Game Discussions The No Man's Sky Thread

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
Okay, I've given it another go (I usually do after each big update) and I have to say I'm quite enjoying it this time around. Spent last two days playing mostly this.
I didn't try VR, mainly because I'm lazy and I don't want to re-learn controls and naturally I didn't try multiplayer, because it's not my "thing". (I've noticed some other players at the Anomaly, which I reckon is a matchmaking hub, now)
I'm really enjoying it.

I agree with Viajero that the grind is the game, in this case, as it is in all survival/crafting games, but it doesn't feel grindy as long as you know what you're grinding and where, which, in some cases, the game has trouble conveying to you, though.

For example I need the Storm Crystal, I know I should look on a planet with extreme conditions, but so far, unless I really need to drill the damn thing completely through, I have no idea how to find it. Which is frustrating and DOES feel grindy.

Other than that, I have to say I keep getting impressed by HG and their dedication to make this game work at which they have pretty much succeeded at this point.
 

Old Duck

Old Duck
MickyG1982 said:
Well, what I can say is On Xbox, it's buggy as all hell, pop in is horrible, frame rate is choppy hitting 30fps only some of the time. Stations, whole stations disappear in multiplayer and when I restarted & loaded up my save file I was moved from where my ship was parked into space above a heavily populated planet that I had never been to. The only way around this was to start the game again as a single player then invite my friendback in (this placed me in the correct place & loaded up the station I was parked at). About an hour later the same thing happened to my friend in another space station at that point we gave up. To give it it's due I played a few hours on my own today the only real issues I had were the choppy frame rate, slow pop in of textures, and flashing textures / HUD. Other than that, It worked OK.

So, this evening I tried on my laptop, previously I could play on medium settings & all was well, now, standard (in other words the lowest settings available) is the only option available to me, pushing it any higher has a catastrophic effect on frame rate (think single digits). Additionally, again, pop in of objects is horrible, oh & now my xbox controller does not work properly yet was working perfectly well previously. I want to like this game, I really do but it is trying everything in it's power to put me off at the moment.
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Huh. After the latest update, it runs super smooth on the PS4 Slim, but the pop in you speak of is distracting. It seems worse than it was before the update, with grass visibly growing in front of me as I walk. So I came here to ask if draw distances were significantly better on PC, but from your post, I guess not.
 

Rat Catcher

Rat Catcher
Old Duck said:
Huh. After the latest update, it runs super smooth on the PS4 Slim, but the pop in you speak of is distracting. It seems worse than it was before the update, with grass visibly growing in front of me as I walk. So I came here to ask if draw distances were significantly better on PC, but from your post, I guess not.
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The specs of the laptop are pretty minimal that he was playing on... 1050/ 2GB Vram is bottom end really. On my PC (1080/8GB Vram) pop-in is not too noticable and playing pancake in 4k LOD is very good. Setting up VR to be reasonable is a bit of a task, but hopefully will be better optimised in the 'near' future :)

I'll have to load it on my laptop and have a look - just means I'd have to use a controller until they fix the keybindings...

ETA: On the laptop 'grass grows' at a distance, not quite at my feet but in the near distance enough to notice it - I'll have to play around with the settings a little. Performance at 1080p is fine - I have yet to try it 'native 3K'.
Actually the laptop seems to be drawing the same distance as main PC - so not that far really... Now back to VR to see...
 
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Viajero

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Viajero
Chris Simon said:
Okay, I've given it another go (I usually do after each big update) and I have to say I'm quite enjoying it this time around. Spent last two days playing mostly this.
I didn't try VR, mainly because I'm lazy and I don't want to re-learn controls and naturally I didn't try multiplayer, because it's not my "thing". (I've noticed some other players at the Anomaly, which I reckon is a matchmaking hub, now)
I'm really enjoying it.

I agree with Viajero that the grind is the game, in this case, as it is in all survival/crafting games, but it doesn't feel grindy as long as you know what you're grinding and where, which, in some cases, the game has trouble conveying to you, though.

For example I need the Storm Crystal, I know I should look on a planet with extreme conditions, but so far, unless I really need to drill the damn thing completely through, I have no idea how to find it. Which is frustrating and DOES feel grindy.

Other than that, I have to say I keep getting impressed by HG and their dedication to make this game work at which they have pretty much succeeded at this point.
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One think I like a lot is that all items descriptions tell you in detail where you can get them and what they are used for. Obviously going to the wiki and other external tools will tell you much more but at least there is a basic way in game to find out. The new research trees complement that as well very nicely.
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
Viajero said:
One think I like a lot is that all items descriptions tell you in detail where you can get them and what they are used for. Obviously going to the wiki and other external tools will tell you much more but at least there is a basic way in game to find out. The new research trees complement that as well very nicely.
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Yeah. The fact that you can "pin a blueprint" and it basically guides you to the mats is great. (unless, like in my case with the storm crystals, it is too vague to really be of any use) I'm using that a lot when slavaging ship wrecks. I've never paid for a single ship - every one I own I found, repaired and pimped out myself and I love it.

I haven't really gotten myself into the building, though. I plan to, but as I jump around a lot, I don't really feel the need to settle down somewhere. The little building I did, I did on my flag ship.
 

Han Zulu

Han Zulu
Ian Skippy said:
Yeah, been reported since Beyond landed. There are cheats floating around that allow you to 1-shot people, even if they have player damage disabled. A bit of a bummer for perma-death characters.
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The 1-shot kill cheat I can see being done, not sure how the player damage fell through the cracks though. It's probably safer not to use the MP nexus and join fire teams as of yet, until these issues are sorted out.
 

Jezzah

Jezzah
Quick question on the sentinels as I'm being a bit of a coward as I'm playing on Survival.

When I kill one more turn up...does it get to a point where they give up and no more turn up or does it get ridiculous difficult?
 

GraphiteGB

GraphiteGB
Jezzah said:
Quick question on the sentinels as I'm being a bit of a coward as I'm playing on Survival.

When I kill one more turn up...does it get to a point where they give up and no more turn up or does it get ridiculous difficult?
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Walkers turn up at level 4 and 5 and thats as hard as they get... there is no level 6 it just ends ...
You get the little dog machine at level 3 he can return with the walker for level 5 instead of two walkers now...
If you don't kill the little hover versions they can heal the others after you damage them...
Walker hearts Brain are still offered for a walker kill.... (shoot the dropped item)
 
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Han Zulu

Han Zulu
Jezzah said:
Quick question on the sentinels as I'm being a bit of a coward as I'm playing on Survival.

When I kill one more turn up...does it get to a point where they give up and no more turn up or does it get ridiculous difficult?
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The way to get away from them is to either jump into your ship and fly for a minute or so, until the counter goes to zero. Don't fly out in space though, since they can send the sentinel capital ship for you.

The other way is to hide in a building until the time goes out.
 

BlackSpaceCowboy

BlackSpaceCowboy
Ratkatcher said:
This won't work in VR as the controllers currently can't be assigned 🤬

Will try it later :)
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I had some good experiences with the flight controls in VR. My arm was resting on the armrest and my hand was attached to the VR flight stick but my hand was physically above the stick. I could control the ship really well by moving my wrist side to side or up and down. It worked really well.
 

Flimley

Flimley
A little update to previous post....
Very patiently downloaded steam and NMS yesterday, then, steam VR. Set up the Oculus controllers and second sensor....
Decided to place it all on my ‘D’ drive(HD), which, isn’t ideal but ‘C’ drive is full. So that fact in conjunction with some users reporting problems in VR on PC I wasn’t expecting too much. However, and amazingly it runs perfectly smooth so far. (Who would of thought)! No idea what I am doing currently in game but wow using touch controllers is super fun.

Flimley
 

Han Zulu

Han Zulu
So I tried to figure out how to fire the mining laser in VR in the Nomad. I have it installed and it works in flat-mode, but I just can't figure out what button to use in the VR.
 

GraphiteGB

GraphiteGB
Han Zulu said:
So I tried to figure out how to fire the mining laser in VR in the Nomad. I have it installed and it works in flat-mode, but I just can't figure out what button to use in the VR.
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Not sure its the same on PC VR but you have to "PICK IT UP" this means moving your right hand to the location of your multi tool and pick it up of your body...
Edit = Confirmed still the same on PC, right hand over right shoulder...
 
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Han Zulu

Han Zulu
GraphiteGB said:
Not sure its the same on PC VR but you have to "PICK IT UP" this means moving your right hand to the location of your multi tool and pick it up of your body...
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You mean it's the same as when you get the multitool on foot, from the backpack? That's weird. Why would the mining laser in the vehicle be in the backpack? I'll try it later.

Or is it some special handle/button in the vehicle that I need to pick up? I tried to find something to grab but nothing responded.
 

GraphiteGB

GraphiteGB
Han Zulu said:
You mean it's the same as when you get the multitool on foot, from the backpack? That's weird. Why would the mining laser in the vehicle be in the backpack? I'll try it later.

Or is it some special handle/button in the vehicle that I need to pick up? I tried to find something to grab but nothing responded.
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You did not state in the transports... Mining lasers is built in to the multi tool on foot..
Which transport
Ship
or
Exocraft...
 
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