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.

@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. 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.

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 😛

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.

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.

Life support depletes too quickly on Voeld

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Anonymous
9 years ago
The big three problems with Voeld are:

The heat lamps don't always work and there aren't enough.

The vault doesn't reduce the negative effects enough.

Back Up Life Support doesn't do *. I have seen 0 effect on my player with this consumable.

Trying to finish the task "Catch and Release" and there are no heat lamps and about 20 kett. I keep having to jump back to the outpost Techiix and that causes them all to respawn. :\ Frustrating.
Anonymous
9 years ago
i don't know if it's just my mind playing tricks or what, but on voeld to me it seems like the life-support gauge drops more quickly after the vault is online, even in level 1 hazards.
Anonymous
9 years ago
I'm pretty sure this is a bug. Between this and other similar posts, regardless of difficulty, people seem to be getting different results. I for one haven't had any issues with it. Challenging, but not impossible in the ways some of you are mentioning. Since it behaves differently than other planets after the vault is brought online (intentional or not debatable), I would imagine it would be pretty easy to miscode something.
chrissyce1123
9 years ago
Hopefully you don't get the ng+ bug. The only way to survive one battle on Voeld is to park it on a heater. Or run indoors, eventually the enemies will follow. Definitely use the life support consumables.
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