Digging tunnels is a super creative way to recharge shield. As far as general mobility I'm pretty good with melee/jeckpacking across almost all terrain. I don't find myself in caves much, I should change that. All good advice though, cheers.
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No Man's Sky |OT2| Maths Effect
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Digging tunnels is a super creative way to recharge shield. As far as general mobility I'm pretty good with melee/jeckpacking across almost all terrain. I don't find myself in caves much, I should change that. All good advice though, cheers.
You always have to have the base tech installed, everything else is an upgrade. Upgrades stack and also provide a bonus if you place them next to each other.
Seems to work fine out of the box, especially for making exits from caves I was doing that right away. But yes, I have an upgrade installed for the blast radius.
Also I use it to mine stuff in pillars sometimes, just to mix it up, dunno if it's faster or slower but kinda fun.
Sorry, I meant that the orbs are rarer than you think, I've found plenty of crashed ships but they don't all have the orb, I think I've found two that did.
Nice! About how long did it take you to plat this? Seems fast, but I know people have been putting a lot of hours into this.
I saw an inactive one. Didn't seem to do anything.
Teasing_Pink
Member
Took me about eight hours. You can hide in a shelter so you don't have to keep fueling your environmental shielding, which lets you take afk breaks if you like.
With +5 life support, I had a couple hours between refuels, so I did a mix of exploration, species tagging, and afk errand running. You can save your game and come back later too (or crash and reboot), just don't die or leave the surface.
The Elite
BOSS
We've seen them inactive thus far.
The Elite
BOSS
I have started using it, a lot. I find the boltcaster unnecessary at this point.
Handy Fake
Member
When there's a dickish little bitey twat "meemeemeemee"-ing towards you, I find it's best to just fire wildly at it with high-explosives.
Looking back at the old portal trailer it seems the active one is actually kind of small. So if they're still in the game and they're ultra rare, and they're also not really able to be spotted from the sky then it'll take quite some time before anyone will find one I think.
that is If the active one is in the game.
that is If the active one is in the game.
The Elite
BOSS
I should try shooting birds out of the sky with some grenades.
Max out mining laser with upgrades [all tiers from combat to mining], visor and scanner with max range perk and nade launcher with upgrade or two. That makes for beast mode multi-tool that is good for combat and mining.
Durrzerker
Banned
Oh my god, this planet. I'm going to be rich! RICH, AAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA! [Notice the gravitino ball marker on my top left, in addition to the cubes!]
The sentinels have gone absolutely apeshit, though. If I die...
The Elite
BOSS
Oh my god, this planet. I'm going to be rich! RICH, AAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA! [Notice the gravitino ball marker on my top left, in addition to the cubes!]
I still haven't found a planet with these things.
Combat ready Multi-tool can straight up compete with a geared up Boltcaster? Huh, I've only used the combat upgrades on the multi-tool to knock birds out of the sky.
I use it all the time. Only mining and grenades on my tool.
mcz117chief
Member
Has anybody finished the game yet? I only saw people travel from one galaxy to the next but I haven't seen anyone actually travel to the center of the universe.
Moons might be a better bet, since they tend to be barren more often, which is where they pop up more often.
I don't even think that's possible. It's not a game with an 'end' as far as I know.
Xbudz
Member
So, I've maxed out my suit inventory, I have a new ship with a good amount of slots as well.
Now I'm not really sure what to do next. I assume I should try to get Atlas Pass v2 or v3.. but how?
I'm kinda missing narrative at this point, I'm just not sure what reason there is to continue playing?
Just explore, get more money and buy a bigger ship? Should I just keep heading towards the galaxy core?
Hmmm.
Now I'm not really sure what to do next. I assume I should try to get Atlas Pass v2 or v3.. but how?
I'm kinda missing narrative at this point, I'm just not sure what reason there is to continue playing?
Just explore, get more money and buy a bigger ship? Should I just keep heading towards the galaxy core?
Hmmm.
Exactly what I'm doing. After upgrades I only have 4 free slots. The important thing is it looks cool and I can waste pirates in seconds now. I have 46 exosuit slots now anyway, and I only mine resources when I need them. Cash is from stealing vortex cubes and shooting down ships.
mcz117chief
Member
Wasn't the director of the game saying that the centre of the universe is the ultimate goal of the game that you want to share with your friends? I am pretty sure he did.
VARIA
Member
Oh my god, this planet. I'm going to be rich! RICH, AAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA! [Notice the gravitino ball marker on my top left, in addition to the cubes!]
The sentinels have gone absolutely apeshit, though. If I die...
Haha! I just recently came across a planet with a bunch of Vortex Cubes, but mine has the red box hovering over it like this:
Such an easy farm, but yes it is really easy to get greedy and get killed by sentinels. Just taking one of these Vortex cubes calls in two floaty sentinels and the mechanical dog, both are easy to take out but its easy to get distracted taking so many of these things as loot.
Lol, he said a lot of things.
But seriously, I think he was referring to the galaxy and he said it's 'an' end for those who want it.
xZoneHunter
Member
So i decided to check out the unpatched version, and it's really sad how they patched out the "records" tab. You could see how far you walked, how many words learned, how many resources you mined, etc, on each planet.
I hope they'll bring something like that back again.
I hope they'll bring something like that back again.
Fighting? Once you're proficient at melee boosting you can easily outrun them.
VARIA
Member
Oh, totally, but I really like the titanium, neutrino chips and other non common goods that they give.
Oh my god. There goes my evening, and at least the next one too. Found a nice toxic planet yesterday and decided to casually collect the achievement, but I didn't expect it to take that long.
On the bright side, it has lots of gold on it.
bananafactory
Banned
Centre of the galaxy is one option. Have you done the Atlas path?
I've got a nearly maxed out inventory and the ship I want. I spent some time getting Theta level warp drive and jetpack. Gonna focus on the Atlas path and the centre now and try and pick up the homing shots for my bolt caster and propelled grenades on the way. Aiming to get to the centre roughly when they release the base building and freighters update. That's the plan!
I didn't turn it down quite that far, but I did turn it down quite a bit. I'm normally that guy that goes into options and always turns brightness up; when they show me the little silhouette I turn brightness up way past the point where I can barely see it. In this game though, it felt bright enough to be overbearing.
mcz117chief
Member
If that's the case then that is a real bummer, since all I saw so far is that you just transition to another galaxy and that's it, at least Spore's galaxy center was funny and you got that cool super terraforming staff with 42 uses.
Fushichou187
Member
It'd be an unexpectedly awesome touch if the dialogue generator for those situations would have the Gek or other NPC act delusional or just incredibly erratic for having been alone for so long.
Those were some nice shots! Looking forward to coming across a desert planet, or at least a absurdly hostile one. Be careful abusing the collision detection though. Found myself in a pickle and broke through the map before. You don't want to die like that and have your grave be out of bounds
Absolutely. Upgraded with widened range of destruction/deformation as well as a +3 damage modifier, wrecks reinforced doors quickly and can down an AT-ST Sentinel with no trouble as well. I do a lot of exploration underground or in the ocean, so being able to brute force my way to the surface at will is very convenient.
I was thinking about this yesterday. What about turning around and heading out. There's some Gek lore relating to the outer edge, I'd be surprised if there's anything there though. Also no clue of how far you can go out.
You think? That's basically what I'm hoping for, I wouldn't want a traditional end in a game like this.
Durrzerker
Banned
Yeah. For the final nail in the wealth coffin, the space station in this system has a 106% markup for titanium, so every sentinel I kill is netting me profit. I can get around 60k for a stack of titanium here.
Freezasaurus
Member
Are Sentinels supposed to aggro over Vortex Cubes? They did when I was farming pearls on my last planet, but they don't seem to care about cubes.
Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Neither have I.
Sword Of Doom
Member
Maybe you should delete and reinstall. Might help with the crashing. Of course back up your save