To the devs / Fuel Cells

[Rynastiv]

First of all, i want to congratulate you for making a very fun game and also a huge clap for releasing a finished product and not an early access, that to me is a huge W considering these days we keep getting EA products, overall i am having a blast.

I have almost 7 hours and so far i have 1 complaint, which is why im creating this thread.

Fuel cells need a huge adjustment, i am using the blue fuel cells at the moment and they are running out so fast, it's kinda annoying actually. I am using an SMG and 1 blue fuel cell got drained in less than 40 seconds.

Fuel cells need to have higher life spans or remove them from certain actions such as shooting guns. Also spawning my little scooter ( dont know the name ) it takes so much of my fuel cell, its literally 20%-25% for simply spawning my transportation ship.

Please and thank you!

[JohnDeW]

Originally posted by Rynastiv:

First of all, i want to congratulate you for making a very fun game and also a huge clap for releasing a finished product and not an early access, that to me is a huge W considering these days we keep getting EA products, overall i am having a blast.

I have almost 7 hours and so far i have 1 complaint, which is why im creating this thread.

Fuel cells need a huge adjustment, i am using the blue fuel cells at the moment and they are running out so fast, it's kinda annoying actually. I am using an SMG and 1 blue fuel cell got drained in less than 40 seconds.

Fuel cells need to have higher life spans or remove them from certain actions such as shooting guns. Also spawning my little scooter ( dont know the name ) it takes so much of my fuel cell, its literally 20%-25% for simply spawning my transportation ship.

Please and thank you!

lol nice, you killin it, already 7 hours into the game, and I agree 100%

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After 6 hours so far I agree, batteries across the board need to have a SUBSTANTIALLY lower drain rate. You are essentially relegated to carry a stack of clay and coal so that you can have your drone give you a free crafting station to craft batteries on the go. Either that or waste 4 or 5 slots of your backpack with batteries. If not a drain rate buff, at least let them stack so we can carry them and only cost 1 slot.

[Rynastiv]

Originally posted by M:

After 6 hours so far I agree, batteries across the board need to have a SUBSTANTIALLY lower drain rate. You are essentially relegated to carry a stack of clay and coal so that you can have your drone give you a free crafting station to craft batteries on the go.

Exactly right. This needs an ASAP adjustment, its the only thing that is kinda pissing me off right now, other than that this game is hella fun!

[Rynastiv]

Originally posted by M:

After 6 hours so far I agree, batteries across the board need to have a SUBSTANTIALLY lower drain rate. You are essentially relegated to carry a stack of clay and coal so that you can have your drone give you a free crafting station to craft batteries on the go. Either that or waste 4 or 5 slots of your backpack with batteries. If not a drain rate buff, at least let them stack so we can carry them and only cost 1 slot.

I would rather like to see them reduced the drain rate, or even remove them from being drained while shooting guns, and leave it on for the extractor tool.

[shotaimkiller]

Originally posted by Rynastiv:

First of all, i want to congratulate you for making a very fun game and also a huge clap for releasing a finished product and not an early access, that to me is a huge W considering these days we keep getting EA products, overall i am having a blast.

I have almost 7 hours and so far i have 1 complaint, which is why im creating this thread.

Fuel cells need a huge adjustment, i am using the blue fuel cells at the moment and they are running out so fast, it's kinda annoying actually. I am using an SMG and 1 blue fuel cell got drained in less than 40 seconds.

Fuel cells need to have higher life spans or remove them from certain actions such as shooting guns. Also spawning my little scooter ( dont know the name ) it takes so much of my fuel cell, its literally 20%-25% for simply spawning my transportation ship.

Please and thank you!

yea this need fast fix ;/

[EpicGinger]

I disagree , the batteries are the “ survival “ part of the game. If anything devs need to reduce the amount of resources needed for batteries or add some kind of automation to get the resources to craft the battery .

[X Lord X]

They are the survival part yes, but even the second tier ones are pathetically weak you'd at least expect some kind of longer running time, they just cost extortionately more resources so aren't even worth crafting. I get having resource drain, but resource drain that renders you useless and then you get killed by enemies in potential endless death cycles is not fun. Then your inventory gets destroyed and you lose literally every item you were carrying with you.

Its not enjoyable

[Rynastiv]

Originally posted by EpicGinger:

I disagree , the batteries are the “ survival “ part of the game. If anything devs need to reduce the amount of resources needed for batteries or add some kind of automation to get the resources to craft the battery .

How can you disagree when there is an actual issue? don't you see other people commenting about it too? You are the only one here saying that. Sigh....

[Sir Twist]

I hope the ship fuel does not drain as fast, i am down to my last one now and i cant find ( or buy) the ores to make more. I can't even find someone selling them. not sure what i will do when i run out.

[Scyris]

Originally posted by X Lord X:

They are the survival part yes, but even the second tier ones are pathetically weak you'd at least expect some kind of longer running time, they just cost extortionately more resources so aren't even worth crafting. I get having resource drain, but resource drain that renders you useless and then you get killed by enemies in potential endless death cycles is not fun. Then your inventory gets destroyed and you lose literally every item you were carrying with you.

Its not enjoyable

I mean even no mans sky on permadeath survival mode is not that harsh on resources. Its harsh but easly survivable, but this sounds like a nightmare honestly. Seen multiple threads on this issue already so there is clearly some sort of a issue. For all we know it could be a bug in the code that is causing them to drain so fast and it was not intended to be like this. I mean all it takes is 1 character to be wrong to completly break a code block.

[SPEEDRUNNER041]

for me i think the best thing is dev add an recharge cell station like subnautica

keep cell and charge when we need without needed to craft one each time

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Originally posted by SPEEDRUNNER041:

for me i think the best thing is dev add an recharge cell station like subnautica

keep cell and charge when we need without needed to craft one each time

I'm fine with that, but TBH capacity wise on a cell you could use a machine gun and blast through several them in a minute haha.

There for sure needs to be tweakes.

You can right now repair them at a place where costs $$ instead of parts and the cost to repair is super cheap.

[Syn]

I agree with this sentiment. Just sounding off so devs see this.

[Rynastiv]

Originally posted by Syn:

I agree with this sentiment. Just sounding off so devs see this.

Thats Awesome man, thanks!

[KyeTheShy]

Add mods that let you apply to the battery to recharge overtime.

Or as someone mentioned, recharge stations.