Questing suggestions

From the Alpha-1, minus the occasional issue where the map marker pointed somewhere completely unrelated, I think they handled the marker balance mostly alright. I would certainly advocate for the marker covering a much larger area than a single spot whenever possible. I also enjoyed the integration certain quests had with it - some NPCs actually tell you they will mark your map with a specific location, and you can increase your precision there, as you would when needing to talk to a NPC you've already talked to (e.g. "Return to Karl to report your success"). I also think it was good that you could choose to only have certain markers on, i.e. if you don't want to see one, you shut it off, decrease noise on your map.

The one quest where I had a serious complaint is the one where you pick up a weird Minotaur mask (I forget the name, but there was a large Brood Mother boss enemy involved at one stage), which has a quest description that's approximately "wander around and see what happens" but has a map marker . That didn't make any sense to me, and while it was probably fine in the context of Alpha-1 in order to make sure players would test the quest triggers properly, I think that quests of this type should exist without any indicator whatsoever of where you need to go. I'm a big fan of having certain deep, involved quests where all you get are the notes from past steps that are written up in the quest log. Sure, the quest will end up on a wiki eventually, but you can...just not read that data source. That's a lot easier to ignore than the game nudging you away from the mystery altogether with a marker.