Welcome to Beyond Contact Public Feature Suggestions and Bug Reporting
We are using this public feature upvoter and bug tracker to allow our community to help identify potential bugs and also have a voice in determining which features will make it into the game.
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Bug reports marked as Needs More Info will be closed if there is no player response after 30 days.
Please Keep in mind that we will do our best to prioritize your additions based on their place in the list, but we also have to consider development time and resources when deciding how we schedule in new features and bug fixes.
[Feature] Structures Repacking & Items Recycling
I've discovered that right now only walls and gates are repacked back into their original form, once deconstructed. It will be great if we will have option to repack ...
Done
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] PAUSE while in research/craft/map screens
Game appears frustrating enough from a time-management standpoint. That alone likely puts off enough people that it's not necessary to also sap O2 and food while ...
Not planned
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Verticality
I know it's maybe not an easy one but honestly I can't imagine a 2021 without it now. It started with the ( sorry, no it's not an advertisment for the game ) Seven : ...
Needs more info
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Add temporary weather events
Add normal weather events such as rain, fog, hail, etc. that happen in areas not currently affected by a void rift.
Done
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Rotten food to compost into dirt
Allow players to have a mechanism to change rotten food into rich dirt, then it allows for players to be less dependent on rng for biomes for their first base.
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Advanced Storage
Sorry Devs, can't remember the name of it. Currentlly it's better to build four storage boxes (24 slots) than the 2x2 storage which only has 9 or 12 slots, ...
Done
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Seperate filter settings for minimap and mainmap
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature]The ability to select several objects at once for deletion
When you build a fence, you are offered to hold down the button and draw a line along which it will immediately be built. We need to do the same, only with deletion. ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Auto pick up
have an auto pick up from your stuff around you, like when I am mining and it all explodes all over the place when I click on it to pick it up most of the time my guy ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Using Botany Lab Station should select Botany Tab
When you use the Botany Lab and it brings up the fabrication menu, it should automatically select the botany tab.
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Make Gas Blossoms plantable and upgradable.
I like the oxygenator but don't always have the resources to power it. I would like to be able to dig up the gas blossoms and then plant them next to strategic spots ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Increase armor durability
Both low grade and higher grade armor degrade at the same or nearly the same rate. It takes about 10-15 hits to destroy both starting armor and the one you build on ...
Done
Feature Suggestion
[Merch/Feature] Chitterling Plushie!
a cute cuddly chitterling plush
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] More ranged weapons
Pistols, shotgun, minigun etc. endless options
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Features] Base Lighting
Do you know what my base needs? A good lamp! It's dark in there! If you really want something cool, put lights in the walls for a futuristic look! The lights ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Minimap and map rotation
How easy would it be to have that minimap not rotate... and maybe the full-map too. Games with rotating minimap get me lost pretty easy.
Brains have their ways to ...
Done
Feature Suggestion
[Bug] Void Rift spawned over Overseer on Octopus alien ship
Following the quest line clockwise, I'm meant to talk to the Overseer on his ship. Unfortunately a void rift has opened partially on the ship, covering his spawn ...
Done
Bug
[Feature] Weapon rebalance
I stopped using new weapons after the shock whip. Some had such long use animations that it wasn't worth how much I got hit. Others didn't do enough damage to be ...
Done
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Overlapping Shield Generator Fields Merging/Melding
Right now, if your base has multiple Shield Generators, projected shields are overlapping in a manner that doesn't look harmonic (as can be seen in attached image). ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Bug] Weather Effects Inside Shelter/Habitat
Snowstorm, sandstorm, etc effects are persisting inside sealed shelters & habitats. This should not happen.
Under consideration
Bug
[Feature] Creature comforts (base decorations)
One thing I love in survival building games is to be able to make a Base feel homey. It's where I'm going to be spending time trying to make the best out of ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Green Arrow showing front of structures when placing
Structures could be placed the front facing the wrong way. If there a green arrow showing the front of the structures while we are placing them, we could rotate them ...
Done
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Drill for resources
A drill that can be placed in areas and either powered or comes with power that will give a large amount of mined resources. When the drill is turned on for it's ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature]The ability to turn on / off the headlamp.
The headlamp spends its strength when lit. Standing on the base at night, it is not needed, since there is another light source. It may be worth making a light sensor ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Sci-fi refrigerator needs be more sci-fi.
Right now refrigerator in Beyond Contact only looks sci-fi, while its behavior and efficiency somewhere on the level of refrigerators made in 1960's. Since it is ...
Done
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Split/shared local co-op
Could You please implement local coop like Helldivers or DoS 2?
Not planned
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Streamers Need: Sound in background
While ALT+TABbing the stream looses audio. Maybe an option to enable/disable it.
Done
Feature Suggestion
[Bug] CARL pesters about research when tree is full
Even when the research tree is complete, CARL continues to pester the player.
What should happen is there should be a one time congratulations and then CARL ...
Under consideration
Bug
[Bug] Mouse Cursor in menu not working
Description - After starting the game the menu screen appears, but the mouse cursor disappears and doesn't appear to be working
How to Reproduce - Every time I ...
Needs more info
Bug
[Feature] Recyclable walls and floors
Currently the recycler earned from researching defrabrication only recycles select items. Most items in the game are useful and have no need to be recycled however ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Make gear more resillient
... or at least give an option to customize the gear degradation rate. Plenty of games have this. Similar to hunger rate, etc.
I find the gear last very little and ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Bug] Shop keeper is standing behind the shop
Minor bug, but he really loves how the back of his tent looks it seems.
Done
Bug
[Feature] Barrage Cannon Mk1
It feels very low in damage, might as well build 2x Guardian Turret Mk1 and have better results.
I do get it's probably AOE Damage, but it could be at least 50% stronger
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] More combat weapons
Katana, double katana, and especially weapons I can actually craft, so far I can only get good weapons from the market and they are all void weapons.
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Freezer
I can dig, with pain, that the fridge still withers food. It should be slower though.
Additionally I would love to be able to create a freezer that does not wither ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Add solar panels to roof/late game solar power upgrade
It would be nice to be able to go all in on renewable energy late game! Roof-tile solar panels could be stacked like flooring, applied to the roof of a viable room, ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[FEATURE] Add Maneuverability to combat
Easy, Combat is, for lack of a better term, boring. Its well balanced, except that its hit once, move, hit once, move. And of you are off by even a moment, you are ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature]Buff/Change First Aid Kit or cost
The matter processor I understand. Gating 'good' healing behind progress has always been a thing and if that was the only limitation here it would be appropriate for ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] CARL changes color when researching.
make Carl change color to indicate research progress.
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Energy Rebalance + Energy Related Upgrades
It is absolutely justified for Thermo Bulb and Refrigerator to have 2 power consumption, but for Spotlight to consume same amount of energy as them... Unjustified, ...
Done
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Add wind current symbols to the map once discovered
In addition, a submenu of filters to filter for a specific resource would be cool too. Click on the Mineral and it brings up a list of all of them and then you can ...
Done
Feature Suggestion
[BUG] Selection in Menus Moving On It's Own
Description - Whenever I enter the game, the selection moves through the menu items and the mouse doesn't appear until I hit esc. When I try to go into the options ...
With Developer
Bug
[Bug] infinite loading on reload of save file
I left the game to do some research after about a couple hours of play. When I restarted it, my save would not leave the loading screen. Tips continue to cycle and ...
Done
Bug
[Feature] Add Final Battle
Currently no Enemies. Description: After talking to Clawtooth to trigger the final battle with the Corrupted Warboss at the Oasis, the cutscene played but after the ...
Done
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Better Refrigerator
Seems better to just live off of berries and throw out rotten food than building a Refrigerator. I think I'd consider making them if you could store Viperlisk/Crog ...
Done
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Option for Rift spawn rate and amount
For when doing challenging runs, it would be fun to set it so 24 rifts spawn on day 10. and you then have to survive it.
Done
Feature Suggestion
[Feature]Automated Bots
Bots that can automate resource gathering near (a) base, mainly lower tier resource nodes, compared to research level, but still used and are not found in high tier ...
Multiple Topics
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] More building room
So I love the base building in this game it's not to much and not to little. But I still feel with how most areas in the game are that either floors going up or going ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[FEATURE] Add sliders to difficulty settings to adjust drops
This is one that Ive seen many places. V-Rising, ARK, etc all include sliders so that you can increase the amount of resources you get per node. I would like to see ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Long search for the right NPC
6. **Above the NPC, write their name or position. It is very difficult to find a trader (among the Brachylons) or Sence (a leading researcher among the Osmians)** ...
Done
Feature Suggestion