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No Man's Sky |OT2| Maths Effect
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Ballistics
Member
From what I understood from the Eurogamer analysis, voxels don't seem to be the ideal thing for water, hence how it looks from a far.
N° 2048
Member
I love this game, even though it lacks a lot.
It allows my mind to go crazy and role play. Narrate my own story. It's a great game to put Spotify or a podcast to.
BUT IT FUCKING CRASHES ALL THE FUCKING TIME.
Or just randomly stops saving (which I think I read was fixed?)
Jinfash
needs 2 extra inches
I hate you so much right now.
eyeball_kid
Member
Yeah I've seen the steam vents also. A nice touch, but an order of magnitude easier to implement a particle effect than having the proc gen creating a magma system that results in flowing lava volcanoes. But I can dream. tbh though they need to sort out all the game mechanics and UI first before they start adding more pretty things to look at.
Had spent hours playing this and really loving and decided to start it over as I'd play it differently knowing the things I know after playing it for so long. Just started again and I remembered that there was something wrong with getting or losing the warp drive if you do certain things?
Can somebody please remind what the issues were so that I can avoid causing that to happen? Thanks.
Can somebody please remind what the issues were so that I can avoid causing that to happen? Thanks.
Freezasaurus
Member
Crashing has been much better for me since the patches. The only time it really crashes for sure is about 40% of the time when trying to dupe. Though I haven't made the attempt after the most recent patch. Even so, I haven't had a crash since the patch last week that hardlocks the system, so that's improvement.
Itchy//Tasty
Member
Had a blast with this game tonight. Found a bunch of interesting planets, including one that the surface looked like an apple and blackcurrent ice cream swirl, just loads of purple and streaks of green. When I landed, the air was fine but it was EXTREME torrential rain all the time. I called it Purple Rain world.
Ah OK, that sounds familiar. I waited hours before redeeming the ship the first time so I would have been OK and I'm not in a hurry to do that now. Thanks.
Teasing_Pink
Member
Finally reached the center of the galaxy this morning. Ending spoilers below.
I'm a little stunned at the literal nothing that occurs for the ending. You just rewind through the galaxy and restart in new game plus? That's it? May as well have just told me to be sure to drink my Ovaltine.
Now that I think about it, that kinda happened, since one of the final systems I warped to was named "Check out my website", and listed some url. A crummy commercial indeed.
I wasn't expecting much, but a little token text about the galaxy being a simulation, resetting as the observer (i.e. you as the player) sends another traveler through it would have been nice. Something, anything to accompany the Atlas path and Anomaly discussions. In the grand scheme, the revelation and thought of existence being a simulation is an interesting conclusion, but come on, throw me a bone with some explicit fanfare.
Now that I think about it, that kinda happened, since one of the final systems I warped to was named "Check out my website", and listed some url. A crummy commercial indeed.
I wasn't expecting much, but a little token text about the galaxy being a simulation, resetting as the observer (i.e. you as the player) sends another traveler through it would have been nice. Something, anything to accompany the Atlas path and Anomaly discussions. In the grand scheme, the revelation and thought of existence being a simulation is an interesting conclusion, but come on, throw me a bone with some explicit fanfare.
Aenima
Member
Need to complete the tutorial part of game where you get a blueprinp for a warp drive before installing the DLC ship that already come with a warp drive and for that reason that part of the tutorial will be skiped.
So just dont get the DLC ship, or just get it after you receive the blueprint for the warp drive.
ScientificPizza
Banned
Yeah, I get this but the issue I'm having is that I haven't crafted and don't own any of the blueprints that aren't appearing in my list
Oooh. Weird! Seems like a frustrating way to do that, though.
Freezasaurus
Member
Ah OK, that sounds familiar. I waited hours before redeeming the ship the first time so I would have been OK and I'm not in a hurry to do that now. Thanks.
Just make sure you do redeem the pre-order ship at some point. The game will keep annoying the shit out of you until you do. It's not a great ship, so it's best to redeem it and switch to it immediately before you switch to another ship.
Almost stranded myself having to do a "Death Reset" today, entirely being my own fault.
Arriving on a new planet, I see a way point under water in a relatively deep sea, and decided I'm going to be a lazy bum and instead of landing on actual land which would require a few minutes of swimming, I land on a small island (a rock with a tree essentially) as close as possible to the landmark.
I then realize, upon exiting,that the planet is a Hoth-like (-125C) extreme weather planets, with almost constant storms. I still make the dive, with I think plenty of Zinc and Platinum to recharge my protections, but it still takes a few minutes to make the dive and come back, starting to run low on both.
I then have the dreaded "Not enough Fuel for take off"message ... and realize there's -no- trace of Plutonium anywhere around me to recharge.
My thermal protection is taking a beating due to the cold, and my O2 protection is taking one when in water as well, both eating through whatever little Platinum I have left.
By alternating swimming and hoping on a few rocks between the land on me, it takes about 12 minutes to reach the nearest land (grabbing a few sparse Plutonium crystals when arriving), where the only Oxyde I can find is a bit of Zinc in plants here and there. I then have the option to start looking for an Outpost with a Call Ship interface, or go back 12+ minutes to my ship which is still stranded in the middle of a very cold sea in the middle of a storm.
I get to the top of the closest hill, and no Outpost in sight.
12+ minutes trek it is then, but my zinc is almost gone, and only 3 minutes away from the ship is now entirely gone, with the storm doubling down. Alternating dives and using Melee Dash on a few rocks alternatively (it does increase your swimming speed when in water jumping in with the inertia), I make it with what appears to be less than a few seconds of Thermal Resistance left (Right before I take damage).
Both a huge annoyance and a nice adrenaline boost specially toward the end, but it all came from my underestimating of the Plutonium needed to be kept at hand to make sure takeoffs can be done
Arriving on a new planet, I see a way point under water in a relatively deep sea, and decided I'm going to be a lazy bum and instead of landing on actual land which would require a few minutes of swimming, I land on a small island (a rock with a tree essentially) as close as possible to the landmark.
I then realize, upon exiting,that the planet is a Hoth-like (-125C) extreme weather planets, with almost constant storms. I still make the dive, with I think plenty of Zinc and Platinum to recharge my protections, but it still takes a few minutes to make the dive and come back, starting to run low on both.
I then have the dreaded "Not enough Fuel for take off"message ... and realize there's -no- trace of Plutonium anywhere around me to recharge.
My thermal protection is taking a beating due to the cold, and my O2 protection is taking one when in water as well, both eating through whatever little Platinum I have left.
By alternating swimming and hoping on a few rocks between the land on me, it takes about 12 minutes to reach the nearest land (grabbing a few sparse Plutonium crystals when arriving), where the only Oxyde I can find is a bit of Zinc in plants here and there. I then have the option to start looking for an Outpost with a Call Ship interface, or go back 12+ minutes to my ship which is still stranded in the middle of a very cold sea in the middle of a storm.
I get to the top of the closest hill, and no Outpost in sight.
12+ minutes trek it is then, but my zinc is almost gone, and only 3 minutes away from the ship is now entirely gone, with the storm doubling down. Alternating dives and using Melee Dash on a few rocks alternatively (it does increase your swimming speed when in water jumping in with the inertia), I make it with what appears to be less than a few seconds of Thermal Resistance left (Right before I take damage).
Both a huge annoyance and a nice adrenaline boost specially toward the end, but it all came from my underestimating of the Plutonium needed to be kept at hand to make sure takeoffs can be done
ranmafan
Member
Finally got through the Atlus quest and picked up my platinum trophy over the weekend. First on ps4 and first new platinum for me in quite a long time. Enjoying the game so much and thankfully the crashes have been less frequent last couple of days, especially compared to last week.
Now the long road to the center. Yet I'm still loving it. Just such a calm and relaxing game. And it's just fueling my imagination like games used to before everything was just shown to you. And I love just coming up with my own stories for my journey. So much fun!
Thankfully today I can play a lot as I got nothing else to do due to a typhoon hitting Japan so everything is closed. So after the Olympic closing ceremony I'm going to try and get that distance to the center down a bit.
Now the long road to the center. Yet I'm still loving it. Just such a calm and relaxing game. And it's just fueling my imagination like games used to before everything was just shown to you. And I love just coming up with my own stories for my journey. So much fun!
Thankfully today I can play a lot as I got nothing else to do due to a typhoon hitting Japan so everything is closed. So after the Olympic closing ceremony I'm going to try and get that distance to the center down a bit.
ranmafan
Member
Yeah I wish they would fix that. I didn't switch to it and now if I did it would be a far less powerful ship so I dont want to, so I'm stuck with that stupid notification about unclaimed items. Its quite annoying.
I've never tried it, but would a ship summon beacon work even if your ship is damaged?
Jinfash
needs 2 extra inches
It works, and the ship arrives, but with the broken systems. So now that I've given up on finding the last functional ship, I've been wandering around the planet and summoning my ship wherever I go lol. All I need is 11 more freaking Zinc units to fix the Pulse Engine.
Aenima
Member
Zinc is really easy to find. If you use ur scanner on foot the yellow icons are all zinc flowers (titanium crystals also appear as yellow icons if im not wrong).
So any planet that have a little flora, will have alot of zinc flowers.
Mossybrew
Member
The main issue is that there is a very low threshold where improving your ship/multitool becomes pointless beyond aesthetic concerns. You guys grinding away that Gek find-a-ship deal, why? Why would you need a ship that holds X more items? Once your ship has enough space for quality of life upgrades, what else do you need? I'd say once you have about 24 slots tops, upgrading your ship is pointless. What, to haul more cargo to... trade? What do you need more money for? When the ultimate goal of the game is basically surviving and sightseeing, there is not much reason to keep upgrading past a certain point.
Have they fixed the blueprint bug in 1.05? I never see ANYTHING stated about this damn bug and it has totally ruined my save file. Basically every single blueprint I get states "Already known" but then doesn't appear in my formulas.
Pretty much pissed me off at this point as I basically can't progress.
Play on PS4. Anyone heard anything?
Pretty much pissed me off at this point as I basically can't progress.
Play on PS4. Anyone heard anything?
Jinfash
needs 2 extra inches
Unlike my starting planet, no flora on this one that gives Zinc. But after walking for hours I finally found a trader that sells it. Hooooo god fucking finally I can get off this ship.
No more ship hopping without the necessary resources to fix the ship right away.
Shiiiiit, I appear to have learned the entire Gek language.
Has anyone actually found the omegon or night crystals in the wild? They're the only things I've only found via merchants. I've even seen multiple forms of a lot of the other rare pickups.
Has anyone actually found the omegon or night crystals in the wild? They're the only things I've only found via merchants. I've even seen multiple forms of a lot of the other rare pickups.
They're not creatures, per se.
Shoot them up, they contain radnox.
Rising_Hei
Member
Just found a planet that's so plentiful, the best one i've got for now in my 50h + of playtime. Here's my streaming if anyone is interested in checking it out https://youtu.be/avKsnRPbTIY
Lots of life too
https://youtu.be/avKsnRPbTIYLots of life too
If you're on pc I'm confident there will be texture mods that make ice look like ice. The biggest effect visually it will have are in caves.
Aenima
Member
More slots, more upgrades u can have installed. My ship has 15 slots filled with upgrades, then i carry 500 of each resorce on the ship. (to fast repair anything if i use a black hole)
Just get 11 free slot left for extra loot. Oh an i dont even have any Photon Cannon upgrades installed in my ship, or would have even much less free slots.
So yeah, to me a 48 slot ship is about right for the way i play.
And the money i use to buy Anti-matter. You need, that expensive thing u can buy to craft fuel cells... fuel u need to warp... warp u need to reach the center
CarbonFire
Member
I saw Omegon in the pre-release streams, but not since the day one patch rerolled the universe. No idea if it still spawns, but considering the number of worlds I've been to, I'm thinking it does not. It used to be in big blueish floating crystal things that you'd break chunks off of and harvest.
eyeball_kid
Member
Sorry I should have been more clear... there's no ice at all in the game. Closest thing to ice is a "snow" texture. So I'd like ice, because so many real planets have huge ice sheets, glaciers, etc. And they might as well make it look like ice while they're at it, not just a texture.
And the money i use to buy Anti-matter. You need, that expensive thing u can buy to craft fuel cells... fuel u need to warp... warp u need to reach the center
Why would you buy antimatter when it's cheap to craft? Is it that you don't want to land on planets to collect materials?
SynthFetish
Member
I'm still trying to figure out my extreme survival bug, it's different from others have been reporting.
My next milestone is stuck at 0.0 SOLS. I've just chilling an extreme planet to see if maybe it'll start working, but so far it seems stuck at survived 3 Sols.
And yes, I'm in a shelter on an extreme climate planet and no, I've not left the planet at all.
My next milestone is stuck at 0.0 SOLS. I've just chilling an extreme planet to see if maybe it'll start working, but so far it seems stuck at survived 3 Sols.
still not good enough for Polo
And yes, I'm in a shelter on an extreme climate planet and no, I've not left the planet at all.
Earthanoid
Member
BizzyBum
Member
I made the mistake of leaving an extreme planet at the level 4 milestone. I thought you could pick up progress on another planet. Just found another extreme planet so might just buckle down and grind to level 10. On the bright side, this planet has 12 species and they are rare so I can at least spend time trying to scan them all.
Does it say extreme on the weather bar? Some people get that confused, even if you land and the word is in red it needs to say extreme. If you are, I'm not sure mine seemed to work kinda weird like it was only working if a storm was going on, or the storm made it stop working. I was super tired and passed out woke up to an empty grave but I got the max milestone.
SnowDrops
Member
Way better than what I had to do. I almost never found extreme planets so I settled down on the next best I found, an Icy planet, with nothing on it but these floating Radnox thingies and huge mountains and canyons. I've had to walk around on that thing for hours. Felt really lonely.
Aenima
Member
Yeah, i just buy the anti-matter on space station vendors and move one. When i go to planets i actually find alot of anti-matter on those v1 containers. So i never craft anti-matter
BlueTsunami
there is joy in sucking dick
So, crashed ships? Do they typically float between one more slot than yours or one less? All I've run into isn't a dramatic enough shift in slots to make the repairing of the ship worth it.
Aenima
Member
Yes the crashed ships you find will only have 1 more r 1 less slot than the one you are using.
SynthFetish
Member
It sure does. Extreme cold
Atomic Playboy
Member
I was having a hell of a time finding a way to earn credits; I've been sitting right around 600k for the last few star systems (I was still earning money, I just spent it as fast as I made it). And then I found my first space anomaly, and the system has a planet with Sac Venom everywhere. Better still, the planet in the immediate vicinity of the space station has Vortex Cubes every 10 feet and they're on the 100% markup list in the system. Some quick farming jumped me up a few million units, and I figure if I wanted to, I could easily clear 10,000,000 an hour. It's literally a 4 second jump between the surface and the space station. I wish I had something I could dismantle so I could stack them; my biggest problem now is my inventory fills up in 2 minutes.
If I decide to sell off my only Atlas Stone and abandon the Atlas path, does it affect anything at all? Nada and Polo showed me how to find black holes, so I don't need to follow the path for that, and I'm frankly not interested in littering my inventory with Atlas Stones; not when I can fill it with Vortex Cubes and upgrade to a new starship in relatively short order.
If I decide to sell off my only Atlas Stone and abandon the Atlas path, does it affect anything at all? Nada and Polo showed me how to find black holes, so I don't need to follow the path for that, and I'm frankly not interested in littering my inventory with Atlas Stones; not when I can fill it with Vortex Cubes and upgrade to a new starship in relatively short order.
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
Member
Almost stranded myself having to do a "Death Reset" today, entirely being my own fault.
Arriving on a new planet, I see a way point under water in a relatively deep sea, and decided I'm going to be a lazy bum and instead of landing on actual land which would require a few minutes of swimming, I land on a small island (a rock with a tree essentially) as close as possible to the landmark.
I then realize, upon exiting,that the planet is a Hoth-like (-125C) extreme weather planets, with almost constant storms. I still make the dive, with I think plenty of Zinc and Platinum to recharge my protections, but it still takes a few minutes to make the dive and come back, starting to run low on both.
I then have the dreaded "Not enough Fuel for take off"message ... and realize there's -no- trace of Plutonium anywhere around me to recharge.
My thermal protection is taking a beating due to the cold, and my O2 protection is taking one when in water as well, both eating through whatever little Platinum I have left.
By alternating swimming and hoping on a few rocks between the land on me, it takes about 12 minutes to reach the nearest land (grabbing a few sparse Plutonium crystals when arriving), where the only Oxyde I can find is a bit of Zinc in plants here and there. I then have the option to start looking for an Outpost with a Call Ship interface, or go back 12+ minutes to my ship which is still stranded in the middle of a very cold sea in the middle of a storm.
I get to the top of the closest hill, and no Outpost in sight.
12+ minutes trek it is then, but my zinc is almost gone, and only 3 minutes away from the ship is now entirely gone, with the storm doubling down. Alternating dives and using Melee Dash on a few rocks alternatively (it does increase your swimming speed when in water jumping in with the inertia), I make it with what appears to be less than a few seconds of Thermal Resistance left (Right before I take damage).
Both a huge annoyance and a nice adrenaline boost specially toward the end, but it all came from my underestimating of the Plutonium needed to be kept at hand to make sure takeoffs can be done
Two things I always have on hand. Plutonium and grenades, I almost couldn't leave a dead planet and had to walk half of it to find the needed plutonium.
My first time going inside a cave I got fucking lost for almost an hour.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Actually, when going to the center of a galaxy
you're being thrown out of Euclid, the first galaxy, to a random planet in Hilbert, the next galaxy. Everyone goes through a linear set of galaxies as they reach the center, IIRC.
However, yeah, one of the current downsides with the game is the lack of significant events except for the Atlas questline and its bit of plot.
Wyndstryker
Member
Died due to having my ship land too close to a cave entrance and at take off it collided with the cave top....
Fushichou187
Member
I wouldn't be surprised if at some point HG patches the game to allow accrual of the extreme planets over the course of play in different places instead of asking the playing to kick it in one generally unpleasant place for 8 hours.
Freezasaurus
Member
Yeah, I think that happened as a result of the patch last week. It worked for a while, but it eventually reverted after a couple sessions.