{"id":10364,"date":"2019-10-22T13:04:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T17:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/?p=10364"},"modified":"2019-10-24T20:44:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T00:44:28","slug":"why-cant-i-just-say-no-all-i-want-is-you-to-teach-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2019\/10\/22\/why-cant-i-just-say-no-all-i-want-is-you-to-teach-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Why can’t I just say “no, all I want is you to teach me”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The past 4 days, I’ve been playing ASTRONEER solo… well, solo’ish<\/em>. Let’s just say I wish the game had a ‘(Player name here) would like to join your save. Do you accept?’, instead of your friend able to join your save anytime they want.
\nDoesn’t feel safe, does it? ..Especially when I’m trying to teach myself how to play solo since… what, the update that allowed us to pick up base parts? It’s been that long. When getting Resin and Compound only showed you a general deposit and it was your task to find all the nodes in it. Now, it gives you an icon indicating a node is within your
\ncrosshair– much better finding any resource nodes you might had missed.
\nOh yeah, no more energy\/oxygen nuggets in caves. Those were nice when taking a rover train underground (when looking for research, as there were no research nodes on the surface). Could almost give you infinite power, and made tethers kind of pointless.
\n–
\nSo, I have two saves.. and soon I’m going to have a 3rd. The first (original) save was getting the base ready, but after getting the tractor and trailer (using it to find research nodes on the surface), I was getting bored and clueless on what to do next. I was also in talks with Wufy, who said he would show me. After adding him on Steam, he was able to join the save and then started ‘cleaning up’ my base.
\nTold me that I should be ready to make a rocket and visit Barren (or ‘Desolo’ as it’s now officially named). Yet apparently I was going too slow for Wufy’s taste, and the next thing I know (after getting resources for the rocket), he’s now playing my save for me. He even said he’s now doing what he said he wasn’t going to do.
\nBut before we even went to the moon, it was bedtime.<\/p>\n

2nd save, I wanted to take everything I learned from that experience and finally made the rocket (and a Solid-Fuel Thruster). Had everything I feel like I needed, but the ‘comfort’ of the small shuttle confused me on what I should bring for this mining mission (to get the Wolframite I need to make a medium shuttle and other stuff (as it’s not a shuttle you can store stuff in).
\nTook off, then forgot I needed something back at the base and landed. Little did I know that was a mistake (and would find out just how dire it was later on). But I got some tethers and took off again. Went to the moon and landed at a random LZ (in a crater). Started running a tether line and made a cave entrance down. Almost immediately I noticed how ridiculously slow it’s taking to generate power (as I had the Boost and Wide mod on my terrain tool).
\nBack on the surface, I tried to think of my options. I know I needed to generate power, and thought of going back to Terran (‘Sylva’ is it’s official name) and making a solar array (as Desolo shows ‘High Sun, Low Wind’ on the wiki). …But, I didn’t bring a beacon with me to mark my LZ. This would be the least of my concerns when I took off and noticed.. OSHI– I can’t GO back to Sylva! The thruster’s broken! FUCK!! I was forced to land back where I was.
\nThis was about the time Kovo was talking to me since yesterday (when his crappy internet connection got even crappier and it no longer works, so he’s having to use a hotspot). Asked him for help as I didn’t know what to do (I never made a base on another planet as I usually got bored by this time! HELP)!!! So he did (after I joined general voice chat in his Discord), made a second rocket and got to
\nme (after I moved mine out of the way). Then he sent up a temp base, but said he was getting bad framerate and had to leave. Appreciate the help, but now I feel this wasn’t really done by me.. and was unsure if I should continue.
\nWufy was about ready to come on, so I took off from the planet and went back to
\nSylva, switched saves when Wufy joined the chat and the previous save. I told him about the save, and this is when we finally went to Desolo. He showed me how to properly<\/strong> set up your first base on another planet (solo), by using the starter platform and the starter medium printer. He also showed me the importance of landing at one of these alien
\nbases (known as ‘gates’). He even showed me the importance of heading down to the core of the planet..
\nAnd HOLY FUCK is it different than what I seen from Youtube videos!! It looked very alien. It’s called a ‘Gateway Engine’. Wufy explains them as a way that you can teleport to another planet with these, and how to link a ramp with this purple pillar which fucks with gravity. Way cool!
\nWe did the same thing with Sylva (but we couldn’t get to the core as Drill Mod 2 or 3 is
\nneeded), and my lord is the way down nothing like I’ve ever seen. There’s a mushroom biome down there! Too fucking cool!
\n
\nThough I was was getting tired watching him run around, giving me almost nothing to do. Wufy, I asked you to help me, not play my save for me.
\n–
\nNext day (while I was waiting for my headset to arrive), I was thinking of going back to the second save. But I kept thinking of how I’m going to be able to do that, when Kovo’s rocket is there. Finally I got on, made some fresh tethers (thinking I would need them), two solid fuel thrusters, and blasted off for Desolo (on a recovery mission). Found an LZ (Landing Zone) a few clicks away from the rocket. All I needed to do was carry it to the other LZ and get Kovo’s rocket out of there. Got there just fine and grabbed the solar farm. Luckily my rocket has a spot to carry the medium storage I originally brought.
\nAs for the beacon, I had to leave it there (as I had no room on my backpack). Blasted off again and attempted to land at the LZ right at the gate. But almost immediately as I touched down (almost in the center of the gate), the rocket lifted back up and the thruster was used up. Though I’m glad I made that backup, this created a problem.. where do I land now? Luckily there was an LZ about 4 clicks away from the gate, and landed there.
\nCarried the rocket further than before, and found a good flat area at the gate. Trying to find a spot for the solar farm (where the gate’s shadow doesn’t block the system’s
\nstar) took awhile, but I found a good spot (and then started setting up what I needed). Joined general chat by myself, thinking Kovo or someone would join and we can talk while I attempted to set up my first base on another planet.<\/p>\n

About an hour later… Wufy joined the chat (and the save, without warning.. which is why I need a thing giving me control on allowing someone to join it), and I stupidly said “yes” for him to clean up my new base on Sylva.
\nMy mind was also “mind coming over here and seeing if I did it right?” Tried to fight it but it leaked out. He however felt I got this, but I asked questions on what do I grab and stuff. He told me to simply gather enough Wolframite to fill my backpack, so I did and headed back to Sylva, seeing the new base.
\nOk, I actually like this new base design idea. It looks streamlined and has similar characteristics of what I did when I first played with this thing (of doing a custom base). Think I’m going to use this design for now on.
\nHad to go back to Desolo as I needed to retrieve some things I left to deliver that Wolframite. But this time I know I can use the Oxygenator’s spot for a Medium
\nStorage (and load that up with Wolframite). That way I’ll have some room on my backpack.
\nLeaving Sylva, suddenly I’m all “shit, I forgot to grab a beacon!” Wufy claims I don’t need one. Get back to Desolo.. uhh, why are the tethers not active? FUCK, I forgot to grab an Oxygenator! ..And that’s when Wufy (once again) started playing my save, making my base on Desolo better and doing other things.
\n–
\nNow it’s got to the point he has a Large Shuttle and blasts off for his base on Glacio, trying to find me something to do (and can’t think of anything). This isn’t really teaching me anything, except making me less and less interested in playing with you (and this game in general).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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