No Man's Sky - Interceptor

[HarryBizzle]

14 minutes ago, Meh said:

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.

 

I'll probably burn out on it, but at the moment it's got a few good hooks. Once you get into the cycle of upgrading and wanting to find the next whatever it definitely feels less aimless.

 

I wish there were more to do in space. I find the scanning stuff boring and largely pointless.

[Vimster]

There's definitely a rinse-and-repeat nature to the game, but frankly I love it. There's just enough going on to keep me wanting to move on, although I can see it being a bit lacking in action for others. 12 hours in and I've only had very brief space combat, and that was over pretty quickly as I zoomed past. Definitely Marmite. I like Marmite though.

[Flub]

1 hour ago, TehStu said:

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

I think you're hitting the wrong button. R2 instead of l2 I think

[Cosmic_Guru]

I'm still hooked on it even though the new blue prints are beginning to stop, and the stupidly low level 10 thresholds have been achieved (only for the easy stuff of course ).  Still getting decent variety of planet too although doubtless this will diminish eventually.

 

I come on here and say I need Aluminium.  Lo and behold, the very next planet has slabs of the stuff (it seems to have two forms in this).  Seek and you shall find!  

 

Also, first contact with Korvax.

 

Creepiest animal encounter yet was a tallish biped, described as stalker..   That's exactly what it did - sort of crept up quietly behind as I was studying a plaque (I had the red paw marker to warn me which kind of spoiled it really), and no doubt would have fancied finishing me off except he wasn't given a chance.  

[Kryptonian]

5 hours ago, Gorf King said:

Farming Simulator 2016:

 

 

The whole planet is just caves full of those, trading posts, and drop pods. Well worth the 15 minutes spent working out how to jump back to the place. I might end up being able to upgrade my ship at this rate - it only has half the slots of my suit.

 

I was doing something similar myself:

 

 

re the sentinel talk, I have been doing this:

 

 

with this:

 

 

I saw mention of ones bigger than the dogs? I bet they will drop decent loot

[Kryptonian]

Ah, seen the walker post now too @Gorf King

[TehStu]

27 minutes ago, Flub said:

I think you're hitting the wrong button. R2 instead of l2 I think

 

Oops, yeah. Was hitting L1 instead of R1. I really need to sort my tool out, they're not all aligned up nicely like CG's there.

[HarryBizzle]

I'm not stressed over the lack of MP but someone on PS4 earlier was saying they hadn't heard Murray say there would be multiplayer. Apparently he said it quite a lot:

 

 

 

My guess is they wanted to have it but it was too difficult to make it work, which is understandable given the scope of the game. Also the way everything works, with it being generated and uploaded to the server suggests it's not really built for running server side stuff with you and your mates mucking about.

 

 

Just made my third jump and the system I've got to looks great.

[Oz]

But seriously what was so hard to explain about what the game was? It's exploration with light combat scanning for minerals to upgrade ship and gear and aliens. I think they were purposely vague. I really like the art and all planets I have been to are interesting and different. I think next step would be a fully procedural open world with the nemesis system and the mass effect conversation wheel. And maybe batman combat? Because everything has batman combat. Looking forward to no mans sky 2!

[Sng]

I imagine multiplayer was on the cards early on before getting removed. I'm happy with it being removed.

 

If it wasn't removed then sleep wouldn't work when coming out of rest mode. I'd rather this then having to log in every time I woke the PS4 like you had to with Destiny. 

[Gorf King]

You'd rather forfeit playing online altogether than have to log in to play online? You'll never play another online game then. Not that this has anything to do with NMS really.

 

@Kryptonian: aye, me too.

 

 

To be fair, their billing as an 'elite force' is a bit overcooked. 

[Flub]

I'm currently on a planet with vortex cubes, gold and the sentinels by default are relaxed (Until you pickup some cubes anyway).

 

I think I'm staying here tonight

[hereticboy]

Someone tell me there's a way to remove waypoints from the galactic map. I added some on that are useless now, and when the game gives me a new one, it just doesn't get added to the map because there are already waypoints on it. :/

 

I've been loving the game, but the UI is shite and doing my head in.

[Sng]

20 minutes ago, Gorf King said:

You'd rather forfeit playing online altogether than have to log in to play online? You'll never play another online game then. Not that this has anything to do with NMS really.

With this, yeah. There's no real reason to play with someone else is there? What for? To run around mining stuff together. Might as well play your own games and just do a party chat. 

 

And this is the kind of game where you wanna be able to quickly carry on from where you are so having it not quit out when you try to resume from sleep is the best thing about it. That's the best thing about PS4 to be fair. Maybe I'm just ridiculously impatient. 

[Gorf King]

Ah, right - just for this game. Yup, I agree it's better not having to log in. I thought you meant it was your general preference.

[Darwock]

Alright, it's starting to sort itself out a bit - I was convinced I chose poorly by taking the DLC ship and rejecting guidance early on, but I've reversed that now as I have all the relevant recipes and parts for warp travel, and was offered a second chance at the guidance so chose to accept it this time.

 

Still can't forgive that inventory item sticking point, but now I can carry on without doubting myself.

 

I wonder if I'm walking too much - I just got the gold trophy for distance travelled on foot. I like the long journeys though. Plus I'm hoping to find the final species on my first planet. I pray to whatever God is in this world that it's not a flying animal.

[Oz]

1 hour ago, HarryBizzle said:

I'm not stressed over the lack of MP but someone on PS4 earlier was saying they hadn't heard Murray say there would be multiplayer. Apparently he said it quite a lot:

 

 

 

My guess is they wanted to have it but it was too difficult to make it work, which is understandable given the scope of the game. Also the way everything works, with it being generated and uploaded to the server suggests it's not really built for running server side stuff with you and your mates mucking about.

 

 

Just made my third jump and the system I've got to looks great.

The probability that he was talking bollocks in a quintillion interviews is extremely high. 

[TehStu]

When the new QA team add that ticketing system, I really hope it's accessible through the game. I found a typo on a blueprint description, completely low priority, but reporting it means fetching an image off the PS4 and then emailing them. I suspect they'll only get bug reports from fairly dedicated people using that mechanism.

[boybrown]

Is the searching for nearby named systems working for anyone on the galactic map? It's worked once for me. I was gonna track back to 100% "Badly Packed Kebab" but since my first successful search i just get  "searching...."

[The Bag]

Getting to the stage I would kill for an atlas pass, think I'm on the right track following the atlas path but the temptation is just to jump to a system, scrounge enough to build a warp cell and jump to the next which feels kind of wrong.

[robdood]

More leet parking.  BEAT THAT. 

 

Aside: love the DLC ship, it has the best canopy / windows!

[TehStu]

Speaking of parking, if you're touching down at a facility with a landing pad, dip the nose right down and hold L2 to keep her slow. As you pass over the landing pad, you'll notice it lights up with white arrows. At that point, immediately tap square and you'll land directly on the pad. Removes the guess work from plutonium-free launches.

[robdood]

You don't even have to be that precise, you can just hit share roughly near and I always seem to land on the pad. 

 

 

[Gorf King]

Starship OCD calling in. 

 

I think I'm stuck on this planet. I have a fully-functional hyperdrive, enough warp cells to fly to the next system or five and 8 mil to buy the best ship out there, an exosuit with more slots than the Wynn Las Vegas, and one hell of a tan from the balmy weather down here. But I don't think I'll ever be able to leave Cayde-9. 

 

It's not the eggs - hell, I have enough eggs to last a lifetime. It's not the fact that I have the sentinels completely tamed - even though I caught one of their attack dogs dropping the morning paper outside my cabin when I woke up after a nap earlier. It's the obsessive-compulsive zoologist in me. I have 9/10 species discovered. Great, you say, so you're nearly there. Far from it. It's been that way for days now - there's always an elusive last lifeform you can't quite get. And as every day passes, the chances of completing the set seem to diminish rather than grow. I've looked everywhere - in caves, on top of mountains, on the coast, under the sea. I've tried day and night vigils. I've tried hunting in all kinds of weather. I've put myself in dangerous situations, figuring the missing one's a wily predator, so I've got myself bloodied by robots and waited for some oversized sabre-toothed mutated rat to jump out of the undergrowth to finish me off and then SNAP, I'd have him in my book, even though it might cost me my life. And I've seen those little red claw signs appear just when I'm at my weakest, and turned, but no... it's always something I've seen before. Then reluctantly I've killed it, sighing for the loss of ammo, for the loss of another wasted hour. I've killed a lot of stuff just doing this. And then when I get bored, I go shoot some of the docile ones that look like cows. The young ones make a pleasing sound - but that never attracts the one I want either.

 

Just today I thought I had him. I was flying from one egg-farm to another, scouring the horizon for an unfamiliar shape, when bam. I nearly collided with it in midair! A huge dragon-like thing with four or six wings! I hastily put down the ship on the side of the mountain, jumped out, and looked around. Nothing. So I ran to the peak and looked round again, but all I saw was air and the distant fields and lakes below. For about half an hour I walked across that mountain ridge, but still nothing appeared. Then I figured - well, maybe it was just one of the other two flyers I'd already caught on record. I looked again at their pictures in the log book. Hmm - it seemed a lot bigger than them. But then, I was really close up to this one and far away from the others, so... I guess it could be like the cows in Father Ted. 

 

Eventually I just made my way back to the ship, and next time I saw some of those other flying ones, I set the ship down and looked again. To get a look at them close up I shot them, dropped them to the ground, went to stare at their corpses in the baking sun. Lots of them. 'Not this one,' I thought, 'this one doesn't look right.' 'Nope, not this one either.' But maybe it was just one of these - it's hard to tell with corpses. It's hard to tell - it's just a hunch. But the company doesn't pay out on hunches. It wants 100%. And so does my OCD.

 

I'll probably not sleep again tonight. I'll either be doing this or dreaming about doing this, but only half-dreaming, and half-awake. Not proper sleep, and not proper wakefulness. Just this fog of uncertainty. What if this creature doesn't exist? What if it's a bug? Like, not programmed in, like multiplayer in a single-player game, like the promise of company to a man on a desert island - just a cruel illusion. Or programmed in but broken, like a man's conscience when it's been assumed to be fine, but after it's finally tested it reveals a horrible flaw, a black truth its designer never foresaw? Or what if it is actually a bug - as in, really tiny, and I'll need to sift through the dirt to have a chance of finding it? Cos I don't think there's anywhere else it could be, this elusive tenth species. What if it's a fuckin virus or something? Huh? What about than then?

 

I'll probably get up soon and start looking again. I'll start by executing some baby cow things, and then engineer a fight with a bunch of mechs - see if the screams lead anything my way this time. But I'll admit, I'm getting tired of this now. God, what a repetitive fucking pursuit. Frankly, I'll be glad when it's over. The irony is, I fucking love animals. I'm a zoologist, for christ's sake! I wouldn't normally hurt them - it's just, this... this is a voyage of discovery. And until I've discovered everything, I can't really go on. It'd be like not being here at all, like never having been here. Plus, they won't give me the credits until I've 100%ed the damn thing. And I could do with the credits. You can never have too many credits.

 

Eggs though. I never want to see another fucking egg for the rest of my life.

[Monkeyspill]

I just entered a pre-order code sent to my email from Amazon. Now the game won't stop bugging me to accept a really shit multi-tool. 7 slots as opposed to my 12. I'm just going to have to accept it to stop the message flashing up on the screen. The hope I find something better.

[TehStu]

11 minutes ago, clumpyjamie said:

I just entered a pre-order code sent to my email from Amazon. Now the game won't stop bugging me to accept a really shit multi-tool. 7 slots as opposed to my 12. I'm just going to have to accept it to stop the message flashing up on the screen. The hope I find something better.

If you go to the rewards menu, IIRC it pulls up a comparison window as you might while picking up any other tool from an outpost. Pretty sure you can refuse it. At least, that's how I remember the process was with the bonus ship.

[dr_manhattan^]

Ok, starting to get into this.  Made my first jump

[HarryBizzle]

The space stations look incredible, and then you go in and there's just a single bloke in there in a chair, presumably watching Space Netflix on his Space iPad. 

 

Seems like a missed opportunity. Although I can't open the second door (on the left) until I have an Atlas pass so I dunno, maybe it's like a Star Wars cantina behind that thing.

[ph0rce]

Still on the first planet I've warped to, I can't actually get to this manufacturing plant that's been on the horizon, let alone think about leaving because every time I see anything; drop pod, building, ruin, etc I have to stop. 

 

I logged on earlier intent on just powering on & ignoring everything, that lasted for three ? marks before I caved in. 

 

I know almost 100 words of Vek'lan, as well as tons of lore & Ruins have now started to give me Atlas words as well, even though I've no idea what Atlas is / does yet. 

 

Its killing me, I could be playing the game forever!

[Monkeyspill]

37 minutes ago, TehStu said:

If you go to the rewards menu, IIRC it pulls up a comparison window as you might while picking up any other tool from an outpost. Pretty sure you can refuse it. At least, that's how I remember the process was with the bonus ship.

I refused it but it kept bugging me with the same message anyway. I accepted it in the end just to stop the message.