so i figured out that if you find a traveller in a trading post (and probably also in a space station) and spend the 100 nanites to "ask where they came from," they'll direct you to a local grave, providing a portal glyph. so there should be a pretty straightforward method to getting all the glyphs, and i seem to recall some way to locate portals on the map too.
i need this permadeath trophy, and i think this is going to be way more efficient than black holes and hundreds of warps.
Soooooooo how about them portals, eh? I may be stranded on a planet with no way of getting back to my system. I found a beacon but couldn't call my ship to the system cause it was too far away. Booo!
But look at how weird and wonderful it is! Bizarre mechanoworld
I've been enjoying this a lot in small bursts, since the last big update...
I have a lush tropical downpours planet, so it's hard to be outside very long, but it's got such a soothing color scheme and the rain is so pleasant.
Today I unlocked the Nomad Exocraft for the first time and it's a fun little guy! I did feel like I had to uninstall the Shaidak's Generation mod: it makes some real pretty forests, but good luck driving the 1st medium-sized Exocraft around.
Grrr. Wish I could find a settings in my AMD that would make this game more stable. That or Hello Games would find whatever driver confict is causing the random crash/freeze out bug. Other than that, enjoying the new patch.
Have you tried removing all the drivers and then reinstalling fresh? I just upgraded my computer (kept the same card) and this game runs a lot better now. It's pretty processor heavy, from what I can tell, so the new CPU helped more than anything. (using an AMD RX 480 8gig V-ram version)
I will soon be happily joining you all tonight. What should I do, going in cold like this?
- start on normal mode!
- don't rush towards anything in particular. set your own goals and pace
- d-pad down to find the camera and take photos for us
- stockpiling iron and plutonium can't hurt. you necessarily use a lot of both
- you can craft a signal booster with d-pad up, which can locate a nearby drop pod. drop pods let you upgrade your inventory slots
- your ship inventory and personal "cargo" slot (picked up at drop pods) hold bigger stacks of elements and small items
- relax and enjoy the universe!
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I will soon be happily joining you all tonight. What should I do, going in cold like this?
In addition to all the (very correct) stuff bsjezz said, and to toot my own horn, the first post has a section with a bunch of info about various things that might be helpful early on.
But the most important thing is to just chill and enjoy any cool sights you come across.
Settling in to try base building on a frozen planet in Creative mode
A thing I made. It wasn't long into the build that I discovered the restrictions to base building and did something about them. This is the result.
And my normal mode game which started me on a desolate world made of burning and fire.
But there are other planets in the system! Several of them in fact. The very next one I visited was full of toxic acid rain and giant tentacled carnivorous mushroom things. Apparently the photomode screenshots I took didn't save though.
I claimed a base on the burning hot planet because why not. Looking out from a cave of emeril at my new home. I sold a load of emeril at the station in system and I've already crashed the market on it.
Here's the carnivorous mushroom tentacle things I was talking about...
After jumping to a new system I found a world that scanned as 'flourishing' so I went to check it out. It's very green and pink. No fauna and very little flora so I wouldn't exactly call it flourishing but on the other hand the sentinels don't attack on sight and the weather isn't trying to kill me. There is lots of zinc, thamium, emeril and iridium though. Plutonium is a bit scarce but it's there. It's much easier to spot structures and things on this terrain. I've found a bunch of knowledge stones and a couple exosuit upgrades so far. Now I just need to find an abandoned base to claim and I'm set for awhile.
I think my planet changed to Toxic rains? From freezing?
Mine has an amazing field around my base now. It was originally sat on the edge of a cliff.
Also, living the new changes to the transferring of inventory. Helps ease the process.
I also did a mission to kill 1 Predator creature for fusion accelerant and man that is a great reward! 2.2 mill for it at this system. Completely lucked out.
oh shit, weather effects are finally visible from flight... pretty intense in a storm when you're flying low on a rocky planet
also, the traveller's grave i just located (#2) was at the bottom of an insane ditch. here's me bumbling around a mountaintop in the pitch dark trying to figure out which chasm i needed to jump down, before i realised it was probably wise to wait for the sun to come up
I was going to settle on that pink and green planet but the lack of plutonium deposits was a real problem. Moving on. I stopped by a space station and a Korvax guy there rewarded me with some toxic resistance. He suggested I visit the planet below which was a place with a toxic environment and lots of acid rain....as well as plenty of plutonium and points of interest. There are so many I'm tripping over them. I set up a beacon thingy to find a base to claim and it was literally over the next hill.
My new base after some upgrades
One of the inhabitants of my world. Some Bearmouse thing.
Coming up out of a crater I hit the boosters and caught some air. I landed somewhat unexpectedly higher than I'd planned.
Different planet I popped in for a story mission and found this big giraffe/elephant/stegosaurus guy.
Exploring a desert planet. I get the feeling someone's watching me.
Night time
This planet seemed to favor a lot of small, bipedal creatures.
And then there was this big guy
The skies were filled with schools of these things that looked like they'd be more at home in the ocean
I just saw creature on creature violence! A predatory creature just took out a calm one, bit right into the sucker! Also took out a billion pirates and currently I'm trying to make acid so i can fix a thing. Get that mission money, baby. I'm almost at 20 mill without farming. It might be slow but it's so much more fun!
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Seriously guys. This feels like the first game I've ever played where the road to making a million dollars feels nearly as long as the one in real life.
There was another update recently. The main change I saw was that you can now choose which inventory to transfer stuff into, so it isn't as big a faff to move stuff into your storage slots in your suit.
Anyone else getting crashes almost consistently after an hour or more of playing it?
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And stuff that you pick up will automatically go into cargo slots if you have some in there or have no space in the main inventory. That's a real blessing.
I didn't get any crashes the last few times I played but that was maybe two weeks ago (and on PC)?
I completed all the base specialist quests recently, so I'm ready to strike out into the galaxy and look for a new home.
WHAT THE SHIT. I remember that happening now but thats just some obscure shit. I think I stumbled across it the first time i got the prompt to feed the critters and then never bothered after. Thanks!
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WHAT THE SHIT. I remember that happening now but thats just some obscure shit. I think I stumbled across it the first time i got the prompt to feed the critters and then never bothered after. Thanks!
Well, copro- is the prefix for shit, so that's definitely an accurate description.
I think some plants will give it as a secondary eigenvectors (that's what my phone has decided I mean when I type "elements") but secondary Rodney's (seriously, phone) are kind of a crapshoot.
[Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
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I... almost never kill the animals, so I dunno. I grabbed three missions worth a couple hundred k that all involved killing animals, and by the end of it I was like hm maybe I won't take any more of these missions.
KalnaurI See Rain . . .Centralia, WARegistered Userregular
I regularly use animal slaughter missions to complete sentinel killing missions. Nothing brings the space cops out faster than cuddly critter genocide.
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I'm giving it a try but it's kind of tedious waiting for stuff(solanium) to grow. I need to expand my base so I can set up more hydroponics stations to really rake it in. I've been avoiding missions because I'm not good at combat in this game.
Man I couldn't find solanium for the longest time. Just zero hot planets. I got there eventually but boy was it frustrating.
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So I went scanning for critters because I needed to get the last milestone because that's what Polo
wants in order to give you the theta warp drive.
Only to rediscover that oh, the rewards go in order and I'm on my second visit out of
SIXTEEN.
So that'll take a while. On the bright side, woo, ten planets fully scanned.
I've still not been able to find a new ship to replace my class A hauler (renamed to the Crimson Goose). That +48% to shields is just too good. I think my most immediate goal should maybe be to save up to a freighter, so I can start collecting some more ships. I'm at 3 million units, so only... a hundred million to go.
I've torn down most of my base, leaving only the containers and my farm. I'm on the hunt for a new home; I wanted it to be by a blue star, but will have to hold off on that. I did manage to find an impressively hellish world; it had bad weather, aggressive sentinels, and at least 4 out of 8 species were hostile (didn't find the 8th).
Does anyone know if you get the plant materials back when you tear down a bio-dome? I placed one near the edge of my base and didn't realise you could have plant plots outside of the base circle. Half of the dome is unusable right now.
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So this is on sale on Steam this week for 60% off. Given the recent updates, I think I'm finally going to grab this. I've been after something a bit slower paced and less stressful to play than shooters and strategy games.
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-Loki-, if you like just wandering around picking berries, it's nice and relaxing.
I've found myself occasionally glancing at the lush environments in Destiny 2 as they whiz past, and thinking how in NMS I'd jetpack up over that hill because why not, now I'm going that way, but in more "gamey" games the objectives take precedence over roaming about.
If you don't mind not really having any gameplay like combat or puzzles but enjoy picking a location and just... going over there, then it's good times.
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Yeah that sounds like what I'm after. I realised a few nights ago that I had no relaxing games that I could just play without worrying about fighting the next thing that pops up. A space exploration game where I can just fly to another planet, explore, gather stuff, maybe build a base and tool around in a rover sounds like just the ticket.
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Yeah that sounds like what I'm after. I realised a few nights ago that I had no relaxing games that I could just play without worrying about fighting the next thing that pops up. A space exploration game where I can just fly to another planet, explore, gather stuff, maybe build a base and tool around in a rover sounds like just the ticket.
And if you really just want to chill, creative mode might be even more up your alley.
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i need this permadeath trophy, and i think this is going to be way more efficient than black holes and hundreds of warps.
But look at how weird and wonderful it is! Bizarre mechanoworld
I have a lush tropical downpours planet, so it's hard to be outside very long, but it's got such a soothing color scheme and the rain is so pleasant.
Today I unlocked the Nomad Exocraft for the first time and it's a fun little guy! I did feel like I had to uninstall the Shaidak's Generation mod: it makes some real pretty forests, but good luck driving the 1st medium-sized Exocraft around.
Have you tried removing all the drivers and then reinstalling fresh? I just upgraded my computer (kept the same card) and this game runs a lot better now. It's pretty processor heavy, from what I can tell, so the new CPU helped more than anything. (using an AMD RX 480 8gig V-ram version)
Climb up there and get the map of the surrounding area!
- start on normal mode!
- don't rush towards anything in particular. set your own goals and pace
- d-pad down to find the camera and take photos for us
- stockpiling iron and plutonium can't hurt. you necessarily use a lot of both
- you can craft a signal booster with d-pad up, which can locate a nearby drop pod. drop pods let you upgrade your inventory slots
- your ship inventory and personal "cargo" slot (picked up at drop pods) hold bigger stacks of elements and small items
- relax and enjoy the universe!
But the most important thing is to just chill and enjoy any cool sights you come across.
A thing I made. It wasn't long into the build that I discovered the restrictions to base building and did something about them. This is the result.
And my normal mode game which started me on a desolate world made of burning and fire.
But there are other planets in the system! Several of them in fact. The very next one I visited was full of toxic acid rain and giant tentacled carnivorous mushroom things. Apparently the photomode screenshots I took didn't save though.
I claimed a base on the burning hot planet because why not. Looking out from a cave of emeril at my new home. I sold a load of emeril at the station in system and I've already crashed the market on it.
After jumping to a new system I found a world that scanned as 'flourishing' so I went to check it out. It's very green and pink. No fauna and very little flora so I wouldn't exactly call it flourishing but on the other hand the sentinels don't attack on sight and the weather isn't trying to kill me. There is lots of zinc, thamium, emeril and iridium though. Plutonium is a bit scarce but it's there. It's much easier to spot structures and things on this terrain. I've found a bunch of knowledge stones and a couple exosuit upgrades so far. Now I just need to find an abandoned base to claim and I'm set for awhile.
Mine has an amazing field around my base now. It was originally sat on the edge of a cliff.
Also, living the new changes to the transferring of inventory. Helps ease the process.
I also did a mission to kill 1 Predator creature for fusion accelerant and man that is a great reward! 2.2 mill for it at this system. Completely lucked out.
Time to farm those frost crystals
also, the traveller's grave i just located (#2) was at the bottom of an insane ditch. here's me bumbling around a mountaintop in the pitch dark trying to figure out which chasm i needed to jump down, before i realised it was probably wise to wait for the sun to come up
One of the inhabitants of my world. Some Bearmouse thing.
Coming up out of a crater I hit the boosters and caught some air. I landed somewhat unexpectedly higher than I'd planned.
Different planet I popped in for a story mission and found this big giraffe/elephant/stegosaurus guy.
Exploring a desert planet. I get the feeling someone's watching me.
Night time
This planet seemed to favor a lot of small, bipedal creatures.
And then there was this big guy
The skies were filled with schools of these things that looked like they'd be more at home in the ocean
I didn't get any crashes the last few times I played but that was maybe two weeks ago (and on PC)?
I completed all the base specialist quests recently, so I'm ready to strike out into the galaxy and look for a new home.
Once I collect, like, a billion iron.
I feel so bad!
Only to rediscover that oh, the rewards go in order and I'm on my second visit out of
So that'll take a while. On the bright side, woo, ten planets fully scanned.
I've still not been able to find a new ship to replace my class A hauler (renamed to the Crimson Goose). That +48% to shields is just too good. I think my most immediate goal should maybe be to save up to a freighter, so I can start collecting some more ships. I'm at 3 million units, so only... a hundred million to go.
I've torn down most of my base, leaving only the containers and my farm. I'm on the hunt for a new home; I wanted it to be by a blue star, but will have to hold off on that. I did manage to find an impressively hellish world; it had bad weather, aggressive sentinels, and at least 4 out of 8 species were hostile (didn't find the 8th).
I've found myself occasionally glancing at the lush environments in Destiny 2 as they whiz past, and thinking how in NMS I'd jetpack up over that hill because why not, now I'm going that way, but in more "gamey" games the objectives take precedence over roaming about.
If you don't mind not really having any gameplay like combat or puzzles but enjoy picking a location and just... going over there, then it's good times.
e: ...wrong Loki, sorry about that
And if you really just want to chill, creative mode might be even more up your alley.