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No Man's Sky |OT| Hello Worlds.

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Took about 45 minutes of walking, but I found my way to a terminal and was finally able to recall my frigging ship. I would be really curious to know how in the hell this happened.

Oh wow. I would love to know exactly where it was
 

Makoto-Yuki

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built my hyper drive but i need warp cells and to get them i need anti matter. it just says craft items in inventory but the option to craft it isn't there. i'm not sure how i get antimatter.
 

ElRenoRaven

Member
I think I found a planet that breaks this game's economy. If you run into a planet called "Treasure Hell Planet", make sure to stop by. Basically, there is a Gravitino Ball thing every 50 ft on this planet. The only thing is that the sentinels are extremely hostile. They attack on sight and you are immediately at 3 stars when you touch one of the gravitinos. But I'm able to grab a bunch of them, fly off and sell them and make over 500,000 for each run.

Wow. See this is why they need to make it easier to find systems etc. That's my one huge complaint other then the crashes. It's a pain in the ass to find your way back to a system you've left. More so if you've jumped several times. I really wish people could share coordinates and then you could enter them in somehow to find a system. Also a list or easy access to your visited systems in the hyperdrive menu would be nice. Say you click a system you've been to and then click set waypoint. That would make it so much easier.

Other then that it's now been 4 days of playing and I'm still on first planet minus jumps to head down the atlas path and back to the starting system. lol
 

BizzyBum

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The amount of hate this game is getting is asinine. I'm not saying they don't deserve some of it, but much of it is simply overblown. It's a very niche game that was hyped to a ridiculous level so everyone bought it when probably 10% of the people who did would really end up enjoying it.

I do kinda feel bad for Hello Games. Imagine working on a single game for 6 years to see it just get absolutely shit on by practically everyone. Must be a terrible feeling.

What I don't get are all the performance issues people are having on PC. Certain people with 980's saying they are getting 10fps and shit. I don't even see how that's possible when people with the same rig are getting smooth frame rates. Makes no sense. Makes me feel like it's that particular user or they are just exaggerating like crazy.
 

HowZatOZ

Banned
Every time I get into my ship and blast off into space I'm always blown away by the fact this can actually happen with no loading. Shit is sci-fi to the max and that I'm alive to see video games offer this and technology be at this level is just...

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Makoto-Yuki

Gold Member
Every time I get into my ship and blast off into space I'm always blown away by the fact this can actually happen with no loading. Shit is sci-fi to the max and that I'm alive to see video games offer this and technology be at this level is just...

Kevin-Butler-Mind-Blown.gif

i thought the pulse jump was a kind of loading screen. if not then it might as well be because every time i do it i just leave my computer and go do something else until it's done since i can't really do anything else. to be fair i'm not sure if i can go into my inventory and sort stuff out.
 

Dougald

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built my hyper drive but i need warp cells and to get them i need anti matter. it just says craft items in inventory but the option to craft it isn't there. i'm not sure how i get antimatter.


If you're doing the main quest you should get your first antimatter as part of that. I find the quest system in the game really bloody obtuse though
 

BizzyBum

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Every time I get into my ship and blast off into space I'm always blown away by the fact this can actually happen with no loading. Shit is sci-fi to the max and that I'm alive to see video games offer this and technology be at this level is just...

Dude, this is just the beginning. In years time, we'll be playing a game like this in virtual reality with lifelike graphics.
 

Makoto-Yuki

Gold Member
If you're doing the main quest you should get your first antimatter as part of that. I find the quest system in the game really bloody obtuse though

it told me to buy a dynamic resonator and mine heridium (i think that's what its called), build it, then fuel it. i have the other material but i just need antimatter. i can't figure out where to get it. nothing has popped up to say how to get it.
 

nOoblet16

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Playing on PC and I think ship controls are completely ass, there's delay in mouse controls and the partially automated flight only makes it worse.
 

joesmokey

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Late game spoilers:
Do I really have to jump through black holes 150 times to reach the center of the galactic core? What am I missing?
 

AGoodODST

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Playing last night I found my first planet that has what can only be described as oceans. While I've found plenty of planets with water before, there was never large expanses. Here I could fly in my ship for long periods of time and never see land.
 

Tubobutts

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Huh. Don't know if this is an actual thing, but I kept crashing when I tried to warp with two fuels in my hyperdrive. I put only one in and it worked.
 
Late game spoilers:
Do I really have to jump through black holes 150 times to reach the center of the galactic core? What am I missing?

The black holes don't always take you closer to the center. Sometimes they might transport to another part of the galaxy, IE instead of directly towards the core, they might transport you horizontally across the map
 

Dougald

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it told me to buy a dynamic resonator and mine heridium (i think that's what its called), build it, then fuel it. i have the other material but i just need antimatter. i can't figure out where to get it. nothing has popped up to say how to get it.


I'm pretty sure I got it by returning to the guy who gave me the plans. You can buy it at the galactic trade computers in stations too sometimes
 

joesmokey

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The black holes don't always take you closer to the center. Sometimes they might transport to another part of the galaxy, IE instead of directly towards the core, they might transport you horizontally across the map
They always transfer you roughly 1k light years closer in my experience. I've never gotten more of a jump than that. It's still better than following the galactic path right?
 
Mining Gold is bugged. Sometimes nodes just don't get destroyed, other times they do but give no Gold.

I was mining a huge pillar of gold on some moon that had tons of them and glitched through the ground. I couldn't get back up and had to reload a save from earlier. Lost about 300,000 units worth of gold I mined. I was pretty steamed.
 
They always transfer you roughly 1k light years closer in my experience. I've never gotten more of a jump than that. It's still better than following the galactic path right?

MIght be better to travel directly to it? A black hole is neat if you want to get completely out of the region of where you were previously, but once you build the hyperdrive companion units(IE Warp Drive Sigma/Tau/Theta), if you manage to build them together, you can travel 250-1500 light years at a time

Mining Gold is bugged. Sometimes nodes just don't get destroyed, other times they do but give no Gold.

Is Emeril the best resource to farm and sell?

If the resource pillars are huge, you can't destroy all of it. I've been on a huge pillar of aluminum before, but I could only destroy the edges of it, and once those edges were cleared, I could chip away at it's foundation for a bit-But if they're gigantic, you won't be able to mine all of it. The smaller mounds of gold you can mine completely, but if they get 3-5 stories high, then it's harder.
 
Any chance of a "free roam" mode where you don't need to worry about resources and can just explore everywhere freely? Maybe make it offline only so people won't complain about discoveries or whatever. I.e. cheat mode?
 

joesmokey

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MIght be better to travel directly to it? A black hole is neat if you want to get completely out of the region of where you were previously, but once you build the hyperdrive companion units(IE Warp Drive Sigma/Tau/Theta), if you manage to build them together, you can travel 250-1500 light years at a time
Yes but to get to the center you still have to do that over 100 times?
 
I was really digging the views on this planet.

The whole game does but I got a real sci fi feeling when looking at this vista.

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This game keeps on taking my breath away every few planets. Its the endless screenshot game.
 
The amount of hate this game is getting is asinine. I'm not saying they don't deserve some of it, but much of it is simply overblown. It's a very niche game that was hyped to a ridiculous level so everyone bought it when probably 10% of the people who did would really end up enjoying it.

I do kinda feel bad for Hello Games. Imagine working on a single game for 6 years to see it just get absolutely shit on by practically everyone. Must be a terrible feeling.

I agree but at the same time they shouldn't have talked about things, some extensively, that weren't going to be in the game.
 

Auto_aim1

MeisaMcCaffrey
Do you get to fly around and choose where to land or are you locked in to a certain area?
You can land anywhere provided there's no obstruction below. Once I landed on top of a tree, it was funny but thank god for the jetpack.

Mining Gold is bugged. Sometimes nodes just don't get destroyed, other times they do but give no Gold.

Is Emeril the best resource to farm and sell?
Just gather vortex cubes and gravitino balls and sell them for 25k a piece. If you have 20 slots free on your exosuit, you could make millions in no time. They can be found inside caves.
 
Nothing really mind blowing about it when you realise it's all procedurally generated only when you approach the surface, when you see the planet from space it's just a small sphere.

The moon is a small sphere, seeing it from earth >_> let's not take away the fact that the moon is still huge.
 
How badly am I screwed?

I am still in the starting system and have played for about 6 hours. I am missing a piece of antimatter to craft a warp cell. I don't remember if I had it and sold it or never got it, but according to what I read antimatter is supposed to be given to you no matter what in the starting system. So I'm assuming I did something that I wasn't supposed to with that antimatter. The game keeps telling to go out into space and fire up the warp drive to go the next system but I can't since the drive is out of fuel. I have the crafting schematic for the warp cell but not the the antimatter itself. I really don't want to start the whole thing over... so is a cheat table my only option?
 

Venom Fox

Banned
Nothing really mind blowing about it when you realise it's all procedurally generated only when you approach the surface, when you see the planet from space it's just a small sphere.
Still mind blowing when you think we went from Daggerfall to Minecraft and then this. This is only the beginning of what PG tech can bring us. As more devs use it and techniques get refined there will come a time when we will all be playing PG games and we won't be able to tell the difference.
 
Nothing really mind blowing about it when you realise it's all procedurally generated only when you approach the surface, when you see the planet from space it's just a small sphere.
Oh, yeah, sure. This tech has been used in every game ever. Nothing unique about this at all...
 
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