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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When adding a Suggestion write [Feature] in your feature suggestion title.
When adding a bug write [Bug] in your bug report title.
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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] Healing Rod too weak
I do like the void removing properties, they are nice, the range is good.
But the healing part? Oh my.
I play conquest on normal and the heal feels about 100% off. ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Character continues to move when eating or healing.
I'm hoping that I'm not the only one who finds it annoying that the character completely stops running when you either eat or heal.
Even if it just slowed you to ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Fertilizer bigger stacks
It is very unsatisfying when fertilizers just don't stack beyond 10. Not even in the industrial storage.
10 is already crap, even for normal storage.
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Vehicles
Vehicles that require fuel or power supplied by resources around the map or manufactured by user from raw resources. Land sea and air vehicles such as, hover craft, ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] More building options
Building presets like biodome, corridors, labs, living quarters...etc living quarters would have a bed you can sleep through the night or heal up. Buildings can have ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Bug] Stuck on a rock
I stepped off a shelter floor tile onto an adjacent rock. No way off.
Under consideration
Bug
[Bug] Unclear Tooltip: Quinn's Mini-Turret Deployment
Quinn's mini-turret tooltip lists "Deployments: 3" this can be interpreted as "I can deploy this turret 3 times", not that if I deploy a fourth the first will despawn.
Under consideration
Bug
[Bug] Unexpected Dragging While Using Map/etc
When viewing the map, dragging should be disabled. It's too easy to drag (and lose) items when trying to pan the map.
Under consideration
Bug
[Feature] Temperature Gradients Too Shallow
This is mostly for the lava/boiling areas where it is hot due to lava and steam. The temperature gradient for 'freezing' is far too steep.
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Data Overflow
I have over 3k data for all data types, it would be nice to be able to do something with it. Maybe be able to use it as currency at the market to buy the more ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Ending
I like the choices at the end, however, it should be made clear that if you chose to stay on the planet, you can return to the main ship whenever you want.
I do ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Renaming bases on the map
Currently the game just assigns random names for the bases when you build them.
Please add the ability to rename player bases on the map.
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Bug] Repair tool broken
Something messed up with the repair tool. I am 100% sure it kept repairing when you kept the left button clicked.
It no longer does, you have wait for the repair to ...
Under consideration
Bug
[Feature] Removal tool too slow
Removal tool is annoyingly slow. Especially if you want to extend your base and remove a lot of wall, fence, floor.
Two solutions:
As in many other games the ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Fight over walls
It would be nice if there was a way to fight over walls with combat weapons. Like they have the "pedestal" in riftbreaker.
I don't want to go outside my walls.
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Features] Exploration suggestion
So far, we can only scan items that we make use of. But there are a lot of other plants that cannot be scanned like trees. Someone is already making use of trees ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Bug] Force Field Decryption
Force field decryption is unlocks.
Cannot be crafted. (Fabrication)
All components available.
Version 1.0.1
Under consideration
Bug
[Bug] Lush and Bountiful plants are destroyed when dug up
This makes me furious, especially when redesigning my planters.
I also hope they are not destroyed when their health reaches 0.
The entire mechanic of having to ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Hover Vehicle & Stamina Tree Options
Hi, The game is awesome but I would love to have some kind of hover vehicle like hover bike or ATV Motorcycle with storage as well it's nice to have stamina tree in ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Bridges
this is something extremely needed with the world so broken up, it'd even be better if there was like crossing zones with no biome somewhat or neutral places but the ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Bug] Corruped Sniper shoots through solid objects
The Corrupted sniper's shots pass through solid objects when shooing at the character.
1) Find a Corrupted Sniper.
2) Enter into combat with the Corrupted Snipe. ...
Under consideration
Bug
[Feature] Deconstruct more than one wall/floor section at a time.
Much like how the game allows the player to place wall and floor sections in groupings with no animations from the character. It should allow the removal of multiple ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Single point teleporter
Early game it's hard to figure out where to put a base and i figured if we get teleporters later it'd be nice early on to have a single point teleporter that allows ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Single item transfer
In addition to transfer all or otherwise cutting the stacks in halves, it'll be great to have single transfers (one by one). I usually need this when only needing to ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Bug] Dailies not Changing
Booted up the game for the first time after the release update and had 4 minutes left until the dailies refreshed. I started a new game, rushed through as much as I ...
With Developer
Bug
[BUG] Character consistently moves on its own
I'm having an issue that makes the game completely unplayable. The character (Kate) moves on her own without me touching the joy stick. I'm on xbox one. I've tried ...
Under consideration
Bug
[Feature] Farming Expansion
After a few playthroughs, I've noticed I tend to run out of organic research to progress on pretty quickly because I farm tamber and kepple for tamber cloth and ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Bug] Too cold to chat
Maybe not a bug, maybe intended, but there's a snowstorm where the alien ship with Cense is, and it keeps saying I'm too cold to chat. I think the ships shield ...
Done
Bug
[Feature] First Aid Kits/Shock Gel/Shock Tendrils
The cost of making First Aid Kits seems a bit high. It isn't guaranteed to get shock gel from the sprites and you need 3 to make a first aid kit. I estimate it would ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Add simultaneous mouse and controller support
My normal keyboard keys were starting to stick when playing the game and when I bought my Azeron key pad I thought that it would be a perfect and ergonomic solution ...
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Structure and Crafting icons
Add icons on the refinery, oven, reserche table etc... to know what is inside ans how much.
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] More research
I ran out of things to research somewhat quickly. I'd enjoy having additional research tiers with increasingly expensive for smaller improvement style research.
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[BUG] Void Rift inside of the Octomian Base
So there is a Rift inside of the Base i cant get a rift closer because censes got sucked into the rift.
I cant do my missions.
What should i do? 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
Done
Bug
[Feature] Hostile mob spawn blocker
Players might opt in for ever expanding bases. A hostile mob spawn blocker or some measure to prevent mob spawns within the player's base would be appreciated. ...
Done
Feature Suggestion
[Feature]Provide the ability to hide the interface.
Make a button that will allow you to turn off everything on the screen in order to get a good screenshot
Done
Feature Suggestion
[Feature]The ability to remove decorative textures
When you build a beautiful base, you don't want to see some flower in the middle of it that you can't even dig up.
Done
Feature Suggestion
[Feature]Changes in armor mechanics.
With an incomplete set of armor - for example, only a heated visor gives protection from the cold. I suggest so that only the full set would give the effect of heat ...
Not planned
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Ownership on buildings (Multiplayer)
For public games, so someone can't join and deconstruct all your buildings then leave.
Under consideration
Feature Suggestion
[Feature] Armor Stand / Weapon Rack
When replacing old Armor it would be cool to have an armor stand or a Weapon Rack to show off your Armor/Weapons in the base. Would also be an incentive to craft ...
Done
Feature Suggestion
[Bug] Monsters can attack you/structures from a different elevation
I built my base inside Barr Hollow and a monster was destroying my base from above while I couldn't attack it.
https://gfycat.com/skinnydarlinglabradorretriever
Not planned
Bug
[Bug] Brachylon NPCs run into objects and have glitchy movement
Description - It seems that the Brachylon NPCs very frequently will run into objects or other NPCs and will stand in one place moving back and forth erratically
With Developer
Bug
[Feature] Heatech Suit, decrease suit's condition decay rate
Honestly, I think current Heatech Suit's condition decay rate is a little bit excessive. I equipped it at night when I was in cold biome and after around 8 seconds ...
Done
Feature Suggestion
[BUG] Dead corrupted raider plays idle animation after death.
Dead corrupted raider plays idle animation after death, instead of laying around and show no life signs. Bug or feature? xD
Done
Bug
[Bug] Structures bug when being used and player dies
if you are using a base structure ie refinery and die due to any reason the building becomes bugged and thinks someone is still using it.
Done
Bug
[Bug] Crash Upon Gear Break
Description - It has happened twice, but it seems rather niche, but whenever 2 (or maybe more) pieces of equipment (in my experience it was the helmet and vest) break ...
Done
Bug
[Bug] No BullCrog spawn
Even if looking for in ALL the map, which i have already discovered at all (shown in the screenshots) there is no BullCrog spawn so i can't go further on the campaign ...
Done
Bug
[Bug] Option menu before Start Mission is disappeared
It occurred when I start a new game around 3 - 4 times and the menu that let's me choose campaign or sandbox was disappeared. Even after I reinstalled, it's still ...
Done
Bug
[BUG] Game crashing while in proximity of items dropped from previous death
I had died previously while attempting to retrieve one of the world forge parts. Finally got the area secured, but now whenever I try to retrieve my items, or even ...
Under consideration
Bug
[Bug] Mission stucked...
The final core is in the bar hollow, but how to open the gate?
Beside I only find 4 pieces of forge by light guidling, but no guiding to the 5th?
Done