvious.)

The radiation time limit is pure color commentary. It is drama. Nothing extra will die. Nothing will be affected if that time limit goes past.

By the time that you hear that warning, it is ALREADY necessary to wear the Radiation Dive Suit in order to work in/around the Aurora.

AND, in fact, you CANNOT jump the gun and get INTO the Aurora to pre-emptively fix the leak(s), before the Aurora explosion blows the nose off an opens her up.

i thought maybe the radiation area around the aurora would grow larger the longer you went without fixing the leak

[rdbury]

Originally posted by twiggy:

i thought maybe the radiation area around the aurora would grow larger the longer you went without fixing the leak

Actually it would be kind of cool if the game did that. But afaik no. It shouldn't be too much a spoiler to say that the radiation suit is not the last suit you get in the game. But in order to wear the really good suits you have to take off the radiation suit, and if you do that before fixing the radiation there is a large area of the game you can't go into without getting radiation poisoning. Now that I think about it, I don't know if you actually HAVE to fix the radiation at all. Your QOL will improve if you do, but that doesn't mean that you have to in order to finish the game. Maybe there's something scripted into the endgame that prevents you from finishing the game until the radiation is fixed, or maybe not.

[dreamrider]

Originally posted by twiggy:

Originally posted by dreamrider:

To clarify:
The script reference to the "24-hour time limit" on fixing the radiation leak(s) aboard the wrecked Aurora is NOT the one "timer" that Suzaku was referring to above.

(That countdown timer comes later and is very obvious.)

The radiation time limit is pure color commentary. It is drama. Nothing extra will die. Nothing will be affected if that time limit goes past.

By the time that you hear that warning, it is ALREADY necessary to wear the Radiation Dive Suit in order to work in/around the Aurora.

AND, in fact, you CANNOT jump the gun and get INTO the Aurora to pre-emptively fix the leak(s), before the Aurora explosion blows the nose off an opens her up.

i thought maybe the radiation area around the aurora would grow larger the longer you went without fixing the leak

To a final limit only, and it reaches that limit in, I think, about 1 day. An experienced player can just about get there and fix it / them before it reaches the outer limit. ... But it doesn't change anything, except it allows you to take off the Rad Suit without taking any radiation damage. The other stuff that you find and do while you are there in the Aurora are actually more important.

The final irradiated damage limit is roughly a 950m radius from the ship's drive room, which takes in all of the western Crash Zone, a bit of a slice of the NE Mushroom Forest, and some Bulb Zone, a good big hunk of the eastern Crash Zone (you don't really wanna go there at this time, anyway), the "skidmark" Crash Zone Trench behind the Aurora (you MAY wanna go there, but be g*****n carefull), and just the eastern downslope of the Safe Shallows, plus the band of the Grassy Plains between there and the Crash Zone.

(There IS actually a reason(s) to decide to NOT go to the Aurora real early, but it is a bit of veteran, "I know things about the game mechanics" play decision. You probably don't want to know the spoilers, or the play style change involved, for your 1st playthrough.)

[LosttSnekk]

There is no time limit. There is no time limit for the virus as well. It will only trigger if you go to the enforcement area or cross paths with warpers/blood kelp zones. Your stage two will turn on when you reach an alien facility down in the lost river. I have 24 hours on one world and I am on stage one still. I went down to the area to see what would happen and once I got there it forced me to stage two.