No Man's Sky - Interceptor

[pulsemyne]

35 minutes ago, JPickford said:

PC patch is out on GoG

Out on steam as well.

[Pob]

I'd be interested to know how the combat and flight feels now. The auto-pilot flying and unexciting combat of the original put me off somewhat.

[Davros sock drawer]

The combat has been improved from how it was on release for a while, especially with the large space battles, but this has introduced two things that I think will make it far more engaging - missiles, and low flight. The sensation of speed when flying low over the surface should be pretty cool.

 

 

[Stanley]

Gotta try this later starting at the beginning, I just know I'll come undone with all that resource gathering though.

[Yewone]

Yep think I'm back in. 

 

May even double dip. Still have the disc but would be handy to have digitally. For a tenner it's rude not too. 

[Kos Mos]

Downloading now.  5hrs (curse my slow internet) but the description says it comes all patched up to the latest which is nice.

 

I expect my Saturday will now spent seeking out strange new worlds and civilisations.

[ChewMagma]

Finally jumping into this as well, for a tenner it would be rude not to.

[Davros sock drawer]

Wow, this feels so different! Skimming over the planet surface is what I think a lot of people always wanted from the flight model.

 

Noticed lots of changes already that weren't in the patch notes. Loads of the materials have been re-named, for example Rigogen is now Kelp Sacs.

 

The scanner is loads better.

[Davros sock drawer]

I decided not to start again in the end. First new planet I tried was a lush monsoon world. Just found a transmitter - crashed freighter 33 minutes away

[Mogster]

I put a couple of hours into this, starting from scratch. You're guided a lot better at the start, although you're still just sent after a bunch of resources to repair your ship as before. In fact, the whole experience feels basically the same at this stage, just a little less frustrating. I found as crashed ship I could repair for instance, only it had about three times the storage of my starting ship instead of a measly extra slot. Even so, everything still feels so sluggish thanks to the endless resource gathering your forced to do.

 

This might be down to bad luck, but after two hours I've yet to find a way to start base building (unless I'm missing something), or a portal for that matter, but I've also only just been introduced to the second story path so it might just be very slowly easing me in. The Atlas path is possibly shut off for good, as the Atlas Station waypoint has mysteriously vanished from my map screen for no reason. The starting quests also take you to a crashed freighter, which is nice.

 

It's cool that you can pick up missions, but the missions on offer have been pretty terrible so far. Kill 16 random animals for no reason! Actually it let me take that one twice, and cash it in twice for the same set of animals.

 

Flight still feels really floaty, and swapping to a bigger ship seemed to make no difference to this. It's nice that you can fly closer to the ground without mods now though. Combat seemed fine, but still pretty basic even with the addition of missiles.

 

I still like the idea of what Hello Games are doing, but I really wish there was more fun exploration to be had, and less of the tedious grind.

[Davros sock drawer]

You need to find a planet with a habitable base before you can build. System scan from space, or build a scanner on the ground to search for one.

[Stanley]

When do you get an SRV?

[Davros sock drawer]

The buggies etc? After doing a lot of base building quests. 

 

Also, portals are mega rare, or at least they used to be. In fact, I've never found one. They might have changed that. But even so I wouldn't expect to find one after only a couple of hours...

[Trumpets]

Just re-bought it on PSN having sold my boxed copy months ago. Great that they've continued working so hard on it.

 

I wonder what the reception would have been had it launched in this state a year ago?

[Xipe Totec]

I found one portal in my entire journey to the centre. Reasonable to assume they'll either be more frequent now, or easier to find, maybe show up on a scan.

 

I'm away from home right now & won't get to play this until Tuesday.

[Davros sock drawer]

My home planet has completely changed, and all my base crew are gone!

[Davros sock drawer]

Ha! And loads of stuff I'd crafted such as circuit boards and copper wire are now called simply "obsolete technology"...

[macosx]

I jettisoned my millions out of the airlock and started again. Looks detailed and gorgeous now and seems much more rounded in objectives etc. 

[Darwock]

I have a permadeath save poised right at the edge of the galactic centre - as everybody probably knows by now, going to the centre

dumps you at the far end of a new galaxy to start over with all your stuff still existing, but broken and needing repaired

.

 

Rather than starting a brand new game in Euclid I was thinking to try in Hilbert - there are less players there, is that going to be a hindrance with the new multiplayer components?

[SteveH]

I decided to give this another go after not playing it since before all the main patches began. And it has basically screwed up my game. The last save it puts me back at doesn't resemble the planet I was on at all. One of the saves puts me underneath the geometry with no escape, and the other save puts me on the surface, but on a tiny island surrounded by irradiated water, with none of the resources needed to be able to protect myself, and my ship almost 40 minutes away. 

 

 There are no bases to recall my ship, and if I try going across the water, the radiation is so high that I can't travel far before dying. And all my boosters for my jet pack and multitool are gone so they have basic functionality. In other words.....fuck this game! I've lost around 50-60 hours of play time :/

[Mr.Crowley]

You can recall your ship now from the quick menu from pretty much anywhere.

[SteveH]

I would have given that a go. But it has just updated again? And now all my saves drop me off at a space station millions of miles away from the planets I want to continue exploring

[JoeK]

So, I've just started and seemingly got further along than the last time I played the thing...inasmuch as I've repaired my ship

 

Is there a way to change the flight controls so that they're inverse to the default, as I'm finding it completely counter-intuitive to how I'd usually fly something!

 

 

[Pob]

I started afresh on Survival mode last night and sudenly the crafting and mining grind all made sense. I was juggling various emergencies just trying to stay alive and thinking that sometime in the far future I might be ready to make the 10-minute trip across scorching terrain to find my ship. The situation was more desperate than Mark Watney's in The Martian. 

 

I'm not sure I'll be able to survive this planet. I died twice and realised that resources don't respawn on death so I'm rapidly depleting the local area around the relative safety of my habitat of much-needed Thamium, Plutonium and Zinc. My life support just gets rinsed too quickly to be able to branch out too far. 

 

I've not even had a chance to even really look at my hell-hole of a new home. Ships buzz overhead but I'm too busy mining and desperately trying to scan for more precious materials just to stay alive a few more minutes. 

 

I was loving it, to be honest. One day I might be able to take off and try that new flight model. 

 

Akso why the fuck is 'run' still on R3??? Thank god for being able to remap controls on PS4. 

[Mogster]

16 minutes ago, JoeK said:

So, I've just started and seemingly got further along than the last time I played the thing...inasmuch as I've repaired my ship

 

Is there a way to change the flight controls so that they're inverse to the default, as I'm finding it completely counter-intuitive to how I'd usually fly something!

 

 

 

There are settings to invert walking and ship controls under Game Options.

[Parappa]

So having not played this since it's launch week I will defo be starting again. Is survival the way to go? 

[df0]

For me, no. I want to chill out on planets and in space.

 

If you prefer hostile wildlife and lethal weather, than go for Survival.

[Davros sock drawer]

1 hour ago, Pob said:

I started afresh on Survival mode last night and sudenly the crafting and mining grind all made sense. I was juggling various emergencies just trying to stay alive and thinking that sometime in the far future I might be ready to make the 10-minute trip across scorching terrain to find my ship. The situation was more desperate than Mark Watney's in The Martian. 

 

I'm not sure I'll be able to survive this planet. I died twice and realised that resources don't respawn on death so I'm rapidly depleting the local area around the relative safety of my habitat of much-needed Thamium, Plutonium and Zinc. My life support just gets rinsed too quickly to be able to branch out too far. 

 

I've not even had a chance to even really look at my hell-hole of a new home. Ships buzz overhead but I'm too busy mining and desperately trying to scan for more precious materials just to stay alive a few more minutes. 

 

I was loving it, to be honest. One day I might be able to take off and try that new flight model. 

 

Akso why the fuck is 'run' still on R3??? Thank god for being able to remap controls on PS4. 

 

This is why Survival mode is the best.

 

Little tip for you - running drains your life support more quickly than walking. Can make all the difference.

[Stanley]

This is now shaping up to be the game everyone thought they were getting a year ago. I put three or four hours into it last night, from the beginning, on normal, and the time just flew by. I had a blast.

 

First off it just feels better to play. Everything about it feels good. It feels balanced and all its systems now start to make sense. I'm not sure about everything they've changed, but it seems like a lot. For me it's gone from an interesting curio to a fully rounded and really fucking impressive space trading adventure. 

 

They've tweaked things so you don't have to travel for miles to gather the resources necessary to fix your ship. You still have to do that, but the resources themselves seem more abundant without just sticking them in a cargo case next to you. So you're persuaded to explore, but also to get what you need rather than just randomly mine everything. In fact the game now has a full help section that explains everything. It's brilliant. The game feels like it's helping you and explaining the fundamentals without holding your hand too much. You're still free to go off and do what you want, but you don't feel completely abandoned like you did a year ago. That just lead to frustration, now it spurs you on. 

 

It definitely seems like your life support systems last longer, so you're not constantly trying to get back to your ship from miles away or find shelter, always on the brink of death. It's a more chilled, relaxing game. I think in part it's because the resources are nearer too. It's been carefully tweaked and balanced. So a lot of stuff might not be immediately apparent, but under the hood they've given it a good proper make over. It all just works. 

 

 

And so the flying. Fuck me. The flying. I'm now doing what I imagined I'd be doing when I first bought this game. It's truly revelatory. You can now fly your ship right along the ground if you want, instead of the crap autopilot half a kilometre in the air before. It's no longer unidentifiable faceless terrain below. You're weaving in and out of structures and valleys and wildlife. So you can go slow and low, spot something, stop, and go over to it. It's a game changer. The one single most important thing they needed to change. It's awesome. I now feel like a scientific research explorer instead of a fucking tourist. 

 

The galaxy map is now actually usable. It's smooth and clean. You can plot trade routes, set way points. It now looks like you're navigating a galaxy rather than a bloody big mess. 

 

It explains about making money, which now seems like a viable option. It's like Elite Dangerous with its economies and factions. It's all starting to seem rather immense and exciting, and like a game.

 

And that's before you even consider the base building and vehicular exploration, which was already there mind, only now it has a game underpinning it all.

 

And is it me or does it just look nicer? The colour palette seems more muted and naturalistic. 

 

Sorry for rambling, but this is now a tenner on PSN apparently. Buy it, like yesterday.

 

 

 

[Janski]

As someone totally new to the game after about 10hrs of play or so im really enjoying it and it's a bargain for a £10er.