No Man's Sky (PS4, PC)

[bdoughty]

The free freighter will be available soon enough. It is a story mission that should pop when you warp (maybe more than once) and it will toss you into a firefight around a freighter. Glad you found that multi-tool. Remember in those hazardous planets there are some options available to extend your time roving around (not just suit upgrades to better deal with each type of storm/rads, etc). You can teleport your ship to you if it is far away by pressing up or down on the d-pad (forget which) and selecting the plane. Also with the terrain tool you can dig down and then sideways to get yourself out of a storm. I always keep a refiner on me in my inventory as it is a great place (underground) to wait out a storm and get some work done.

Back to looking for a base planet. Thought I had a winner but it was night and when day hit I saw that the whole planet was filled with tiny rocks on the ground everywhere and would be a pain to build in. Game has a weirdly small draw distance and it looks like if you travel just a bit there are no rocks but they slowly pop in.

[SmoothPancakes]

Yeah, I'll definitely be abandoning this system I'm in when I get my hyperdrive up and running. All four planets suck. One boiling planet, one frozen planet and two caustic planets.

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[bdoughty]

And with going from planet 2 to space station to planet 2 to space station to planet 1 to space station back to planet 2, thank God for asteroids around planet 2 being full of Tritium as I had almost entirely drained my pulse engine fuel. Thanks to 15 minutes of blasting asteroids, I've got a nice little 500 count stockpile of Tritium built back up.

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Eventually you will come across a material called Pyrite, which will replace Tritium as your material of choice for pulse engine fuel. It is like Uranium where it takes very small amounts to fill up the pulse engine. Another tip is to remember to go to the vendor on the far left of the scan-tool salesman. There is a drop pod, so to speak, where you can upgrade your suit slots for units and not have to worry about finding a bunch of materials to open it up like you find on a planet. You can upgrade suit slots, cargo (higher capacity suit slots) and tech slots. If you have not customized your player, there is a computer to the left of it to customize the look and change colors, etc of your suit.

[jaymo76]

After only 25 warps and 50+ planets I found my planet for the main base. Have yet to have any storms but it is a winter planet that stays clod enough I need to upgrade my suit to stay out for more than five minutes. Is a snow packed planet and you hear that blissful crunching of snow as you walk around it.

I have a secondary planet that I am considering using for a Western Themed base. The planet is almost a carbon copy of the Red Dead Redemption Armadillo part of the map. Hot as hell during the day, cold at night and dust storms.

Now the game truly begins.

We need to see some pictures/videos of this base. It sounds pretty cool.

[jaymo76]

The free freighter will be available soon enough. It is a story mission that should pop when you warp (maybe more than once) and it will toss you into a firefight around a freighter. Glad you found that multi-tool. Remember in those hazardous planets there are some options available to extend your time roving around (not just suit upgrades to better deal with each type of storm/rads, etc). You can teleport your ship to you if it is far away by pressing up or down on the d-pad (forget which) and selecting the plane. Also with the terrain tool you can dig down and then sideways to get yourself out of a storm. I always keep a refiner on me in my inventory as it is a great place (underground) to wait out a storm and get some work done.

Back to looking for a base planet. Thought I had a winner but it was night and when day hit I saw that the whole planet was filled with tiny rocks on the ground everywhere and would be a pain to build in. Game has a weirdly small draw distance and it looks like if you travel just a bit there are no rocks but they slowly pop in.

I'm assuming that's only in story mode? If you play in the creative mode I don't think there are any storylines.

[SmoothPancakes]

Eventually you will come across a material called Pyrite, which will replace Tritium as your material of choice for pulse engine fuel. It is like Uranium where it takes very small amounts to fill up the pulse engine. Another tip is to remember to go to the vendor on the far left of the scan-tool salesman. There is a drop pod, so to speak, where you can upgrade your suit slots for units and not have to worry about finding a bunch of materials to open it up like you find on a planet. You can upgrade suit slots, cargo (higher capacity suit slots) and tech slots. If you have not customized your player, there is a computer to the left of it to customize the look and change colors, etc of your suit.

Yeah, haven't found any Pyrite yet. But at least I actually found some Tritium, so my pulse engine is full again and I still have some 530+ Tritium remaining.

I did visit all of the vendors and saw the upgrades for my exosuit and ship and stuff. I only bought the analyzer upgrade as I'm sort of hesitant to spend a bunch of my extremely limit nanite clusters.

Though I don't recall seeing a drop pod at the space station. Or the outpost.

I'm assuming that's only in story mode? If you play in the creative mode I don't think there are any storylines.

This I'm not sure. I've only ever played Normal Mode on this, but I'm tempted to start up a Creative Mode save where I can just fuck around and build extravagant bases and stuff. Lol, I spend more time in NMS and Fallout 4 building bases and building other stuff than I do actually playing the story.

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[SmoothPancakes]

One good thing this game and Ghost Recon Wildlands has shown me, it's time for a new controller. Vehicle acceleration in Wildlands using the right trigger has been a pain in the ass recently and using the right stick in NMS to turn the camera has been janky, clunky, laggy and slow as hell.

That and the battery doesn't last for shit anymore. It seems like the controller's dying within a couple hours of use. But, considering it's the same controller that came with the system when I bought it back in May 2014, yeah, probably time for a new controller.

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[souljahbill]

I got an alert on Twitter and promptly scooped myself a copy.



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[JBHuskers]

For those who hadn't jumped on it yet, $10 at Walmart for PS4.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/No-Man-s-...01466/50179422

[souljahbill]

For those who hadn't jumped on it yet, $10 at Walmart for PS4.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/No-Man-s-...01466/50179422

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[JBHuskers]

Yeah didn't see it right away. Trying to do many things at once.

[SmoothPancakes]

Well, I just discovered that my base is in primo position. I'm sitting just over 1,000u away from an abandoned building with whispering eggs up the ass.

First time, I parked a little bit away and destroyed an egg (but failed to pick up the larval core quick enough), before being chased by those terror things. Here I was expecting to be swarmed by those flying sentinels things, not goddamn monsters that pop up out of the ground suddenly.

I unloaded on them thinking I could just kill them and continue collecting goodies, only to realize they keep spawning faster than I can kill them. By that time, I had backed up so much to keep space between myself and them that I had to make a sprint to try and reach my ship, only to die right next to it.

So I respawned, grabbed my inventory, went back, destroyed another egg, actually grabbed the core this time and jumped in my ship and hauled ass out of there.

I've since got a nice little system down. Land my ship as close to on top of the whispering eggs as I can. Jump out, destroy egg, grab core, jump in ship, launch the fuck out of there, fly back to my base, wait a few seconds, fly back to the abandoned building, by which time all those things should have despawned, land, rinse, repeat.

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[SmoothPancakes]

Even better. After reading some comments on OS, I learned those little green fucks go away without having to fly away. Rather they go away after waiting enough time and a little encouragement from my bolt caster. Sweet! No more wasting my launch thrusters.

Already having 8 larval cores sitting in ship storage, enough open slots for another 27 eggs and enough resources to keep my hazard protection filled up while I hang out on the roof in between egg grabs.

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[SmoothPancakes]

Oh my god! This is so absurdly brilliant! When you find the whispering eggs, build a base computer. Put up walls around an entire nest of eggs. Go to a different nest, outside the walls, grab a core and spawn the terrors. THEN jetpack INSIDE the walls and collect all the cores from that nest of eggs. While the initial spawn of terrors, more won't spawn while you clean up wholesale inside the walled off and protected eggs!

I just cleaned house on 6 cores in less than 30 seconds!

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[SmoothPancakes]

Need suggestions.

After selling 40 of those cores for over 3.8 million units, I have 4.352 million units burning a hole in my pocket. Should I buy the Messenger of Storms multi-tool that's for sale at the space station (23 slot B-class rifle, +9% damage and +7% scanner for 2,764,500 units) or should I use all 4.3 million units towards trading someone at the space station for a shiny new and better ship?

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[SmoothPancakes]

I love this game! The anomalous broadcast mission took me directly to an abandoned building surrounded by more whispering eggs. Another 40-50 larval cores here I come!

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[SmoothPancakes]

Oh my god! This is so absurdly brilliant! When you find the whispering eggs, build a base computer. Put up walls around an entire nest of eggs. Go to a different nest, outside the walls, grab a core and spawn the terrors. THEN jetpack INSIDE the walls and collect all the cores from that nest of eggs. While the initial spawn of terrors, more won't spawn while you clean up wholesale inside the walled off and protected eggs!

I just cleaned house on 6 cores in less than 30 seconds!

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This method works like a dream. I put up walls around two different nests and triggered the terrors by grabbing one unprotected egg. Jetpacked inside the first set of walls, cleared an entire nest in less than 30 seconds, Jetpacked over to the second set of walls, cleared another nest in less than 30 seconds. 13 larval cores collected in less than a minute and never once in danger.

It does take some time setting up, since you have to build a giant box around the nests, and you may need to go collect a bunch of carbon if you don't already have at least 500 carbon on you, but once you have everything set and you're ready to collect, you can wipe out nests and rack up larval cores in seconds. Less than 2 minutes of actual time spent blasting eggs and collecting larval cores, and I already have 20 cores sitting in my inventory.

Edit - Lmao, I just wiped out three nests, another 17 larval cores, in less than two minutes, one a singe spawn of those things. I put one huge box around two nests and a smaller one around a third. Spawned those assholes, Jetpacked into the giant box, wiped out two nests in seconds, Jetpacked into the second box and wiped out the third before the initial spawn wave started disappearing. I've got 37 cores sitting in my inventory with another 13 eggs to blast.

Edit 2 - My total haul at the end of an easy day's work blasting whispering eggs - 47 larval cores worth a grand spanking total of $4,465,000 units.

[SmoothPancakes]

I randomly stumbled upon a drop pod tonight. Need ionized cobalt and one antimatter to repair the last two of the three broken sections for the suit upgrade. So to make it easy to find my way back upon collecting those, I set up a base computer right there so it'll be easy to find my way back.

Also stumbled upon my third building full of whispering eggs in just tonight's gameplay period after taking off flying from a monolith. Set up a base computer and saved for the night so I can immediately start building walls and collecting eggs tomorrow. Well, maybe after I visit the space station or a trading post as I'm still loaded down with the 47 larval cores from earlier.

Speaking of ionized cobalt, where the hell do you get cobalt? I know I've come across it once as I used to have some ionized cobalt in my inventory, but now that I need it for stuff, I can never find any.

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[bdoughty]

I'm assuming that's only in story mode? If you play in the creative mode I don't think there are any storylines.

Correct. The Atlas story line where I have already warped 80 times, so much that I have already flown past the final Atlas station and now I can only go toward the center. Once I figure out how to make everything needed I can go back with the teleporter.

Would love to give some pics but I still have not found a base yet. I have started a few but always found something I did not like about each. There is always something that prevents me from settling down. Mainly trying to find a S-Class scanner to go with my S-Class Ship. Already maxed out my suit, the tech slots and near the end of the cargo slots.

[SmoothPancakes]

Correct. The Atlas story line where I have already warped 80 times, so much that I have already flown past the final Atlas station and now I can only go toward the center. Once I figure out how to make everything needed I can go back with the teleporter.

Would love to give some pics but I still have not found a base yet. I have started a few but always found something I did not like about each. There is always something that prevents me from settling down. Mainly trying to find a S-Class scanner to go with my S-Class Ship. Already maxed out my suit, the tech slots and near the end of the cargo slots.

What's the a maximum exosuit slots? Because that suit upgrade thing on the space station unlocked the only locked general slot, so I now have 25 unlocked exosuit slots. Can there be more than that?

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