Just finished the Cartographers Redux and what started out as a rough journey ended up being an awesome adventure.

Someone already claimed a base in the vicinity of my spaceship so I thought I was screwed.

I stumbled into a cave and decided to dig my way upwards and I was fortunate to end up right in front of a settlement shop but unfortunately someone already claimed a base there as well.

I wanted to remember the location of that shop and set up a base as close as possible to minimize the grind. The closest spot I could find was in the middle of the desert surrounded by predators.

I decided to use my portable refiner as an arrow to point in the direction of that settlement shop from my spaceship.

Once I got my mech I had to travel at least 30 minutes to find water. I looked at my planet in the Discoveries tab and looked at my marker to see how far I was from water.

Finding the water was a pain in the ass but it’s been a while since a game had me this interested and engaged to figure it out.

*Edited for typos

I had watched the launch of this fall flat and disregarded this game. However I heard rumours of patch spam and many improvements so I added it back to my faithful steam library and dived in…. WOW! This game is literally jaw droppingly good! Being a veteran from original Elite right through to ED and anything else space faring … I’d put this easily in the top 3 of all time space games.

The variety is incredible. The learning curve is ok. You can do whatever you want to do….fight, trade, build, explore. The only slight thing is lack of pvp but that’s probably down to the size of the game. It is massive….