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No Man's Sky |OT2| Maths Effect
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Playing through Mass Effect Andromeda made me want to get back into this, well that and the updates. I played 60 hours at release and they've changed the game quite a bit. My ship and the gear I spent hours grinding out almost seem obsolete now. I'm considering starting a new playthrough to better ease myself into the new features. Survival mode seems tempting! So much to consider.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Yeah, starting afresh is the way to go, with that extra little challenge ...
The waypoints you get from scanning buildings are so tiny and disappear seemingly at random, I find that a bit annoying.
They should also separate suit upgrades from the inventory, makes little sense that heat shields sit in my pocket along with rocks and flowers. Give them a separate screen for both suit and ship. Make them harder to craft so they give my value so you can't get maxed out in everything in a few hours as compensation. Also please make them more valuable, especially in the ship. Getting a new weapon upgrade should feels more like a reward and substantial imo.
They should also separate suit upgrades from the inventory, makes little sense that heat shields sit in my pocket along with rocks and flowers. Give them a separate screen for both suit and ship. Make them harder to craft so they give my value so you can't get maxed out in everything in a few hours as compensation. Also please make them more valuable, especially in the ship. Getting a new weapon upgrade should feels more like a reward and substantial imo.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
I constantly search for NMS on Youtube, partly because I like watching other people play too but also to see if there's been any increases in activity. After many months, especially following the Pathfinder update, I'm pleased to see more and more kids streaming this game. It's a good sign in my opinion, and hopefully an indication of something Sean Murray once said, which was that he feels NMS fits the bill for the Minecraft generation. Unless you've been actively doing this since launch (like little old sad self me) then you'll perhaps not notice. You'll have to trust me on this. This is very positive for the future of NMS.
And on another subject: Just playing with the lighting makes so much difference. It's also handy that you can mine a lot of stuff so if you really take your time you can change the way something looks by removing some of the trees or the rocks. I didn't do that here but I have in other shots. I'd like to have trimmed the bottom left of my 'Alice in Pirate Bay' shot though. ... Just a tad:
And on another subject: Just playing with the lighting makes so much difference. It's also handy that you can mine a lot of stuff so if you really take your time you can change the way something looks by removing some of the trees or the rocks. I didn't do that here but I have in other shots. I'd like to have trimmed the bottom left of my 'Alice in Pirate Bay' shot though. ... Just a tad:
Haha. Do you games that often?
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
New creature data mined. Cave dweller?
Animated version here: http://imgur.com/a/9QAyO
And some people over at Reddit suggest this is likely an indication of a new update coming soon. I don't know how to glean that information from this so pardon me if it's nonsense:
https://steamdb.info/app/275850/
Animated version here: http://imgur.com/a/9QAyO
And some people over at Reddit suggest this is likely an indication of a new update coming soon. I don't know how to glean that information from this so pardon me if it's nonsense:
https://steamdb.info/app/275850/
New as in recently added? Can't see the pics at work fwiw. They might expect an update soon then due to the first land vehicle being discovered the same way prior to the Foundation update (fairly long time inbetween though).
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
It was a round up of all the data found so far so I'm not entirely sure when it was found.
Just because I can:
I love the distortion I got on this:
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Hello Games testing older version of the game. It looks like they might be revisiting some features that never made it into the final cut ... just like every other game ever made (just felt I had to add that).
http://www.ibtimes.com/no-mans-sky-pc-update-may-tease-resurrection-pre-release-feature-2524671
http://www.ibtimes.com/no-mans-sky-pc-update-may-tease-resurrection-pre-release-feature-2524671
Ballistics
Member
Did anyone see this? Hello Games tweeted it. I was about to do a write up of the things it contained. Luckily, I noticed it was fan made.
https://geekreply.com/geek-culture/...bly-teases-upcoming-story-content-no-mans-sky
"Many popular features that were announced pre-launch were MIA come the time of release. Obviously, a coherent and meaningful story was one of them."
This part infuriates me. Never was there a story or a promised story.
https://geekreply.com/geek-culture/...bly-teases-upcoming-story-content-no-mans-sky
"Many popular features that were announced pre-launch were MIA come the time of release. Obviously, a coherent and meaningful story was one of them."
This part infuriates me. Never was there a story or a promised story.
eyeball_kid
Member
Perhaps, who knows what the pre-launch version of the game even looked like or how many of those features were ever completed. Very interesting though. Maybe they're thinking about turning the portals back on.
Yeah, that was made by some people who decided to go to the same region of space and build home bases there. I guess they roleplay this stuff because there's not too much they can actually do with each other.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
I'm hoping that the portals will eventually be used for warping between galaxies.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
I posted these on Reddit so I'm hoping no one minds if I post them here too:
Survival Mode For Beginners (The First Planet Of Death)
1/ The first thing you will want to do is familiarise yourself with the menu system. Spend some time inside the shelter provided and check out all the options for crafting you have at your disposal. This will save your life. Don't wait until you're out there in the cruel world to try and find out what you need to do. YOU WILL DIE!
2/ Speaking of 'death', remember, on dying, everything in your suit will be lost if you die on a planet and everything in your space craft will be lost if you die in space, so IF push comes to shove, transfer accordingly. Make sure you at least benefit a little from your first forays into the wilderness. And always have a soft, large cushion to throw your joypad at.
2a/ Before you follow what I've suggested below, just check what sort of building you're next to.If it's sizeable building and not just a simple shelter, you might have been lucky enough to spawn near a 'landing node' which is red and silver, or better still, a landing pad. Just have a quick look around the building to see if you have indeed been that lucky, because if you have, it will save you 'The Walk'. In conjunction with a 'Bypass chip', this will allow you to call your ship from a distance. All you'll have to do is fix the thrusters and use the Bypass chip! HELLO SPACECRAFT.
3/ From the comfort of said shelter, pop out and gather a stack of iron and a stack of carbon. Fix your visor and your scanner with these and then replenish those stacks. These will aid you greatly in finding the resources you'll need once you venture out.
4/ Don't use your mining tool to find out what resources are, just point it at the desired resource instead. Filling slots with unnecessary things will hinder and confuse you. Only Zinc, Thamium, Heridium, Platinum and Plutonium are needed to begin with. Carbon and Iron are plentiful so don't worry too much about those. Don't bother with opening the rectangular, green boxes just yet. Keep your slots available for necessary things.
5/ Caves and shelters are your friends. You will need a lot of iron to fuel the pulse drive, fill your ship's shield and build carite sheets. While inside a cave, mine for iron and build from there, either in your ship or in your suit (and then send them to your ship were they stack up to 5). Mining in caves is the best way of getting the iron required BUT remember, some caves don't have much carbon, if any, so ALWAYS keep your stack of carbon high for such occasions. Meleeing iron and carbon isn't fun ... Oh, and don't move while mining, let the mining tool do the work because you're depleting your life support without the need.
5a/ Speaking of caves, I feel I need to add one more piece of advice here in order to save you from yourself. You're in a cave, your hazard protection isn't going down and you feel oh so cosy. This is wonderful! It's lit up like Santa's Grotto, with maybe just a few annoying crabs but compared to the surface it's relatively safe. You have all the iron you need, perhaps plenty of carbon too and if you search a little, there's also Plutonium. RESULT! At this point you decide to scan for resources and little tempting icons appear everywhere. An idea pops into your beginners brain: 'If I continue through this cave I could probably make it a good way to my ship without the need to suffer the hazards on the surface'. Douse that voice, as you would a raving lunatic, with an ice cold bucket of reality, because as you dive deeper into the warren of convoluted, winding tunnels, you may start noticing the skeletons of dozens of unfortunate adventurers who had exactly the same idea. Once you're down there, you could be down there FOREVER. Save exploration for much later when you have the photon cannon, a useful item that will allow you to blow a tunnel to freedom, or even make yourself a makeshift mini cave in times of need. Put that little gem out of your head though. Save it for later.
6/ Assess what is available and play accordingly. If there is lots of Thamium then running is no problem and filling your life support isn't either, but if it's scarce, WALK. You will notice little white arrows to the right of your life support. This indicates how fast you're losing it. Walking reduces it by one, running reduces it by two and jetpacking reduces it by three. This can vary slightly on planets with high gravity but don't worry about that just yet.
6a/ Zink replenishes your hazard protection but it's also a resource you'll need for fixing your ship. I would advise only ever using it for your life support if you REALLY, DESPERATELY need to. This is were your familiarity with the menu system and what you can craft comes in handy. Platinum + iron will craft you a plate (for hazard protection) while Plutonium + carbon will craft you gel (for life support). Remember though, Thamium is your better option for life support if Plutonium is rare because Plutonium is required to fill your thrusters in order to take off. Zink can also be obtained from killing Sentinels but that's something best left alone unless you are struggling to find Zink in the wilds.
6b/ If you can, try to get just a little extra Plutonium. It's the one resource you'll burn through quickly in Survival and it's the one resource the lack of will leave you stranded for certain. If you're lucky enough to have two stacks during 'The Walk' send one to your ship and keep one handy on your suit just in case you need to make cells. In general, always try to make sure you have a full stack of everything. Never just mine what you think you need only to find later you didn't mine enough. This is a common mistake a lot of people make when mining Heridium too. Check those menus!
7/ At some point a little blue/purple icon will appear. It's shaped like a bottle. This is Heridium and a resource you'll need to finally lift off. This is where the game plays tricks with you. It's not happy just throwing Sentinals, aggressive creatures and bad whether your way, it will deliberately lead you astray. IGNORE that icon. You will find Heridium on the way to your ship or nearby your ship. It's a fat tower of blue/purple with a rounded top. You cannot miss it. And remember, you can make caves out of such materials and so have a little cave in which to farm away from the whether. Sentinels will let you mine this to your hearts content so don't worry about them when mining these types of materials, unless you're unfortunate enough to spawn on a planet with aggressive Sentinels.
8/ So, you've reached your ship, by running or ducking from cave to cave, have accepted the Atlas Path (advised) and searched the debris for everything available. Your ship should be more or less ready to go but for maybe a couple of things you couldn't quite fulfil on the way there. Take your time ... don't rush ... finish up, and take off. DON'T LEAVE THE PLANET YET.
9/ Scout the planet for a while and look for outposts or any other building with a 'free' landing area. These come in the form of a landing pad or a little red and silver nodule sticking out of the ground by the desired building (photo mode will help you find this little helper so don't neglect it). They're not always there though, so unless Plutonium is easily available, don't land there. These also come in handy for calling your ship, and because you spent some time earlier with familiarising yourself with the menu system and what you can craft, you will understand you'll need to make a Bypass chip from iron.
10/ You've taken your first steps, survived the hardest part of Survival so congratulations. But don't relax just yet. If you find a trading post then spend some time making a little early cash because now you CAN afford to open everything, to sell it (for now). Each race requires specific things to up your relationship with them and how good your relationship is with them decides how good the upgrades they sell you are. And also take your time to get your first 'milestone': Every creature found on the planet. Milestones are important, as you'll find out later but I don't want to spoil things here.
Hope that helps.
Addenda: Always jump in and out of your ship before moving on. This will create an auto save. Crashes are still a thing occasionally and you can lose a lot of progress.
Survival Mode For Beginners Part 2 (Leaving The planet of death)
1/ So, you've followed what I said in the first part, more or less to the letter. ... You've got your first Milestone, sold a bunch of stuff, grabbed as much Nanite as you can muster and want to discover another one or two of the 18 quintillion planets. There are a few things to consider before rocketing skyward into the blackness or pinkness or blueness or redness or ... well you get the idea. One thing you must do immediately is put out of your mind anything you've already seen on streams because nothing will frustrate you more than seeing a goal that is far out of your reach to begin with. Baby steps are the order of the day and as long as you embrace that idea, frustration won't rear it's ugly head.
2/ There are pirates out there, they 'aint' friendly and your ship is essentially a bucket with a pea-shooter. Don't even consider taking these scoundrels on, but just in case you have no option and have to attempt the impossible, make sure you have at least two full stacks of iron in you ships inventory. These are for your shields. Get used to the quick access menu by pushing down on the D-pad, although I'm sure you're familiar with it by now. You can mine for iron whilst in space (amongst other materials) but in the heat of battle it will be of no help whatsoever. 'Be prepared'.
2a/ 'Generally speaking' (I say that deliberately because this isn't always the case), the number of pirates that attack you correlates with the worth of the cargo you are carrying, so it's a good idea to sell what you can on the planet and not try dragging those 5 stacks of gold to the space station. Remember, wealth doesn't determine how often you are attacked but rather by how many. And trust me, taking on one or two pirates and not five or six is a lot easier ...
3/ So how do you avoid these pirates? They're random and you're sometimes a long way from salvation, be it a space station, planet or Anomaly (keep your eye out for this). Good things come to those who complete the milestones. Take a close look at the dashboard of your space bucket. To the left of centre you'll see a panel with a circular indicator. Get into the habit of flicking your eyes to that regularly because this is going to save you a LOT of heartache. 20 seconds before the pirates scan you, this begins to fill up, and then once it's filled and you've been scanned you have 10 seconds to take evasive action. This 30 seconds is sometimes all you'll need to prevent disaster.
4/ It's tempting isn't it? There's the space station floating in nothingness and it's so serene, quiet and inviting out there. The instructions have just told you to hold R1/L1 and suddenly you're shooting towards your destination, the thrill of speed intoxicating, wiping any sense of danger from your virginal space-travellers brain. You don't even hear the metallic female voice intone 'Threat Detected' and just carry on with a grin on your soon to be dead face. This isn't fun, space cadet, this is serious business for serious people ... seriously. Fight that urge to just 'go for it'.
5/ Don't go straight to your desired destination unless it's close enough. The order of the day here is a spot of planet or moon hopping, which is simply aiming towards a heavenly body a shorter distance from your destination but on the way there. It may seem a little counter-productive to veer off at a tangent but not as counter-productive as death and the loss of all the baubles you've gathered, if you're not quick enough to transfer them over to your suit, which you've got plenty of room for because you didn't just pick everything up and fill your suit with unnecessary things ... right?
6/ Here you are, happily hopping from potential safety to potential safety, comfortable in the knowledge you can take evasive actions, but what the heck IS this evasive action? What does it even mean? Back to the circular indicator on your ship's panel. Remember once that fills up, you will be immediately scanned and then you have 10 seconds to 'get outa there.' Providing you're planet hopping, have been keeping an eye on that circular indicator and don't panic when you're scanned for the first time, you should be within reach of a planets atmosphere (or space station if you're going to a planet). Entering that atmosphere will trigger a 'scan failed' and you can safely zoom back up into space and continue your journey, and now you have a decent amount of time before you're scanned again. Don't take it for granted though, remember you've just started the game and you're in a bucket with a pea-shooter.
7/ Taking what I've said in 6 into consideration, there's a little trick you can do to give yourself extra time. It takes some patience but it's worth it if you want to feel extra safe. You've seen the 20 second warning and know you're only 5 - 10 seconds from the spacestation or planet. You've got plenty of time! No need to worry, were done here. But let's say the planet you want to get to is on its lonesome with no planet hopping opportunities. What do you do then? Throw caution to the wind and blast off? You could do that ... OR, you could hang around a planets atmosphere or space station mining iron while you wait for that circular indicator to appear, watch it count down and then on being scanned enter the space station or planets atmosphere. Now you have as much time as the game can allow for you to aim for that distant planet.
8/ None of the above came into play, I did everything suggested and still got attacked by pirates 100 times more powerful than me. Help! This is it, your worse nightmare. You're not used to controlling the ship, your pea-shooter is doing very little damage, while one shot from these pirates is nearly wiping out your full shield. Remember those two stacks of iron? Remember that quick menu? Are you a quitter, cadet? Are you going to do what lots of people do and just resign yourself to death? No, cadet, you're not! You're going to shoot a few blasts, D-pad down, refill, shoot a few blasts, D-pad down, refill. You're not going to wait until the shield is empty, you're going to assume it is and fill, fill, fill while at the same time beating these blighters one small chip at a time. I'd also recommend using your phase beam for this. It has an auto lock on which helps with stress levels.
So good luck, and enjoy the music when entering the space station for the first time.
It's awesome.
Cryo-tubes found in old build:
https://twitter.com/sphinxkoma37/status/855023731239989248
Survival Mode For Beginners (The First Planet Of Death)
1/ The first thing you will want to do is familiarise yourself with the menu system. Spend some time inside the shelter provided and check out all the options for crafting you have at your disposal. This will save your life. Don't wait until you're out there in the cruel world to try and find out what you need to do. YOU WILL DIE!
2/ Speaking of 'death', remember, on dying, everything in your suit will be lost if you die on a planet and everything in your space craft will be lost if you die in space, so IF push comes to shove, transfer accordingly. Make sure you at least benefit a little from your first forays into the wilderness. And always have a soft, large cushion to throw your joypad at.
2a/ Before you follow what I've suggested below, just check what sort of building you're next to.If it's sizeable building and not just a simple shelter, you might have been lucky enough to spawn near a 'landing node' which is red and silver, or better still, a landing pad. Just have a quick look around the building to see if you have indeed been that lucky, because if you have, it will save you 'The Walk'. In conjunction with a 'Bypass chip', this will allow you to call your ship from a distance. All you'll have to do is fix the thrusters and use the Bypass chip! HELLO SPACECRAFT.
3/ From the comfort of said shelter, pop out and gather a stack of iron and a stack of carbon. Fix your visor and your scanner with these and then replenish those stacks. These will aid you greatly in finding the resources you'll need once you venture out.
4/ Don't use your mining tool to find out what resources are, just point it at the desired resource instead. Filling slots with unnecessary things will hinder and confuse you. Only Zinc, Thamium, Heridium, Platinum and Plutonium are needed to begin with. Carbon and Iron are plentiful so don't worry too much about those. Don't bother with opening the rectangular, green boxes just yet. Keep your slots available for necessary things.
5/ Caves and shelters are your friends. You will need a lot of iron to fuel the pulse drive, fill your ship's shield and build carite sheets. While inside a cave, mine for iron and build from there, either in your ship or in your suit (and then send them to your ship were they stack up to 5). Mining in caves is the best way of getting the iron required BUT remember, some caves don't have much carbon, if any, so ALWAYS keep your stack of carbon high for such occasions. Meleeing iron and carbon isn't fun ... Oh, and don't move while mining, let the mining tool do the work because you're depleting your life support without the need.
5a/ Speaking of caves, I feel I need to add one more piece of advice here in order to save you from yourself. You're in a cave, your hazard protection isn't going down and you feel oh so cosy. This is wonderful! It's lit up like Santa's Grotto, with maybe just a few annoying crabs but compared to the surface it's relatively safe. You have all the iron you need, perhaps plenty of carbon too and if you search a little, there's also Plutonium. RESULT! At this point you decide to scan for resources and little tempting icons appear everywhere. An idea pops into your beginners brain: 'If I continue through this cave I could probably make it a good way to my ship without the need to suffer the hazards on the surface'. Douse that voice, as you would a raving lunatic, with an ice cold bucket of reality, because as you dive deeper into the warren of convoluted, winding tunnels, you may start noticing the skeletons of dozens of unfortunate adventurers who had exactly the same idea. Once you're down there, you could be down there FOREVER. Save exploration for much later when you have the photon cannon, a useful item that will allow you to blow a tunnel to freedom, or even make yourself a makeshift mini cave in times of need. Put that little gem out of your head though. Save it for later.
6/ Assess what is available and play accordingly. If there is lots of Thamium then running is no problem and filling your life support isn't either, but if it's scarce, WALK. You will notice little white arrows to the right of your life support. This indicates how fast you're losing it. Walking reduces it by one, running reduces it by two and jetpacking reduces it by three. This can vary slightly on planets with high gravity but don't worry about that just yet.
6a/ Zink replenishes your hazard protection but it's also a resource you'll need for fixing your ship. I would advise only ever using it for your life support if you REALLY, DESPERATELY need to. This is were your familiarity with the menu system and what you can craft comes in handy. Platinum + iron will craft you a plate (for hazard protection) while Plutonium + carbon will craft you gel (for life support). Remember though, Thamium is your better option for life support if Plutonium is rare because Plutonium is required to fill your thrusters in order to take off. Zink can also be obtained from killing Sentinels but that's something best left alone unless you are struggling to find Zink in the wilds.
6b/ If you can, try to get just a little extra Plutonium. It's the one resource you'll burn through quickly in Survival and it's the one resource the lack of will leave you stranded for certain. If you're lucky enough to have two stacks during 'The Walk' send one to your ship and keep one handy on your suit just in case you need to make cells. In general, always try to make sure you have a full stack of everything. Never just mine what you think you need only to find later you didn't mine enough. This is a common mistake a lot of people make when mining Heridium too. Check those menus!
7/ At some point a little blue/purple icon will appear. It's shaped like a bottle. This is Heridium and a resource you'll need to finally lift off. This is where the game plays tricks with you. It's not happy just throwing Sentinals, aggressive creatures and bad whether your way, it will deliberately lead you astray. IGNORE that icon. You will find Heridium on the way to your ship or nearby your ship. It's a fat tower of blue/purple with a rounded top. You cannot miss it. And remember, you can make caves out of such materials and so have a little cave in which to farm away from the whether. Sentinels will let you mine this to your hearts content so don't worry about them when mining these types of materials, unless you're unfortunate enough to spawn on a planet with aggressive Sentinels.
8/ So, you've reached your ship, by running or ducking from cave to cave, have accepted the Atlas Path (advised) and searched the debris for everything available. Your ship should be more or less ready to go but for maybe a couple of things you couldn't quite fulfil on the way there. Take your time ... don't rush ... finish up, and take off. DON'T LEAVE THE PLANET YET.
9/ Scout the planet for a while and look for outposts or any other building with a 'free' landing area. These come in the form of a landing pad or a little red and silver nodule sticking out of the ground by the desired building (photo mode will help you find this little helper so don't neglect it). They're not always there though, so unless Plutonium is easily available, don't land there. These also come in handy for calling your ship, and because you spent some time earlier with familiarising yourself with the menu system and what you can craft, you will understand you'll need to make a Bypass chip from iron.
10/ You've taken your first steps, survived the hardest part of Survival so congratulations. But don't relax just yet. If you find a trading post then spend some time making a little early cash because now you CAN afford to open everything, to sell it (for now). Each race requires specific things to up your relationship with them and how good your relationship is with them decides how good the upgrades they sell you are. And also take your time to get your first 'milestone': Every creature found on the planet. Milestones are important, as you'll find out later but I don't want to spoil things here.
Hope that helps.
Addenda: Always jump in and out of your ship before moving on. This will create an auto save. Crashes are still a thing occasionally and you can lose a lot of progress.
Survival Mode For Beginners Part 2 (Leaving The planet of death)
1/ So, you've followed what I said in the first part, more or less to the letter. ... You've got your first Milestone, sold a bunch of stuff, grabbed as much Nanite as you can muster and want to discover another one or two of the 18 quintillion planets. There are a few things to consider before rocketing skyward into the blackness or pinkness or blueness or redness or ... well you get the idea. One thing you must do immediately is put out of your mind anything you've already seen on streams because nothing will frustrate you more than seeing a goal that is far out of your reach to begin with. Baby steps are the order of the day and as long as you embrace that idea, frustration won't rear it's ugly head.
2/ There are pirates out there, they 'aint' friendly and your ship is essentially a bucket with a pea-shooter. Don't even consider taking these scoundrels on, but just in case you have no option and have to attempt the impossible, make sure you have at least two full stacks of iron in you ships inventory. These are for your shields. Get used to the quick access menu by pushing down on the D-pad, although I'm sure you're familiar with it by now. You can mine for iron whilst in space (amongst other materials) but in the heat of battle it will be of no help whatsoever. 'Be prepared'.
2a/ 'Generally speaking' (I say that deliberately because this isn't always the case), the number of pirates that attack you correlates with the worth of the cargo you are carrying, so it's a good idea to sell what you can on the planet and not try dragging those 5 stacks of gold to the space station. Remember, wealth doesn't determine how often you are attacked but rather by how many. And trust me, taking on one or two pirates and not five or six is a lot easier ...
3/ So how do you avoid these pirates? They're random and you're sometimes a long way from salvation, be it a space station, planet or Anomaly (keep your eye out for this). Good things come to those who complete the milestones. Take a close look at the dashboard of your space bucket. To the left of centre you'll see a panel with a circular indicator. Get into the habit of flicking your eyes to that regularly because this is going to save you a LOT of heartache. 20 seconds before the pirates scan you, this begins to fill up, and then once it's filled and you've been scanned you have 10 seconds to take evasive action. This 30 seconds is sometimes all you'll need to prevent disaster.
4/ It's tempting isn't it? There's the space station floating in nothingness and it's so serene, quiet and inviting out there. The instructions have just told you to hold R1/L1 and suddenly you're shooting towards your destination, the thrill of speed intoxicating, wiping any sense of danger from your virginal space-travellers brain. You don't even hear the metallic female voice intone 'Threat Detected' and just carry on with a grin on your soon to be dead face. This isn't fun, space cadet, this is serious business for serious people ... seriously. Fight that urge to just 'go for it'.
5/ Don't go straight to your desired destination unless it's close enough. The order of the day here is a spot of planet or moon hopping, which is simply aiming towards a heavenly body a shorter distance from your destination but on the way there. It may seem a little counter-productive to veer off at a tangent but not as counter-productive as death and the loss of all the baubles you've gathered, if you're not quick enough to transfer them over to your suit, which you've got plenty of room for because you didn't just pick everything up and fill your suit with unnecessary things ... right?
6/ Here you are, happily hopping from potential safety to potential safety, comfortable in the knowledge you can take evasive actions, but what the heck IS this evasive action? What does it even mean? Back to the circular indicator on your ship's panel. Remember once that fills up, you will be immediately scanned and then you have 10 seconds to 'get outa there.' Providing you're planet hopping, have been keeping an eye on that circular indicator and don't panic when you're scanned for the first time, you should be within reach of a planets atmosphere (or space station if you're going to a planet). Entering that atmosphere will trigger a 'scan failed' and you can safely zoom back up into space and continue your journey, and now you have a decent amount of time before you're scanned again. Don't take it for granted though, remember you've just started the game and you're in a bucket with a pea-shooter.
7/ Taking what I've said in 6 into consideration, there's a little trick you can do to give yourself extra time. It takes some patience but it's worth it if you want to feel extra safe. You've seen the 20 second warning and know you're only 5 - 10 seconds from the spacestation or planet. You've got plenty of time! No need to worry, were done here. But let's say the planet you want to get to is on its lonesome with no planet hopping opportunities. What do you do then? Throw caution to the wind and blast off? You could do that ... OR, you could hang around a planets atmosphere or space station mining iron while you wait for that circular indicator to appear, watch it count down and then on being scanned enter the space station or planets atmosphere. Now you have as much time as the game can allow for you to aim for that distant planet.
8/ None of the above came into play, I did everything suggested and still got attacked by pirates 100 times more powerful than me. Help! This is it, your worse nightmare. You're not used to controlling the ship, your pea-shooter is doing very little damage, while one shot from these pirates is nearly wiping out your full shield. Remember those two stacks of iron? Remember that quick menu? Are you a quitter, cadet? Are you going to do what lots of people do and just resign yourself to death? No, cadet, you're not! You're going to shoot a few blasts, D-pad down, refill, shoot a few blasts, D-pad down, refill. You're not going to wait until the shield is empty, you're going to assume it is and fill, fill, fill while at the same time beating these blighters one small chip at a time. I'd also recommend using your phase beam for this. It has an auto lock on which helps with stress levels.
So good luck, and enjoy the music when entering the space station for the first time.
It's awesome.Cryo-tubes found in old build:
https://twitter.com/sphinxkoma37/status/855023731239989248
SolidChamp
Banned
So, uh, wow. Jumping back in, it's a little overwhelming to see the additions and tweaks. Things are a bit more extensive/time consuming in terms of mining and crafting. I need different types of mining lasers now?? The fuck?
Also, base building is really neat but the sub-categories are pretty deep and I don't even know how to craft something as simple and as essential as glass.
Playing on my original save file, by the way. Not creation mode or whatever it is
Also, base building is really neat but the sub-categories are pretty deep and I don't even know how to craft something as simple and as essential as glass.
Playing on my original save file, by the way. Not creation mode or whatever it is
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Just do as the game instruct you to do and don't worry about things you haven't got just yet. Also read what I posted above.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Come on you unenthusiastic bunch of NMSkyers. Beat these:
That's a great post. Thanks for putting in the work.
I'm on hiatus until the next update. Lots of games out. Can't wait to dive back in with some new toys to play with.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Have you finished all the content in the Foundation and Pathfinder update? If not, then when you jump back in after the third update you'll not recognise NMS
Thank you.
The first pic has the cloud density turned up slightly, and the fog density turned up slightly so it left only the grass in front of the Sentinel with full colour, as if his scanner was illuminating it. Having it without any fogging and full colour, flattened the image. I originally had the fog density down a little more and you could see colour in the slope with the wiggly tree but decided I preferred it darker to frame the Sentinel better and focus the eye up the craggy hill to the spire.
The second pic took quite some time. In the end I plumped for having quite heavy fogging just up to the point of highlighting the back creatures wings and face, and then used the 'Fall' (think that's what it's called) filter. It was quite handy that the smaller creature looks camera shy. lol
Third pic was pretty straight forward. It's just the Vibrant filter, lots of moving the camera about (a stupid amount of time!) and then moving the sun just behind the planet in the distance and to one side so the shadow was cast right to left across the image. I would have liked that spike to go beyond the outside of the planet, hence the moving the camera about a stupid amount. I just feel it looks slightly contrived the way it is but I'm still pleased with it.
More options in camera mode, please!
Edit: I'm currently using this version as my custom screen on the PS4:
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Absolutely LOVE the first pic.
eyeball_kid
Member
I haven't, but too many big games have my attention right now. And honestly NMS was starting to feel like a giant farming grind with all the new crafting gates, so I'm hoping and wishing that the next update adds some sort of dynamic job system.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
The thing is, it only feels like a grind if you do nothing but grind. I tend to pop in and out of doing particular things as soon as I feel I'm forcing myself to do it, hence why (at the moment) I'm playing with photo mode. I just filled my freighter with a nip-nip farm and was trying to get the first milestone for animals on a planet (I've gone back to my normal mode save for now) and I just could NOT find those damned animals. I've done the milestone a few times now and I've noticed you can go through the game some times and find them relatively easy but then other times struggle. Photo mode was in lieu of throwing my joypad at the wall ...
Can someone please explain to me how Twitter works, please? I just tweeted the creature pic @HelloGames and it doesn't appear to have posted anywhere. I used the 'Tweet to Hello Games' button on the left: https://twitter.com/hellogames
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Really loving the photo mode... First one is currently my PS4 background.
Excellent. I particularly like the first one. I've Tweeted Hello Games and asked for more options in photo mode. The depth of field could do with a little tinkering too.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
You need to restart to be honest. You'll appreciate the changes much more, especially if you play on Survival.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Three more I quite like:
Wow, this is 13 GBP on PSN deal of the week. I don't think there's any excuse for not picking this up and giving it a go now.
Are there any general tips for someone just starting out?
Going in for the first time, I'd kind of like to experience this as a helpless traveler (like Matt Damon in The Martian or something), but is jumping straight into survival mode a really bad idea?
Are there any general tips for someone just starting out?
Going in for the first time, I'd kind of like to experience this as a helpless traveler (like Matt Damon in The Martian or something), but is jumping straight into survival mode a really bad idea?
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Read through this and follow it to the letter:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=234302025&postcount=9668
Ballistics
Member
I don't know if anyone has noticed, but every time it goes on sale, a patch follows. So here's hoping.
OuterLimits
Member
Anyone else having issues with online? The last couple days I pretty much just see the red circle that I have lost connection to online services. Before yesterday, I was usually online. Or if it lost the connection it would fairly quickly get it back.
Currently about 50 hours into my permadeath game. Trying to get to the center but it's slow going. At least I have most Sigma and Tau upgrades. So my ship is fairly resistant to attack now and my guy can take a hit or fall from higher up without it wiping my shields completely. Although I'm still super cautious on planets with a significant amount of predators. On one planet I was reduced to two health bars, and that was a tad stressful. Fortunately got back to my ship.
It's hard finding theta upgrades now it seems. At space stations I rarely see them selling those. Also, I had to rely on Polo to get the warp drive upgrades. I think I saw a Tau upgrade once at a Gek station, but it was so early in the game I wasn't on good enough terms with the Gek to buy it.
Would love to find the theta hazard protection upgrades. The Tau is decent but obviously the Theta is far superior.
Currently about 50 hours into my permadeath game. Trying to get to the center but it's slow going. At least I have most Sigma and Tau upgrades. So my ship is fairly resistant to attack now and my guy can take a hit or fall from higher up without it wiping my shields completely. Although I'm still super cautious on planets with a significant amount of predators. On one planet I was reduced to two health bars, and that was a tad stressful. Fortunately got back to my ship.
It's hard finding theta upgrades now it seems. At space stations I rarely see them selling those. Also, I had to rely on Polo to get the warp drive upgrades. I think I saw a Tau upgrade once at a Gek station, but it was so early in the game I wasn't on good enough terms with the Gek to buy it.
Would love to find the theta hazard protection upgrades. The Tau is decent but obviously the Theta is far superior.
Many thanks! This is a huge help. Am reading and re-reading steps 1-10 for now.
Just started on Survival tonight and am going through the motions, repairing stuff. Very relaxing and full of intrigue so far, even if my very first planet has radioactive weather.
eyeball_kid
Member
Even the normal mode is fairly challenging since the Foundation update. Depends on the kind of experience you're looking for. On Survival there's not really any chill planets; even the grassy idyllic ones have angry Sentinels after you.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Man, oh, man, I'm so proud of this:
vix
Member
Can you have more than one save in a particular mode? Like if I wanted to start over in normal, would I still be able to go back to my original save or would it be overwritten? I haven't booted the game up since December and I'm debating if I want to maybe start over. But at the same time, I don't want to lose my ship and freighter, etc.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
100% Base, 100% Freighter and ~50m in the bank :]
OuterLimits
Member
The one(at times) exception is the dry planets.(spadonium). Some of them do have blasted atmospheres and are pretty hostile. However many of them are fairly easy going and only have a brief period of cold at night. They often don't have the hostile sentinels either. On permadeath mode, I have been putting my base on that type of planet.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
OuterLimits
Member
Dead planets can be a bit dull, but the sunrises and sunsets can be impressive to watch. Plus they have a ton of thamium9. Although don't land on them until you have at least a Sigma life support upgrade. Also finding plutonium on them can be hit or miss
It's rather costly on Survival/Perma mode to land on dead planets, but I enjoy walking on them occasionally. Plus st times they can have good resources and you don't have to worry about predators and other things.
It's rather costly on Survival/Perma mode to land on dead planets, but I enjoy walking on them occasionally. Plus st times they can have good resources and you don't have to worry about predators and other things.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Yep, they're the perfect planets for when you want to stock up on warp cells for that final big push to the centre.
Interesting. Noted on the lack of chill planets. I'll just jump into normal mode if things get a bit dry, but am enjoying scraping by so far!
Man, oh, man, I'm so proud of this:
Wow, gorgeous. Suppose relaxing with the camera is one more reason to check out Exploration mode.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Yeah, Create mode is OK but I still want a little challenge, so I'm taking photos in Normal mode. I would recommend sticking with Survival for now though, the balance of the game makes far more sense in that mode.
Cool! Yeah, I'm enjoying it so far.
I have a question about point 7 of your guide. I just reached my ship, but need Heridium. That deposit icon is a 20min walk away, so I'll be ignoring that as you advise, but I can't see any blue/purple towers nearby. Don't think I've seen any at all, in fact.
Scanning just reveals Zinc or Thamium. Barely seen any Plutonium either, which I'm gonna need for fuel I take it. I guess I suppose I need to use my ship as a "base" and go a bit further afield, but do let me know if I seem to be overlooking something obvious.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
You can't scan for Heridium in the traditional way. You can build a signal booster and search for 'resources' but that's not guaranteed to find just Heredium or the closest source.
Just walk about 2 or 3 minutes away from your ship and then, keeping your ship icon at the very edge of the upper indicator, begin a slow circular sweep of the area, taking in the peaks to maximise your view. You'll find one, and pock up Plutonium along the way. Just don't be in a rush, take your time and make sure you don't DIE!
Here's what it looks like: http://i.amz.mshcdn.com/UE4LVcd-8Jj...ds/card/image/170656/No_Mans_Sky_Heridium.jpg
OuterLimits
Member
The scanner is hit or miss on plutonium. Usually will show big crystals. Zinc has become much less an issue now since you get it from destroyed sentinels. On Survival mode, finding a multitool with the plasma grenade should be a top priority. Blasting your own caves to recharge hazard protection makes the game much easier.(as does defeating the flying eye sentinels.)
This game really had the potential for an amazing story but dropped the ball. Which is a shame because the story bits found at Abandoned buildings, Monoliths, and the Atlas path are actually pretty interesting. It makes it frustrating that the foundation of a good story is there but never expanded upon.
This game really had the potential for an amazing story but dropped the ball. Which is a shame because the story bits found at Abandoned buildings, Monoliths, and the Atlas path are actually pretty interesting. It makes it frustrating that the foundation of a good story is there but never expanded upon.