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No Man's Sky |OT2| Maths Effect
- Thread starter eyeball_kid
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I really think they need to overhaul most of the health/shield system to make it a bit more challenging and interesting. As it's stands, there's waaay too many layers that make it near impossible to die.
Example of what would be better IMO:
- Don't regen the personal shield. Or at least not that quickly, and have it drain life support if it has to recharge (essentially your suit automatically redirects some power to the shields, having a negative impact on LS)
Also, only make it useful for physical damage (melee/lasers/fall). As it stands, it protects you from drowning for instance, which doesn't quite make sense. And shield upgrades are basically useless. Finally make it only rechargeable with a specific item (like a power cell).
- Get rid of ship shield manual recharge. Just make it (very) slowly regen over time, with slight increases with upgrades. That will make space combat more challenging also get rid of the "I need to got to the menu while in a dogfight" issue.
A literal astroturfer
Example of what would be better IMO:
- Don't regen the personal shield. Or at least not that quickly, and have it drain life support if it has to recharge (essentially your suit automatically redirects some power to the shields, having a negative impact on LS)
Also, only make it useful for physical damage (melee/lasers/fall). As it stands, it protects you from drowning for instance, which doesn't quite make sense. And shield upgrades are basically useless. Finally make it only rechargeable with a specific item (like a power cell).
- Get rid of ship shield manual recharge. Just make it (very) slowly regen over time, with slight increases with upgrades. That will make space combat more challenging also get rid of the "I need to got to the menu while in a dogfight" issue.
A literal astroturfer
Zombie James
Banned
EdwardTivrusky
Member
I've got no interest in them making the game a tough as balls survival thing but as long as i can still play "Original" mode i don't care what else they do.
sandkiller
Member
I actually named a planet "Green a" by accident! Lol
I keep hitting the wrong trigger on PS4 and I don't know how many times I've named a planet "New " by accident.
Edit: Also got my suit up to max slots last night. What's the max slots for a multitool and where do I get me one?
Yep, I've made very similar points in that omgwtfbbq refund thread:
I strongly diseagree on the "this is accidental" idea though, It's rather obvious it is by design, a few things in the game will tell you that (the Atlas Path for instance).
Let me guess. R2 to confirm while it used to be to switch betwwem upper/lowercase on PS3?
That was a weirdly schizophrenic video. He spends half the episode alternating between not seeing the point to the game or its systems before coming to conclusion that it's a chill game about exploration, then he goes back to not being able to figure out what kind of game the developers wanted to make and decides that they've accidentally made a chill game about exploration.
It ends up sounding like he carefully prepared a script for a recording of some scattered thoughts.
Let me guess. R2 to confirm while it used to be to switch betwwem upper/lowercase on PS3?
Yup. I barely use my PS3 too so I don't know why I keep doing it. I've also just bumped R2 a few times by accident.
I had an idea to recycle everything I could to try and build up zinc. Found two things, now I have 17 and I need 20.
So I decided to go walking. About as far as 15 mins walk from my ship (stopping at camps/landmarks along the way) until I found a camp with a homing beacon. So even though my ship is still disabled, at least it can fly on its own via a homing beacon thingy.
Yay?
Anyway, the hunt continues. Still looking for a camp that has a shop i can buy zinc from :/
So I decided to go walking. About as far as 15 mins walk from my ship (stopping at camps/landmarks along the way) until I found a camp with a homing beacon. So even though my ship is still disabled, at least it can fly on its own via a homing beacon thingy.
Yay?
Anyway, the hunt continues. Still looking for a camp that has a shop i can buy zinc from :/
A literal astroturfer
We prefer the term Astro-surfers
What's this? A level-headed and well-thought out critique that doesn't rely on imagined slights, name-calling and mob-mentality led sabre-rattling for views.
Yeah, I've got a few planets just named 'Planet' or stuff because I meant to put a space
One thing I'd love for HG to add would be the ability to name/rename stuff before doing an "Upload All".
legacyzero
Banned
Hard to argue with this
RageWaffles
Member
Maximum is 24. Easiest way, imo, is to go to a Vy'keen system and look for the buildings with one landing pad attached to them. Those will always have a multitool in them that has one more or less slot than your current. Korvax systems will often have a multitool in those buildings, too, but I'm not sure if they always do. You can also get them from talking to Vy'keen or from Vy'keen monoliths sometimes. (Plus, the Vy'keen have unique multitool models.)
Shit, I was looking at it as a zen game before it came out. would tell people would be nice to just go home after work and just explore. Maybe that's why I don't feel cheated out of anything or much of anything.
But still. tons of people like to fall into that crazy expectation hype train and then rage if even the smallest thing is wrong in their eyes.
It's very similar to Destiny, and it's rather good. No idea why it wouldn't appeal to you.
Interesting. I must have bad luck. My last two Vy'keen systems have produced only multitools with one less slot than my current one.
We're talking about the floating mounds on-planet.
Yep. I saw tonnes of nickel before I ever ran across copper.
Im now on the starter planetAnd this little guy was waiting for me. It was the tallest i saw so far with 7m, the tallest i saw before was 5m. Still dont saw a tallneck mofo so far.of the 3rd Galaxy
Do things get any weirder as we progress through galaxies?
It's ridiculous that's not in the game if not.
SumptuousLemur
Banned
Can anyone explain the Extreme Conditions milestones and what the 1.07 changes brought to how it works and has been fixed?
It should be cumulative hours spent on the surface of a planet (not in ship) with extreme conditions across all worlds now, similar to how the other planet-based achievements were counted. An extreme planet is considerd one with at least one field being colored red when you land there, either related to weather or sential presence. Prior to the patch you had to spend a total of 32 Sols on a single planet to get Rank 10 without leaving the atmosphere, otherwise the timer reset.
Multiplayer.
Just the public release of the experimental branch released a few days ago.
N° 2048
Member
Didn't you just refund No Man's Sky? http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=215400361&postcount=3527
Get out of here with stupid troll comments.
Dredd97
Member
you're a funny one...
Zombie James
Banned
SumptuousLemur
Banned
Oh so it's not just if its radioactive or toxic or something?
Is there a way to see those details if you've already landed on the planet? I know the ones you mean where you land and see the planet specifics.
Glass Shark
Banned
I'm really sad that the spoiler thread for this game is completely dead. Not because I want to be spoiled on things, but because it's a symptom of the game's biggest problemthat there's actually nothing important to spoil.
I fell in love with the world of The Witness and put up with mind-numbing line puzzles just out of hope there was something deeper, but that game's narrative stopped just short of exposing something more. No Man's Sky does the same thing. I just wanted... more.
I fell in love with the world of The Witness and put up with mind-numbing line puzzles just out of hope there was something deeper, but that game's narrative stopped just short of exposing something more. No Man's Sky does the same thing. I just wanted... more.
Zombie James
Banned
There's a live stream going on right now with that Stat guy exploring the game's lore. Maybe that'll scratch the itch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efSRuZmPUtA
N° 2048
Member
Everytime I check this thread, I'm kind of hoping someone found something insane or never before seen..
It is starting to look like we have seen everything. I still love the 50+ hours I put into this game and look forward to content updates.
Not to be cynical but I imagine it'll be like people searching for hours (like people do for GTAV secrets) and never find anything because there's nothing to find. I hope I'm wrong though.
It doesn't appeal to me because it doesn't? Not every game is for everybody, and The Division just didn't look interesting to me. I didn't find the setting compelling, and I'm not a fan of online only games. I'm also not into multi-player gaming. I know it's optional in The Division, but I've watched more than a handful of videos on it, and it just doesn't do it for me, personally.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
I agree that it makes for a good Zen game. Two problems for me though: 1) it's not the zen game I wanted nor expected, and 2) it's not worth the $60 price tag. If it was $20 I'd have bought it just to poke around in and have fun exploring, but $60 is just too steep a price for what it turned out to be. I paid $12 for Minecraft, I paid $20 for Cities Skylines, I paid $15 for Starbound, $10 for Terraria, hell I paid $40 for Elite Dangerous!!!!
No Man's Sky is a zen game, but it just isn't a good value for the zen game that it is.
TemplaerDude
Member
Look who I found!
BouncyFrag
Member
I wish I had read the 'spoiler' thread before buying NMS, but didn't because of this tweet:
This duped me and I can only blame myself.
Fushichou187
Member
Crackachu's cousin... Cracka..tigger?
Pestilence11
Member
I wish I had read the 'spoiler' thread before buying NMS, but didn't because of this tweet:
This duped me and I can only blame myself.
Forgot about that tweet. After spending dozens of hours and getting to the center, the game is not exactly "filled with surprises." Unless you count what was talked about and shown before release but missing from the game. That was a surprise.
Are you running your scanner frequently? Zinc has it's own icon if I recall correctly. Just keep scanning and looking for that icon.
Fushichou187
Member
Indeed. It's the yellow Oxide icon. It correlates to Iron, Zinc, and Titanium. When you use your scanner though, Iron will not show up (because it's so common). Zinc shows up. I think Titanium might also show up, but I'm not 100% sure. Zinc is more common than Titanium so by default when you use your scan function and see the yellow icon pop up, that ought to be the flower you're looking for.
SolidusDave
Member
The icons are only for elements in crystal and plant form.
Iron is never available as one of those (just in rocks etc.) so it doesn't show.
TheCochese
Banned
You can have duplicate stacks of the items you break down from your ship.
Get yourself maxed out on cubes for example in one stack, 100. Break down the Beam Impact Theta to generate a dismantled cube, transfer from suit to ship at least two cubes, then transfer that stack back to the suit. Then rebuild your Beam Impact Theta.
Repeat for as many slots as you have empty in your suit. No need to keep finding crashed ships.
Get yourself maxed out on cubes for example in one stack, 100. Break down the Beam Impact Theta to generate a dismantled cube, transfer from suit to ship at least two cubes, then transfer that stack back to the suit. Then rebuild your Beam Impact Theta.
Repeat for as many slots as you have empty in your suit. No need to keep finding crashed ships.
Fushichou187
Member
Gotcha. That must ne why Neutrals and Silicates that are in rock form e.g. Heridium, Iridium, Gold (non-crystal), Copper, etc.. don't show up either.
Great advice. Haven't got on the cube-stacking train yet (haven't come across a planet with them), but I'll definitely try this out when I do.
SolidusDave
Member
yup, though for those you get at least some transparent coloring of the shape that you can mine. Only Carbon and Iron doesn't as they are not in that form either. But I think your reasoning that they are too common is the practical reason behind their absence in the scanner haha
N° 2048
Member
Honestly can't wait to see how this game changes over time. Good stuff.