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No Man's Sky |OT2| Maths Effect
- Thread starter eyeball_kid
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Thanks, it is actually one of my more satisfying platinum trophies (and my 20th, to boot). One of the biggest disappointments is that I felt disconnected from the experience. I feel like some level of personalization for your character would be great. With that said, I don't actually recall ever seeing my character. I don't mind it being first person, but it would be cool to define the character a bit more. I wish I could have renamed my ship and messed around with the color scheme.
I think adding the ability to create customized spaceships would be a big enough draw for me to at least come back in and mess around with that. It could even be added in a way that would utilize the in game resources.
I really enjoyed some of the story stuff and how they tried to flesh out a narrative for the races. I didn't get very far with the Vy'ks or Korvax, but I really like that the Gek
were basically this reformed race that had once been a blight on the rest of the galaxy/universe. It kind of made me think about the people of Krikkit in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I imagine the Gek were super nice 'people' that thought they were alone in the universe and upon discovering that they were not, went on a murderous spree, subjugating the rest of the races and universe
The game needs more diversity, as well. More abilities and things to improve.
Hung Wei Lo
Member
I just want to be able to move the Shields to the far right. Whenever I have to go into the inventory and replenish them, it's a bit of a chore (especially in the heat of the battle) to have to move the cursor a few slots over (PS4 BTW)
Finally I can (un) confirm this.
I never visited the first atlas station before my atlas path disappeared, but now after many warps (maybe 15?) to new star systems, Nada & Polo showed up finally and I was able to reconnect to the atlas path.
Tried various paths...only following the yellow center path, or only free roaming but neither seemed to trigger it. Last night was was just warping as far along the center path as I could each time and also randomly free warping, then they showed up.
Pretty good night: got the platinum, got Atlass Pass V3, and found another one of those planets without texture that look like they have rings. Gonna upload a timelapse soon.
EDIT: I have to share this though lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFq_z7oRr_0
EDIT: I have to share this though lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFq_z7oRr_0
Fushichou187
Member
Sounds like another vote for a scanner upgrade that pings out red/undiscovered species from a far distance, like what you get currently telling you that there's "life in this direction", but it's unspecific as to whether it's a known species or new.
somme
Member
Yeah it can get annoying sometimes. But I do think it should be made easier through a scanner upgrade.
Holy shit I wasn't expecting that. Bwahaha
Fushichou187
Member
Took me a second but that's classic. Even funnier because it isn't some glitch or bug. Just NMS being NMS. So good.
Handy Fake
Member
That's outstanding.
noonespecial
Member
That *clank* sound... did it actually happen or was it edited in? Funny either way, but way funnier if the sound wasn't edited in.
lol, this is great.
Fushichou187
Member
It's magawolaz's vid, but it's via PS4's Sharefactory, so I don't know if you can edit in sounds after the fact. It's hysterical though.
Smiles and Cries
Member
what are the max multitool slots?
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Smiles and Cries
Member
R_thanatos
Member
Well there is really no need for more ATMcrap
was hoping for more
I do hope they will increase that limit after putting more upgrades in the game.
Superb.
Smiles and Cries
Member
it sucks that they removed the ability to upload planets that has no animals
oh oh well doing it the hard way I guess
oh oh well doing it the hard way I guess
eyeball_kid
Member
Surprised we haven't heard from Hello in a while...about 10 days I think. Radio silence is expected while they're working, but if they're cooking up new features I'd like to know what's coming at least.
PintSizedSlasher
Member
I want to hear about it when it's done. Communicating about what they're doing and making hasn't worked out well for them in the past ;-)
dreamstation
Member
Haha. I got a very 'Portal' turret vibe from that. Nice capture!
On the topic of the Platinum I've only got the warp trophies left but I'm in no hurry. I'm about to warp to my 11th system which is complete polar opposite to some people who have over 1000
There's been some activity on the internal branch on Steam in the past couple of days. So I'm expecting an update to hit soon.
dreamstation
Member
Is there any way to know and find exactly where all of your previously discovered systems are in the galactic map? Just before warping to my 11th system, I decided it would probably be a good idea to take a screenshot of the system information that is displayed in the galactic map for my own personal interest and I'd like to do it for my previously discovered systems. I've taken that many screenshots in the game that I'm kind of annoyed I didn't think of it at the start. I doubt that it is possible but you never know. Thanks.
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Glad you guys like it. It's officially my most liked video lolYes, but the only guaranteed way to do this is if you planned ahead and wrote down the system's coordinates.
Alternatively, use the "scan for discoveries" function on the galactic map, which may allow you to backtrack. It will likely be a bit difficult, and basically impossible if you've used a black hole at any point though.
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I think I've figured it out. Sentinel drones are cats. Think about it.
They get really excited and go and fly around when you point your laser at something. They randomly bump into stuff to hilarious effects. And finally, they can randomly become jerks and attack you for no fucking reason whatsoever.
Question: Is there a possibility to get a multi tool that has substantially more slots than the one you own? I know this is possible with ships but i haven't experienced this as far as multitools go.
Since the beginning of the game i've upgraded my multitool about 3 times and everytime i find a multitool in a building or in conversation it's always exactly 2 slots bigger than what i have. I find this incredibly frustrating because i don't want to give up tech that i have on my current multitool just to have to find the resources all over again to rebuild it on the new multitool for the sake of a few slots. Given that the main and pretty much only gameplay loop for the game is resource gathering, i can understand why you can't just simply transfer your tech from one mutiltool to the next. However, if i do upgrade it, it seems kind of useless to put advanced tech on the multi tool until you find one with maxed slots but then not doing so makes the mining and combat that much more of a chore so it just seems like a really shitty catch 22 going on here.
Also i saw a video saying that you can pin tech recipes so that it stays on you hud and you know what resources you need to gather. Supposedly this is triangle on the PS4 but i've never seen a prompt for it or been able to do it. Is this possible?
Since the beginning of the game i've upgraded my multitool about 3 times and everytime i find a multitool in a building or in conversation it's always exactly 2 slots bigger than what i have. I find this incredibly frustrating because i don't want to give up tech that i have on my current multitool just to have to find the resources all over again to rebuild it on the new multitool for the sake of a few slots. Given that the main and pretty much only gameplay loop for the game is resource gathering, i can understand why you can't just simply transfer your tech from one mutiltool to the next. However, if i do upgrade it, it seems kind of useless to put advanced tech on the multi tool until you find one with maxed slots but then not doing so makes the mining and combat that much more of a chore so it just seems like a really shitty catch 22 going on here.
Also i saw a video saying that you can pin tech recipes so that it stays on you hud and you know what resources you need to gather. Supposedly this is triangle on the PS4 but i've never seen a prompt for it or been able to do it. Is this possible?
Ah ok, good to know but even then i still can't pin anything. Im assuming this may be because im still in the "tutorial" where its trying to get me to build a warp cell for the hyper drive (which i've already done because i bought antimatter instead of crafting it but the game doesn't seem to recognize this)
The game keeps telling me to build a boltcaster even though i don't want one on my multitool which is a bit frustrating as well.
Dredd97
Member
won't be long before the usual suspects arrive to thread shit, and remind everybody about class action lawsuits, all those lies, and reddit posts... then the gif's will start turning up...
PintSizedSlasher
Member
There's no "No Man's Sky" in the thread title, so it should be ok. That's what usually triggers the hate mongers.
I'm still seeing the word "returned" a lot
noonespecial
Member
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Eh, you added in something that should have been in there anyway. That video is still the most hilarious thing I've seen from NMS so far (with a close second being that "Bull fighter" video posted a couple of days ago).
I still wonder how many people enjoying the game were those who did not follow the hype during development (like me).
Dredd97
Member
Oh I followed the hype, I just managed to keep it in check, sure it has lots of features removed (most of which I'm convinced will be back in at some point) but even with it's supposedly thread bare gaming setup, it's still a compelling title to play..
must be the explorer in me...
PintSizedSlasher
Member
I followed it from the beginning and being a massive (old school) sci-fi fan, it had my curiosity from there on out.
The one who kept my hype in check was Greg Miller. From the moment he'd been hands on with the game, he was warning people not to overhype the game. And so I didn't. And it turned out to be even better then I was hoping it to be.
For those still going for the 100% find all animals on a planet milestone my advice would be if you are stuck looking forever for the last 1 or 2 just leave and go to a new planet and start over.
Getting my first 6 planets 100% was a pain and I hated it most of the time, finding that last 1 or 2 would always take forever and was such a drag.
For getting the milestones 7-10 I decided if I don't get them right away I'm leaving the planet and trying a new one and those 4 I got within 15-20 minutes on the planets I did it on. One of them I 100% the planet within 5 minutes of touching down on the planet, every animal was right by my ship.
There's a lot of planets out there, don't get stuck on one and make it an un-enjoyable experience.
Getting my first 6 planets 100% was a pain and I hated it most of the time, finding that last 1 or 2 would always take forever and was such a drag.
For getting the milestones 7-10 I decided if I don't get them right away I'm leaving the planet and trying a new one and those 4 I got within 15-20 minutes on the planets I did it on. One of them I 100% the planet within 5 minutes of touching down on the planet, every animal was right by my ship.
There's a lot of planets out there, don't get stuck on one and make it an un-enjoyable experience.
SolidusDave
Member
Lol i never saw the tentacle form of the gravitino ball. I was like wtf why is that thing reaching out of the plant ball thing.
@animals: you may want planets with few species (???) and high frequency (abundant etc) so that you don't have to walk around so much.
@animals: you may want planets with few species (???) and high frequency (abundant etc) so that you don't have to walk around so much.
OuterLimits
Member
Just had my worst crash yet. Most times it immediately goes to an error screen after freezing. This time it locked up completely and I had to unplug the system after a few minutes.
I really feel like 1.8 made it worse. I'm hoping they aren't done with patches yet.
I really feel like 1.8 made it worse. I'm hoping they aren't done with patches yet.
CarbonFire
Member
The majority of my 100% scanned planets were from those 10 species or less planets. And of those, most didn't have any water on them, which drastically cut down the searching time looking for just the right lake/pond/puddle to find all of the species.
I've put this game down after putting in well over 100 hours and maxing out all milestones. Hoping to come back to it at some point once the content patches start dropping. Assuming those are still coming :/
Smiles and Cries
Member
how many jumps is the center?
SolidusDave
Member
Just found my first actual butterflies. 1 out of ~80 planets/moons haha
eyeball_kid
Member
Some of the pre-release regulars like me are still here, some disappeared as soon as the game launched. I'm enjoying it for the exploration, and that's about it. I'm putting faith in Hello to improve the other tentpoles of the game. If they never do, and if they never add the few features I feel we were misled about (such as the orbital mechanics), my opinion of the game might end up souring. So for me the jury is still out, but I'm enjoying the exploration right now at least.