So I explored the first of Planet Raist's moons. Absolutely covered in Emeril. Huge boulders of 500+ Emeril, often sitting right mext to each other. I'm exploring your second moon this evening, after I sell off a complete hull full of Void Cubes.
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No Man's Sky |OT2| Maths Effect
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Fushichou187
Member
Yup. I spent my first 5 "ship's downed" milestones attacking parked ships at outposts like a coward lol
Finally got a ship kitted out with some decent damage with the photon cannon, and a shield upgrade Theta, and now I smirk when the notice pops that they're scanning my cargo.
Come and take it from me. I am become death.
Freezasaurus
Member
Did you know that if you find a downed ship and dismantle a piece of equipment that required Vortex Cubes as an ingredient, the Vortex Cubes placed in your inventory will be a stackable variant that will allow you to carry 100 Vortex Cubes in one inventory slot? Just be careful not to sell them all, otherwise you'll have to repeat the process.
eyeball_kid
Member
Can't really disagree with any of these points. The biggest section in the list of suggestions I sent to Hello was concerning ship flight and combat. Just because it "gets easier" as we add upgrades 1) still doesn't make it fun, or rewarding, and 2) doesn't excuse the early period of suffering.
Yes, this. Also, I don't want to upgrade my ship because that's more space for vortex cubes to sell so I can get a bigger ship to have the luxury of space to put said upgrades into, but at that point there's no reason to try and defend and farm because my storage will be at capacity.
Should be a mod soon, since there's a mod that increases the amount of pirates (some modders' ideas of "improvement" are questionable, to say the least).
SynthFetish
Member
After the fix, it reset to 0 one final time. After it catches up to your current time it will be culmitive. A real pain in the ass.
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_/¯After the fix, it reset to 0 one final time. After it catches up to your current time it will be culmitive. A real pain in the ass.
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Wait, so it's going up but I won't be able to see it change until it passes the old number ?
Fushichou187
Member
I think this is correct. It's how it was with me pre-patch.
Haunted
Member
Just when you're a bit numb from the repetition of visiting the same handful of bases and outposts while farming random materials, the game throws such a beautiful planet at you, you just want to wander around on it for a while.
There was a jungle with trees that would've been huge and imposing as is, but with the big things mod, they left a truly overwhelming impression. Lovely.
There was a jungle with trees that would've been huge and imposing as is, but with the big things mod, they left a truly overwhelming impression. Lovely.
Guess it's time to make a cave and play the waiting game.
SolidChamp
Banned
I'm biding my time before I jump back in. Keeping an eye on impressions. Seeing what each update brings.
PintSizedSlasher
Member
It's cumulative now, but you first have to get to the point where you were before it starts adding again. So if you were at 6.1 sols pre-patch, you will first need to reach that number to progress.
I've played over 50hrs now and have never seen that huge starship before...
TemplaerDude
Member
I dunno, I feel like he's just really close to one of the usual ships I always see warping around.
I've had a jump into combat a couple times now in the game. At one particular point, it was inconveniently happening as I pointlessly, insistently kept jumping while low on Iron for my shields and (shamefully) rage quitting just before death. I thought I was good enough at the space combat to take down 25 ships. I was not. I just bailed out around the 4th death.
Just boost away. They'll give up shortly. Weave a little bit and you shouldn't even lose 1/2 of an unupgraded shield bar.
Nah, I still get got. I just want to toggle it off since it provides nothing to the game anyway.
Haunted
Member
I still think the system is somehow fudging the numbers, a discrepancy between 1600LY and 400LY is too large to be explained by galaxy waypoints not being a perfectly straight line towards the centre.I dunno, but this is what I believe the progression looks like (obviously in the game there is also a Z axis though) and why there's that difference you described.
With the grey line being the distance to/from the center, whereas the red line indicates your distance traveled between systems.
Even when incorporating the Z-axis into the equation, it shouldn't be that much of a difference for every single jump. The system is tightly controlling the black hole jump distances as well (making you move random large distances... on the same concentric circle relative to the galactic core, making sure you don't really make meaningful gains towards the core with a single jump), so I think they're fudging the numbers to pad out the number of jumps required to reach the core.
That said, if the discrepancy in jump distance is actually based on proper math, I'd love to hear an actual explanation for it, I'm sure it'd be fascinating.
It's been up for a couple of days, no changelog so far... I assume bug fix and general tweaks
With the grey line being the distance to/from the center, whereas the red line indicates your distance traveled between systems.
If the red line was 4 times the grey one, then this might have been the case, but it seems (based on evidence from the early leaks) that they just messed up the distances when they grow the galaxy from 40000 to the center to 180000 to the center.
eyeball_kid
Member
Game just froze on me for the second time since updating to 1.08. Hadn't had a crash since 1.04. I just re-upped my PS Plus subscription (purely for the cloud saves) so I don't end up with a corrupt save. Sean, I'm sending you a bill in the mail for that.
Now that I'm done with the Quest for All The Slots, I'm just warping in and out of systems as quickly as possible until I find a system that isn't being engulfed in some neon colored gas cloud, and has a planet with nice blue skies and green grass. It's kinda like playing the slot machine really to get all those variables lined up. This game really is all about slots.
Zinc is for warp fuel, titanium is for shields. And the easiest way to get tons of titanium is by killing sentinels.
OuterLimits
Member
I believe Iron, Titanium or Zinc will recharge your shields. One reason I keep a fair amount of Iron on the ship.
DukeLongfellow
Member
Is it sad that whenever I see sentinels I go "oooh, Titanium" instead of "oh shit, danger"?
Yes you can, but Titanium is the best choise. Zinc is rare enough to prevent it's usage for shield recharge, and Iron is not as efficient , so you'll need much more for the same recharge capacity. On the other hand you can get Titanium on every planet by killing Sentinels, and it has better recharge capacity.
P.S. I'm not sure, but i think that you cannot use iron for thermal layer recharge, but you can use titanium , so if this is the case, you can use titanium for the suit recharge too.
It's not, that difference (4x) is pretty much exactly the ratio of increase in the size of the galaxy they did in patch 1.03, so I suspect some numbers haven't been updated accordingly.
Nice. I demand a 25% cut by the way.
EdwardTivrusky
Member
Do you have anything upgraded on your ship? Engines, Shields... anything? I found that even when i had only a simple deflector upgrade i was able to dodge and outrun them down to the planet. I'd take damage but i'd repair that and be on my way?
If your ship is stock and full of cargo then yeah, you're just prey to them.
When the message says they are inbound hit reverse and look for expanding circles which show their point-of-entry usually right in front of your now reversing ship. They will warp out a little way clear of the warp circles so just line up your reticule on the leading target marker ( Triangular Points ) and blast 'em outta da sky.
That strategy helped a ton at the start.
R_thanatos
Member
That's because you can only use iron to recharge shields by turning iron into shield items first .. it's actually cheaper that way.
USE 1 or 2 grenades to get 300+iron, make 3 shield recharge items and you're good.
SolidusDave
Member
EdwardTivrusky
Member
For some of us it's broken again though
Fuck me, some of you have no luck at all. I've had about 5 issues occur and each one only once in my nearly 100 hours in NMS. I'm buying a lotto ticket on the way home!
Nostremitus
Member
IKR
I've had a couple of issues... Nothing major, though...
Maybe difference between PC and PS4?
Been going back and forth about using the Immersive Space mod or not. I think the original look is too bright but I kinda think those popular mods take away too much of the color.
So imagine my happiness when I found this: Darker Space.
Aaah, the perfect balance!
So imagine my happiness when I found this: Darker Space.
Aaah, the perfect balance!
Alright, thanks, so I think I had a really low number and am already past it by idling inside a stone structure for 30 minutes. Can I go on my merry way now and visit other planets etc and it'll still count eventually?
I.e. if I visit 5 extreme planets in a row and stay on each for 0.2 sols, would I have 1 sol or still only 0.2?
EdwardTivrusky
Member
You would have 1 Sol added to your counter.
Zombie James
Banned
It's funny. Back when I have no credits I kept running into these cool looking, decked-out, unaffordable ships. Now that I have enough credits to buy a good ship, they're all shit.
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_/¯I seem to be having fun with warping around. The last warp I did last night has me come out of warp into the side of the space station. Glad you kind of bounce off of them instead of taking damage. Warping into the side of something otherwise my should would have been vaporized.
It was the first time I saw a ship in that shape and size, but it could be I never saw them all up close or possibly from a different angle.
It was the first time I saw a ship in that shape and size, but it could be I never saw them all up close or possibly from a different angle.
That's great, thanks
Atomic Playboy
Member
I bit the bullet and salvaged a 48-slot ship. It's on the ugly side, but at least it's a fighter-class so it has decent health and great speed/maneuverability. I installed every ship upgrade (all nicely stacked for bonuses) and it's impressive what a difference it makes. Fast, nimble, and those upgraded photon cannons rip through pirates in a hot second. 48-slot ship, 48-slot exosuit, fully upgraded multitool... I guess I could resume the path of Atlas (which I gave up after selling my only Atlas Stone). Or I could rank up the extreme weather challenge so Polo will talk to me again. Decision, decisions....
The planet I stopped on before heading to bed last night has brilliant red dirt and a fiery yellow sky. The color palette in this game is just gorgeous at times.
The planet I stopped on before heading to bed last night has brilliant red dirt and a fiery yellow sky. The color palette in this game is just gorgeous at times.
eyeball_kid
Member
I noticed last night that the ships you see traders flying will be different every time they land. I had thought that once you see a ship type, that specific configuration is set, but actually the arrangement of slots changes randomly, though the number of slots seems to be fixed. To be clear, the arrangement of tech components and upgrades changes; I don't know if the actual slot layout can change. I wish I had known this before, as I've passed up some good ships before because they had blocked upgrade slots for photon cannons or shields.
I hope they fix the bug where duplicate NPCs show up. Takes away a bit of immersion when General Itoki and General Itoki both land in their identical ships.
None of them are what I'd like, but based on your shots I'd prefer Immersive Space for space and Deep Space for planets. I've got too much light pollution in my real life as it is, I don't want nebulas shining like neon signs when I'm on a planet at night. I have little confidence this will ever be changed on PS4 though. :/
I hope they fix the bug where duplicate NPCs show up. Takes away a bit of immersion when General Itoki and General Itoki both land in their identical ships.
None of them are what I'd like, but based on your shots I'd prefer Immersive Space for space and Deep Space for planets. I've got too much light pollution in my real life as it is, I don't want nebulas shining like neon signs when I'm on a planet at night. I have little confidence this will ever be changed on PS4 though. :/
Fushichou187
Member
As long as they are selling the mats I need, NMS can clone them all day. I hear ya though. It is a little annoying to see the same name pop up a bunch.
Just found this one as well. It's juuuuust right.
eyeball_kid
Member
Heh, yeah I guess I'm one of the few people in here that cares much about immersion and my own fiction in this game. But if NMS starts feeling more like a spreadsheet to me, I'll get bored really quickly. Given the paper-thinness of narrative, NPC interaction, and world-building the game offers as-is, I have to really squint my eyes to see it as a believable world.
To that point, I wish the inventory screen had just been a HUD overlay on your exosuit helmet. Every time I have to pull up inventory it breaks that immersion because it looks so videogamey and a different aesthetic than your HUD.
EdwardTivrusky
Member
I'm sure that duplicate NPCs have been more frequent since the patch for me. I don't mind if they have what i need but i swear one of them was following me around the planet in my last session! I know i tipped well by buying Gold at 3% over market but come on, it's a bit needy and annoying after a while
Fushichou187
Member
Heh, yeah I guess I'm one of the few people in here that cares much about immersion and my own fiction in this game. But if NMS starts feeling more like a spreadsheet to me, I'll get bored really quickly. Given the paper-thinness of narrative, NPC interaction, and world-building the game offers as-is, I have to really squint my eyes to see it as a believable world.
To that point, I wish the inventory screen had just been a HUD overlay on your exosuit helmet. Every time I have to pull up inventory it breaks that immersion because it looks so videogamey and a different aesthetic than your HUD.
I'm definitely down for an immersive experience, but I also come to NMS primarily to zone out so my tolerance for immersion breaking things with this game is pretty high. However if NMS had more of a narrative and was more Star Control than MS Flight Simulator 98, I'd probably be a little more peeved at those particular seams showing.
Your suggestion of a HUD overlay on the exosuit is pretty great. I think it's telling that modders haven't really been bringing new content, just tweaks (albeit awesome ones), to NMS thus far. But an inventory HUD overhaul would be a welcome addition (even though I'm on PS4 and will likely never see it, I'd like for it to exist).