KaidoRacer7
Member
What kinds of equipment upgrades is worth getting? I already have a 48-slot backpack but I think it's useless to get 4 upgrades for each hazard protection, right?
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No Man's Sky |OT2| Maths Effect
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Pestilence11
Member
They're so cheap to make that there's no point keeping any of the hazard protection installed. But in any case, Tau or Theta is plenty for each protection.
If a planet is extremely toxic for instance, I just scrounge up what's needed for Tau or Theta and install it then disassemble when I leave.
I've seen it tweeted at Hello Games so hopefully they'll consider it.
vpance
Member
Yeah it's not useful to have them all on. Just construct them when you need it and remove it after.
Landed on a planet with firestorms the other day, and having Theta protection on helped a ton.
bloodforge
Member
There is always one on the space anomaly with Nada and Polo as well.
John Rabbit
Banned
I've seen exactly one Vy'keen in my 25-ish hours of playing. When I went back to that system he was replaced with a Gek. I really need to find a Vy'keen system and upgrade my multi-tool.
PintSizedSlasher
Member
somme
Member
I've only seen one photo of the mod, or dark black space and you can get that in the game already. It's just pretty rare.
I jumped through several systems with dark black space in a row. I hadn't seen any before so I thought something had changed. It did look nice and spacey.
I don't mind the coloured systems, but the ratio of colourful to dark seems backward IMO. It would be cooler to run into that sort of nebula effect just once in a while.
Darth Smurf X
Member
Yeah... I went in there today, not sure why, but I quickly hit the "back" button and will never venture out of this thread again. Unless it's the Photo thread. That one's fine too.
Oh, update: I got my Atlas Pass last night after randomly jumping to a green star system and finding the Anomaly. I also found a planet that was ONLY tall mountains and water. The framerate was dropping drastically in a way I've never seen before as it tried to render changing sunset shadows from the huge mountains over the vast expanses of water. But it sure looked cool.
This isn't that planet, but it's my favorite shot from last nights session.
OriginalThinking
Member
So is there a warp drive upgrade beyond sigma, tau and theta? I'm warping towards the centre and have tried using black holes too but it's taking an age. I've stopped using black holes as they seem to be random in terms of their distance and always break something. Any thoughts GAF?
DukeLongfellow
Member
On the NMSPortal subreddit (yes, an entire subreddit dedicated to figuring out Portals) several people had a lot of cryptic messages from someone who seems to have figured it out. Possibly same guy.
Handy Fake
Member
With the autopilot Mod, does this mean we'll be able to fly ships through portals..? (If they fit...)
The Elite
BOSS
I don't think any ship can fit through them.
Handy Fake
Member
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
KaidoRacer7
Member
The Elite
BOSS
When you have a piece of data like concurrent hourly players over a two week period from launch it kind of helps to have some comparable numbers to understand if what you're looking at is outside the norm. If it is outside the norm, having comparable data will tell you by how much.
I would genuinely like to know. Good or bad. Unfortunately that thread has already turned into the usual bullshit.
Anyone have actual comparable information in here?
I would genuinely like to know. Good or bad. Unfortunately that thread has already turned into the usual bullshit.
Anyone have actual comparable information in here?
CarbonFire
Member
I gave up using the Black Holes I think at just under 130k, just started making max jumps towards the center. I was over 120 jumps by the time I reached the center, though a decent number of those were spent faffing about in the early game.
And Theta is the largest Reactor known atm. When all 4 are linked it gives you a little over 1,600 LY range per jump. I think there was speculation of an Omega Drive, but I don't think any proof of one has materialized.
Zero I guess. I've only been to 3 systems so far. Just sucks I need to go 3 in the opposite direction now... oh well. I guess I will do it.
Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
I'd like a 'how many hours you've played' to be included in the next patch.
guybrushfreeman
Unconfirmed Member
It's completely normal. You can view that kind of information here if you like. https://steamdb.info/graph/ Click on a game to get a detailed view under graphs. It's up to you what kind of games you want to compare it to though.
Wyndstryker
Member
Getting the recipe to make that item needed for hyperspace drives makes life so much easier
SolidusDave
Member
I kinda don't want to know as it would expose my inefficient grinding/exploring haha
Don't feel like you are going out of your way. You will visit 10-30 systems along the Atlas path in no particular direction but that is relatively meaningless compared to the distance to the center.
Well I have most of the blueprints and that doesn't stop them from regurgitating the same ones over and over everywhere.
guybrushfreeman
Unconfirmed Member
Someone posted a picture where the stone said all words learned or something like that. It was ages ago though so I'm not sure....
The Elite
BOSS
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=214843995&postcount=201
This post suggests higher than normal but it's a tough comparable against this examples used.
BizzyBum
Member
Wow, as soon as I posted this my next knowledge stone said "Learned nothing new."
Guess that answers that. lol
CarbonFire
Member
I think there's only a couple Omega tier upgrades, and they're all for the Multitool. But I'd want those only if we get MORE SLOTS (56 or 64 plz). With a reasonable stacking quantity for each material/item.
And then tweak the New Game plus to be way more difficult as a result.
guybrushfreeman
Unconfirmed Member
As I said it's up to you to consider which games to compare it to. There are plenty of options depending on what narrative you want to spin.
Edit: My point was only to give you the data if you wanted it really.
The Elite
BOSS
somme
Member
And space is, y'know, really big!
I'd actually rather them have been called wormholes, as that's what they function as.
The Elite
BOSS
And space is, y'know, really big!
I'd actually rather them have been called wormholes, as that's what they function as.
Yup.
BizzyBum
Member
And space is, y'know, really big!
I'd actually rather them have been called wormholes, as that's what they function as.
That is strange that wormholes are exactly what we are doing in NMS yet Hello Games opts to call them black holes. I mean, who knows, black holes could be transportation devices, but if so I'd think they transport you to different freakin universes, not 4,000 light years in the same Galaxy.
Fushichou187
Member
Man I hate those things. Only creatures that chase me around constantly if I come across them. Also, their pinchers teleport; I fly up to a high perch and they still damage me -_-
Had a creature similar to that first one in my first system. He was an asshole. I named him Geoff.
Absolutely. You've don a ton already. Take a break and play something else then come back to it when they add something new to it. Unexplored space will still be there
SolidusDave
Member
For some reason I thought that a galaxy would have only 1 black hole in its center. But apparently it's like 1 for every 1000 stars.
The wormhole function doesn't bother me though if we combine a bit of science fiction stuff. There aren't probably any "white holes" exit points in our universe (though wormholes could work, just probably wouldn't occur naturally like a black hole does) but they can in the NMS universe. The solar systems obviously function very differently, too...
The wormhole function doesn't bother me though if we combine a bit of science fiction stuff. There aren't probably any "white holes" exit points in our universe (though wormholes could work, just probably wouldn't occur naturally like a black hole does) but they can in the NMS universe. The solar systems obviously function very differently, too...
After not having played for a while I realised I wanted to restart. I don't like the names I've given stuff and a couple of other reasons. Felt there wasn't anything I would miss from my old file, but I backed it up just in case
Anyways. Restarted and got a great starting planet. It has Gold, Iridium, Chrysonite and Aluminium. It's the most resource rich planet I've ever seen.
It has limited Sentinel presence and a really nice look too.
The sky is pink during the day and green at night
Only "negative" part is that it's a bit cold. It drains the cold protection slowly at day and has "extreme night temperatures" that drains it a bit faster I guess. Nothing I mind
Nice pics!
I found a really nice planet with a lot of caves that are littered with pearls. So I'm really having fun and exploring this one (while lining my pockets).
I'll post some pics when I get home.
Sold well over 100k in the UK, retail only, first week.
Fushichou187
Member
This isn't that planet, but it's my favorite shot from last nights session.
Great shot. Getting Firefly vibes from this.
Lol I remember one of the first streams of NMS I watched had an interaction with the Vy'Keen that seemed super tongue in cheek lol
almost every NMS thread on GAF, with the exception of the OT and photo thread, degenerates into toxic absurdity.
Yeah, I've never encountered one yet. I'm tired of all of the neon.
That ship is fantastic. 48 slots?
Fushichou187
Member
Those of us playing on PS4 hope that HG sees what a positive response these tweaks are garnering and try to work them into the game officially down the road, particularly low flight. As far as dark space, maybe the colored space is just a lot more rare? I personally would rather just have it dark always however.
The ones with a landing pad always had one.
I only use Theta versions and it works perfectly fine.
Haven't found a single Omega blueprint - just constantly getting dupes. How did you get it?
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Anyone else worried they will not massively update the game after the bugs are fixed? It seems like with the reception, their morale could be at all-time low. I know mines would be in their place.
Personally love the game and looking forward to all of the promised features and changes.