nms-spoilers

[icy citrus]

Expedition will be very soon

[compact coyote]

I hope there will be sand dune planets in Part 2

[white bolt]

this is the spoilers channel

you don’t really need to spoiler in the spoilers channel

[drowsy dune]

If it comes to the game it will be sick. But remember, everything that is leaked or data mined is not guaranteed to come to the game. Programming is a long process and things get scrapped along the way

[icy citrus]

Ask the wind turbines

[rugged flare]

Hold tf up, how the hell this game is making me emotional? I'm on [The Purge] and I just talked to Apollo and I'm feeling feelings that I don't want to feel.

[sand karma]

I've been thinking about these purple star systems and honestly that could be the most natural way for NMS to provide endgame content. I hope they really put the toughest enemies and hazards on planets in those systems. It would help the gameplay loop and progression a LOT.

Cuz new players aren't going to accidently wander into these. So, they don't have to be very accessible.

And purple obviously has story implications as well. I wouldn't expect nice and fluffy things in purple systems. 😁

[runic mesa]

I just replayed They Who Returned again for the third title. I wonder if the new purple systems will have something to do with New Atlantid that was mentioned a few times.

[grizzled apex]

Managed to get the unused FlyingLizardGlow creature to spawn... Definitely looks quite unfinished imo.

[dreamy forge]

Just seen your post on the mantarays

[grizzled apex]

Something about the antelopes is causing a crash. Wonder If I can remove that reference from the model before making it load

[ebon spoke]

BIOMELISTPERSTARTYPE.MBIN includes weighting values for which biomes would be present in purple systems

at the moment it's just a copy-paste of the blue systems though

[daring ore]

Did the Worlds update improve existing fauna textures?

[steady rose]

Yarp

[dull python]

Do any of these choices lead to "a new beginning?"

Oh no screen shots

okay well. Im at Atlas
1.Ask if there is another way
2.Reset simulation
3.Refuse Atlas

Which of these leads to New Beginnings

[prime inlet]

all of them eventually do - 2 or 3 get there immediately, both unlock remembrance exosuit tech; 2 leads to damage to installed tech/modules on suit, active ship and MT, and to a shortcut to another galaxy; 3 stays in the current galaxy

[cloud jolt]

@dull python
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<:info:850810445577453658> Which orb do I pick?

• This decision will damage everything that's still installed in Exosuit, active Ship and Multi-tool tech inventories (exception: exosuit core techs e.g. Life Support).

• Each of the 4 orbs represent 1 of 4 galaxy types in the game, and while this decision can't be repeated in the current save, it's easy enough to reach galaxies of other types later.

• Orb and associated type:

  • Teal/Norm (Euclid, the starter galaxy is Norm, the base weighting for biome spawns)
  • Red/Harsh (More extreme survival planets)
  • Blue/Empty (More dead and weird biome planets)
  • Green/Lush (More lush biome planets)

• If the player is still in Euclid at this point, then:

  • Teal leads to Hilbert Dimension (2);
  • Red leads to Calypso (3);
  • Blue leads to Budullangr (7);
  • Green leads to Eissentam (10).

• Space Anomaly teleporter is often an easy way to reach other galaxy types later; it's not uncommon for there to be a Featured Base in Eissentam.
  

Shared by: bkay201 Contributor(s): Atlas Emissaries

[dull python]

Okay cool. I went with 3, Im just trying to knock out the redundant stuff on the new char to get the staff. Im not trying to leave the galaxy haha

[slim zephyr]

So

I'm now on the mission where I go to the galactic center

Are we Artemis? A multiversal variant of Artemis that was put into the simulation instead of killed?

Is everything really just a simulation?

[tropic temple]

from what I remember of the story everything is a simulation running inside the atlas and the person who created the atlas let the atlas do a brain scan on them which is what the atlas then uses for the travellers (the players) this also includes artemis I believe however artemis is different but I cant exactly remember why, they did something which caused them to kinda become seperate from the main simulation

[gray leaf]

i mean yes. but once finishing up that quest you'll get the answer

[slim zephyr]

What's the quick way to the center? Black holes only brought me further

[gray leaf]

Travellers were meant to be an iteration the atlas ran to explore it's world.
The atalas is trying to save itself from the destruction of its home world, left behind abandoned by its creator and possibly its mother civilization

[gray leaf]

You will not need to get to the core.
Once you start warping around you will see

[slim zephyr]

Oh okay

I will say I love the philosophy of the game

[gray leaf]

it's got some pretty deep thoughts on existencialism

[slim zephyr]

I personally chose to kill Artemis before I realized I was in a simulation too.

A part of me wonders if Artemis would've been happier left to travel the world

[tropic temple]

I can answer that wonder for you if you'd like as I chose to let artemis "live"

[slim zephyr]

Please do

[gray leaf]

i always choose to let them live.
To me even a limited existence is better than no existence.
Hard to say how much suffering being unable to leave their solar system would cause.
But in a way we are artemis, not only bound by tech limitations to one star system, but we haven't even figured out how to put ourselves in other planets and survive long enough

[tropic temple]

I did the story like 4 years ago but if memory serves Artemis isn't too happy about it as they become aware that the simulation you put them in is rather small and Artemis isn't too happy about having to spend an eternity living in one solar system

[gray leaf]

you have two options, tell them the truth about it, or not.

if you tell the truth, yes Artemis reacts negatively

at least initially

[tropic temple]

Oh yeah I forgot about that (I chose to tell them the truth if you couldnt tell lol)

[slim zephyr]

It's crazy to think how you'd grow bored with a single galaxy when we spend our entire lives in a single world. It really puts into perspective just how much it would suck to be alone that to an extent, an infinite universe wouldn't be enough

I have the Artemis experience because I'm on switch and thus can't see other travelers 💀

[gray leaf]

imagine if we are all just Artemis, just put on this earth simulation, limited to this sol system, unable to excape

[gray leaf]

*single solar system

[slim zephyr]

oops yeah my bad I get the two mixed up

[molten flume]

I always put him down. Putting a Traveller in a single solar system sounds awful. Imagine if this game was 1 solar system. But that's my rp reasoning.

[tropic temple]

yeah I started to roleplay with my choice after a while now my character wanders the universe regretting the choice they made

[slim zephyr]

Okay another thing

How do I unlock more outfit choices and stuff

I only have the outlaw head

And I know you can get the freak head from the tainted metal

But that's it

[solid ginkgo]

Quicksilver synthesis at the nexus

[tropic temple]

quicksilver shop in the anomoly has some stuff

[slim zephyr]

Oh, that's it?

[solid ginkgo]

And playing expeditions

[tropic temple]

and you do the autophage questline to look like a robot

[solid ginkgo]

But once the expedition is gone you cant get those rewards

[slim zephyr]

I thought you got a cool reward for getting rep level 10 so I got Trade Lord with Gek

[solid ginkgo]

The gel first spawn helmet is for quicksilver

Gek*

[slim zephyr]

I'm keeping the Vykeen rep low because I like to plunder ships so I chose to keep the korvax and gek in good graces

[molten flume]

Heads up with the quicksilver, items aren't universal. For example the Gek lookin combat helmet isn't for Gek.

[solid ginkgo]

Korvax and autophage are my peeps no harm shall ever come to them😇

[slim zephyr]

oh, it isn't?

[tropic temple]

even though they did a few minor bad things in the past I love the gek they look so silly

[slim zephyr]

That's weird

[gray leaf]

the one from tainted metal also cannot be put on all bodies

There is also the hood from the pirate mission, and one piece is from Dreams of the deep quest

With the update, another 5 heads were added

[solid ginkgo]

Bro said minor😂😂

[slim zephyr]

Another thing

[molten flume]

Just a misunderstanding.

[slim zephyr]

What's the best DPS gun

And how do I get the most damage out of my gun

Additionally, does firerate effect how fast the neutron cannon charges up? I have a few sentinel upgrades that increase it

[molten flume]

I don't know the correct answer, but this is the best place to find exactly what you want when you know;

https://www.reddit.com/r/NMSCoordinateExchange/s/qnR5ydwqO6

[mint pagoda]

staff has the max modifier for damage, among other things

[tropic temple]

I have no idea if this meme works or is even funny I put it together in 5 seconds

[solid ginkgo]

Bro ur cooking

[slim zephyr]

SmashGek?!

[solid ginkgo]

Ill hear you out

[slim zephyr]

Is it so hard to ask for an S-class solar ship 😭

[dapper crescent]

just make one lol

that's my main objective rn but i cant find the dang wings i want 😭

[slim zephyr]

Been on Gravitino I farming the balls so I can get money to buy ships

[tropic temple]

god I hope they make interceptors craftable I have one thats so close to being my perfect ship it just needs a couple tweaks

[solid ginkgo]

Best way to get units is repairing and selling interceptors

[dapper crescent]

ahhhh lol ancient bone planets are real good too!

[solid ginkgo]

Didnt take me long to be able to save enough to buy an S class freighter

[dapper crescent]

the balls are prob more fun tho lol i try to avoid sentinel interaction

[slim zephyr]

I don't know how to do that and is it even worth killing a capital ship anyway

[tropic temple]

What?! you're telling me you don't have 4,294,967,295 units worth of starship AI valves just laying around?

[slim zephyr]

Of what

What the hell are starship ai valves

[solid ginkgo]

Nah you dont need to kill capital ships just go to interceptor planets

[slim zephyr]

I just use the infinite vykeen armorer multitool thing to get money

[dapper crescent]

dissonant planets yeah?

[slim zephyr]

Is that normal by the way? Is he supposed to give you infinite of the multitool he makes?

[tropic temple]

these puppies

[slim zephyr]

Uh, wow.

Also

Where do I use V3 AtlasPasses

[tropic temple]

some planet buildings have rooms that require it I believe

[solid ginkgo]

Yeah manufacturing facilities and such

[slim zephyr]

Oh V3s do?

Fun, didn't know that

[solid ginkgo]

Abandoned space stations too

[tropic temple]

did regular space stations have v3 locked rooms before orbital as well?

[slim zephyr]

OH ONE MORE THING

I get objects of interest and they're just... dead freighters I can't do anything with

They don't have an entrance like derelicts

What do I use those for

[runic mesa]

They're on Switch. Getting handed expensive stuff in the Anomaly isn't a thing.

[glass flare]

yes, since the very early days of NMS

[slim zephyr]

It's kinda bullshit that Switch is the only one without multiplayer

All because "hurr hurr you play on toilet!!!!"

[solid ginkgo]

Yeah

[runic mesa]

Eh, I'm okay with it. I'm not a social player anyway.

[slim zephyr]

I love the game but I can't lie, no multiplayer kinda messes with the experience for me

I'm literally artemis except I have the entire galaxy instead of the solar system

[tropic temple]

if they make a switch 2 hopefully it'll be powerful enough to do multiplayer

honestly Im impressed they can get it on switch in the first place

[slim zephyr]

It's not even that, Sean Murray said he didn't do it because "you play switch on the toilet" which isn't true

Like at all

[runic mesa]

I think it's far more likely that it would make the Switch port very unstable. Multiple is unstable enough as it is.

[slim zephyr]

I just hope we get the update on the switch soon. I'm very excited for it

[runic mesa]

The Interceptor update nearly crashed the port. It ain't handling mp.

[chrome sun]

Me playing on Steam Deck all over the house lol (mainly in bed until 3am)

[slim zephyr]

Oh this reminds me, is using the snap grid for the storage containers to connect a round room with a cuboid room glitch building since the two don't snap together normally

[tropic temple]

man I sure hope the rushed code that was created before 2016 to try and get the game out on time doesn't cause any instability further down the line

[slim zephyr]

I didn't know what constituted as glitch building

[gray leaf]

You can use #nms-questions for all gameplay questions.
This channel really is more for spoiler talk and game lore discussion

[slim zephyr]

Oh, right, sorry!

[runic mesa]

Yeah, sorry, Freak. That's my bad

[gray leaf]

It's all good. im just reminding and redirecting 😊

[drowsy dune]

That might be the pr reason, but I’m pretty sure the switches hardware is below the minimum requirements of no man’s sky on steam, multiplayer nearby halves my performance on pc and ps4 so I seriously doubt that switch will ever get multiplayer. Especially since it’s basically coded like a different game with all the handicaps the switches poor hardware gives.

[dense quartz]

Saw this on reddit referring to the purple stellar metal.
I booted up the game to check it out but I don't see it.

[gray leaf]

it's found in the game files already. afaik still disabled

[dense quartz]

Yeah I think it'll come in Part 2. I'm just curious how come this person seems to have empty spaces for them.

[gray leaf]

yea dunno. they could have enabled some more stuff in files to make it show, if its really an unaltered screenshot

[glass flare]

go to a Portal and look at the UI, it shows up as a material

[dense quartz]

Yeah I know. 😄

[tropic temple]

(gonna post it here as it feels too much like of a spoiler for the regular chat) but whats peoples opinion of this guy? I love having it around I don't think Ive disabled it once since I got the lil fella

[dapper crescent]

my bf has one - hes so sick of it, where do you disable it from? lol

[tropic temple]

you cant

[dapper crescent]

ahhh lol

[tropic temple]

nah just kidding he should have this somewhere in his inventory

[dapper crescent]

hahaha

nah you inspired me, im gonna forget that you told me this lol

[tulip briar]

why is it so deepfried

[tulip briar]

HWTA'

[dense quartz]

No idea lol, that's what the person on reddit posted.

[grizzled apex]

They removed it and the hyperdrives from the game files in the first patch. Only the icons remain

[dense quartz]

Aww man.

[grizzled apex]

You can still patch it in by using a mod which brings them back

I think I have something like that wait

Using the ID HDRIVEBOOST4 and replacing my TechnologyTable with a pre 5.00.1 version with this .pak, I got the hyperdrive in game and installed the it via the save editor.

[dense quartz]

Man I'm so hyped for Part 2.

[elfin pagoda]

If this is a new Star, will it replace more stars? Or are they planning to expand the universe with more stars and planets??

[young quest]

Ohhh deep water biomes in part 2?

Thatbomberbois newest post is about a deep water biome

[pliant aurora]

hyped af

[young quest]

All these biomes do imply some type of water update in the future

[pliant aurora]

Hello Games really poppin off with these updates

[dense quartz]

My hope is if there's brand new systems, their planets could have brand new terrain, maybe pre-NEXT terrain, maybe deep oceans.. it'd be a great opportunity for that without messing up existing planets.

[spiral mural]

hey guys queston regardng the main story. i refused the atlas instead of making a new installation does that affect the story at all?

[glass flare]

wouldn't a deep water biome require a terrain reset to actually make them deeper

or I suppose they could be purple system planets

[young quest]

They’ll just do what they did with origins and just add the new planets with different terrain gen

[gray leaf]

supposed to be a whole ball of water looks like.
still not fully finished? but this is makes sense why they added water landing

[young quest]

Does seem like they are preparing an underwater update

We might even get full ocean planets

[glass flare]

Mmm good point

[patent shale]

Im sure this was a joke. Its because thw switch isnt powerful enough

[rough depot]

The switch can barely even run the games that were designed for it anyways

[ebon spoke]

Underwater update seems pretty likely, there's been an unused 'waterworld' biome type since Origins. It's hardcoded to generate with a much higher sea level than normal planets. The new unused underwater biomes are all designed with assets that require deeper water than the current underwater biomes

All the unused ocean stuff added in 5.0 (three ocean biomes, mantarays) seems fully finished, especially compared to the other unused content so there must be some more stuff to go with them if they're waiting to drop em

[gloomy isle]

I've always wanted an equivalent to the nether in NMS, like a different realm with different generation and stuff

The purple star systems look like they'll do something close to that

[glass flare]

I don't have a great interest in underwater stuff, but cool for those that want it. I really hope there's some new land exploration opportunities in Part 2... procedural loot, dungeons, NPC villages with procedural lore, etc

[gloomy isle]

Tbf there's a number of land animals and biomes in the files

If I had to guess, water worlds would be just one world type in purple systems

[gloomy isle]

I wonder if that indicates a 3rd part, or if part 2 will include the land stuff too

Deeper oceans would also make the nautilon pretty necessary which is cool

[ebon spoke]

Part of me wonders if those land biomes are coming at all

there is a very real chance that they were intended for part I but were cut for whatever reason

because heres the thing; if they add the ruins biome into rotation as a new lush variant (which is what it looks like it's supposed to be) then every lush planet will be rerolled and everyone's floating island planets that they just started building bases on will dissapear

[gloomy isle]

I mean potentially. It would be odd to add only one new biome specific to purple systems as a part 2 though imo

Stuff like the ruins biome could definitely be tied to being in purple systems etc

[glass flare]

the ruins could also be leftover stuff from LNF

[gloomy isle]

Could be

[ebon spoke]

Ruins could be for purple systems, but I'm not so sure about the desolate biome

there isn't anything particularly 'weird' about it like the ruins biome

[gloomy isle]

True

I'd like an underwater focused thing so long as there's good variety tbh

But I don't really see why they'd add an entire new star (for the first time ever) for one new planet type

Unless there's something super special about what's on these ocean planets

We also have the traveller statue model covered in moss iirc

[glass flare]

"don't drink the water"

[ebon spoke]

I'm sure there will be more to the purple stars than just what we have in the files now

[glass flare]

It would be super cool if purple systems were all part of the Abyss, but it's probably more like they are systems which Void Mother has completely taken over

[gloomy isle]

I'm thinking it's her simulation starting to overwrite the Atlas'

[ebon spoke]

at the moment they are set up to always be uncharted or abandoned

[gloomy isle]

I guess that makes sense

[ebon spoke]

Im not super sure on how the rolls work, it might be a 100% chance of being uncharted

[gloomy isle]

Hopefully we get very large procedural sea creatures, like really really big ones

Kinda like the new beetles

[glass flare]

yeah I'd love to see big whale like creatures

[gloomy isle]

The shallow water depth we have now would probably make them ultra buggy so deeper water would be the perfect opportunity

I can imagine deep oceans with the new graphics being actually terrifying at times ngl

I wonder if it would also be possible to tie flora/ fauna type to depth too

So you'd get reefs in the shallows and weird creepy stuff on the sea floor

[icy citrus]

The Abyss is the Void Mommy

[twilit ocean]

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[cloud jolt]

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[twilit ocean]

I hope we get full Void mommy oceans

My hope is at least 500u deep ocean worlds

[icy citrus]

Well, we have a waterbiome sitting there being unused

That isn't new, but maybe we will see it actually in game with Part 2

[twilit ocean]

That’s what i’m hoping for

But i’d be happy with just a water biome existing

if not 500u deep

I’m so excited to see content i’ve been waiting to see for years

[late tusk]

Is part 2 supposed to be like

Not too long after pt 1?

[pliant aurora]

Yeah Im hoping the same.

There was an octopus in the Light No Fire trailer too so I wondering if they are bringing that to oceans

[severe bloom]

What can we expect from Worlds Pt. 2?

Are there any release date leaks?

[compact coyote]

Also there’s a desert biome that may be used in part 2

[icy citrus]

No release date leaks

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

Don't worry much about the speculation, but he does discuss the datamined items

[severe bloom]

Thanks

[twilit ocean]

The planet still didn’t change for me yet

Do regular old floating islands still exist?

[twilit ocean]

Was there anything in there including random dungeons?

That’s on my wishlist for the game not so much a must

[icy citrus]

Not in the datamining, no

[timid mist]

late response but laylaps is the best for like 15 seconds. they constantly fly directly in front of you and block scans + visibility way too often lol

[nimble heath]

He's so close to being useful.

I wish he'd have a small perk like no sentinels spawn within a radius of you whislt he's active.

[timid mist]

yeah or like a "cloak" you can activate that has them like mask your presence from sentinels so you don't have to dig a hole to drop aggro lol

[nimble heath]

Absolutely yes, precisely them kind of perks.

I keep him active cause I thought he was cool enough of a reward for effort. Does get in the way too often.
With the lighting change in 5.0, he kinda lights up the path of the direction you run in much better now.

[timid mist]

for sure

[nimble heath]

His torch before was rubbish but now it torches properly.

[timid mist]

i had him active until yesterday basically lol. kept trying to zoom in on animals to scan and having to run away from him

something like being able to mine without aggro-ing sentinels + he occassionally picks up 1 or 2 salvaged data would be enough and not op

[nimble heath]

Absolutely.

[timid mist]

i agree tho his flashlight is very nice now

and i love his companionship but wish he didn't have the spatial awareness of a city resident walking on the sidewalk

[dense quartz]

What kills it for me is that the HUD constantly warns you that a sentinel is near by when he's around. So it basically never warns you when enemy sentinels are around.

[solar prairie]

Yes they do!

[tropic temple]

True good point however my counterpoint is haha silly robot oh look he's scanning that rock

[twilit ocean]

That’s disappointing maybe the planet I found was never good at all

[solar prairie]

I disagree I think it's nice having both old and new floating Islands, I happen to like some of the old ones a lot

[twilit ocean]

Some of them are okay, I just was hoping the planet I was on would change to new things tbh

[shadow harbor]

Since nms universe is a simulation what role does humans play in the lore?? Is there anything written in game about it?

I can only find this but dunno what leaving earth has to do with it since earth is in the real world and not the simulation:

The NMS universe simulation takes place in our universe, millennia after our era (and the events of Waking Titan), and after humans left the Earth.

[timid mist]

actually so true

[cosmic pulsar]

What can it even do? Is it just flying around doing nothing or do you get anything out of it?

[tropic temple]

You get a silly little goober who flies around and sometimes scans stuff oh and his eye goes red on aggressive sentinel planets

[cosmic pulsar]

Awesome

I should reactivate it

Do I get the scans as well?

[drowsy dune]

Seems like a pretty comprehensive list, makes me wonder if they split it into two parts at the last second

[icy citrus]

I think it's 3 parts personally

3 worlds tweeted

Last summon emoji with the candles just had one world

I think they are doing it this way to have less bugs and problems to contend with at once

[tawdry quarry]

makes sense, ive been running into a few bugs with this update

mostly with sentinels/corrupted sentinels

[pliant aurora]

Im think its 3 parts as well

[runic mesa]

If so, third part in early 2025?

[late tusk]

What if instead they bug fix the first part. Let exped run. Then do the next part

[twilit ocean]

I think we’d realistically get one every two months

Which would make enough time to patch major bugs and do the next part possibly

Iirc Worlds part 2 was for summer

August or September

Would be the end of summer

which leaves 3 months

So if there was a third I think we’d get it in November

before christmas break

[glass flare]

If there's a part 3 I don't think it would be this year. They generally go on holiday in December

unless they can get out Part 2 in August maybe

[twilit ocean]

August unless september is included would be the end of summer wouldn’t it?

And since it’s already in progress I think the last update being in November would be pretty realistic

[dense quartz]

I assume Part 2 will arrive shortly after this expedition ends... and the expedition might be shorter than usual since they made it a point that people who miss out on the expedition can still get the new mech parts.

[twilit ocean]

Yeah there’s that too I forgot about that

[glass flare]

well let's keep in mind that a Part 3 is only a hypothesis based on a Sean emoji tweet, so it's kind of flimsy right now. It may not happen at all

[twilit ocean]

Im happy with whatever we get

[dense quartz]

Part 3 is rumored while Part 2 is confirmed.. so I'm only expecting Part 2. 😅

[twilit ocean]

Same for me

We’d probably still get an update around then I think

November I mean

[dense quartz]

But I want it now!

Also if we're really getting new purple systems.. not only do I hope for new terrain on planets, but imagine the Autophage having their own space stations there.

[twilit ocean]

I think it would be amazing if autophage or another faction was

They do have their own standing

[timid mist]

imagine if you could use the station override codes to get technology from space stations to build and upgrade your own built station in autophage systems

[dense quartz]

I don't know if we will ever get overrides to do something lol.

Though aren't they a pirate item? Since we can only get them through pirate missions anyway.

[timid mist]

yeah, really confused at their existence still cause it felt like they were building up to something with them for a while

then they dropped the new stations but still nothing 😩

[glass flare]

I do kind of wish they had used one of the other galaxies and made that a purple galaxy, instead of the adding new planets situation. Excited to see what these worlds are like though

If they're doing deep oceans, then who knows what other kind of terrain improvements they have in store

[timid mist]

coolest part about this update is the "part 1" imo lol. fun to think about what else they could do on top of it. the content is good too ofc

[dense quartz]

Basically Subnautica gameplay.

[timid mist]

usually a big drop is like "oh nice this stuff's cool, and interesting datamined stuff. i'll play the new stuff then back to waiting for 4 months" or whatever lol

very neat

[glass flare]

Yeah for sure, should be wild. I'm also interested to see what the land terrain gen is like too. Will they bring over any improvements from LNF? Excited to find out

[timid mist]

yeah one of my fav things from the LNF trailer is the way "weirder" terrain in a couple shots.

[glass flare]

And rivers...LNF has real, on-purpose rivers

[timid mist]

nothing massively groundbreaking compared to current NMS but just more intentional weirdness that they were prob able to do with a more focused approach on one planet

that too, and jumping..

or to be more specific, jumping without a combustion sound effect

[dense quartz]

Really? I basically thought it was pretty similar to NMS... mostly just rolling hills instead of some truly bizarre shapes.

[timid mist]

overall yeah, there's one shot in particular im thinking of though that makes me hopeful, ill see if i can find it

[glass flare]

LNF terrain looks a bit more natural, but that's helped by having a realistic-size land scale

I've noticed that the way they handle the transition from ground to water is also a lot more sophisticated

[dense quartz]

Yeah that's true. There's really not an area in NMS where there's mostly flat ground and then a big mountain in the distance.. it's either all flat or all mountain depending on the planet. 😅

[timid mist]

i was thinking of this but truthfully i remember it seeming way cooler when i first looked at it lmao, so nvm

idk why i remembered it as like huge pillars. prob the most NMS looking terrain actually

[young quest]

There’s some planets with similar terrain as that image

[timid mist]

for sure

[glass flare]

Atlas Rises could get that wide plains + mountains in background look sometimes, but the current algorithms don't really like to do that

[dense quartz]

The thing I don't get with their terrain is that everything looks like as if the ground was pinched and pulled straight up into a hill. Either a tall and short hill, or low and wide hill, but the ground always just goes up and down.

There's very few instances of terrain in NMS where it actually goes in another direction but it's so few and far between. The terrain on launch was way more wilder and chaotic.

The Origins planets are the same thing.. just terrain going straight up or down, but more exaggerated.

[timid mist]

i love the vibe of the new mountainous planets but kind of a frustration simulator trying to do anything other than fly around

[nimble heath]

I think they should be the type of planet for deep oceans.

[glass flare]

Yeah, there's no gameplay mechanics to really support traversing them in any kind of fun way

[timid mist]

agreed. i had some hope when they added the "manual" camera option so it wouldn't reset to the center when jetpacking or swimming. but it doesn't apply to those 😭

[glass flare]

Hopefully the new planets are a way for them to say "okay we didn't want to blow up your bases, but we're going to do some really cool stuff with the new ones". The Origins planets didn't feel like a lot of time was spent on them, like you said some of the mountains just look like a sine wave stretched out

[tawdry quarry]

i think one of the reasons they're probably introducing those new purple systems are to remedy that problem

they have 100% leverage over what they can do with them and i think a few people leaked that they have higher chances at exotic or extreme planets. cant remember off the top of my head

[timid mist]

also makes a lot of sense to split it into parts i.e. changes under the same name (concerned with updating planets) - without new systems it'd be like, well how or why would they wait to change planets again so soon. sectioning the experimental stuff off would be a great solution.

[fervent fern]

So... by everything I'm seeing, I guess we can hope the whole autophage / dissonance story will get some closure on Worlds pt. 2.
Which makes me pretty excited for it.

[timid mist]

i wonder if they'll change the part of the autophage storyline where you go thru the portal to warp to a new planet in a purple system (if that's truly where it's headed) rather than floating in space

[fervent fern]

That would be awesome.

Makes me wonder also if the new drive for purple systems isn't a blueprint you only get late-game, when you can interact with the autophage (I guess this was probably speculated already, I'm just catching up now 😅 )

[timid mist]

no worries, i missed a lot of the speculation too lol

its gotta be though, maybe another "collect parts to build thing" type quest string, similar to the staff

[fervent fern]

I love the concept, it gives the game some kind of conclusion without exactly ending it.
So you go through the main questline, "finish" it, only to find more questions and perhaps... more answers.

I like as a narrative choice

[timid mist]

true, plus the atlas gives you visions of "a system you dont understand" or something like that near the end of the questline

oh and the actual mission prompt before you go thru the portal is "reach the hidden galaxy"

[uncut harness]

If I refuse the Atlas can I go back later and reset it?

[timid mist]

don't believe so, even tho it implies you can

[uncut harness]

I can go to other galaxies if I refuse it though right?

[twilit ocean]

Yes

[fervent fern]

All of this almost makes NMS seems like an actual decade-long project that was revealed little-by-little 😅
To finally reach a "climax".

[twilit ocean]

Galaxies aren’t atlas story related

I won’t spoil how unless you’d prefer that

If you do then tell me your current game goals

[uncut harness]

I've been so conflicted on what choice to make for the end. I just don't want to potentially screw up any of the side mission stuff.

[twilit ocean]

You’re good you won’t ever miss or screw up anything

NMS is a chill game

Think of choices as just morality choices, impactful but no reward impacts

[uncut harness]

Oh thank goodness! That's such a huge relief to hear!

I'm just always worried about missing out or messing things up! Thank you for your help!

[glass flare]

well, you can't access Remembrance terminals unless you choose to go to another galaxy. Or at least that's the way it was back when I finished it, maybe they've changed that

[uncut harness]

Is this related to a future quest?

[timid mist]

i did it yesterday actually and still got the remembrance blueprint

(refused the atlas)

[gray leaf]

you can just fill up your mark of the denier instead

two ways for the same end result

[uncut harness]

So refusing I still won't miss anything?

[glass flare]

the terminals just give you lore stuff

[glass flare]

TIL

[gray leaf]

no. the decision should be more lore / roleplay related

or preference

[twilit ocean]

Which ones are remembrance terminals?

Did I forget something after not going back for so long lol

[glass flare]

the terminals in planet outposts in the locked rooms you sometimes find

[uncut harness]

Thank goodness. I have been putting off the end for far too long. I remember doing it what felt like an eternity ago and choosing to reset in a really old save I don't have anymore, but I still have things I want to do in this save and a lot of the new missions say you have to finish the purge quest before you can do them.

[gray leaf]

oh for that ye. sorry solarparty i thought you were talking about returning to atlas interfaces for wonders

[glass flare]

ahh, yeah, those aren't locked out for me. just the outpost terminals

tbh those terminals have pretty important lore telling the backstory, so it was an odd decision to lock it behind the ending choice

[fervent fern]

I'm afraid I played the main questlines (which get you deep into the lore) too long ago... memories faded away.
It's a real problem. I find myself knowing way less than new players lol.

[dense quartz]

I actually think my save is screwed since I rejected and accepted the Atlas, and my mission log has been messed up ever since, as well as having both of those item things.

I assume it'll get expanded on later since HG made a big deal how your choice will affect your relationship with the Atlas forever, but right now nothing happens.

But like, I have both lol.

[uncut harness]

How do you do both?

[dense quartz]

I simply rejected the Atlas, then accepted lol.

[astral vapor]

im really hoping those datamined ruins biomes are in worlds part 2 or 3

ive been wanting more enviromental decorative structures for so long

[fervent fern]

I'd love to see them in-game too

[astral vapor]

cuz as it stands all structures are points of interest placed in unnaturally flat areas

and i want structures blend in with the enviroment much better

[dense quartz]

Those structures give me LNF vibes.

[glass flare]

I'd love ruins to explore, but just having some random pillars sticking out of the ground is not my idea of that. I still think those ruins are probably LNF assets

[astral vapor]

same which makes me worry those assets are tests for LNF

which is cool

but

i wanna see pre release style enviromental structures someday

[glass flare]

give me some procedural ruins to explore and get loot, like derelicts but on the ground

[astral vapor]

this too

[fervent fern]

I'm kinda ok with only ruins scattered, provided they are inserted in a larger frame lore-wise

But that's me -- I'm very fond of forgotten history lol.

[astral vapor]

fair tho personally ive always been conflicted on how i feel about NMS lore particularly the simulation thing

[fervent fern]

Things without explanation, just ruins.

[astral vapor]

in general id just love for structures to fit with the enviroment more

especially ruins

[gray leaf]

When they start working out LnF dungeons maybe we'll see their test in NMS 😅

[astral vapor]

its always slightly bothered me how theyre all on these flat areas

and you can tell theyre flat for the structure in particular

[dense quartz]

One thing that I don't get is those ruins are meant to be like parts of the biome instead of a point of interest so.. wouldn't that mean they'd literally be all across the planet?

[fervent fern]

Probably, I guess

[glass flare]

that's what makes me think they were from LNF, since LNF is multi-biome

[gray leaf]

this is a common technique when your map is precedurally generated in a game, and you need to place a building.
Without a bit of flattening you get weird clipings with terrain and people always complain

[astral vapor]

exactly how id want it in some sense at least

mayeb not literally everywhere, but packed together in specific areas sorta like how flora generation works on some planets

if that makes sense

[astral vapor]

well yeah i get why its like that

i understand it

[dense quartz]

I wouldn't be against it, as long as they'd be decently spread out, not like how those exotic planets have their things everywhere, you know?

[astral vapor]

it just slightly bothers me sometimes

[dense quartz]

Yeah. 😄

[timid mist]

i think the goofy part about the flat land for the ruins is they're already buried intentionally lol. but prob just easier for htem to lump it in with other POIs rather than try to generate them differently (when they implemented it at least)

[astral vapor]

yeye

maybe ruin biomes are more like sub biomes similar to mountain biomes and caves and oceans

instead of being the whole theme of the biome

unless agin theyre yknow decently spread out

[gray leaf]

maybe they wont even come out.
they've done things in the past that just dont make it to release and just get left in files

[astral vapor]

id honestly love some huge ruin structures too

[astral vapor]

thats true

[gray leaf]

or it could just be some assets from testing LnF things 🙂

[fervent fern]

They have a simple mechanic, perhaps if HG tackled the concept today they'd do differently

[astral vapor]

the hype part of my brain says "its coming" but i also get the idea theyre LNF assets

[dense quartz]

I actually thought the buried ruin would get variation when Omega silently added a new chart specific for it.

[astral vapor]

they dont fit the art style of nms

[gray leaf]

we shall see. right now i still got much to explore in worlds part 1 😊

[astral vapor]

same

[timid mist]

definitely, they at least slightly expanded on the ruins over time. not by much but still. way easier ways to get artifacts/things to sell now though lol

[icy citrus]

Even just giving them the loving detail like with stations would be a nice start

[timid mist]

agreed

[astral vapor]

enviromental structures would just be that one little touch that would bring everything together for me

(and then the million other ideas i have for this game)

[timid mist]

thats the cool thing is they tend to just do these random hyperfocused updates the past couple years.

[glass flare]

please give the trade outposts some loving detail too, those poor outpost employees have to stand out in the cold and heat with no protection. they really should unionize

[timid mist]

yeah at the very least give them a guild rep like the archive towers lol

[astral vapor]

where do the space station vendors sleep

how do any of them get there

sean, at space airport please my immersion deponds on it

[icy citrus]

I said it in another channel, but once I saw the stations I felt that was basically an announcement of what the next several updates will be doing. Touching up everything else to be in line with that quality

[fervent fern]

Also minor settlements.
I mean... I never use them for their intended purpose, I already have blueprints and such. They are just amusing for the little missions from the one NPC walking inside them...

[astral vapor]

on a more serious note id love if more was done with the left and right areas of the stations

[timid mist]

would make a lot of sense, sorta setting a baseline for detail and atmosphere and making it uniform across other things.

[icy citrus]

They are just so good they make a lot of the other things appear shabby - not that they are but in comparison

[glass flare]

plus once you update one thing, then everything else starts to look shabby by comparison

[timid mist]

yeah and the guild progression stuff is actually pretty satisfying now

[glass flare]

jinx

[icy citrus]

[fervent fern]

Hot take, but I feel it's the case with the classic ships (to an extent at least)

[timid mist]

random but i was happy when i found out you can go to mission counters at space station to hand in autophage quests lol. saved me a lot of flying back and forth to different camps.

[astral vapor]

im thinking this

if each worlds update focuses on one specific part of planets

and we get 2 more parts

cuz 3 world emojis

i think oceans is the next update, based on the leaks ocean content seams to be the most complete

[fervent fern]

I... I had no idea.

[astral vapor]

and 3rd part is gonna be structures and points of interest

[timid mist]

i found out by accident when turning in something else, was such a relief lol

[astral vapor]

maybe its placeholder but that giant anomaly model does not look like LNF

[timid mist]

yeah unless it's a Joe Danger in NMS style placeholder which they did have forever ago before player models

[astral vapor]

true

[timid mist]

but i also don't think it's that since it seems a little more specific

[astral vapor]

but also given theres smoke particles around it which imo implies broken tech

[fervent fern]

Not sure, they are putting smoke on everything lol.

[astral vapor]

i think third update will be structures and POIs

[fervent fern]

I mean, I like it.

[timid mist]

🤞

[astral vapor]

fair but when im thinking like, ancient ruins i dont think fire yknow

destroyed giant robot however

[timid mist]

no fire you say?

[astral vapor]

or whatever it is

n..

no..

...

fi

fire..

[dense quartz]

I honestly can't think of a single area in NMS anymore that doesn't have smoke. They absolutely caked the universe with it lol.

[icy citrus]

Oh agreed

[astral vapor]

get out of my head sean

[icy citrus]

Compare them to the starborn or vulture

Not even close

[astral vapor]

im just saying thats what makes me think it may not be a LNF placeholder

[fervent fern]

Exactly

Not sure if a little rework on the models is possible (it has been done before)

But I'd appreciate it

[glass flare]

Dunno I think the older models generally look fine. But I would love to be able to customize the decals on them, and get rid of (IMO) ugly paint chipping

[fervent fern]

It may be a case of reworking materials too, not sure.

I've seen some nice classic ships that felt more in-line with the current ones just because they were using stealth / iron painting...

But I don't think it will happen. It's a bit of a sensitive topic. People would go mad if their favorite ship changed, even for "the better" lol. Everyone has a very specific taste in the end.

[twilit ocean]

I am having terrible luck with genetically modifying flower creatures

Just gave me an extra point head that doesn’t seem to bloom

[bronze arrow]

So ... Can I get a story summary? I think I get it, but I was looking for the cliffnotes on it

I'm currently heading towards the center

[runic mesa]

I mentioned this before, but some points of They Who Returned mentions New Atlantid. Will the purple systems be related to that...?

[sterile mortar]

Once you beat all the story an do all auto phage quest an pick a new world I chose blue am I supposed to redo the story all again knowing it's a simulation?

[gray compass]

you can warp to other galaxies by reaching the core

but you cant go backwards

unless you have base there

or someone else has base there

but probably yes

[timid mist]

yeah i was thinking this earlier here too, like the part where you have to find the "hidden system" but currently you just get warped into empty space near an atlas station and atlantid anomaly thing

[drowsy dune]

The thing that makes me think that this might be a three part update is the fact that Sean posted three DISTINCT emojis 🌎🌍🌏 and used the first in his tweet announcing the update

But it’s probably only two because we don’t usually get updates after the September anniversary one, which this update lines up with

[timid mist]

i agree, he's usually pretty intentional with the emojis oddly lol. but we'll see I guess

[dense quartz]

It would be totally on brand for HG to announce Part 2 and let people come to the conclusion that it's in fact the last part.
...Then they release Part 3 and actually give confirmation that it's the last one lol.

[zenith perch]

Wait I've got a theory about part 2

We know the purple systems are coming allegedly

Lets assume they are

Autophage systems

[drowsy dune]

Also last years update was 3 parts interceptor-singularity-echoes

[dense quartz]

It was meant to be 4 parts but I don't think anyone knows that part 4 was actually.

[zenith perch]

I think part 2 is that 4th part of the storyline

[dense quartz]

Oh. 👀

[zenith perch]

Purple is atlantideum, void mother/korvax prime, all that jazz

[drowsy dune]

I just assumed parts 3 and 4 were combined into echoes

[zenith perch]

Purple systems, purple hyperdrives, different spawn logic to other systems, ruins

[timid mist]

i submitted a bug report (no pun intended) for this a couple days ago but felt like sharing. you can completely break the bug queen fight if you hit them with a stun projectile as they come out of the ground before the animation finishes. If you do it too early their hitbox is messed up, but they just get frozen like this forever and don't even summon little guys when the timer runs out

tested it like 10 times and was 100% reproducible

[analog breach]

Yup. I also managed to do that few times.

[tame grotto]

"no pun intended"

[timid mist]

would actually be funny to call the debrief of the next expedition the bug report

[gray compass]

true

because it fits so well

[final forge]

What do you guys think part 2 will contain?

[glass flare]

Would be nice if there were difficulty levels to the boss fights. No matter what they introduce in terms of new combat, it's never a challenge for late game players

[uncut harness]

this is super random but i feel the need to say it!

the story makes me so sad everytime i play it 😭

poor artemis

[icy citrus]

[icy citrus]

More planet updating - I'm hoping buildings and other POIs, and fauna

[worn cape]

Does the brood mother not drop anything?

[gray leaf]

it drops by chance.
i heard something like 25%, can't fully confirm.
The drops are vanity head pieces, up to 4 to collect

One more will come with the Expedition, but maybe it will only be acquired during it

[gray compass]

possible

given how the autophage heads were acquired during their respective expedition too

[runic mesa]

Makes you wonder how far ahead this was all planned...

[uncut harness]

I would not be shocked, they said they have a big list of stuff they want to add or fix in NMS.

[astral vapor]

i think thatll be the third update, given the leaked underwater features are way more complete id bet next update is an ocean update

[halcyon pebble]

could be Origins Part 1 then the expedition then Part 2

[chrome depot]

Is it confirmed Worlds will be a three-parter?

[gray compass]

just speculation

[astral vapor]

given there was 3 emojis id assume so

but its not confirmed

just IF theres 3 parts thats how id imagine its gonna go

[icy citrus]

@gusty flame leak is for Wednesday

That's not set in stone, as they can change it at anytime, but it makes sense

[glacial terrace]

NO SEAN PLEASE DONT DO A MOJANG

[rare imp]

The thing I fear with limiting new terrain gen for in this instance, a new star type. Depending on how radical the changes are it might make current terrain gen bland by comparison, which in my humble opinion, it already can be. So I feel to avoid this perhaps, inevitability, I feel a terrain refresh across the board would be necessary, along with implementing a means of archiving bases, to spawn wherever it may accommodate. A full reset I believe, from what I’ve gathered, is supported by a large portion of the community, and for the sake of this games continual innovation technically, I think it’s worth it, even if it means worst case wiping player bases.

[late tusk]

we need more than TWO hostile plant types

[dusky kernel]

...there's four, but yeah

[timid mist]

Idec if they're that different functionally but would be nice if they looked different lol

similar complaint about cooking ingredients and some materials. Like they're the same across the entire universe and every planet somehow.

[glass flare]

There are so many people playing the game now who never experienced the terrain refreshes. They're already mad at the biome changes. Base builders would be so upset with a terrain reset. HG would have to make their base relocation tool available, but I still think they'd get a lot of resentment for it.

I think the best solution would be making purple systems a new galaxy type. However I doubt whatever HG will do will make current planets bland, I mean they are gorgeous. New stuff won't suddenly invalidate that.

[dusky kernel]

phantom stars exist.... they could just bring some of those in and do what origins did when adding extra planets

[timid mist]

Theyve also shown that they can add planets to existing systems. Could do that again to sprinkle in some of the new stuff. Maybe there are limitations to it though, who knows.

[dusky kernel]

changing the types of entire galaxies would undoubtedly get very few people living waaaay out in the middle of nowhere mad

[dusky kernel]

we need a bump-up on that planet limit, to like 8. there's enough around to have it up to 15 for ~every system if they wanted

[glass flare]

considering there's a new stellar material, I think they're planning to insert new star systems into Euclid, not sure how. Though I would love for it to be a whole galaxy

[timid mist]

I feel like that'd be a little crowded without spreading them out more, which could mean even longer pulse distances lol. But who knows

But yeah I think they'll prob just add new systems similar to how they added new planets (or maybe not similarly, no clue how it works under the hood with the gen)

new galaxy would be even cooler especially if it came with an overhaul of how that works. Slightly higher chances for certain planet types has always felt kinda pointless to me

[glass flare]

yeah, and if they're planning a lot of big terrain changes I'd love for there to be a galaxy's worth of them to explore

It would be kind of amazing if Waking Titan came back and Void Mother turns out to be Emily, and the ARG clues unlock how to access the purple galaxy where she's waiting for us

[uncut harness]

I wonder if purple stars will be an endgame so to speak

[dusky kernel]

so. artemis path ending?

[echo spindle]

Ahh I haven't finished the story yet

But go ahead and spoil it lol idrc

[dusky kernel]

so as in the update or....

anyways at the end you pick a galaxy and stuff that's... a choice

[echo spindle]

Ok

[astral vapor]

If the second part is indeed water focused

I hope they bring back water on moons

Iirc there used to be moons with islands and water n stuff

Like pre NEXT

[elfin pagoda]

Interesting speculation

new biomes would really increase the randomization and style amongst most planets.

[glass flare]

where's he getting NPC pathing from, was that datamined?

[grizzled apex]

There's a file and a bunch of new fields related to navmeshes and settings for generating them on the Nexus, Freighters and Planets. Could just be for creatures but I haven't seen navmesh agents for those before.

[glass flare]

Interesting, thanks. Would be amazing if we could get more advanced interactions with NPCs on planets

[chrome depot]

So wait, could that mean we could possibly see more advanced actions out of animals? Cause it’s be hella cool to like, come across a natural migrating herd of creatures.

[twilit ocean]

If Emily is void mommy

I completely forgot about waking titan

After it being so long

Those were good times

[twilit ocean]

I hope it’s flying creature pathing too

[mental socket]

I'm quite excited for possible network features that'll follow the cloud save and HG account system. Hopefully we can finally get in-game invites and such.

[grizzled apex]

I don't think the HG account stuff's gonna change MP, at least if they use their own servers as opposed to the Playfab ones.

[mental socket]

Would be nice to have at least some refinement to the online aspects. But if there isn't anything to even hint at changes on that end, welp... LNF is my hope.

is there any networking stuff found apart from the packet size optimisations and cloudsave subdomain?

[grizzled apex]

Not from what I've seen, sadly

[grizzled apex]

Honestly yea, MP in NMS is insanely fun and there's so much to do with people... if it even works properly

And even when it does, it's still a lil clunky to get working

Makes me wonder how LNF is being shown off as a multiplayer project... hopefully they can backport it's MP support too.

[twilit ocean]

Ps5 generation is fixed now right?

[twilit ocean]

Or do we have a bit longer

[mental socket]

incorrect biomes and assets should be fixed yea

idk about floaty islands yet. Nothing mentioned on patch notes about em

[stable dew]

i want to see completely reworked biome gen even if it screws with some of the existing bases people have made. having planets with multiple biomes, reworking the (currently) lackluster caves and having stuff like rivers (which we know they have the tech for) would make new builds so much better

also, i'd like to be able to interact with the suns in some way, that would be nice

another thing i hope they explore in the worlds updates is making multiplayer in the game better, i feel multiplayer is always buggy, and that always puts me off it a little bit. also the fact that the amount of people allowed in a system being very limited annoys me too, it prevents large scale vents from feeling that way. would be super cool to see hundreds of people all doing the same expedition, or all doing the same civilization event

though it's a biot of a stretch in the worlds scope

more animal diversity would be nice too, seeing more variety would be nice

i hope the updates add more uniqueness to the game, making each system feeling more and more different

[carmine topaz]

Tell me you all saw the leaks that data miners put out

Desolate planets sound DOPE

I’ve always wanted a barren sandy wasteland like Tattooine, and I think I’ll finally get one.

[glass flare]

are floating islands missing on PS5 too? is that why I haven't found any yet

[mental socket]

I can't confirm if they are or not. All I've seen are some mentions from a few PS5 players saying they aren't seeing any

[gray leaf]

i've seen ppl confirming they're there.
Don't have a PS5 myself, but they are not at least absent from the looks of it

A lot of people don't seem to have realised yet that the islands are not that common

[glass flare]

Yeah that’s what I figured

[gloomy isle]

Yeah I've definitely seen them on pc

[pliant aurora]

I hope swamps get updated and more tree types for lush planets. Some of the trees on lush planets are straight up ugly

[twilit ocean]

I think people were confused/upset since it seemed implied that old floating islands would go poof

[grizzled apex]

Looking at the Worlds Part I Key Art again, and I just realize the Atlas is missing... I don't think major update covers have ever not had the Atlas in them before, right?

[twilit ocean]

Originally someone posted the generation was indeed different for them

[gray leaf]

i mean, we still have those triangular outlines very indicative of the atlas

[grizzled apex]

Very faint imo. Even Frontiers, which had the least illustrated Atlas stood out quite clearly.

[gray leaf]

well you are talking specifically only at major version releases?

[grizzled apex]

Other releases don't generally have a cover art illustration, so I don't think you can factor those in

[gray leaf]

hmm.. we just had one for orbital

[glass flare]

which release was 4.0, was that Origins?

[gray leaf]

we had sentinel...

so many cover arts

[grizzled apex]

Probably just artists discretion, but it's an interesting observation nonetheless, considering It took so long to notice

[grizzled apex]

Ah, I'm talking about the illustrated covers here, not the in-game screenshots

[gray leaf]

i mean, again, a lot more of the updates (that indeed also had cover art change) did not include the atlas

[gray leaf]

yes me too ? im confused

[grizzled apex]

I think 4.0 was waypoint. 3.0 was origins and 3.5 was frontiers

[glass flare]

They were definitely intentional in the past about it. Atlas continued to look deteriorated and declining in each big udpate. Not sure how much they're still continuing that since the main storyline hasn't progressed much

[grizzled apex]

Sentinel and Orbital don't have illustrated covers?

[gray leaf]

orbital also did, it even changed the main menu

[grizzled apex]

Yea see, sentinel doesnt have an "illustrated" cover

its an in game screen shot

[glass flare]

oh you're right, Waypoint kinda weird for a 4.0

[grizzled apex]

Thats why the Atlas being mostly absent here stood out to me, since I remember the whole deal about it "getting closer" every update since Atlas Rises

[gray leaf]

oh i see what you mean now.
Very interesting. Orbital however did in fact have an illustrated cover

[grizzled apex]

It does not 🙂

[gray leaf]

that's what was shared on the website. But we did have a steam banner change that also applied to the main menu? 🤔

so not sure what criteria to use here

[grizzled apex]

I mean they did release on switch. 1.5 and 2.0 were marked with platform releases too (beyond less so but vr is still a platform imo), and it did change a lot of things under the hood for HG to consider it a major update

[grizzled apex]

I think you're thinking of echoes? Thats the only steam banner we had before the new Worlds Part I banner

[glass flare]

also interesting that Worlds cover art shows both orbital paths of moons around planets, and planet orbital paths around their star. That's a painful troll if they have no intention of adding orbital mechanics haha

[grizzled apex]

I remember seeing that in the chinese website leak and being insanely hyped becase of that ahaha.

[grizzled apex]

Ah, thats the cover they made for the Nintendo Switch version, since showing multiple players on a platform with no players would likely be misleading...

[gray leaf]

yea. weirdly how it got used for for the banner though

even on steam

[grizzled apex]

I haven't seen this on steam from what I can remember

But I usually launch from desktop / NMSMB anyway

[gray leaf]

it's busting my head now, but im pretty sure it was a variant of this with the background shown

[grizzled apex]

Hey wait a minute

[gray leaf]

instead of the single guy as in the cover

[grizzled apex]

thats just the image on the main menu

[gray leaf]

yea thats what i saaid

was updated on Orbital

[grizzled apex]

I thought you meant the steam banner 😅

[gray leaf]

and yes

[grizzled apex]

Yea im guessing it's used to contrast w/ multiplater

[gray leaf]

also banner longer with the multi travellers background

[grizzled apex]

and not really an indicator of orbital as a cover art image update

[gray leaf]

I could swear, but gonna try to see if i took any screenshots of steam window at the time

[gray leaf]

Yea, idk what criteria to use there then.
Perhaps only the News article on website?

Would be nice to have a website with all these materials from over the years

[grizzled apex]

I'm pretty sure Procedural Traveller updates the cover art tiled image

gimme a sec

Yep, credit to Procedural Traveller, he's been keeping this updated for a while!

[gray leaf]

yea, you can still go and find these at NMS website.
But i wish there was some steam banner and other art tracking as well

[grizzled apex]

steamdb likely keeps track of the game page media library's updates, but it is a pain to sift through, given all the updates to experimental and internal

[gray leaf]

Im specially interested in finding a place with all the full image, wide format and high res :)

[glass flare]

I wonder if they'll do another key art for Part 2, it would make sense if the focus will be on Void Mother systems

oooh hey...maybe they're saving orbital mechanics for these new systems

[gray leaf]

well it appears that cover illustrated art is done for more than just major version changes at least :)

[grizzled apex]

Having 2 Key Art level updates in a row would be insane haha, but defintely worth it if they go to town taking advantage of these new systems.

[sterile jay]

Is there an end to the Atlas Eternal quests?

or is it eternal?

[dusky kernel]

yes

[gray leaf]

If its already named atlas eternal thats finished.
The quest stays around and allows you to get some nanites

[grizzled apex]

Y'know, with how they showed off new biomes in the Origins Key Art, I'm surprised all they showed off in the Worlds Part I art are the water reflections...

Especially since this update added so many biomes

[gray leaf]

hm? the additions were just variations of biomes afaik

all i could see added there would be the floating islands

[grizzled apex]

Yea and it's not really evident on the art

[gray leaf]

But also possible the art was done way before that got made.
It was said they worked on the water for a while

[grizzled apex]

compared to how prominent it was on origins' cover art

[grizzled apex]

Yep, Martin Griffith mentioned clouds and water effects have been in the works for a year now

[gray leaf]

yea cause origins actually changeD stuff heavily.
The variations of biomes are mostly a few assets

[grizzled apex]

Origins art showed new biomes since it was the headline feature for this update. But I guess the new biomes arent the main headline compared to clouds / water here

[gray leaf]

and the graphics overhaul 🤌
guess they could have shown the bugs. but it's not like they showed anything scary in the other illustrated cover arts either

it's always very chill

[drowsy dune]

GODAMN

[twilit ocean]

isn’t it usually in lines of 4

It’s crazy when you realize we’ve been getting 3-4 updates a year on average

Even when you already know it

[late tusk]

im glad they are taking the time to go back and update old things like water/stuff

[uncut harness]

I really like the colors. I'm not the only one saying this but, pathfinder feelings are back.

[glass flare]

They really did take the time. I read a tweet from an HG engine programmer that three developers spent a year developing the new water and cloud systems

[gloomy isle]

It was so worth it

Both the clouds and the water are leagues ahead of where they were

Not to mention the new atmospheric effects

[uncut harness]

It's so great to look at now. Blood orange sky, big clouds, waves.

[twilit ocean]

Can confirm islands are working on ps5 now

[uncut harness]

You don't phase through em anymore?

[pliant aurora]

both incredible pics

crazy clouds look like that now. I remember when i got the game on launch and the clouds looked atrocious

[glass flare]

Yeah sometimes the new clouds border on photorealistic. The previous clouds often looked like they were badly Photoshopped into the game

[lost mason]

why does traveling to another galaxy completely destroy all upgrades?

[dusty rivet]

Because I would assume it's a very violent process

[lost mason]

does it happen every time or only the first one

[dusty rivet]

Have a ship and multitool you only use to fly into the center

[dusty rivet]

Every time

But if you accidentally do it again, you should have everything in your freighter to easily repair it all

[glass flare]

speaking of the key art, I was looking at the Worlds art and noticed this bit in the background. Could just be artistic license, but it looks like some kind of large technological structure

[late tusk]

they should update the reputation next

like..

come on if i keep blowing up gek ships they should send some one after me. and no not more sentinels lmao

[lost mason]

does going to a new galaxy always spawn you really close to the core?

i got put on the solar system next to the center

[neat warren]

I think its random
I got close to core in eissentam but 600k away in hilbert

[uncut harness]

The atlas is not being destroyed by a black hole

The entire world is a simulation created by a team of humans. Each iteration of the simulation has had a traveler and various alien species. Overtime the aliens kinda all became the main 3 species we know as Gek, korvax and Vykeen.

The atlas is actually being shut down in 16 irl minutes, the issue is that 16 mins could be anything from 16 mins to 16 billion years due to time dilation

In short: the atlas is a computer that the “villain” is turning off, the weirdness and reality glitches are due to various parts of the atlas already turning off

But still it continues to run new simulations and iterations, strangly with data from previous iterations bleeding into the next

[astral zealot]

there a summary for what's been found while datamining?

[uncut harness]

That’s my understanding at least, I need to do more research

[drowsy dune]

Maybe this ties in to the purple systems thing and the whole 4 part storyline that echoes was part 3 in, I doubt they would unintentionally forget to use their mascot

[drowsy dune]

Captainsteves video (been posted in here a few times) is a summary of everything thatbomberboi has found, who I’m pretty sure is the one behind all the worlds leaks

[glass flare]

The black hole is referenced in the Remembrance terminal lore. It witnesses its own self, the black hole ripping apart its world, its core systems almost destroyed. [...] The ATLAS attempts to see past this moment, but it cannot. It cannot see its own death.

[night helm]

Kinda weird I can see the expedition name and transferable rewards already at the Quicksilver guy

[grizzled apex]

Yea especially since almost all the assets in the cover art are rehashed from existing ones... Wonder if we'll see the Atlantid on the cover of the next one instead?

[bleak parrot]

@daring cedar

Whas the store tingy

[daring cedar]

@bleak parrot

[bleak parrot]

Yuh

[daring cedar]

So the 4th race has a shop that uses void motes for currency

I been grinin' tryna get a one time flush

So I ain't gotta grind no more

[bleak parrot]

What exactly is the 4th race tho? Like the anomalies? The travellers?

And what do they sell at that store

I have completed the story in the past but it was long ago i dont remember anything abt a 4 racr

[daring cedar]

4th race is new I just found out how to get them two days ago
And I guess I shouldn't say 4th race really
But they're 4th in that they have camps like the Vy'keen, Korvax and Gek but they're in every system

They sell cosmetics and staff parts

[bleak parrot]

Yup i just searched on the wiki, i have actually found a few of them on harmony camps

But i didnt know they had a store

[daring cedar]

Man it's some really cool lore to read yourself but they're basically robot types
Go kill a harmonic destabliizer sentinel thing on a corrupted planet to get an echo locator

Use that to find a camp and then the quest should activate

oh yeah?

tight

Yeah that orange terminal

[bleak parrot]

But it doesnt let me buy anything

When i intercat with them they just go like “the ninth: 100100”

[daring cedar]

You gotta do the quest

Oh yeah

[bleak parrot]

Oh i see

[daring cedar]

It gets better

[bleak parrot]

Anyway i’ll do that later i want to finish the main stories first

Atlas and artemis

Btw can i dm u rq

[daring cedar]

Oh yeah do that first

Sure

Just uh

Don't be weird

[bleak parrot]

Hahah dw dw

[dense quartz]

I still can't get over how the game makes a big deal about Artemis being dead and gone, and then there's the Autophage who are just resurrected dudes lol.

[runic mesa]

I'm still holding out on being able to ressurect Artemis as an Autophage...

[dense quartz]

Honestly, same.

[runic mesa]

They can do storyline/title branches based on if you placed them in the simulator or not.

[dense quartz]

I actually wonder if Part 2 might reference the choice Omega added for the Atlas path. Cause that was a very odd addition on it's own I think.

[runic mesa]

I just hope the speculation is correct and it's also part 4 of the Atlantid arc we never got

[gray compass]

i wonder if the anomaly has some connections to atlantid or not

[dense quartz]

I wonder if HG thought through this whole story years ago or if it's something more recent.
I think I remember hearing something about Dreams of the deep having references to the void mother and that's from 2018.

[grizzled apex]

The Abyss as an entity similar in nature to, but distinct, which indoctrinates lifeforms via the water has been in the game's lore for a long time.

I honestly think they saw some theories about that tidbit of lore and tried building on top of that recently, rather than having teased it that far back

[glass flare]

if memory serves, the Autophage are only resurrected because Void Mother sacrificed herself in order to preserve their consciousnesses when Korvax Prime was destroyed. so that was a special case

[icy citrus]

@novel summit showed this

https://x.com/bomber_that/status/1816064823827800386

ThatBomberBoi (@bomber_that) on X

#NoMansSkySpoilers Hello Games have shifted the expedition start time forward to 24th July 2024 at 4:00 PM GMT

Twitter · Jul 24, 2024, 10:56 AM

@grizzled apex way to make me cry

[fervent fern]

Oh, just a few hours

I was thinking days

Thank god lol.

[grizzled apex]

Don't shoot the messenger 😅

[novel summit]

Hoping to God HG has enough hope xbox will drop before then

[fervent fern]

Yep, perhaps it means that. Who knows? With Switch out...

[icy citrus]

Just teasing anyways, I wait for expedition patches before starting

[grizzled apex]

Haha, all good, so am I.
It's actually a better time in my timezone so I'm not complaining :P

[uncut harness]

11pm for me

[icy citrus]

[mental socket]

so approx in 5 hours

[icy citrus]

5 and a bit ya

Oh I can't math

Less than 5

Frigging Timezones

[hexed palm]

It’s in 3:30

<t:1721833200:R>

[stone sequoia]

Question... In the Artemis Path, at some point you ||meet with Artemis in person and you're standing at the same comms tower, but you can't see each other.|| It only just occurred to me now; Is this a reference to early MP or is it just a neat coincidence?

[uneven light]

https://x.com/bomber_that/status/1816084048546042122

ThatBomberBoi (@bomber_that) on X

#NoMansSkySpoilers aaand now, back to the original start time of 1 PM GMT 😅

Twitter · Jul 24, 2024, 12:12 PM

lol

[fervent fern]

lol!
So like... in 20min?

[glad kernel]

@grizzled apex Why does it change? In which file should I check this time? lol

[grizzled apex]

Hello Games can update it any time they'd like on their servers. It doesn't exist in a file, rather in the server response.

[glad kernel]

My friend just told me he's going to sleep for a few hours before getting up to play games. Then a few minutes later, I forwarded your new tweet to him. lol

[grizzled apex]

Haha, I outta stop slacking and automate this bit one of these days and host it somewhere instead of tweeting back-and-forth 😅

Just for serverside stuff of course

[mental socket]

did you see who discovered the expedition system. Not HG

[gloomy isle]

Willing to bet we see part 2 on September 4th

Which is the Wednesday after liquidators ends

[cinder siren]

@gloomy isle anything with freighters or frigates happening?

[gloomy isle]

Not so far. There's 2 unused land biomes in the files (a desert type biome and a ruins biome), and 3 new ocean biomes

It's not clear if the land biomes are meant for LNF instead though

There's a new metal and hyperdrive for a new type of star they're adding too

[icy citrus]

I doubt they would put them in if they were intended just for LNF

[grizzled apex]

Might be scrapped but I highly doubt they're light no fire biome files

[gloomy isle]

True, we do have seemingly LNF specific character models in the files too though

[icy citrus]

Or new stuff

[gloomy isle]

The medieval style tunics etc

[icy citrus]

Maybe some more leakage

Boundaries break down and we get some tunics and a bow

[grizzled apex]

LNF will probably also use the same Skyscraper Engine as NMS but I highly doubt they'll design the whole generation system the same as NMS

[gloomy isle]

I do kinda suspect that LNF's lore will tie into the void mother's plan somehow

So the biomes being somewhat like what we saw in the trailers for LNF could be a fun idea to go with

Especially since looking at it, the NMS ruins biome has different geometry

[zenith perch]

Worlds part 2 theory

The purple systems are the part 4 of the storyline they were doing and a result of the void mother corrupting parts of the simulation

[uncut harness]

#nms-media

[drowsy dune]

Oh it probably is! The artimis quest was added in atlas rises just a year after launch, so that whole fiasco was probably still on their minds

[zenith perch]

purple system purple hyperdrive stuff, atlantideum, the dissonant planets being corrupted worlds already

If I'm right I hope purple systems have uniquely extreme generation like walls of glass or something

[stone sequoia]

That makes so much sense!

Purple systems have to be glass, right?

The sentinel stuff [pugneum, atlantideum, extracted tech, ...] is all purple, or tinted to such a hue in the inventory.

[dreamy forge]

Yeah would love to see some crazy stuff in the purple systems

[gloomy isle]

Yeah the purple systems could be the Atlantid actively overtaking the Atlas and overwriting the sim or something

[mental socket]

@grizzled apex happen to know the exact number of kills we must collectively do to reach the maximum tier?

or is there any buffer for the kill count upload like there was for other collective expedition upload things like echo seeds

[grizzled apex]

Each person can send a total of 150 "contributions" (1 contribution per 1 kill)
The contribution (kill) count for all 5 tiers is in the second screenshot

[mental socket]

Ty so much! No need to do unnecessary combat now

[grizzled apex]

Oh wow okay so I got curious and checked the server responses... This system isn't discovered by HG, that Profile is someone else called LightNoFire...
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198190173265

Hello Games Profile:
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198825835891

This LightNoFire account also has some discoveries on the planet like minerals and plants, so likely someone who's actively playing though the expedition

[glass flare]

Or Sean forgot to switch accounts back to HelloGames

[grizzled apex]

I guess that explains why the system was uploaded today...

[glass flare]

Hm it would be very odd for HG not to claim a primary expedition system. Is it a non-standard system or something

[grizzled apex]

Okay yea no

The servers show that "The Vanguard" should be the one who discovers that system, not LightNoFire

and the Vanguard here is just a custom name tied to the HelloGames Steam ID

[glass flare]

Maybe it's because the Discovery Services servers are buckling today?

[grizzled apex]

UA for the starting planet

[grizzled apex]

Probably this. I had rendezvous 5 show up as discovered by @outer cobalt mid playthrough today, so I'm guessing some of the requests aren't panning properly

[uncut harness]

oof, replaying this game is like reminding me of how dark the story can get I feel like the story telling was lost on me my first play through

[halcyon pebble]

im guessing Origins Pt 2 September 2nd or a little after the expedition ends

[late tusk]

wait what

[uncut harness]

At first I thought this was an Archive tower, but there is more high buildings around and they seem too tall to be a settlement 👀

I doubt they would spoil a big feature like cities in the cover, but who knows. I remember people speculating about gas giants in the Next cover, because of the obvious giant planet at the center 😂

[tawdry quarry]

having a city there would be cool as hell though. thinking of Cloud City from Star Wars or the gas harvesting platforms the Corpus use in Warframe

[glass flare]

From a lore perspective, we know that the Sentinels annihilated all the big civilizations in the universe. But if Void Mother has enough juice now to control whole star systems, she can effectively do what she wants, which gives HG a pass to do something bigger.

I agree that it's unlikely we'd get big procedural structures like a city, but it would be pretty wild if they did. 😅

[rustic haven]

Yaknow, I just realized. One thing the game has no touched in the slightest is the 3 races. (Except adding in the 4th I guess?) So it makes me wonder, will gek korvak and vykeen get an update? If I recall one of the leaked things was assets believed to be used for light no fire, but what if they are just sharing assets to be used when reworking our existing pals. Or the existence of another race but I kinda doubt that.

[errant socket]

I saw on nomansskyresources that there's gonna be a new purple star system

With amythest

[icy citrus]

Void mommy systems

[errant socket]

?

This stuff true

[icy citrus]

No

That's datamined stuff, but it doesn't guarantee we see it

As an example wind turbines were datamined

4 years ago

[errant socket]

Ok

Looks cool tho

[icy citrus]

The list is accurate in so far as that's been found though

[errant socket]

Just speculation but is worlds 2 gonna be the last big update

[icy citrus]

And ofc we hope for all those

[icy citrus]

I doubt it

And I think there are 3 parts also

[errant socket]

Whaaaaa

Where'd you learn that

[icy citrus]

Well, he tweeted out three unique world emojis, then as the final before the release he tweeted the circle of candles with the first world emoji he tweeted inside. Part 1

It's a guess

[errant socket]

Oooooh

That would be awesome I love this game so much

[icy citrus]

Same 😄

[errant socket]

Mostly cuz of the devs

Literally the only thing I ask from
Them is to remove unobtainables from the catalogue

I hate seeing so many black spaces I cant unlock

[icy citrus]

Understandable

!hg

[cloud jolt]

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

[glass flare]

the nav paths for Nexus is a weird one, because it doesn't seem like it would be good UX for the named NPCs to be walking around and people having to chase them down to interact

So I wonder if they have some plan to add more NPCs there that serve a different purpose

[static urchin]

hope the purple systems have something unique to them

(if they do make it into the game)

[glass flare]

I want there to be some big structure on one of the purple planets where you walk to the center and there's an old computer on a table, which lights up with Emily's face as she says, "Missed me?"

[uncut harness]

Where is the connection between the Void Mother and Emily being established exactly? Wasn‘t Emily some sort of older version of the Atlas or responsible for some certain part of the simulation,

whereas the Void Mother is the AI of Korvax Prime?

[glass flare]

Just fanfiction mostly I guess. My fantasy head canon is that Emily/loop16 didn't actually die, but uploaded some part of herself somewhere and then eventually hid out in the servers where the next Atlas version was, and eventually became the Korvax Prime AI

[uncut harness]

Ah I see, seems like a solid theory though. Considering that a potential ARG 4 has been leaked, all of this might actually end up lining up.

[gloomy isle]

Wait, it has?

[gloomy isle]

Could be cool to fill it with proc gen travellers if you have mp turned off

[icy citrus]

I'd cry

[sour fossil]

It could be also some kind of beta testing

Since the interior of Space Anomaly is a fixed geometry tested extensively by the playerbase for all kinks and out of bounds spots

Maybe HG is using this environment for navigating NCPs, instead of modelling a new interior

As for the infographic poster earlier

Abandoned Wreckage could refer to the new planetary features that spawn the ruined ship parts we get from previous exped

The patch notes state that planets with Salvageable Scrap now spawn wrecked ships on the surface

[gloomy isle]

Oh is it the expedition crashed ship props?

They were super cool

[mental socket]

Anomaly invasion!

Idk. Some of the NPCs serve no function apart from one time visits and a few questline stuff.

Like... the only time you need to talk to the owl guy, ariadne, portal guy etc. is during anomaly introduction and then during Trace of Metal

Wouldn't be too bad to have them wandering around the place and give a little life to it

[glass flare]

Me too, Gleam. Me too. 🥹

[uncut harness]

Then you'd know that most of the waking titan arg is contemporary to our universe and was a product of a partnership with HG the materials is cannon

[sour fossil]

Yeah I've seen someone here posting a screenshot of them in the wild

Can't member who though

[gloomy isle]

That's pretty neat, I like the idea of certain planet traits effecting environmental props

[woven wagon]

i saw some new ships at the anomaly, are they part of the expedition ?

[heady wyvern]

Define "new"

[icy citrus]

This expedition didn't bring any new ships

[runic mesa]

...thankfully. Honestly getting tired of unique exep ships. We have four. I'm glad Liquidators went in another direction.

[gloomy isle]

I'd like more in future so long as their parts can be used in ship building

[analog breach]

I'd like more focus on story and lore in the future. Liquidators apeard kinda random from nowhere. I fear whole world building will far apart if HG will add random things

[glass flare]

I liked it when it was a tease of a new ship class, but I really wanted a whole class of Wipeout ships and we're stuck with just the expedition one. Not that I'm complaining, but I always want them to lean as far as possible towards procedural generation and not static models

[uncut harness]

Haven‘t played it yet myself but the Expedition seems to perfectly line up with the ongoing corruption of the Universe by the Abyss per lore no?

According to leaks HG might even add purple systems with Worlds Part 2, imo those are very likely to be Abyss related because the color purple has sorta been the Void‘s theme, even the Green biohorror icons were changed to it

I sort of think that the enemies feel out of place though. Biohorrors, minifiends or even abyssal creatures fit nicely together, but the new bugs don‘t feel as cool and fitting I feel like. I‘m having a bit of a hard time acknowledging them as a part of the same „family“

[glass flare]

I see the horror creatures as more a byproduct of the degradation of the simulation and not the intentional creation of Void Mother. I don't really see VM as evil or dark, she's just got her own agenda that's separate from Atlas.

But I decided not to play the Expedition so I don't know if there was additional lore there

[junior quest]

this nearly made me cry and idk why

like

i have an existensial crisis like

in the summer

quite often

cuz it's a big period of transition and my neurospicy brain doesn't like it

I worry about death and what comes after an IRRATIONAL amount. Despite the fact that I can't do anything about it

the whole message of "the universe is dying, there's nothing you can do about it, enjoy existence while it lasts" is so beautiful

and so well written into the game

that it helps me to feel better about things

whoever wrote this stuff deserves a major raise (though I'd assume they're paid fairly already cuz HG isn't scummy like SOME GAME COMPANIES I COULD NAME COUGH EA, BLIZARD, UBISOFT COUGH)

[analog breach]

I played the expedition. Liqidators where not mentioned in the lore. New bugs also look out of place. Whole exp is a wink towards starship tropers/ helldivers.

[tawdry quarry]

Sean getting the bugdivers on board

[uncut harness]

Hmm I‘m not so sure about that given that the lore indicates what I believe to be a cooperative relationship between void mommy and people like Null or Ariadne, both of them being implied to at least have done/be doing some questionable things

[glass flare]

Not saying VM is blameless, but those people helped her agenda. Spawning horrors all over the universe is just kind of evil for the sake of evil, and my feeling is that isn't her vibe

[uncut harness]

Mhm. I am a huge fan of the Alien Franchise and sci-fi horror so the Biohorrors were one of my favorite additions and I always wanted them to stay a mystery or at least have some complicated lore so I hope you‘re right.

But I feel like the change of their icons from the green face to a purple one is a clear nod to the void mother. Hopefully HG won‘t drag all of this out for too much longer cause this whole thing has been built up for ssoooo long now…

[glass flare]

I wish they would remodel the biohorrors, because I've always felt they looked a bit too cartoony. The new insects look a lot more grounded in the NMS universe IMO, would love more of that kind of treatment.

But yeah I'm excited to see what comes in Part 2, I feel like there's got to be at least some continuation of the VM story to introduce the purple systems

[tawdry quarry]

i have a feeling that if we do get those ruins people have sent pictures of from datamining they'll only be in purple systems

their destruction was for the Sentinels sense of order, and the void mother is shaping up to be the opposite of that

[dusty rivet]

I loved the ending of the main story of the game so much. Something was so funny about me & Apollo racing to the center of the galaxy while ~null~ is screaming at me not to do it. Such an amazing game

[uncut harness]

What is the difference between the bug pet we get in the new expedition and the new bugs you can find in the worlds update?

Other than the pet from the expedition wants me to feed it some processed meat or something and doesn't accept the treats 😦

[cyan holly]

I think I just finished the story... so atlas is the interface for the simulation we are running on, do we know why the simulation is being ran? Why the power backups are failing? Who is running it? Is it just a 4th wall refrence to the fact that its a game?

[mental socket]

expedition bug pet is the untameable one which the broodmommy spawns

the ones that are always hostile and can never be found roaming around

[uncut harness]

OH! Thank you I felt so dumb because I wasn't sure what the difference was but I was sure it had to be special!

[mental socket]

Yee. Np. All the exp pets are things that can't be tamed or only exist under specific circumstances

Tbh it isn't as cool as the glowy blue octopus or sentinel dog but at least it's uniQ

[tardy vine]

a question about the artemis path questline

||i've gotten to The Purge quest an im a bit torn, i dunno what the consequences are for this, does it reset all my progress? should i do it to further a story or is this the end? do i unlock anything that i'll need for later on while playing?||

[gray leaf]

no need for spoiler tags in this channel.

It doesn not reset any of your progress even if you choose to reset the sim.
However it will have the same effect as core warping, ie. all your tech wiill get damaged.
It's recommended to use a sacrificial star ship and tool and/or pack all your tech to prevent damage including suit.

You can also use repair kits to repair all stuff, or turn on free crafting in settings.

This will be the end of the artemis path and main story, other than that you only have the side mission (Atlas path), and you will unlock the Echoes / Autophage content which you can start right after

[tardy vine]

ah thank you!

[dense quartz]

So now that we know HG didn't bother fixing the water for a long time because they were overhauling it, I kinda hope they do the same for these outposts, cause they're super old by now and have been visually broken for a while now.

[gray leaf]

gonna be honest i haven't come across that ever.
looks like rendering glitch

I'd be more happy to learn they've been working for a year in overhauling crashed freighters for examp, or upgrading the meshes and textures on regular freighters to bring them to par with the dreadnaught

[dense quartz]

I know the freighters in space have already been visually overhauled in Endurance.

I dunno if the crashed ones got the same treatment tho, I don't think they have.

[gray leaf]

As far as i can remember, the crashed freighter have had the same textures at 180px since forever

And the other freighters definitely need some reskin after the pirate dread and orbital upgrade to stations

[glass flare]

I think the structure above and the trade outposts definitely need a revamp now, they're the only 1.0 buildings left unchanged since launch

[gray leaf]

I'm pretty sure Next changed some of the models 🤔
might be misremembering

[glass flare]

I think they added those interior hanging carpets at some point, but I'm not sure the buildings themselves have changed

[dense quartz]

I'd say they're like the last content in this game that hasn't been changed since launch.

Either way their artstyle doesn't match the current vibe of the game anymore.

[wind oak]

I was just talking about the possible new star system as there are some rumors about it (Moving this from normal chat to here)

[junior quest]

what do you mean by new star system, like new TYPE of star system?

[wind oak]

yeeee

there was a leak again not sure if it was real but there was a pic of a new drive like a purple one

[junior quest]

oh right i feel like i have been hearing about that

interesting

[wind oak]

also I feel less bad for killing the geks now

after learning a bit of the role

[junior quest]

yeah have you seen my rep with them

[wind oak]

I hate the gek

[wind oak]

my fav guys were korvax

💀

[junior quest]

same

[wind oak]

bro I am like -100 with em

u truly despise em

[junior quest]

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