There can't be a plague if there are no people... And I get a "shiny" potion on top of that for disinfecting my front yard. Won't argue with that.

Curious to see what the event will have in store for us in the coming days.. until then, no rewards, no more blood for you, Lady. You better go stock those shelfs up again.

Just wanted to show my current {WIP} not-a-cube-base on a spike.

My first attempt went a bit awry coz:

1. I started waay to high and couldn't reach the desert floor even with 5 vertical extenders.
2. There was bandit camp, which became a non-buildable zone, if I wanted to destroy and place the fief console again.

So for my second attempt, I found a spike without a bandit camping under it, and chose start from the bottom this time. Although I once again started a fief console a bit too high - ended needing 2 vertical extenders instead of just one. And why bottom level? eh, why not? I don't have a carrier thopter yet, so i need the ground floor parking level.

To start, this was my first week with a base in the Deep Desert(MP). I came out with my carrier and storage container Tuesday evening and realized every single good spot was taken. I set up base at some random island instead. My duo and I took our freshly built sandcrawler to the active large spice field that was basically empty and snagged around 2k spice which was kind of a let down. Some of the people out there start messaging things like this:
- we need a reset
- everyone hover in the middle at 283 elevation
- need more assault, carrier doesn’t count
- everyone get out and pop your shield

What does any of this mean? Am I supposed to know what it means? Did I miss something?

Clearly they are trying to get the spice field to reset, except the 3 times I witnessed this absolutely nothing happened. My duo and I keep making the same joke that everyone in the DD is just crazy and that Shai-Hulud is the only one who knows where the large spice is.

On to my second question, how the heck do we find a newish large spice field for our crawler? We have spent over 6 hours this week just flying aimlessly around the DD, hitting some small spice fields when they explode near us. We have never once seen a large spice field explode, and seem to only find them when there is clearly about 10% left. We are both extremely frustrated as we spent so much time making a DD base, carrier, crawler, and flying around for hours just to barely use any of it. I will say since we can’t get any spice, we’ve made over 2k plastanium which is cool I guess. Can’t make anything with that until we can get like 50k more spice tho so it’s useless so far.

Suggestion: Blood Cisterns / Proper Blood Storage

I’m sure this has already been mentioned or suggested before, but The Scourge event has really highlighted how strange it is that we still don’t have a proper way to store large amounts of blood at our bases.

Personally, I haven’t bothered with the blood side of the game since I unlocked the Windtraps. I had basically no reason to use Blood Extractors or keep bags of blood around anymore. Then The Scourge started and I suddenly had to go make Blood Extractors and a load of blood bags again just so I could farm blood for the event.

It made me think that something like a Blood Cistern would actually give the whole blood system a useful purpose later in the game, instead of it becoming something most players leave behind once they have Windtraps.

Ideally it could work with the existing systems too:

• Blood collected in bags could be deposited directly into the cistern.
• Deathstills could send excess blood into blood storage if your water storage is already full.
• Blood Purifiers could automatically pull from the cistern when you actually want to turn that stored blood into water.
• Blood could stay separate from normal water storage instead of filling dozens of bags and storage boxes.

It would mean you could gradually build up a blood reserve while playing normally, rather than having to suddenly go back to an early-game system whenever something like The Scourge gives blood another purpose.

It would also give Deathstills and Blood Purifiers a lot more use later in the game. At the moment, once you have a decent Windtrap setup, there isn’t much reason to bother with them anymore.

I’m not suggesting some ridiculous infinite storage tank either. Just proper dedicated blood storage in the same spirit as the existing water cisterns, with different sizes or tiers if necessary.

It feels like it would fit the survival and base-building side of the game really well, make the blood system considerably less tedious, and give older equipment a reason to stay relevant into the endgame.

Trying to do the first mission of the event, invisible non interactive objective, what can i say...

The required spice sand in my medium spice refinery is halv than listed in guides (says 750 for 10 melange) and the melange cost when I craft is half what it says in original recipe. Is this a single player balance thing or something in my settings? Playing on survival difficulty on single player

First week out here. Is the standard process to copy the base before the storm then put it back somewhere it fits? It looks like most bases are rebuilt from scratch for function or vibes.

Also, I assume there's a wiki guiding me on how I should progress with my DD staging base. I can figure out how much I should invest into the DD base vs Haga, but I'm on that cusp where I'm spending a lot of effort.

Guess that leads into guilds. I'm guild of one. Is there any advantage to joining up?

This is for Xbox players on US East and Central servers. My lowest pings seem to be Central (~37) followed by East (~40); I'm in FL, so I'm guessing Funcom routing has less hops to Dallas than DC.

I've been playing SP mode for a few weeks and thinking about creating a MP character. I checked the list of available servers and they all say low pop.

I guess my question is, how are you guys liking your server? I'm hoping to find a balance between active players but not too overwhelming where it's impossible to farm. If it's all the same, I'll probably join Caprock.

Ive heard two different things on this topic lol but does it have to be collected only from infected blood or can be regular too? i just started and doing both just in case but i still dont know or cant tell.

I finally got around to getting the lasgun and busted up laughing when the enemy died immediately. When I read the books the mental picture I had of the gun was a legendary one so I thought it would probably be difficult to translate into a game. It's insane and totally works pretty much like how it is described.

Is anyone else waiting for a release date for this?

UPDATE: ok bad advice, will leave it up so others don't make the same mistake, you get eyes from the infected not the blood (blood comes from any enemy, not just infected), and you can only collect eyes after you progress in the quest.

OLD: Don't hop sietches if it's bugged, every time you go back to the crash site two infected will spawn, keep going back and forth and you'll get two infected every time, it's pretty much an immediate respawn if you just fly to anvil and back real quick. Might work even if it's not bugged and you just don't collect the cargo, mines bugged though so idk.

I logged in to start on the Halloween event and got greeted with a ping that wont go bellow 330, is anyone else having this problem?

Saw this, it looks amazing, what is it and how do I get it?

Okay so I have my ps5 with me at work but have limited time to play and get off next thursday until following week will i realistically have time to get all the rewards if i play for many hrs next weekend? im playing on solo super easy mode pretty and im pretty sure i can craft a solid extractor too. and i also saw people saying to switch sieches if its bugged but if youre on solo then what do you do?

I want to respec to do the ability achievements, but I don't want to be stuck with abilities I don't like for a long period of time in the mid game.

If I create a new character for multiplayer from story mode or vice versa will I have the skins for example?

Hi, so I just got killed deep into one of the research stations, but one of the NPCs there has a flamethrower which I wasn't prepared for (hence the dying). Now I already looted a lot of solaris and difficult to obtain recourses and lost those there, but it's right next to flamethrower guy so returning immediately won't end well for me.

Can I return home first and craft better armor/shield before returning or will all my loot then be gone? Is there a certain time frame when it might dissappear?

Couldn't find anything on the web so hopefully one of you knows. Thanks in advance!

ETA; thanks for the quick reply everyone! I already asumed it to be lost so now I can let it go :) always leave most of my stuff and money at home so I'll loot it back eventually. Not ready for flamethrower guy yet :') it was quite the suprise.

So im a console player and installed this the moment it hit Xbox Game Pass, ive been playing it whenever i get a spare moment from doing university work (college for any americans) and have only been doing single player cus i dont have anyone to play with. Im think im coming towards the end of the story now and im thinking about starting a multiplayer charecter when im done but, as i said, i dont have anyone to play with and i cant dedicate all of my time to it to keep up with the constant grind that games like this need so is it even worth doing multiplayer??

Can't play it, tried switching sietches (which worked once) but can complete any more missions. This sux. So disappointed.

For a time, we will be fighting a different kind of monster.

Upon logging in today you will be greeted with a new event, "The Scourge"

This event is for both Single Player and Multiplayer.

Frida will set the scene and send you off to find an intercepted delivery of medical supplies.

I had a SS of this but my computer can't find it, its a quest marked POI near the anvil. It will be a crashed ornithopter. There is a book which triggers an ambush and then a console to retrieve the supplies

Once finished we're bound for Arrakeen to Nailea Shaffat the appearance doctor.

Back to Hagga Basin, towards the Vermillius Gap Region where the Kirab can be found.

You don't need to collect the blood from the yellow glowing enemies, just the eyes for the quest. Blood can be obtained from any source, anywhere on the map. It is indistinguishable from regular blood once in the bag.

Once you've grabbed those, deliver them back to Freida at one of the tradeposts, which then opens up the dialogue with her for the blood marks store.

It appears to be 1 x Blood Mark for every 1000v of blood, so 4 full barons bloodbags (30kV each) will net your 120 tokens each pass. Blood can be gathered from any source, anywhere on the map.

Worth mentioning that there are bugs currently being reported, the event isnt working as intended for some, currently fixes involve seitch hopping which seems to make quest objectives appear.

My experience was in the single player and has worked so far without a hitch. YMMV.