It only increases the size of models at the maximum LOD. So things pop from tiny to huge as you get closer to them. Also people are complaining it kills framerate.
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No Man's Sky |OT2| Maths Effect
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It only increases the size of models at the maximum LOD. So things pop from tiny to huge as you get closer to them. Also people are complaining it kills framerate.
TemplaerDude
Member
Hmm hmm, interesting, thank you! Probably will hold off for a bit, I've really been enjoying the fly low mod, whipping just along the surface is honestly a wee bit thrilling. It also just seems like the decision to restrict the height probably came really late in the game, probably after some shitty QA or something, the low flying mods just makes landing, especially on the pads, and navigating the world waaaaaaaaaaaay easier.
Fushichou187
Member
That makes sense given how the pop-in works with larger things like floating resource sphere (iridium, etc..) or pillars of heridium.
Earthanoid
Member
Yeah, they seem to be fixing all the major bugs. Last night I duped myself 10 Atlas Stones just in case they fix the dupe bug later, and just in case the Atlas Stones are useful for something.
FYI once you have a 48 slot, ships you find still have a chance to be 48 slots. So even if you don't like the way it looks, take it and benefit from the extra slot while you look for the perfect ship.
My 45 slot ship that I gave up had the perfect look for me. I've yet to see it again but having the extra slots really does help.
BizzyBum
Member
Someone posted a thread in off topic about some cool looking posters NASA made up:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/
Someone first made a thread about them in January 2015, lots of NMS vibes.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/
Someone first made a thread about them in January 2015, lots of NMS vibes.
PintSizedSlasher
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eyeball_kid
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WordAssassin
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Has anyone run into the "destroy a pillar of resources only to stop gathering them halfway through even though there's still a ton left" bug?
I've had it happen a ton, I'll be blasting giant pillars of Aluminium or something, and at first it'll let me collect them like normal but at some point it just stops. Inventory isn't full, still tons of resource to mine, but the pillar will simply destroy and I'll get nothing from it.
Super annoying when I'm at like 189/200 needed for an upgrade but it's a rare element so I get stuck even though there's a mass of it right in front of me.
I've had it happen a ton, I'll be blasting giant pillars of Aluminium or something, and at first it'll let me collect them like normal but at some point it just stops. Inventory isn't full, still tons of resource to mine, but the pillar will simply destroy and I'll get nothing from it.
Super annoying when I'm at like 189/200 needed for an upgrade but it's a rare element so I get stuck even though there's a mass of it right in front of me.
CarbonFire
Member
Those things always get in the way then get all mad when they get hit.
that was close.
Ah I see there's a Vy'keen among us.
No, but I have seen aluminium pillars that are 50% rock, are you sure it isn't just unmineable rock?
CarbonFire
Member
Always do a scan when you're mining from those pillars, it will show you were there are resources and where there are none. The resources seem to get "filled in" to connect the actual harvestable elements as seamlessly as possible with the ground unless the pillar goes deep underground. Only case where you generally don't have to do this is Copper, since they're usually floating and nothing is generally filled in.
Aenima
Member
I dunno if its the same, but i notice in biger than normal pillars, they have something like a bone or core in the middle that cant be mined, and u can only carve around it. In the medium to small pillars that dont happen.
CarbonFire
Member
Grah! Grah! Pathetic Interloper!
Neuromancer
Member
Help! I am starting to wonder if I'm doing things right. I am still so far from the galactic core that it seems like I'm never going to reach it.
I have all 3 warp reactor upgrades. I am currently 163k light years from the center. Every time I jump, using the "Path to galactic core" as my guide, I can jump about 8 systems for a linear distance of around 500 light years, but it only really gets me about 100-200 light years closer to the core.
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What's going on? Am I supposed to be doing something else? Will I be 90 years old by the time I finish this game? Or am I doing the math all wrong? Thanks.
I have all 3 warp reactor upgrades. I am currently 163k light years from the center. Every time I jump, using the "Path to galactic core" as my guide, I can jump about 8 systems for a linear distance of around 500 light years, but it only really gets me about 100-200 light years closer to the core.
Story spoiler-
I already finished the Path of the Atlas and get an opportunity to use a black hole now and then from Nada.
What's going on? Am I supposed to be doing something else? Will I be 90 years old by the time I finish this game? Or am I doing the math all wrong? Thanks.
You get about 5-10% of the yield by using grenades. Just FYI
I talking about from places that just look like rock that I cant beam.
WordAssassin
Member
Yeah, I know about the core to some of the larger pillars, (found an absolutely INSANE pillar of Emeril that stretched way up into the sky and very deep into the soil that had one) this isn't that. For example I'll find one of those Aluminium supplies that looks like a UFO disc sticking out of the ground. I'll mine at it and little blobs will fly my way and the resource will pop up at the top of the screen showing how many pieces I'm getting. Halfway through that disc the number will just go away and even though I can continue to mine/destroy the disc, I won't get anything from it.
I'm not using grenades or anything to destroy them so it's not like I'm accidentally mining normal terrain, it's the actual mineral deposit being mined with my beam but I'll only get resources for like half of it. I've left behind 3-4 half mined discs of Aluminium because of this. I never had the problem before the patches and I don't know if they're causing new bugs as they fix old ones but it's super annoying and definitely a new thing I didn't deal with when the game first came out.
I record all my NMS play time so the next time it happens I'll write down the time stamp and try to cut a video to post. Sounds like I'm the only one experiencing this so far ):
Really close to the Platinum for this game. Alls I need is ships destroyed ( was waiting on a 25 mil ship with 40 slots) so I got that covered. The other thing I need is the discovery of all life on 10 planets. I already have 8 out of 10 (i cheesed one by uploading a planet that had no life) and I am already at a planet where I only have 1 creature left to find. It's giving me trouble though. I know they are in caves and water too and it usually ends up being another type of bird, but man, it takes too long to find the last creature. This is like this with every planet I've been to. I get really excited because I've nearly found them all within 30 minutes and then it ends up being a 2+ hour affair because of the last one.
When you finished the Atlas path you
can see all black holes.
I gave up.
They are doing bug fixes right now,the next patch for the PS4 fixes more crashes and other stuff.
I think they are about done just about.
It's essentially just crash fixes, and other bugs.
Boring yeah, but it really, really needed sorting.
phoisgood495
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Newest update fixes this for me on PC, so don't sweat it too much, fix should arrive on PS4 within the next week. Unless you need it for a Nada request right away I'd suggest just soldiering on.
Ah okay, thanks.
Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Just got my Sentinel achievement.
Seems they doing a good job with this stuff.
legacyzero
Banned
Welcome back man!
Missed ya'll!
I think that's the heart of the game. It's no surprise that the people rushing to the centre are the majority of the complainers.
So with the PC fix on the survival milestone, does it still have to be consecutive?
Three different sizes. 10km, 15km, 20km in diameter.
I just have nothing left to do. I kind of want to get more into monoliths to uncover more of the story of the races, but I also wanna see what's at the center, and some rumors I've heard about stuff there. But it's just such a trek there. I have a 45 slot ship and max inv and multitool. I have all blueprints and most milestones. I just have nothing more to experience except looking at procedurally generated stuff. If there was something motivating me going forwards, I'd have fun exploring the planets I'd come across, but with nothing, I just can't motivate myself to play, even though I think about the game every single day.
Three different sizes. 10km, 15km, 20km in diameter.
I just have nothing left to do. I kind of want to get more into monoliths to uncover more of the story of the races, but I also wanna see what's at the center, and some rumors I've heard about stuff there. But it's just such a trek there. I have a 45 slot ship and max inv and multitool. I have all blueprints and most milestones. I just have nothing more to experience except looking at procedurally generated stuff. If there was something motivating me going forwards, I'd have fun exploring the planets I'd come across, but with nothing, I just can't motivate myself to play, even though I think about the game every single day.
Vegetable Lasagna
Member
Rush to the center to be disappointed, or needlessly drag on the pathetic hope that there is actual gameplay, outside of inventory management, hiding just around the corner? I'm not self-loathing so I just stopped playing.
Yep I not into survival game too much but this game has been pretty amazing for me.
I'm hoping Hello Games add more features into the game, tho. I don't even want big things, but cool things.
NOPE, black holes DO travel you in the 1500-2000 REAL LY range, they say some bullshit numbers after the jump (my first one was a little less than 300.000) but they get the job done. The downside is the damage you might get to some systems of the ship.
On the other hand , 3 linked reactors gives you 1600LY of bullshit range, and 400LY of real one.
They can just keep updating with 'more stuff to see' and I'll be happy.
GREAT NEWS, did they fixed the distance to center per jump too?
Aenima
Member
Not for me. I did the trophy in 2 days turning the console off while i slept and the Sols kept counting normal the next day. I just made sure i didnt left the planet i was on and did regular saves in case the game crashed.
Decided to stuff the journey for the center, have reversed course and am heading out to see if there's an edge to the galaxy 
Gotta get myself a slightly sweeter ride though. One of those cool Korvax explorer ships with the bubble cockpit. They're just so damned difficult to find crashed though (and I have not got the $75M to buy one ... yet). I tend to skip into a new system, check out the ships landing in the space station and if there's not a reasonable number of Korvax ships, I'll keep going to the next system - I think that's a sensible approach.
Oh! This is cool. A gallery of fighter ships and their seeds. Too bad I'm not PC'ing this game... for now...
Gotta get myself a slightly sweeter ride though. One of those cool Korvax explorer ships with the bubble cockpit. They're just so damned difficult to find crashed though (and I have not got the $75M to buy one ... yet). I tend to skip into a new system, check out the ships landing in the space station and if there's not a reasonable number of Korvax ships, I'll keep going to the next system - I think that's a sensible approach.
Oh! This is cool. A gallery of fighter ships and their seeds. Too bad I'm not PC'ing this game... for now...
TheCochese
Banned
Suit - 41
Ship - 19
Tool - 24
Pretty happy with the tool right now, but the ship sucks. Never really find anything in crashed ships (and they seem to be rare for me), and I don't feel like blowing through my cash to buy one.
Back up to 3.2M units after a suit upgrade spree, but the world I'm on that has pearls seems to be drying up. Think I'm going to stick it out here for the trophy if possible.
Ship - 19
Tool - 24
Pretty happy with the tool right now, but the ship sucks. Never really find anything in crashed ships (and they seem to be rare for me), and I don't feel like blowing through my cash to buy one.
Back up to 3.2M units after a suit upgrade spree, but the world I'm on that has pearls seems to be drying up. Think I'm going to stick it out here for the trophy if possible.
Aenima
Member
Decided to stuff the journey for the center, have reversed course and am heading out to see if there's an edge to the galaxy
Gotta get myself a slightly sweeter ride though. One of those cool Korvax explorer ships with the bubble cockpit. [/URL]. Too bad I'm not PC'ing this game... for now...
Today just watched the movie Oblivion, and the movie have ALOT of things that probably Hello Games took inspiration from, the explorer ships are defenetly one of the things they took inspiration from this movie.
Cockpit view:
Also the end of the movie resemble alot with some things you see when u follow the Atlas Path and some spacestations