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No Man's Sky - Atlas Rises |OT| Nada, Polo and you no longer fly solo
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TheDude108
Member
Terrain manipulation is great. Although the frame rate kinda tanks on PS4 if you do it too much.
Enabling Triple Buffering helped A LOT!
Performance is now a locked 60fps!
I'm wondering why developers did not include the triple buffering option inside the game's own graphics settings... or... turned it on by default...
WonkyPanda
Member
Should I hold off on making a base until next patch? Seems lots of bugs around the quests.
RedlineRonin
Member
I've seen this mentioned a couple times. What's the difference?
Oh man, they are nerfing terrain editor! That bad boy costs so much to recharge.
I don't like this change
Oh man, they are nerfing terrain editor! That bad boy costs so much to recharge.
I don't like this change
Yeah, I'm so going to install a mod for it, if one exists for it already that is.
Muffin1611
Banned
Am I missing something or is there still no fix for the people who already run into the problem you got when changing the location of your base?
HG putting in the hours. Damn!
I believe that was fixed in the previous patch.
Muffin1611
Banned
Netherscourge
Banned
Man, HG is on top of this stuff.
They've been dropping patches every couple days.
I wish some higher-funded developers would do this with their big budget games...
RedlineRonin
Member
So about that "S class ships were the wrong price" line....
Does that mean they're going up or down?
Does that mean they're going up or down?
Chezzymann
Member
I guess they figured that actions speak louder than words
Sniffynose
Member
Holy shit HG is killing it with the updates! I am so glad I gave them another chance and double dipped!
RedlineRonin
Member
Also, did someone says it's usually a few hours before the patches push from experimental branch into main branch?
Probably yeah, if the patch doesn't break something majorly.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Weird that they refuse to fix waypoints not staying discovered, and scanning from ship not discovering stuff. They just seem like simple issues compared to some of this stuff. Guess it's not prioritized.
Great work overall though.
eyeball_kid
Member
Impressive list of fixes.
Is this real life. Keep those non-mouse inventory controls coming, HG!
And this is after I spent an hour last night upgrading my ship. I was looking forward to the challenge.
Perhaps they only really intended the terrain editor for Creative mode. Then again, considering the prices of the freighters now, I really don't know what their philosophy is behind prices/gating anymore.
Is this real life. Keep those non-mouse inventory controls coming, HG!
And this is after I spent an hour last night upgrading my ship. I was looking forward to the challenge.
Oh man, they are nerfing terrain editor! That bad boy costs so much to recharge.
I don't like this change
Perhaps they only really intended the terrain editor for Creative mode. Then again, considering the prices of the freighters now, I really don't know what their philosophy is behind prices/gating anymore.
I struggle to find a developer who had a worse disconnect between marketing campaign and released product.
I equally struggle to find a developer who has had more resolute, organized, and responsive post-release support for a product. Blizzard with Diablo III is the only one that comes immediately to mind.
Just generally in awe in how they attack this game at times with fixes. Still a ways to go given the bug reports, but big kudos in the work being done.
I equally struggle to find a developer who has had more resolute, organized, and responsive post-release support for a product. Blizzard with Diablo III is the only one that comes immediately to mind.
Just generally in awe in how they attack this game at times with fixes. Still a ways to go given the bug reports, but big kudos in the work being done.
Unless they make it cheaper to recharge...I don't understand their intention at all.
The prices are like F2P games, but it's a fun game
RedlineRonin
Member
If you die on foot, you lose your exosuit inventory, and respawn near where you died (or last saved?). if you ship blows up, you go back to the nearest space station, and lose your ship inventory.
upgrades stay in tact.
at least this is what has happened to me in both scenarios
DukeLongfellow
Member
Hello Games, at this point I am just fucking impressed.
I can imagine all the positive feedback is adding fuel to their motivation.
I can imagine all the positive feedback is adding fuel to their motivation.
ichtyander
Member
Tried the experimental branch a bit. Unfortunately the AMD texture issues are still there despite what the patch notes say.
Taking missions is now faster, the notification for the acquired mission is shorter and it brings you back directly into the missions list instead of taking you out of it completely and forcing you to talk to the vendor all over again. And once you choose your missions, you go back into the main vendor menu and you can now choose a new "Abandon Missions" option to quit the ones you don't want to do.
That improved ship handling note might've done something because I feel using the mouse during flight feels less jerky. Variable framerate and changing flight speeds made the whole thing control horribly since day one, but it feels different now, might have to play longer, not sure.
Scanning ships with your visor just adds the designation "ship" in your visor once you scan it, it doesn't show any more data than that.
A very interesting thing happened to me just now, I've gotten pretty far with the Mercenary Guild standing and got a few missions to raid a factory (just interact with a terminal to steal data), but then I got a very quick notification that I didn't manage to read in time and got a message that the data was wiped and I failed the mission. So far none of the missions had a fail state, so I don't know if this was added in the new experimental patch or maybe it was there all along, I just didn't have a high enough guild standing to get these missions. Not sure what exactly happened or what I should've done but it's interesting to see that you can actually fail missions.
EDIT:
Oh wow, the missions have been wiped from the Log window, but the mission vendor still shows them as "In Progress" and can't be abandoned.
Taking missions is now faster, the notification for the acquired mission is shorter and it brings you back directly into the missions list instead of taking you out of it completely and forcing you to talk to the vendor all over again. And once you choose your missions, you go back into the main vendor menu and you can now choose a new "Abandon Missions" option to quit the ones you don't want to do.
That improved ship handling note might've done something because I feel using the mouse during flight feels less jerky. Variable framerate and changing flight speeds made the whole thing control horribly since day one, but it feels different now, might have to play longer, not sure.
Scanning ships with your visor just adds the designation "ship" in your visor once you scan it, it doesn't show any more data than that.
A very interesting thing happened to me just now, I've gotten pretty far with the Mercenary Guild standing and got a few missions to raid a factory (just interact with a terminal to steal data), but then I got a very quick notification that I didn't manage to read in time and got a message that the data was wiped and I failed the mission. So far none of the missions had a fail state, so I don't know if this was added in the new experimental patch or maybe it was there all along, I just didn't have a high enough guild standing to get these missions. Not sure what exactly happened or what I should've done but it's interesting to see that you can actually fail missions.
EDIT:
Oh wow, the missions have been wiped from the Log window, but the mission vendor still shows them as "In Progress" and can't be abandoned.
Yesterday I found an S-class Ship in a wreckage and made it mine. Are they supposed to be rare/expensive?
Interesting stuff about the frequency of seeing other players' discoveries!
I'm somewhere in the middle in that it's happened to me all of twice. Once an isolated system that I was surprised to find was already discovered pretty thouroughly after jumping to it at random, and the other one, I got onto someone else's Atlas Path and was jumping along discovered systems for 6 or 7 systems in a row. I have seen other "Contacts" on the Galactic Map though.
edit: Oh yay new patch coming!
Canceling missions is cool. Improved ship handling sounds good. Not much else here that affects me but some good fixes to common issues.
Kinda surprised to see nothing about freighter pricing.
I'm somewhere in the middle in that it's happened to me all of twice. Once an isolated system that I was surprised to find was already discovered pretty thouroughly after jumping to it at random, and the other one, I got onto someone else's Atlas Path and was jumping along discovered systems for 6 or 7 systems in a row. I have seen other "Contacts" on the Galactic Map though.
You can piece it together from quite a bit of ancillary lore even from moment one, but the Atlas Path- original version, but assuming it's still kept in the writing of the reworked one- eventually makes it pretty explicit. Though, from the bits I have seen spoiled, not as explicit the new stuff (but I mean that in a good way).
edit: Oh yay new patch coming!
Canceling missions is cool. Improved ship handling sounds good. Not much else here that affects me but some good fixes to common issues.
Kinda surprised to see nothing about freighter pricing.
Yes.
RedlineRonin
Member
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BreezyLimbo
Banned
I feel that finding locations on a planet is harder than before. I remember in vanilla you could "chain" things like finding shipwrecks or manufacturing facilities, because of the abundance of beacons you could find.
Now Im lucky if I can find any building on a planet lol.
Now Im lucky if I can find any building on a planet lol.
Holy shit. And I was about to drop it for another ship later (a B-Class) 'cause I didn't know! I won't leave this ship ever lol
Does the trade depot flip still work?
Land next to a depot. Purchase ship. Fly ship to freighter. Bring crappy ship down next to your first ship. Exchange ships.
I don't want to lose my max standard slot ship. While only a C class it's worth more than all of my other crappy ships. Wouldn't mind upgrading those.
Land next to a depot. Purchase ship. Fly ship to freighter. Bring crappy ship down next to your first ship. Exchange ships.
I don't want to lose my max standard slot ship. While only a C class it's worth more than all of my other crappy ships. Wouldn't mind upgrading those.
Did I hit some kind of fortuitous glitch in the Exocraft base building mission? The last mission has me hitting up a terminal to siphon like 36k units. So I do it, walk away, get in my ship and notice the mission marker is still on the terminal.
"oh, did I not end the transaction right?"
I do it again.
And again. And again. And again. And again.
I've now hit it for 1million units, by increments of 36k. With no signs of it stopping...
From a gameplay immersion perspective, I find this much better. Having them EVERYWHERE kind of cheapened everything, IMO
"oh, did I not end the transaction right?"
I do it again.
And again. And again. And again. And again.
I've now hit it for 1million units, by increments of 36k. With no signs of it stopping...
From a gameplay immersion perspective, I find this much better. Having them EVERYWHERE kind of cheapened everything, IMO
Finally got the Trophy for defeating 80 spaceships. Funny thing: they don't need to be hostile spaceships... I'm only missing the Trophies for system 80 system jumps and the one for learning 150 words. I'm missing 60 jumps and around 15 words for the Platinum.
I found a nice planet with good weather, an abundance of Pu, low sentinel activity and plenty of materials. I'm gonna bunker down, gather as much Th, Ca and Zn as I need to manufacture the fuel I need for those jumps and then I'm off planet. 60 jumps in a row!
The game has been growing on me. I'd love to explore the main quest and base-building features more, but right now I want to get that Platinum Trophy. I'll probably get it on PC when it's around 15 or 10 just to play it again without the goal of getting Trophies. Besides, framerate is a bit shitty on PS4 Pro sometimes...
I found a nice planet with good weather, an abundance of Pu, low sentinel activity and plenty of materials. I'm gonna bunker down, gather as much Th, Ca and Zn as I need to manufacture the fuel I need for those jumps and then I'm off planet. 60 jumps in a row!
The game has been growing on me. I'd love to explore the main quest and base-building features more, but right now I want to get that Platinum Trophy. I'll probably get it on PC when it's around 15 or 10 just to play it again without the goal of getting Trophies. Besides, framerate is a bit shitty on PS4 Pro sometimes...
RedlineRonin
Member
I mean I suppose you could still get a less than ideal roll of an S class ship, but it's likely it'll be better than most.
What kind? what are the % stats for shield/dmg/hyperdrive? How many slots?
Depends on the planet. Yesterday I popped down and before I knew it was chaining POIs to the point when I had a full inventory, 200 more Nanites and two new Cargo slots even though I'd just intended to come down for some preliminary scanning. They are definitely not always chainable on any planet though which I do remember from vanilla, but I actually like the change. Makes it more notable when it does happen and some planets feel more uncharted.
Remember if you're just looking for something to aim at you can just build a signal booster and pick whatever. You're likely to get distracted on the way.
KCroxtonJr
Member
Glad to see they're putting in a lot of work with these patches, but I really hope they tackle the PC performance issues, the game is still unplayable for me :/ Really sucks when it was just fine before 1.3...I just wanna play!
FourSerioux
Member
I'm certainly glad to see how well this game has taken shape over the last year. I picked up Elite Dangerous last year but as cool as it looks, it's just a bit too much to get into. I tried NMS at launch but got a Steam refund, but I'm now looking forward to jumping in to it again soon. I missed the sale unfortunately, so I'll wait for another one, but I'll certainly pick it up then.
RedlineRonin
Member
So I just connected the dots, as someone who just started at 1.3, how would you have gotten to the stuff under freighter crashes before?
I keep grimacing at that as well...
This should just be No Man's Sky - Atlas Rises |OT| Yes, you read the number of pages right
Plasma Grenades baby. Been digging tunnels and blasting out of cave traps with them for a year.
edit: Though in fairness crashed freighters are new in 1.3
I guess I've had my head buried in this thread and never gave it much notice haha.
I have no idea how you'd summarize everything 1.3 brought to the table, but surely we can do better than terrain editing lol.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Yeh I definitely dont mind not seeing them everywhere lol.
Thats good that there are some plentiful planets left. But yeah thats something I dont miss lol, I remember in vanilla just spending so much time looking at crash sites and constantly going "not worth it". The one time I did find a ship post-1.3, it was a pretty good A class trade ship.
I won't lie you, I didn't check any of that lol I just noticed it had like 29 free slots and took it. Later I noticed the rank, but didn't check neither the stats nor the name. I've been looking on the internet for it, but haven't found it. It looks similar to the Gaboriya S99 from what I remember how it looked.
I found it in the wreckage from where you start the Artemis mission.
Sure, let me get home and I will post them. I event took a screenshot when you compare both ships
let's see some pics of it
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