Yeah, so I made a bunch of progress toward my goals, not only not having set foot on a planet, but I haven't even left the system. Crafted the two upgrades I wanted and I can make a third if I can score 50 more Nickel (it's very scarce in this system). Made over 500k with plenty more available in goods if I want to liquidate. Almost decided on a freighter but I window shopped too long and the one I liked most so far jumped.
Shoulda just nabbed that freighter
That is super awesome, good choice..
Can you set up a home base on any planet, or do you need to find a planet with one already?
The ones I have found so far are hot, irradiated hell holes
Very nice! I wonder how does it work though, I remember warping in a system with two really close stars nearby...
Very interesting. Looks like a helmet to me, but I wonder why it's even renderedI apologize as I do not have a screen shot and I don't think I've read about this before but, is it possible that HG snuck player models into the update???
You know how the camera angle vantage point always shifts over when talking with NPC's? Well, although I get no real clear image of my own character, whenever I talk with my Gek freighter captain and the camera angle shifts over, I can see a model to the right of the camera kind of in an idling animation of sorts. I think I can see what looks like my character's left shoulder or something? It's hard to explain.
When I am not talking with the captain there is NOTHING standing there normally so it HAS to be my own character.
Makes me wonder if it was like this all the time and now only the cramped quarters of the front of the bridge on some (or all?) freighters now only shows the actual model? It's like the camera angle is kind of "clipped" into the model though.
I don't use a screenshot service but if someone wanted to explain to me how I could easily upload screenshots to NeoGAF then I'll try to upload a screenshot if this is of interest to anyone...
EDIT: Just uploaded these images to imgur. Taken within NMS with photo mode on (PS4). Sorry if there was a way of having the screenshots show up more as a thumbnail within the thread. Damn if I could figure out what HTML tags to use for that...
Also, while talking with the captain, my "helmet" (or whatever it is on the right side of the images) moves slightly in and out of frame kind of like in an idling animation. It is NOT just static but bobbing and moving kind of like some of the NPC heads do while they are idle.
Before talking with captain. Notice there is nothing standing to the Gek's left? (i.e. nothing to the left except his terminal):
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Images taken while the camera is panning across to the view you get while conversing:
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These were taken in native .png format but uploaded as .jpg so it wouldn't take much bandwidth. If anyone wants copies in .png let me know and I can either upload them or send a message within NeoGAF to the .png versions I also uploaded.
Love it! I remember flying through the wheel with my ship the first time I saw it, super coolAnd my 13-slot Gek freighter (the wheel actually spins! Looks awesome from the ship's bridge): Wish the freighters had names too (even autogenerated ones but would be better if you could rename them.
I apologize as I do not have a screen shot and I don't think I've read about this before but, is it possible that HG snuck player models into the update???
You know how the camera angle vantage point always shifts over when talking with NPC's? Well, although I get no real clear image of my own character, whenever I talk with my Gek freighter captain and the camera angle shifts over, I can see a model to the right of the camera kind of in an idling animation of sorts. I think I can see what looks like my character's left shoulder or something? It's hard to explain.
When I am not talking with the captain there is NOTHING standing there normally so it HAS to be my own character.
Makes me wonder if it was like this all the time and now only the cramped quarters of the front of the bridge on some (or all?) freighters now only shows the actual model? It's like the camera angle is kind of "clipped" into the model though.
I don't use a screenshot service but if someone wanted to explain to me how I could easily upload screenshots to NeoGAF then I'll try to upload a screenshot if this is of interest to anyone...
EDIT: Just uploaded these images to imgur. Taken within NMS with photo mode on (PS4). Sorry if there was a way of having the screenshots show up more as a thumbnail within the thread. Damn if I could figure out what HTML tags to use for that...
Also, while talking with the captain, my "helmet" (or whatever it is on the right side of the images) moves slightly in and out of frame kind of like in an idling animation. It is NOT just static but bobbing and moving kind of like some of the NPC heads do while they are idle.
Before talking with captain. Notice there is nothing standing to the Gek's left? (i.e. nothing to the left except his terminal):
Images taken while the camera is panning across to the view you get while conversing:
These were taken in native .png format but uploaded as .jpg so it wouldn't take much bandwidth. If anyone wants copies in .png let me know and I can either upload them or send a message within NeoGAF to the .png versions I also uploaded.
Definitely viable. Also each slot in your ship stacks more than each in your suit, and you can focus on just getting bigger and bigger ships rather than upgrading your suit inventory if you want. If you are primarily focused on mining you can get away with minimal tech in your ship too which frees up slots.
The analysis visor? You'll be able to craft that easily.
I do (scrap everything first) . The new one offered will have less upgrade tech installed but be a little cheaper, and the slots (to choose your own upgrades) are what you really want.
Finally found a few. For anyone who might be looking, the copper I found was part of a rocky outcropping; on the planet where I was, it was fairly tough to distinguish between what was terrain and what was minable copper.
Goodbye floating spheres
Oh NO. MyMoreche said:
Yeah sorry for the ambiguity, I say scrap everything, then grab the better tool.
Haha still seems like a net win
Haha I think you're essentially right except I must interpreted it more as though you do indeed own the freighter, but inherit the staff and operations of the former commander/captain (just at present with no way to alter them). The base building section of the ship is the area reserved for the commander's personal use.
Agreed, I assumed something similar.
Here's a screenshot from my own freighter, notice that the FOV is pretty high in my game (playing on PC) so that's probably the reason the camera position is showing more detail. The freighter controls are visible on the right side of the screen and they're extruding and rotating on their own, so I'm still thinking that might be "helmet".
Btw, I've cleared up some things in my recent playthrough:
Showing off my new freighter:
- Removing the Farming Specialist and his station and placing them on the freighter, then warping to another system and talking to him about the Albumen Pearls quest spawns the ruins on the nearby planet in the new system, so it turned out to be the least painful fix for that particular problem.
- Pressing the quick transfer key (defaul X on PC) on an empty slot opens up a quick list (two rows, similar to the crafting and tech installing popup windows) of the inventory you can transfer items from (as in, if you're in the exosuit inventory screen you'll get a list of items in your spaceship inventory etc). However, by doing this, you're only transferring the maximum allowed amount for the slot you've selected. In other words, you're in the exosuit inventory screen, tap X on an empty slot, select a full 500 Iron slot from your spaceship and you'll only transfer 250 Iron (the maximum amount per exosuit inventory slot). This is useful when you want to transfer a smaller amount of resources to your exosuit inventory, especially from a Container or the freighter inventory, so instead of forcing you to transfer the entire 1000 stack (filling up 4 slots in your exosuit inventory) you'll only transfer 250.
Encountered a weird bug, I flew past the freighter docking ports sideways at a high speed and the game took the controls away from me (like it's docking) but it just rotated my ship in the opposite direction and continued to fly backwards at a very high speed, so I was effectively stuck and had to restart the game.
I guess you're right about that "helmet". Way to burst my bubble...
Cool looking freighter. I actually bought one identical to that one just last night but I kind of miss my old freighter. Wish you could have multiple freighters but oh well.
I encountered a couple of strange bugs myself:
1) Last night when transferring stuff from my old to new freighter (I think) somehow the jump pack from my exosuit ended up in my ship's inventory. I was able to rebuild it (thankfully) but it wasn't until the timely arrival of today's 1.12 patch that removed the jet pack from my ship's inventory. I wasn't able to remove it last night but thankfully that happened right at the end of my playing for last night and lucky me that the patch came out and fixed that very problem.
2) Just now I tried to save time by not taking the stairs in my new freighter and tried using my jet pack to jump up to the third level where the bridge and your base location is. I got stuck within the geometry and had to restart my save game from when I landed on the freighter so I didn't lose anything and I didn't bother taking a screenshot. It was more funny to me than anything else.
For PS4 it is down on the d-pad. Up on the d-pad is for base construction.
Hopefully we'll be able to see each other one day.
