I hate the placement of the dunes... It's so easy to wander into it early on in playing, I was passing along near the grassy plateau and kelp forests and I could see the dunes! So I of course was avoiding them, as I was passing along the edge of a kelp forest near the dunes, never entering them, didn't even get the pda warning.

POP!

Reaper tail right in my fucking face out of nowhere! I paused and quit to my last save point, which unfortunately was on the aurora... At night... When I was ready to leave... So yeah panic attack number 2 from the escape out of that nuclear wreck...