Alarms go off and my computer warns me that everything is bad and I'm going to die.
I stare at the stars until that gets boring, then I bring up my inventory. At least the sun is starting to come up now.īy the time I finish, it's dark again and my solar panel is useless. I've got to set up a charging station, which means I need a power controller and a solar panel too. Annoyingly, while I've been wandering around blindly my power has been dwindling and I can't charge my battery on an empty floor. It feels more of an achievement doing it in the dark, guided only by my useless headlamp. After multiple trips between the site of my base-to-be and the containers, and a bit of inventory faffing, I finally have the start of my first building. To finish the floor I need to use the sheets I discarded before, applying them to the frame while I'm holding the welding tool in my free hand.
Progress! But what's a floor without some cool stuff to put on it? Unfortunately, I'm getting ahead of myself and the floor, it turns out, still isn't finished.Ī 30 minute break and a browse of the wiki fills in the gaps. Next to them are some metal frames, and this time I'm actually able to place them. I guess my base will need a floor, so I root around in the crates and pick up some metal sheets. Since the tutorial barely even covers the most basic parts of constructing a functioning base right now, I have absolutely no idea where to begin. It is dark, I’m alone and I have no idea what I need to do. With unearned confidence, I dive into the game-proper, my head full of dreams of lunar bases and SCIENCE. Lamentably, I’ve retained very little of the excessively complicated instructions required to perform the simplest of tasks. Well done me - I’ve completed the tutorial. I somehow muddle through, making a muffin that I don’t need and fixing a cable that does nothing. And I’m not sure I really should be putting eggs in microwaves. In the egg carton, it was very much a normal-sized, innocuous egg, but somewhere between picking it up and mistakenly putting it on and not in the microwave, it grew at least 20 times larger. Why is a giant egg on top of my microwave? I’m trying to play through Stationeers’ dire tutorial, but I actually feel like I’m participating in one of Gordon Ramsay’s literal kitchen nightmares. This week, Fraser’s pottering around in RocketWerkz' space station sim, Stationeers, and learning that, just perhaps, it's better to stay on Earth. Premature Evaluation is the weekly column in which we explore the wilds of early access.
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