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Solvency posted:Apparently really asymmetric ships are a thing now? They've always been a thing on Explorer ships but yeah that looks like a new cockpit part for the Trader class? Are there new ship parts? The patch notes didn't even mention that.
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Ah never mind then, guess I've just never noticed it before. Some parts seem much rarer than others in my experience.
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Sep 23, 2020 18:46
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Happy Hedonist posted:Is there a secret to not initially starting on a planet that kills you withing a couple of minutes. So far I've died of radiation poisoning and cold while trying to get my bearings. Not a great new player experience. There are planets that can kill you a lot faster. "A couple minutes" isn't that bad, really. At least this way you're taught that bad things can happen if you ignore basic gameplay mechanics. Ssthalar posted:It would be nice if it told you to hide in a nearby cave or something. Maybe I'm revealing myself as too old school here, but why would a game ever need to tell you something like this? Sure, it's still a video game, but who faced with something like radioactive acid rain storms would not try to hide somewhere? As long as you aren't some energy being visiting this universe trying out our entertainment electronics for a laugh, you should be aware of this concept called "don't face tank bad things". Solvency posted:Apparently really asymmetric ships are a thing now? I have one looking almost exactly like this. I got it in 2016.
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Exploring a new planet and thought I saw a UFO... Turns out it's one of the new burrowing creatures. This one looks crazy, and here it is in mid jump.  Libluini posted:I have one looking almost exactly like this. I got it in 2016. Yeah I wasn't sure if it was new or not, or if I just noticed it today. It's a neat cockpit. Solvency fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Sep 23, 2020 |
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Au Revoir Shosanna posted:I have never died once in this game, not even sure what happens if you do. Trailer and patch notes look awesome though, looking forward to playing. Whats the portal interference stuff all about? I never did anything with those. Is it easier to fly to new galaxies now?
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toiletbrush posted:Whats the portal interference stuff all about? I never did anything with those. Is it easier to fly to new galaxies now? Before this patch, a trip through a portal was a dead end- your ship could not warp to a new system when you got there, the only way out was to go back through the portal to where you had started. This has apparently now been lifted and you can warp on from the system you arrived in and never look back. This was one of the last vestiges of the original concept that reaching the center of the galaxy was supposed to be a difficult and time-consuming ultimate goal, which I guess is something they are no longer interested in enforcing. It's easier in that you can now find portal coordinates to a system very close to the galactic core and just go there immediately, but they had already added other easier ways to do the same thing (finishing the Artemis storyline, specifically).
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I dunno if it's a bug or intentional re-balancing, but they've definitely hosed with some of the resource quantities outside of just the mining beam stuff mentioned in the patch notes. On a fresh save, I'm getting huge amounts of condensed carbon from mining the crystals of it, and not the really big ones either since I don't even have the advanced laser yet. Like, 600+ after knocking out a handful of the medium-large ones you can mine with the basic laser. Hostile flora also seems to have been majorly amped up as well, the little pods you can grab from the explodey ones are giving 200+ oxygen per and the plant itself like 120, so if you grab all three and laser the plant you end up getting over 700 oxygen from one plant.
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haveblue posted:Before this patch, a trip through a portal was a dead end- your ship could not warp to a new system when you got there, the only way out was to go back through the portal to where you had started. This has apparently now been lifted and you can warp on from the system you arrived in and never look back. The portal interference also meant that you couldn't setup a base, or use teleporters, or call your freighter. I think it blocked you from accessing the space anomoly too.
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Is it worth dusting this off and starting fresh solely for some co-op? Or do you still need to do a bunch of stuff before you can actually sync up with your friends?
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be careful upgrading the multitool, that was the first thing i did after the update and i just realized that at some point it reverted so i'm out 25,000 nanites 
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Shawon Dunston posted:But... the game is literally explaining the mechanics and what to do to you when you start? "Hey your hazard protection is low, scan for the stuff that refills it it" "whoops it's broken collect these things to fix it" "okay cool now press these buttons to fix it" "it's fixed, scan for the stuff now" "okay you found some sodium, now press these buttons to refill your hazard protection" like, I'm not sure how much more explicit you need the game to describe its mechanics to you. Okay, I tried again. This time I got my scanner fixed, scanned once before it ran out of batteries and I died before finding the Na that I think will somehow protect me? Why is Sodium going to protect me and what drops it? lol Edit: I mean poo poo, I've finished some loving stupid minecraft packs full of all kinds of dumb design decisions but I'm typically given an explanation as to why I'm dying. 2nd Edit: Ahh. Now that I've found some weird flower that yields sodium (wtf) it tells me why I was dying previously. Fantastic. I'm not sure why I found this so frustrating today, maybe I need to smoke more. Happy Hedonist fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Sep 23, 2020 |
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drat I don't know if 3.0 is just buggy or NMS hates AMD processors but I've never had this many problems with the game crashing before now. Checking out my old planet that actually got fixed back to its original colour palette of retrowave pastel pink/blue but the game will just straight up freeze on a single frame and then keep running in the background. It also does this if I try to alt tab (fullscreen/borderless doesn't matter) and after trying to run the game in fullscreen it just straight up BSOD'd me which hasn't happend in..a decade?
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I am having a problem with advanced ion batteries and oxygen capsules not working. Maybe they changed that too?
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Have they made animals behave in a way that isn't "spawn a herd, herd runs around screaming, despawn herd" yet
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Changelog:quote:The number of specialist survival products have been reduced Is it still possible to construct those? Maybe they're obsolete but they didn't want to straight up delete them from inventories.
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First impression: storms are pretty cool now Second impression: gently caress they really need to do something about these loving asteroids everywhere Burns fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Sep 23, 2020 |
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Sep 23, 2020 23:14
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Oof, so my main base is intact other than the forest that was around it is completely changed. I prefer the pine tree looking things that's there now though. I haven't gone through all of my bases but I had an activated cadmium base on this very strange world that is now toast. The world had aggressive sentinels but it had these weird geometric shapes and a nice red/grey color scheme and these giant plants that had weird tentacles hanging down. Now it's a very hot volcano/fire planet. And my cadmium base is so far underground that it's below the dig limit, so it popped me out somewhere else on the planet after I teleported to it. :/ I hope they fix that. I flew back to my base icon and landed but I couldn't dig down to it. That sort of thing happened to my activated indium base too, but that wasn't below the dig limit so I was able to dig out. The portal interference is gone and I was able to go through and build some bases. Weird bugs here. If you place a base computer the portal turns off automatically. But if you try to dial out of it, you can't. If you pick the option to dial an address it keeps going back to the option selection and not letting you progress further. I had an audio bug as well. I went back through a portal that was still open and got stuck listening to the rumbling sound for the rest of the game. Not even teleporting fixed it
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My mission log says to sign up for missions at the nexus. Where do I sign up for the missions in the nexus? Been wandering around and can’t find it Nvm found it theblackw0lf fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Sep 24, 2020 |
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e: ^^^ it's the big holographic thing to the left of the quicksilver mechant by the docks - somewhat counterintuitively the interaction is on the holographic display rather than the smaller screens around the periphery.haveblue posted:Changelog:
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Au Revoir Shosanna posted:is cash even a concern once you've got like $2B in the bank? Very quickly maxing slots on a new ship/freighter is a huge cash sink. Having money not be an object is also very good for farming nanites, since you don't need to be picky and can happily scrap every S/A/B ship that comes in regardless of how uneconomical it is. I'm not concerned with having my cash farm go from ~1.1b/day to ~110m/day. If I really wanted to Fight The Man then I could rig up another activated indium farm feeding into the same storage. I'll be more miffed with having the resource farms drop from 10k/hour to 1k/hour, since the entire point in getting them set up was to prepare for mass future crafting.
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God dammit I’m an idiot. I was playing on survival. The game is much more relaxing and enjoyable on normal.
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Happy Hedonist posted:God dammit I’m an idiot. I was playing on survival. The game is much more relaxing and enjoyable on normal. lol that owns! I'm going to fire up my game later to see what's changed on my home planets and farms.
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I checked the portal code that went to the s-class derelict freighter: https://nmsportals.github.io/#11FFEAF88739 It still does but I don't think it goes to the same planet or the planet has been changed. It's very different from what it was and there was a base just up the hill from the portal and neither the base nor the hill exist now. The s-class derelict freighter is still there and still has the same layout as it did. I'm not sure it has the same name but everything else about it is the same.
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Saw there was an update, thought I'd try picking up the game and see what the fuss was about. Oh dear.
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If you're the first person to discover something like a planet then you can name it and upload it for other people to see. Maybe that's what happened there.
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Oof. Loaded the game up for a minute and checked my indium farm. I have no idea what the production rate is because it's powered down. I'm producing a little under half the power previously generated, which would suck enough... but the power consumption for the extractors now scrolls off the field. I'm going to have to go use my newly-created refinery farm to make a shitload of chromatic and get to work on each farm adding enough power to offend god. Also everything looks better and storms are amazing and I got sucked out the front door of my base into a tornado.
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Nullsmack posted:If you're the first person to discover something like a planet then you can name it and upload it for other people to see. Maybe that's what happened there. It says I'm the first discoverer! I guess I just got lucky with the random name generation. Well. "Lucky". 
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Nietzsche posted:It says I'm the first discoverer! I guess I just got lucky with the random name generation. Well. "Lucky". I once found the planet Snails. It was a fairly unremarkable planet, the randomizer just put letters together and called it "Snails".
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Ok, my home planet now has green grass, salvageable scrap and predators. The animals have completely changed and there’s a new planet in the system. My activated indium farm now takes 44 hours to fill but still has sufficient power. I’m ok with that, I’m at the money cap anyway and I’m only spending money to upgrade exotic ships I find, so I only need to collect every so often anyway. Helith fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Sep 24, 2020 |
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So I’ve started a new game, and drat, the opening is still a tedious slog. I forgot it railroaded you into base building so quickly rather than getting on with plot. You wake up, and instantly you’re gathering resources to make a small thing, and now more resources, and now different resources, etc. The game skirts around setting you up with any plot, preferring to get you into crafting before anything else. Now build a base computer on this hell world, and a small shack next to it. On the plus side, my first world had sand worms. 
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Nietzsche posted:Saw there was an update, thought I'd try picking up the game and see what the fuss was about. SPACE ALABAMA
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Fired up a new game, starting planet has a crashed freighter and 2 of the new cultural archive buildings within sight of spawn. I dropped a visor-marker near the archives so I could come back to them later, and exited the game without realizing that would despawn the marker  Anyone know if theres a way to navigate to discovered waypoints? I did hit a few nearby before that happened.On the plus side, I found a rare artifact worth 1.9 mm$ almost immediately.
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I’m on a derelict freighter and there’s a storm? And the doors are being weird, opening and closing straight away or just not opening at all until the 2nd or 3rd try. Is this deliberate? I like it, it’s way more realistic that the doors would be acting up lol
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Helith posted:I’m on a derelict freighter and there’s a storm? And the doors are being weird, opening and closing straight away or just not opening at all until the 2nd or 3rd try. Is this deliberate? I like it, it’s way more realistic that the doors would be acting up lol I noticed earlier that the doors on the one I was on would take longer to open than they used to.
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Some cool poo poo I found just in like the first half hour of popping around the new release: This weird crystal mechanical beetle thing looks like something from an Elder Scrolls dwarven ruin. Also a blue volcano in the background  This bipedal dude had a real wobbly neck on a red planet filled with bubbles  All these mushrooms and balls and things were glowing and pulsing on and off like Christmas lights
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metasynthetic posted:Anyone know if theres a way to navigate to discovered waypoints? Unfortunately no, but there's a buildable item that creates a permanent waypoint visible throughout the system, for future reference. So far I've seen a volcano (that erupted while I looked at it!), a few shooting stars, a butterfly-like creature that could land and fly away again, and something that looked like a wheel with two antenna sticking out. The world generation seems to have been made more interesting in general, and not just the increased height range.
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