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No Man's Sky |OT2| Maths Effect

vix

vix

Member
I'm hopeful this will be the start of something big. At least I want it to be. I enjoy the game, even with all the faults it has.
 
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alt27

Member
So I have a question for NMS gamers here. I got the game (and actually quite enjoyed it ) although it had a lot of flaws.

However I reached a point in the game where I thought I got a bug (probably not but maybe you can enlighten me). I followed the atlas path and got all the stones, went to the final base and get told my journey was over or something. Then I go to fly to centre, but theres no option to go there. I try travelling and black holeing for a long long time but nothing ever came up for a trip to centre. I was still a long way from the centre.

I had checked videos on youtube of people doing the same path and when getting to final base they had a option to fly direct to centre after so I wasnt sure if my game was bugged or not.It kind killed my reason to play as wasnt sure what was going on.

I tried reloading an old save but that didnt help matters.

Any ideas or did I do it all wrong?
 
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magawolaz

Member
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI9PvjJJijY&feature=youtu.be

http://www.no-mans-sky.com/foundation-update/

General Gameplay
Fixed technology becoming instantly fully charged when repaired
Fixed ship appearing on incorrect pad in space station after loading
Added interactable objects that required certain tech to collect
Added shootable objects that require certain tech to mine
Rebalanced resource availability and technology charge requirements
Fixed initial game flow - where travelling to space too quickly after visiting the monolith could prevent the first atlas station notification appearing
Prevented player being prompted to scan for buildings before leaving the system after visiting the monolith
Prevented laser and melee attacks while in space from attempting to edit terrain
Improved calculation of resources received when mining terrain
Renamed Signal Scanners to Signal Boosters
Signal booster objects updated to search for playable bases, suit upgrade pods, and mineable resources
Removed signal booster from being distributed on terrain, as player can now build them
Improved accuracy of environment detection, fixing cases where it rained inside caves
Fixed galactic waypoints not loading correctly across saves
Removed atlas pass v1 requirement from doors in stations
Suit upgrade pods are no longer spawned in stations
Suit upgrade pods can now only be used once
Fixed collision in anomaly that was causing issues when exiting larger ships
Increased the number of different NPC character models generated per system
Fixed the game always remaining in day time for players who began their save prior to patch 1.03
Fixed a potential crash in foliage instance renderer

Localisation
Fixed stats page in asian languages
Fixed multiple issues with asian language formatting
Multiple improvements and fixes to localisation text in all languages

UI
Added new icons for specific types of primary resources
Fixed health bars not appearing on some targets
Added hazard and life support drain indicators
Fixed mission messages not appearing in a timely fashion
Beacons now notify the player that they will save the game
Fixed crash when creature IK animations were updated under certain conditions on the discovery screen
Improved navigation in discovery UI
Massive speed improvements to browsing huge discovery lists
Increased size of discovery storage
Added option to load "Earliest" previous save in Options menu
Fixed weapon naming
Added icon to remind players of the reload button when weapon is empty
Multiple fixes for viewing discoveries

PS4
Added photo mode
Large optimisations to the engine to accommodate base building

PC
Added support for up to 8 mouse buttons
Fixed better order position history for mouse smoothing
Fixed bug where setting gamma to zero gave a fully bright rather than fully dark image
Fixed hard-limiting on save sizes, with appropriate warning about free space on boot
Player is now notified when shaders are being loaded
Fixed occasional crash on exit
Fixed performance of trail renderer for some AMD cards
Large optimisations to the engine to accommodate base building

Generation
Added biome specific plants
Adopted new method of distributing resource plants on terrain, for more lifelike clumps of plants
Improved distribution of plant life across all terrain types
Introduced visual differentiation of red, green and blue star systems
Introduced new mineable terrain resources found only in red, green and blue star systems
Reduced average building frequency
Introduced planets with elevated building density
Introduced planets with no buildings or sentient life
Increased the proportion of lush and tropical planets
Decreased the proportion of lifeless planets
Fixed bug where multiple ships could appear, overlapping, at the player's start scene
Prevented certain building types being incorrectly placed underwater
Prevented multiple buildings occasionally being placed in overlapping positions
Prevented buildings occasionally being placed intersecting with the terrain
Improved and altered per-planet terrain resource generation, improving gameplay and visuals

Creatures
Fixed elevation cache mismatches, causing errors in creature knowledge and pathing
Fixed slow memory leak in creature role allocation
Improved creature animation speeds
Fixed issues where some creatures turns had the incorrect frame count
Fixed occasional crash when interacting with creatures
Atmospherics
Increased proportion of vibrant blue skies
Corrected cloud levels for clear skies
Improved average cloud level settings
Fixed cloud rendering while flying in your ship
Improved atmosphere depth when transitioning to space
Increased fidelity of atmosphere rendering on nearest planet
Improved atmospheric fog as you fly to a planet
Improved fog method for planets seen on the horizon

Terrain
Improved terrain generation algorithms
Improved and extended blend areas between different terrain noise types
Terrains now generate more open spaces
Smaller features now appear at nearer lods to improve visuals in the distance
Fixed objects being placed on incorrect terrain material types
Improved resolution of distant planet terrain
Decreased differences between planet as seen from space and actual planet terrain
Fixed seams on planets when seen from space
Improvements to terrain material selection and terrain material blending
Terrain generation priority and cost calculation improvements
Fixed terrain generation angle calculations, which would previously prevent nearest region being generated first
We now generate caves on lower terrain lods to decrease visual differences in lower detail terrain
Introduced more varied and vibrant colouring to terrain for each biome
Decreased frequency of brown terrain colour selections
Changed texture scales to improve transition between terrain lods
Improved terrain colour combinations to add variety and better match terrain contouring
Improved terrain texture blending method to better retain vibrant colours
Improved settings for hue, saturation and value noise variation on terrain
Fixed a number of issues causing holes to be seen in the planet terrain
Fixed occasional crash when mining terrain

Visuals
Fixed colour of muzzle flashes on player weapons
Added muzzle flashes to ship weapons
Added cockpit lighting for damage and weapon firing
Added debris to freighter explosion effect
Improved freighter cargo explosions
Improved photon cannon hit and space explosion effects
Improved turret explosion effect
Improved grass colour selection
Improved grass colouring method to match underlying terrain colour
Improved grass placement to match gradient of terrain, and rocky terrain slope patches
Improved lighting on grass
Improved alpha cutoffs and blending for grass in the distance
Improved colouring method for on-planet buildings
Fixed "pop" in lighting when flying between planets
Fixed incorrect lighting seen in shadow areas
Improved lighting method when rendering tree leaves
Fixed procedural texturing on objects with multiple overlapping textures
Fixed size of certain texture atlas normal maps
Fixed texture scaling on asteroids
Zinc plant is now more obvious when it has been gathered
Fixed occasional rendering errors due to precision on cockpit during warp
Fixed pulse lines not appearing when pulse driving out from planet atmosphere
Fixed shadowing artefacts on imposters

Space
Improved asteroids to allow much denser fields
Improved explosion effects
Fixed scale of moons on the space map
Added freighter groups to the space map
Changed distribution of resources in asteroids
AI ships will now clear asteroids in their path
Planets are now scannable from space to see their resources

Space Combat
Fixed bounty targets warping out too soon
Improved HUD indicators in space combat
Added damaged ship effect on AI starships
Added formation flying
Improved locking on passive starships
Improved AI combat flight patterns
Added new ship weapon technology
Holding brake whilst turning now activates drift for fast turns
Improved AI ship freighter attacking
Improved freighter targeting code when under attack by enemy ships

Freighters
Fixed pulse drive to prevent travel through freighters
Improved docking code
Added hangar to the lead freighter
Added docking in freighters
Added icon to accessible freighter hangars
Added colouring to cargo drops to identify what is in them
You can now only pick up cargo drops that will fit in your inventory
Added auxiliary freight ships to freighter groups
Added alert lights and alarm audio for when freighters are in combat
Improved turret lights and explosions
Improved muzzle flashes on freighter turrets
Added indicator of cargo contents
Freighter Commanders now give rewards for rescuing them from pirate attack
Fixed collision on freighter cargo containers

Audio
Updated the lush ambience to make the wind sounds less noisy
Ambient background fauna now checks for the presence of creatures
Added rain on foliage
Added rain on ship
Added freighter specific footsteps
When on a dead planet, no music will play
Round table prop now plays an appropriate sound
Added more music to the loading sequence and game start
Added audio to new base building props
Created sounds for new base building props
Added audio to freighter doors and internal freighter ambiences
Added freighter explosions
Added freighter alarm
Added ambient radio comms when approaching a freighter
Fixed missing sounds when in a space station due to the mix settings
Multi-tool upgrades now affect audio
Lots of minor mix changes
Changed some compression settings for PS4 audio to make the sub-channel audio play more reliably
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WeTeHa

Member
Damn, that freighter and base building looks nice. Glad I kept the game installed, will check out the update asap. Looks like they took some inspiration from Subnautica.
 
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eyeball_kid

Member
Damn my glacial download speed.

But PS4 photo mode y'all!

I was "eh" when the video showed ground bases, but once we got to modifiable freighters that we can dock fighter ships in? Oh man. I'm interested to see how freighters are controlled, and if they can be attacked.
 
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Withnail

Member
After the patch it's spawned me in a different location (it warns you about this) but now I'm on someone else's Atlas path where every system along the route has already been discovered. Anybody know what I can do to change that?

If I jump to a random system in the map will it change the Atlas path for me?

Thinking I might just start a new save.
 
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eyeball_kid

Member
Withnail said:
After the patch it's spawned me in a different location (it warns you about this) but now I'm on someone else's Atlas path where every system along the route has already been discovered. Anybody know what I can do to change that?

If I jump to a random system in the map will it change the Atlas path for me?

Thinking I might just start a new save.
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I don't know how 1.1 has changed in that regard, but I had a few systems that were discovered by other people. Eventually I got to a part of the path that was unexplored though. So YMMV. You could always just warp somewhere off the path, eventually it'll put you back on another one.
 
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Withnail

Member
eyeball_kid said:
I don't know how 1.1 has changed in that regard, but I had a few systems that were discovered by other people. Eventually I got to a part of the path that was unexplored though. So YMMV. You could always just warp somewhere off the path, eventually it'll put you back on another one.
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Ok thanks. I need to find zinc to build a warp cell to try warping off the path, but then got distracted by base building. It's pretty fun actually, people are going to build some amazing bases.

Hope one day we can invite other players to our bases, it will be like PS Home in space. ☺️
 
EdwardTivrusky

EdwardTivrusky

Member
Withnail said:
After the patch it's spawned me in a different location (it warns you about this) but now I'm on someone else's Atlas path where every system along the route has already been discovered. Anybody know what I can do to change that?

If I jump to a random system in the map will it change the Atlas path for me?

Thinking I might just start a new save.
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I've had the same thing and i just warped away a few stars and went back to the path and i had a new route. You may have to warp a few times but it's worked for me.
 
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eyeball_kid

Member
PintSizedSlasher said:
Cool. The bars in space stations now have actual clients sitting at the bar
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Oh cool, can you talk to them? Or are they just set decoration?

edit: I really want NMS to get to the point where alien Xygorth the Bold is doing its own thing, walking around a station, having a drink, maybe giving me a job quest to do. Or maybe someone hires me to take Xygorth out. I just want the NPCs and the races and factions to really feel like a big society instead of cardboard cutouts.
 
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PintSizedSlasher

Member
eyeball_kid said:
Oh cool, can you talk to them? Or are they just set decoration?

edit: I really want NMS to get to the point where alien Xygorth the Bold is doing its own thing, walking around a station, having a drink, maybe giving me a job quest to do. Or maybe someone hires me to take Xygorth out. I just want the NPCs and the races and factions to really feel like a big society instead of cardboard cutouts.
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Just went back to check and they turned out to be the workers you can hire to work on your farm (should you have one).

Some other stuff:

- Taking off from a planet into space is very smooth and fast now.
- Definitely less buildings on planets
- A lot less resources around you on the planet. You really have to explore to find certain elements. But scanning now reveals the exact type of resource, so that's easier.
- Certain elements now require an advanced mining laser
- Life support can only be replenished with Thamium9 or Energy containers, not with Plutonium anymore.
 
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Chronospherics

Member
Looks like a fantastic update. I don't know what's happened with Shaun but it's clear that Hello Games are still putting a tremendous amount of work into this game. Definitely going to be checking back and continuing to play.
 
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eyeball_kid

Member
PintSizedSlasher said:
Just went back to check and they turned out to be the workers you can hire to work on your farm (should you have one).
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Thanks, makes sense. Maybe that's where you can hire freighter crew as well. God knows how long it'll take to save up for one of those.

Wonder if they activated portals or are just going to leave them deactivated for eternity.
 
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R_thanatos

Member
Holding brake whilst turning now activates drift for fast turns
Improved AI ship freighter attacking
Improved freighter targeting code when under attack by enemy ships

Multi-tool upgrades now affect audio
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HUm hum ... very good.
I like those.

So it's like we thought , we can go back to our home planet , and explore

Damn that base building looks very good.
 
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c0Zm1c

Member
Went to aid a freighter under attack and destroyed all the attacking enemy ships and it's telling me to land on the lead freighter and see the captain but the docking bay doors are closed and I can't land. Anyone else had that happen yet?

Edit: Nevermind. Seems the ship was still on red alert. The docking bay has now opened up.
 
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Zombie James

Banned
Alright, back to where I left off. I have 7.2M credits and I desperately need a new ship. Maybe a freighter would be a good option now but I really want a kick-ass ride.
 
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R_thanatos

Member
Well well , this is indeed an update that shake things up.

The game flow of the game has been changed that's for sure.

There is a lot to dig into now.
 
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