so the ideal way for me to play right now seems to be in VR, on permadeath, with the HUD off on foot and on in the cockpit (if you find your cockpit )
VR with the HUD off remains so god damn immersive, even in the blurry PSVR. i really wish you could play the whole game this way, and with some work arounds you can at least get out of the starting system (probably technically, by extension, the centre) but there are still bad graphical glitches for me in space and the quests are a no-go. kinda just want a 'skip tutorial' option... and some in-cockpit quest indicators maybe?
anyway i can't really overstate how this way of playing improves the game. when you're on foot without distractions the planets really feel unique, even within the more prescriptive biomes post-NEXT, and exploration is exhilarating when you know you can easily get lost and die
this was a beautiful ice world with immense caves. i struck out too far to ever find my ship, and never came across so much as a save point after a couple of hours. i was in a rhythm by the end and could have kept going, to find some way to trade for a crude ship, but the family came home :bigfrown:
this was from today's much more successful run. started on another ice world with big, distinct rock formations so i could orient myself easily. the ship was close by, and so was a transmission tower; it seems like any shack you find once you've found your ship will yield the hermetic seal. off the ground i checked out the puzzle's crash site - lo and behold, a crashed hauler with a trade value of 9 million. so within an hour i'd traced the highway lines to a trading post and picked up an A-class shuttle with 27 slots. then i headed to the first off-planet quest marker:
I actually just finished a permadeath run to get the achievement.
I got to the new galaxy and promptly died because all my tools were broken and I couldn't get to/build a shelter in time. Still, the achievement was the whole point.
There's no plan, there's no race to be run
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
my freighter got transformed into a different shape
that's weird
guess i'm back to freighter shopping
yeah lol this happened to me.
Also kinda sucks, but I keep finding derelicts randomly (Not using any items) but they can't be boarded in that instance. It seems only when you pay the 5 mil funbux.
my freighter got transformed into a different shape
that's weird
guess i'm back to freighter shopping
yeah lol this happened to me.
Also kinda sucks, but I keep finding derelicts randomly (Not using any items) but they can't be boarded in that instance. It seems only when you pay the 5 mil funbux.
Also had this happen. I thought it just meant the old ones are still in too.
Has anyone found any explore-able derelict at random? Or are we literally restricted to 5mil purchases and the weekly free one from Helios?
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And the ones from asteroids.
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There's no plan, there's no race to be run
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
it's off putting at first and it's still draining to play for long stretches (though i find that to be true of all VR), but i think i just got used to it? i don't think it's the fault of the game, i feel like it's just the limitations of the hardware's resolution when you're trying to pick out small details in huge landscapes. recently the texture pop-in has been bugging me a bit more, but honestly the feeling of scale makes up for all that
nah i use the moves, but i have pretty much all the comfort options turned off (teleport movement / snap turning). the move controls are a huge part of the immersion and the advantage of VR - you can, for example, punch crystals open, or pluck oxygen from a snap plant then smash it dead, not to mention just look around and visually explore while your mining laser is trained on something in your peripheral vision
edit: space combat is way harder, but the visceral feeling of controlling the ship as you take off and cruise over planets is amazing too
my freighter got transformed into a different shape
that's weird
guess i'm back to freighter shopping
yeah lol this happened to me.
Also kinda sucks, but I keep finding derelicts randomly (Not using any items) but they can't be boarded in that instance. It seems only when you pay the 5 mil funbux.
Also had this happen. I thought it just meant the old ones are still in too.
Has anyone found any explore-able derelict at random? Or are we literally restricted to 5mil purchases and the weekly free one from Helios?
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And the ones from asteroids.
I didn’t know there was a free weekly one, I’ll check for that.
I’m playing after a hiatus, I didn’t realize there was already derelicts in the game. That makes more sense then.
I’m assuming by the asteroid ones you mean when breaking them and getting maps? I have done that and it still gave me a non-interactive derelict.
my freighter got transformed into a different shape
that's weird
guess i'm back to freighter shopping
yeah lol this happened to me.
Also kinda sucks, but I keep finding derelicts randomly (Not using any items) but they can't be boarded in that instance. It seems only when you pay the 5 mil funbux.
Also had this happen. I thought it just meant the old ones are still in too.
Has anyone found any explore-able derelict at random? Or are we literally restricted to 5mil purchases and the weekly free one from Helios?
-edit-
And the ones from asteroids.
I've found an explorable derelict after 4/5 runs with the asteroid "anomaly detectors".
Just reinstalled the game. Holy hell. This is a new god damned game. Like even more than Beyond which I only put a few hours into. It's funny I was searching for a new survival game and was like "Why not peek into NMS again. . ." God damn am I glad I did. Theres still some jank in the game (including old tutorial instructions that don't actually work) but overall the game is a blast. If this had started in EA instead of getting shoved out on to the PS4, it would have been one of the best success stories of the decade I am sure.
I've recently dipped back into into, too, tempted back by infested Space Hulks and giant mechs.
I've also just found the recipe for the underwater base starter plate, and am now tempted to find a water world so I can build a giant, sprawling underwater base...
I've recently dipped back into into, too, tempted back by infested Space Hulks and giant mechs.
I've also just found the recipe for the underwater base starter plate, and am now tempted to find a water world so I can build a giant, sprawling underwater base...
I think at some point the game will throw a whole questline about it at you? I actually stopped playing while in the middle of it.
I jumped back in, now I'm just having fun crashing economies... I did make a big mistake not realizing I couldn't buy back items sold to other ship pilots though... 30mil in Chlorine gone right there...
I've recently dipped back into into, too, tempted back by infested Space Hulks and giant mechs.
I've also just found the recipe for the underwater base starter plate, and am now tempted to find a water world so I can build a giant, sprawling underwater base...
I think at some point the game will throw a whole questline about it at you? I actually stopped playing while in the middle of it.
I think that’s where I am. I need three of something chlorine to build the bay, though, and I haven’t had time to go hunting for some, yet.
I liked the bases in Subnautica, so I’m looking forward to seeing what you can make in this.
Holy shit. The game has multiplayer now!? Like legit "join and meet other players for co-op missions" multiplayer. God damn. If this game was allowed to release in Early Access. . .(I actually enjoyed this game for HOURS on the PS4 so I was all in despite the undelivered - at the time - hype).
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Somewhat of a newbie question hopefully someone can answer...
Trying to farm nanites by buying/scrapping ships like I saw in a few guides. Problem is, they showed using the shop storage upgrades you get to raise the value of a ship and make back your money so you can do it indefinitely. For me though, the value of the ships isn't going up when I add the upgrades, so I'm just steadily spending money. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
Also. I lucked into a system that is steadily spawning an exotic at the space station, so that's kind of nice...
Are you using crashed ships to do this? All of those broken components in a crashed ship severely reduce the value.
Nope. Sit at a space station buying and scrapping cheap B+ class ships, then you're supposed to be able to apply a bunch of storage augments to a single ship to raise its value before scrapping it to get back the money you lost from the other ones. For some reason applying augments isn't raising value for me though.
Apparently derelicts have a symbol on them that shows what kind of upgrade they will give if you choose that option at the end.
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If I build a base with a bunch of landing platforms, will NPC ships land on them, or do they only use platforms present at Trading Posts / Space Stations?
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Apparently derelicts have a symbol on them that shows what kind of upgrade they will give if you choose that option at the end.
I'd probably bank the derelict maps for now, because the current experimental branch is implementing schematics for house decorations based on some of the furniture in the derelicts and you can only get those schematics from derelicts.
They're also fixing a really annoying bug that can happen on live where a particular piece of furniture can spawn in the middle of a hallway and block your progress.
There's a subreddit called NMS Coordinate Exchange
I use it to find cool ship and multitool locations... considering it's ALL random, i find it 100% valid.
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I've heard that Helios gives a free Derelict beacon every week, but he never has one when I visit. Do I have to buy a beacon from the Scrap Dealer first?
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I've heard that Helios gives a free Derelict beacon every week, but he never has one when I visit. Do I have to buy a beacon from the Scrap Dealer first?
Maybe? I couldn't get one from him until the first weekend event after the patch hit, but I did buy one before that as well.
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The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
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So I'm at the point in the Artemis quest where you have to find a portal, but everytime I use the indicated monolith my game CTD.
I even know where a portal is! But the quest won't advance when I go there.
Oh well. Lots of other things to do.
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I've heard that Helios gives a free Derelict beacon every week, but he never has one when I visit. Do I have to buy a beacon from the Scrap Dealer first?
You have to go on one scrap dealer adventure for Helios's receivers to unlock, yes.
So apparently the final leg of the living ship quests always sends you to a specific planet in Euclid via stargate portal. So of course if you have online mode activated, there are player bases all over the planet.
In fact, as soon as you step out of the portal you're greeted with this
A single storage unit connected to a mining farm in the distance that was loaded with 150k Indium.
So I'm at the point in the Artemis quest where you have to find a portal, but everytime I use the indicated monolith my game CTD.
I even know where a portal is! But the quest won't advance when I go there.
Oh well. Lots of other things to do.
usually the easiest resolution for this kind of glitch is to go to another part of the galaxy (maybe through the nexus these days? you used to just jump into someone else's world) then restart the quest in the quest log, which is an option when you're too far from its original location
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Iron WeaselDillon!You son of a bitch!Registered Userregular
So I'm at the point in the Artemis quest where you have to find a portal, but everytime I use the indicated monolith my game CTD.
I even know where a portal is! But the quest won't advance when I go there.
Oh well. Lots of other things to do.
usually the easiest resolution for this kind of glitch is to go to another part of the galaxy (maybe through the nexus these days? you used to just jump into someone else's world) then restart the quest in the quest log, which is an option when you're too far from its original location
Oh my goodness thank you so much for this tip. I couldn't advance any of the main quests because of the glitch and I was about to abandon my playthrough.
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So apparently the final leg of the living ship quests always sends you to a specific planet in Euclid via stargate portal. So of course if you have online mode activated, there are player bases all over the planet.
In fact, as soon as you step out of the portal you're greeted with this
A single storage unit connected to a mining farm in the distance that was loaded with 150k Indium.
I'm glad you explained, because I was trying to figure out what the hell UNCLIUM was.
This game has one of the coolest and nicest communities i've ever seen.
The part of the community that plays the game is super nice and helpful and sweet. The part of the community that doesn't play is still enraged about the launch, and they attempt to derail as many conversations about the game with their toxic bullshit as they can. It's a weird fuckin thing to experience
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This game has one of the coolest and nicest communities i've ever seen.
The part of the community that plays the game is super nice and helpful and sweet. The part of the community that doesn't play is still enraged about the launch, and they attempt to derail as many conversations about the game with their toxic bullshit as they can. It's a weird fuckin thing to experience
I'm not sure if it's fair to call the contingent of always angry not-players "part of the community". They're more like the antithesis outside the player community that just wants to burn the creators in effigy (or in person) for all eternity to soothe their own disappointment and feeling of being cheated.
Like, I don't consider the people who constantly complain about every little thing in the Star Wars canon as part of the Star Wars community either, any more than "concerned parents against violent video games" are part of the video game playing community, or atheists are part of the Christian community.
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This game has one of the coolest and nicest communities i've ever seen.
The part of the community that plays the game is super nice and helpful and sweet. The part of the community that doesn't play is still enraged about the launch, and they attempt to derail as many conversations about the game with their toxic bullshit as they can. It's a weird fuckin thing to experience
I'm not sure if it's fair to call the contingent of always angry not-players "part of the community". They're more like the antithesis outside the player community that just wants to burn the creators in effigy (or in person) for all eternity to soothe their own disappointment and feeling of being cheated.
Like, I don't consider the people who constantly complain about every little thing in the Star Wars canon as part of the Star Wars community either, any more than "concerned parents against violent video games" are part of the video game playing community, or atheists are part of the Christian community.
True, but the people I'm talking about continuously inhabit the same online spaces as the players and just shit on the game every chance they get. Unless my view of things are skewed, which is very possible, but any online place to discuss NMS seems to have posts talking about how great the game and how it has positively impacted their life next to posts talking about how the game is shit from a butt and Sean Murray is worse than Hitler.
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VR with the HUD off remains so god damn immersive, even in the blurry PSVR. i really wish you could play the whole game this way, and with some work arounds you can at least get out of the starting system (probably technically, by extension, the centre) but there are still bad graphical glitches for me in space and the quests are a no-go. kinda just want a 'skip tutorial' option... and some in-cockpit quest indicators maybe?
anyway i can't really overstate how this way of playing improves the game. when you're on foot without distractions the planets really feel unique, even within the more prescriptive biomes post-NEXT, and exploration is exhilarating when you know you can easily get lost and die
this was a beautiful ice world with immense caves. i struck out too far to ever find my ship, and never came across so much as a save point after a couple of hours. i was in a rhythm by the end and could have kept going, to find some way to trade for a crude ship, but the family came home :bigfrown:
https://youtu.be/cxhBTSt0oiI
this was from today's much more successful run. started on another ice world with big, distinct rock formations so i could orient myself easily. the ship was close by, and so was a transmission tower; it seems like any shack you find once you've found your ship will yield the hermetic seal. off the ground i checked out the puzzle's crash site - lo and behold, a crashed hauler with a trade value of 9 million. so within an hour i'd traced the highway lines to a trading post and picked up an A-class shuttle with 27 slots. then i headed to the first off-planet quest marker:
https://youtu.be/xrCSVdFstfY
I got to the new galaxy and promptly died because all my tools were broken and I couldn't get to/build a shelter in time. Still, the achievement was the whole point.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
yeah lol this happened to me.
Also kinda sucks, but I keep finding derelicts randomly (Not using any items) but they can't be boarded in that instance. It seems only when you pay the 5 mil funbux.
Also had this happen. I thought it just meant the old ones are still in too.
Has anyone found any explore-able derelict at random? Or are we literally restricted to 5mil purchases and the weekly free one from Helios?
-edit-
And the ones from asteroids.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
edit: space combat is way harder, but the visceral feeling of controlling the ship as you take off and cruise over planets is amazing too
I didn’t know there was a free weekly one, I’ll check for that.
I’m playing after a hiatus, I didn’t realize there was already derelicts in the game. That makes more sense then.
I’m assuming by the asteroid ones you mean when breaking them and getting maps? I have done that and it still gave me a non-interactive derelict.
I've found an explorable derelict after 4/5 runs with the asteroid "anomaly detectors".
I've also just found the recipe for the underwater base starter plate, and am now tempted to find a water world so I can build a giant, sprawling underwater base...
I think at some point the game will throw a whole questline about it at you? I actually stopped playing while in the middle of it.
PSN = PessimistMaximus
I think that’s where I am. I need three of something chlorine to build the bay, though, and I haven’t had time to go hunting for some, yet.
I liked the bases in Subnautica, so I’m looking forward to seeing what you can make in this.
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20 slots in the storage containers now.
IM IN HEAVEN.
Trying to farm nanites by buying/scrapping ships like I saw in a few guides. Problem is, they showed using the shop storage upgrades you get to raise the value of a ship and make back your money so you can do it indefinitely. For me though, the value of the ships isn't going up when I add the upgrades, so I'm just steadily spending money. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
Also. I lucked into a system that is steadily spawning an exotic at the space station, so that's kind of nice...
PSN = PessimistMaximus
Nope. Sit at a space station buying and scrapping cheap B+ class ships, then you're supposed to be able to apply a bunch of storage augments to a single ship to raise its value before scrapping it to get back the money you lost from the other ones. For some reason applying augments isn't raising value for me though.
PSN = PessimistMaximus
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
The Division, Warframe (XB1)
GT: Tanith 6227
I'd probably bank the derelict maps for now, because the current experimental branch is implementing schematics for house decorations based on some of the furniture in the derelicts and you can only get those schematics from derelicts.
They're also fixing a really annoying bug that can happen on live where a particular piece of furniture can spawn in the middle of a hallway and block your progress.
Getting it outfitted with some tech modules next.
Also made this lovely base, which is so far pumping out 133k units of Activated Indium every 5 hours.
I use it to find cool ship and multitool locations... considering it's ALL random, i find it 100% valid.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
The Division, Warframe (XB1)
GT: Tanith 6227
Maybe? I couldn't get one from him until the first weekend event after the patch hit, but I did buy one before that as well.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
I even know where a portal is! But the quest won't advance when I go there.
Oh well. Lots of other things to do.
The Division, Warframe (XB1)
GT: Tanith 6227
You have to go on one scrap dealer adventure for Helios's receivers to unlock, yes.
In fact, as soon as you step out of the portal you're greeted with this
A single storage unit connected to a mining farm in the distance that was loaded with 150k Indium.
usually the easiest resolution for this kind of glitch is to go to another part of the galaxy (maybe through the nexus these days? you used to just jump into someone else's world) then restart the quest in the quest log, which is an option when you're too far from its original location
The Division, Warframe (XB1)
GT: Tanith 6227
I'm glad you explained, because I was trying to figure out what the hell UNCLIUM was.
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The part of the community that plays the game is super nice and helpful and sweet. The part of the community that doesn't play is still enraged about the launch, and they attempt to derail as many conversations about the game with their toxic bullshit as they can. It's a weird fuckin thing to experience
I'm not sure if it's fair to call the contingent of always angry not-players "part of the community". They're more like the antithesis outside the player community that just wants to burn the creators in effigy (or in person) for all eternity to soothe their own disappointment and feeling of being cheated.
Like, I don't consider the people who constantly complain about every little thing in the Star Wars canon as part of the Star Wars community either, any more than "concerned parents against violent video games" are part of the video game playing community, or atheists are part of the Christian community.
True, but the people I'm talking about continuously inhabit the same online spaces as the players and just shit on the game every chance they get. Unless my view of things are skewed, which is very possible, but any online place to discuss NMS seems to have posts talking about how great the game and how it has positively impacted their life next to posts talking about how the game is shit from a butt and Sean Murray is worse than Hitler.