No Man's Sky - Interceptor

[Pug]

22 minutes ago, Rowan Morrison said:

 

I refer you to my recent stabbing post.

 

 

Lol, fantastic! 

[Davros sock drawer]

19 hours ago, macosx said:

You are delusional Davros.

 

In what respect?

 

And yes @Pug I'm mildly obsessed with Doomlord. I even made myself an action figure version a few years ago, since nobody was prepared to make one for me:

 

 

It was featured in SFX one month.

[roobarb]

Did he feature in the Eagle comics back in the 80s? I have some of those packed in my parents attic somewhere...

EDIT: ah yes! http://finfangfoom.proboards.com/thread/24/eagle-1980s

[Davros sock drawer]

Yeah, I've got them all at home (re-bought on eBay, but still). I loved it, although I was a bit heartbroken when they abandoned the Photo stories and went onto cheap newsprint.

[robdood]

Man you chaps should  REALLY think about trying out Elite Dangerous.. 

[roobarb]

is it anything like Rick Dangerous?

[Not Thread Owner]

2 hours ago, dood said:

Man you chaps should  REALLY think about trying out Elite Dangerous.. 

 

When it's out on the PS4 I will.

[Parappa]

3 hours ago, dood said:

Man you chaps should  REALLY think about trying out Elite Dangerous.. 

When they put a demo out so I can test if my PC will run it then I will.

[Not Thread Owner]

 

[Pug]

On 22/09/2016 at 12:06, Davros sock drawer said:

 

In what respect?

 

And yes @Pug I'm mildly obsessed with Doomlord. I even made myself an action figure version a few years ago, since nobody was prepared to make one for me:

 

 

It was featured in SFX one month.

 

Fair do's.

 

[Polmon]

Just when you think you've seen all the weird:

 

 

[Not Thread Owner]

Whenever I use a black hole, it says I've done something like 190,000 light years. Yet I'm only 2,000 light years closer to the centre. Why this massive discrepancy? Have they put a comma in the wrong place?

[Danster]

I imagine you are jumping across the galaxy, rather than toward the centre.

[Not Thread Owner]

Every single time?

[Not Thread Owner]

Just tried it again. 

 

Before black hole, distance from centre: 163,423

 

Black hole distance travelled: 1,175,280

 

Distance from centre after: 162,175

 

Net gain: 1,248

 

There is no way that works.

[Blu3Flame]

You're travelling around a spiral essentially. 

[robdood]

We had this discussion a while back, people try to explain it but all it really boils down to is: ignore the massive number it shows after jumping; literally pretend it doesn't appear.  It's meaningless. 

[Mr Hatfield]

3 hours ago, dood said:

We had this discussion a while back, people try to explain it but all it really boils down to is: ignore the massive number it shows after jumping; literally pretend it doesn't appear.  It's meaningless. 

 

after a while the whole game becomes similar as we've all seen

[TehStu]

4 hours ago, Blu3Flame said:

You're travelling around a spiral essentially. 

The black hole, or the path to the centre?

[Blu3Flame]

It's best to think of that as the path a black hole takes you, otherwise the numbers make fuck all sense.

[macosx]

its made up bollocks, just the names of the 'discovered' planets that appear on the loading screen.

[Not Thread Owner]

1 hour ago, macosx said:

its made up bollocks, just the names of the 'discovered' planets that appear on the loading screen.

 

They're all in a file on the disc.

[robdood]

I think he was questioning whether they are 'discovered' by other players or not.  

 

@macosx was that proven?  It seems like something that would be fairly straightforward to implement, though given the state of the rest of the game, I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't doing it. 

[squirtle]

I flew all the way around a moon in atmosphere yesterday. Just because. The planet rising ahead of me then disappearing above me then eventually reappearing was really satisfying.

[macosx]

1 hour ago, dood said:

I think he was questioning whether they are 'discovered' by other players or not.  

 

@macosx was that proven?  It seems like something that would be fairly straightforward to implement, though given the state of the rest of the game, I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't doing it. 

I think they were found in a text file in the code. 

[Lydso76]

2 hours ago, macosx said:

I think they were found in a text file in the code. 

This is a bit disappointing if true. Whenever I start the game I keep a close eye on the named systems and I began to suspect this was not updated in real time.  One day a while back when I started the game some systems had 'QA' after the name which suggested the testers had named them, they never appeared since, but who knows whats going on. 

 

For a while I couldn't get a greater slot multi-tool upgrade for love nor money, however last night they were being given out like shampoo samples.

[Davros sock drawer]

Nice blog write up by Jeff Minter:

 

http://minotaurproject.co.uk/blog/?p=380

 

And not just nice because I happen to agree with every word, although that helps.

[Rev]

On 22/09/2016 at 12:37, dood said:

Man you chaps should  REALLY think about trying out Elite Dangerous.. 

 

I'm not convinced there's much crossover really, especially for people who are passionate about one or the other. I think such people who like NMS would dislike Elite and vice versa.

[Blu3Flame]

30 minutes ago, Rev said:

 

I'm not convinced there's much crossover really, especially for people who are passionate about one or the other. I think such people who like NMS would dislike Elite and vice versa.

 

There's been an influx of players from NMS to Elite, who have now found in Elite what they felt was lacking in NMS.

[robdood]

46 minutes ago, Rev said:

 

I'm not convinced there's much crossover really, especially for people who are passionate about one or the other. I think such people who like NMS would dislike Elite and vice versa.

That comment was mainly in follow up / context of people talking about upgrading ships and having better combat.   I think Elite nails the feeling of exploring (and fighting in) space a lot better than NMS.  It also has more interesting player character progression, by virtue of having a  lot of things to do / things to improve yourself in your pilot career.  And, for me, there's something more awesome about space being more 'realistic' as well, because despite not getting so many 70's Sci Fi book covers, you do occasionally stumble across something breathtaking while adventuring; be it an awesome binary or trinary system where the suns are close, a mega-colurful nebula, or awesome black holes.   The scale and desolation of it are unmatched imo.