No Man's Sky
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Mist
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I didn't really do any base building either, there's plenty to do in the game. You do have to craft lots of modules to upgrade your ship and freighter to advance in the game. The game is about finding materials to upgrade your ship so you can go to progressively more hostile solar systems and planets to get... more materials. There's lots of procedurally generated quests to do along the way, along with a storyline to follow that acts like an extension of the tutorial.
McCheese
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I picked this up the other day and I'm really enjoying it.
I assume the story moves you along to walk through certain necessities, like using the mining tool and whatnot. I just built and installed my hyperdrive. At what point can/should I say screw it and just go do my own thing? Is there anything useful down the line if I keep following the tutorial/story?
I assume the story moves you along to walk through certain necessities, like using the mining tool and whatnot. I just built and installed my hyperdrive. At what point can/should I say screw it and just go do my own thing? Is there anything useful down the line if I keep following the tutorial/story?
Erronius
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I just started myself. Not a fan of the inventory wrangling so far.
Got a mission to find a depot. It said "6 hours". I was like "on foot? How does it even calculate that time? Surely it won't take me 6 hours"
Now I'm close enough that it says "5 hours" and I have an inventory stuffed with valuables, but I'm debating if I should run all the way back to try getting my ship and flying there, or toughing it out.
Got a mission to find a depot. It said "6 hours". I was like "on foot? How does it even calculate that time? Surely it won't take me 6 hours"
Now I'm close enough that it says "5 hours" and I have an inventory stuffed with valuables, but I'm debating if I should run all the way back to try getting my ship and flying there, or toughing it out.
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Erronius
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That's what I ended up doing. I found some sort of trade depot after a while, and I'd managed to find some nav data during my wandering so I was able to spend that on the ship summon.
So with Sentinels...if you keep fighting them and your wanted rank gets pretty high, will the game keep spawning endless waves of them, or will they stop if/when you manage to kill the highest tier wave? At one point I was being chased by a mob of flyers/quads/biped walkers that just wouldn't leash (I'm guessing higher tier mobs may not leash at all) after killing some of the floaters, and I just reloaded the save I made right before I agro'ed them (shooting at locked factory door).
It was def just easier breaking LOS and letting them forget about me, and then getting inside to the terminal.
I'm not very far along yet and I see there's some stuff that might involve killing sentinels (mercenary stuff?) but I'm guessing I'd either need to find a planet that won't spawn giant walker sentinels (sentinel activity per planet?) or I'm really going to need to gear up for combat.
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Gankak
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When you get the weapons guy for your base his quest line ends with you killing sentinels until you get a walker and kill that. Otherwise for the most part they are a mere annoyance on planets when you are trying to get resources
Threelions
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Is there a better way to view the layout of the system you're in? I know you can open up the discovery tab to show the planets, but it doesn't show how they're laid out or their position relative to yours, and the system view in the galaxy map shows a layout, but doesn't let you select anything in it.
Erronius
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They fix the issue with base sizes? I may have asked long time ago, I forget. Used to be once you went over a certain amount of space used on bases, some would have terrain fill in, especially underground type bases.
Honestly what broke the game for me, I seem to recall it persisted after switching galaxies too, even though I no longer had access to those bases. I liked to build shit, think I needed to edit a file or mod to fix it.
Still impressed they keep updating the game years later, and not a single DLC.
Honestly what broke the game for me, I seem to recall it persisted after switching galaxies too, even though I no longer had access to those bases. I liked to build shit, think I needed to edit a file or mod to fix it.
Still impressed they keep updating the game years later, and not a single DLC.
Erronius
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God Damn, they really need in-client draw distance adjustment so you don't have to rely on mods.
I turned down my first free freighter. Supposedly after you warp around some, you'll get a shot at a true capital freighter? I'm not in a hurry but I guess I'll see.
I didn't even think about going to a planet for salvage drops, until I realized how much money I made just digging up and selling a few while exploring.
I turned down my first free freighter. Supposedly after you warp around some, you'll get a shot at a true capital freighter? I'm not in a hurry but I guess I'll see.
I didn't even think about going to a planet for salvage drops, until I realized how much money I made just digging up and selling a few while exploring.