RoadHazard
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Thanks for spoiling what black holes do in the non-spoiler thread guys. 
No Man's Sky |OT| Hello Worlds.
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It's not even funny... Just stupid
Eh. I mean the problem isn't that they look stupid. It's that it's too easy to see the building blocks in everything.
That's really my biggest problem so far and what's grating against my enjoyment the most. It's too easy to see the randomly generated-ness of everything. I know it's sort of a logitical improbability for such a small team but it's not really an excuse or something easy to hand wave when the goal is such immense quantities and 'possibilities'. I want to like this game a lot more than I do right now. And I do like it. But it's just... barren in a lot of ways. I've quickly gotten to the point where everything just *feels* the same. A huge part of it is just how samey the worlds are. There aren't huge variations within the planets themselves. Most of the rocky planets are very methodically feeling rolling hills. The ocean rich planets are all the weird sparsely scatted islands. There's no strange unique landmasses or distinct mountains or anything you'd really want from a game shooting for crazy amounts of planets to explore.
It's a bit bothersome when travelling in space feels samey too. And a huge part of that is that they just litter asteroids everywhere. Instead of asteroid fields and belts, they (for gameplay reasons) litter them everywhere so you can always get fuel. But... that just detracts from the game even more.
I don't really care about criticizing the "gameplay" when the core of the game is the exploration and the exploration feels... hollow. Or at least very transparent. It's too easy to see the gears rotating behind everything.
Freeman76
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Fair enough, I was only jesting. I usually have a 'leave no stone unturned' urge in games, in this though I love how fickle you can be since literally EVERYTHING resource will come up again in the future. This means I only explore planets that I like the look of, otherwise, off I go....
You find that from me like I named a planet Christmas Planet and then left the system
Damn that's what I was afraid of. I guess I'll hold off till they do some updates.
Joseph Flemming
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I think it's all on an individual's play style and goals. I've casually played for about 15 hours in my starter Solar System. I've mixed up exploring planets for monoliths, finding resources and selling high (different NPC's have their own buy/sell price from the galactic terminals) scanned two planets creatures 100% and upgrading my inventory and crafting items to sell.
If I think mining monotony settles in, I switch gears and learn words/lore for a bit. 2 planets, 1 moon and I already learned over 100 Gek words, 23 slot Exo, and a 20 slot ship I found. Just switch up your focus.
And boost running is a time saver!
Freeman76
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Thanks for spoiling what black holes do in the non-spoiler thread guys.
It literally tells you what they do in the game mate, I wouldnt worry
AnythingBut
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Excuse me, i have a planet to mine........
And now I feel like I failed lol 100?!
Vindicator
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Currently on some colorful, coldish Planet, there's one last Specimen left to be scanned, hope it'll show up today.
ElRenoRaven
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So done for today. I'm now 3 days in. Well 2 due to having to restart due to the preorder ship bug. Anyway I can say other then the going back to old systems you had been to being cumbersome I really do love the game. It's certainly not for everyone. I think if you're the type that loves games like Minecraft and you like that mixed with space travel then you'll probably love it. If you don't like games like that due to being tedious and boring then yea I'd say avoid it cause you won't like it.
As for me this game right now is my game of the year without a doubt. I really don't see myself getting to the center any time within the next several years. I just love to explore too much.
As for me this game right now is my game of the year without a doubt. I really don't see myself getting to the center any time within the next several years. I just love to explore too much.
unknownstranger
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Awesome just found some Chrysonite.
"Inventory is full"
Fffffffffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
"Inventory is full"
Fffffffffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
PepperedHam
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Well, no, but the urge to fly to them as they're near is there considering the curiosity as to what might be there. It's shaking the mentality that comes with playing other open world games that is the challenge for me in this particular game.
Same happened to me. Just keep playing, something will happen eventually
Been looking for iridium amongst asteroids for a while now... Nothin. Maybe not this system?
Look elsewhere. It is reddish rock or even often hidden inside ground.
travisbickle
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He's selling short the interactions with NPCs and monoliths, there pretty large part of the world-building and in my playthrough there's a logic into how you reply to them to get certain bonuses, it feels very like old rpg games like "you hear a noise and notice a hand comes out from the recess, do you A. Grab it or B. Step back."
It feels very old school but in my opinion charming and I think trying to stitch together the universe lore will find a good audience on PC.
WaterAstro
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67 million isn't too bad....................
I wonder if 48 slot is the max like it is for exo suit.
What's the most crazy shit you've seen so far? I fear the proc-gen is very conservative, but maybe it's just me. I only get uniform planets with some animals in rather Earth-like proportions.
I think the only interesting planet I've seen was a watery world where many of the ruins and whatnot were deep underwater. As for animals, I honestly can't remember anything but some animal madlibs (tiger head / chicken butt.
Has anyone had like a crazy mountainous planet or one with a ring or one in constant acid rain storm? Or a 100ft animal or a massive sea dragon or something?
I think the only interesting planet I've seen was a watery world where many of the ruins and whatnot were deep underwater. As for animals, I honestly can't remember anything but some animal madlibs (tiger head / chicken butt.
Has anyone had like a crazy mountainous planet or one with a ring or one in constant acid rain storm? Or a 100ft animal or a massive sea dragon or something?
RoadHazard
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When you reach one? It hasn't told me yet, but now I know, so it won't be a surprise. And there's other stuff too, Atlas path stuff, that people are talking about openly in this thread. PLEASE SPOILER MARK THAT SHIT.
Pestilence11
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Regarding your beginning choice on your first planet, do you get another opportunity to get on the path? I chose to freely explore but I'm kind of changing my mind.
I have found some really crazy animals, friendly tentacled terrestial jellyfishes that pooped gold and copper. Mantis like elephant creatures...
I had two planets with constant toxic rain. One was lush with life, other barren, but full of Emeril
First lush planet is the planet which I am exploring right now. And I do not like it, because it is hard to spot things from air. Also, emeril is not present in this system, hills of aluminum instead
I still don't quite understand how to get more inventory/exo suit and multi tool slots. Im only on my second planet but i keep getting upgrades for multi tool. I haven't found an atlas pass yet. I've been in buildings but haven't received a new multi tool.
and should i sell these space trinkets?
and should i sell these space trinkets?
level1
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I'll tell you one thing - it's no coincidence I found gazorpazorpfield wandering around my starter planet.
Man the time disappeared on the stream. Only meant to go a couple of hours, hell. Thanks to everyone who chilled with me.
This game really relaxes me. I don't know if that's valuable to any of you out there.
Had some pretty cool stuff happen, found one of those planets with the Vortex Cubes and crazy sentinels, fun as hell filling up my inventory with them now that I've expanded it a bit. I get distracted easily but if I really hunkered down and did this I could get to 20mil or so before I make this
. Also had this awesome glitch with permanent phase beams on the ground.
It's weird that you can't see how many planets/moons are in this type of system on the galactic map.
I sacrificed my excellent warp drive for a ship I saw that I really wanted
This game really relaxes me. I don't know if that's valuable to any of you out there.
Had some pretty cool stuff happen, found one of those planets with the Vortex Cubes and crazy sentinels, fun as hell filling up my inventory with them now that I've expanded it a bit. I get distracted easily but if I really hunkered down and did this I could get to 20mil or so before I make this
trip through the black hole
It's weird that you can't see how many planets/moons are in this type of system on the galactic map.
I sacrificed my excellent warp drive for a ship I saw that I really wanted
I just wanted a decent fighter already. I may never make it to the center on my PS4 run and that's okay with me. I got attacked by 3 pirates after the switch and smoked them easily. After the jump, I'm just going to focus on upgrading the ship's tech for a while.
Hey...yeah it does feel like that.
Joseph Flemming
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A lot right! Truth is though it kinda happened organically. I knew what kind of game this was going in, so before I got it I tempered expectations and it kind of exceeded my expectations. I figured out the beacon gave a great chance to discover drop ships to pay for Exo upgrades early on. Platinum is easy to find so just cruise around low altitude and scan and travel to the green "?" To quickly find drop ships/ monoliths. I play kinda like a jack of all trades and I think it leads to way less burnout.
I stock up on supplies and head out on foot every now and then for 30 minute walks, just craft a bypass chip and call my ship back to me. I found tech that helps with extreme temps, that way I feed say the cold resistant buffer, instead of my shield...this allows my shield to naturally recharge and I get longer expeditions. IMO playing mixing up personal goals and activities helps per session. I've also made 3 million so far, selling/crafting. Every 45 minutes I switch gears lol
metareferential
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So...does the game unlock early somewhere in the world for pc?
I don't want to wait till 6pm UK. xD
I don't want to wait till 6pm UK. xD
Exosuit upgrades come from Pods on the ground. They can be one of the options when there's a ? on a planet, or sometimes if you find a beacon they can be under Shelter. As for Multitool, you pretty much just gott purchase/be given one from an NPC and hopefully it comes with more slots; you can always delete upgrades you don't want.
Honestly I'm up to like 30 slots on my Exosuit, and haven't worried about my inventory in awhile, feels good.
You find drop pods on planets, which let you buy one new exo suit slot
you cannot add more slots to a multitool, you have to buy a new one from a shelter or space station
you'll get an atlas pass after 4 or 5 systems
GamerMax73
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Okay, will do. Was kinda keeping away from the Atlas path, but maybe that waypoint is needed to get me over the hurdle? Thanks
eyeball_kid
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So I warped to my second system and it's a light green soup. I don't like how in your face the nebula shit is all the time. It feels claustrophobic and just a bit overbearing with the color. Give me some black space and stars.
Anyway, I'm supposed to go grab some warp recipes, and it's making me bust into a factory on this toxic radioactive wonderland. Fuck. I don't know if everyone gets this factory job for this tutorial quest, but not looking forward to fighting off Sentinels while being irradiated. Here goes nothin.
I usually find it in the big metallic-looking asteroids. Usually those are iridium, sometimes copper. At least in my experience.
Anyway, I'm supposed to go grab some warp recipes, and it's making me bust into a factory on this toxic radioactive wonderland. Fuck. I don't know if everyone gets this factory job for this tutorial quest, but not looking forward to fighting off Sentinels while being irradiated. Here goes nothin.
I usually find it in the big metallic-looking asteroids. Usually those are iridium, sometimes copper. At least in my experience.
$$$Excuse me, i have a planet to mine........
Savantcore
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Is there a way to make Heridium pop up on the scanner from longer distance? Animals as well don't register when I scan. That, and the fact that loads of different materials all fall under one icon is kinda frustrating.
Impulsor
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Every single planet has the same cloud/atmosphere pattern.
It gets annoying for me when wandering a planet and looking up, seeing 4 planets with exactly the same "weather" if you may.
Other than a couple other quirks, I'm enjoying this quite a lot. I'm currently sporting 26 slots in the suit, 23 in my ship and 18 in my multitool, I think I'm 20-25 hours in.
Any recommendations to make money? I'm currently just farming rare mats from planets, as in Gold, eridium, etc, and selling them, as well as "green exclamation" markers.
It gets annoying for me when wandering a planet and looking up, seeing 4 planets with exactly the same "weather" if you may.
Other than a couple other quirks, I'm enjoying this quite a lot. I'm currently sporting 26 slots in the suit, 23 in my ship and 18 in my multitool, I think I'm 20-25 hours in.
Any recommendations to make money? I'm currently just farming rare mats from planets, as in Gold, eridium, etc, and selling them, as well as "green exclamation" markers.
ElRenoRaven
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Also you can find them on stations. After getting my Atlas Bypass v1 I opened the other side up on the first systems station and in there was an upgrade terminal for exosuit also.
Saiyan-Rox
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Just 9 more hours.....Still think the PC date is BS (especially the 6pm unlock) but what can I do about it.
Just hate the fact I got spoilers from the steam forums....i should know better than go onto those forums they're usually filled with asshats.
Just hate the fact I got spoilers from the steam forums....i should know better than go onto those forums they're usually filled with asshats.
I feel the same way about inventory space. But then again, I've found several drop pods on my starter planet and bought a ship with huge space thanks to all the gold my first planet has. 1mil Units, puff!
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