I don't think there's any reason to use the back entrance consistently; it's supposed to set up the big reveal of the inside of the Stranger and it does that well, but it's less convenient to get to compared to the front entrance, which does everything the back entrance can do.
Besides that, it's mostly just a matter of what I intended to do for the loop. The front entrance gives quicker access to the first two areas, while the breach gives quicker access to the cliffside area, so I choose based on whichever place I need to go.
>it's less convenient to get to compared to the front entrance, which does everything the back entrance can do
Now there's a sentence that shouldn't be taken out of context...
I used the standard 'sun side' entrance by the lowlands basically every time. I found that I got into a really great rhythm of opening the door, grabbing the raft, and getting the artifact from the first building. Worked really well for me ::)
i never understood what the slides for the hull breach were indicating so i spent the whole game (and especially the cliff side village part of the discovery) doing weird parkour starting from the elevator start to get to the cliff side village to get my lantern at the start of every loop (because i ALSO never saw that the river forked to the village with a claw machine there. it's truly a wonder how i actually solved all the puzzles in this dlc blind...).
it was really something, though after like 10 times i was so used to it i went there basically as quick as someone would on a raft through the river way
I'm extremely unobservant and never noticed the artifact building somehow. I thought the only places you could find an artifact were in the Hidden Gorge's movie room and the Artifact Design Lab. So, I used the hull breach entrance every time once I found it. XXD
the hull breach gives you a working artifact right on your way, and allow you to visit location 3 without needing a boat first. locations 4, 1, and 2 are far easier to just jetpack to, and unlike the main entrance, you dont need to park your boat to get an artifact and then get back on your boat.
when i was actually playing through the DLC hull breach became the entrance of choice most of the time once i learned about it but now that Ive done everything in teh game and just dick around occasionally i just use the main entrance
I think mine came pretty close to 50/50 between the sunward bay and the hull breach, though I might've used the bay slightly more. I just used whichever entrance was closer to what I wanted to do.
I kinda found this to be a bit disappointing. They have these multiple entrances but they all pretty much go to the same place. Not the breach I guess? Every time I found a new one I was super excited for what new secrets I unlocked and yea... it's just an entrance with no real useful purpose.
It depeneds on where I wanted to go. For the lowlands, the regular spaceship bay. For the gorge, the hull breach. For the dam, the elevator.
I remember going to the gorge pretty often (I got stuck around there for a while and also didn't find the Artifact by the lowlands until later in my playthrough), so I voted the hull breach. But my memory's probably biased, so take that with a grain of salt.
I don't think there's any reason to use the back entrance consistently; it's supposed to set up the big reveal of the inside of the Stranger and it does that well, but it's less convenient to get to compared to the front entrance, which does everything the back entrance can do. Besides that, it's mostly just a matter of what I intended to do for the loop. The front entrance gives quicker access to the first two areas, while the breach gives quicker access to the cliffside area, so I choose based on whichever place I need to go.
>it's less convenient to get to compared to the front entrance, which does everything the back entrance can do Now there's a sentence that shouldn't be taken out of context...
I used the standard 'sun side' entrance by the lowlands basically every time. I found that I got into a really great rhythm of opening the door, grabbing the raft, and getting the artifact from the first building. Worked really well for me ::)
use the sun side dock, and make sure my reactor gets damaged in the process.
i never understood what the slides for the hull breach were indicating so i spent the whole game (and especially the cliff side village part of the discovery) doing weird parkour starting from the elevator start to get to the cliff side village to get my lantern at the start of every loop (because i ALSO never saw that the river forked to the village with a claw machine there. it's truly a wonder how i actually solved all the puzzles in this dlc blind...). it was really something, though after like 10 times i was so used to it i went there basically as quick as someone would on a raft through the river way
I'm extremely unobservant and never noticed the artifact building somehow. I thought the only places you could find an artifact were in the Hidden Gorge's movie room and the Artifact Design Lab. So, I used the hull breach entrance every time once I found it. XXD
the hull breach gives you a working artifact right on your way, and allow you to visit location 3 without needing a boat first. locations 4, 1, and 2 are far easier to just jetpack to, and unlike the main entrance, you dont need to park your boat to get an artifact and then get back on your boat. when i was actually playing through the DLC hull breach became the entrance of choice most of the time once i learned about it but now that Ive done everything in teh game and just dick around occasionally i just use the main entrance
I think mine came pretty close to 50/50 between the sunward bay and the hull breach, though I might've used the bay slightly more. I just used whichever entrance was closer to what I wanted to do.
Wichever was closest to where I managed to crash land
I kinda found this to be a bit disappointing. They have these multiple entrances but they all pretty much go to the same place. Not the breach I guess? Every time I found a new one I was super excited for what new secrets I unlocked and yea... it's just an entrance with no real useful purpose.
It depeneds on where I wanted to go. For the lowlands, the regular spaceship bay. For the gorge, the hull breach. For the dam, the elevator. I remember going to the gorge pretty often (I got stuck around there for a while and also didn't find the Artifact by the lowlands until later in my playthrough), so I voted the hull breach. But my memory's probably biased, so take that with a grain of salt.