[No Man's Sky] Pilotable mechs? Living ships!?

Undead Scottsman

I can't start over because I'd lose my 48 slot non-cargo ship.

bsjezz

nah, there are 5 slots

if you've never tried going from scratch again, do it. this game embodies the whole journey-not-the-destination thing

PaperLuigi44

As much as I love my Hauler, this is a pretty cool idea, I'm excited to try it out.

-Improved the range of the Exocraft Summoning Station, so that it allows Exocraft to be summoned from anywhere in the system.
-Planets that you have discovered no longer need to be repeatedly rescanned to see their resources from space.
-Allowed starships to reverse during atmospheric flight if stuck in other geometry.

All quite appreciated too.

PaperLuigi44

Dang, Living Ships require 3200 Quicksilver - I haven't played a lot recently (let alone done Quicksilver missions in a long time) so I'm short right now. I did buy an Exotic that flew into the trading post I visited, so small victories.

Crippl3

New trailer for Hello Games' next project, coming later this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBY6XUf3rxs

PaperLuigi44

Finally, finally got my Living Ship, that was a real test of my patience. Putting aside the quickly fixed glitch where the quest vanished for me, the first four components require warping to a marked system, finding the right planet and then using the cockpit co-ordinates to find the appropriate location (the co-ordinates you receive either fluctuate or are imprecise until you get close, too), farming a new resource (have some spots for new multitool tech), then having to wait ~24 hours before you can proceed. You'll also need the stargate glyphs obtained through the story to warp to a specific planet, which I had to do.

Ultimately, the ship is cool, but has specific upgrades that seem like a pain to get; haven't messed around with it too much. Honestly, halfway through the quest I remembered that metallic ships are entirely where my interests align, but gosh darn I wasn't going to let that quest beat me.

SharpyVII

https://twitter.com/NoMansSky/status/1247524460518752257

bsjezz

and even more importantly (for me):

https://twitter.com/jrohlback/status/1247844685353111554

#pipe

I started a new game yesterday. It's just so nice and smooth and streamlined now. They've really nailed it.

joshofalltrades

This game’s development has been like if Molyneux went “oh shit, let’s try to do better”

PaperLuigi44

Mechs are definitely slow to walk around, but their boost mostly makes up for it. They also have a fun animation when they're summoned and I prefer mining with them because the camera angle is more natural compared to other craft. I'm also glad I stocked up on Storm Crystals while dusting off the main quest, as rechargeable fuel for my exocraft is great. Lastly, you'll probably want to invest in the environmental shielding as being in an exocraft only seems to mitigate those effects by default now.

#pipe

#pipe wrote: »

I started a new game yesterday. It's just so nice and smooth and streamlined now. They've really nailed it.

I have now jumped to about 15 new systems, focussing on high economy systems with lots of planets and have yet to find a SINGLE decent planet for a base.

Systems with 6 or 7 planets and all of them are frozen or irradiated or airless. Occasionally I'll find a nice planet but it'll have frequent firestorms or hyper aggressive sentinels. Either I'm having the worst luck or this update made nice planets super rare.

bsjezz

i don't think planet gen has changed in a while - maybe since the VR update? and that was a small change

sounds like bad luck. also feels worse because airless planets are so boring now - you used to find some really cool ones.

Donnicton

#pipe wrote: »

#pipe wrote: »

I started a new game yesterday. It's just so nice and smooth and streamlined now. They've really nailed it.

I have now jumped to about 15 new systems, focussing on high economy systems with lots of planets and have yet to find a SINGLE decent planet for a base.

Systems with 6 or 7 planets and all of them are frozen or irradiated or airless. Occasionally I'll find a nice planet but it'll have frequent firestorms or hyper aggressive sentinels. Either I'm having the worst luck or this update made nice planets super rare.

They did make perfectly calm planets a lot more rare a long while back. Most of them will have some singular drawback like severe storms or overaggressive sentinels. The star type also determines the type of planets a system more likely to have(yellow is best), so combine all that together and you may be searching a while.

Ashaman42

Dammit. I'd held off, then I found it for £13. And I'm sucked in. 23 hours played in the three days since I bought it and now not playing today when I was meant to be working was nigh on painful. I'm doomed!!

Tis still glitchy in places though. Twice I've had to rescan the fauna on my current 'home' planet amongst other problems.

#pipe

I finally found a perfect planet in a rich system

but it has brown grass 😭

valhalla130

Every nice planet I've found has something wrong with it. I've never found one with dark green grass and the right shade of blue water.

#pipe

I mean I think the weird coloured planets are fun. Blue grass, orange grass, purple grass, green water

those are fun.

brown grass though

bsjezz

when multiplayer first came out i started a new game to play with a mate and there was a perfect world - green grass, blue water, palmy trees and passive sentinels - in the starter system. so we set up some bases there and had some fun while he learnt the game. since then it's been infested with storms and hostile critters... also, the grass turned brown

you know what they say. khaleesi come...

PaperLuigi44

My current home planet has super-heated rainstorms (not an issue for me) and no buried modules (annoying, but I just portal elsewhere), but it's gorgeous and has no sentinels at all so I love it. I just hope Hello don't mess with the seeds again, as my old base went from teal to grey grass. And my aqua base went from blue water to red.

Xeddicus

Edit: Nevermind, finally found the answer to my question on the wiki. (Yes, materials are refunded when something is deleted in case anyone else was wondering).