r/TheLastCaretaker

My ship is bare bones compared to most I see online. I have 2 diesel tanks for 6K total, and 2 med batteries for 18kW total electric. The electric engine has all cylinders fully upgraded but the diesel engine cylinders are the low level ones. There are 9 lumi-minis on the pilot house roof and 4 med turbines on the bow. I can run at 80% throttle at 20 khr or 35 khr if I turn on the diesel engine. At 80% on electric during the day, the batteries stay fully charged. After clearing out a POI, I get enough bio waste to refill the diesel tanks. Why does everyone else seem to need 20K diesel fuel on board?

Don't read further if you're not part of the beta and or don't want spoilers.

>!Those of you in beta, what are your thoughts on Beta 6.0? !<

>!The warp gates are kind of meh to me. It would of been much more intriguing to have to sail to the north pole or wherever Bastion is. Maybe break some ice to get to a new dock area. Using a portal\gate is kind of cheesy and removes a lot of the reality from the game. They certainly could of used portals to send themselves to space or whatever. I was hoping at some point you'd get to launch yourself into space, guaranteed that's not going to happen with portals now... !<

>!I've played through Bastion station. It was challenging and the cold physics are cool, but I'm left feeling a little disappointed. !<

>!I get the whole station is setup to do experiments on humans, that's important to the story. However, why do we have to set up little heaters all over? The humans that were kept here would of heated the whole place. I see pipes running all over and a furnace or boiler room, yet we have no way to bring the whole place online? The humans and robots used space heaters...meh. I will say the heat physics are neat, fans seem to blow heat into an a joining room etc. !<

>!I also found myself annoyed that there is no way to use vehicles in the arctic tundra. You can walk the mountain a bit and see some other structures, but the gyro won't fly even with it's strongest booster. !<

>!I guess maybe I'm just feeling left a little annoyed. I want to explore more but you can't because you have no way to stay warm outside little pockets of heat you create. You can't heat the main shaft and you have no way to bring heat with you. !<

>!I will say nice environmental improvements. The physics are improved and the storms etc are more real than ever, nicely done and I overall enjoy the game. I'm ~300 hours in now, more than I've spent on any other game. !<

>! !<

I decided to give scrapping the entire warehouse through the floor grinder a try. Top to bottom, every container, all done before touching the door to the room where it piles up.

Absolutely abused my poor 1080Ti when I finally went in there. Single digits on medium settings.

I highly recommend it. Also fun to watch your little robot hoover up the entirety of it and magically haul it all out like Santa carrying every gift in one sack.

https://preview.redd.it/s58a8qvfwpuh1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=77bea2bf5d6cb0bb2519b0e38dcd502596c35344

https://preview.redd.it/sfs2parewpuh1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=07caa8ba8be3263148dbe1e29f2489b8e3ae9aa2

When I first saw it I thought that’s cool I can park my ship in there, the when I triggered the switch it just opened the hole, whats the hole for?

I tried playing for the first time since 5.5 dropped yesterday, played without issue, had a blast. Today I opened it, and instant crash. Tried verifying files, uninstalling and reinstalling, redownloading the pak folder and re-verifying, and a few other fixes others have tried. No luck, no change. Not sure what else to do but wait for 6.0 and hope it fixes it somehow.

I'm enjoying the game, but one thing doesn't make sense to me.
The ghost memories (the scenes of humans from the past) only show up through the Photo Drone's camera. The Caretaker can't see them at all.
The Photo Drone is a small camera drone the Caretaker builds and controls, so it's the Caretaker's own tech. A robot that can fly a drone with a camera should be able to switch its own vision to the same mode, whatever filter or sensor the drone uses.
Is there a lore reason for this? Or is it just a gameplay choice to make you build and fly the drone?
If I've missed a way to see them without the drone, please tell me. And if you have a theory about why the drone gets this ability, I'd like to hear it.
Thanks!

Ran into the strangest issue.
Suddenly three of my Lazaros pods collapsed into the base materials while sitting it's rack. (Yes, with power and water).
The seed seems unharmed by this and stayed paused at 2 hours?

https://preview.redd.it/idgna1nbsfth1.png?width=1300&format=png&auto=webp&s=a895e48686e671cbd7f651747b2ba79a9afe21b7