New player! A few hours in...mixed impressions/noob questions!
chimp_spanner
Join Date: 2017-02-04 Member: 227581Members
Join Date: 2017-02-04 Member: 227581Members
So I've been curious about this game for a while. Finally bit the bullet and just got it. Really well presented. Love the atmosphere and the whole premise really. I will admit it took me a few tries before I really knew what I was doing. It does kinda throw you in at the deep end, so to speak. But I do find that I'm hitting bottlenecks rather quickly, specifically with regards to crash powder. I've also read other people having the same issue. I've baited maybe five or six crashfish and gotten nothing but a single egg. And it's very time consuming finding their nests, at least in this seed. I'm willing to explore and search but...within reason. I don't want it to feel like a job ya know 
I could just chance it and try a new seed. But it's write off the two or three hours I've put into my current one. Is there any tip or advice for finding the stuff? Or is it really that rare? My chances of finding pods by just looking are slim. Need that powder/repair tool/comms array!
Also, frame rate drops are getting me killed a whole bunch. But I'm sure the devs are aware of this. Just sharing my experience.
Anyway, I feel like this will be a fantastic game in time. At the moment I'm just intrigued, slightly puzzled, but mostly impressed by the potential!
I could just chance it and try a new seed. But it's write off the two or three hours I've put into my current one. Is there any tip or advice for finding the stuff? Or is it really that rare? My chances of finding pods by just looking are slim. Need that powder/repair tool/comms array!Also, frame rate drops are getting me killed a whole bunch. But I'm sure the devs are aware of this. Just sharing my experience.
Anyway, I feel like this will be a fantastic game in time. At the moment I'm just intrigued, slightly puzzled, but mostly impressed by the potential!
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Lemme help you with your fps mate,
Open up the pause menu
Enter lb+rb
That will open the developer option on the start menu (in game start menu specificly)
Go to graphics settings in the dev menu and tick off , view mask, bloom, and light rays
This will increase your fps nominally
Another thing you can do is while in game press lb+rb+a
This will bring up the dev console
On this console type in "noshadows" (minus the quotations of course) and will disable shadows in this session, again this increases fps quite a bit on the xbox one
We should be seeing MASSIVE fps boosts in the next update which should drop literally any minute/day/who tf knows
Also scan everything
Once you get further into the game you might need to create maybe 1 per base or something but realistically the limited usage of the resource is why it is quite rare to actually find the powder.
Also they aren't that rare, go to all the caves in the kelp forest too as well as the safe shallows ones. You will eventually find it. Also the welder isn't really needed, compared to the other tools in the game, so just be patient.
i hate crash fish from what if seen they love to kill their selves but it does make it easier to get the materials
True but you need a lot of stuff for the Aurora. The welder, propulsion cannon, sea glide/seamoth, lots of batterys and food ect.
What I was more meaning is that it isn't that important early game. And crashpowder is easy to get eventually so it isn't that much of a problem.