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

NMS appears to have plenty to do now in the gameplay–enough that I’m locked into the grind pretty good. The 4 or 5 options that you have per category in the appearance changer just don’t feel like enough–and they feel like a relic of an earlier version of the game. Here’s some options that I would love to see–in order of least effort to most effort:

– Adding in Specialist Polo’s weird sweater armor and Nada’s Shoulder pieces as bonus armor.

– Some wasteland survival themed gear: A ruined jumpsuit and tactical vest for the body pieces, and a gas mask or rebreather mask with tubes attached to the backpack for a new helmet.

– Some more Stormtrooper/space marine style armor that looks intended for the Anomaly rather than the Vy’Keen.

– Some body sliders so that players can fine tune body shape and size rather than selecting from a list of prebuilts.

– Specifically sliders for the head and backpack–I love some of the helmet designs, but it would be nice to have a smaller head.

Those are the ideas that come to me immediately–I think there’s more than could be done but for the most part it would just be nice to have more options.