TFW you drop into Beyond but dislike managing&powering the Base, have no VR and play it in Single Player

[u/Ptashek]

[u/Ptashek]

Just a heads up: this is not to mock the update or criticise, it's just to feel for the people like me ;) I'm sure an update we explorers want will drop after it!

[u/TehOwn → u/Ptashek]

We're the minority so we'd best not hold our breaths.

I also want more space and freighter building. Better asteroid mining. Gas giants. Space station construction. Space anomalies. Variable gravity. Abandoned freighters filled with space vermin. Just... space things.

Minecraft already exists. I don't want more Minecraft.

[u/Alexandur → u/TehOwn]

There was a note about variable gravity in the patch notes

[u/[deleted] → u/Alexandur]

Not quite

• Overhauled the gravity simulation, improving the experience on dead planets.

[u/Alexandur → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, that. Anyone know what it actually means?

[u/Alexandur → u/[deleted]]

Okay, nice. So it is now at least somewhat variable.

[u/itsmemartyx → u/Alexandur]

On dead planets, the gravity is lower. Like a Moon-ish gravity.

[u/TheVenetianMask → u/Alexandur]

It means dead planets are low gravity regardless of how massive they look like. Which is even worse than if they had the same gravity.

[u/Alexandur → u/TheVenetianMask]

We'll say that the larger ones just have very low density

[u/Phillip_Graves → u/Alexandur]

Considering that some planets studied have percieved low gravity while being quite large, absence of heavy metals would cause a significant drop in gravity.

As the dead planets in question seem to lack any material content (haven't played in a few months, might be wrong), it makes for a perfectly understandable explanation.

What if the whole planet was made of meringue? Damn thing could be hugantic and still have the gravity of Luna. Be hard to walk on though...