Giantbomb's coverage of the game all the way through has been fair and reasonable. They've definitely earned a lot of respect from me for their coverage. Not that they need it, lol.
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No Man's Sky |OT2| Maths Effect
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Giantbomb's coverage of the game all the way through has been fair and reasonable. They've definitely earned a lot of respect from me for their coverage. Not that they need it, lol.
You can, but after the atlas path is completed you can spot black holes in the galactic map, so there is no need for nada and polo for that.
SumptuousLemur
Banned
Great thanks!
Any word on how the extreme survival milestones work now with the 1.07 update? It's the last trophy I need for the platinum and I want to make sure I do it right.
Wait... you can call your ship from a landing pad? I thought it was only from those ship posts.
Yeah they have machine well you can call it on the landing pad.
Atomic Playboy
Member
Yeah, the computer screens at the landing pads function the same way.
I lost my ship marker and I ran into a couple of landing pads and debated just buying a new ship but I had valuables in my og ship. I spent a good three hours looking through the planet just to find one of those posts... omg...
Zombie James
Banned
Has anyone noticed any difference in quality or prices of ships between races and locations? Now that I'm stocking up for a new ship, I'm realizing I never played any attention to that.
TheCochese
Banned
Cube world! Finally!
Just found one myself! Now time to get some homing missiles on the mutlitool and try the cube stacking trick.
TheCochese
Banned
I guess I can't rename my own world.
Oh no! I guess if you sell off the entire stack from the ship glitch you lose it.
Oh no! I guess if you sell off the entire stack from the ship glitch you lose it.
Aenima
Member
Saw the same yesterday but it was Heridium + Aluminium was 1 pilar half blue half silver, looked like a space icecream.
MoonsaultSlayer
Member
Added 11 and 12 earlier.
No Man's Sky: Observational Transmissions: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4A4N9CVqldmvuIZl2eTAAS164wgpYkrk
I was on number 12 the longest of any planet I've been to because I COULD NOT find the last two species. The planet only had a few ponds of red water so I never thought it'd have aquatic life until I saw some neat looking fish which I swam with.
https://youtu.be/_zOl5ubdkrc
But it was the very last one seen at the end that made me wish I'd just given up haha. I've read of a few of you finding similar "sea cows", but seeing it for myself after going mad trying to look for it had me in hysterics.
My biggest challenge with extreme planets is trying to take and/or edit footage around the weather warnings. Unfortunately, I've noticed cross fading the footage extends each segment beyond my initial cut so you can hear the warnings just before it fades into the next clip. Oh well.
Edit: I want to point out that #12 is the most Earth-like planet I've seen beyond wildlife and skybox. Blue skies, green grass, snowy conditions, evergreen forests, golden sunsets... but with green night and red water.
Edit 2: And that giant planet in the sky is planet #7 in my linked video collection. I believe this was one of many moons for that planet.
No Man's Sky: Observational Transmissions: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4A4N9CVqldmvuIZl2eTAAS164wgpYkrk
I was on number 12 the longest of any planet I've been to because I COULD NOT find the last two species. The planet only had a few ponds of red water so I never thought it'd have aquatic life until I saw some neat looking fish which I swam with.
https://youtu.be/_zOl5ubdkrc
But it was the very last one seen at the end that made me wish I'd just given up haha. I've read of a few of you finding similar "sea cows", but seeing it for myself after going mad trying to look for it had me in hysterics.
My biggest challenge with extreme planets is trying to take and/or edit footage around the weather warnings. Unfortunately, I've noticed cross fading the footage extends each segment beyond my initial cut so you can hear the warnings just before it fades into the next clip. Oh well.
Edit: I want to point out that #12 is the most Earth-like planet I've seen beyond wildlife and skybox. Blue skies, green grass, snowy conditions, evergreen forests, golden sunsets... but with green night and red water.
Edit 2: And that giant planet in the sky is planet #7 in my linked video collection. I believe this was one of many moons for that planet.
Ok I'm done. Was going for the Platinum but the game is super annoying now.
Thats 3 planets i got to nearly 100% species scanned and spent around 2hrs trying to find the single last one to complete that trophy.
No luck - so screw it. I have other games to play; will revist when they make it easier to actually find goddamn animals!
Thats 3 planets i got to nearly 100% species scanned and spent around 2hrs trying to find the single last one to complete that trophy.
No luck - so screw it. I have other games to play; will revist when they make it easier to actually find goddamn animals!
travisbickle
Member
Really enjoy the game, think I'll be travelling between planets for a long time as just wandering around a planet is a joy. But man they really need to improve the economy aspect, quick.
I feel as though the pricing of items are affected by the local availability, where rare resources are sold at a high price, but there's no way of knowing this until you literally log in to the galactic trading network in a particular system. Trading shouldn't be so heavily weighed on pure luck, they need to provide options to deliver trade to a specific location, or even if you find somewhere asking for a resource at a high price you're given an amount of time to go gather it and send it to them over the galactic network. At the moment being a galactic trader is like being one of those guys who drives around in a white van trying to sell a set of hifi speakers to random people on the street.
I feel as though the pricing of items are affected by the local availability, where rare resources are sold at a high price, but there's no way of knowing this until you literally log in to the galactic trading network in a particular system. Trading shouldn't be so heavily weighed on pure luck, they need to provide options to deliver trade to a specific location, or even if you find somewhere asking for a resource at a high price you're given an amount of time to go gather it and send it to them over the galactic network. At the moment being a galactic trader is like being one of those guys who drives around in a white van trying to sell a set of hifi speakers to random people on the street.
OuterLimits
Member
Something is wrong in my game. I left it in sleep mode and when I started again, many of my discoveries appeared red again.(not all though)
Plus my Atlas Path, and a Black Hole Path I got from Nada is gone. Only can do center and free exploration path.
Has this happened to others? I shut th r game down and reloaded a save, but same issue.
Plus my Atlas Path, and a Black Hole Path I got from Nada is gone. Only can do center and free exploration path.
Has this happened to others? I shut th r game down and reloaded a save, but same issue.
I had the same trouble. I think I only managed to get 3-4 planets completed. So I resorted to the "cheating" way. (If you have the disc, you can delete everything, disconnect, and play the pre-patch version where you just have to discover any 60 creatures.)
Everything other than the creature cataloging trophies and the extreme condition trophies were pure joy.
Jinfash
needs 2 extra inches
Maybe I'm playing this game wrong, but after enjoying the first system for hours and jumping several systems and planets, hundred of light years away from the start... And everything the same. Planets, tasks, structures, creatures, space stations. Small variations of flora and fauna, but everything for the most part feels like a color swap.
Should I stop "exploring" and planet hop, which is ironically what the devs recommended against when the release date was broken?
Should I stop "exploring" and planet hop, which is ironically what the devs recommended against when the release date was broken?
LookAtMeGo
Member
For me its like I get 20 samey planets and then one really cool one. But then I dont need anything on it so I take some screenshots and leave. Ever since I got the Theta hyperdrive and started exclusively visiting the blue O and B star systems, the planets and life have been far more interesting.
Gotta agree - i love this game and its all i've been playing since launch. But this has soured it for me.
All they need to do is update the scanner or make it clearer WHERE to find animals you havent discovered yet instead of that annoying little white dot.
Anyway, grumpy right now after so much time on this one trophy - i know i'll come back to it later tonight anyway ha!
MoonsaultSlayer
Member
What's fun to you? For me it's documenting the planets that I spend my time on (as linked a few posts above).
I'm role-playing as a galactic zoologist interested in not just the differences between each planet and star system, but the similarities as well.
OuterLimits
Member
After warping a couple times I found another anomaly so I asked them to put me back on Atlas path.
So odd that many things I uploaded turned red again. I'm even having to upload a 100% zoology planet again.
So odd that many things I uploaded turned red again. I'm even having to upload a 100% zoology planet again.
PS4 nettwork wad own that could have cause issues.
MoonsaultSlayer
Member
I had no idea I could jump inside the drop pod (exosuit upgrade) for shelter. Always interacted with it from the ground.
Pestilence11
Member
Look for the floating deposits, they're always copper.
Thanks, will give it a go.
I also wished the knowledge stones and monoliths taught you more than just words.. HG could have done with one or tow sci-fi writers on the staff.
Haunted
Member
That is the best procedurally generated Haters gonna hate walking cycle I have ever seen. :lolCame across this cute little fella today, really wanted to take him with me on my travels, but he was "bezorgd".that's Dutch for "worried"
I've had 3 planets where i am missing 1 animal, i get a blip showing on the visor, it turns red when i get close, but when i get to where it is it is just a red dot floating in the air.
So either a) my final creature is a microbe, or 2) it's fucked.
OuterLimits
Member
Right but these were done between 12-36 hours ago before the network issues I think. Plus the unique names I gave them were still there, and the buttons were not highlighted, yet I could still upload them again. Plus the Atlas and Black Hole Path disappearing was odd.
No, they could be nickel too.
eyeball_kid
Member
I agree that it'd be cool to have a droid companion. I think in general this game could use more personal attachments to your character with other NPCs.
Difficulty being subjective could probably be a thread on its own. Like is surviving extreme planets in NMS really difficult? I mean it requires finding shelter, but is that difficult when a few grenade blasts make an impromptu shelter for yourself? Pirates are difficult at first, but after some shield and photon cannon upgrades is it actually a challenge? I feel like NMS doesn't scale in difficulty as you climb the upgrade tree. For instance the Sentinel 5-star rating is just one walker? In GTA if you get a 5-star, you're pretty much fucked.
But I agree that there should be different difficulty levels in this game. I remember actually advocating for an exploration mode before release, but now it's like...c'mon, where's the hard stuff?
joshwaan
Member
Large asteroids can be any neutral besides heridium
Pestilence11
Member
The ones on planets? Not talking asteroids. In 100 hours the only thing floating deposits on planets have been is copper.
So, found the coolest looking abandoned ship, swapped to it thinking I just need to repair the launch drive and I'm golden.
Wrong. Need to fix pulse drive too.
But I can't find any fucking zinc on the fucking planet I'm on. ARGH. And I have minimal zinc I'd get from the slots in my multitool :/
Wrong. Need to fix pulse drive too.
But I can't find any fucking zinc on the fucking planet I'm on. ARGH. And I have minimal zinc I'd get from the slots in my multitool :/
OuterLimits
Member
Yeah I think those are always copper. Nickel can be found in pillars like Heredium is. I sometimes start mining one thinking it's heredium and get nickel when I'm not paying attention. Nickel is more brownish I think.
Bubble Walrus
Member
Another late night playing this. I just get drawn in by it's beauty, atmosphere and freedom. I think it's one of the most special games I have ever played, and I think I love it even more now the mainstream has completely rejected it. It's going to get tiring defending it for the rest of my life, but I'm willing.
RageWaffles
Member
Just found my first planet with green grass and my first "butterflies" (they look like itty-bitty squid). The sentinels here are supposedly hostile, but I was outside for a full day-night cycle, and didn't see any.
(and I'm getting ads for polo events because of this thread lol [might go to it, tho])
(and I'm getting ads for polo events because of this thread lol [might go to it, tho])
Why feel the need to defend it though. Just simply enjoy what you enjoy as long as it's not harming anything nor anyone. That's my perspective at least.
32 ship (not including the large star ships) battle before heading to work this morning. Largest I've seen. Also noticed that often when i hit enemies with the phase beam I can take their ship shields down to a sliver and they appear to have their engines disabled but can still attack me
Flowers are the only source of zinc (apart from buying it directly).
I've been on planets where you have to walk for quite a while to find even one. It's not very common though.
OuterLimits
Member
Yeah, I'm assuming every planet has at least the basic resources you need to at least get your starship off the ground. Iron, Carbon, Heredium, plutonium and Zinc. Even barren planets have those clam looking carbon things and the iron rocks usually near alien structures.(often plutonium as well)
The zinc flowers can be sparse at times though.
No, i own it, and have enjoyed it so far, so you are mistaken.
I guess you're right actually, anything they say will be scrutinized so highly it may be better to say nothing at all