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[Dirtyshubb]

You would think that gaf would be free of spoilers since its common practice for any OT to also have a spoiler thread yet every time you have someone who has either been living under a rock for years and not realised how things work here or they simply don't give a fuck.

Some might say 'spoiler culture' is out of control but I would rather that then have everything spoiled like it eventually happens because some people can only think of things from their perspective and not from others or are simply cunts who want to ruin it for others.

 

[Spoo]

I've spent the last 3 days in short bursts looking for nickel smh. I need that warp drive upgrade. Anyone know if I should be looking in caves or asteroids or what?

Asteroids. Bigger ones. Brown.

Don't lose heart if it turns out to be iron or iridium. Found them all in the same place.

 

[Netherscourge]

One good thing I noticed is that you don't have to do much upgrading after your first system.

I've just been farming for Warp Drive stuff and cruising on to the next systems without stopping that much except to get Warp Fuel and stuff like that.

I haven't bought any new ships that need recharging or repairs. Just going with what I got.

I spent almost 12 hours on my home planet/system maxing it out. Scanned every single creature, learned 75 words and found plenty of upgrades there.

Now, I'm just looking for weird shit to take screenshots of. I don't spend more than an hour or two on planets if I can help it.

 

[Forerunner]

Something else I learned. If you do the sprint>melee>jet pack and go in the water, you'll continue at the speed indefinitely until you turn or stop. This makes going in the water a lot less troublesome. I’m finding water planets to be a bit boring though. I never really find anything interesting on them. They do look pretty though.

 

[Muzicfreq]

😂😂😂

this gif is quite stupid in a way.

Then again the whole PC Master race thing is a bit stupid anyways.

 

[Baalzebup]

But the journey has no worth. The crafting, resource gathering and exploration are all enjoyable on a basic level. But there is simply no reward in any of it and that's where the game collapses.

Grind dozens of hours and what will you have to show for it? A nicer ship and... longer sprint distance or whatever.. woo?

Like, if you could find a really cool planet, name it, build a small settlement, have some animals as pets, bring plant samples from different galaxies and grow them locally and have other players visit you... now THAT would be a cool game. Maybe someday NMS will be that game. But right now the only motivation to play is to get a gun that kills rocks faster.

Here is a shocker: Your opinion is just that and may not be shared by all others. The value of immaterial things is individually determined by each and every person. "A nicer ship" is a reward by and itself. Seeing vistas and planet types you haven't seen before is a reward by and itself. Reading the histories of the various species from the plaques is interesting.

 

[Venom Fox]

Incase nobody noticed. The Devs have included elements for Frieghter building, Outpost and Settlement building and Freighter interior building. Me and a friend discovered them last night after never before seeing them in the game before.

Seems like the devs are unlocking things for the upcoming patch that adds those things in.

 

[HowZatOZ]

Fuck you too = )

That's a pretty shitty attitude to have, and to come into the OT and ruin it for others is also shitty. But hey, you do you.

 

[vpance]

You should try sprinting -> melee + jetpack (or melee + jetpack) if you haven't yet. It's a literal game changer.

P.S. I bolded that sentence because Tribes is the first thing I thought of when I first did it.

Melee plus jetpack upgrade brings leaping across giant canyons.

 

[MiamiWesker]

Wow ending talk what the. Well I have a broad question, once you finish one path you can just go do the other path right?

 

[theWB27]

One good thing I noticed is that you don't have to do much upgrading after your first system.

I've just been farming for Warp Drive stuff and cruising on to the next systems without stopping that much except to get Warp Fuel and stuff like that.

I haven't bought any new ships that need recharging or repairs. Just going with what I got.

I spent almost 12 hours on my home planet/system maxing it out. Scanned every single creature, learned 75 words and found plenty of upgrades there.

Now, I'm just looking for weird shit to take screenshots of. I don't spend more than an hour or two on planets if I can help it.

Same here scourge. Living the life of a nomad.Up till yesterday I had always had less than 300k credits. Finally farmed a bit, but it's crazy easy to just keep it moving once you get a to a certain point.

 

[AGoodODST]

Can people please cool it with spoilers? That's the second day on a row posters in this thread have spoiled stuff for me.

It doesn't matter if you don't personally consider it a spoiler, others might show a little courtesy. Post that stuff in the spoiler thread.

 

[Moreche]

Does anyone think that Sean Murray will at some point soon come out and tell us what's his plan for the future of the game?
Maybe where he sees the finished product being?

 

[Slayven]

That sounds fucking ridiculous

thats how i roll

 

[Munter]

With what I now know, I'm actually thinking about starting from scratch. Not sure yet,will decide when i get home. I've invested around 7-9 hours in the game so far, so don't feel I'll be missing out on much. Has anyone else started from the beginning after learning the game?

 

[sirap]

Melee plus jetpack upgrade brings leaping across giant canyons.

Everytime I nail one I can't help but think of Rob Dougan's Clubbed to Death music video.

 

[ironcreed]

I am at a point in this game where I am starting to feel like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. I love the concept and landing on and leaving planets is something I will always remember it for. But I don't know if I can keep warping to system after system with nothing to do but grind for materials and learn words. It would help a bit if I could get some good planets, but they are getting worse and far too samey. I am seeing nothing like the promotional footage.

 

[mario_O]

It means your suits inventory is full.

oh, thanks!

 

[abundant]

Ran into a strange bug yesterday. I had my ship docked at an outpost and went exploring, but when I decided to return to my ship, the marker was gone. Luckily I remembered where the outpost was and when I got to it, I found out my ship had disappeared and was replaced by another ship. Lucky for me, all I had to do was summon my ship to fix the bug.

 

[SLV]

Wait, Amazon refunds video games?? Really? This might be the one thing that will make me not renew my Gamer's Club Unlocked thing this fall.

I asked them nicely to refund the digital order i had on amazon. They quoted that it is not standart practice as digital games are not refundable, but seeing as the game is not working that well, and crashed both it self and at times the whole PS 4, they issued a refund within the minute, i would guess i was not the only one.

 

[R_thanatos]

Ran into a strange bug yesterday. I had my ship docked at an outpost and went exploring, but when I decided to return to my ship, the marker was gone. Luckily I remembered where the outpost was and when I got to it, I found out my ship had disappeared and was replaced by another ship. Lucky for me, all I had to do was summon my ship to fix the bug.

Not exactly a bug , if that was an outpost with 1 space ( with the landing pad ). Some are getting new ships at regular intervals so if you get out of the range of the outpost, there is the chance another will take his place. It's different from when you leave your ship on the ground in some random place

 

[Klyka]

So that whole reddit thing with different colored stars needing different warp drive upgrades?

Yep that is true, just checked it. There is a white class B star 30 lightyears next to the one I am in. I can currently jump 280 lightyears in one jump. it won't let me enter that system cause I lack the warp drive upgrade.

I jumped into a class K system just now and the planet I am on is entirely unlike any i have seen before, when beforehand I was basically seeing one of like 5 planet variants over and over in different colors.

 

[Moreche]

I am at a point in this game where I am starting to feel like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. I love the concept and landing on and leaving planets is something I will always remember it for. But I don't know if I can keep warping to system after system with nothing to do but grind for materials and learn words. It would help a bit if I could get some good planets, but they are getting worse and far too samey. I am seeing nothing like the promotional footage.

I'm the same, I'm hoping for so much more but I now realise I just need to delete the game and move on.
The reality is that there's no way such a small team are going to make this game into what I want it to be.
I was duped by the trailers and Sean's interviews and I'd love my money back but that's life, I should have known better.
It's the last time I'll ever preorder a game more that £10. My advice is to anyone who hasn't purchased it is to wait to see what Hello Games have to say and buy it in about twelve months time after updates etc have arrived.
You might actually find that the devs will just move on from it quite quickly.
Remember Sean saying that no one should play the game before the first update hit but one of the things it did was push us farther from the centre. In other words, increase the time and grind to get to the centre.

 

[Seraphis Cain]

Anyone having this issue with the movement speed? Basically while I'm walking, I'll just start moving incredibly slow for no discernible reason. Also there'll be times that I click R3 to run and nothing happens, or the opposite happens and I start moving slower. It's really kinda frustrating.

 

[HalfBakedProphet]

I am seeing nothing like the promotional footage.

They exist but they're very rare in my experience. I'm 30+ hours in and just now finally found a beautiful, forested planet with giant animals. Had seen zero before this one

I wouldn't be surprised if they up the number of "paradise" worlds at some point. The game has some really cool visual stuff to offer but it is hidden behind a lot of grinding and luck of the draw.

 

[CHC]

Got to try a little of this game. The core mechanic of gathering things and pressing forward is, to me at least, fun and compelling.

My major issue though is how goddamn intrusive the UI is. First of all I never liked fake mouse cursors (a la Destiny) when you're holding a perfectly capable d-pad right there in the controller. On top of that holding the button to confirm literally everything? Why!? It's so sluggish feeling, truly it just makes everything feel like work to interact with.

Last but not least "Journey Milestone Accomplished." Wow. I would have no problem with a screen filling text pop up if it was rare (like leveling up in an RPG, for instance) but being that the game considers almost everything you do to, in some way, be a "milestone" it's almost unbelievably intrusive. You just have to sit through 5 full seconds of letterboxing and text during which you can't interact with anything in order to find out that you.... talked to 3 aliens? Walked 5000 feet? C'mom.

Overall though, as sour as I sound, I have an overall good impression of the game. I'm going to pick it up at after a few patches add some things or resolve a few issues. It's quite a sight to behold a lush alien planet, or get in your ship and just fly right to the moon hanging over you.

Despite the shortcomings the game really does offer something that no other title does, and for that alone I have to be fairly forgiving here. They just made a few decisions that defy common sense when it comes to UI and general player experience.

 

[AGoodODST]

Huh, anyone else come across an asteroid like this one before?

 

[RoadHazard]

What is the blue icon at the top of the screen here?

It seems to be pointing to something on that planet, but as soon as I try to face it it disappears, only to appear again as soon as I look away.

 

[DigitalDevil]

Fuck off with that shit.

I don't care what happens at the end of the game, but that was mine to uncover not yours to ruin. Go to the spoilers thread if you want to do this, but don't drive by a thread full of (mostly) people enjoying the game and ruin it for someone else.

I wish you could report posts on Neogaf.

 

[Number45]

Anyone having this issue with the movement speed? Basically while I'm walking, I'll just start moving incredibly slow for no discernible reason. Also there'll be times that I click R3 to run and nothing happens, or the opposite happens and I start moving slower. It's really kinda frustrating.

Sure you're not over-sprinting? If you completely exhaust your stamina you're slowed down until it recovers.

 

[IvanJ]

What is the blue icon at the top of the screen here?

It seems to be pointing to something on that planet, but as soon as I try to face it it disappears, only to appear again as soon as I look away.

I think that blue icon actually represents multiple icons. So instead of cramming ten of them, they just give one like that.
I had it appear so many times while on a planet when I turn my back on multiple POIs.

 

[Seraphis Cain]

Sure you're not over-sprinting? If you completely exhaust your stamina you're slowed down until it recovers.

Absolutely positive.

 

[Oreoleo]

What is the blue icon at the top of the screen here?

https://abload.de/img/13923307_101537138754kguek.jpg[img]

It seems to be pointing to something on that planet, but as soon as I try to face it it disappears, only to appear again as soon as I look away.[/QUOTE]

I believe that's a waypoint you set inadvertently by scanning a building. When you look at it the hexagon shape and blue background will disappear leaving only the white dot and circle which can be easy to miss. Only way to remove it (AFAIK) is to go to the building you waypointed and walk across the spot to make it go away.

 

[CHC]

Fuck off with that shit.
Nothing happening is NOT a spoiler.

Jesus dude posting outright ending spoilers is one thing but then being outright aggressive when people bring it up? Just do the decent thing - tag the post and apologize. I guarantee it would have been easier than having to make a bunch posts attacking people who didn't appreciate it.

Not everyone has finished the game or chosen that path through it. There's not much that can be spoiled in this game but the details of an ending are definitely one thing that can be.

 

[jobrro]

Huh, anyone else come across an asteroid like this one before?

Yep quite a few. Don't remember what resource it was but it wasn't too exciting, maybe copper or aluminum, something in that vain.

 

[Klyka]

Uh, ok so every planet in this K system is completely alien and totally different than anything I have seen in 20 hours playing.

Guys, I think you need to go to other systems than the G class....

 

[SolidChamp]

Coming in to report my first hard crash on PS4. I'm actually surprised I went this long without a single crash. It's been around 30 hours of game time now. I wasn't even warping or nothing; just took off from an outpost launch pad and was flying across a planet's surface. Thankfully I literally had just saved.

Let's hope I haven't jinxed it in some way. Let's hope this is one of the very few.

 

[Venfayth]

Is Gold worth more than Emeril?

 

[ironcreed]

They exist but they're very rare in my experience. I'm 30+ hours in and just now finally found a beautiful, forested planet with giant animals. Had seen zero before this one

I wouldn't be surprised if they up the number of "paradise" worlds at some point. The game has some really cool visual stuff to offer but it is hidden behind a lot of grinding and luck of the draw.

I started off with a string of some neat worlds, but then it came to a trickle and now it is just the same regurgitated stuff. It's the same plant variants and only marginal differences in animal life that reuse the same assets and same sounds. At least the colors can be nice, though.

Anyway, I am not going to keep hoping for luck of the draw so I can keep grinding and hoping for slightly better worlds just so I can grind more and learn more words, lol. The gameplay loop is just far too limited and has become pure drudgery. What is here is neat as hell for a few hours, but that is about it.

 

[SolidChamp]

Is Gold worth more than Emeril?

I believe I read it's the other way around.

 

[Baalzebup]

Is Gold worth more than Emeril?

I believe I read it's the other way around.

Yeah, Emeril is like 270 units per piece and Gold is 220. Unless the system you're in has gold as a premium product, Emeril will always be more valuable as a trade asset.

 

[Sarcasm]

Wondering if I am not having any issues if I should join the experimental branch?


https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/7/360672304897578119/

 

[ironcreed]

Uh, ok so every planet in this K system is completely alien and totally different than anything I have seen in 20 hours playing.

Guys, I think you need to go to other systems than the G class....

All I have is a Sigma drive. Do I need something greater in order to get to a better system or what? I have not been paying any attention to the star classes.

 

[Kaversmed]

So I got myself an Atlas Stone.. now, how the hell do I build an Atlas Pass. I'm like 8 systems in the game following the Atlas path

 

[Oreoleo]

Wondering if I am not having any issues if I should join the experimental branch?


https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/7/360672304897578119/

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Be glad your game is running well and leave it at that.

 

[Klyka]

All I have is a Sigma drive. Do I need something greater in order to get to a better system or what? I have not been paying any attention to the star classes.

You do,yes. I have a sigma as well,that allows you to go to red stars aka K systems.
switch to free exploration and look around the system where you are.

look for red, green and white stars

 

[Todesritter74]

Oh wow, that actually means it won't take that much work then, especially if you're starting off from a higher ship. How long did it take you to go from 18 - 21? I'll give it a go tomorrow.

Not that long at all once you find the right Transmission spot. Just ping a whole bunch of sites and stick with ones close by. In a separate incident, I kept running into a glitch where a site located on my planet was 15-18 minutes away by ship and would never get closer. I had to leave the planet, fly in space and then re-enter the planet to get close to it. So watch out for those. But it a lot of cases you get crash sites that are only 1-5 minutes away by ship. I jumped two spots in a matter of 5-10 minutes, including travel. Had to dump some trade after that and then another 5-10 to do the next one.

Make sure you have plenty of Thaumium on you. Always needed to recharge the Pulse Engine it seems and that resource was the one planet-side that is hardest for me to pick up.

 

[DigitalDevil]

Jesus dude posting outright ending spoilers is one thing but then being outright aggressive when people bring it up? Just do the decent thing - tag the post and apologize. I guarantee it would have been easier than having to make a bunch posts attacking people who didn't appreciate it.

Not everyone has finished the game or chosen that path through it. There's not much that can be spoiled in this game but the details of an ending are definitely one thing that can be.

The dude gives zero fucks. Literally thinks he is "saving" all of us by spoiling it. Poster of the year.

 

[abundant]

So I got myself an Atlas Stone.. now, how the hell do I build an Atlas Pass. I'm like 8 systems in the game following the Atlas path

Spoiler

Warp to a new system.

 

[Forerunner]

Wondering if I am not having any issues if I should join the experimental branch?


https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/7/360672304897578119/

If you're not having issues, I wouldn't. That patch is supposedly coming out early next week anyways.