How Does The EXO Request Platform Work?

[Colonel_Camel]

What it says in the title. I've built an exo request platform, but I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with it. I get the impression that I'm supposed to feed debris into it to get in-game reward points, or something?

Can someone give me a dummy's guide on how to use it?

[Illuminatus17]

Collect small pieces of debris and pack medium scrap pieces by using a packager. As simple as that. Just try around and you will find out. There are also some special crates that you mostly find on novus or vesania. There is an aurora above them so you can localize it.

[Colonel_Camel]

Thanks! Actually, the real stumbling block for me was that I couldn't figure out how to make the rocket appear in it. Go figure that I completely ignored the big green button in the corner of it's UI - exactly where every other appliance in the game has it's "on" button.

But the fact that I needed to use a packager was useful info, too. I'd probably still be trying to attach regular scrap to the rocket top without some guidance.

Honestly, I get that Astroneer is going for an "exploration gameplay"-thing, but I think it takes it's lack of guidance about devices to the extreme. Things like this, where it's impossible to figure out what the game wants you to do without outside help, is exactly the sort of thing that will turn people away from an otherwise-promising game.

[MissDonkey]

I have build de exo platform twice and pressed the green button but no rocket. Why is that?

[wildwinds]

I've tried using packagers on what look to be large pieces of debris but all I get are small debris packages. What constitutes a medium scrap piece? How do I send debris bundles?

[BHarm]

Medium scrap pieces are whole rovers, covers to triangular research pods, and the special crates you will find on the two planets mentioned above. The scrap pieces that you cannot gather into the debris bundles do package into small packages, as do most of the pieces that remain after you blow anything up (old shuttles, downed sattelites, etc). You can basically use any combo of debris bundles (even partial), small packages, and medium packages.

[Plane-Trailing]

Originally posted by wildwinds:

I've tried using packagers on what look to be large pieces of debris but all I get are small debris packages. What constitutes a medium scrap piece? How do I send debris bundles?

Wrecked Medium Rovers, stuff that size