vix
Member
I've found two so far in my travels. They weren't renamed and the player didn't claim the galaxy so I did. Both were by the same player.
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No Man's Sky |OT2| Maths Effect
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"Search for discoveries" on the galactic map.
eyeball_kid
Member
So what's the word on the new patch? Anything beyond bug fixes?
Have you started the Atlas Path? I didn't see anyone's presence until I started the Path. The game seems to funnel people through the same star paths. I've seen four different people's discoveries.
It's been kind of annoying to me; almost every system I go to has been discovered by the same person. They never rename the planets. Just discover and move on. So I just skip those systems now.
Have you started the Atlas Path? I didn't see anyone's presence until I started the Path. The game seems to funnel people through the same star paths. I've seen four different people's discoveries.
It's been kind of annoying to me; almost every system I go to has been discovered by the same person. They never rename the planets. Just discover and move on. So I just skip those systems now.
Smiles and Cries
Member
I have not renamed anything but a few tests at first I just do not bother renaming
so my path would look just as you said
nope did the Atlas Path kinda late finished it really fast did not see any discoveries it always says by me and I tend to read the points I warp to they always read Undiscovered before I warp to them
Smiles and Cries
Member
I just want to reach the center so I thought if I am getting close everyone must be funneled through the same final systems
I know you can't see other players but does that also mean you can't see their ships?
The ship I'm in isn't my favourite design of those I've seen (I quite like the one that's similar to the Klingon bird of prey) but it's 48 slot and it's manoeuvrability is just amazing near ground level. I've also finally kitted it out with shields and some cannon upgrades and managed to fend off an attack of 5 ships. ^_^
I need to find a planet with gravitino balls both because I need the balls, and because I need a couple of dimensional matrix for the last couple of ship upgrades which I think I can get from the dog sentries?
The game also saw fit to give me stackable vortex cubes and neutrino modules before the patch hits, which is nice. I guess as long as I retain one in my inventory (and they're always stacked) then I should retain the ability to stack those?
I need to find a planet with gravitino balls both because I need the balls, and because I need a couple of dimensional matrix for the last couple of ship upgrades which I think I can get from the dog sentries?
The game also saw fit to give me stackable vortex cubes and neutrino modules before the patch hits, which is nice. I guess as long as I retain one in my inventory (and they're always stacked) then I should retain the ability to stack those?
Ballistics
Member
A mod could do it easily. If it was made harder to mine resources, then losing those resources would have a significant impact.
For example. Mining one of those large plutonium crystals gives you x100. Yet it takes just 2% of the mining beam's power. That's x5000 plutonium from one charge of just x67. So imagine if you could only get x1 from that crystal. A single charge would give you x50 plutonium. There is even a form of this mechanic in the game, where gold crystals only give you x45, so it's really just a change of values. Even the use of the melee would be brought into more effect. And what if that also damaged you in the process? You'd have your power source (or even just a key component of it) but be weakened getting it, then have the choice of whether or not you'd want to use it fixing your defenses (by mining the required resources). And of course, all this would greatly impact on trading, and you could just buy what you wanted without the cost of mining it.
The only real change in all of that is a piece of code that tells the game to take damage when using the melee. The rest is just changing a value from 100 to 1. (or whatever value is a nice balance...or 0.5...because I'm evil
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vix
Member
I caught a partial eclipse, sort of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zpaHe1AgMM (I adjusted the camera a bit into it)
I have another video of a day/night cycle on the same planet but sharefactory is being a pain right now so I'll have to post it later.
I have another video of a day/night cycle on the same planet but sharefactory is being a pain right now so I'll have to post it later.
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
This is my view too. I feel the "what do you do?" people ruined it. Hello Games coulda turned it into a better exploration demo. Without all the tacked on stuff, they could have used their time on the exploration. I'd have loved more plant and animal variety. They shoulda ditched NPCs all together and have occasional aged broken ruins on some planets. Some a single building, and others that look like entire cities. I'd have loved the feeling of flying through a galaxy devoid of current civilization. But I'm obviously in the minority.
On the other hand, the way they tacked on "things to do" was really half assed.
This is coming from someone who loves the game.
dreamstation
Gold Member
How exactly does this work though? Does it only find a sample of discoveries or does it find every single discovered system in that particular region you are in?
The reason I ask is because a week or so ago I asked the question of what is the best/easiest way to go about finding my previously discovered systems. I wanted to take screenshots of the system information panels in the galactic map so I could have a record of every single system I visit.
I've spent the better part of today doing just that and I've managed to find all but one of my previously discovered systems either through sheer dumb luck or by searching for discoveries in the galatic map. The problem is I can't for the life of me find my 4th system. My 3rd and 5th system are in the same region and I'm almost certain that the 4th should be somewhere there too but I simply cannot find it and searching for discoveries will not find it. In fact it keeps showing me the same handful of systems which are of no use to me.
PintSizedSlasher
Member
Here's 7.27 of fauna goodness. Still looking for the brontosaurus though
http://youtu.be/mNheAiH9sWg
http://youtu.be/mNheAiH9sWg
RageWaffles
Member
Same feeling here. I adore the exploration in this game. All the other stuff doesn't really add much for me, which is fineI was excited for this game solely because of the exploration aspect. Although, the crafting system is kinda nice, but I'd really like to see more upgrades to be able to make.
It would be nice if there were at least some systems that didn't have any other intelligent life.
Pretty sure it finds them all. Sometimes it just takes a while
Going after the Platinum now...I have 10 Journey Milestones in all except the ships destroyed, all species and survival trophies.
Currently been wandering around a (small??) Moon the last 1.5hrs to get my 100% discovered up to "6" - searching for that last species before I can move on.
The moon is relatively flat but has heavy rain + loads of underwater caverns but I've discovered (I think) all the water based life.
So now I'm resolved to just wandering around heading to each ? marker then saving, reloading repeat in the hopes that elusive last species appears.
The game is fantastic; i'm super happy with my $80 AUD spent on it but goddamn this searching for species is not made easy or even fair it seems like.
Am I missing something obvious or just doomed to rinse and repeat for the next 5 planets to get this trophy? I do have that image that "helps" figure out where to look but given the past 30min I've been swimming around underground caverns with my visor on max zoon and seen diddly i'm beginning to suspect...
Just release a patch to make discovery easier dammit!
Currently been wandering around a (small??) Moon the last 1.5hrs to get my 100% discovered up to "6" - searching for that last species before I can move on.
The moon is relatively flat but has heavy rain + loads of underwater caverns but I've discovered (I think) all the water based life.
So now I'm resolved to just wandering around heading to each ? marker then saving, reloading repeat in the hopes that elusive last species appears.
The game is fantastic; i'm super happy with my $80 AUD spent on it but goddamn this searching for species is not made easy or even fair it seems like.
Am I missing something obvious or just doomed to rinse and repeat for the next 5 planets to get this trophy? I do have that image that "helps" figure out where to look but given the past 30min I've been swimming around underground caverns with my visor on max zoon and seen diddly i'm beginning to suspect...
Just release a patch to make discovery easier dammit!
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
I'm absolutely certain now that the 4th galaxy is much less colourful and far more dreary compared to the others. I'm fast tracking to 5 in the hope of a better galaxy while occasionally having a look around in case I happen upon a decent planet or two. I just hope it doesn't get progressively darker as you go through the galaxies. A good 70% of the planets you see from space are 'grey'. Without a way of returning (yet), I may end up starting again.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
UPDATE LIVE 733MB
Zombie James
Banned
Is this another bug fix release?
OuterLimits
Member
I believe so. Although it would be nice if patch notes were released so we could know what was addressed.
People on Reddit are confirming the stack exploit is gone. Existing stacks are still there, but you can no longer start new stacks.
Bugs and performance. At least it was for the PC version.
Testing now.
edit: holy shit terrain generation has improved a LOT.
Nice.
chrominance
Member
No more item stacking. Holy shit. One of the few quality of life improvements in the game is now gone, though I guess it was always unofficial and potentially on the chopping block.
Three patches from now: "we took out the run/melee/jetpack combo, enjoy crawling about all our massive planets"
Three patches from now: "we took out the run/melee/jetpack combo, enjoy crawling about all our massive planets"
This strange thing happend just as i installed 1.09.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHfAEighDCQ
I believe that this was not there before, and the strange thing is that it gave me a Gek milestone while i'm on a Vy'Keen system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHfAEighDCQ
I believe that this was not there before, and the strange thing is that it gave me a Gek milestone while i'm on a Vy'Keen system.
Ballistics
Member
I thought that was actually official? Don't take that away from me
I never did the stacking thing (I never even had the opportunity), and don't really understand what it's for? I get that you end up with different slots with the same element, so you can merge them into the same slot. And that you can drop and drag to refuel things...but is that it?
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Stacking gone (unless you already had a stack on the go) KEEP THOSE STACKS.
You can no longer just move the cursor across to dismantle, you have to press on each one.
Framerate in the menu isn't great now but in the game it's the same.
Overall cleaner IQ in the game. Looks like better AA has been used.
I've seen a couple of new animal designs and plants but that could just be placebo
You can no longer just move the cursor across to dismantle, you have to press on each one.
Framerate in the menu isn't great now but in the game it's the same.
Overall cleaner IQ in the game. Looks like better AA has been used.
I've seen a couple of new animal designs and plants but that could just be placebo
legacyzero
Banned
Sean did say that a temporal AA was close. Maybe That finally came?
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
I don't know but it definitely looks cleaner and the generation seems to have improved too. The only oddity is the menu which appears to be a little further away and judders (on my PS4 it does anyway).
Now back to the game to get to my 5th galaxy. The 4th is definitely darker and bleaker. I don't like it.
edit:
You land in space stations quicker now.
Space stations are far busier and the turnover is faster.
RageWaffles
Member
Bummer. Glad I at least already made mad credits (currently at 100mil) on vortex cubes.
Oh nice! Ship shopping should be somewhat less tedious now.
Well shit.
I've managed to do what some of you have done and lose the Atlas path. Long story short, I lost atlas stones. (I didn't sell them I promise) After buying some of them back and getting the rest at the leftover Atlas interfaces I can no longer find a system with an Atlas interface. I did come across one of the anomalies but Nada didn't offer me the path of the Atlas.
Am I f'd or can I still stumble across an Atlas interface?
I've managed to do what some of you have done and lose the Atlas path. Long story short, I lost atlas stones. (I didn't sell them I promise) After buying some of them back and getting the rest at the leftover Atlas interfaces I can no longer find a system with an Atlas interface. I did come across one of the anomalies but Nada didn't offer me the path of the Atlas.
Am I f'd or can I still stumble across an Atlas interface?
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Yes, just knock about in a system for a while and the Atlas will appear again. If it doesn't just rinse and repeat. They're quite common.
then you either finished the Atlas path, or your game is glitched somehow.
Finally reached the center.
Just before making the last warp my game crashed. After restarting and actually doing the last warp
, and if those two things don't sum up all the issues with this game then I don't know what does.
Well shit, I just used my Dynamic Resonator stack. At least I still have stacks of Carite Sheets, Microdensity Fabric and Gravitino Balls.
Man, they actually made user interface even worse... I think I'm done with this game for a long, long time.
Just before making the last warp my game crashed. After restarting and actually doing the last warp
and then waking up in the new galaxy, Sentinel drone destroyed my shields and almost killed me while I was stuck in the in-game cutscene
Well shit, I just used my Dynamic Resonator stack. At least I still have stacks of Carite Sheets, Microdensity Fabric and Gravitino Balls.
Man, they actually made user interface even worse... I think I'm done with this game for a long, long time.
The "last" Atlas interface asked me to handover my stones, I forgot the other dialog questions. I ended up just cancelling the dialog and continuing on as I didn't have all 10 stones yet.
I didn't think this mattered much because after I continued on I found more Atlas interfaces.
Naturally now that I have all 10 stones back I can't find another one.
Zombie James
Banned
I'm not seeing any improvements to image quality but the framerate drop punched me in the face. It's horrible now. All I'm doing is moving the camera in this space station's parking garage.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Weird, it's as smooth as butter for me. Are you on the PC?
Zombie James
Banned
Fess
Member
Interesting.
This could also be placebo. Remember the talk that there were no beaches? (seen in the trailer)
Then you've finished the atlas path, you can also confirm that by opening the galactic map, if you can see black hole systems, then you've definitely finished the Atlas path.
Interesting.
This could also be placebo. Remember the talk that there were no beaches? (seen in the trailer)
Seen that ages ago.
Ah. Well it's basically too late. You only have one chance to finish the Atlas Path.
Fess
Member
Ah okay, I've only seen smaller beaches before but this game is too big to know what's the norm.
SumptuousLemur
Banned
I'm going to be keeping my game on PS4 with version 1.05 until substantial content is released.
I can dupe and stack to my hearts content and explore at my leisure not worrying about making warp cores since I just dupe them.
Sitting on $100 million units and my suit, ship and multi tool are all maxed for slots and upgrades.
The addition of a better AA solution is really the only patched item I care about but it's not worth giving up these tricks. Not to mention the UI bugs that seem to have come about with this newest patch.
I can dupe and stack to my hearts content and explore at my leisure not worrying about making warp cores since I just dupe them.
Sitting on $100 million units and my suit, ship and multi tool are all maxed for slots and upgrades.
The addition of a better AA solution is really the only patched item I care about but it's not worth giving up these tricks. Not to mention the UI bugs that seem to have come about with this newest patch.
chrominance
Member
I thought that was actually official? Don't take that away from me
I never did the stacking thing (I never even had the opportunity), and don't really understand what it's for? I get that you end up with different slots with the same element, so you can merge them into the same slot. And that you can drop and drag to refuel things...but is that it?
It's basically to save inventory space. Before, if you landed on one of those planets with vortex cubes or gravitano balls or whatever, you could collect 100 of them and only use up one inventory slot. Each run you did collecting those items could bag you quite a lot of money. Now, if you don't already have a stack going, you can collect maybe 15-20 tops before you have to find a trade terminal to sell.
It also makes grinding ships that much harder because you'll be less inclined to save components since they take up more room. Every time you find a crashed ship, you'll likely need at least a few components. Before, you could just stack them and be assured you'd be able to repair whatever. Now, you'll have to go get the materials if you don't have the ones on hand to build whatever you need.
I guess this is all fine if you play the game the way Hello Games seems to want you to play: scavenge only what you need, just go sightseeing. But people who want to play that way already can, and people who want to fly the way I did, collecting materials and trying to be prepared for any situation (and also selling s ton of valuables along the way) just got a bit of a roadblock. It also kind of contradicts what Hello Games was saying earlier about easing the inventory crunch in late-game, unless they're working on a more permanent solution that isn't so haphazard to start using.
It's not in every system. Dismantling some crashed ship prats is your best bet.
SolidusDave
Member
Damn it, every patch erases my galaxy waypoint(s). I'm warping towards the center but I'm keeping my starting planet marked. Just feels right and if they suddenly would release content like new blueprints etc. I could be relativly quick in a region where star systems and planets have my ID tag to guide me to a specific resource.
Found it again, based on some info I had due to screenshots. Stop. Erasing. It.
Regarding changes: I had beaches before the patch and some of my space stations had an annoyingly fast turnover. I feel like the game looks slightly cleaner but would have to compare with screenshots. Didn't notice a framerate change.
Any changes in animals etc. would make no sense imo. Same with density of outposts and so on. That stuff is in the seed and they can't change it without messing up someone's discoveries.
An actual change is that you can no longer hold square and move the stick to upload discoveries.
I don't mind that they fixed the stacking glitch. Never used it but I'm also one of the people here that actively avoid any glitch or exploit. 20-30 cubes etc. near an outpost will still net you a ton of money. Although I stopped grinding anything anyway because there's no real point to gather millions of units (in a short time). I will also spend a ton on my next ship but as you basically don't need more than 25-30 slot ships I'm in no rush at all.
Does someone know if they fixed Extreme Survival (again)?
Found it again, based on some info I had due to screenshots. Stop. Erasing. It.
Regarding changes: I had beaches before the patch and some of my space stations had an annoyingly fast turnover. I feel like the game looks slightly cleaner but would have to compare with screenshots. Didn't notice a framerate change.
Any changes in animals etc. would make no sense imo. Same with density of outposts and so on. That stuff is in the seed and they can't change it without messing up someone's discoveries.
An actual change is that you can no longer hold square and move the stick to upload discoveries.
I don't mind that they fixed the stacking glitch. Never used it but I'm also one of the people here that actively avoid any glitch or exploit. 20-30 cubes etc. near an outpost will still net you a ton of money. Although I stopped grinding anything anyway because there's no real point to gather millions of units (in a short time). I will also spend a ton on my next ship but as you basically don't need more than 25-30 slot ships I'm in no rush at all.
Does someone know if they fixed Extreme Survival (again)?
BouncyFrag
Member
The large potato asteroids in a planets orbit can have them. The spuds are also good for nickel, copper, aluminum, and sometimess gold iirc.
vix
Member
I'm still going to personally champion every thing needs of be stackable until we get the freighters assuming they're going to even be used for storage.
I feel like I'm being forced to play the game the way they want me to play it and it's frustrating. I can't really be an explorer without storage space, same with being a trader. I can't be a hoarder like I want to be for blueprints down the line like I want to be since I still have a rather small ship.
I feel like I'm being forced to play the game the way they want me to play it and it's frustrating. I can't really be an explorer without storage space, same with being a trader. I can't be a hoarder like I want to be for blueprints down the line like I want to be since I still have a rather small ship.