First experience, what to do next?

[Trevor Drakenor]

Hey y'all, I just started playing this game today. Nearly killed myself through food poisoning cause I didnt know that the cooked food is in one of those tiny tab in the crafting menu. I started in Akua, I think, this beginner planet. It took a while before I figured out how to prefab a hoverbike, and another hour trying to figure out how this fuel works. Slept and realized I can skip time to make the constructor finish everything in an instant, but also make the hoverbike eat gas fast.

After a while I notice Hud is not showing up, and maybe I accidentally pressed something that removed those marker. and found out that you can use drones to scout and mine places. I been mining primitive "Minecraft" style lol

Met a local tribal which is.... not too far from the obelisk. looks to be the scientist camp has left their stuff there for more than a months. Talked with the chieftain, looks like a friendly bunch. Went to help them farmer out and turns they reward you with 50 shotgun shell.... I was like... I dont see them having guns, and the quest I was doing is delivering crossbow bolt to the plantation. They must have thought the shotgun shell just some fancy coins or something lol.

Having done that, I then start to think.... even these tribal have houses. and Im out here living in tents. Was planning to make my own houses through prefab. Then I remembered, I saved a supply bunker locations, might have some ore vein on the way. Went there, shot up by a mini tank and I had to shoot it from an angle where its barrel cant aim at me. Then a tutorial pop up telling me that I can claim this bunker as my own. and so I did, it has storage, it has constructor, it has fridges, beds, medical bay, cloning chamber, which I think is how you respawn, I think, I got everything I have here.

So.... what is next? Can we get more people, build colony, and stuff like that? cause it feels like this is a big game looking at the map.

[ZomBeGone]

There is a huge amount of things you can do. Where to start?

Multiplayer - play with other people
build Hover vessels, small ships and explore/loot the planet
build capital vessels -> explore other planets, and other star systems
grow crops for food production
trade with other factions for items you can not make
build bases or space stations.
go to a more hostile planet and fight with the xirax or other factions.
raid POIs for loot.

eventually try Reforged Eden. That expands the options greatly but does make it harder.

There are many more...

[Vitowns]

I got 51 hours into this game and still a noob fml

[ZomBeGone]

I have well over 2000 hours, and RE turned me into a noob :D

[Vitowns]

Escrito originalmente por ZomBeGone:

I have well over 2000 hours, and RE turned me into a noob :D

Yeah im want to avoid RE im scared!

[Amrak]

Looking at your keybinds helps to see things you can do that you did not know and in most cases are not told. Then take a couple of minutes to look over the PDA. Lots of good information in there. Look at the tabs explore it. Look at all the different functions of your personal suit constructor as well as what all the portable constructor. Look at the tabs and what they refer to. While this may seem simple and also a pita it will pay off in the long run. We see so many questions about things that could have been solved by just looking at these things.
I did the starter mission and well for a new player it only introduces you to the planets and their differences. Along with how to work with natives as well as trading. Trading will be a big help later on.
You can fix up one of the bases and then build you an HV/SV to explore and gather resources. Once you have enough weapons to do some of the POI's (not all are hostile)some planets are extra hostile. Do this! You will get much needed resources and equipment.
Mainly just explore, learn and survive!

[ZomBeGone]

Good advice --^

Also, don't "Marry" a game play through. It is easy to start another play through and use what you have learned and do it better. Some people play to long on the first game and build an empire, but are afraid to loose it, so do not take chances, or limit their self. Explore and take chances.

[Brew]

Escrito originalmente por Trevor Drakenor:

So.... what is next? Can we get more people, build colony, and stuff like that? cause it feels like this is a big game looking at the map.

Which map did you look at? Planetary? Star system? Galaxy? There isn't just one map, which makes me wonder if you really understand how big it is. :)

My big goal when I started was to reach space. I wanted to explore beyond the planet I was on. Maybe you could do that too. Depends on what you like to do.

[Amrak]

Sorry there is no colony building. There are story missions to find the other UDH members but it is you and you alone.

[Trevor Drakenor]

Oh damn, map a bit too big for just one person though. With the way the game describes it I thought you can eventually get more people to form a colony, and well... conquer the star as they say.

I also notice that the supply bunker eats fuel a bit too fast. Might have been better to build our own bases I think. Reforged Eden? That a Mod or something? I like the idea of more content to explore with.

[Brew]

Reforged Eden is a "scenario". You can find it in the Steam workshop. It adds content and also makes the game more difficult, if you are interested in that. Project Eden, as far as I know, is more of a content update without the added difficulty. They also change certain game systems, e.g. how CPU works.

[Too lazy to choose a name]

Have you arrived Omicron ?
If you haven't :
Save, save again.

Try to explore the asteroid area in Crown sector.

Remember, life before death, journey before destination,
and save before explore.
Use modern tech,
and use the mighty ancient spell, cough, mighty ancient tech : S&L

[Trevor Drakenor]

Its my first time in Akua, I dont think I know how to reach to space yet hahaha.
What about the Multiplayer part of this game, how does that work here? Since the map is big, there had to be many people playing on one server right?

[Too lazy to choose a name]

There are 3 kind of vessels : HV(GV), SV(SS), and CV(MS).
SV and CV can fly and can fly to space.
MS Gundam need lot of resource, I will start from SV.
Or you can start from HV for practicing.

The easier way : use the factory(F2 key) to produce them.
The harder way : build them(BA, HV, SV, CV) block by block.

My English is not good, I can't explain the details very well, sorry.

[Brew]

To reach space, you need a flying machine! That means a small or capital vessel. You can learn to build and build one yourself, or check out the factory for some pre-built vessels.

I don't play multiplayer; I don't know how many people a single server can support. I don't think this is intended to be like an MMO though, with large numbers of players playing simultaneously. Server populations are probably small or modestly sized.

As far as fuel consumption, you can turn off devices you aren't using, to reduce power usage and conserve fuel.

[japp_02]

At start your escape pod will auto-land on the moon, after that don't forget to pick-up materials around it that have dropped in the crash, that's important because you get valuable items to get you going (different items depending on the difficulty level). From there on, you basically have total freedom, EGS is a free-roaming game, but always with Survival aspects, meaning you must care to have enough food, O2 (if on a airless body), radiation protection.
You are given a 'Motorbike Kit', with this you can build a motorbike to move around pretty quickly, but clearly that's not the best vehicle in the game... Whatever you do afterwards you have a lot of options to construct vehicles or bases to efficiently explore a planet or moon and eventually move to space and explore even more. But when you start, you are there with a pistol, some little food and ammo and need to survive and level up first, you cannot clap your hands to have some vehicle or base :)

To get you quickly started in single player, here some tips...

- Get familiar with the Map (M key), the system and galaxy map (F1 > planet icon). On the system map, switch the 'Info Panel' ON, info will appear on the right side; get familiar with the map functionality because it will tell you about ressources in the system, in orbits and on planets. The map is your best info to see what geographic dangers you can encounter, high/low temperatures, radiation etc. The complete info is only available once you have visited a body or orbit.
Everything you discover will be added in a 'Regisitry' (F1 > Registry) so you can find it later and set a waypoint. You can also set a quick waypoint in the planet map (M > RMB on the map).

- Build a simple HV with enough Container capacity;
Do this if you don't intend to explore the orbit soon, or better make a simple SV.
Pick up plants, harvest rocks for metals, discover POIs to gain XP points and to level up, this will unlock new technology you can use. The more you do in the game the more you level up.

- Build a simple SV without warp capability;
Such a vehicle is most efficient to explore a planet and the orbit in the system. Best option to spot and harvest important ressources quickly. Upgrade your SV as you go on playing, Be sure to place a Detector on your ship, this will allow you to scan for ressources and POIs.

- You can build a base on the moon but you don't have to.
You can also transform a discovered POI into a provisory or permanent base; making a base is important if you play with Volume=ON in the difficulty settings, or if you want to setup a Farm, otherwise you can well do without any base.

- You can follow the initial basic questlines and later, follow a storyline, but you don't have to.
As said, this game doesn't force you in a way to play, do what you want, explore, visit other systems by building a CV (SVs cannot move to other sun systems). You can also build space stations in orbit.

- Best immediate help ressource while playing is the PDA, the Empyriopedia. (F1 > ...)
You can play with an activated Tutorial when starting the game, but you can as well switch it off (you get a message after your escape pod has landed), and swtich it on if really you need it, but generally the Empyriopedia section will contain all the basics.

- Factions and missions
You are not alone, there are factions in the game and depending what you do you have a certain Reputation with them. You can do missions for them to gain reputation (F1 > Solo Missions).
Check your reputation status with F1 > Factions, on the right side of that page you will see basic info explaining what will change your reputation.