No Man's Sky |OT| Hello Worlds.
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Sakura
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Having a hard time upgrading my suit for more inventory slots. I've found like one upgrade for it so far.
I'd like a ship with more space too, but all the ones I see are like over a million units lol.
I think it would be better if space wasn't so inhabited. I mean, every system is undiscovered... except they all have space stations and frigates and traders flying around in them, and the planets too always seem to have buildings and NPCs on them. Seems a little strange that there are 18 Quintillion planets and every one I've been to has trading outposts or facilities etc with dudes chilling on them. A little too gamey in that regard.
I also don't like that upgrades take up slots. Game is constantly nagging me to build upgraded jetpack, but then I'd lose a slot for loot. Same for all this technology I find.
I'd like a ship with more space too, but all the ones I see are like over a million units lol.
I think it would be better if space wasn't so inhabited. I mean, every system is undiscovered... except they all have space stations and frigates and traders flying around in them, and the planets too always seem to have buildings and NPCs on them. Seems a little strange that there are 18 Quintillion planets and every one I've been to has trading outposts or facilities etc with dudes chilling on them. A little too gamey in that regard.
I also don't like that upgrades take up slots. Game is constantly nagging me to build upgraded jetpack, but then I'd lose a slot for loot. Same for all this technology I find.
So I'm marooned on Planet Duat. It's lifeless ( so far) and barren aside from some outposts spread around. Changed ships after finding an abandoned Gek ship...forgot I had no zinc to repair the pulse engine.
Hoping to find some trader with zinc...
At least the weather isn't bad.
Hoping to find some trader with zinc...
At least the weather isn't bad.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Wait.. Shit! How do you do that? I only ever get the 200 credits for scanning creatures. I already left the first system. Could I already be
even
er
Probably ties in with the first quote and my question above...
paragonpro
Banned
Im having a hell of a time trying to make a warp cell. Cant figure out where to get the bluebrints for anti matter. Just hit a really cool planet, probably the most beautiful ive visited yet. Gorgeous grass lands with bright blue skyes. Large crystal clear pools surround the opening of caves that look to be teaming with life and vegitation. I plan on spending a lot of time here exploring.
I don't know. I warped to my 3Rd solar system and when I got there, there was a space anomaly.
"spoilers" for what the atlaspass does.
So far everything I've used it for, I've found an upgrade for my exosuit. Im guessing the higher the version pass you get, the better the loot.
Sparrowhawk
Member
Whelp, guess I'm going to have to delete my goddamn eight hour save lol. I keep visiting the objective marker like the game tells me to, but there is literally nothing there for me.
CraigerGamer
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No Man,s Sky is currently the number one viewed game on twitch right now. Beating the likes of all the old favorites. Pretty amazing for an indie studio. Congrats to Hello Games.
So on my ship, my photon cannons are always at 0% and it's telling me to refill them but in the actual inventory menu I have no option to do so over my photon cannon where as the phase beam I can replenish. Anyone else getting this?
edit: Also I can still use my photon cannons which is doubly perplexing.
edit: Also I can still use my photon cannons which is doubly perplexing.
Living Proof
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Basically, just hit square over anything with a check box next to it/says "upload" underneath when you hover your cursor over it. Planets, systems, locations visited on planets, etc. are all worth more than fauna/flora
Oh, no worries. I hadn't heard about that before, but it's no big deal. I'm not much of a spoilerphobe, I just wanted to cover my ass with the spoiler tags in case someone who is comes around after I go to sleep in the next couple minutes.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Might be a glitch? The preorder ship had the cannons at 100%, but when I bought a new one they were at 0% but could still fire.
travisbickle
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Can't believe they made a "choose-your-own-adventure" game in 2016. Sean is my hero.
Well. That was...yeah.
So I streamed the game live for about 2+ hours and that time just flew fucking by. It's a game that will eat up your time.
Quick impressions:
The bad:
Controls took a little bit to get used to, especially sprinting on R3 and controlling your ship initially.
Managing inventory isn't really bad, but I definitely got annoyed when I'd run out of room and need it.
FOV doesn't bother me, but I do think it's a little close. I wouldn't mind the option to pull it back a click or two. No motion sickness though, thank god.
Unless you spawn on an easy to manage planet, you will have a tough time, I think. Especially if you go in completely blind (my starter planet was great, but I'll get into that below).
The good:
Frame rate was very solid. Seems like a smooth 30fps.
My starter planet was an ideal place to learn the ropes. The daytime temperature was something like -0.02C, and it didn't eat away at my suit. At night it dropped to -42C, and that did eat away at my suit, but very slowly.
I'll post my screens in the photo thread later, but it was a mix of rocky and lush. It had great caves and floating islands. Some cool and weird species, although one of them was an annoying crablike spider thing that kept attacking me. The other creatures were peaceful.
If it wasn't for the fact that I watched some streams, I'd have been way more lost than I was. I knew what I wanted to focus on early (mainly mining for iron and carbon or platinum to keep my suit life support systems up), and I mainly spent my evening on that single planet hunting for ruins and knowledge stones. I've learned 25 words already, and found some cool upgrade tech. I just need to find an exosuit and ship with better cargo.
Graphics look great. I love the art design, and the color pallete is really pleasant, especially between the day and night states. There's of course technical issues like how the world draws in the environment, and the textures can be muddy and low quality, but overall it's a nice looking game.
The sense of exploration and discovery is very nice. Even though I was wandering the same landscape, and finding ruins and facilities, and collecting resources, I couldn't stop myself. I just had to see what the next question mark on my HUD was. I just had to scan one more creature. My absolute love of outer space and sci fi plays a huge factor, of course, but I love this game. It's exactly what I hoped it would be, but it also has a lot more under the hood than I was expecting.
It's not perfect, and there are things I'd love to see improved and expanded on, but if this was the only NMS update we'd get, I'd still feel satisfied with it. That feeling I got when I flew out of the atmosphere, and saw a moon above the curve of the massive planet dominating most of the screen, and knowing that I could fly to that moon and visit it was worth the price of admission. When I pulled out to the galaxy map and saw all of those pin points of light and knowing that each was a star I could visit, it was literally a dream come true for young Figboy, who used to fantasize about a game like this in the 80's while playing my NES. I'm 37 years old, and although this may not be a flawless execution of the concept, it's an incredibly promising and entertaining execution of the concept.
I could honestly play it all night, but I have to go to work in the morning.
So I streamed the game live for about 2+ hours and that time just flew fucking by. It's a game that will eat up your time.
Quick impressions:
The bad:
Controls took a little bit to get used to, especially sprinting on R3 and controlling your ship initially.
Managing inventory isn't really bad, but I definitely got annoyed when I'd run out of room and need it.
FOV doesn't bother me, but I do think it's a little close. I wouldn't mind the option to pull it back a click or two. No motion sickness though, thank god.
Unless you spawn on an easy to manage planet, you will have a tough time, I think. Especially if you go in completely blind (my starter planet was great, but I'll get into that below).
The good:
Frame rate was very solid. Seems like a smooth 30fps.
My starter planet was an ideal place to learn the ropes. The daytime temperature was something like -0.02C, and it didn't eat away at my suit. At night it dropped to -42C, and that did eat away at my suit, but very slowly.
I'll post my screens in the photo thread later, but it was a mix of rocky and lush. It had great caves and floating islands. Some cool and weird species, although one of them was an annoying crablike spider thing that kept attacking me. The other creatures were peaceful.
If it wasn't for the fact that I watched some streams, I'd have been way more lost than I was. I knew what I wanted to focus on early (mainly mining for iron and carbon or platinum to keep my suit life support systems up), and I mainly spent my evening on that single planet hunting for ruins and knowledge stones. I've learned 25 words already, and found some cool upgrade tech. I just need to find an exosuit and ship with better cargo.
Graphics look great. I love the art design, and the color pallete is really pleasant, especially between the day and night states. There's of course technical issues like how the world draws in the environment, and the textures can be muddy and low quality, but overall it's a nice looking game.
The sense of exploration and discovery is very nice. Even though I was wandering the same landscape, and finding ruins and facilities, and collecting resources, I couldn't stop myself. I just had to see what the next question mark on my HUD was. I just had to scan one more creature. My absolute love of outer space and sci fi plays a huge factor, of course, but I love this game. It's exactly what I hoped it would be, but it also has a lot more under the hood than I was expecting.
It's not perfect, and there are things I'd love to see improved and expanded on, but if this was the only NMS update we'd get, I'd still feel satisfied with it. That feeling I got when I flew out of the atmosphere, and saw a moon above the curve of the massive planet dominating most of the screen, and knowing that I could fly to that moon and visit it was worth the price of admission. When I pulled out to the galaxy map and saw all of those pin points of light and knowing that each was a star I could visit, it was literally a dream come true for young Figboy, who used to fantasize about a game like this in the 80's while playing my NES. I'm 37 years old, and although this may not be a flawless execution of the concept, it's an incredibly promising and entertaining execution of the concept.
I could honestly play it all night, but I have to go to work in the morning.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Yep, I'm at one of them right now. I can't figure out how to activate it though. I've shot it with all my weapons and nothing happens. Really annoying because I can't leave now till I figure it out. I might not even have what I need to open it yet. But if I leave I'll lose it on this big planet.
Irishonion
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Omg. So started playing 3 hours ago it is so freaking great. Feel like I could play forever lol.
Yeah seriously! You spoiler tag the patch notes but this thread is fire at will without a warning? Wtf fam?
https://youtu.be/6Jj5u9Bu_Yk
I've been on this planet for a little while. Barely even collecting anything. I'm just animal watching and enjoying that sun. The shadow grass fit perfectly with the music.
I've been on this planet for a little while. Barely even collecting anything. I'm just animal watching and enjoying that sun. The shadow grass fit perfectly with the music.
travisbickle
Member
You can click R3 once to sprint until it drains. Or is it just because it's R3 it's difficult to get used to? I don't play many FPS games.
Definitely, and it seems as though it only shows your most recent waypoints on the discovery page, if you could scroll those and click to add a marker it would be great.
Noisepurge
Member
Follow the quest markers.
Here's a video of the portal I found. Really cool that I found one, I just wish I could activate it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAtgz5T_p2I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAtgz5T_p2I
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
About to sell this node I farmed for 600k xD Sad I missed out on buying my first ship from a trader for 1.2mil that had 26 slots 
Ran into a fucking gold mine. Literally. A barren planet filled with gold slaps of stone just dotting the landscape. Gonna be stayin here a while and farm. Along with that, I'm close to a station so I can sell this shit and get rich!
The size of these things are about 2 stories high.
The size of these things are about 2 stories high.
This is me. Played like 4 hours now, but had to stop for fear i won't wake up on time tomorrow.
The time just flew playing this game. It's not perfect and i think it needs some tweaks, but i'm still loving it.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Yeah my starting planet has a resource that might as well be gold, each unit sells for around 257, and i get about 200-500 a node
¯_(ツ
_/¯Yeah, I know about just clicking R3 once to sprint. It was just awkward because it was R3, and I'm used to L3 for sprint. It didn't take too long to adjust, but initially I'd find myself pressing L3 to sprint, and scanning instead. Lol.
Edit: I also locked out and didn't run into any crashes, knock on wood. I'll play some more tomorrow after work. I'm already thinking about my next course of action. There was a small body of water I saw when I activated one of those beacons, and I really wanted to check it out, but got sidetracked, then it was getting late and I had to stop the stream.
Few questions I had that have probably been answered already.
Is it possible to leave a message somewhere on a planet after you discover it? I just like the idea of leaving behind a note and having someone else discover it potentially years from now.
Also, if you land on the same planet again, does the game re-create the terrain and such every time you go there, essentially making it a new planet every time? I'm just curious if that data of how the planet is supposed to look is actually stored anywhere or if it has to be recreated on the fly every time you go there. The latter makes more sense logistically because it would take a massive amount of data to store terrain info for 18 quantrillion planets, but it's also seems a bit strange to have the same planet look different each time you go there.
Just trying to figure out how the game works its magic.
Is it possible to leave a message somewhere on a planet after you discover it? I just like the idea of leaving behind a note and having someone else discover it potentially years from now.
Also, if you land on the same planet again, does the game re-create the terrain and such every time you go there, essentially making it a new planet every time? I'm just curious if that data of how the planet is supposed to look is actually stored anywhere or if it has to be recreated on the fly every time you go there. The latter makes more sense logistically because it would take a massive amount of data to store terrain info for 18 quantrillion planets, but it's also seems a bit strange to have the same planet look different each time you go there.
Just trying to figure out how the game works its magic.
travisbickle
Member
Hopefully you get lucky with traders. I sold a pile of Heridium(?) to a trader for double the average price.
Irishonion
Member
How to get the best buy pre order ship? Already have warp drive... But still curious.
zinc is precious
just procrastinating restarting my save.I guess I'll just go to sleep and then have tomorrow to really make some progress.
Seems that way. I gotta get some rest, but there is a manufacturing plant i just found via a beacon...maybe i'll get lucky? If not, I dunno what im gonna do.
On my starter planet, zinc was everywhere. It was in flowers, you just pick it up, no multitool required.
Mike Works
Member
Just got home and played the game for the first time. A lot of really cool stuff, but I need to mine an element that's apparently very common on my starter planet and I just can't find any of it. Think it's called "Heredium" or something like that, and it should show up as boxes when I do a scan. Can't find it anywhere. Played for hours.
Irishonion
Member
Get your scanner working. Tall blueish stone looking things. Will be blue on your UI with a working scanner.
Maybe i'll run into it in some underground cave. This is only the second planet i've visited.
I have a planet like that too. I just spent the last 20 minutes chipping away at a stupidly huge pillar made of gold. Feels good.
not possible to leave messages. If someone happened to stumble across your planet, they'd see all of the things you've discovered.
the planets are generated through an unchanging algorithm. It's generated the same way each time you visit because of the math in the planetary seed. The seed is always the same, so the planet is always the same, down to the position of plants and buildings. Any changes you make to the planet (i.e., blowing a hole in the ground to make a cave), will be saved locally on your system, so the next time you visit the planet, the hole will be there. For a visitor, since that data wouldn't be stored on their system, the hole would not be there. Everything else about the planet will be.
anothertech
Member
Does gold sell well? I'm on my starter planet and there's mountains of gold everywhere. Just haven't been farming it cause none of my quests need it.
Having a crazy time on my starter planet. Toxic, storms, can barely get to nodes 2 minutes away without having to hide from somthing or other. Pretty slow going. But ya, gold everywhere, tons of plutonium and iridium and all kinds of metals. But I ran out of slot space almost immediately, so I had to dump everything and just go after quest stuff for now. Come close to death so many times already though just walking/running to each question mark lol
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