The lighting in this game now is just fantastic. It's the first time in a long time I just took a stroll on my new home planet, which for anyone not familiar with the less stressful planets, is Spadonium based. These planets are dry and you do have hot and cold but most of the time it's pleasant.
I just want to see rare anomalies from time to time. Picture this:
'You've been strolling across the planet for the better part of two hours when suddenly, as you crest the peak a mountain range you're confronted by a plane that stretching on as far as the eye can see. In the distance you see a shadowy mountain, it's craggy tor reaching down like a clawed hand to the sun-naked planes. At it's palm a darkness that you can't quite make out from this distance. You set off across the plane, that darkness growing in clarity until you realise it's a cave entrance, unlike anything you've seen before. It's dark ... so dark.
For a moment you pause before the cave entrance, your eyes unable to pierce it's black heart. The walls are smooth and as you move inside, the music quietens, until you're left with only your fatfalls and the whine of a breeze for company. The tunnels are complex and as you forge on they narrow, a mere arms reach in width. You can hear the grunts and growls of a creature reverberating through the caves but you can't tell whether it's in front or behind you. Turning back could be just as perilous as continuing on.
There is no turning back now, you're convinced something is down there, something that would make the risk worth it. Eventually the narrow tunnel begins to give and throws it's dark walls open to reveal a hidden cavern, at its centre a lake, the shores of which are patrolled by a crooked shadow man. Around the shores and upon an island in the very centre, are pillars of crystal gold, a bounty that would surely make the acquisition of your new freighter a little less troublesome.'
I know it's a bit fanciful, but for me there is absolutely no reason it couldn't exist in NMS. The thing is though, it needs to be rare, rare to the point of potentially getting overlooked for hundreds of hours. Someone will eventually find one of these anomalies and they will post pics, and THEN you'll see a huge resurgence in people playing NMS for the reason it was created in the first place: exploration.
I had about 15 jumps to make so I decided to do them all in one go today to get it over with. Feels good to be done, maybe now I can focus on playing the game in a more casual manner. On the one hand, landing on planets is completely useless to me now, the only reason would be to get new fuel and collect my final Vykeen words, but on the other hand, there are still ships to collect and upgrade. It would be kinda cool to reach that Reddit location and set up my base there instead but I have no idea how to get there.
