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Here's my quick 'oh poo poo, a new update, let's reinstall and see if it's any better' story. I started a 'normal' game. Even with an i9 PC with an M.2 SSD and an install of Win10 that's less than a week old, loading still took two minutes. Beats the 5 to 7min from last time that I remember, I can be fair. The 'normal' game started me on a planet with an extreme heat hazard. The thing I'm supposed to do next is mine ferrite so I can fix the scanner and then *find my loving ship*? Really? They thought that was an improvement? All that was around for ferrite are itty bitty pebbles, and none of the yellow poo poo you need for recharging your environmental hazard shield. For extra fun, half the pebbles were actually mimic life forms, further wasting my time. There were no caves to duck into, no loving ship to hop into to save my rear end from the extreme heat hazard. I loving died in about five minutes, with only 3/4ths the ferrite needed to fix my scanner. Quit the game and uninstalled. This game and its developers can gently caress off forever.
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Combat Pretzel posted:You got hosed over by the RNG. Big deal. Yup no big, especially with it off my system.
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Aug 15, 2019 03:03
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Got back into the game after a couple years, and I had a good time of it. One annoying thing though, is that it seems the exocraft scanners for finding drop pods or crash sites or anything particularly specific, will send you back to places you've already been.
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Apr 12, 2021 11:51
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I was all excited to have built a mech exosuit! Then I drove around in it a bit. What a loving headache. There is no reason I can think of that backpedal can't be backpedal, instead the big stupid machine has to walk a giant awkward arc that gets you into more trouble if you're trying to get out of it. I'm assuming if the Minotaur's been out for a year in this shape, they're never fixing it. Also exciting was discovering the 'scan an underwater life form and boom it's extinct' feature. Good stuff.
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Apr 13, 2021 02:04
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I have been through twenty five distress star charts and haven't seen a single stranded lifeform rescue mission yet. How bad is my luck?
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May 26, 2021 02:58
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Devor posted:Wouldn't be surprised if it's a bug. See upthread the advice to do the Nexus mission (wait a while if it's not offered as a mission) Oh gently caress brilliant, I'll go see if that's an option.
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May 26, 2021 03:13
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Spoke too loving soon it appears. The mission in question is at the Nexus, great! I start it, head out, meet the stranded guy, then start rooting about for the modules I'm supposed to unearth with the terrain manipulator. Until the last module left is apparently stuck inside of a large noclip structure that can't be tunneled into or destroyed. Well played, hello games, you loving filthy pieces of poo poo.
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May 26, 2021 03:39
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Haha I grinded this weekend until my ship components were completely fixed and built a base in a separate star system so I could build a minotaur geobay. I was not able to summon one and had zero luck finding a neighboring base with a geobay. Oh well, I think I still took the same amount of time I would've to clear the season. Apart for the big injections of cash and nanomachine clusters, I didn't feel like the seasonal step unlocks were huge contributors to progress. In other news of my unsolicited opinions, wow is settlement management loving boring and unrewarding.
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Sep 13, 2021 22:39
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LegionAreI posted:Do settlements just not spawn on moons? I have my base on a good moon that isn't trying to murder me every 5 minutes and every time I use a chart it sends me to either Planet Bullshit or Everything Is On Fire. I haven't seen a planet without a hazard since like 2017.
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Sep 14, 2021 03:29
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Dwesa posted:is that sandworm head on player? I'm going to wear that loving thing forever until something more horrific comes along.
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Oct 22, 2021 11:59
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Powershift posted:get past what now? And they can only take off their shoes once every 24 hours and can never just dump out all the sand, only some of it. Then the shoes have to go back on until the next 24 hour timer ends. Jenny Agutter posted:Finished up the expedition. Never once was touched by a big worm. It was cool having to do a derelict freighter as part of it. They should be more specific about where rewards show up, took me a while to realize the worm head was specific to vykeen bodies I was thrown into the air three or four times. The first time it was hilarious. The subsequent times, I was in the middle of doing something that mattered, but it was just a mild inconvenience. The big problem I have is that I'm kind of easily prone to headaches, and there were moments when it felt like there was an unending string of breaching worms and the screen would just not stop shaking. I'd have to put the game down for an hour and let tylenol kick in. 5er fucked around with this message at 15:03 on Oct 28, 2021 |
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Oct 28, 2021 15:01
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Sentinel ship appearances are locked to the system/planet they're found on. My kid found one that looks a bit like a Silon raider from 70's BSG, with black & red accents. Here's the portal code: If you didn't know, you can find the portal code for wherever you're at by just going into 'Photo Mode' from the quick menu.
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Finally shut Laylaps off. Got tired of its propensity to get directly between you and EVERYTHING you're trying to scan, or shoot at, or just take a look at. Laylaps is the AI buddy version of the pet cat that will attempt to lay on your keyboard the moment you have work to do.
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Black Griffon posted:Been trying to get an A/S sentinel interceptor all day and I've had no luck, but man it's good money. Kill a sentinel capital to get at least 30-40 mill from the resulting interceptor salvage. When you're planetside, destroy enough corrupted sentinels to get one of those locator chits. When you're there, scan for a new ship on planet. Repeat until you wonder if you've gone colorblind. I blew tens of thousands of nanites to upgrade to S on mine. Earning the nanites goes faster than gambling on the 2% (I think) odds of spawning an S.  That's the second style of interceptor I found. Black with red and dark purple accents.
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Black Griffon posted:Yeah I'm just poking fun, no worries. There's really nothing to worry about in this game anyway and we all make our own grinds. If I wanted to I could cheat myself into infinite everything very easily, but it's all about finding the grind that feels interesting and rewarding. No flippance here but if you aren't opposed to using guides on how to ramp up your cash & nanites, there's a lot of 'git rich quick' plans out there that should be less agonizing to a person's nerves than the time it takes to gamble on popping an S-class ship. Plus, once you're rich, you're rich! Having a shitload of capital makes it easier to just make a shitload MORE capital when you need it that I can tell in NMS. I completely respect a 'I've seen the guides and that's no way I want to play,' kind of response too. There's hardly a wrong way to do NMS if you are certain you're having fun the entire time. Gravitas Shortfall posted:
Holy gently caress you're either the luckiest person I know, or the most patient. I've got all S-class pilots, but only one of em has an exotic. The rest of them are in jalopy looking tubs, which I feel is the perfect insult to all the elite-tier pirates they murder. 5er fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Apr 12, 2023 |
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Apr 12, 2023 02:52
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Schwawa posted:did scanning payouts get nerfed at some point? I swear I used to get like 300k minimum for an animal scan but now I'm lucky to get half that. After not playing for a bit and coming back at some point last year, just about all my procedural upgrades for exosuit, ship and multi-tool were just removed and sitting in my inventory, and I didn't notice until I did some scans and saw I wasn't making money like I used to.
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Apr 13, 2023 23:00
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I think once you learn the autotracking gimmick, all dogfighting is very trivialized. This is kind of a good thing because trying to dogfight legitimately isn't impossible or even necessarily difficult, it's just tedious as gently caress.
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Apr 19, 2023 16:35
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Saxophone posted:Yeah now I’ve got missiles and I put my photon cannon in a juiced spot, plus I have an extra 50+% shield from mods and space fighting is easy peasy. I'm personally fond of the pulse spitter, especially once you've got a few S-class mods on it. You have to get used to the initial muzzle lift when you start shooting but it's great for deleting smaller poo poo at mid range and very satisfying with slower moving big targets.
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Can this expedition get run an 2nd time so you get both cosmetic heads?
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Jun 23, 2023 01:51
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I get the Dream Aerial blueprint. I make one. I go pulse. It tells me there is an anomaly. I drop out of pulse, and there's a waypoint that looks like it's for a space whale, and a space whale sounding noise... but no space whale. What the gently caress?
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Aug 27, 2023 01:16
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Is there any alternative to having to wait three hours between events to get into a pirate freighter ship battle?
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Stare-Out posted:This game needs ships for the Autophage race. I want a rusted old jalopy looking ship to match the aesthetic but all my ships are slick as all hell. If three in-game hours haven't passed since the last encounter, you can keep on warping past the 5-count threshold with nothing happening.
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Aug 28, 2023 03:47
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I was hoping using an echo resonator would kick off some sort of questline but I got the same camp as always. I think you need to be 100% clear of all the story plot missions, and through the 'corruption / dissonance' content that was released with the prior content update. All anyone should need to do if they're all caught up is just warp to another system and the Autophage plot will trigger. My son still had some main story / prior patch mission stuff to complete when he jumped in last weekend and couldn't trigger the recent stuff.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Pretty sure I am, I'll try warping somewhere. Generally I travel by teleporter unless I feel like exploring. I hope that's all you needed! Most any time they patch in new content, the trigger is typically 'jump to another system and you'll get a radio contact.'
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Staff achieved, friendship began with the Autophage Here's my autophage cosmetic setup after grinding for those drat motes for a few days: 
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Lol so that's how the game deals with applying the hood to the dinner plate head.
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Oh woah what, there are more staff parts to be found? I only looked at one mote vendor out of all this so far.
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ElectricSheep posted:*sighs, rolls eyes, reinstalls*  I uninstalled it a few days after the last expedition got done figuring I'd be done until the next one.
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Starbase visual improvements: did not disappoint! Ship "editing" being limited to a build process of the three base-game starship types and no editing or at least recoloring of ships you already own: very disappointed.
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Being able to at least recolor ships you already own should have been part of this update, but at the very least I'm confident they'll get to it eventually. Hopefully as an append to the current patch and not waiting an epoch for another comprehensive feature update.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:It should also be noted, and I think it was ITT where I read this, that when this game launched, the focus of the entire game was 'moving forward'. I didn't play it until 2021, so some other goons here can probably clear this up, but I believe that going back to previous locations used to be either much more difficult, or outright impossible. From the Discoveries panel there is totally a way to set a custom destination to a star. Just put your cursor over a star from the big list and read all the tooltips. Setting a wp has been in there all this time. I actually had to look this up recently myself and I felt like a turbo loving dummy when I realized it was always there, I just wasn't reading everything.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Oh, ok, nice. I'll remember that. You can't wp planets, you can wp their stars from the Discoveries list. When you go to warp in your ship or your freighter, you can change the the path to 'Custom' wp and it'll give you a line from there.
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Stare-Out posted:Behold, my parking skills! Like a glove.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I KBAM during fights on the ground and mining, because it's easier to aim. The mouse controls on the spacecraft feel like crap. Same. K/M for everything that isn't vehicle driving, and an XB gamepad nearby for anything that needs driving.
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Reinstalling to get in on this goon planetary dogpile. Closest thing to realizing Goon Island we'll ever get.
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Before today, the only time I actually made a galaxy jump via the galactic core was as a result of following the main story arc. I actually didn't know how to use the core to jump until figuring it out today! Luckily, I already made a base in Eissentam years ago. I got into it from visiting a community featured base via the anomaly warpgate, then hopped in my ship and kept warping until I found my own fresh, undiscovered system. Galactic core hopping is a royal pain in the rear end with all your poo poo broken on arrival! At least making it to the core of a galaxy is easy enough- alien charts until you find a monolith, monolith to find a stargate, and then just google on up a core system code 
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I built a stubby, ugly tower atop the butte that overlooks the Leper's Colon and called it a night.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:If you go to the monolith portal, power it up, and then just put in the first symbol over and over again, you can get VERY close to the core. Like within 6k LY. Power up your freighter and make a few jumps and you're good! I'll try to remember this in about 9 years whenever the next arbitrary goon rush is declared  Gravitas Shortfall posted:The wiki page on Galaxy Centre has a portal code that is either right next to the core or literally one hop away for almost every galaxy. drat, that's even nicer.
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My contribution so far is scanning up a lot of flora, fauna and rocks and giving them stupid names.
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