This game can make you feel really stupid
In any other game, I wouldn’t consider myself a newbie at 50 hours but in NMS I’m a kinda embarrassed newbie. I love exploring and keep getting milestones for how far I’ve walked but I was getting increasingly frustrated waiting for the game to give me an exocraft. It was really starting to piss me off! I don’t like spoilers so I didn’t google. I just kept playing and eventually changed settings to better handle being in firestorms and places where I was dying before I could get underground fast enough. Yesterday, I was doing A Trace of Metal. I got a message. Install the sentinel arm. I spent an hour rereading everything in my log and all the missions I had done. How the heck was I supposed to install this arm on something called a Minotaur when I didn’t have a Minotaur?
So, I looked in my build menu and wondered what happens if you build a Minotaur Geobay. The game says it’s a parking place for a Minotaur BUT I don’t have a Minotaur to park! Okay, so in the theory that if you build it they will come, I built it. Dang and blast it, it creates the Minotaur!
So, all this time I have wandered around on foot, being knocked around by extreme weather and I’ve had a Roamer Geobay just sitting there because I didn’t know this was how you get an exocraft. I feel really, really stupid.