I cant get out of my suit to sleep or drink and eat something. And how could i use the pickaxe?

Maybe someone can help me?

Hab modules/WayPoint stations should be able to load balance with components just like the universal hoses do. That is, if you install more then the required components it's going to use the extras to reduce strain on the others. That forces the player to do a trade-off between spending extra components to keep the thing working longer vs saving them for another module. For some things like fuses you might want to install all three in WayPoint stations just so they will last quite long, while for hab modules you decide that since you are around your hab a lot you can spend the extra time checking up on them.

One suggestion would be to not delete a saved game if you die, instead just allow you to continue playing from the last save. Right now I just do a backup if I'm not sure I'm going to make it, but I don't see a reason for punishing the player. It's punishment enough to loose the progress you've made since the last save.

When entering or inside the hab, make it possible to restock your suit without going outside, either by a control panel or some message popping up. Reason for this is that maybe you enter the hab when it's day outside, thus oxygen and battery reserves are full for the hab, but you might want to spend time inside to sleep, craft or eat/drink. You then want to take advantage of the daytime by stocking up the suit so the hab can begin to refill what you've taken, but going in and then outside and going in again is sort of annoying. There have been times where I've not thought about this, went inside, wasted time so it became dark outside, and then when I was ready to leave I accidentally drained my hab of a lot of resources. Most problematic is energy since everything uses that and the suit battery is 1:1 to the hab's battery, so a suit with only 20% energy sucks away 80% of the hab and then it's not long until everything becomes powerless and you can't do a lot.

Or even better just have the hab continue to refill the suit once the reserves are at 100%

It would be nice if you can interface your datapad with modules you've visited before to run remote diagnostics. That way you can monitor WayPoint stations and if they are about to fail without having to spend a day trying to reach them. For hab modules it's certainly nice but not super important as you can just run around quickly before you go out/inside and each each of them individually. Would also be nice if failed things would show up on the map in some way (perhaps greyed out).

So I made my home then abandoned it to go to another one, then it seems I just go to another one, is the whole game based on forever finding habitats, or is there a way to grow food expand batteries make vehicles and so forth?

I did not list my video as per the embargo but if the devs would like to see my experience, I managed not to die so far. you can contact me for an unlisted link to view what I did.

I loved playing it so far, I just am curious on story mode and what can be done in survival.

minus some minor bugs I experienced, this game looks fantastic!!

I have to first say thanks for the amazing Job thus far on the cinematographic of this game. NOICE - I know when starting out you need to find the purple dot on the map so that you can goto it amd move forward. But there is not on the MAP... Eck Any help out there pointing us in the direction?

I encountered several bugs in a 9 hour play session a day or so ago. Here they are:

1. Upon sleeping/saving, the three WayStats surrounding Habitat Alpha went offline for no reason. I went to bed, woke up, and the icons were gone from the map. I walked to one of the WayStats from memory, turned it off and on again, and it worked just fine but nonetheless continued to not show up on the map. Any WayStats affected in this way remained this way for the remainder of the game and the issue persisted through restarts of the program.

2. After #1, I had icons move around on the map. Two white diamonds moved to the Northeast of the map (where I had yet to actually travel).

3. At Hab Beta, every Solar Panel Mount on the Water Reclaimer would bring up the RTG Mount instead when clicked on. The RTG Mount brought up something else instead (that I don't remember). The Solar Mounts were unfixable as a result.

4. At Hab Beta, I encountered a duplicate door. That is, the interior Hab door had two doors overlaid on one another. I had to open the door and then open another clipping through it to access the interior. Entering and exiting the Hab resolved the issue.

5. Crafting items did not properly consume resources in certain situations. For example, crafting a Filled Oxygen Canister would not properly delete the empty one. Later in the same game, it did. This happened with a few things and seemed random overall.

6. The pod you begin in does not show up on the map yet continues to show up on the scanner. This made navigation in the starting area confusing.

7. Occasionally, a container would show the wrong inventory. Opening up a Downed Satellite (that I had definitely never been to) instead opened up my Player Inventory. The label on satellite also said "Player Inventory" instead of "Supply Barrel" as it had in encounters with other similar units in the same play session.

8. I encountered the "Battery would not recharge" issue other players mentioned on here, but I also recall the dev saying that that issue has been solved so I'm not sure if it would apply here. I fixed it by restarting the game.

I have video of my entire play session (minus the opening bit as I forgot to turn the recorder on >_< ) & screenshots of some of these issues to hand. I haven't posted them online anywhere so as not to violate embargo, but I can provide them to the developer upon request. I also still have my save file and can provide that as well upon request.

Hi!

Having a great time with the game, however I've run into an issue (twice in two separate games). My hab won't produce either oxygen or water, but the modules are online (and water says producing in the hab status screen but nothing is happening) and diagnostics of each also indicates they should be producing. Not sure if I'm just missing something or what is going on.

Ok I'm not quite sure if this is a bug or I'm being an idiot. Maybe both.

Issue

I am on Sol 5. I've powered up the habitat and repaired everything. All the habitat stats were nominal. On Sol 4 I went outside and repaired everything I could with supplies gained from one of the supply dumps around the map and I went to sleep to save at around 22:00 Mars time. Before going back into the Hab however I was very low on power in my EVA suit, about 5% I think. I woke up after 6 hours sleep, filled up on calories and then went outside to continue repairs. After exiting the air lock I get the message that the exterior battery hasn't got enough charge to recharge the EVA suit. Odd but I Check the Hab's power and it was indeed low due to it being dark outside still.

I went back inside to wait for daylight and check the Hab's power until it was at 100%. I went back outside and got the same message that the external battery couldn't recharge the suit. By this time the EVA suits battery was at 0%. I quickly went back inside trying to think what I could do.

I decided to kill myself and revert back to the save from the night before. I assume the game saves every time you sleep. So I went outside the suit battery failed and I died.

I loaded my save game and I'm back in the HAB and after 30 second I die. It took me a while to work out why. I loaded again and quickly checked the Had Stats.

O2, Nominal.

Power 50% and charging, so Nominal.

Temperature -60 Degrees and falling. Umm not nominal. :(

Checked my own health stats and sure enough my internal temperature was plummeting like a rock and I died again.

I loaded up one more time and this time as soon as I loaded I got into bed and slept. Woke up at seven in the morning and everything is fine. Or so I though.

I went outside and I get the same message that the External battery hasn't got enough power to charge my suit. So I'm stuck

Conclusion.

So i figure this is what is happening. Because you start the game with only solar power and not enough RTGs to power the Hab systems through the night, by the middle of the night the HAB's temp has dropped to -60. This wasn't a problem before because I slept through the night and I assume the game doesn't check the internal temperature while you are asleep.

The second issue with the recharging the suit battery seems to be if you completely drain it the Hab can't recharge it. So I guess I'm stuck.

This might be a bit of an edge case but it could be very anoying with the fact yo only have one save so you cant go back and have to start again from scratch.

I have a copy of the save games both from the middle of the night with the ultra low temprature and from the morning when I cant recharge my suit. if you want them just let me know how to get them to you .