The start of the Great Desert REALLY sucks

Having to do a quest before you’re allowed to use rest stops at all in open world areas in the first place is already stupid. But at least in the wasteland it wasn’t that far from where you start and you don’t need to fight much.

But the tower in the desert? Wtf? You have to fight from the center to the southeast, fighting stuff like lurkers that can be pretty rough, especially because you can’t stealth kill them. Then when you finally get to the tower, you have to fight a super stalker? All in one go without being able to rest and restore heals.

That is way too much just to unlock rest stops. By the time I got to the stalker I had one heal left. It was basically a guaranteed death unless I played perfectly.

I seriously hope they clean up some stuff like this if there’s a sequel.