No Man's Sky - Interceptor

[Not Thread Owner]

3 hours ago, Unofficial Who said:

If anyone is still achievement hunting and you want an easy way to take down other ships hanging around a trading post makes it quick because

 

-lots of ships come in (obv)

 

better still

 

-you can do strafing runs and take out ships on the landing pads!

 

 

You can take down 50-odd ships in a single space battle. I went from milestone 6 to 10 in one fight, took maybe 5 minutes.

[Mike1812]

13 minutes ago, deKay said:

 

 

You can take down 50-odd ships in a single space battle. I went from milestone 6 to 10 in one fight, took maybe 5 minutes.

No you didn't, large space battles don't happen. 

[Not Thread Owner]

Oh yes, I forgot.

[gospvg]

Completed the Atlas Path & watched

Spoiler

a youtube video on the very poor ending. I'm done with it for now, not quite sure what new features or gameplay elements hello games will add if any?

 

[Davros sock drawer]

Finally got an Atlas Pass 2 blueprint after maybe 200 hours at the weekend. It actually made me laugh out loud, so late in the day has it appeared.

 

[siread]

I hope that the silence is because they are working on an exciting update with which they can win back a lot of goodwill. Perhaps something to coincide with the Pro launch. I have a sneaky suspicion that NMS in VR was one of the driving factors for Sony creating the Pro, but that's probably just wishful thinking. The new machine will certainly need a flagship title to show off what it can do, but those heady days of NMS super-hype have long gone and I wonder if the title is deemed too toxic now. (Toxic planets are my favourite btw. )

 

I can't believe that they have simply stuck their head in the sand and will just move on to something new without some attempt to redeem their reputation.

[Distinct muttering]

24 minutes ago, Davros sock drawer said:

Finally got an Atlas Pass 2 blueprint after maybe 200 hours at the weekend. It actually made me laugh out loud, so late in the day has it appeared.

 

[Darwock]

About predators; I was on a world with giant horned tigers who crept up on me really slowly before striking - they don't all do mad attacks. The little crab things often are aggressive and usually give themselves away with that clicking noise, but they aren't all like that. And actually I've never seen a crab thing attacking another animal, but I have seen giant bipedal rhino-raptors kicking the corpses of small fox like creatures around for sport.

 

About the extreme trophy, starting over again is going to take exactly as long as just doing it in your current save.

 

The problem is not that the clock is stuck, it's that it's only telling you your maximum consecutive hours, and you haven't gone past that number yet so it's not ticking up. You'll have to do the same amount of time regardless of which save you use. Any extreme conditions count, even hostile sentinels, but I got mine on an extreme cold planet. DON'T leave it unattended, you will die when life support drains, respawn out of shelter, die again, lose your entire inventory, and reset the extreme survival clock again. I made that mistake. My clocked jammed on milestone 9 out of 10, so I spent the best part of a week on that planet - scanned a bunch of landmarks, took off, landed on the other side of the planet and set off on a walk back to where I started. I actually made it all the way there and had started going back to my ship again before the clock started counting. It was an epic journey, and so satisfying when the final milestone got checked off.

 

I would actually dispute that going into space screws it up, I think it might be warping, because my counter went up over several different planets in the same system. Best not take chances though.

[Not Thread Owner]

1 hour ago, Darwock said:

About predators; I was on a world with giant horned tigers who crept up on me really slowly before striking

 

No you were not.

[Davros sock drawer]

Oh look, it's another long-winded post from Davros sock drawer, boring on about how much he still loves the game and plays it every night, if he can, even though everyone else has long-since moved on and thinks he's a loony.

 

Thing is, even though I've sort of seen everything in the game, the subtle variations are still enough to keep me interested. It helps that I found myself in a beautiful darkish blue system for the last few nights, with several interesting planets, and also that my 31 slot ship is now able to indulge in Space Battles without getting shot to bits, which brings me onto my first selection from the Gallery, random space combat. Cue Tony Hart music:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FInally got one of these to turn up too:

 

 

I really don't think that it would take much to make the space combat a more rich and rewarding experience. It's already great fun, but utterly simplistic and throwaway. Which is fine, but even having front and rear shields, or battles which escalate, with reinforcements arriving and so on. Well, it doesn't seem like it would need much but maybe it would. For now though I enjoy it because it looks pretty and sometimes a ship barrels past your cockpit on fire just so and you go "Oooh, purty!". That's it.

 

Still find planetary exploration relaxing and addictive in equal measure. Some random postcards:

 

 

Photo-bombing little shit!

 



 

I called it Mellow Yellow...quite rightly!

 



 

Slugasaurus:

 



 

Hideous Manta Ray type thing:

 



 

Nice wintry planet:

 



 



 



 

Largest birds I've seen in the game. Over 2m in length, which meant I was easily able to shoot them down from my ship. 

 



 

Beautiful barren planet with nearly the entire rest of the system visible in the sky:

 



 



 



 



 

Currently parked on planet 'Mellow Yellow':

 



 

 

Finally, Cookie Monster confirmed:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Darren]

I got back into this last weekend and I've played it nearly every day since, some evenings for hours on end. I find it amazingly relaxing to just pootle around finding things. I don't like it when I get attached by space pirates who blow me up every single time though.

 

So what's the best way of getting a better ship that will allow me to lay waste to all who dare disturb my chillaxing? Or does that sort of happen naturally as you progress?

[macosx]

I think we are up to eight uses of pootle in this thread

 

reckon Sean Murray breaks cover this month?

[Mike1812]

You can upgrade the ship you have but you're limited by inventory slots. Buy a new ship from space stations/trading posts or find crashed ships and repair them to get more slots. 

[Davros sock drawer]

53 minutes ago, Darren said:

I got back into this last weekend and I've played it nearly every day since, some evenings for hours on end. I find it amazingly relaxing to just pootle around finding things. I don't like it when I get attached by space pirates who blow me up every single time though.

 

So what's the best way of getting a better ship that will allow me to lay waste to all who dare disturb my chillaxing? Or does that sort of happen naturally as you progress?

 

First thing is that if you get the warning about incoming ships, stop immediately and try and see where they're going to warp in (the little pulsing circle). Often you can then shoot the shit out of them while they're all bunched together.

 

Otherwise just upgrade your guns and shield, and always carry plenty of Iron or Titanium to recharge your shields.

[Unofficial Who]

55 minutes ago, Darren said:

I got back into this last weekend and I've played it nearly every day since, some evenings for hours on end. I find it amazingly relaxing to just pootle around finding things. I don't like it when I get attached by space pirates who blow me up every single time though.

 

So what's the best way of getting a better ship that will allow me to lay waste to all who dare disturb my chillaxing? Or does that sort of happen naturally as you progress?

 

Hit reverse gear and use the beam laser. Much easier to dogfight that way.

[Davros sock drawer]

It is, but I find the beam really boring to use. Whenever I get a new ship I always dismantle all beam components and re-use the materials. 

[JPickford]

It's been ages since the past patch.   Hopefully a big update is coming soon.

[Not Thread Owner]

Yeah, I'm running short of planets to visit.

[Guest]

I've a friend who plays this who tells me that he upgraded his exosuit to hold more than his ship can. Which is super unreal.

 

Basically this is an arcade game, where you collect stuff to level up and shoot baddies.

 

At it's core level is it just that? An arcade game with nice clothes.

The exosuit thing almost seems...lazy. Just allow the player to get more and more of the same stuff to continue to level up? It's pretty basic, right?

[Unofficial Who]

55 minutes ago, Dinobot said:

I've a friend who plays this who tells me that he upgraded his exosuit to hold more than his ship can. Which is super unreal.

 

Basically this is an arcade game, where you collect stuff to level up and shoot baddies.

 

At it's core level is it just that? An arcade game with nice clothes.

The exosuit thing almost seems...lazy. Just allow the player to get more and more of the same stuff to continue to level up? It's pretty basic, right?

 

The ship inventory slots can hold double the amount of stackable resources that the exosuit can so there is that.

[Lydso76]

2 hours ago, Unofficial Who said:

 

The ship inventory slots can hold double the amount of stackable resources that the exosuit can so there is that.

I think they should make ship slots quadruple that of the exosuit (1,000 per slot). That would be more realistic and still keep cargo management challenging.

[robdood]

6 hours ago, Darren said:

I got back into this last weekend and I've played it nearly every day since, some evenings for hours on end. I find it amazingly relaxing to just pootle around finding things. I don't like it when I get attached by space pirates who blow me up every single time though.

 

So what's the best way of getting a better ship that will allow me to lay waste to all who dare disturb my chillaxing? Or does that sort of happen naturally as you progress?

You don't need a better ship, just head for the nearest planet, land, and get out of your ship. 

[robdood]

5 hours ago, Dinobot said:

I've a friend who plays this who tells me that he upgraded his exosuit to hold more than his ship can. Which is super unreal.

 

Basically this is an arcade game, where you collect stuff to level up and shoot baddies.

 

At it's core level is it just that? An arcade game with nice clothes.

The exosuit thing almost seems...lazy. Just allow the player to get more and more of the same stuff to continue to level up? It's pretty basic, right?

Yep it defo seems like it was at one point going ot be a survival / pretty hardcore game, before they basically removed anything difficult / roguelike. 

[robdood]

5 hours ago, JPickford said:

It's been ages since the past patch.   Hopefully a big update is coming soon.

Calling it: there will never be a 'big' content update. 

[robdood]

6 hours ago, Unofficial Who said:

 

Hit reverse gear and use the beam laser. Much easier to dogfight that way.

 

6 hours ago, Davros sock drawer said:

It is, but I find the beam really boring to use. Whenever I get a new ship I always dismantle all beam components and re-use the materials. 

Reverse with the other gun is just as effective.  Love that AI!

[JPickford]

38 minutes ago, dood said:

Calling it: there will never be a 'big' content update. 

 

Calling it wrong then.   

[robdood]

37 minutes ago, JPickford said:

 

Calling it wrong then.   

Ha, we'll see! I guess we should define big.. What do you count as big in terms of changes to No Man's Sky? 

[Not Thread Owner]

Making it Elite

[JPickford]

I want more interesting mechanics really.   Stuff that's barely there - combat, trading, interacting with wildlife, all the 'what you do'  can be improved massively.

 

I know they're still working on it so I'm optimistic.  I think the silence is down to them wanting to have a big update when they finally face the community/media.

[Davros sock drawer]

1 hour ago, dood said:

You don't need a better ship, just head for the nearest planet, land, and get out of your ship. 

 

That's not going to work if he's too far away from a planet though. You'd just get pulled out of pulse drive and forced to engage.