whose fault is swimming?

[Seedy]

I mean a short distance I can see, but why make a MS quest locked behind ~2400 units of swimming?!? That's like 30 minutes of my life I won't get back.
e.g. land on postage stamp, swim forever, dive down to collect one divergence cube (bonus attack by ugly worm eye thing), surface, swim forever in the opposite direction. :(

[Wizard of Woz]

What is a MS quest? And why don't you just build the sub you can use?
So basically I am saying it is your fault.

[Aurumworks]

Or unlock aquatic thrusters that allow your ship to land on water. They added those with the last update.

[AmberAnvil]

Or use the Nomad.

[Prescient Stones]

I love swimming. Of course in game life i'm jetpack buffed and have controller bindings for "interact" on the visor trigger, so I'm always in visor mode and swipe the loot IE pearls without trigging the clam, or Vents, Can stay underwater forever cause the Kelp Sac are free 02 and the interact button on visor trigger, means swim by and no pause.

Plus no sentinels, or pirate attacks, you Know to stay clear of Abysmal Horrors or how to poke them in the eye.. What's not to like?

irl, i'd drown.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

What is an MS quest? Why would you be looking for divergence cubes? The only underwater mission I can think of is Abyss. It is a PITA, but there are ways to make it go quicker. Swimming everywhere sounds harsh.

[DirtyMick]

MS= Main Story.

[bobhome2]

I’d always use the sub to scan, hop into my ship, fly over, and then summon my sub… never thought it was too bad, personally.

Could it be better? Absolutely. But no biggie.

[wkitty42]

Originally posted by Prescient Stones:

I love swimming. Of course in game life i'm jetpack buffed and have controller bindings for "interact" on the visor trigger, so I'm always in visor mode and swipe the loot IE pearls without trigging the clam, or Vents,

you can do that with the Humming Sacs in the caves, too... i didn't realize it was tied to being in 1st person mode but it makes sense since you can also grab the Salvage Data modules without digging in most cases... 3rd person has to dig, open the clams, and open the sacs...

[Ridcully]

Originally posted by Seedy:

I mean a short distance I can see, but why make a MS quest locked behind ~2400 units of swimming?!? That's like 30 minutes of my life I won't get back.
e.g. land on postage stamp, swim forever, dive down to collect one divergence cube (bonus attack by ugly worm eye thing), surface, swim forever in the opposite direction. :(

Man, RNG hit you really hard.
I've done that quest many time, and I've always been able to find a 'postage stamp' as you put it quite close to the building.
As for getting back, a handy tip is to use the terrain manipulator to build an island where you are, then summon your ship on to the island. Saves the tedious journey.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

If it was Abyss you are talking about, it was released back in 2018. At that time, the game did not have a lot of side content and I always felt like they made that mission needlessly long just to pad the limited content for that period. It does feel like way too much schlepping around for kind of a dumb story and a diver helmet.

Never quite figured out the whole diver helmet thing. It is completely plaid in a world of solids.

[Seedy]

Nah, this was just the part of the story quest where yo have to talk to each race's cartographer and "prove" you are "special" or whatever the rationale is.

After many years of just playing an old save to see the new features, I started a new save. Never was impressed by any of the vehicles, so I've only done a very few of the quests for guys in my base, only the first guy and science guy, so far. I was going to wait on any of that until after changing galaxy once.

[Seedy]

Originally posted by Ridcully:

Originally posted by Seedy:

I mean a short distance I can see, but why make a MS quest locked behind ~2400 units of swimming?!? That's like 30 minutes of my life I won't get back.
e.g. land on postage stamp, swim forever, dive down to collect one divergence cube (bonus attack by ugly worm eye thing), surface, swim forever in the opposite direction. :(

Man, RNG hit you really hard.
I've done that quest many time, and I've always been able to find a 'postage stamp' as you put it quite close to the building.
As for getting back, a handy tip is to use the terrain manipulator to build an island where you are, then summon your ship on to the island. Saves the tedious journey.

Yeah was trying to figure out how the new terrain manipulator stuff works when a storm rolled in... had to dive back in the ocean. The one I found at ~2400 was about half the distance the next closest one was. I flew around looking for a bit.

[UncreativelyNamed]

Originally posted by Seedy:

Nah, this was just the part of the story quest where yo have to talk to each race's cartographer and "prove" you are "special" or whatever the rationale is.

After many years of just playing an old save to see the new features, I started a new save. Never was impressed by any of the vehicles, so I've only done a very few of the quests for guys in my base, only the first guy and science guy, so far. I was going to wait on any of that until after changing galaxy once.

Weird. I've not played the Artemis quest very many times because I find it extremely boring, but when I've gotten to that little mission, the sunken base has always been just off the shore of a landmass. I don't use any exocraft, so I've just swum out to them and back.

Maybe they expanded the possible distance from shore because now you can buy tech to land your ship on water? I don't know. Weird.

[maestro]

Just fly your starship to the nearest island and land there. It's very rare to have a space of open water bigger than 500u on most planets.

Or, if you can, get the water jets, though that takes water materials so you're gonna be swimming one way or another.

[Calico-Jack]

Originally posted by Seedy:

I mean a short distance I can see, but why make a MS quest locked behind ~2400 units of swimming?!? That's like 30 minutes of my life I won't get back.
e.g. land on postage stamp, swim forever, dive down to collect one divergence cube (bonus attack by ugly worm eye thing), surface, swim forever in the opposite direction. :(

The game will drop hints like unlocking blueprints for tech you can use, if you're running more than one quest line ie Atlas and Artemis at the same time you may have missed it - hit ESC and look back through your log and/or the quest line the mission is on.

As others have pointed out - even vast expanses of water have tiny islands near quest points - if you arrive while a site is on the dark side of a planet you can use C to initiate a scan which illuminates the terrain contours briefly.