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So I'm getting ready to buy a new ship. I know I should break down the upgrades in the old one, but would it generally be better to break down the upgrades and tech in the new one to better lay them out?
 
Reached a cool planet. It's fairly green and there's a lot of heavy rains, like downpours. Kinda cool.

Sadly there's a lot of hostile animals and the sentinels are crazy as fuck here.
 
I have had a few different instances where i have had a new location pop up on a different planet or moon in that system.

That's good to hear. I should have learned by now that nothing is for certain in this game :)

With that said - think the game prompt seems a bit broken anyway by not taking to consideration where the waypoint is located
 
I'm not sure, but I think I ran into somebody on the planet I'm currently on. I heard what sounded like an explosion from a grenade in an area not far from where I left my ship; and I could've sworn I saw a bunch of rocks kick up near the area of the explosion. I would've known for sure if we could see each other.
 
Pulse jet sigma or pulse jet tau? Which is better?

Also, I found an easy money planet. Venom sacs are literally all over the surface and just one gets you ~25,000. Minor issue is that destroying one spawns elite sentries. But I just land anywhere, pop a few, jump back in my ship until the sentry heat is gone, and repeat.


Order of hierarchy for upgrades is Sigma (+1), Tau (+2), Theta (+3), and Omega (+4)

I have no idea if there is a level beyond Omega.

Thanks.
 
Reached a cool planet. It's fairly green and there's a lot of heavy rains, like downpours. Kinda cool.

Sadly there's a lot of hostile animals and the sentinels are crazy as fuck here.

Green with aggressive sentinels?

Is that planet happened to be named Helter-Skelter?

Because I encountered planet just like that everything wanted to kill me on that world.

Pulse jet sigma or pulse jet tau? Which is better?

Also, I found an easy money planet. Venom sacs are literally all over the surface and just one gets you ~25,000. Minor issue is that destroying one spawns elite sentries. But I just land anywhere, pop a few, jump back in my ship until the sentry heat is gone, and repeat.

Order of hierarchy for upgrades is Sigma (+1), Tau (+2), Theta (+3), and Omega (+4)

I have no idea if there is a level beyond Omega.

Also if you place upgrades next to each other they will be highlighted in a colored frame. These linked upgrades have a boosted effect. So using both Pulse Jet Sigma and Tau together in adjacency will provide you an even greater effect.
 
So I'm getting ready to buy a new ship. I know I should break down the upgrades in the old one, but would it generally be better to break down the upgrades and tech in the new one to better lay them out?

Crap.

I never thought to break them down before buying a new ship lol. I just transfer the other inventory.

Well, now I know!
 
Close enough.

I just sent this to my buddy yesterday with the caption Gotta Go Fast. He belongs in your planet.

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Did anyone figure out a way to take screenshots without any hud elements showing? I know if you wait for a certain amount of time some hud stuff fades away, but all the marker icons remain ..which are super distracting.
 
I'm not sure, but I think I ran into somebody on the planet I'm currently on. I heard what sounded like an explosion from a grenade in an area not far from where I left my ship; and I could've sworn I saw a bunch of rocks kick up near the area of the explosion. I would've known for sure if we could see each other.

Unless they changed it. Im pretty sure you cant see what they do on the planet. So if you harvest a rock they will still see the full rock
 
Did anyone figure out a way to take screenshots without any hud elements showing? I know if you wait for a certain amount of time some hud stuff fades away, but all the marker icons remain ..which are super distracting.

Yeah, The Octagon posted his cheatengine table to disable the HUD and helmet overlay.
 
Finally found a planet where i can somewhat grind for money. There's a lot of Gold around, and i can get 55k for each full slot. It's not much, but at least i can make some money and get a better ship.
 
Got this yesterday and played about 10 hours or so. I've warped to 4 different systems so far. So far I'm really enjoying it. I just don't know how long the game play loop will keep me interested with out a decent story or motivation.


Playing this game really makes me miss Mass Effect. It'd be cool if somehow they could incorporate the gameplay mechanics into mass effect like the mining and space travel. Instead of having generic planets to mine resources you could have procedurally generate planets to explore and mine.
 
What I've read about that Milestone is that the timer resets anytime you die or leave the planet. It represents the longest you have survived. It works differently to all the other Milestones.
To max out that Milestone you have to stay on the planet for 8 hours.

I think in your case you will need to go onto an extreme planet and then wait. Once you survive 1.0 Sols again, the milestone will start to increase.

Oh god why? I just spent like 4 or 5 hours on an extreme planet and got the first couple of milestones. But then I left :(
 
Space Combat is sooooo much easier with an upgraded phase beam, you don't even have to aim it tracks for you. Cooldown on is so good with upgrades that I can fire once a second without ever overheating.

Game is on easy mode now. Jumping straight from Interface to Interace, I'll have enough in like 15 minutes.
 
Finally found a planet where i can somewhat grind for money. There's a lot of Gold around, and i can get 55k for each full slot. It's not much, but at least i can make some money and get a better ship.

If someone mods the game for players to warp to shared planets it'd basically become strip-mining the game.
 
I messed up and didn't notice that the atlas choice was directly next to your starting spot and broken ship. So I repaired my ship, and bailed out. Didnt make the choice to follow or not.

Am I screwed now? Does it give you the option at anytime in the future to jump on the Atlas path?

Sorry for the bump, but does anyone know about this?
 
I'm not sure, but I think I ran into somebody on the planet I'm currently on. I heard what sounded like an explosion from a grenade in an area not far from where I left my ship; and I could've sworn I saw a bunch of rocks kick up near the area of the explosion. I would've known for sure if we could see each other.

Happened to me too earlier today!

Just flying around when something exploded on the ground very closeby - i started to think it was some kind of meteorite or something - didn't land to investigate though...
 
Finally found a planet where i can somewhat grind for money. There's a lot of Gold around, and i can get 55k for each full slot. It's not much, but at least i can make some money and get a better ship.

There's a faster way to grind and it's possible on pretty much every single planet because all you need is Iron and Plutonium. You need 10 of each to craft 1 Bypass Chip and it's worh something between 3000 and 4000 units, not sure right now. You can just load your ship full of Iron and Plutinium, fly to a space station, built 10 or 15 or 20 Bypass Chips - depending on your inventory space - , sell it in build, rinse and repeat. Should be faster than slowly mining gold.
 
Thanks, I'll try it but I'm guessing it won't work either.

The problem is that the milestone just hasn't, and won't, pop. On my milestone stat screen, it says:

SURVIVED 1.0 SOLS IN EXTREME CONDITIONS
NEXT MILESTONE IN 0.0 SOLS

It's been like that for the last 5-6 hours of playtime, despite me visiting various other extreme planets in the meantime. I've been searching all over the place and can't find anyone else who has had the same issue.
You might have left right before the milestone poped. It might give you a rounded up number even though you haven't reached it. For your sake I hope that's it. I'm curious if the frenzied thing works for you. Send me a message with how it goes or I'll never remember to check the thread.
 
Landed on a wonderful planet tonight. Had massive snowy mountains and huge, deep, Grand Canyon gorges all over the place with thick forests on the very bottom and big pillars of copper floating everywhere. There was a lot of flying wildlife, things that looked half crab/half octopus. Freaky as hell. At least they weren't aggressive. Some ridiculous cave networks as well.

I'd have loved to stay longer, but there were barely any points of interest and there was no Iridium (which I'm badly hurting for at the minute). Spectacular place though.
 
I'm only on my 4th warp and think I've found my perfect system. It has a great "home" planet with lots of life and flora. it also has caves with lots of plutonium crystals, which let's me take advantage of the +97% value at the space station. This hasn't changed in 24hrs, will it ever?

There are 2 more planets, one a gorgeous ice planet and the other a barren dark looking world. There are 2 moons I have yet to explore.

I now have the problem of not wanting to leave! I take it the ships etc will not increase in value as my own fortune increases? The most expensive I've seen is a $3m one.
 
Trying to get a ship with a 48 inventory. I read if you find abandoned ships you can do it that way. Isn't that a small incremental upgrade of 1 slot? will there be others that provide 5 or so upgrades?
 
Would definitely enjoy this game a ton more if I wasn't constantly bogged down for resources. I can't describe what it is but its an absolute bore to gather resources compared to something like minecraft. Perhaps because said resources either deplete waaaaay tooooo quickly (life support is such ass), require too much and you can't "see" where you put those resources like building a house, its all for more exploration.

I love the exploration part just not the shit I need to do in order to explore.
 
Landed on a really cool water planet today and the water is so deep! you find little holes in the floor that you can dive in to to find secret coves with the Aqua Pearls in them. I used my plasma grenades to excavate the holes to make them bigger so I could see the sunlight to find my way out better! Really great exploring this world.
 
Would definitely enjoy this game a ton more if I wasn't constantly bogged down for resources. I can't describe what it is but its an absolute bore to gather resources compared to something like minecraft. Perhaps because said resources either deplete waaaaay tooooo quickly (life support is such ass), require too much and you can't "see" where you put those resources like building a house, its all for more exploration.

I love the exploration part just not the shit I need to do in order to explore.

In Minecraft you gather ressources to achieve something of your own making, to build. In No Mans Sky you gather ressources so you can continue to gather ressources so you can continue to gather ressources. Minecraft is a Snake chasing prey, growing bigger and stronger while No Mans Sky is a Snake only ever chasing its own tail.
 
So, after 20~ hours of trawling through shitty systems, planets and barren moons, I've finally hit the jackpot in this game. Came across a 'Forest Moon' with pleasant weather, relaxed sentinels and a shit ton of resources and POI's. There's vortex cubes in every cavern which are turning over 30,000 a pop and I can just take them without alerting any sentinels.

Spent 3 hours here already, I may just stay on this planet for a while more and farm credits and resources to max out my suit inventory and get some much needed upgrades.
 
I'm having so much fun, but there's some tiny things that bug me. Mainly bugs.

The game added a marker on my map when I scanned the system I'd recently arrived in. It led to an abandoned building on a planet that has perpetual rainfall and erupts into a storm every five minutes. Only problem is the abandoned building is actually underwater, and there's no way for me to enter. There are no doors, no hatches, nothing, so even when I'm exploring one of the five other planets in the system I'll constantly have a marker on my HuD telling me to go back there. Very annoying.

The game also starts chugging terribly after a bit of gametime, requiring a reboot. I've noticed it seems to happen every time I enter a new ship. Very odd.

Then there's some things with the scale of the solar systems, a lot of planets looking and feeling the same, planets being visible in each other's skies and some nitpicks with the algorithm's love for creating floating rocks everywhere, but I can look past them because I'm just having so much fun.

I landed on a 'Paradise Planet' and was promptly greeted by an intense thunderstorm. Decided to call the planet 'Zeus' after that. :lol

Fucking high-value items spread everywhere, from the poison plants to those glowing magnetic orbs. The game told me the planets sentinels were 'relaxed', but I got attacked by Elites every time I grabbed one. They even sent a goddamn walker after me at one point. :lol
 
Nah, that's pretty much it. I'm in the same boat. Normally looking for Upgrades, getting better ships and improving my tools/weapons would be enough motivation for me but here it just seems utterly meaningless.

Sure, I can upgrade my Mining Laser but did I ever actually feel the need to mine faster or do I even notice the change after applying an Upgrade? Not really. Even worse - why do I even mine to begin with? To be able to apply upgrades that allow me to mine faster? Or upgrade my weapon when I never actually want to use it because it's not a fun shooter?

I farmed for a few hours and got me a big 24-slot spaceship and it felt...exactly the same. Sure, I had more inventory space and that helped a lot but flying around in it felt exactly the same, fighting in Space felt exactly the same. In games like these I want to look at my Progress after 20 hours and realize how much my character has grown since the start and how much more efficient, faster, stronger etc. he is. I don't get that feeling at all with this game. I feel exactly the same as I did after the first hour.

Adding to this problem is the infuriating fact that Upgrades actually take up Inventory slot. That means everytime I want to take a step forward and use a new weapon or ship I've found/built also means losing the progress I've made so far, adding another level of inventory management to a game so very full of boring inventory management. I cannot understand why finding an upgrade and using the necessary ressources to actually build it doesn't allow me to permantently apply it to my character.

Because everything but simply following the next waypoint and travelling to the center of the galaxy feels so devoid of progress it eventually turns into the only thing you actually try to achieve with the effect that you only ever try to look for the same 3 ressources to built a new Warp Core, Warp to the next System, rince and repeat. And at that point the game loses all of it's fascination and charm and becomes a sluggish, uninteresting grind.

Yuuup. This is pretty much my complaint with the game so far, aside from the ultra slowdown issue. I guess we'll have to wait and see how they improve the game overtime.

On the otherhand, we at least get base or outpost building soon; so there will be a reason to stock up on resources aside from maintence and upgrades. Which I hope comes with improved inventory management.
 
I had lots of exposure to the game before buying, but had now idea how confusing upgrading would be. I know I need to locate drop pods for storage, but what about multi-tool slots?
 
I had lots of exposure to the game before buying, but had now idea how confusing upgrading would be. I know I need to locate drop pods for storage, but what about multi-tool slots?

Those come from new multi-tools that you can get for free if you help the alien that has the same new multi-tool up for sale.

You can also get new ships for free by finding a crash site via the radar station you find on the planet. They usually have less slots than the one you can buy from one of the traders though.
 
How do I get Cheat Engine to work to remove the awful vignetting? I downloaded a .ct file from someone on here but it keeps saying it's not a valid cheat engine file.
 
Had a productive few hours today. Found blueprints for defensive upgrades (lifesupport, radiation, heat, underwater), and my first warp core upgrade. Got to my second interface and my suit is sitting at ~27 slots. Haven't paid much attention to my ship or multi tool, but no real necessity to worry about them yet. Farm for the upgrades you have, not the ones you don't.

I found a Monolith that had some details on Gek history,
apparently they are really oppressive jerks
. Was kinda surprised given their appearance.
 
In Minecraft you gather ressources to achieve something of your own making, to build. In No Mans Sky you gather ressources so you can continue to gather ressources so you can continue to gather ressources. Minecraft is a Snake chasing prey, growing bigger and stronger while No Mans Sky is a Snake only ever chasing its own tail.
Uh don't you gather resources to head towards the center of the galaxy/universe? There isn't even a story to drive anything in Minecraft, if nobody ever told you about The Nether or The End I can't imagine anyone ever figuring them out alone. At least in No Man's Sky there's an actual clear goal you're working towards.
 
Not sure if known but couple tips:

-- If you find a crashed ship and after trading it decide you can't find all the stuff you need to fix it, you can still break down all of that ship's upgrades and go back to your old ship. :)

-- you can make a ton of money crafting bypass chips. Just takes a lot of iron and plutonium, both of which are readily available at basically every planet. 23 chips will net you about $73k per load. Fast fast fast money -- better than emeril and gold.
 
You have to find a new multi-tool with more slots

Those come from new multi-tools that you can get for free if you help the alien that has the same new multi-tool up for sale.

You can also get new ships for free by finding a crash site via the radar station you find on the planet. They usually have less slots than the one you can buy from one of the traders though.
Oh thanks I thought you evolved it not replaced it. Cheers
 
There's a faster way to grind and it's possible on pretty much every single planet because all you need is Iron and Plutonium. You need 10 of each to craft 1 Bypass Chip and it's worh something between 3000 and 4000 units, not sure right now. You can just load your ship full of Iron and Plutinium, fly to a space station, built 10 or 15 or 20 Bypass Chips - depending on your inventory space - , sell it in build, rinse and repeat. Should be faster than slowly mining gold.

Getting 40-80k is not a lot.

Personally I just mess about and collect what I see, rather than 'grinding' anything, but if I wanted to there are plenty of planets with amples of rare valuables. Caves full of 30k graviton spheres, entire oceans full of 30k aqua spheres. You can easily make in excess of 500k in 10 mins like that.

From my experience, if one cave on a planet is full of graviton spheres, then there will be others that are exactly the same on the same planet.

Any sources of Emiril are also good, you can max out a slot within a few minutes and that gets you something like 130k. Generally I'd say that's better than crafting bypass chips.
 
If someone mods the game for players to warp to shared planets it'd basically become strip-mining the game.

LOL true. This game has become my obsession. I only stopped now to eat something lol

There's a faster way to grind and it's possible on pretty much every single planet because all you need is Iron and Plutonium. You need 10 of each to craft 1 Bypass Chip and it's worh something between 3000 and 4000 units, not sure right now. You can just load your ship full of Iron and Plutinium, fly to a space station, built 10 or 15 or 20 Bypass Chips - depending on your inventory space - , sell it in build, rinse and repeat. Should be faster than slowly mining gold.

Hmm that sounds like a good idea. Will try it later, thanks for the tip :)


Also, the exo upgrades will always cost money? I've 25 slots now and each one is around more than 100k; i hoped the were still some free upgrades around D:
 
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