Distress Beacon Lost

I made it to the point of creating a distress beacon in game after much time spent mining, and after placing it it was immediately destroyed, two penguins landed out of the UFO, and the UFO flew off.

Now I'm left without my beacon, and without a dead boss. Not exactly a nice thing to have happen after having spent so much time building a beacon. Now I have to create another one because the first one didn't drop after being destroyed.

I am everso sad!

 

Regardless though, I barely had a chance to fight!

They just flew in, broke the thing, and left before I had the chance to fight them.
One-time use is fine by me, but I had hardly even started the encounter, and now I have to go scour my world for a ton more metal.

 

Well, considering I may just have to re-make my first character due to the UFO boss totally destroying me whenever I spawn... yeah, it might be a good thing it didn't stay for you.

Am I missing something? Is it supposed to be level 10 and barely take any damage from me? And be able to one-shot me? They should REALLY advise people about this if it is supposed to be this way.

 

Same thing here. Kind of makes me angry that it had you go through all that prep just to get killed instantly and lose the beacon in the process.

 

I placed and then activated the beacon, while killing the mobs the UFO flew off, beacon has gone.
I assumed that one of the mobs would drop fuel/blueprints...

 

Same here. The UFO dropped off 5 penguins and disappeared. (not before insta-killing me 2 times). As soon as I got rid of the penguin deathsquad I realized that the UFO is gone and I have to craft the beacon every time I fail. Honestly I don't believe in such grave difficulty balance issues so early in the game. Could be, but I think I'm doing something wrong here.

 

I was coming to post about the same issue. I know the mission said to "gear up," but I didn't know that meant being able to survive instakills from multiple enemies within milliseconds of re-spawning. I spawned the UFO too early and now I have no beacon, no resources, and no pixels because I had no choice but to keep respawning and lose nearly all of them in the process.

 

Same here, my beacon just disappeared for no reason and the UFO just flew off. He dropped like two penguins, but that's it.

 

I had the same issue, put the beacon down and it was destroyed then I was one shot by two penguins. Some damage balancing would be good. c:

 

Damn it, played the game for 4 hours. Finally got all the mats and then two penguins dropped and insta killed me three times. When i spawned back everything disappeared....
Also my beacon is gone...

 

Same thing happened to me. This is a very well known issue, so while it's causing many of us a great deal of frustration, we can rest assured that the devs are VERY well aware of this and it will obviously be fixed at some point. As beta players, we should be thankful the game is as playable as it is

 

Same goes here. Now there's no quest to do at the moment. But it was quite my few hours of exploring Starbound. Money worth spent!

 

Its not damage balancing being the issue, its a quest to leave the alpha sector, which means by then you're supposed to take on threat level 10 planets without a problem, and then its a boss level 10 at that. its not something thats going to be easy, at all.
There is a problem though, the way its paced, it seems like part of the tutorial, like the end of it, but i think there will be quests inbetween after the release

 

This pretty much.

Also when I fought the UFO, I thought it had flown off too, but when I killed all the penguins it came back down from the sky and murdered me. I respawned and killed it

 

well my ufo doesnt seem to want to hang around it just keeps dropping penguins and then leaving straight away.

 

I had thought something similar happened to me, but then I found the UFO. Way to the right and high in the sky. After attacking it with a bow it came back down and started being active again.

 

Is it leaving after it kills you or just not giving you a chance to fight at all? I ask because some in this thread are saying it leaves after one shotting them which is supposed to happen.

As others have mentioned the boss if for after you can stand being on lvl 10 planets and have explored enough planets to get good gear.

 

I made that thing 5 times now and if he kills you he is gone and you might have to deal with a crush. 3rd time i used it and went inside a monkey lab and hes gone. So i got tired of wasting my bars on it and cheap killed it with bow and some dirt.