Life support depletes too quickly on Voeld

But you can drive your Nomad right next to the loot? I remember after I finished insanity that there's an objective behind the kett base where the hazard level is 2 and it was insane how fast the life support dropped, but I just crashed in the middle of the party right next to the heater. It's especially more fun with the nomad spherical shield. Oh, and there are consumables against the hazard I believe but I never used them 😛

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@felker_s wrote:

As you explore Voeld, there are many random encounters in which if you partake, your life support system tends to deplete quite quickly (playing on insanity, at least - shooting up enemies can take a while). Sometimes you're lucky, and there's one of those heat emitting lights around kett setups, but most of the time, you clear 1-2 kett & remnant groups, and then you have to travel back to a forward station, during which sometimes the very same enemies respawn. As these sites mostly only have a lootable container lying around, the negative factors effectively render these sites useless, it's just not worth losing 1-1,5 units of life support for some kett/remnant junk without an opportunity to stabilize it in a reasonable distance.

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well fun fact you can stay near heat lamps and fight. you can also use life support consumables to allow you to fight longer in harsh environments. and if you use really good guns that heal you , you wont even have to leave the heat lames. you can stand in one spot tanking everything. insanity is easy if you have the correct healing mods and a strong weapon to kill everything.

As you wrote - junk. So why even bother?

My firsy play, I tried to kill everything that stood in my way. Now, I mostly just ride through (or around).

I usually try tending to the Vault as soon as possible, to get the 40% mininum of viability. Having an outpost is not that difficult at that planet, and it pretty much solves the most pressing hazardous weather.

@mrufka_z That's actually my problem. If I just ignore them, I'm ignoring a gameplay feature. I mean, if you don't care about these sites, then the whole map gets even more empty, the 'Inquisition illness' is still present here. But if you want to explore these - sometimes there are actually unmarked "Task" category quests -, it can be a bit tricky because of the lack of heating panels and ammo crates at these little camps. From a lore perspective, at remnant sites, it's understandable, and it's suggested that kett can also endure hardcore environments - yet sometimes they do have heaters.

 It is a bit of a challenge, but in most of the areas, you can handle the problems.  Heat lamps and interior areas refill your life support.  You could also use one of your consummable slots with the life support booster and boost your life support when you get low.

 The main issue behind most of the sites on voeld though is that they really wanted to keep the environment more harsh so that you might finish the vault first and then explore.  But it was far too easy, and almost encouraged with the placement of everything to find everything before you bother with the vault.  They attempted to give you a reason to not explore in a game where the whole point of the open areas is exploration.

By the time I got to Elaaden (late, I know) I had learned to ignore pretty much everything else and just go activate the Remnant climate control equipment first.  It makes all missions and activities easier.

On Elaaden, except for the blinding white screen from time to time (at least if you drive into a sink hole there is no penalty) you can instantly walk around without burning to death.  Same thing on Voeld.  No freezing, and it happens immediately.  As far as I can tell, Eos is the only place you have to leave and re-visit later to give the radiation some time to dissipate.

I take it you have not fought the architect remnant on voeld, now that is a tough fight.

The first phase is easy, the second phase you have to run inside to a heat lamp then come back outside and finish him off.

very tough when he spawns observers

At least on insanity it was hard.

Also I found the vault on voeld hard, because the life support would deplete when you had to do the console puzzle @ the start, they may have fixed this, but before you had to do the puzzle rather quickly or even run to a different safespot half way through then come back to finish the puzzle (which is what I did)

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@PandaTar wrote:

I usually try tending to the Vault as soon as possible, to get the 40% mininum of viability. Having an outpost is not that difficult at that planet, and it pretty much solves the most pressing hazardous weather.

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For me, it didn't solve hazardous weather conditions at all.  And this was with 100% viability.  It was disappointing to/for me.  I'm on my second playthrough and going even slower than I did the first time so I'll check it out again.

But it didn't work for me at all.  I still needed the lamps.

I can't check now either. When I played, I got 100% in all planets, but one of the missions I had in that planet got a bug and I couldn't trigger it anymore. So, I expected where the area where the Architect is humming about would be less hazardous by then. If not, well, if not, it sucks in Insanity. Wouldn't those consumables to sustain your environment be of any use there?