No Man's Sky - Interceptor

[Davros sock drawer]

No, but I'll certainly check both of those out.

 

Came out of warp straight into a 20+ fighters plus Capital Ships battle earlier. Got the shit kicked out of me:

 

 

#betterthanthee3trailer

[siread]

5 hours ago, Monkeyboy said:

 

It's in a spoiler, so I was a bit unsure if it was spoiling something else as well.

Yeah, fair enough. I thought it was a bit more obvious than that.

 

I notice duplicate ships and pilots are still arriving in the station. Just had 3 of the same.

 

[Davros sock drawer]

I actually got stuck in traffic earlier. All the landing pads taken at a Trading Post, and two queueing in front of me to land!

 

Still exploring underwater a lot. Met this Dino-Croc Bastard earlier:

 

 

 

 

 

Two and a half metres in length which is plenty big enough for me thankyouverymuch...

[gospvg]

How can you increase the length of time you can survive underwater? Does the multi-tool work underwater?

[TehStu]

There are exosuit upgrades that increase diving time. You get them in places you get non-tool blueprints, so those damaged pods outside (they look like tiny Apollo space craft), aliens, etc.

[Davros sock drawer]

Yeah, the Multitool works underwater, and the suit upgrades look like this:

 

 

And I just realized that the Thumbnail is a Korvax helmet so perhaps you can only get the upgrades on Korvax worlds?

[gospvg]

Thanks I think I have one of those blueprints. Can you recharge them with iron like the toxic shields?

[Davros sock drawer]

Zinc or Titanium IIRC.

[Not Thread Owner]

11 hours ago, Hello Goaty ♥ said:

Regarding the problem Bastion was talking about, jumping off the planet in one take off thrust, I counteract it by thrusting off and slamming the break at the same time. 

 

Brake, but I do that and it doesn't work some of the time. In fact, it often causes me to reverse off the planet instead.

[Hello Goaty ♥]

yes Brake!  sorry

[Mr Ben]

Platinum trophy got, but man is it taking forever to get to the centre. 152,000+ or so light years, and that's after getting everything else in the game done. Its also annoying to have to repair stuff after a black hole that needs Omegon or other purple stuff. I might try and avoid using black holes just because of that.

[JPickford]

I think I might be done now till there's more content.   No interest in going to the centre.  I've stopped talking to aliens because they only give me blueprints I already have. 

 

 

[HarryBizzle]

I sent my rental back for much the same reason. I feel like I've seen most of what the game has to offer at this point and was getting sick of the repetition and grind.

 

I look forward to seeing where they take, it though.

[Davros sock drawer]

9 hours ago, JPickford said:

I think I might be done now till there's more content.   No interest in going to the centre.  I've stopped talking to aliens because they only give me blueprints I already have. 

 

 

 

I'm still getting new Blueprints, but very rarely. I got something called a Photonix Core last night, not heard of that before.

 

Anyway, I'm also taking a break. Not because I'm bored, but because I can't moderate my play time. I had nothing to do yesterday, so I played from 8am until about 5pm. Not healthy.

[Monkeyboy]

I'm still getting the occasional product blueprint. I got the formula for Lemmium the other day. RIP Lemmy.

[Broker]

Yeah I think I've exhausted ship and tool blueprints, but the crafting ones come from other places and I don't have all of them.

[noob]

On 8/28/2016 at 15:48, Davros sock drawer said:

No, but I'll certainly check both of those out.

 

Came out of warp straight into a 20+ fighters plus Capital Ships battle earlier. Got the shit kicked out of me:

 

 

#betterthanthee3trailer

 

the same happened to me just now, except instead of 2 ships there was 25!!! got absolutely slaughtered. 

also... 

 

Spoiler

found my first atlas stone and priest too  

 

[macosx]

nice shooting @noob

[jonamok]

So, just completed the Atlas path, and wasn't reading the closing text quick enough before it faded out. Did it say that:

 

My 10 atlas stones were being converted into a new star in the galaxy that would host some planets that another future player would spawn on? Is that a persistent new system added to the database? Cool if so, I suppose. The main benefit for me though was freeing-up 10 slots in my exosuit inventory!

[siread]

Nice piece:

http://www.bluh.org/the-terrible-beauty/

[Davros sock drawer]

Awesome piece, which kind of sums up how I feel about it.

[Pat Mustard]

finally made it to the centre

 

[robdood]

1 hour ago, siread said:

Nice piece:

http://www.bluh.org/the-terrible-beauty/

Meh, its OK from a "it's nice because a I want to do is fantasise about exploring space"  point of view, but he is 100% wrong about the game being designed to keep pushing you forward.  They *said* that's what it's supposed to do, but every planet is so busy with resources, outposts and ruins and stuff, and gives you such easy ways to find those things, that it basically encourages you to stay in one place.  

 

Why the fuck "base building" is something they are planning on doing first is beyond me.  

[Davros sock drawer]

I don't know about 100% wrong. The game does drive me to push forward, because I always want to see the next planet. And the next. But equally I'm happy to linger on a planet that appeals to me.

 

I think it depends on the sort of player you are. If I wanted to stay on one planet and grind distress calls until I had a 48 slot ship, I guess I could. But that doesn't appeal. The game is pretty flexible in that regard. I'm not sure it encourages one approach over another, it just makes both available.

 

The one thing it is inflexible about is going back. I do wish I could just save favourite planets and easily return to them. But maybe that's the point, to focus you on the next discovery.

 

 

[macosx]

I'm still trying to find the perfect planet to lay up at; nice aesthetics, loads of wildlife and passive sentinels. A lot of the good looking planets are for me usually devoid of life. 

[Davros sock drawer]

Or they're lush, but the Sentinels hate you.

[robdood]

8 hours ago, Davros sock drawer said:

I don't know about 100% wrong. The game does drive me to push forward, because I always want to see the next planet. And the next. But equally I'm happy to linger on a planet that appeals to me.

 

I think it depends on the sort of player you are. If I wanted to stay on one planet and grind distress calls until I had a 48 slot ship, I guess I could. But that doesn't appeal. The game is pretty flexible in that regard. I'm not sure it encourages one approach over another, it just makes both available.

 

The one think it is inflexible about is going back. I do wish I could just save favourite planets and easily return to them. But maybe that's the point, to focus you on the next discovery.

 

 

Sure, I get that reason / desire to move on to see the next planet too, but I think you could keep that and still make a more interesting 'game' underneath. 

 

There are so many elements (ho!) of the game which just feel pointless / there for the sake of it, I've listed tons before but here are another couple:

 

1. Being able to give an npc 20 carbon to then ask for a pitiful amount of common resources. (futile because these resources are plentiful, it's not like you ever get to ask for something genuinely rare or exciting) 

2. Those weird research specimen cases on the walls that increase your standing with a race for no discernable reason whatsoever. (what the fuck do I care about standing with a race other than being now able asking for pitiful amounts of common resources?) 

 

Both of these systems hint at there being much grander ideas that have somehow never been implemented.  

 

And I'm just a bit gutted, because playing it I can see the desperate adventures their galaxy tech could offer.. that's the kind of game I was hoping to get, one that gives rise to tales that are shared between players.  

 

The kinds of stories where you're like "oh man, had a scrape with pirates, during the battle my warp drive and shields were critically damaged.  I was in a system with only a single planet, which had constant toxic storms. No space station there either, so I had no choice but to land and scout for supplies. Visibility was low and my scanner didn't work! Plus my suit tech was being damaged just from walking around!  Unfortunately it was also a Gek system, and they hate me after I helped the Vy'keen destroy one of their fleets!  I couldn't land at / visit any outposts without being attacked, and once they'd spotted me there were gek scout craft in the skies looking for me! I ended up spending most of my time in a cave system, fighting off crab things and collecting resources. All I could find was Iron and Carbon I eventually found enough stuff to put my ship back together after camping at a trading post, and shooting down a gek transport to loot the ship. Tasty drive reactors!" 

 

Instead all we really get is:

"found a planet that looked nice.  Finally randomly found a blueprint I wanted. 

 

*screenshot* "

 

 

[robdood]

..and even worse, the stories we'll be able to share in the future will be the second type above, just with and additional "spent 20 hours mining so now I can build a house.  Haven't found the blueprint for the door yet".

 

FFS. 

 

What a missed opportunity!

[PeteJ]

I agree base building is a dumb idea that goes against what the game is. Instead, they need to have massive capital ship building, giant ships in space that follow you around and engage in big capital ship fights. And of course, they could allow more inventory space.

[Clipper]

anyone modding yet on PC here. I have downloaded the fast action mod as it is a pain waiting for that circle to go round when you click it with mouse!

 

244 mods out there already patching in all sorts of stuff... mostly basic right now but some interesting tweaks to the procedural generation too.

 

Not sure how much to mod or not as updates may break my save etc