Yeah, for the record it is totally possible to find your way back. The problem is you're just looking at an absolute ocean of star systems, and if you don't set a waypoint somewhere, you'll easily jump forward and not really have a clear path back. Especially once you upgrade your hyperdrive and you can jump multiple systems at a time.
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The Lamonster
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Can someone explain what I'm supposed to do with the preorder ship?
I haven't redeemed it yet, and I haven't built my hyperdrive yet. No idea when to redeem or how to redeem without screwing myself over.
I haven't redeemed it yet, and I haven't built my hyperdrive yet. No idea when to redeem or how to redeem without screwing myself over.
Darth Smurf X
Member
Yeah, this and the photo thread seem to be safe havens so far from the hyperbolic negativity.
I posted my initial impressions in the review thread (never again), but I have to change my view on this game after playing some more last night. I clearly wasn't praising it enough, because I really, REALLY regret not taking a day or two off work just to sit home and play this.
I'd also be curious to know if anyone ever stumbles upon the Smurf Prime system.
Pictured above: Blasting off from Smurf Alpha for the first time and seeing (soon to be named) Smurf Beta, Smurf Gamma (cuz it's green) and Smurf Theta (the best of the 4 by far). So, if you are ever in the neighborhood... visit Smurf Theta.
This game might be my GotY, at this point. The Witness and Uncharted 4 are both fantastic, and Street Fighter V is the best fighter I've played, but I have a feeling it will take a long time before I grow tired of exploring the galaxy in NMS. But The Last Guardian is still to come. So, we'll see.
Oh, and here are things this game needs:
1. Photo Mode
2. A companion app, so I can see not only all of my discoveries, but also those of my friends.
HIGH DEF JEFF
Banned
I am on a moon right now with Gravatino balls everywhere..made 1.8 million bucks in an hour.Its getting boring but I love that money. Sucks that rest of the system is super fucking baron so I can't even mix it up for a bit..next step is that hyper jump...but that money!!
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Open your galactic map and press square(?) on your current system
I believe that sets a waypoint. Dunno if its carried between sessions tho
I think the basic rule is don't redeem the preorder ship until you get the blueprint for the hyperdrive.
NervousXtian
Thought Emoji Movie was good. Take that as you will.
Yeah, but that damn message in the corner is annoying.. so I redeemed it to get rid of the message.
TheCochese
Banned
First time warping....crash.
Long ago, when an early galaxy began to pour light out into the surrounding darkness, no witness could have known that billions of years later some remote clumps of rock and metal, ice and organic molecules would fall together to make place called Earth; or that life would arise and thinking beings evolve who would one day capture a little of that galactic light, and try to puzzle out what had sent it on its way. And after the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being -- and they will know nothing of a place once called Earthjesus, i just had this weird moment, where i was looking at the star map, deciding where to jump next (i'm one system away from my 'home' system) and i had this weird feeling that i woulnd't ever see my "home planet" anymore.
i'm legit sad right now, because i know i have to move forward in this journey, and there is really no point looking back... still ...
"Home" is where you hang your hat.
To set a waypoint for a system, select it on the galactic map and hit square.
Annoyingly you can't do this with the system you're currently in.
Yeah, this was a great write up that echos a lot of my thoughts. I'm still not terribly far (just a little over 7 hours), but I find it's gameplay loop still fascinating. It's almost a guarantee that I'll get bored eventually and move on to something else. The same thing happened with the Witcher 3. I played until I got bored, then came back in a few months and finished it. Love that game. Sometimes, I think it's good for a game to have that kind of ebb and flow. I also don't think every game needs to be powered through from beginning to end in record time. I couldn't imagine putting in 30+ hours in three days like that one guy did. Maybe I will in the end. I'm sure my livestreams of the game have been pretty awful, because they still primarily take place on the same planet in the same star system, but I'm not playing to be entertaining. I'm playing at my own pace in a way that satisfied me.
For me, liking the game doesn't mean I'm blind to the many shortcomings and issues of the game. It just means that despite those issues, I'm still having a good time with the game. I'm 37 years old. I've been gaming since the NES released in North America in 1985. I've played a wide variety of games, some of them classics, some of them mediocre, some of them outright terrible, and some of them flawed gems. I think NMS is a flawed gem. Games don't exist in a "GOAT" or "Dogshit" existence. Some games will hit it out of the park for you, some of them won't. I've said time and time again, I'm not a fan of CoD or Gears of War. I don't like them, and I've played them. Doesn't mean those games are garbage because "I don't like thing," it just means they aren't for me, so I don't bother engaging in discussion in threads about those games, because I just wouldn't have anything I'd consider worth saying outside of, "Not for me."
That thread is embarrassing (as a lot of review threads are), because people are frothing at the mouth for schadenfreude. Like that thread about Star Trek Beyond underperforming and people being gleeful for some reason. So much internet culture seems to anticipate observing failure or disappointments, because they have this perverse love of seeing the people that had their hopes on the product succeeding get upset and disappointed at failure. It's really fucked up and weird to me. I subscribe to the philosophy of "If I don't like something, I move on and don't waste anymore of my time on it." I'm not going to live journal my displeasure every chance I got. Maybe I just derive more joy from talking about something I like, rather than things I don't.
AnythingBut
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Asked earlier, but is there anything specific that I should equip in my tool to max my mining speed as I got a planet full of gold calling me!
BreezyLimbo
Banned
It depends
Theres always 1 door in a space station that has a v1 requirement(itll have the exosuit upgrade). Other doors in the space station require v3. On planets, in the buildings with locked doors, those require v2.
What's the point of this Radiation Deflector I added to my suit? It only stops radiation damage for around 20 seconds and then needs to be recharged. It doesn't even recharge itself when I'm in a stable environment like my hazard protection does. Seems like a compete waste of a suit slot
The Elite
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This is my friend last night back tracking to his starter System. IT IS possible so please don't have people think it isn't. You may not be able to find yours because of some server issue? I don't know, but you can definitely backtrack.
Edit: I will say that it took him about 45 minutes of searching. It seems that once your warped forwards you skip a few systems instead of just 1.
It's frustrating because I don't think people really know how much the servers being messed up is changing the experience right now. I almost want to wait to play more until they have it stabilized.
GodlyTwins
Member
Anyone know if you can mark specific areas/locations? Found a really good spot with tons of minerals, but didn't have inventory space.
RoadHazard
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This is my friend last night back tracking to his starter System. IT IS possible so please don't have people think it isn't. You may not be able to find yours because of some server issue? I don't know, but you can definitely backtrack.
Edit: I will say that it took him about 45 minutes of searching. It seems that once your warped forwards you skip a few systems instead of just 1.
Well, that's dumb. Gotta search even wider I guess.
The Lamonster
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and then what? Can I move the hyperdrive blueprint over to the new ship? Can I move everything or would I have to repair the new one?
You should be able to craft a new one going forward once you have the blueprint which was the issue. I don't think you can take existing components to new ships.
RoadHazard
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But I've literally jumped twice so far, with the starter hyperdrive, so reasonably I should be very close to both my previous systems. But I can't find either of them.
legacyzero
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How do you repair your ship? Shields are ti e but general health is 1 block lol
How do you repair your ship? Shields are ti e but general health is 1 block lol
MegaSackman
Member
This happens because people want to be part of everything.
I don't like Zelda, I don't play Zelda, I don't speak about Zelda (except for this moment
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The Elite
BOSS
Sorry. I was watching your stream and when I tuned it I noticed the base you were checking out was't flush with the ground. It's a little glitch.
The Lamonster
Member
Is there a way to sell my original ship or will it just disappear?
Plague Doctor
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Booyah! Package was deliver according to amazon tracking. Now I just need to get home. Any starter tips? Does the game support two separate save slots, like if I want my own game and when I am not playing it my girlfriend can have her own?
I saw a twitch stream in which a guy moved to a new ship but the old one stayed where he left it. I don't think you can sell old ships (but I don't know for sure).
GustyGardens
Banned
Sometimes the attendant in a space station will offer repairs, given you're in good standing. The only other way I've found to repair is either restart the game, or warp into a new system. I'm still trying to figure this one out.
serenewarfare
Banned
I think you have to get one of the aliens to do it through good standing with them.
Keep following the quests, get the blueprints for the hyperdrive and antimatter. Craft your hyperdrive and make your first jump.
Look in a space station and ensure that all the ships you see for sale have hyperdrives. Assuming they do, redeem the ship. Then do whatever you want (I immediately switched out for a crashed ship I found).
Tumle
Member
If you press the option button does the systems you discovered not show up there either?
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Yes. Ive been to planets devoid of animals, sentinels, plants...Ive also been on planets where sentinels are outright hostile and will attack you on sight.
It's tricky because without the waypoint it erased the link from your current to previous system; the best you can do is go into the free select mode and rotate around because the perspective may not be where it was before when you originally jumped to that system. I was able to go from my second system back to the first, so it's definitely possible.
Yes me. It was fkn annoying until I finally got the pass. You get it
from that smaller douche but only if you have met some amount if aliens. It is these anomalies that randomly appear after entering a system
Sodding_Gamer
Member
Oh yeah haha that was an awful glitch wasn't it!!
serenewarfare
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When I get on planets with hostile sentinels, I feel this odd sense of pride in figuring out how long I can survive there. It basically turns into a stealth game for me avoiding them. lol
How do you change the order if you messed up?
MegaSackman
Member
It was the only way for me, I didn't set the way point so I did it by free roaming the map and stumbled upon my first system by guessing.
valkillmore
Member
It's so important to power up your ships weapons and, when hostile ships are in area, use your brakes to fly in reverse. They don't seem to fly past you that way and you can destroy four ships in 30 seconds
Yep. The scanner on the galaxy map has never worked for me so there's that lol.
When he was trying to figure it out he was getting frustrated. Looking back he realised that jumping forward doesn't just jump you straight forward. It jumps over a few systems. It's really strange but he managed to get fully back last night.
eyeball_kid
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To be safe, don't redeem your pre-order ship until you 1) build a hyperdrive, 2) get antimatter, 3) craft a warp cell. That will finish the hyperdrive tutorial. If you check out other ships in the station and they have a hyperdrive, you're good to go and can redeem your pre-order ship. It will already have a hyperdrive installed.
Pictured above: Blasting off from Smurf Alpha for the first time and seeing (soon to be named) Smurf Beta, Smurf Gamma (cuz it's green) and Smurf Theta (the best of the 4 by far). So, if you are ever in the neighborhood... visit Smurf Theta.
I took a photo like this from a farther-out planet last night, except mine was 4 in a row. Are all planets lined up like this in every star system? It seemed very.... non solar systemy when I saw it. I know the art director wanted everything close together, but it looks pretty odd from space.
Also, is it possible to reach a star?
More_Badass
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I love reading stuff like that.
And nope, everyone's different.
I'm excited to see what mine will be tomorrow. On one hand, I want it to be hellish so escaping will feel satisfying, but on the other, a peaceful planet will be a good way to get a handle on the mechanics
Oh thank god, it's gated by that. Great to know.
Do you know how many aliens you had met? I'm up to 20 I think ATM
Found a planet absolutely riddled with Vortex Cubes. I called it Vortex Cube Central for anyone who may come upon it. My plan is to just farm it till I get bored, all the while upgrading my exosuit inventory space with the funds I accrue from selling them, which in turn will increase how much I profit.
Love this game.
Love this game.
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