nms-spoilers

[novel summit]

I am so sorry

[glass flare]

It's fantastic so far, and making me want to explore biomes that I usually ignore (ice worlds looking especially at you)

[brisk pecan]

I'm so glad you can tell they're going to start adding boss encounters. (capital ships, walkers, many mouths & brood mother)

I think they struggled adding smaller enemies with unique a.i so they'd rather add large encounters that get progressively harder/require better gear

Wouldn't be surprised if we have enemies galore by the end of the world update series

[glass flare]

The boss encounters may also be feature code that they brought over from Light No Fire

[late tusk]

i need the new armor rahhhhh

[novel summit]

Part 2 will 100% have more boss fights and I'm all for it

I'm on xbox so Microsoft is jerking off instead of releasing the update

I got a question though

I hear planets are being changed to different ones. Anyone who had mineral extractors/gas extractors, what happened to them? Do they yield different resources or have they just been deleted? I'm talking about extractors on worlds that got changed in the update

[sour fossil]

Some stuff from game files

References to something called "Iron Giant", possibly a structure on planets?

Possibly new freighter trail colour from QS shop: FREIGHTJETS.PURPLE

[solid vessel]

i did see a big robot in the new trailer

[sour fossil]

Hyperdrive upgrades for purple star systems (starship and freighter)

Updated icons for cloud save functionality

?????????????????????????????????? (update: was present since Adrift)

[safe kiln]

exp 15?

[sour fossil]

That would be used for the new patch notes screen

[waxen zodiac]

Wait, purple systems? Were there previous indications of this?

That's something I've been kind of wanting for a while but I don't know what it could look like mechanically or thematically

[sour fossil]

QR Code for cross-save.nomanssky.com, location: TEXTURES/UI/FRONTEND/COMPONENTS/QR.CODE.DDS

[sour fossil]

New stellar metal visible in portal charging

[waxen zodiac]

Oh, huh, interesting

[grizzled apex]

That's old

It was added in Adrift

[sour fossil]

really? must have missed that, thanks

[grizzled apex]

Probably back when HG were toying w/ the name (similar to how Singularity was originally called Crucible)

[sour fossil]

Yeah I member that

Lots of new files for a "Ruins" biome, the only texture I can see are some leaves

[compact coyote]

I’m finally playing the update! It’s awesome

Unfortunately my world is now a nest planet

[young quest]

Ohhhh possible new planet type for part 2

[sour fossil]

New (Nexus?) mission icons

[uncut harness]

I would guess ruins are planetary dungeons? Maybe an overhaul

Oh they're a planet biome. Nvm

[sour fossil]

Starting poster for Exped 14

That's all I have for now

[uncut harness]

I wonder what purple systems will entail.

[glass flare]

Anyone know if the Roamer and Nautilus bob up and down with the waves?

[mental socket]

hmm, dissonance, atlantideum etc. void mother stuff

void mommy star systems

[brisk pecan]

Exactly, Sean mentioned in the deep dive they were implementing what they've learned with LNF into NMS

[uncut harness]

Part 2 comes out in August maybe?

[young quest]

I’d say September but August is possible

[tawdry quarry]

a Ruins PoI would be pretty dope

how long until the next exped?

or when does this new one end? thats usually a good minimum to know when the next updates coming

[real merlin]

So is there a specific planet type bugs are on?

[glass flare]

I think when you scan a planet and it says something about "Brood" that's a bug planet

[novel summit]

Please. Yes. Star system where everything wants to kill you. Give them their own progression system as well. Big bosses roaming planets ID BE IN LOVE

[novel summit]

If they keep adding stuff like they did in this update, the player base will skyrocket.

The main reason this game has a small community is definitely due to lack of action. Luckily Sean said it himself they are now aiming to bring lots of action to planets. This will be super healthy considering LNF looks to be more action packed than NMS. For now....

[uncut harness]

They have to balance it though, some of us still prefer to just walk around and scan

[novel summit]

May have been why they added relaxed mode then. Perhaps that was a sign they wanted to add more action into the game. Or turn down enemy frequency in the settings.

If they gave us a separate mode that turns the game into more of an RPG with bosses and stuff I'd cry

[uncut harness]

I think that'll happen eventually. They've said LNF has the depth of an RPG.

[glass flare]

this convo would probably be better in the future channel..

[white bolt]

i wonder if the purple stars, stellar material, etc. have anything to do with atlantid-type stuff

damn i didnt even get the level up in #no-mans-sky

[unique otter]

There is also an empty slot if you go to "Discoveries and Guide" for the purple chromatic metals, there are slots for the normal and activated next to the other metals

[white bolt]

ah yeah there is

[uncut harness]

I wonder what those ruin biomes will be like.

[tawdry quarry]

maybe dilapidated old civilizations?

[uncut harness]

Thats what I was maybe thinking.

[glass flare]

I wouldn't be surprised if it was based on work done for LNF

maybe they plan to finally show us old civilizations that were blown up by the Sentinels

[tawdry quarry]

i dont think we're in that universe

[carmine jolt]

I think until a new Switch console releases we won't get large scale landmarks like that. HG is pushing for progression through updates across all platforms

[novel summit]

Maybe a special planet in the expedition? Perhaps the purple stuff will be used for that and not part 2?

[novel summit]

Probably generate like regular planets but the "rock" assets are shaped like pillars, stones, etc.

[late tusk]

how to get brood larvae

[late tusk]

found them

[glass flare]

I just hope the cloud saves get added pretty soon. I played some on a 1 hour save on my Mac today. the early game is so tedious after I've done it several times. I just want to use my PS save

[tulip briar]

lean

[late tusk]

ive killed like 5 brood mothers no helmet..

[versed meadow]

Anyone come across the crazy flower animals yet?

I've yet to see them and have been looking for hours

[autumn berry]

anyone know how to find a brood mother>

?

[versed meadow]

Shoot the worms boi

[autumn berry]

but they are insects i thought o.o

[runic mesa]

Got a friend on PS5 checking some of the planets I have bases on for me. So I have a heads up...

[ebon spoke]

unused and unfinished biome added in the update, its just called 'ruins'

the objects are missing textures and collision

[uncut harness]

Cool!

[young quest]

Possible part 2 edition?

[ebon spoke]

I'd assume so

its not finished enough to be part of the expedition

[young quest]

I had a theory part 2 would add more new biomes

If this is supposed to be a new planetary biome this might prove that

Hey with light no fire having dense forests we might also get a forest biome

And full ocean planets

[ebon spoke]

its definitely a new planetary biome

like the trees and grass and everything are all part of it

[glass flare]

interesting. looks more like an exotic biome than something more substantial in terms of buildings and such

[gusty stream]

Ooooooh

[late tusk]

these look straight out of LNF

[pastel cipher]

This update needs more of an overhaul. Apart from water and clouds it looks unfinished

[glass flare]

Aside from it having "Part 1" in the name, why would you think it's unfinished?

[ember sand]

So what are those?

[pastel cipher]

There are mods that make the game look closer to the “E3” like pre release.

The color palette is softer and terrain generation is more refined.

Pathfinder modded version is amazing.

I’ll just have to wait for modders to update.

I’m just used to them and when I see the vanilla version I’m like give me more lol.

[young quest]

Almost as if it’s part 1

[pastel cipher]

Yeah true.

[viral yarrow]

Interesting, it definitely harkens back to the structures shown way back in E3

[viral yarrow]

What's this?

[white bolt]

the new stellar material

it's purple

[versed meadow]

Visited about 50 or 60 planets tonight. 4 contained new stuff. Hopefully part 2 brings the beef.

Unless the goal to enhance exploration was to just make the cool stuff we could find easily pre 5.0. Harder to find.

[young quest]

I saw a lot of new stuff

[versed meadow]

Jealous. I went to probably 90% tropical, verdant, overgrown or flourishing planets. 10% other kinds. My gf was next to me exploring for the last 3 hours. Didn't see anything new other than one of the new bugs and the water and clouds of course. Maybe our save files are broke or something.

[young quest]

The non lush planets got the most changes funny enough

[versed meadow]

2 things I noticed about the lush planets. 3 out of 4 all had the same kind of tree. And glowing grass is pretty rare now.

I just wanted to find a flower tiger.

Thing

Animal

Made of vines and shiz

[young quest]

Yeah for some reason those flower trees generate a lot more frequently now

[sand cliff]

found a friend

[versed meadow]

So I'm not crazy. Cuz I was like. Yo. I used to avoid planets I knew had these things and now they are on all my favorite planets. Lol

Nice, baby city

Mini city boi

[young quest]

I will say the bubble lush planets the bubbles are wild now

[versed meadow]

I gotta find me one of them.

Are you in Euclid?

[young quest]

Yeah

[versed meadow]

I was in some super later galaxies. Lush ones. And man. Maybe the proc gen is funky on the galaxies focused on certain types.

[young quest]

I’m curious on what part 2 will bring

There’s a ruins biome in the files and a new stellar material in the files

[versed meadow]

Hyped for part 2 for sure

[young quest]

I think we might get even more planet types

[versed meadow]

I hope so. I almost wish they would ditch the planet types all together and just let the proc gen go wild.

[young quest]

Can’t do that without resetting everything

People already get mad when the home planet changes can’t imagine there reaction when it’s all deleted

[versed meadow]

Personally. This was the same thing. When a planet changes. I'm gonna delete the base anyway. I'm all for a reset but it's gotta be worth it.

[sand cliff]

im in eissentam, i think that was at my emeral mine. i posted coords in base building

[young quest]

Well I guess just adding new types of planets is better than nothing

Ngl I’ve seen some crazy toxic planets and frozen planets today

Toxic planet with flower trees

[versed meadow]

High energy ones are very cool now

[young quest]

Glad snow planet trees are not just all pines now

[ember sand]

Anyone knows how to get the stellar materials!

?

[young quest]

Idk but it doesn’t have a use yet

[dusky kernel]

I wonder what would be compromised in terms of systems if they went through with putting in a new color of star while presumably not entirely resetting the universe

[sour fossil]

Maybe no compromise will be needed

Since there are still lots of systems hidden in galaxy map

In theory each region should support up to 4096 systems

But in gameplay we have access to up like 600 max

[dusky kernel]

hope they do something about the lushes in the future.... every lush planet and their mother have the nip trees now, and I don't appear to be alone in it

[tepid iris]

I’m thinking more about part 2

It’s also common for games when doing updates in parts to

Like build out new systems in Batch 1

And then go all out on new gameplay options in the second batch

So maybe part 2 will be tons of new gameplay for on planets 🤔

[grizzled apex]

Likely none, if they can enable a new batch of phantom systems in the galaxy map and limit whatever new generation rules Purple Systems will have to them

[dusky kernel]

that would be a good idea

[tepid iris]

But yeah I have no clue and I’m just surprised every time tbh

[grizzled apex]

They did it before for Origins so I'm pretty sure they're gonna take the same route for these, just on the galaxy map scale

There was a new scene file related to the galaxy map too but I haven't been able to check it out yet. It's in the place of all the E3 / VR Demo planet files

[dusky kernel]

what would they most likely do if they were to shove another biome into the distribution (ruins)

would a percentage of a certain biome turn into ruins like how some dead planets turned into exotics, or lush to swamp

[grizzled apex]

Looking at it rn, it might just be another subtype of lush worlds, so probably this.

[dusky kernel]

like with bubble lush?

[grizzled apex]

Woah...

@sour fossil that's the Iron Giant Wreck model

Absolutely 0 collision rn

[glass flare]

strange

[sour fossil]

woah indeed

A monument to the Travellers?

[grizzled apex]

They definitely weren't lying about it being gigantic though

[young quest]

What is this

[grizzled apex]

Looks a lot like the station core on harmonic camps

[grizzled apex]

An "Iron Giant" going off the file name

[young quest]

Part of the ruin biomes?

[grizzled apex]

Dunno, can't search through MBINs to see where it's referenced rn

[tepid iris]

The giant reminds me of what we saw in Light no fire kinda

But with NMS models

I hope LNF will in canon be somehow related to Atlas and NMS

[rough depot]

this is absurdly cool

wonder if theres lore implication to these

[grizzled apex]

I see something about some procedural Manta Ray fauna, has anyone seen something like that in game yet?

[young quest]

I don’t think so

Possibly for part 2?

[grizzled apex]

Lots of stuff here, just wanna see what's unused so far

[rough depot]

if you find more stuff on structures send that here im super interested

planetary structures have been super boring and basically unchanged since launch

[young quest]

If it makes you feel any better there’s a “ruins” biome in the files

[rough depot]

yeah i saw that it looks pretty dope

[young quest]

Makes me think part 2 is adding more animals and planet types

Maybe a poi update with it

[rough depot]

probably

with the possibility that theyre gonna add entirely new stars into the universe they could go kinda wild with stuff in part 2

[young quest]

There’s also a stellar material I’m curious what that’s about

[young quest]

They can add some crazy biomes with new stars

[rough depot]

might just be the stellar material that corresponds with the new stars but the fact that its purple of all colors makes me think its something related to the whole atlantideum subplot thing

[tawdry quarry]

would it make sense to anyone else for that new metal to give you chromatic + altantideum?

[rough depot]

I could see that yeah

[grizzled apex]

There's two versions of the in game Worlds - Part 1 Patch notes. Not sure if HG's on schedule for Part II dropping in summer, if the final version of these doesnt mention Part II by name, but the older one does.

Also interesting that it might've originally been the 4.8 update.

[sour fossil]

You got language files extracted?

[grizzled apex]

Not mine, DragonSire on ETARC took a look

I can send their dump

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1doXezNaeK5V__nCMz9F68wjIphw2qosT/view?usp=drivesdk

[sour fossil]

I looked into the solar fabrication

Looks like HG opted to combine 6 wing types with 6 tip types for 36 combinations

Instead of pairing them with sails, that would give 18 combinations

Much less frustrating to look for IMO

I guess they didn't want to separate the tips into dedicated slot because scrapping interaction dialogue has limit of 3 entries

[ebon spoke]

Btw, the Iron Giant's texture is a rusty version of the freighter texture, or a lighter version of the crashed freighter texture

[proven aurora]

,y home panet didnt change

at all

my home system is unchanged

My home system looks the same

[final hedge]

Is it on xbox

The new update

[pastel cipher]

Do we know anything about part 2? Leaks? Or is it too soon?

[twilit ocean]

So has anyone found deeper oceans?

Didn’t we already have those

[late tusk]

I had one with spiky worm looking trees

[torpid cave]

We had a dissonant resonator device for an expedition iirc

[gilded tusk]

Weird, defeating a Walker gave me coordinates to a Sentinel Pillar on another planet. Does this mean the planet I fought them on will still have them? Its the most beautiful world I've ever found, but they are hostile on it.

[twilit ocean]

I usually build bases on top of pillars if it has aggressive sentinels

[clear citrus]

true

[final forge]

So does the update intensify existing biomes? OR does it add new biomes? Or both

[thin pawn]

modify existing

[grizzled apex]

Adds new biome subtypes to existing ones, like Origins

[final forge]

cool

[opaque umbra]

Oh neat

[river crater]

not sure what the new biome sub types for all the existing ones are yet, other than Noxious for the toxic planets

and hope part 2 adds more new unique biome types like Origins did

[opaque umbra]

Assuming sub type is the chosen name variant of a planet or do subtypes have differences?

[grizzled apex]

Noxious, Deserted, Barren White Sand, Subzero and a few others off the top of my head

[opaque umbra]

Barren white sand sounds interesting

[grizzled apex]

It's like how Lush planets can have those swamp and bubble sub variants, or be normal lush worlds

[opaque umbra]

Ooh

[opaque umbra]

If we're getting light no fire tech for the generation would love to see rivers in part 2 or the future

Sean it's all I've wanted for years

[azure mortar]

Hi fellow explorers. Is there a new table of biome probability weights available, like when prime planets were introduced with the Origin update? I read there is at least one new Ruin biome, and I wonder if waterplanets were now unlocked with the new landing tech. Just being curious 🙂

[sour fossil]

The Ruin biome is not in the actual game yet, it's very much WIP

As for data in general - because of HG changing game files format / structure we can't read game files right now

We need to wait for mod tools to be reworked for these changes, gonna take a couple days

[timid mist]

hopefully it doesn't turn out to be like the "legacy" exotic worlds where there are like 4 different models across the whole surface with nothing really interesting to do on them

[young quest]

Seems to be a type of lush world

[timid mist]

that'd be nice visually at least. though so are the mushroom exotics. nice that they let the exotic props get mixed into other worlds but finding a pure exotic planet now is kinda boring lol

they're nice for the zoology milestones i guess

[young quest]

They could also be for other planets but some of the assets are lush trees

[timid mist]

neato

also kinda hope the new system types (if that is where they're heading with that) aren't just higher chance to find dissonant planets. kinda doubt that's all it would be tho since it's a tag on the galaxy map currently.

[twilit ocean]

I think now that we have a second one it’s a good way to tell you what’s in the system

Like if in the future we get extra deep ocean planets now that we can land on water

and with how this update went it shows we can have lots more combat updates that wouldn’t mess with people that just want to explore

Spoiler for content ||Don’t crush the bug, don’t summon vile beasts||

But it also means if we get deep oceans I will trust nothing

[gloomy isle]

Is that something new? I swear I've heard it mentioned before but I'm probably wrong lol

[gloomy isle]

It would be a super convenient way to introduce some crazier generation stuff

[sour fossil]

#nms-spoilers message

[gloomy isle]

WHOA

That's sick

[river crater]

Ruin biome is likely coming with part 2, but do we know any other new biomes coming with Worlds part 2?

[twilit ocean]

I hope one is ocean worlds

[timid mist]

yeah pure ocean worlds with the water level set as high as the mountains can go on the superbiome planets would be insane

[twilit ocean]

I would either start over at the cost of my neon freighter or wipe all my discoveries and scan everything

[late tusk]

Did anyone get the exped item ids yet

[lofty acorn]

I've unlocked 3 helmets with Brood Mothers, is there more lol?

[sour fossil]

There are like 5 I think

You can visit the appearance modifier and see helmets that are still locked out

[lofty acorn]

Oh I completely forgot about that

I have 4 now, I believe the Chitin is the soon to be expedition one

[sour fossil]

Yes, that is exped reward

[lofty acorn]

You reckon it's Skyrim inspired?

[novel summit]

I'm here

@zenith perch

[zenith perch]

You mentioned ruins under caves

@novel summit these exist within game files, they could well add more cave stuff and i hope they do

[novel summit]

Yeah something like that

I saw the ruins thing but I thought that was just more props to add to a certain lush planet

They take the place of trees and rocks. Like those anomoly planets. That's what I'm guessing

Nothing super new just more props I think

[young quest]

I mean landing on a planet and having ruined buildings all around you is pretty cool

[novel summit]

Oh don't get me wrong it is

But these people are thinking they are structures and such when in reality its just really cool looking props

[young quest]

It’s under “biome” so yeah they most likely are props

But they might have special pois

[novel summit]

I know people found a giant statue that's sunken in the mud

[zenith perch]

Part 2 has the chance to build hugely on 1 and I have a feeling its going to surprise way more people than expected

[young quest]

Yeah that one

[novel summit]

Part 1 seemed to be introducing the technology. Part 2 is going to put it to use I'm guessing

[zenith perch]

Underground settlements would be hype

[young quest]

I’m pretty sure part 2 should release around the same time as most of the past big summer updates so I can see it being big

[zenith perch]

Early september is my prediction

Expedition should end around the 29th

[novel summit]

I love that they've been adding boss battles lately so I have a feeling we'll get more in part 2

[zenith perch]

A pretty massive discovery was made

There's a new purple glyph

And a purple hyperdrive

There's a decent chance part 2 could contain full on new system types

[novel summit]

Oh yeah I heard about that

[zenith perch]

If it were up to me I'd have systems closer to the center of a galaxy prioritise the weirder generation

[novel summit]

I hope the corrupt star systems are end game and very difficult

[young quest]

Dense forests in part 2 plz

[late tusk]

do you get a pop up when unlocking one of the bug helmets

[sour fossil]

I got one

Similar to the Aeron Jetpack from 1st interaction with a harmonic camp

[late tusk]

alright

guess i just gotta keep farming them

this is reaching SAO levels of grind

[shrewd hinge]

This planet's colors are just amazing to me. Found it in an untouched green binary system. Second untouched system I've ever found.

[solar prairie]

My bet is it ends and they release part 2

Because I'm guessing part two is done so August is my guess for part 2

Supposedly it's a new star system type and more procgen

[compact coyote]

I heard that this new system type could have completely black space. It was just speculation but that would be amazing

[glass flare]

Did this update increase the potential colors for grass as well, or just sky/water colors?

[gray leaf]

i've not seen an indication on grass colours.
Mostly about the new colour pallete for skies.

There was also the reference about the very rare sky colours for explorers to find

[shrewd hinge]

Do we know which ones are rare?

[gray leaf]

They just mentioned very rare ones to find, nothing else

[glass flare]

I wonder if the tinted filter worlds are also expanded to include the new sky colors. I don't know how technically those two things relate, if at all

[idle escarp]

so is the legacy save file issue a real thing

[glass flare]

what issue is that?

[dusky kernel]

apparently the nip tree bug is tied to old saves or something

[glass flare]

hm. I've been using my launch day save on the PS5 and haven't seen nip trees everywhere

[gusty stream]

Im using my early NEXT aged save and don't have this problem

[gloomy isle]

Purple systems makes me think they're doing more Atlantid lore

It's the next logical step after planets after all

[dusky kernel]

post that people are talking about: https://vxtwitter.com/the_redOrb/status/1813983331803074699

[gloomy isle]

Huh hopefully that gets fixed pretty quickly

[glass flare]

I haven't had that issue, so there must be more going on than just "legacy saves"

[gloomy isle]

Platform specific maybe?

[glass flare]

could be, or maybe there's some corruption in some people's saves? not sure. hopefully those people are submitting bugs to HG

[gloomy isle]

I've started a new save so I'll look to see if there's any difference

I didn't notice anything yesterday, though there were maybe too many nip nip trees

[uncut harness]

That's what other people were saying is a bug

[dark bough]

sorry for being distracted, Artemis, I see a potential raid target

[late tusk]

i want to do a new save but eh...

i really dont want to do the main story AGAIN.

[ebon spoke]

More unused biomes from the update

^ This one's called 'Desolate' and is using new terrain textures. I'm not totally sure if the textures are otherwise unused, the other new desert biome might also have them

"UnderwaterCreepy"

[halcyon pebble]

could be also might be a part 2 thing since the possible new planets

[ebon spoke]

"UnderwaterForests"

"UnderwaterTowers"

[halcyon pebble]

interesting

[ebon spoke]

Note that these probably have more procedural variation, I only tested each one on a single planet

same with the ruins from yesterday

[halcyon pebble]

Im guessing either this is in the game and no one has found it or simply origins part 2 will add more procgen stuff and the are testing it bit by bit nice finds man 🙂 🙂

[glass flare]

underwater forests looks pretty cool

[late tusk]

oh my god

[halcyon pebble]

I really hope they increase foliage cover on some planets ngl

I want like a paradise planet that has a lot of trees to create pandora from avatar

and with the new engine updates I hope its possible because LNF has some insane coverage

[gusty stream]

The underwater ones look sick

[young quest]

It is possible and it assuming part 2 will introduce more of that

[halcyon pebble]

hopefully

[uncut harness]

I wonder what they'll do to make purple stars different

[halcyon pebble]

@long forge Ok question whats your NMS name because I found a discovered system and your the closes person in the discord with the name

[mental socket]

reminds me of this

[young quest]

Random ruins even non intractable will be cool to see on planets

The iron giant thing is cool

[mental socket]

that's basically the giant statue from LNF as well

interesting connections

👀

[young quest]

Same universe?

[mental socket]

Idk. Time will tell

Not making any assumptions. Personally would wish it not to be

[young quest]

lol they add a secret light no fire planet somewhere in the universe

[gloomy isle]

Does anyone know if the new flora has procedural variation aside from colour?

I've spotted a few variations of the poison flowers but I haven't had much chance to play

[young quest]

Those new lush flower things all have different color variations

I’ve seen different types of the sunflower trees

[gloomy isle]

Yeah I think most new planets have some variations

The garden flowers seem to be mostly recolours though I'm not too sure

[drowsy dune]

So I’m confused, is legacy saves actually affecting variety? I’ve seen mostly flower/corn trees but still saw floating islands

[gloomy isle]

I think it seems to be mainly affecting the regular trees that spawn on lush planets

The different sub biomes etc still spawn

[drowsy dune]

Ah

[drowsy dune]

Why did they leave so many things in the game? Usually it’s only a few things but this time it’s like 8 whole biomes

[young quest]

Blame the geks for getting addicted to the nip nip

[gloomy isle]

Part of me isn't all that keen on how the sub biome templates seem to work, with them spawning mostly the same stuff

[young quest]

This is my headcanon why there’s so many nip nip trees

[gloomy isle]

Though I think I have to remember that before now, it was always basically one asset set per planet type

So it's not like they're any different ig

[young quest]

There was always more than 1 asset type wdym

[dreamy quartz]

so my game bugged out (no mods/vanilla) and I couldn't see the creatures in the discovery tab. They'd show for like one second and then vanish and the list would appear empty (like what you get on dead planets). I screenshotted it the second it appeared and noticed something weird

It's obviously a bug, but I wonder if it's related to any of the stuff that was data mined

I don't recall seeing creatures with names that start without a first letter by itself, and also "AnyTime"

[gloomy isle]

I mean like, the proc gen asset was always just one or two types of the same thing

[dreamy quartz]

I reloaded the save and the issue fixed itself, but "Longinus Palmi" was now missing from the list and replaced with a random underground creature

[gloomy isle]

Like on poison planets it was always mushrooms that looked basically the same etc

[young quest]

There mushroom planets with sunflowers I’ve seen some with no mushrooms but weird alien trees and egg flora on the ground and one with no mushrooms but with weird vines

[gloomy isle]

I'm talking about how it used to be

[ebon spoke]

'Longinus Palmi' is the default creature name that's stored in the ui file, I believe. Same deal with the icon next to it, and probably the AnyTime. What appears to have happened is that the game failed to load in any creature data for that slot

[gloomy isle]

I was just thinking out loud about how some of the new sub biomes feel similar each time you find them

[dreamy quartz]

ah okay

[gloomy isle]

But then I realised it was like that for literally every planet before so

[half nest]

hey there so i just got three choices in the game after i met atlas and told him 16 like 3 times or 4, i got 3 choices to make and i choose to seek the final interface, i dont want to know a lot but the outcome will make my game reset? like, start from zero

[young quest]

Well atleast we got more pretty things to look at

[sterile hemlock]

the choice you made wasnt significant, it would only change your tracked mission. seeking the final interface will only cause you to teleport to a new galaxy and damage your starship

[half nest]

oh, so thats why im seeing new glyphs when i warp

[sterile hemlock]

once you get to 16 warps i believe youll see the final interface

you can teleport back to euclid through any teleporter afterwards

[half nest]

well thats a lot of warps haha, seems like ill have to make a lot of fuel

[sterile hemlock]

believe it also damages your exosuit gear

[trim willow]

Before NEXT planets could have a small, medium or high level of flora or fauna. So it massively boosted variety. Like you’d have a toxic planet but it would be all but completely rocky but with heaps of animals. It made it feel way more organic rather than every biome being 100% full of flora and fauna
(If that’s what you mean)

[sterile hemlock]

make some hypercores lol

[half nest]

wait, so my S tier ship could be permanent damage?

[gloomy isle]

True but most of the flora especially was basically the same

Only lush had any real variety

[sterile hemlock]

no just like damage similar to the start of the game where the thruster and launch system were damaged

[half nest]

oh so just need to fix that and im good, nice

[sterile hemlock]

id recommend packing any technology modules into your inventory before the final warp

so you dont have to repair much

[trim willow]

Totally, but at the very least it wouldn’t feel as “samey”

It’s a shame they don’t proc gen the fauna like they do the animals and ships. It’s all just the exact same models

[trim willow]

*flora

[half nest]

oooh ok so ill just make space on ship inventory and my personal inventory

[sterile hemlock]

yup

youll still have to repair the launch systems and the main things tho

[half nest]

i must say, i actually wanted to see that quest were you get a staff

[gloomy isle]

There's some different varieties but I would prefer some more

[half nest]

sadly i wont get it

[gloomy isle]

This is a good example of a current update very barren planet

[sterile hemlock]

its after the final interface :)

[gloomy isle]

Aside from the grass it's pretty barren which is cool

[half nest]

oh, the multitool will be damaged too?

[sterile hemlock]

after finishing the mission go to a harmonic camp

[half nest]

i got all of my stuff from the adrift expedition

[sterile hemlock]

not really sure kinda forgot, id take stuff off it just incase

[trim willow]

Oooh that’s nice, guess I’ll have to keep exploring

[half nest]

cool ill do it

[gloomy isle]

Yeah there's a lot of cool stuff

I think I've just got to remember that Flora is one of like 30 different variables that go into a planet

[uncut harness]

Those colors give me old NMS feelings

[gloomy isle]

Yeah there's a nice mix of all eras with the colours

I got a tri colored sky today as well

[young quest]

Remember they also made sky colors better so it’s not just new flora

[gloomy isle]

Oh ofc yeah

[young quest]

Some planets at night are really dark I noticed and I saw one that’s really pink

[gloomy isle]

I have also noticed that there's several different smaller flora that can spawn or not spawn in each sub biome

Like I also think those tentacle trees weren't in the last similar type of radioactive biome I was in

[young quest]

There’s a lot of tentacle trees but I think I know what you mean

[gloomy isle]

The glowy ones don't spawn on all of that type, I don't think

[young quest]

Nope they don’t

[gloomy isle]

I've also just seen that the smaller shrubs on the garden worlds are a bit different between planets

[young quest]

You know I did find a toxic planet with somewhat normal looking trees but not exactly

They weren’t lush trees

But they were definitely new

[gloomy isle]

Yeah some of the new toxic biomes are a bit more lush which is cool

I think my sunflowers were different to other ones I've seen too

[young quest]

Also scalding planets have gotten love

[young quest]

I saw a bunch of new assets on them

And frozen planets can have different types of trees now like those frozen over trees

I call them popsicle trees

[gloomy isle]

Yeah the ice biomes are a lot better

Tbh I think the only biomes I'd like a bit more procedural variation on are the new lush ones

[young quest]

There’s also the trees that look like they have cotton leaves

[gloomy isle]

Most new sub biomes seem to have a wide enough spawn table of stuff

[young quest]

Funny how the lush biomes got the least amount of love

[gloomy isle]

Yeah the new types almost feel like exotic worlds

At the same time they were miles ahead of other biomes so it makes sense ig

[young quest]

Though I guess based of the data mines they’ll get some love in part 2

[young quest]

True

[gloomy isle]

The only real big thing I'd want is for a chance for an asset from a different sub biome to spawn on a planet

Like if the floating flowers could sometimes appear on regular lush planets

[young quest]

Idk what’s with the nip nip trees everywhere

[gloomy isle]

Apparently that's a bug

[young quest]

Has to be

[gloomy isle]

It doesn't seem to affect new saves

[young quest]

Hmmm

Hopefully it gets fixed

[gloomy isle]

It's pretty big so it definitely will

Floating island collision too

[young quest]

I don’t mind them but seeing them on every planet can get a little annoying

[gloomy isle]

Also the amount of different atmospheres now is insane

They can give otherwise similar planets a totally different vibe which is cool

[young quest]

Yeah I’ve seen some crazy stuff

[uncut harness]

My sky turned from blue to this peach color

[young quest]

Reminds me of a pre Next sc

[uncut harness]

Agreed, more saturated colors.

[gloomy isle]

Honestly I really like that ngl

[uncut harness]

Me too!

[gloomy isle]

Here's my sky with 3 colours

[uncut harness]

That's so pretty! Is it like that all the time?

[gloomy isle]

Yeah basically. There's usually more pink though

[uncut harness]

Wow!

I think they did something with grass maybe? This blue is a lot brighter then I've seen.

[gloomy isle]

It's also got glowing trees I haven't seen on other similar biomes

[gloomy isle]

Yeah some planets are super vibrant now

Some are gloomier too

[uncut harness]

Yep

[gloomy isle]

Is that a scorched planet?

These palettes are taking me back to the announcement trailer days ngl

[half nest]

so i finally warped 16 times and got 2 options to choose, reset the simulation or refuse atlas, as far as i read refusing atlas makes me travel to the center of the galaxy by myself, if i reset it means ill go to the center of the galaxy?

[gloomy isle]

@uncut harness I found a similar planet to your blue one

[uncut harness]

Radioactive one surprisingly lol

[carmine pollen]

Spoopy

[honest grove]

(not my image, still dont have the update yet)

hmmmmmmmm

[glass flare]

seems to confirm a new star and it being connected to Void Mother

well a new star, or....somewhere else that requires warping

[drowsy dune]

From xaines world YouTube

[cloud plume]

Whole systems becoming dissonant now?

Sick

[young quest]

Possible underwater biome rework in part 2?

This is an underwater forest

In the files

[novel summit]

I mean if that isn't proof we're getting pure ocean worlds with deep oceans I don't know what is

[young quest]

I mean it seems pretty obvious with them adding water landing

[novel summit]

They have to add huge leviathans that only live on the pure ocean worlds

[grizzled apex]

Pretty funny that the Void Mother is supposed to be indoctrinating lifeforms with contaminated water, and that most oceans are already tainted by her, and that this update's making everyone jump headfirst into them lol

[young quest]

Part 2 might just be bigger than part 1

[grizzled apex]

Might or might be intentional, given the dissonant system hints they left in

[young quest]

I did see bomber bois twitter post and there’s more underwater biomes leaked I just found that one was the most interesting

[novel summit]

They did say it's the biggest update of the year SO FAR

[novel summit]

The fact one of them is called "Underwater creepy" gives me hope they'll establish fear in oceans

[young quest]

Also these might be a new fauna type in the future

[novel summit]

Where did you find that?

[young quest]

There’s mantaray fauna in the files and these do fit

There’s also glowing striders and glowing flying lizards

[novel summit]

Damn alright

Imagine swimming in a deep ocean and suddenly a boss bar appears as something emerges from the depths

[young quest]

There’s also a new desolate biome type but idk what that’s gonna be about

[novel summit]

Cool as shit

[cloud plume]

Void mother influence might be becoming increasingly clear

[glad kernel]

Could you pls share the file path?

[grizzled apex]

Babs posted a list in the modding server a lil while back I think

[twilit ocean]

Holy shit we’re getting the big update

We really will be stepping into a sci-fi novel now

and Sean said this summer so we get it before September hopefully

[gloomy isle]

That fact that we're getting another one of these is nuts

[glad kernel]

OK，thank you

[glad kernel]

Could pls teach me how to enable it in game?

[twilit ocean]

Are waterfall islands upcoming?

Or are they in the game right now

I haven’t found any yet, just the regular floating islands

[uncut harness]

It's bugged rn. Some are seeing em others arenr

[twilit ocean]

Ohh okay

Thank you

[rocky sinew]

Hi!
Anyone here know how to save Apollo? (the robot guy that is a contact of Artemis)

[shut sparrow]

Why do geks just rip ass when I talk to them? ;-;

Apparetly it's so potent, it makes my avatar high ;;-;;

'Boutta somehow give my guy pink eye from how raw that shit is, and he's a robot ;;;-;;;

[glad kernel]

Do you know how to enable them in game?

[icy citrus]

Hi, um

This doesn't really have any happy endings

[grizzled apex]

I'd try replacing them with another creature file after landing on a planet which has the creature you're replacing

Loading descriptor models directly is a lil borked i think because I kept getting wirey shapes doing that lol

[glad kernel]

And same way to enable the new biome?

[rocky sinew]

I know dw

i know you can't meet

but there's 2 outcomes iirc, he makes it through or he doesn't

[grizzled apex]

Should be the same pipeline

[glad kernel]

I'll try

[twilit ocean]

Im going to need to message zendesk with a big suggestion again for once

We need gas giants with those floating islands

I want to fly through a turbulent hyper dangerous space storm of crushing force and land on an impossible piece of terrain

[icy citrus]

Sounds good to me

[gloomy isle]

The new ocean biomes, star types and landing on water make me think we're going to get full ocean planets

Not to mention the association between the Atlantid and water

[glad kernel]

failed 🥲

[glad kernel]

Pls, after you go online, how to enable them?

[twilit ocean]

I’ve been waiting for this for years

After I learned Maya is an autodesk software which I have a massive technically affinity for

I’m really disappointed I didn’t practice it when I had money

[grizzled apex]

Tried replacig existing models... this is all i got (AntelopeGlow, FlyingLizardGlow)

The manta ray is just a set of beady eyes lol

Said Beady eyes, it's the only one which moves though, since it's got actual anims

[gloomy isle]

It's looking like these new systems will end up being self contained areas of totally different stuff

Maybe

[grizzled apex]

Looking at the exe... looks like purple systems are gonna have a specific list of creatures for them. They're also counted per voxel, and kinda treated like Atlas / BlackHole systems rn.

[icy citrus]

Void Mommy systems

[patent shale]

are we sure that the legacy save thing is actually a bug. doesn't seem to make much sense in my head. Has anyone tried to visit post 5.0 systems they found on a legacy save and compare them to how they look in a new save

because the legacy save theory means either:

legacy saves see different planets than new saves

or

the planet depends on if i was discovered by legacy or new saves

[icy citrus]

https://x.com/rayreynoldsnms/status/1814159734959706338?s=61

Ray Reynolds (@RayReynoldsNMS) on X

Okay so six hours of searching and travelling to two planets shown to have floating islands I can confirm that I can't see them on PS5. Even moreso the biomes appear to be different too

Tried on Legacy and new save, makes ZERO difference I still can't see them

Twitter · Jul 19, 2024, 4:46 AM

This dude can't see them on any save

Very experienced NMS player, so I'm assuming it's updated, and using the right galaxy for the glyphs

[patent shale]

yeah im aware of him, odd then

[icy citrus]

Ya, very weird

[patent shale]

but he can see vile broods

[timid mist]

yeah seems like it might just be a weird bug unrelated to saves. one of the ps5 pics Ray posted has the nip trees, and he said the save he used made zero difference. weird, won't pretend to know what it could be lol, but definitely a bug rather than intended I think

[gloomy isle]

I wonder if it's going to end up being aspects of the void mother's simulation overtaking the Atlas?

[glad kernel]

@grizzled apex I remember someone once dug up the start time of an expedition. Has anyone dug it up this time?

[twilit ocean]

I’ve been having the same experience on ps5 so i’ll try looking for them too in a bit

That’s Euclid galaxy glyphs right?

[icy citrus]

I'm assuming so, didn't see it specified

Which usually means it is

[grizzled apex]

That's only doable when HG pushes that start time epoch to the servers. So far, there's no start time Unix code set on the HG Servers

[carmine pollen]

I saw this earlier. Seems more likely to be a platform issue. I’ve seen the corncob trees everywhere myself as well on PS5. Going to try some coordinates later and if they show up differently I’ll submit a bug report as well

[icy citrus]

They will be scrambling to fix, hope it's very soon

[carmine pollen]

Xbox and Switch aren’t updated yet correct? So there’s no way to check if its a persistent issue there as well

[gloomy isle]

I've not had the issue personally on PC

Is it looking like a platform specific thing at this stage?

Or just random players

[timid mist]

from my time on ps5 i haven't noticed the tree issue

but also wasn't really paying super close attention except a little last night, so who knows

[twilit ocean]

Whats the tree issue?

[carmine pollen]

Its looking more and more like its platform specific. I’ve started noticing the corncob trees on nearly all the lush planets I visit as well.

[carmine pollen]

It’s possible the update is bugged on PS5. But it’s not totally verified yet. People are still testing and submitting bug reports.

[solar prairie]

On lush planets trees are all the same almost out of every like lush forest planet besides 2 they have had the same trees for me out of like 20 planets

[icy citrus]

Lol, yeah probably not intended

[twilit ocean]

Yeah probably just something we wait for

I’ll check the planet soon

[carmine pollen]

Water reflections, wave whitecaps, and beach seafoam also aren’t present on PS5

[twilit ocean]

Can confirm that one

It’s a bit iffy sometimes

[zenith perch]

https://vxtwitter.com/RayReynoldsNMS/status/1814159734959706338

[sour fossil]

More stuff from game files

Potential bulding mode free cam?

[timid mist]

Believe we already have that? unless it's somehow different

[sour fossil]

Solar system generation data for purple star sytems

[sour fossil]

Those are brand new properties so I assume they are new gameplay features, but feel free to correct me as Im not a base builder

[zenith perch]

Almost practically confirmed that new systems are coming then

[timid mist]

if they're new then i imagine they're different somehow. there is a freecam feature at the moment but I think there's a boundary sphere limiting the distance of it from where your character is. Maybe this extends that to base building limits or something

[zenith perch]

System empty means no lifeforms other than planetary ones right?

[sour fossil]

Trinity is the codename for alleged PS5 Pro console

[zenith perch]

So no NPCs, abandoned stations, etc etc tec

[sour fossil]

Looks like 1 in 4 brood mothers kills give player the helmet / title reward

[molten karma]

So do we think part 2 of this update might skip to 5.5 possibly and part 3 will be next year 6.0? These changes seem pretty big for it to be 5.1 or 5.2

[timid mist]

oh yeah i found a bug with the brood mother fight that basically trivializes it entirely lol. 100% reproducible so far too.

!hg

[cloud jolt]

You can submit bug reports, suggestions or feedback to Hello Games here: https://hellogames.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

[sour fossil]

Prolly confirmation that the PURPLE2 and EXPURPLE substances will be the new stellar metals (regular and activated variants)

[gloomy isle]

Huh so they're all empty too

[sour fossil]

I dont think so

I dont like how abandoned is set to 0.5 and empty to 1

Prolly just placeholder values

[gloomy isle]

Aah fair

It's a smart way to do new stuff with the proc gen ngl

[molten karma]

Hoping we see some pathfinder like terrain in these new systems.

[sour fossil]

Looks like mech AI will be able to utilize the flamethrower tech

[gusty stream]

Heck yeah

[timid mist]

i hope they go crazy on the new systems too since they won't have to worry about messing with existing terrain

[tawdry quarry]

i think they will with the extreme biome chance. in harsh galaxies planets are wild

[gloomy isle]

Imo it's not unlikely that we get some worlds entirely covered in water

[timid mist]

yeah but i mean like entirely different logic (within reason lol) compared to current stuff, would be sick

[gloomy isle]

We can land there now and it's thematically appropriate for the systems

[tawdry quarry]

imagine we get corrupted sentinel dreadnaughts and fighters

[timid mist]

gimme an entirely water planet but with caves that lead to a dry inner planet

[zenith perch]

I don't see this happening

It'd look very odd with current terrain

[molten karma]

I don't think so I think NMS needs a bit more sharper terrain. I'm kind of hoping since we have old style stations in abandoned systems imagine if they went the extra mile and did pre-NEXT style planets within these systems as well? A glitch in the simulation a fragment in time. It'd fit with the lore and be really awesome plus with Korvax prime being constantly mentioned with the Void Mother it'd be cool to see this kind of stuff come back to the game.

That's some hopium and I know it probably wont happen but I really hope it will come true one day lol. I'm sure Sean knows that some of the community plays pre-next versions.

[tepid iris]

they're only on PC?

or are they on Xbox

[tawdry quarry]

i think we'll see knew planetside stations eventually. depending on what HG is focusing on like just planet terrain and biome or planets overall, we'll see new trade stations and stuff possibly with this update

or string of updates

[gloomy isle]

If they do change terrain I'd rather them make new terrain than bring back the older stuff

[tepid iris]

maybe multi biomes per planet since LNF has it with a single planet setup

but idk

[sour fossil]

New parameters for expedition settings:
OverrideMTFilename
CarnageMode
AlwaysStormy
BlockExtremeWeatherInStartSystem

Expedition 14 will feature something reffered to as Carnage

[tawdry quarry]

feel like theres a non-zero chance for that

[sour fossil]

New base buidling part called Billboard?

[tawdry quarry]

Sean did say they're bringing tech in from LNF so id say theres a real chance of that eventually

[sour fossil]

Possible new freighter base parts: FRE_EXT_W_STA, FRE_CORR_G_STA, FRE_FACE_WALL

Exomech flamethrower will prolly have proc gen upgrade modules

[icy citrus]

I really hope not, and if it is I hope they are extremely rare

I live on a multi biome, I like the sci-fi trope of one per

[tepid iris]

hmm that doesn't feel sci-fi to me but fair

[icy citrus]

It's literally what 85% of all sci-fi does

[tepid iris]

what if it was procedural 🙂

like I think it's now completely random?

like scorced vs ice vs desert can be all in the same system right at random?

but what if they actually checked the distances between planets and the sun

and the furtherst and closests would be most likely to be only frozen / scorched

and mixed ones could be mixed or something?

[gusty stream]

They do
They're already purchasable

[tepid iris]

Idk

[icy citrus]

I understand the appeal, but I really do like the fantasy aspect of the game, the less realism the better imo

[sour fossil]

Looks like there will be an egg reward for expedition phase 5?

[zenith perch]

can we add this to settlements please please please please please

[sour fossil]

I dont member seeing it in QS vendor

[icy citrus]

I'd prefer more biomes, that are wild

[tepid iris]

Well I don't really "want" it, I'm just trying to imagine what they'll do 😛

[zenith perch]

Imagine a planet where the caves were made of water

[tepid iris]

I don't think I'll walk far enough to get into a different biome

[icy citrus]

Raging ocean worlds, lava worlds, and just basically insane biomes

[tepid iris]

but ppl have been discussing it for years, and HG keeps ticking of so many boxes

I'm so surprised

[tepid iris]

I think they can for the oceans now with the waves 👀

[tepid iris]

Also my thought: lava falls for floating islands

have they done that on lava worlds?

I don't think lava would realistically work on a floating island if they can float at all somehow

but would be cool 😛

[zenith perch]

Idk if we'll see proper full on physics like that

Gimme a settlement update i beg

[tepid iris]

Well the water falls are now just an effect I think

Personally I'd imagine player guilds / clan citadels in the Anomaly

or something else you can summon from space

so you can basically build kinda like a freighter base

but shared with your group

[icy citrus]

People would like that

[zenith perch]

update where some of the quests can actually be done as a group instead of just anomaly missions

[sour fossil]

really? where

[gusty stream]

In space stations vendors

I found one there

[gloomy isle]

While I don't really want multibiome, I'd love for climate intensity, terrain etc to vary accross the surface

Like if planets has certain regions with less storms and stuff

[uncut harness]

I feel like there are some things like that. I used to have a base in an area of a planet where hostile creatures would spawn all the time, but if I moved to a different location it was rare to get hostile creatures

But yeah more features of a single biome being related to position would be cool

[ebon spoke]

Now that we've got the MBIN compiler, should be able to just add them to METADATA/SIMULATION/SOLARSYSTEM/BIOMES/BIOMEFILENAMES.MBIN (just need to make sure that the BiomeSubType line refers to a valid ID that isn't already used in the biome type.

valid BiomeSubTypes

if that doesn't work, what I did was just replace some of the existing biome files with the unused ones, so METADATA/SIMULATION/SOLARSYSTEM/BIOMES/LUSH/LUSHHQBIOME.MBIN replaced with a renamed copy of .../BIOMES/RUINS/RUINBIOME.MBIN

[solar prairie]

I just want planets to actually feel more alive. Like animal wise its fine but actually plants and trees it still fees idk barren and kinda desolate and once you walk on a planet for 4 minutes you have seen the full things since there is no rivers or anything besides what you see when you land

[mental socket]

the floaty island collisions are also kinda off and the scale seems odd. Like the surface and textures are way too "zoomed in" in comparison to normal ground textures

[icy citrus]

Having localized storms would be amazing

Watching one sweep across the horizon

[glass flare]

I thought 5.0 did have localized weather

"Water conditions vary over time in response to both** local weather** and the depth of the water at any particular location"

[grizzled apex]

According to what the servers are currently returning, expedition 14 should begin on <t:1721826000>

[glass flare]

I was wondering why I hadn't seen any seafoam yet on the water, huh. And you're right, now that I think about it I haven't seen reflections on the water other than from the sky. No object reflections :(

[white bolt]

i dont think that really means storms tho

considering whenever it’s storming on a planet the entire planet still gets covered in clouds from space

[glass flare]

hm... well last night I was flying around a Wind-Swept planet and there were localized areas of big dust clouds here and there. maybe it depends on the weather effect

[icy citrus]

Local = planet

A storm is still planetwide

[glass flare]

In addition, cloud coverage variety has been boosted, varying significantly from planet-to-planet, as well as over time and in response to local weather conditions if they mean "local" = "planet" then they aren't speaking about that consistently, as per this quote

[compact coyote]

Anyone know about this “Manta ray” situation

[zenith perch]

If this happens they'll end up doing partial resets which will annoy base builders

They really should just let you move the bases via the computer, I don't understand why they don't

[zenith perch]

?

[sour fossil]

Manta rays are alleged new type of creatures still very much a WIP

#nms-spoilers message

[grizzled apex]

Unused creatures which are heavily unfinished rn

[dreamy quartz]

I'm on pc and I have reflections but not seafoam and whitecaps

Steam, no mods

I'll double check though after work

[carmine pollen]

[icy citrus]

All I know is we don't have localized weather

[glass flare]

yet

[dreamy quartz]

But I thought maybe those just weren't things lol

Does anyone have a screenshot of seafoam or white caps?

Just so I can compare

[glass flare]

you can see the foam in the Worlds deep dive video

on the shoreline

[dreamy quartz]

I meant outside the videos lol

Like has ANYONE seen it in game?

I feel like the trailer looks better than actual gameplay, and I'm on pc with a 4090 and an i9 12900K

Like my game doesn't look that good lmao

[gray leaf]

using DLAA?? all maxed to Ultra?
check settings some things changed with update without consent

[dreamy quartz]

Yeah; I was messing with it last night so I'll double check in about 30 mins when I'm done working

[gray leaf]

from my personal experience and the screenshots some people on maxed have been sharing, it's been looking pretty accurate to trailer i'd say

[dreamy quartz]

I just find it kind of funny because it doesn't get better hardware wise than this lol, at least for competent parts (unless I switch to amd)

I also have 32 gb of ram although I don't think that matters much for this (and yes I know I should have more)

[gray leaf]

not at all your system should be able to deliver the max fidelity.
Im more leaning towards something not being setup right.
Try #nms-questions too when you're in game, if you feel it's not looking like tit should.
Take some screenies

[dreamy quartz]

Yeah; I do want to shower after work so I'll be a bit later, but I'll ping you when I'm messing with it

[livid zinc]

ThatBomberBoi & Cyberzpunk2350 say expedition is 24th July 13:00 GMT?

[tawdry horizon]

Oh I hope not, but that tracks with how they've put out expansion expeditions in the past

[gray leaf]

it's based on checking game files. Could still be changed, but makes sense

[sour fossil]

Small clarifcation, it's not saved in game files per se

More like dug out from communcation from game servers

[dreamy quartz]

@gray leaf so I think the reason my game looked bad was because it didn't default to DLSS or DLAA (it defaulted to the AMD one despite me having an nvidia card). I'm still doing testing, but I did have a question; is there even a difference between DLSS and DLAA? Left is DLSS, right is DLAA:

[gray leaf]

yes. DLAA afaik doesn't dynamically scale resolution

[dreamy quartz]

the only difference is notice is that some stuff in the background is a little clearer on DLAA

[gray leaf]

i believe overall is usually preferable

specially for heavy areas

[dreamy quartz]

also I'm running at 1440p with 100% resolution; I don't need to do any upscaling with my hardware

[gray leaf]

yup, sounds good.
And yea, i figured you got put on FSR like most people, hence my suggestion

[dreamy quartz]

I'll stick with DLAA, but if it starts causing performance issues or whatever, I'll switch to DLSS. I'm in a temporary rental right now while my new house is being built, and this place has shitty wiring. If my GPU usage gets too high, it starts to cause a brown out in the entire house lol

so I'm trying to avoid maxing it out even if it's designed for that

at least until I get into the new house

that's one of the reasons I'm also not using a 4k monitor

[gray leaf]

even at 1440 that system should be perfectly capable of maxing.
hope you get to play at max fidelity soon

[dreamy quartz]

oh it runs fine; I am maxed out right now. It's literally the house that can't handle it, not my pc lol

I think capping my fps at 90 helps the most though; I'd rather do that then lower the graphical settings

I have a 1200 watt power supply

[mental socket]

I have seen the foam and everything. Need to crank up water quality from settings

[mental socket]

ooh

[dreamy quartz]

WHY IS THIS BUG FUCKING MASSIVE??

that's not egg sequenced; I found it like that

and it let me adopt it

[rotund perch]

https://youtu.be/D3VnY-BYo-I?feature=shared

yo new system type potentially?

[icy citrus]

#nms-spoilers message

[rotund perch]

didn't know you guys were already on it

should have known though lol

[sonic rivet]

i encountered it randomly in-game... unmodded

[gray leaf]

@rotund perch deleted the post in #nms-the-future since this belongs in spoiler s 🙂

[rotund perch]

sorry I was a bit too excited lol

I don't see any other reason to generate new systems if it's not due to new terrain/planet gen stuff

like when they added the new planets at the outside of the system in origins

[drowsy dune]

And they added icons for new hyperdrives

[gloomy isle]

I get it on pc

[white bolt]

@ember heart

[ember heart]

oh

I wonder what it is

[white bolt]

new stellar metal

there's gonna be a new star color

[surreal terrace]

Purple-ium

[white bolt]

yep

i believe that's how it was first found?

[runic mesa]

No matter how many times I play through the storyline (going for the Atlantid Walker title), finding Artemis's grave is always sad.

[late tusk]

no matter how many times i play through the story line i still rush through it lmao

[sterile hemlock]

while playing an expedition through the expedition generator on 5.0

came across this

[surreal terrace]

Expedition generator?

[sterile hemlock]

https://cwmonkey.github.io/nms-expeditions/

allows you to replay expeditions offline

[surreal terrace]

That's so cool

[sterile hemlock]

yeah, update made something in utopia expedition a little funky, changed an infested planet to just a toxic so cant do some of the milestones in phase 4 till after phase 5

not too big a problem though

[rotund perch]

They should add this to the game

I think they probably will though

[glass flare]

Hm, so I'm on PS5 and found a planet where I saw seafoam. So it seems the issue is more complex

[sour fossil]

This is visible in vanilla game as well

There is a file for this catalogue page and it has like 50 expedition patches hardcoded

When there's data about a new expedition (started or not), the patch gets displayed

[glass flare]

What kind of reward are you supposed to get for fighting the insect brood? I killed the boss and it didn't drop anything

[sour fossil]

One of the 4 insect heads + dedicated title

If I understand the game files correctly, there's 25% chance for each brood mother kill to trigger that reward

Plus HG seems to have setup the reward in such a way that players should not get duplicates of heads they already have

[glass flare]

I see, thanks

[glad kernel]

Install 4 technologies and get this. 4 techniques are rewards for missions during expedition. I am now confused about how to bring 4 technologies from expedition saves to our main saves without any saveeditor or mod.

[sour fossil]

You don't

Procedural upgrades for mech flamethrower have been added to exocraft vendors

[glad kernel]

I mean this

And these three

[sour fossil]

Those will be QS unlocks

[glad kernel]

I didn't see them

they are not expedition rewards

[sour fossil]

https://nomanssky.azureedge.net/app/uploads/2024/07/interchangeable-mech-limbs-2-1040w.jpg

[twin abyss]

Is the 5.0 update for no man’s sky coming out in 4 days on switch?

[sour fossil]

As the community purge the vile brood from the universe, plans for these parts will become available at the Quicksilver Synthesis Companion for those unable to take part in the expedition.

[glad kernel]

thank you

[twin abyss]

Thx man 🙂

[twin abyss]

Idk

I don’t have the update yet on switch

[gloomy isle]

I've got a feeling that the purple star systems might have stuff that would normally need a full reset to include properly

[fleet nacelle]

@cloud plume this the third head i got, it looks the same as my pet haha

[grizzled apex]

Might have an LNF testing asset in the files. Theres a lotta Joint names which kinda match what we saw in the trailer.

[gray leaf]

😱 the quad-armed humanoid

[fleet nacelle]

i've got 4 helmets now is that all of them ?

this one is really weird choice of eyes xD

[grizzled apex]

Ah, that's two models overlayed 😅

[gray leaf]

i know, im still calling it the quad-armed :p

[grizzled apex]

Might be a class type they add later on, who knows!

This thing has an insane number of model joints honestly... down to things like thighs, shoulders, spine, cervicle bones etc

[gloomy isle]

That's super interesting

It reminds me of my old theory that LNF would end up being the void mother's new world or something to that effect

Though it seems that'll be what purple stars will be

I would bet that it's the void mother overtaking the Atlas like a virus, with her simulation appearing alongside the atlas simulation as if she's coming into control

[uncut harness]

Could purple stars have new terrain? (FYI, not the smartest in this file searches so idk I'd you can tell.)

[gloomy isle]

On paper I guess, they'd be entirely new planets

Not sure if the files say anything about that, though

[uncut harness]

Thanks, the ruins biomes look cool. Saw that huge statue @grizzled apex posted.

[gray leaf]

From the looks of the trailer looked like really good animations. Makes me more excited for it

[mortal notch]

The new floating island biome is made in an interesting way. They made most of the islands an empty texture with no collision to save gpu resources when flying through and scattered some of them that have waterfalls going down of them that are fully modeled and you can land on them.

[uncut harness]

Ah okay that's interesting

[gloomy isle]

I have a feeling that it's a bug

[uncut harness]

Like the trees, yep. I saw they mentioned you can jump from island to island.

[gloomy isle]

Yeah 100%, once I'm next on I'll get a screenshot and submit a report

If it's not fixed by then

[uncut harness]

Yeah, I'm just waiting for the trees to get sorted out before I resume my playthrough.

[gloomy isle]

That's a weird one because not everyone seems to have that

No one can seem to tell why either

[uncut harness]

Mhmm, saw that.

Maybe one of the devs accidently put in an extra zero or something.

[gloomy isle]

Yeah it's probably just a spawn rate thing

It probably overlaps with some bad rng luck to some degree I'd guess

[uncut harness]

I'm just so happy to hear it is a bug. I was worried that those trees were meant to replace the other ones. 😅

[gloomy isle]

Tbh even if they were they'll probably change it anyway I'd guess haha

At least the other biomes are super varied, it looks like

[uncut harness]

100% I actually want to visit the other planets now. For the past little bit, I've been pretty much just checking out lush ones.

[gloomy isle]

Yeah if feels like they're finally on the same level

This was a poison planet with sunflowers

[uncut harness]

I really feel like I'm back on pathfinder sometimes. The colors help SOOOO much.

[gloomy isle]

Definitely, especially the more subtle filters they're using now

The thicker mist takes me back too

[uncut harness]

I like that you can see wind or fog rolling past you now.

[uncut harness]

Also makes for some good space views.

I've seen planets with dark blue and green water now.

[gloomy isle]

I'm super interested to see how many new water and sky colors there are

I found one sky with 3 colours at once

And it has tentacle trees that I haven't seen on that version of the biome before, too

[uncut harness]

Wow!

This yellow shade, nostalgia to 2016 lol

[mental socket]

wait... we unlock new helmets by killing the bug bosses?

[fleet nacelle]

yeah there is 4 of them i think

[valid barn]

what part of the story requires getting a freighter?

[haughty ravine]

!update

[cloud jolt]

⚠️ NO UPDATE SPOILERS

Go to #nms-spoilers until official patch notes come out in #nms-news-ticker and #nms-announcements.
-# Content not officially announced by HG and not released on all platforms is considered to be spoilers -- this includes data-mined content and leaks.

[noble geyser]

I haven't locked myself out of anything by rejecting the Atlas during The Purge have I? Think all the important stuff is through the atlas path

[shrewd hinge]

Nope. You can go all the way up to not going through the center. It'll still be there when you're ready

I've never gone through. (except that one expedition)

[grizzled apex]

New unused alternate buildng camera mode called "focus" mode

It's sorta like an orthogonal camera w/ zooming and orbiting

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1klz4SW2G8q3tU5Bc6DTfhwcl2nJmWhb_/view?usp=sharing

[sour fossil]

In camera globals

There are new properties for camera mode

Maybe those relate to it

[thorn token]

Nice, can we trigger the bare mode somehow by toggling a bool with CE ?

[grizzled apex]

Yep, that's where I got the idea to check the enums

You picked up on it with the base building free cam bit but the enum was set to the usual free cam, not focus mode

[sour fossil]

Gotcha

[shadow harbor]

omg this is so much better

[glad kernel]

@grizzled apex Thank you for your mod.

[sour fossil]

Wondering if those are meant to be assets for NMS, like a new type of ruins

Or another example.of assets ported from LNF like that quadruped humanoid

[valid barn]

what part of the story requires getting a freighter?

[icy citrus]

None require it afaik, you unlock the ability to get a free one as the first fight after a few missions/warps at the beginning

[faint fulcrum]

Does anything happen to stuff in my inventory when doing the purge

Purge does not sound good

[sour fossil]

Nope

But you.might start looking for burner ship and multi tool already

Or to pack all technology modules into cargo

[faint fulcrum]

I shall do that

[faint fulcrum]

Only exosuit ones right?

Cuz the burner tool and ship won't matter anyway?

[sour fossil]

All tech in exosuit, current ship and current MT will break due to ... Reasons

[faint fulcrum]

Got it

Thanks

[near ferry]

just realized (after 400 hours) ..on exotic planets you can get items (decoration) per planet type that you can put on your bases 0.o

[late tusk]

ok ngl...

kinda wierd we get no torso/leg clothing with this.. it just looks strange

[zenith perch]

Finally, duel wield multitools

[zenith perch]

Probably no xbox update till around or near then ig

[zenith perch]

GOOD, fuck fomo

[zenith perch]

Could be one of the rare sky hues they alluded to.

[zenith perch]

Orthogonal?

Like isometric?

[grizzled apex]

Yea, basically

Also, missed it in the video but the up/down arrows let you move the "placement" grid up and down

[glass flare]

yeah the architecture reminds me more of LNF than anything in NMS, i wonder if some of this stuff was mistakenly brought over to the NMS repo when they were merging branches

[shut sparrow]

I wann touch the Atlas' giant red ball.

What would happen if I did?

[dusky kernel]

things.

[gusty berry]

cool

oh wait I should've worn this as a gek

that'd be funnier

nugget

[late tusk]

i wish they gave us a torso/leg clothing with it

[native carbon]

i heard that part 2 comes this summer and idk if it was missinfo or right info

if u know pls tell me

[tawdry quarry]

says it in the screen you get after updating

[ebon spoke]

Got the unused mantarays spawning

AntelopeGlow causes a crash when the game tries to spawn it, but from what I can tell looking at it's files it looks to be the same as the normal antelope with less procedural parts and different materials

[silent trench]

Anyone on experimental? How different do your lush worlds look with the corn being nerfed? Stuck at work lol.

[long barn]

What is this stunning armour

[late tusk]

Chitin armor

Expedition 14

[long barn]

I'm a fan

[steady rose]

I just finished no Man's sky story, I had no idea it was so fucking good

I just did it to get some robot drip I wasn't expecting the feels to hit me like an intercontinental ballistic missile

[gloomy isle]

Huge morrowind vibes

[icy citrus]

Lol, I enjoyed it very much as well

[gloomy isle]

Did you the cloth torso option

[late tusk]

there is no torso clothing or leg clothing for the chitin armor...

[gloomy isle]

I mean the cloth tunic option

It could be a cool combo

[late tusk]

oh! maybe

ill see

[gloomy isle]

I was thinking cos morrowind vibes hahaha

[late tusk]

:)

Outlander.

WAIT WAIT

Outlander.

[ornate wadi]

What happens if you allow Artemis to live on in the simulation and then tell him he's simulated? Will future dialogue continue or will that be the last thing you say to him?

[grim lintel]

She'll be heartbroken but I think she eventually begins to accept what happened

[cloud plume]

N’wah

[gloomy isle]

That actually looks way more morrowind than I expected 😂

I'm definitely gonna be wearing that once I get it

[late tusk]

:)

[long barn]

Need that armour

[mental socket]

Looks cozy. Definitely makes the building more enjoyable

[rigid socket]

cool fish

[livid zinc]

https://youtu.be/EryAG5U2W_g?si=qWQShAtjhDk4VY1r

[twilit ocean]

Did we get any news on patch notes for steam?

[tame grotto]

Same link as before...

!Experimental

[cloud jolt]

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[tame grotto]

Fixed an issue that could cause the player to become invisible when using the jetpack and Multi-Tool at the same time.

[rocky sinew]

during the autophage questline i have been teleported to an interface
what am i supposed to do there?
the quest marker hovers over nothing

[chrome depot]

Use your scanner.

[rocky sinew]

ah ic

(i think this is a sign i should take a break lol)

[late tusk]

cant show the image anywhere else (because of the armor) So i will share it with you friends

the view....and water...

its goregous

[trail cosmos]

are these in the game already|| (mech upgrades)||

can we put them on ||mech||?

[tepid iris]

I'm honestly glad they split it into part 1 and 2

[trail cosmos]

[gloomy isle]

Just need a mushroom planet with green grass and blue skies now

[icy citrus]

No, coming with the Expedition

May be able to get them with mods/editing

[trail cosmos]

did try it game crashed

idk why

[river crater]

will be interesting on how the ruins biome will look like

[icy citrus]

Not meant to be in yet? Dunno