No Man's Sky - Interceptor

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[SpagMasterSwift]

Quick go on this turned into a session. Decided to take the plunge and buy a second ship. It seems that you can only do this from your freighter, not from a space station - since your old ship will be stored in the freighter.

 

Here is The Golden Condor (now officially named) heading over to my freighter and taking out some punk on route.

 

 

 

 

My only problem with the camera is you have to hit down on the D-pad and then X, but when in space it comes up with the galactic map so you need to hit down, left then X which takes away any split second action you are trying to capture. Hope that gets fixed.

 

Its on planets that the camera mode really shines allowing you to get up close with the wildlife.

 

 

Visited the local tourist spot.

 

 

Then it was time try my new ship out.

 

 

 

 

[Davros sock drawer]

Absolutely awesome shots!

[JPickford]

8 hours ago, TehStu said:

Sorry, I meant in space during flight. There's a screenshot buried in this thread of someone (presumably on PC) who managed to pan out of the cockpit and reveal that you're piloting a flying cockpit in space.

 

edit -  I can see why that sounded a bit daft.

 

That's just a sign of good coding.   You don't throw anything into the scene that isn't going to be visible.

[Stanley]

@SpagMasterSwift are those shots on a standard PS4?

[SpagMasterSwift]

Yep, the graphics have been dialled up somewhat with this new update. 

[TehStu]

Night before last I encountered a t-rex with a shark like head wandering outside my base, one of those rare staggeringly big creatures. I took a screenshot, but it was hard to get the sense of scale.

 

Anyway, I tell the kids that there's a dinosaur with a shark head in daddy's game and they're all about seeing it, so we spend 30 minutes driving around last night trying to hunt him down. My daughter keeps shouting that there's plants in my path that damage my health, and my lad has a keen eye for plutonium as I'm whizzing along (daddy, there's red!). We couldn't find him, but loads of what look like antelopes walking around like bi-peds. We head back to my base and I show them all the various guys, and my plants I have growing. They're totally hooked, and want to help build the base. 

 

Back to pining about playing this while stuck at work, mark of a good game.

[Kos Mos]

Stupid question ahead.  On the strength of the new content in the last two patches I picked up another copy of this after work.

 

It's currently downloading version 1.21.  Is this both patches (whatever the first was called and Pathfinder) as I half expected two patches to have to be downloaded?

[TehStu]

They're surely cumulative, that's my experience of PS4 stuff. Path Finder was about 5gig, Foundation something like 6? Not sure what a verion 1.0 to 1.21 would be, though.

[Kos Mos]

1.21 is 5.284gb

[Kos Mos]

It seems it was all fine as I have the permadeath option in the menu.

 

It also seems that the work done by Hello Games has paid off.  After buying the game at launch and being massively disappointed I traded it in after a few weeks. After reading up on what has been added with the two updates I decided to buy another copy.

 

After a couple of hours tonight it seems there has been vast improvements in all departments.  The few planets I've visited tonight have all been much more 'alive' and I've still got base building and land vehicles to look forward to.

 

Third planet of a new game I started tonight I found this chap and his Squidy friends

 

 

[BruceBruce]

On 3/9/2017 at 17:29, SpagMasterSwift said:

 

 

*redownloads game*

[V3zna]

My God, this is quite the graphical upgrade. On a Pro on a 4k tv the colours are incredibly vibrant and, in what I presume is HDR, the contrast between night and day is now substantial. 

[bradigor]

Does anyone play this using remote play on the Vita? Wondering if it may be any good to while away a couple of hours in the evening whilst the missus watches crap on the TV?

[TehStu]

Found a base on a nice planet. Lush blue grass, yellow water, barmy 17C during the day. Figure sod it, we're moving the base here, so I make the change. Wow, you really don't get much back from whatever you built before, do you. And I lost everything in storage containers I had outside. 

 

Had to restore a save, but I'm still in the station of the system in which that planet is in, so hoping I can head home, pack up my crap and move here. Just tired of -35 to -75C on my current base, and terrain that would make you so driving the Mako in ME. 

[Stanley]

Throws you right in a deep end this doesn't it. Straight into the game and on a planet. I feel quite disorientated. Messages flashing up about everything. The planet I'm on is quite harsh in that it's toxic, so I can never stray too far from my ship. Got attacked by sentinels but I don't know why. Do they just attack sometimes? 

 

I've managed to find some of the resources for the repairs I need to do. Finding the menu system a bit confusing but I'm sure I'll get used to it. 

 

Oh, saw some animals - a variety of big and small dinosaur type things, and a sheep-like one. 

 

Looking forward to space travel. I noticed there's a building menu, didn't realise you could build.

 

All in all a lot more complex than I was expecting. It's not Elite Dangerous levels of complexity but it's still got a lot going on.

 

Anyway, I like it. Any advice for new beginners?  

[SpagMasterSwift]

Leave your ship, get out on foot. Take pics.

[Thread Astaire]

I wish that Hello Games would have delayed until this was ready. Silly how pretty this game is and the amount to do in it now. Would have sold a tonne. 

[MK-1601]

1 hour ago, TehStu said:

Found a base on a nice planet. Lush blue grass, yellow water, barmy 17C during the day. Figure sod it, we're moving the base here, so I make the change. Wow, you really don't get much back from whatever you built before, do you. And I lost everything in storage containers I had outside. 

 

Had to restore a save, but I'm still in the station of the system in which that planet is in, so hoping I can head home, pack up my crap and move here. Just tired of -35 to -75C on my current base, and terrain that would make you so driving the Mako in ME. 

 

Do you mean the storage containers 0-9? Last time I moved a base (pre-pathfinder) all my stuff was intact when I built them again at the new base. Gonna be annoying if they've changed it.

 

But yet it's extremely bullshit that you don't get everything back when you move base. Took me ages to rebuild the trade terminal and landing pads last time.

 

It's also bullshit that there are things you can build that you then can't dismantle if you have a fully upgraded exosuit.

 

[Sell73Out]

I'm planning on moving my base quite soon. My lovely island paradise is sadly not much kop for any of the three new vehicles 

My current plan is to manually dismantle everything piece by piece and shove all the parts into storage containers which I'll move to my frigate. As far as I'm aware, moving containers still keeps everything in them (although I'll test with one first), and dismantling rather than just restarting means you'll recover much more of the constituent parts... at least that's how I hope it all still works anyway 

[TehStu]

I didn't realize you could dismantle stuff, oops. But yeah, I know 100% that I didn't get what was in my containers, triggering a base move at a new base, because one container was full of green background metals, like gold, iridium, etc. None of that was in the "stuff from your old base" locker in the new one. 

 

Do your people move with you? Took me a few jumps to get full compliment of staff last time.

 

I really don't mind starting over though (except the big supply of gold, etc). Going to be thoughtful about how I build, this time. 

[Stanley]

1 hour ago, SpagMasterSwift said:

Leave your ship, get out on foot. Take pics.

Yes I must take some pics. I fixed my ship and flew up into space and the game crashed. Fixed it again and I'm just flying low over the planet now. 

[TehStu]

Hang on, apparently you can build a signal booster anywhere, search for habitable base, and it'll find you a new base part to claim. Someone also said dismantling containers will cause whatever is inside to reappear when you build the same number container elsewhere. Not sure I trust that.

[MK-1601]

48 minutes ago, TehStu said:

I didn't realize you could dismantle stuff, oops. But yeah, I know 100% that I didn't get what was in my containers, triggering a base move at a new base, because one container was full of green background metals, like gold, iridium, etc. None of that was in the "stuff from your old base" locker in the new one. 

 

Do your people move with you? Took me a few jumps to get full compliment of staff last time.

 

I really don't mind starting over though (except the big supply of gold, etc). Going to be thoughtful about how I build, this time. 

 

The stuff will actually be in the locker when you build it again, it doesn't go in the previous base cache. But I'm gonna test it tonight in case it's changed since Path Finder.

And yes, your guys will pop up every time you build their terminal from now on.

[Stanley]

When the game says it's detected a beacon, how do I go there? 

[Mike1812]

So you can visit other people bases now, but how are you ever going to find one? Is there any way i could locate a rllmuk base?

[BruceBruce]

1 hour ago, Mike1812 said:

So you can visit other people bases now, but how are you ever going to find one? Is there any way i could locate a rllmuk base?

 

Apparently you download their bases from the steam workshop and you can then visit them? I'm not 100% sure how it works.  But that's what it sounded like to me.

[TehStu]

It's on the PS4 version, too. You can scan systems already discovered on the galactic map, IIRC. I guess you should explore systems other people found before you.

[amc]

I got this earlier this evening. Playing on a Pro 4k HDR Blah blah blah and well...tried survival and err, well fuck knows what was going on there. I was dying every two minutes. Back to the option screen and normal mode for me. And well, I love it. Been playing for the past three hours and it's such a strange and soothing game. Trippy colours and visuals, eerie audio, star fighters flying overhead. It's really my kind of game. I can see my childhood fantasies of whooshing around space coming true. Just a very different type of game to what I'm used to. And the better for it.

 

Great.

[Sell73Out]

15 hours ago, MK-1601 said:

 

The stuff will actually be in the locker when you build it again, it doesn't go in the previous base cache. But I'm gonna test it tonight in case it's changed since Path Finder.

And yes, your guys will pop up every time you build their terminal from now on.

 

This is accurate still. Moved my whole base last night and shoved everything I owned in 8 containers. Everything was still in them when I remade them.

 

In semi-related news, the only things you lose when disassembling are the plants in your garden. You don't get all the constituent parts that went to build them.

 

And, if you have all the rovers and upgraded them: if you delete the pad, and then rebuild on another base, you keep the upgrades that were in the rover 

 

I'm now on a lovely lush Blue Star world with yellow grass and plentiful elements