That wasn't my experience at all. I had little buggers wherever I went.
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No Man's Sky Companions Update - Trailer
- Thread starter Ausroachman
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That wasn't my experience at all. I had little buggers wherever I went.
The game is an open world survival sandbox. There are definite main story questlines to work towards particularly the Awakenings and Atlas Path quest lines. But they serve mainly as tutorials/guides on the various systems of the game rather than real structured story content. That being said as a sci-fi nerd and someone who has played NMS since day 1 I actually dug the lore which they turned into sort of a meta narrative.
The start of the game is a little on rails even though they plop you into a random star system. Once you get past the first 5-10 hours or so it really opens up. The core of the game comes down to playing it how you enjoy it. There are a lot of treadmills to work on and you can kind of focus on whichever one you please. There's a fleet management mechanic, ship, suit, and weapon upgrades to hunt for, cosmetics for your ship, base, and character you can earn. Many people enjoy the base building and farming aspect to amass massive amounts of wealth so they can buy whatever ship, weapon, or upgrades they want, others focus on the exploration aspect looking for idyllic planets for bases or specific types of animals (which this update seems to double down on.), you can go on dino bone excavating expeditions, or be more combat focussed. Personally I like to dabble in all the systems but never really go super deep into one.
Thanks for this super thorough explanation! I really do think this is something I would love, I just need to get through some of the other huge open world games I have on my backlog before I feel like I can jump into something like this.
Can I ask a general question here? About upgrades modules? I sort of spent early days hunting S class modules til I had maxed my capacity. My Jetpack jump is great, etc.
does the hunt end at getting S-class or do the actual details /specs on the S-class mod make any tangible difference? Am I going to find an S-class jet pack mod one day that handles significantly differently (stats-wise) than the S-class mod I already have installed?
Like, should I look for BETTER Analysis visor S mods to make even better money?
does the hunt end at getting S-class or do the actual details /specs on the S-class mod make any tangible difference? Am I going to find an S-class jet pack mod one day that handles significantly differently (stats-wise) than the S-class mod I already have installed?
Like, should I look for BETTER Analysis visor S mods to make even better money?
Is there a youtube summary anywhere going over all the improvements since launch? Supposedly this is a completely different game?
The PS5 version is maxed out graphics, 4K and 60 FPS with DualSense support and very fast loading . If you can't max it out on PC and don't have a SSD and want to enjoy DS features, PS activities, PS VR and 3D Audio, then maybe you want to consider the PS5 version. I still think it will land free through PS Plus some day though.
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Nexus. MP hub/lobby that is freely accessible to summon when in outer space off-planet.
Don't forget tailored VR settings too. Will probably be even more optimized for the next psvr
Personally only the visors are worth meddling with additional S-rank "rolls"
Not really worth going out of your way for, but if you're bored it's a thing you can do lol
So, with the variety of animals it appears that not all of the animations have been ironed out. I managed to tame a 'Turtle Dog' (my own discovery) which is a large shelled dog looking thing, but when I go to ride it I end up sitting hovering on top of its head.
It looks hilarious. I'll try to get a photo tonight.
It looks hilarious. I'll try to get a photo tonight.
Finally able to play. My first pet, auto-named Bovidoop. Perfectly named and I'm in love already lol.
Heads up, they've added LOTS of new pieces for fauna so even animals you've 'discovered' already are re-rolled with new pieces or completely just new creatures.... like Bovidoop here. I was just looking at my most recent explored planets and was surprised by how many new creatures/pieces there were.
The PC of No Man's Sky is definitely the definitive version and there's no cross-save.
I wish they would move on and start a sequel or whatever so that we can get some next-gen level stuff. I want to see stuff they probably can't do as easily on last-gen hardware like biomes, HUGE canyons/mountains, smarter creatures, etc.
I did play this quite a bit back in 2016, but ended up putting it aside waiting for updates and just never got back at it. Now, tried to get back at it with the PS5 but there is. so. much. content! and things to do that I got really overwhelmed and just stopped playing again.
I'm not saying that the increase in content is bad, it is absolutely not, specially seeing the state the game came out. But I didn't find a way to explore and advance in the game without the impression that I was doing everything wrong, missing important stuff and going on cluelessly about things... so, in the end, pushed it aside yet again.
I'm not saying that the increase in content is bad, it is absolutely not, specially seeing the state the game came out. But I didn't find a way to explore and advance in the game without the impression that I was doing everything wrong, missing important stuff and going on cluelessly about things... so, in the end, pushed it aside yet again.
I know exactly what you mean. I love space games, but NMS is kind of messy and overwhelming in its presentation. I never can get into the mood of calm space/planet exploration, because there are a hundred different things/tasks being thrown at me, and keeping track of everything is kind of daunting.
Haven't feature introductions been spread out over a number of updates?
I really want to play this, but its a no go on PS4. It makes such an astonishing noise that even headphones can't cover the fans so I guess I'll just wait until I eventually get a PS5 to play it properly.
Sure, but they have been able to do so many post-launch support updates because each update brings in new players/buyers. A new player jumping in now is inundated with pop ups, prompts, and required tutorials.
It's the Destiny 2 and GTA Online problem. Great if you were there day one to follow along. Good if you have friends to drag you along. Overwhelming and confusing and off-putting if you're just showing up.
Probably depends on the stack you have of any given mod. If you have 3 S-mods for a given tech and they all show roughly the same stats level, you're probably maxed and can't do much more there. But if you have 3 S-mods with some significant variance in stats, there might still be worth a hunt to get the lower two to max out like the highest.
And there's also certain traders in the game who sell X-class mods now...which will apparently very rarely go higher than S-class. But shit's like playing the lottery.
They've apparently fixed this in the latest patch that came out in the past 24 hrs.
Exactly what Unicorn said. Started from zero again in December, knowing the basics survive -> explore -> fix ship -> go to space -> craft things and jump to another system intro from my early days. But as soon as I got this done, a wild variety of pop-ups kept showing and directing me towards a number of things that I initially thought were connected, since I assumed the game was presenting me only with quests that I was able to tackle at that time, but now, as I understand it, seems like the systems just unlock all at once, and good luck to you trying to understand them all.
Back to my playthrough: lost track of what I was doing when the barrage fell, tried to make sense of what was my priority to build a station because I had found a nice planet... but then, "hey, have you noticed this huge space freighter? It's yours because you saved from space pirates!", oh, that's nice, I think and next thing is "Now, go after a tangent for 10 hours so you can fully recruit crew and send your fleet to missions!"; "Oh do you wanna recruit me? Hey, sorry, you don't have a science lab or something at your freighter/base, so no deal"; so you go after building those things, which is quite a grind for a newcommer; "Ah, I see you have some blueprints to improve your ship and freighter, which would help you to no end, but nope, you have to grind for this, so here it's a massive time consuming materials scavenge hunt for you (this, as I understand, isn't that bad when you have ways to mine things, but as a newcommer? Though)"; Oh, you wanna check this system out? Full of exotic planets? Oh sorry, you should really have had upgraded your gear like 45 hours ago. "Hey, I see you are close to a body of water, what do you think about building a under water base? And a sub? Go fetch those things!"; "Hum, so you have found some piece of lore? How about 30 hours searching for ruins/monolits?"; "Have you ever got around to get missions on the space station?"; "I see you wanna open that crate and door, but you forgot to unlock your Atlas Pass buddy, sorry"...
Sorry for the wall of text, but it serves a purpose: it is how NMS feel now to a newbie and all those things happen basically at the same time.
It's like this all the time. It's impossible. Feels really overwhelming, the UI isn't that clear to keep track of things and you don't get a particular sense of structure, of what is more important, or crucially: what should I do first so that I can progress whenever I choose to follow anyone of those tangents? Because worse than being sufocated by stuff to do you can't understand, is trying to do them only to find you really shouldn't because you are still under equipped to tackle those tasks.
The "let's now start building the under water base" thing was my breaking point.
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There's not much to walk-through. Walk up to most land-bound creatures and if you see the option to feed them, do it. While they feed, interact again and a menu appears that shows the option to adopt as a pet. You do need to have crafted the pellets that are used as food.
great. Is feeding them afterwards the o my requirement? Can they die from starvation etc?
Finally have an egg - really dumb they need to be on a planet of their preferred biome to lay the egg. That isn't explained anywhere and could lead to frustration.
Also these 24 hour timers are so dumb. They were dumb with the living ship, they were dumb when they multiplied them 10x for frigate expeditions, and they are dumb now. 24 hours to lay an egg regardless of how well I treat my tamagotchi. 24 hours to hatch an egg regardless of how I experiment with it, and I hear even longer timers for maturation (that'd less dumb, I guess).
Just feels barebones in implementation when a pellet is enough to claim them. A couple pats back to back enough to max happiness. A pellet or two to fill their hunger. Just so weird to have some functions be near immediate and some functions are hyperbolically long.
Also these 24 hour timers are so dumb. They were dumb with the living ship, they were dumb when they multiplied them 10x for frigate expeditions, and they are dumb now. 24 hours to lay an egg regardless of how well I treat my tamagotchi. 24 hours to hatch an egg regardless of how I experiment with it, and I hear even longer timers for maturation (that'd less dumb, I guess).
Just feels barebones in implementation when a pellet is enough to claim them. A couple pats back to back enough to max happiness. A pellet or two to fill their hunger. Just so weird to have some functions be near immediate and some functions are hyperbolically long.
No, they'll just get moody. I think it can affect their overall trust as well.
