Yes, it’s possible, but you somehow need to guess (or find on google) some door code in the aurora. In my latest gameplay I managed to finish the game without the sunbeam being shot

The fun part is that their first radio communications imply that they dislike alterra. The first communication you get from them is them asking if Aurora reads, then proceeding to say that alterra sends and S.O.S. whenever the engine is low on grease and that they’ll have to waste time running errands for alterra.

Sunbeam does not like alterra.

Alas, >!the canon story in BZ is that the Sunbeam got shot down. How's that parallel timeline treating you?!<

How do you cure yourself quickly enough though...

its as simple as ignoring the radio during the whole game. Easy enough

Your not suppised to, there is an event that happens only after the sunbeam is destroyed that progresses the story. The QEP is pre programmd to ALWAYS fire at the sunbeam, even if it has been deactivated.

That's strange. I read the Sunbeam is supposed to give you a message about being unable to land due to debris fields, if you deactivate the platform.

You have to desactivate the quarentine zone during the timer not before or after :)

You can't... at least not as of august 2018

can't seem to find anything more recent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx-kCVkW1Fs&t=615s

9:00

You dont, they never got around to coding it when they released the game.

There's a hidden "Easter egg" that if you disable the big gun before they arrive then they'll call you to say there's a huge debris cloud around the planet and they can't come and get you, so no there's no way to be saved by them

I made a playthrough once where I launched the Neptune rocket as the timer expired for the sunbeam hoping for some sort of different dialog or event.

TLDR nothing happens, you get the same dialog with the debris field...even though I was already in space!

They probably don’t die anyway. If you look close, you can see, that two intact life pods detach from the sunbeam, but they clip through the ground instead of landing in the water. I think the devs may add something there later, or it’s just an Easter egg.

Technically you just don’t have to use the radio till the guns off, if you don’t seek rescue they never come

I did see a video where a live gargantuan leviathan bursts out of the water and swallows the sunbeam whole.

I think this must have been a fan made patch rather than anything official but it was still very cool.

You listened to the radio later in the first save.

I think it just depends on when you listen to the radio is when they'll come for you. But you can save the Sunbeam which not many people know about, or at least don't care to save it.

Sounds like you might have missed it then. I’d your not around the area when it happens, you don’t hear anything. And nothing pops up. When they say their on their way, you get a timer on screen in the top right corner. And when it finishes counting down, the even happens regardless of of your there or not. And nothing is recorded in the data. Just that it lost contact suddenly and that’s it.

I haven't run into that, always get a timer after listening to the final radio messsage, sounds like it glitched. Usually the radio message for it it comes up around day 10 for me, but there's probably some sequence and random timing involved. In other words, there's a sequence of 4 radio messages so it may depend on when you trigger them and when you listen to them.

You can actually ignore the Sunbeam altogether and it won't impact the game. If you're out of the area but within line of sight when the Sunbeam arrives you see a graphic of it entering the atmosphere and getting blown up then a message about it over the PDA. If out of sight, you'll just get the PDA message.

FYI... the outcome you faced is inevitable, so don't lose any sleep over it thinking you somehow lost the game. There's no way to change that fate.

Yeah you can stay when the Sunbeam arrives.

I mean the 'when' is never in doubt. It most certainly makes it down to the surface

Oof

Sun beam isn’t important to gameplay don’t worry

Its not really that important in itself. Head over to where the landing site was supposed to be. While you did miss one of the best parts of the story, you should be able to piece together what happened.

Sorry, you missed your chance. You're stuck on the planet forever now.

The PDA should give you a clue what happened to it.

The PDA should have implied something happened to the Sunbeam... Won't spoil it, you would have seen it if you were there. What happened: >!A giant laser gun on the island shot down the Sunbeam and destroyed it and it's crew.!< Basically, just continue playing the game as normal.

Please mark it with a spoiler. Also, it's not the end of the game, it's coded to >!explode!<

No one could kiddo.

So cute that you had that fire extinguisher ready.

might be smart to mark with a spoiler.

Can’t save it.

There are several entrances to the LR, you're not ready if you can only go 200m...you need a vehicle upgrade console, its a structure you'll place on a wall in your Moonpool.

You'll want to find the Degasi bases, the deepest one is near an LR entrance, but I recommend the one in the trench.

Please don’t put spoilers in titles!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have you explored the Aurora yet? Many interesting things can be found there. Bring a scanner.