I got past the pinch-point, second time around, after finding more plants lying around in the new iteration.
Just the freighter that's proving elusive.
Just the freighter that's proving elusive.
Game Discussions The No Man's Sky Thread
- Thread starter Dull Bladerunner
- Start date
-
- Tags
Back in October I remarked how much NMS was now clicking with me. Unlike with other updates for the game, I didn't find myself putting the game down after a week or two but instead found myself going back to it again and again. Well, now it's December, and I am still playing the game. Frankly, it is now my preferred sci-fi game, displacing Elite. I made this startling discovery last night when I tried to get back into Elite but I found the experience not just ridiculously buggy (with eye-bleed inducing broken anti-aliasing that has persisted now for over 18-months), but also a sterile experience that "space legs" has done nothing to alleviate. More than anything this is what is driving me away from Elite. I don't feel like I belong in the galaxy; that I am little more than a passing ghost leaving no footprint behind. NMS, on the other hand, makes you feel like you are part of the galaxy, from the various denizens that happily greet you...
...to your faithful pets that are a joy to go exploring with (That is ol' Bloodina. She got big and fat!
):
Then you have your growing fleet of ships, and your bases with their staff, not to mention an entire town that will elect you mayor if you so desire! Everything in NMS seems to ground you in the game, to make you feel like you belong there. HG has added so much life and interactivity into the game that it feels closer to a SP MMO at this point (and a quasi-MMO when you join an expedition or Nexus mission).
Even space feels much more space-y to me now that they made a bunch of visual enhancements:
I was really hoping FDev would have taken Elite in this direction by now but...no. Elite feels as dry and lifeless as ever. This never bothered me much before because, well, there wasn't any real competition to the game, especially after NMS's disastrous launch. But now the game has changed (literally and figuratively) and Elite just feels lifeless to me and bug-ridden (to a regressive degree) by comparison to NMS. But most importantly of all, NMS feels friendly to me, like a mate that is glad to see you playing the game and enjoying it. Elite, on the other hand, is strangely bad-tempered. I was reminded of this last night when after another bout of grinding away to unlock a new perk for my spacesuit, the engineer greeted meet (I forget that *&^!# name) with the most snide comment possible. It was at that point I realized that in real life I would have promptly turned around and left, never to return. And that is when it occurred to me: why do I keep returning to this game, one whose in-game NPCs are constantly reminding me that I am not wanted nor appreciated (seriously, who wrote all this snarky dialogue and thought it wouldn't get annoying after a while!)? Heck, even the much-teased latest update only brought more war with it. Is that all we want in a sandbox space game? Acrimony and conflict?
Eh, I just had to get that off my chest. It's just that I am finding NMS to be such a joy to play that the light it casts is bringing the flaws of Elite to the forefront more and more. I won't be "done" with Elite any time soon (well, not until Starfield launches anyway
), but I am reaching the point where my patience is nearly exhausted. There is less and less here that is holding my attention. NMS has a better realized setting, Eve Online has far deeper mechanics, and EverSpace 2 has better exploration and more exciting ship-to-ship combat (not to mention gorgeous graphics). Outside of simulated orbital mechanics, Elite does nothing better and much a lot worse...
Thanks for listening.
...to your faithful pets that are a joy to go exploring with (That is ol' Bloodina. She got big and fat!
):Then you have your growing fleet of ships, and your bases with their staff, not to mention an entire town that will elect you mayor if you so desire! Everything in NMS seems to ground you in the game, to make you feel like you belong there. HG has added so much life and interactivity into the game that it feels closer to a SP MMO at this point (and a quasi-MMO when you join an expedition or Nexus mission).
Even space feels much more space-y to me now that they made a bunch of visual enhancements:
I was really hoping FDev would have taken Elite in this direction by now but...no. Elite feels as dry and lifeless as ever. This never bothered me much before because, well, there wasn't any real competition to the game, especially after NMS's disastrous launch. But now the game has changed (literally and figuratively) and Elite just feels lifeless to me and bug-ridden (to a regressive degree) by comparison to NMS. But most importantly of all, NMS feels friendly to me, like a mate that is glad to see you playing the game and enjoying it. Elite, on the other hand, is strangely bad-tempered. I was reminded of this last night when after another bout of grinding away to unlock a new perk for my spacesuit, the engineer greeted meet (I forget that *&^!# name) with the most snide comment possible. It was at that point I realized that in real life I would have promptly turned around and left, never to return. And that is when it occurred to me: why do I keep returning to this game, one whose in-game NPCs are constantly reminding me that I am not wanted nor appreciated (seriously, who wrote all this snarky dialogue and thought it wouldn't get annoying after a while!)? Heck, even the much-teased latest update only brought more war with it. Is that all we want in a sandbox space game? Acrimony and conflict?
Eh, I just had to get that off my chest. It's just that I am finding NMS to be such a joy to play that the light it casts is bringing the flaws of Elite to the forefront more and more. I won't be "done" with Elite any time soon (well, not until Starfield launches anyway
), but I am reaching the point where my patience is nearly exhausted. There is less and less here that is holding my attention. NMS has a better realized setting, Eve Online has far deeper mechanics, and EverSpace 2 has better exploration and more exciting ship-to-ship combat (not to mention gorgeous graphics). Outside of simulated orbital mechanics, Elite does nothing better and much a lot worse...Thanks for listening.
Last edited:
The adventures of Iteration 345461742141 continues!
Today, I did some frostwart harvesting on some frozen snowball of a planet. While there, a blizzard caught me out and I had to retreat to my ship:
I got what I needed and took off. I decided to do something different: in the three odd years I've owned this game, I've never tried a Nexus mission. Honestly, I am usually so busy doing the main campaign stuff that I just never got around to it. But I've been feeling the urge to get some customizations and I need Quicksilver for that, so I took the plunge. I took an easy mining mission where I had to mine 800 activated copper. I wasn't sure if I had to find a planet myself, so I was pleased to see that the Anomaly warped me to the right system as soon as I departed. The planet was the opposite of the snowball I was just on: a baked planet that had some large reptilian-like birds flying around. Upon landing, I found myself in a nighttime firestorm:
Ironically, as soon as the firestorm ended, the nighttime temps dropped to dangerous cold temps!
It took some scrounging around, but I finally did find two activated copper deposits that filled the quota:
(As an aside, when I initialized the mission, I was told someone had joined me but I never saw them once. More glory for me, I suppose...
)
I took my haul and successfully completed the mission. I think I would like to do another. They seem to be like the standard missions you get from station NPCs but with the option of doing it with someone else.
Lastly, Bloodina and I found an abandoned station on some planet. Ol' Bloodina decided to howl at the moon...or was she trying to take a bite from it?
Today, I did some frostwart harvesting on some frozen snowball of a planet. While there, a blizzard caught me out and I had to retreat to my ship:
I got what I needed and took off. I decided to do something different: in the three odd years I've owned this game, I've never tried a Nexus mission. Honestly, I am usually so busy doing the main campaign stuff that I just never got around to it. But I've been feeling the urge to get some customizations and I need Quicksilver for that, so I took the plunge. I took an easy mining mission where I had to mine 800 activated copper. I wasn't sure if I had to find a planet myself, so I was pleased to see that the Anomaly warped me to the right system as soon as I departed. The planet was the opposite of the snowball I was just on: a baked planet that had some large reptilian-like birds flying around. Upon landing, I found myself in a nighttime firestorm:
Ironically, as soon as the firestorm ended, the nighttime temps dropped to dangerous cold temps!
It took some scrounging around, but I finally did find two activated copper deposits that filled the quota:
(As an aside, when I initialized the mission, I was told someone had joined me but I never saw them once. More glory for me, I suppose...
)I took my haul and successfully completed the mission. I think I would like to do another. They seem to be like the standard missions you get from station NPCs but with the option of doing it with someone else.
Lastly, Bloodina and I found an abandoned station on some planet. Ol' Bloodina decided to howl at the moon...or was she trying to take a bite from it?
After a sparkling discussion of Oddy's ground experience, I started a new creative mode save this morning. It's the holiday weekend. Why the heck not?
I enjoy reading your adventures, keep it up!The adventures of Iteration 345461742141 continues!
Today, I did some frostwart harvesting on some frozen snowball of a planet. While there, a blizzard caught me out and I had to retreat to my ship:
View attachment 338463
I got what I needed and took off. I decided to do something different: in the three odd years I've owned this game, I've never tried a Nexus mission. Honestly, I am usually so busy doing the main campaign stuff that I just never got around to it. But I've been feeling the urge to get some customizations and I need Quicksilver for that, so I took the plunge. I took an easy mining mission where I had to mine 800 activated copper. I wasn't sure if I had to find a planet myself, so I was pleased to see that the Anomaly warped me to the right system as soon as I departed. The planet was the opposite of the snowball I was just on: a baked planet that had some large reptilian-like birds flying around. Upon landing, I found myself in a nighttime firestorm:
View attachment 338464
Ironically, as soon as the firestorm ended, the nighttime temps dropped to dangerous cold temps!
It took some scrounging around, but I finally did find two activated copper deposits that filled the quota:
View attachment 338465
(As an aside, when I initialized the mission, I was told someone had joined me but I never saw them once. More glory for me, I suppose...
I took my haul and successfully completed the mission. I think I would like to do another. They seem to be like the standard missions you get from station NPCs but with the option of doing it with someone else.
Lastly, Bloodina and I found an abandoned station on some planet. Ol' Bloodina decided to howl at the moon...or was she trying to take a bite from it?
View attachment 338466
My fav Nexus missions are the "Kill Pirates" ones
Elite still does a lot better with space combat compared to NMS, but NMS is fun in arcade fashion.
Thanks! I confess to being distracted from NMS the last week - I'm on one of my infrequent fantasy kicks right now, so I've been spending my time with Total War: Warhammer and Skyrim (it's something about this season that puts me in a fantasy mood
). But I hope to get back into NMS soon. Heck, maybe I'll duck in tonight for a quick mission.I have to admit: dogfighting in NMS grows on you. It is very arcadey, but I think that is the charm. It is like playing an ol' school space shooter like Defender or Asteroids. It works on that level quite nicely. It also helps that HG added some nice chrome like squadrons (which I haven't tried yet).
Speaking of, that was a good vid! I liked it when the music kicked in.
Edit: I jumped back in the game for an hour. I completed a mission to scan some minerals. While on planet, I came across what appeared to be a cute new critter I was going to adopt. That is, until I discovered it just had a creepy tentacle thing for a head! Sho-Shotto (my second pet, the genetically engineered offspring of Bloodina) was not impressed. You can see the creature in the bottom left of the picture.
Last edited:
Boy, howdy, how much prettier the game got. My new save was knocked over at the richness of detail.
Steam Deck? It used to work on mine, but haven't played in a while, and you're right. It hangs for me when game has started. Going to see what solution there might be. If it's just proton version, then it's just a setting to force the game to use an earlier version, but it might be related to something in arch linux version or vulkan.
Nope, Debian PC. Was playing this game when Proton was V.4, I believe
Hello Games changed something which has borked the ability to play for a while now, I'm trying to find my previous response in this thread to settle my timeline curiosity.
Last time I was able to play was Oct 17 2021.
Last edited:
Interesting. I have played it this year, several times. Last time probably 2 months ago (Steam Deck OS, which is an Arch Linux repo), and it was fine. It was just now that I discovered it doesn't work for me either. I just hangs when I get into the game. There's nothing online that helped me either. :/
---
Edit:
Solved it, changed the proton to experimental and it runs just fine again.
Last edited:
Uh oh. My old graphics card is starting to glitch out. NPC's walking through me, and each other, etc. Still very pretty.
I'm playing in creative mode right now, just to check things out. I'm so used to dying, though....I should be dead by now.
I'm playing in creative mode right now, just to check things out. I'm so used to dying, though....I should be dead by now.
You should play permadeath.
The current redux expedition going on is a semi-perma death mode. You die and have to start from scratch, however, you keep the milestones in the exp and can catch up to things pretty quickly.
[EDIT: I just realized this is a reprint of an article back from October. Eh, it still makes for interesting reading!]
Nintendo Life has a good interview with Sean Murray about how the Switch port was accomplished. It makes for interesting reading beyond the Switch stuff just to see how this fantastically dedicated team took an idea that seemed impossible but found a way to make it work, and how that could will benefit other platforms:
"No Man's Sky Will Never Run On That" - Sean Murray Talks Defying The Odds On Switch
Elite gets a mention:
Good news:
Nintendo Life has a good interview with Sean Murray about how the Switch port was accomplished. It makes for interesting reading beyond the Switch stuff just to see how this fantastically dedicated team took an idea that seemed impossible but found a way to make it work, and how that could will benefit other platforms:
"No Man's Sky Will Never Run On That" - Sean Murray Talks Defying The Odds On Switch
Elite gets a mention:
Good news:
Last edited:
Incase you don't have Twitter and are reading here again thats a " twitter post above from sean again, " as his one image clues on updates continues for the next one...
Still waiting for the dehipsterisation update.
I do enjoy a good NMS session but I really need full HOTAS Support to get into it. Yes,I know flying the ship it's as important to the game as it is in Elite but ...
No Man's Sky Fractal
www.nomanssky.com
Source: https://youtu.be/FW1SzMv0jSQ
Fractal Update - No Man's Sky
Fractal: Introducing Update 4.1 Completely immerse yourself in an infinite universe with No Man’s Sky update 4.1, FRACTAL! Introducing a catalogue of your most incredible discoveries, a huge number of quality of life and accessibility improvements, gyroscopic control support, full support for...
www.nomanssky.com