Relatively new player here, loving it and just the sandbox – do whatever the hell you want – nature of the game. My one gripe (partly of my own making) is that a I dead (no permadeath here) due to being caught in a tornado and plummeting to my death. So far, so NMS. However the tornado was ripping through my settlement at the time and I died within its boundaries. As such I cannot use the terrain manipulator to simply build a bridge in the sky to reach my grave and retrieve all my stuff, and due to catastrophic inventory maintenance, I died with all of my valuable items on my body. I have tried everything I can think of but just cannot reach my grave marker for love nor money. At some point I’ll accept defeat and just move on but for the time being it’s just hugely frustrating.

I know there will be someone reading this going “Lol, nah fuck ‘em”.

I hadn’t played since before the new update*. After battling through fixing my inventories, I went to the Nexus to see what’s new. Saw someone starting a new mission, community research at 82%, fuck it I’ll pitch in. Notice the dude is a C-tier, in the starter ship. The mission takes us to an extreme ice planet to battle sentinels, fuck.

Of course all I see in the alerts are “<playername> died from hypothermia.” over and over again. They must’ve spawned a way from their ship because they kept lemming-ing back and forth, freezing to death. I eventually caught up with them in the shelter of one of the mission buildings. So gave them a shitload of batteries, sodium… then they’re off. Transferring inventory to someone running about like a headless chicken is hard.

I followed them all the way to their ship, topping them up with elements whenever their low alerts started. No idea if they even knew I was there haha. But after putting so many hours in, struggling to find things to do, I have a purpose… hazard protection angel for new players.

I could just imagine them confused, panicking, then me jetting off to complete the mission leaving them stranded on a random extreme ice planet. Not today!

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*”Now you can see both inventories at once!”,

“But I can only see half of each? Instead of flicking between them, I’m now endlessly scrolling and missing things in two inventories?”

“…. but, both at once!”

I dislike this redesign element so much.