Is "Awakening" more than a fetch quest?

[Simon]

I enjoyed Astroneer a lot but had stopped playing a while ago after completing all missions. It felt like to keep going would just be more of the same.

I started again today seeing a "major" update. I've now done what seems like a third of the new mission line but it's not that interesting so far. Go to place, get items, go to other place, do thing with items, a couple paragraphs of lore unlock.

Is there more to it?

[Valtin]

No. I really hoped that behind the boring fetch quest they'd make some fundamental changes to the game so you could adjust the setup of the planets. You get a couple of items at the end but nothing significant. Another nothing-burger with some new shop items.

[Alucard †]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Valtin:

No. I really hoped that behind the boring fetch quest they'd make some fundamental changes to the game so you could adjust the setup of the planets. You get a couple of items at the end but nothing significant. Another nothing-burger with some new shop items.

From the more "signifficant" things you get
-EVA pet : Once she is fed you can completely ignore garvity and fly in all directions really fast.
-Fault Detector blueprint. They can be filled and traded at the Trading Platform for all composite materials , Hybrid Rose seeds (EVA's food) , QTRTG's , Multicolor fireworks , Beach Ball.
-Chronos' suit and crown

Other than that yea not much to gain from this mission chain except quite wild lore dump.
This game is starting to sound like Outer Wilds mixed with Oxygen Not Included (lore wise).

[VolteVaris]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Valtin:

No. I really hoped that behind the boring fetch quest they'd make some fundamental changes to the game so you could adjust the setup of the planets. You get a couple of items at the end but nothing significant. Another nothing-burger with some new shop items.

you do realise that the farming update, xenobio update, gravity globe update and LRD updates are all setting the stage for future updates; right? combine a snail and a gravity globe and you'll realize that they're still working on huge ♥♥♥♥ we've not seen yet. Scrapping update wasn't significant until it's systems came into play

This seems like a nothingburger now but the plants had almost no purpose until the snails.
Just keep a finger on it; They've probably just made a massive tease for future content updates in those logs; SES loves to tease future updates by using existing updates so nothing is really insignificant.; I'm assuming we're getting an overhaul to the planet generations at some point.

It is a fetch-quest; yes, but really;

The purpose of Awakening is for players who may have already completed/100% the game on previous updates and ergo is a sort of new secondary goal ontop of the alien sattelite thing;

In short; it's end-game closure.

[Valtin]

The item you mention allows you to do something you can already do in the game with an existing item. Yes, it's nice but not game changing. The lore actually alluded to the ability to make changes to the base setup of the planets so I hope you're absolutely right and this is a preparatory stage for that - if so, absolutely brilliant. As it is though - a nice... item or two doesn't really add much to the game at the moment. I really hope you are right about it setting up a future update that actually adds more than an hour long fetch quest to the experience. And that was what the OP asked.

[VolteVaris]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Valtin:

The item you mention allows you to do something you can already do in the game with an existing item. Yes, it's nice but not game changing. The lore actually alluded to the ability to make changes to the base setup of the planets so I hope you're absolutely right and this is a preparatory stage for that - if so, absolutely brilliant. As it is though - a nice... item or two doesn't really add much to the game at the moment. I really hope you are right about it setting up a future update that actually adds more than an hour long fetch quest to the experience. And that was what the OP asked.

The 'mysterious objects' had no purpose until this update aside from changing the sky and giving lore.
Astronium and Scrap were not in themselves crafting resources until this update either.
The LRD's have been given AI and other behaviors inherited from the AI prototypes that were the Snails put a snail in a globe

It's a safe bet that there's at least ONE teaser in there.