No Man's Sky - Interceptor

[Fury4k]

So you saw a ship you couldn't afford, then it just mysteriously crashed on the next planet you landed on by 'accident'. And the crew were 'already dead' when you got there..?

[Quest]

A few shots from my travels so far...

 

 

[Quest]

Loved this room on a space station. 

 

Spoiler

 

Landed on a planet and found everything needed to make warp cells was just sitting around near my ship, so this happened.

 

 

[jonamok]

If I buy a new ship can I transfer over the full charge on my Hyperdrive? Don't wanna lose all those warp cells/ antimatters/ electron vapours/ suspension fluids*.

 

* What a rather needless crafting faff that is by the way!!

[Fury4k]

Nope, you lose the fuel.

[jonamok]

Sod it then. Will wait for another 5 jumps.

[Cosmic_Guru]

1 hour ago, Gorf King said:

 

One's enhanced, and I like swimming, and caves. It's saved my bacon - and my cargo - once already. Went in so deep I knew I didn't have time to turn back, so kept going and eventually grenade-blasted my way out through the roof when I got to a part so far across from where I started that I figured must be near the edge of the mountain. Just got out in time, hiked my way back to the trading post across the top of the range and cashed in my eggs pearls. First thing I did with my cash was fuel both those underwater enhancements up again. They're not giving up their slots for anything.

 

I see - you want the convenience of double the charge, given the pearls are underwater.

[Jerec]

Here's a few more from my travels:

 

 

 

 

[Jerec]

More....

Hungry hungry dead Hippo

 

Hide and seek got serious.

 

Whoops!

 

I love goooooold....

[The Bag]

Is there a way to see what blueprints you've got when you don't have a slot to construct them in?

[Cosmic_Guru]

52 minutes ago, Sabreman said:

 

Right here is the reason it's so difficult and maybe irrelevant to attach a review to a game like this. One person's limited collect-a-thon is another's succession of moment-to-moment mini adventures.

 

This.  I'm an explorer, not a grinder.  I just get bored - even with that little loop I had going with the glowing orbs, I only did it for a few minutes.  I know I could have made millions from gold and emeralil alone and got my dream ship, but I prefer to just glide across the surface of a new planet and see what's out there, cursing the absence of aluminium and omegon at present (got my heart set on jet pack and grenade upgrades).

 

@The Bag no there isn't - you need to scrap something first.

[BruceBruce]

Finally figured out to link my GoG game to the steam overlay to get screenshots...

 

 

I like how forested the planet I landed on is, but I do miss those giant trees from the original trailers.  Perhaps I've just not run into any yet?

 

 

During the day, the atmosphere looks like it's in constant sunset mode.. I forgot to take screenshots at night.  I wonder if anyone has run into super bioluminescent worlds yet?

 

 

Ran into one of these pod things and wouldn't you know it, they give you free suit slots.  Well the first one I got was free, the next one was 10,000 units.

 

 

There were tons of "Pride Rock" Lion King type hills.  You could kinda see one in the distance, and I stood on one to take that last image.

 

 

 

The game runs alright on PC after you play it for like an hour or so the first time it seems. I think it must need to build a shader cache.  Hopefully they fix that issue.  Still a bit stuttery doing certain things.

 

My main concern is that the internal render resolution doesn't look native, as if the image is around 900p and being upscaled to my 1080p monitor.  Similar to how quantum break did in the windows store, until they gave you the option to disable that.  So it looks a bit blurry..

[TehStu]

Last night's plan was to mop up a few ruins, visit the beacon and get a bit closer to a hyperdrive and atlas stuff. 3 hours later, I only stopped playing (having not left the planet) because it crashed when my pad ran out of power and I plugged in a USB cable to carry on. 

 

Anyway, just before arriving at the last ruin (and the HUD needs a much better way of marking what you've already visited, incidentally), I spotted a gold mound on my descent. I've been mining for ages at this point so am properly in two minds. It's right next to the ruin so I think sod it, one last gold before I make some mission progress. It's at this point I realize it's the biggest ore deposit I've ever seen. Hard to judge time, but I'm pretty sure I spent a good 30 minutes mining this damn thing. In the middle was this core which I couldn't seem to mine, any ideas why? Recorded a video of it:

 

 

It looked like an apple core once I was done, you can see the outline from bits I've missed:

 

 

Netted me 1500 gold, though! But tonight, I really have to leave this damn planet and make a bit of progress. Getting tired of passing up all these locked Atlas doors.

 

[Jarik]

My current multitool has a number of scanning & mining upgrades & although it has a pulse grenade launcher, I only added that to help get past obstacles.  It's definitely not meant for combat, which meant that when some sentinels took offence to me mining a rock (I usually do that when they're not around, but these 2 caught me unawares) I was pretty much unable to fight back & just ran away down a steep hill where they lost me pretty quickly.

 

Is combat something I should be preparing for though? I try not to pick fights, but if stuff is gonna aggro me, especially as I get further into the game, perhaps I should be prepared.

[TehStu]

When I was mining that gold, I was twice attacked by a T-Rex with a triceratops head. Really fast, had trouble out running them. Luckily, the tool I happened upon had decent fire power and melted them.

 

So yeah, you can definitely pickup aggro while going about your business.

[Dimahoo]

17 minutes ago, Jarik said:

My current multitool has a number of scanning & mining upgrades & although it has a pulse grenade launcher, I only added that to help get past obstacles.  It's definitely not meant for combat, which meant that when some sentinels took offence to me mining a rock (I usually do that when they're not around, but these 2 caught me unawares) I was pretty much unable to fight back & just ran away down a steep hill where they lost me pretty quickly.

 

Is combat something I should be preparing for though? I try not to pick fights, but if stuff is gonna aggro me, especially as I get further into the game, perhaps I should be prepared.

 

You'll need nades and lazors for certain doors. Drones will leave you alone initially but may attack if your mining and you cross their path (they're usually in red rather then green).

If you park close by you can run back to your ship and hide in the cockpit. Dunno if it resets them but i did that and accidentally blasted off.

 

Incidentally I managed to get myself sorted with the blueprint for Antimatter. I made it with other stuff then managed to get back to the start system again and carried on with the missions.

[BruceBruce]

19 minutes ago, TehStu said:

When I was mining that gold, I was twice attacked by a T-Rex with a triceratops head. Really fast, had trouble out running them. Luckily, the tool I happened upon had decent fire power and melted them.

 

So yeah, you can definitely pickup aggro while going about your business.

 

If you perform a melee attack just before you do a boost with your jetpack, you'll go flying forward instead of upward. Excellent way to get around when you master it.

[TehStu]

17 minutes ago, BruceBruce said:

 

If you perform a melee attack just before you do a boost with your jetpack, you'll go flying forward instead of upward. Excellent way to get around when you master it.

My current tool says feature not available or something, when I hit melee. My original tool didn't, very odd! I never know what's a bug and what's a feature.

[BruceBruce]

10 minutes ago, TehStu said:

My current tool says feature not available or something, when I hit melee. My original tool didn't, very odd! I never know what's a bug and what's a feature.

 

Maybe some guns just can't be used to melee? That's a bit silly though.. 

[TehStu]

11 minutes ago, BruceBruce said:

 

Maybe some guns just can't be used to melee? That's a bit silly though.. 

Could be, it's an enormous pulse rifle (see video above), not the little pistol you start with.

[Gorf King]

12 hours ago, Davros sock drawer said:

Talking of which, I pissed off the sentinels while sniffing around a drop pod, and triggered the Dog type reinforcement. I hid in the pod, which deactivated them all, and then the dog was just running around in circles. Gave me a chance to have a good look at it - cool design I think. Anyone seen the walkers yet?

 

I saw one this afternoon.

 

It almost roasted me. I'd gone into a cave and nonchalantly started collecting cash eggs, shooting a few small sentinels as I went, before pulling in the big dog horrors and belatedly discovering that the cave was about 20 feet long, max. There was no exit and no real cover. They kind of nearly killed me, those dogs, so I killed them back. Then this walker shows up, sits on the roof, and starts shooting me through it, his blasts passing right through into the fucking micro-cave. And his shots hurt. I rapidly crafted and slotted in an extra defence module, but although it bought me a short spell of shield recovery, I knew it wasn't going to last long. I thought that was it for me and my precious eggs. I'd left my ship about 6 minutes walk away, and there was no nearby building, and despite the fact he couldn't see me he wouldn't de-aggro. So I thought, if I'm going out to this fucker, I'm going for the Butch Cassidy ending, pistol in hand. So out of the cave I dived.

 

 

The walkers? They ain't all that.

 

Funny thing was, killing it put me in five-star GTA ultrawanted mode - but there wasn't anything left there to kill me. I set off with some trepidation on the hike to my ship, sure that reinforcements would track me down. On the way, I had to cross a huge exposed plain with no cover, and carrying all these lovely alien artefacts I was sure I was a goner this time - if they sent a walker after me on four stars, what would they send on five? 

 

Those were a tense few minutes, crossing that plain, low on ammo and high on notoriety. But still nothing showed up. Then a thought occurred to me. It was this: If I'm five stars to the wind and nothing's here to take me down, does that mean I'm immune to the law? That the law's given up? So when I got back to my ship, spotting a couple more eggs out in the open and a few hapless friendly creatures, I figured I'd find out.

 

 

Well, wouldn't you know it? Even the cries of a baby calf didn't raise a mechanical eyebrow. I was truly above the law. I could have roamed that planet forever, doing whatever I wanted to anything I wanted, just me and my fat Cr. 7 Mil wallet, my multitool smoking like Thorn out of Destiny does in lore, had Thorn ever smoked. But it all felt a bit hollow somehow. I felt a bit bad for that calf, and money isn't everything you know.

 

Nearby was one of those language stones I hadn't noticed before. Although a completely maxed-out polyglot, I thought a bit of learning would be a nice break from all the slaughter and looting, so over I went and activated it.

 

'You have learned the Vy’keen word for cunt,' it said.

 

I saved the game at my ship and rebooted. My 5-star status was gone. Gratefully, I set off with a clearer conscience and a wiser head. This time I was going legit for good. No more pearl-farming baby calf slaughter for me.

 

Obviously, the game crashed within a minute of the reboot. I'm going back later to kill every fucking thing.

[TehStu]

 

[Phelan]

Found a shitty miserable planet that was -100c all the time until storms hit every single few minutes and dropped the temp to -140c. Baltic. Miserable. Depressing. 

I named it Glasgow  cause I loved it there. It was a challenge to do any mining and as there were so many trees it was hard to find buildings etc. 

 

The game is so much fun but I'll be damned if I can find anywhere to allow me to sell anything!! I have about 600k of emeril and nowhere to sell it. So annoying. 

 

@Gorf King I've never seen those alien pods on any planet yet. They worth a lot?

 

[Gorf King]

27.5k each, I think - but about 30k at the place I usually trade. I make around 750-800k on a full haul.

[Davros sock drawer]

Awesome post Gorf.

 

See, this is the thing with this game - you could look at those clips and think "Harumph! That walker had clearly got stuck on that cliff edge, and that is soooo lame that nothing came to attack you at wanted level 5, and oh my lol look at those creature designs - this game sucks, 3/10".

 

Or, you could look at that silhouetted bipedal automaton and be reminded of The Tripods, and Star Wars of course, and think "Man, that is so cool!" and then that little burst of Synth kicks in just as you kill it, and you get goosebumps. Then you hear the bleatings of that baby cow alien and think "Awwww! Why'd you do it Gorf? Why?!"

 

I think you all know which camp I'm in.

[Sabreman]

Oh Gorf, you sonufabitch.

[Gorf King]

From my point of view, it is the calves who are evil.

[HarryBizzle]

 

Coolest ruin I've come across. I'm at around 70 Korvax words but it's still difficult to communicate.

[Meh]

I just can't get into this. Every planet is just... boring. Space is... boring. The buildings are all tiny things dotted around differently-shaded lumps of rock. It's literally depressing to play.

 

Now if there were planets full of cities, and amazing gunplay, and NO FUCKING SENTINEL things... yeah, I'd be more inclined to play it.

 

It's just so empty and, oddly, lifeless.

[Davros sock drawer]

It's not for everyone. I'm not surprised you're not keen.