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No Man's Sky - Atlas Rises |OT| Nada, Polo and you no longer fly solo
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A Serious Man
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Survival or normal mode? Guide me GAF.
Zombie James
Banned
MisterCrow
Member
All these reports of people's bases being effectively destroyed post patch really sucks.
I'm curious too. I bought this last night. It had always interested me but now that there's story and missions patched in I'm sold.
7he Talon
Member
I'm on PS4, but I found out how to do it. Thanks!
GodParticle
Member
Oh god...I forgot about that weird excuse. Made no sense at all >_<
I say Survival. And I'm not speaking as someone who plays games on hard or likes survival games in general.
It will brutalise you at the beginning but force you to learn the mechanics (which actually matter in that mode). And it is much more rewarding.
If it's too much it's easy enough to drop down to normal. But you'll never forget your first hours spent cowering in crab infested caves sheltering from radioactive death storms. Builds character, lol.
Oracle Dragon
Member
I just bought the game today and am going totally blind, I started on Survival. It took about 4 restarts to get the hang of it until I fixed my ship and got off planet. It is making exploring hostile environments punishing. Well worth it IMO.
This is really nice to see.My god, it happened
Snowybreak
Member
Question. For the Artemis quest, after you learn the three words (I was doing this in Creative mode), does the quest marker normally appear 480000 light years out?
KCroxtonJr
Member
That's what portals are for
SimpleCRIPPLE
Member
When does the base building start?
I feel like I hit that point already in my original save, but I'm already a couple warps and one atlas station in and no mention of base building or recruiting.
On a sidenote: I reclaimed a class A fighter which should be a nice upgrade once I finish unlocking the slots.
I feel like I hit that point already in my original save, but I'm already a couple warps and one atlas station in and no mention of base building or recruiting.
On a sidenote: I reclaimed a class A fighter which should be a nice upgrade once I finish unlocking the slots.
OuterLimits
Member
Damn. On a planet with tons of fauna and my Pro is struggling. Fps dipping well under 30 and stuff popping in right in front of me.
Portals would help but activating them looks to be a pretty long-winded process. They're easy to find now at least.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
I want to ask before I double dip-Do you think I'd be able to run it?
GTX 760(2GB VRam)
8 Gig Ram
AMD Black Phenom II(4 core)
SSD
GTX 760(2GB VRam)
8 Gig Ram
AMD Black Phenom II(4 core)
SSD
Literally whatever you want
KyanMehwulfe
Member
Whenever you find an abandoned base... I heard starting a new game on normal difficulty starts you at a base now though, but I never checked myself. But if you're already into the game, you never really get led to base building (unless 1.3 added something). You will eventually just find one. It's a 'building type' a bit uncommon but most planets have quite a few.
Abandoned base is where you get nanites I think. Habitable base is the base building.
KCroxtonJr
Member
It's tough to give a good response to this as there seems to be some performance issues/bugs introduced with 1.3, that will most likely be sorted out through patches.
Based on your specs compared to mine, I'd say expect the game to frequently be in the 20fps range. I have:
GTX 660ti 2GB
AMD FX 8350
8GB RAM
SSD
Performance was around the same as a Standard PS4 before 1.3, except textures didn't look as good as the 2GB card means you have to limit texture quality to low/medium.
This is my experience too. I guess I wasn't paying close attention to the interviews Sean was doing, as I pretty much received what I was expecting right from the beginning, a space mining game with a procedurally generated "universe". I had a lot of relaxing fun playing it after it first came out and put close to 100 hours into it.
I stopped last November when I got into Skyrim SE, but decided to pick it up again a few weeks ago to try out the 1.1 and 1.2 updates. There were so many new features though, so I had a hard time getting back into it. But now with 1.3, I decided to bite the bullet, delete my old game and start up fresh. I'm glad I did as I'm having a much easier time getting back into the swing of things with the new path to follow.
It seems like Normal Mode is a bit more difficult this time around. My starting planet was a scorcher with slightly aggressive drones, making it difficult to get the ship up and running, but I did. And then the next planet had constant toxic rainfall, ugh. Things haven't been so bad since then and I'm up to the part in the storyline where it wants me to warp a second time, but I'm taking some time to mine resources and make some money and trying to get suit upgrades.
One thing I've noticed is that it seems like there are either fewer "points of interest" on the planets, or they're harder to find as I don't find many of the question mark circle icons on any of the planets I've been to yet.
I'm playing on PS4 Pro and everything seems stable so far, but the frame-rate has taken a definite hit with this update, so hopefully some fine tuning will clear that up.
My one wish is that a VR mode gets added at some point.
Even though I had a hard time understanding the frustrations so many people felt when the game was released, I'm glad Hello Games has kept at it and looks to have finally hit a point where most people are satisfied with it, and those who aren't will probably never be satisfied.
KyanMehwulfe
Member
IIRC you get the Voltaic Cell recipe from the Scientist quests.
I say IIRC also noting that I saw someone post today that the 'new Armorer final quest is cool' so I've no idea how they've changed and if the way you get the Voltaic Cell recipe changed =p That's how it worked in version 1.2 though. I think there were a couple times where Overseer and Scientist kinda overlap.
rayman1900
Member
The quest of the scientist you recruit will give you a blueprint for the voltaic cell.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
aspiegamer
Member
I'm stuck on the first rover quest. There are zero depots on my planet to destroy for the element required. Since you can't call it on other planets I'm unable to use the super scanner to force a spawn. Frustrated. This is normal for my base planet, btw... When I use my transmitter to look for basic stuff it spawns them on its moon. Not sure what to do.
milamber182
Member
The patch didn't fix the teleportation crash so I can't get to my base. Probably because I had a large base with the building limit disabled.
I'm on my 2nd playthrough and I put so much time and effort into building the current base and stocking my containers that I don't feel motivated to start another one.
I'm on my 2nd playthrough and I put so much time and effort into building the current base and stocking my containers that I don't feel motivated to start another one.
Joe Shlabotnik
Banned
It's bugged. To be honest 1.3 is semi-riddled with bugs right now.
If you're picking up from an old save then yes, the game is glitched.
This is a well known and replicable bug so hopefully it's likely to get fixed quickly.
You can build a roamer bay on any planet and summon it, I'm not sure if this helps with that quest though. If you're really stuck then you may need to relocate. It sounds like the planet isn't particularly great for POI.
you do not start at a base in normal mode. I was just in the middle of nowhere next to my fucked up ship and some mushroom trees when I started.
I'm not sure if it's new to an update, or I just never noticed, but can someone give me a tutorial on what the heck the differences are (and how I'd bother using them) between Cargo, Technology and General slots.
Right now my ship and my suit both have both cargo and like, tech stuff like suit upgrades / ship weapons, etc, in General. Technology is empty. Cargo is empty. What's the difference? Why does it/should it matter?
Right now my ship and my suit both have both cargo and like, tech stuff like suit upgrades / ship weapons, etc, in General. Technology is empty. Cargo is empty. What's the difference? Why does it/should it matter?
After being a little harsh on the update yesterday, it's really starting to grow on me.
The story is sucking me in, and is way better paced than I would have expected. Even on survival it's zipping along nicely, and it's really adding to the feel of the universe. Amazing what adding some game to your game can do
There are also other things I'm starting to appreciate now.
The fact you can stock up on thousands of plutonium and zinc at space stations takes so much of the grind out of things (especially in survival).
Ship combat is much, much better. And the inter-ship comms adds personality to the encounters. Also (again, great in survival) being able to pay off pirates can literally be a life saver. And I actually manage to outrun and escape from some pirates earlier - I'm pretty sure that was impossible before.
One of the more intriguing aspects is the ability to discover 'secondary elements' now. It definitely feels much more worthwhile scanning stuff now. Finding thamium in my home planet's plutonium was cool and useful, and picking up rare elements here and there may prove handy down the line.
This is the first update that's really added depth to the game, and not just more 'stuff', and it's really starting to feel much more complete and epic.
Still want a flora and fauna update, but that'll come I guess
The story is sucking me in, and is way better paced than I would have expected. Even on survival it's zipping along nicely, and it's really adding to the feel of the universe. Amazing what adding some game to your game can do
There are also other things I'm starting to appreciate now.
The fact you can stock up on thousands of plutonium and zinc at space stations takes so much of the grind out of things (especially in survival).
Ship combat is much, much better. And the inter-ship comms adds personality to the encounters. Also (again, great in survival) being able to pay off pirates can literally be a life saver. And I actually manage to outrun and escape from some pirates earlier - I'm pretty sure that was impossible before.
One of the more intriguing aspects is the ability to discover 'secondary elements' now. It definitely feels much more worthwhile scanning stuff now. Finding thamium in my home planet's plutonium was cool and useful, and picking up rare elements here and there may prove handy down the line.
This is the first update that's really added depth to the game, and not just more 'stuff', and it's really starting to feel much more complete and epic.
Still want a flora and fauna update, but that'll come I guess
Technology can not be used to store resources.
You can create larger stacks of resources in Cargo.
General is for anything.
In the story, yes. Haven't had a chance to try it outside of that yet.
It's for bugs that cause crashes.
With those specs I'd run it on PS4 instead if that's an option.
Is there any benefit (beyond my own OCD) to removing EXiSTING tech out of General into Tech?
Jinfash
needs 2 extra inches
Wow. Is for and God rays of this quality available on PS4?
KyanMehwulfe
Member
After 1.3? I see. Someone said they did after the new patch... Maybe they thought they were in Normal but were actually in Creative, or misunderstood the base they started at was just random buildings at now a 'player base'
Either way, actually good it still works that way. First 1-2 hours of the game are still my fave because of how abandoned you were.
FreezerGeezer
Member
Has there been any word in regards to when the limited MP will be functioning via GoG Galaxy?
After 1.3? I see. Someone said they did after the new patch... Maybe they thought they were in Normal but were actually in Creative, or misunderstood the base they started at was just random buildings at now a 'player base'
Either way, actually good it still works that way. First 1-2 hours of the game are still my fave because of how abandoned you were.
well I bought and started it the day 1.3 came out so /shrug
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