nms-spoilers

[midnight stream]

they would still be no match for my freighter fleet 👿

[fossil parrot]

holy wut

I just got in this chat so

[heavy light]

Lmfao, the GoG notification just spoiled the update title in #no-mans-sky

[fossil parrot]

I am missing a lot it seems

[heavy light]

https://youtu.be/I0pzvZ-8yIs?is=zwcUNaNV47pQS9am

[native carbon]

Yessss

[paper spire]

the pictures was occlusion of a star

[heavy light]

No patch notes yet though

[native carbon]

New voice lady?

[shrewd hinge]

LOL the music, and announcement is freaking hilarious

[cosmic anvil]

French Polynesia in the 1950s

[fossil parrot]

ain’t no way MY JOKE GUESS WAS RIGHT LOL

[humble kayak]

what the hell

[grizzled apex]

Oh there is NO WAY this wasnt on purpose lmao

[heavy light]

Spoilers are lifted, we can go to #no-mans-sky now

[grizzled apex]

Nintendo's probably fuming looking at this

[shrewd hinge]

It's like a fun April fools and they were like 'this is too much fun, we're expanding on this'

[paper spire]

gawd i hope that is an AI fake

[native carbon]

this DOESNT sound like no mans sky trailer

[humble kayak]

What is this

[native carbon]

lmao

[shrewd hinge]

I don't think it was meant to, that's hilarious

[hushed wyvern]

the video itself shows a bird-like creature from the player position, and you are saying we still cant tame flying/water creatures?

[cosmic anvil]

don't think it is a lady?

[shrewd hinge]

Atlas is playing jokes

[cosmic anvil]

unfortunately no

[humble kayak]

Is this a late April fools prank

[cosmic anvil]

Incoming Nintendo suit

[shrewd hinge]

What's unfortunate about it, it's GREAT,

[orchid relic]

We got Pokemon in NMS before GTA6 😔

[warped linden]

Yayyy its the pokimane update

[paper spire]

please be a dream and I wake up

<pinch-pinch-pinch> fk mi

[north temple]

please hello games i need this, my moth is kinda useless

[paper spire]

well ch et i wanted to play another game for a while i guess

[humble kayak]

yeah im kind of sitting here waiting for them to reveal the real update but I know that's it

[runic mesa]

That trailer is peak. Mad hatters, the lot.

[native carbon]

looks like u can get a sentinel pet

corrupted spider one

[humble kayak]

I told you guys it'd be another gimmick

[cosmic anvil]

Hey Sean,

See you at this address soon.

Guildford Crown Court, Mary Road, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 4P

Sincerely Yours,
Nintendo Co., Ltd.

[humble kayak]

Lazarou gonna be fuming

[native carbon]

new companions

[cosmic anvil]

he expected freighters?

[native carbon]

seems to be the reward from battling

[paper spire]

well does digimon pay Nintendo?

[solemn meteor]

imagine if nintendo actually takes action the court of public opinion would tear them apart

[humble kayak]

I think he expected anything other than this LMAO

[runic mesa]

They said something about new Xeno species..?

[cosmic anvil]

since when did Nintendo care about public opinion rofl

They've taken on even more ridiculous suits and won

[paper spire]

why did you manifest that?!

[orchid relic]

This is all your fault now 😔

[shrewd hinge]

we can blame the guy who begged for it 4yrs ago

on Reddit

[cosmic anvil]

Batzy made everyone else lose their pacts

[runic mesa]

Annnnd I have to go to work.

[cosmic anvil]

take leave!

[shrewd hinge]

I'm torturing my partner with the update, He's at work too lol

[cosmic anvil]

Tell GTA VI is out /s

[paper spire]

leave from no man's sky you mean

[humble kayak]

I almost think this update is a red herring

[runic mesa]

When the drama is just getting good, boooo

[limpid patio]

Always Xbox last to get update

[shrewd hinge]

Took his LeGo and everything so he could play it at lunch

[humble kayak]

Are they secretly adding shit and not telling us

[shrewd hinge]

always are

[cosmic anvil]

too much effort for a red herring tho

[toxic radish]

Patch notes are up my dudes

[paper spire]

where

[shrewd hinge]

HG never really halfasses anything. They just might do little bits at a time.
It's nice to see creature genetics getting more fleshed out.

[solemn meteor]

https://www.nomanssky.com/xeno-arena-update/

[paper spire]

we don't get a disco copy?

[grizzled apex]

oh hey, alternate early working name for the update?

mightve been too on the nose ig

[shrewd hinge]

The pets aren't even actually fighting, it's their holograms. So no chance of copyright worries.

[paper spire]

shit, glad i know how to run old expeditions now

[solemn meteor]

Fixed an issue that could cause the camera to rotate when standing on a corvette. YESSSSSSSSSS

this pissed me off so much

[paper spire]

it was super rare if you are patient and easy to restart to fix

[mental birch]

wait NMS is now effen Pokémon?

[solemn meteor]

also a shit ton of optimisation

[cosmic anvil]

Didn't stop Nintendo from suing Palworld tho

[solemn meteor]

woohoo, i take back my whining, the amount of optimisation and qol is great

[shrewd hinge]

They're also losing

[paper spire]

blu so srry you had to find out this way they paved paradise and put up a poke arena

[mental birch]

POINTLESS POTATO I CHOOSE YOU!

[cosmic anvil]

I think the point is not to win but to drag out the opposing party in lawyer fees and court time wasted

[shrewd hinge]

Holotables are much more manageable

[hushed wyvern]

palworld had to change some mechanics tho, even if they are winning.

[gloomy isle]

Tbh I'm glad they made an existing system deeper instead of just tacking on something new

[shrewd hinge]

You don't catch the pets in a ball, you feed and befriend them, you're not battling the actual pets, it's their holographs on a little table and you don't evolve them, you tinker with their genetics, via a system we already have ingame, but is better fleshed out.

[humble kayak]

Well I've got a hunch

I think this is soft confirmation that we'll be getting small updates til the anniversary

Which would be the big one

[shrewd hinge]

the small update spree happens every few years.

[hushed wyvern]

looks really fun. I like that we can use the scanner on wild ones. Even if im not player vs player battling (i dont like that) it still feels good to collect most S's one can get just because

[humble kayak]

Smaller stuff like this being added to me is evidence they've got a lot of resources tied up working on the anniversary update

[shrewd hinge]

You can battle NPCs in trade posts and stations.

[paper spire]

but this direction is not promising and only makes people flock to LNF more

[humble kayak]

How so

[paper spire]

unless it has lame yo-gi-ho battles too

[shrewd hinge]

Again, small content updates aren't unusual for NMS.

[humble kayak]

Oh for sure

[paper spire]

this is lame af

[humble kayak]

But I do think HG's top brass looked around the studio to see what they had ready for the April update, and saw this was their best candidate

And went with it

[paper spire]

path of least resistance appealing to the mass non nms players

i just sad it's not something better

[humble kayak]

I was hoping for something more too

But it is what it is

[agile crystal]

so the game went from "gently milk animals without causing any harm" to "create genetic mutations and let them fight to the death" real quick eh

[humble kayak]

Maybe there's some cool stuff yet to be datamined

[humble kayak]

I mean we also can find a traveller whose visor opens and blood pours out like a Shining scene

NMS is a wide spectrum of things

[solemn meteor]

wat

[paper spire]

i wanted more in line with the game play - not adding ... what ever this is ...

[humble kayak]

It's not an animation or anything but it's a station traveller dialogue

[charred nebula]

I wanted more trash hauling, but this is ok I guess

[paper spire]

pht

[high estuary]

No expedition?

[paper spire]

i should have guessed the nothing burger was on the grill

[agile crystal]

never seen one but I actually love the bleeding balloon, it's so weird and creepy but I have one in my registry

[rapid hedge]

Still no VR roomscale 😭 hopefully one day

[solemn meteor]

Nice that the toxic positivity is over. We can dislike the update 🙃

[paper spire]

us normies no knot wat you seek

[limpid patio]

NokéMan Sky

The journey of Gash Fetchum, a young, un-aging Gek from Pallet Colony on Balaron. Travelling the stars, befriending and battling NokéMan, in his goal to collect all 16 gym badges and become the ‘verses greatest NokéMan Master

[hard stirrup]

I finished the tutorial phase of the arena battles and have reached the proper open freeform part of it...it looks like a lot of grind to max all medals but worth it because we get A LOT of player title out of it. The slowest part is beating Oceanus because you can only fight him once per day and training fights don't count and if you lose a daily battle then tough shit...you'll have to try another day. So that will be slow and take long to max his the medals for beating him.

[solemn meteor]

It's obvious that the entire thing is just a piss take to Nintendo and honestly kudos

[agile crystal]

I hope these fights at least will give some quicksilver as an alternative to the missions

[paper spire]

a ninth currency?

[humble kayak]

I think it was an April fools joke that they decided to actually flesh out and add to the game

It is kind of funny

[paper spire]

funny in an ohshit way? not a haha way

[deft beacon]

nah man its way too deep to be a joke update

[toxic radish]

Tbf these attack animations look like something they could later repurpose into something creatures can do planetside

[humble kayak]

I know now, but I mean originally

[solemn meteor]

If they had started dev a week earlier, or simply worked faster/had more people on the team (because no shit this was the product of the entire NMS dev team) they could've pushed it for April 1st and the reception would've been 99999x better

[humble kayak]

Like someone must've walked into the studio and thought it was a funny idea

And Sean said "fuck it why not"

[deft beacon]

it has a leveling system, breeding system u can manipulate, medals, champions that u fight as u win more, its deeper than i realized, just fnished reading the patch notes

[agile crystal]

is it out yet?

[deft beacon]

yeah maybe

[candid lark]

yes

[agile crystal]

where do I start it? in the anomaly?

[humble kayak]

Simon has it launched on Xbox yet

Or is it only on steam

[agile crystal]

or it's a new save thing

[candid lark]

Xbox has the update

[humble kayak]

Well that's good

No waiting 5 days

[limpid patio]

Is it out on Xbox

[humble kayak]

Yes

[deft beacon]

gunther should mention that in the https://discord.com/channels/146101654981312513/979635719893053490

[agile crystal]

on steam it shows as up to date but I don't see anything xeno related

and the featured is still remnant

[candid lark]

Sorry, no the update is not yet available. I just double checked

[limpid patio]

Fake news

[candid lark]

I was in another game and thought it would be there

[limpid patio]

Had me going there grrr

Ugh

[paper spire]

ima go tell my pal in the shop that his girl will want to play NMS now

she live poke

[cosmic anvil]

if it is a fun side quest, sure why not. But I personally am not interested in battles and character collections (heck I left Genshin Impact) so yeah.

[paper spire]

her baby middle name is snorlax

[limpid patio]

@icy citrus NokéMan Sky

The journey of Gash Fetchum, a young, un-aging Gek from Pallet Colony on Balaron. Travelling the stars, befriending and battling NokéMan, in his goal to collect all 16 gym badges and become the ‘verses greatest NokéMan Master

[cosmic anvil]

We'll see what comes for the anniversary

It still is months away

[paper spire]

wagons and karts to haul your nanites I am sire

travel back in time in no ma's sky

[cosmic anvil]

see you in court son - Nintendo /s

[humble kayak]

In my personal opinion I think its kind of a waste

[gloomy isle]

Do you get nanites or anything for winning?

[humble kayak]

I don't mean that to be SUPER critical

[cosmic anvil]

i'm very sure this mechanic isn't going to get updated

[paper spire]

the trailers said special prizes

[gloomy isle]

Tbh I think they're just keeping stuff ticking whilst the majority of the NMS team work on the summer update

[hard stirrup]

Some nanites but nothing to write home about.

[humble kayak]

But I think it was a mistake tacking something on instead of working on an existing mechanic that needs work

[humble kayak]

Yeah I think so too

[gloomy isle]

Tbh I kinda see this as an addition to companions, which didn't really have any gameplay

[humble kayak]

part of me is coping and thinking that they're all so busy on LNF and NMS that they didn't have much else ready to push out

[gloomy isle]

It is defo a minigame though which is good and bad depending on what you're looking for

[paper spire]

nah this is the new direction of EVERYthing ford has a poke pocket in the new F-150 /s

[humble kayak]

One thing though

How fucking fast are HG

Because iirc that ruling came out like

A week ago?

[paper spire]

what

[cosmic anvil]

wouldn't fixing stuff be a much easier way of spending the little free time they have ? cause all this work for a new feature would probably eat up more time

[cosmic anvil]

ruling?

[humble kayak]

The pokemon one

That makes them able to do this and not get sued to hell and back

I thought there was some verdict made where Nintendo can't patent the creature-summoning trope for combat

Maybe I'm wrong

[analog breach]

Why there is a dragon in xeno arena trailer ? We can tame high flying pets now?

[daring ore]

New arena faction

[hard stirrup]

Oh shit...if we progress enough in the Arena we'll be able to get some insane pets from Oceanus....bro...this is nuts:

[humble kayak]

I won't lie there's a good prospect in this

Tabletop minigames would be cool

here in NMS and in LNF

[cosmic anvil]

maybe they always knew Nintendo would lose

even so Palworld did make substantial changes

I did say the point was to drag the defendant with wasting court time and financial burden

not to actually win anything

[hard stirrup]

So...there are five medals to progress and five unique pets Oceanus can reward. I am going to drop a hot take and say I think that you get one unique pet for maxing out each of the 5 medals...highest medal = unique pet.

[midnight saffron]

No new expedition it seems. I wonder if we won't see another update till the anniversary.

[paper spire]

the switch is nintendo

[hard stirrup]

Don't know if we'll have another update before anniversary...I'm going to assume not. But I think we'll have another expedition before then.

[paper spire]

so... nms on switch

[cosmic anvil]

but anniversary is in August

[paper spire]

maybe it was nintendo idea?

[cosmic anvil]

we have time

[cosmic anvil]

unlikely, they wouldn't suggest something like this

[hard stirrup]

Yeah, just about 4 months.

[cosmic anvil]

last update was in Feb so we might have time for one more

[paper spire]

well, we not going with likely - ha or maybe they mentioned it "...glad your creatures don't fight..." and HG says wow i like that idea

[midnight saffron]

Yes and it will be the tenth anniversary. They are probably working on something very special.

[hard stirrup]

Yeah, maybe. But maxing out the medals for the pets is going to take a loooong time...at least a month or two.

[cosmic anvil]

well, best to temper expectations just in case

could be just a tweet for all we know

[paper spire]

yeah best we can hope for is a Nurse Joy!!

Korvax Joy

dunno y i see korvax as nurse joy

[hard stirrup]

But I think NMS just buried Pokemon. RIP Nintendo.

[cosmic anvil]

this is like coughing baby vs hydrogen bomb 😂

[paper spire]

what was the tweet

why we still call it tweet- when it's clearly an x-comm

that is another story

[cosmic anvil]

no like hypothetically speaking. Could be just a tweet from Sean saying thank you for the 10 years of game, the end.

https://www.nomanssky.com/2025/08/celebrating-our-ninth-anniversary/

It was like that for the 9th when we received a message and some plushies

[surreal terrace]

Was that a pet flyer in the trailer? Can we get those legitimately now???

[paper spire]

what were you missing we have had flying rides for ever

did they take'um out at some point?

[surreal terrace]

I mean the birds

We've had worms/beetles etc, I mean specifically the avian type ones

[paper spire]

hmm. sounds like a new IP to me... kiddin.. bird mounts

familiar no?

[surreal terrace]

Hmmmm
You know what it doesn't make me want to do, for some reason? Light any fires...

[cosmic anvil]

well it makes me feel the sky belongs to women!

[surreal terrace]

As it should!

[paper spire]

oh dear - not enough spoilers in here...

i am over here catchin up with last years updates, and this whole new direction come out

[shell depot]

Patch notes?

https://www.nomanssky.com/xeno-arena-update/

[paper spire]

coming to a starship near you- Dejarik!

do they post the edit in a channel on here?

i dont think i can get "out" to the nms site

even the pinned patch notes on the channels are linked to outside

[deep mountain]

I'm just getting off work did and no man's sky pulled a pokemon?!

[paper spire]

yup

[deep mountain]

Wtf!!! Lol

[paper spire]

Dejarik

creature battles Xeno Arena

[deep mountain]

Is switch advertised in da trailer?

[paper spire]

specifically ? idk

i had the sound off when it sounded like a litttle kid getting all excited about nms becoming poke

[deep mountain]

Ill watch trailer when I get home pretty cool

[paper spire]

lucky u think that. i am dumbstruck - i wanted NMs game play

[deep mountain]

It's random as hell but like so was fishing and archeology

I guess this is the companions update

[analog breach]

Platforms release their own trailers i think

[paper spire]

hehe i guess this is 3 degrees less lame than archeology

[deep mountain]

You don't like the fact having pets got updated?

[paper spire]

thank you @deep mountain tylor - you found my rainbow

[analog breach]

No lady voice in trailer 0/10

Uninstal

[deep mountain]

Isn't updating pets a highly requested fix?

[paper spire]

pht i block out that rabble talk

lol

trying to get my spongebob back

[analog breach]

No pokemon fights was one of the last issues with animals

[deep mountain]

Switch still does not have the damn freighter parts it's missing

[deep mountain]

It updates animals too you can have more ect

[paper spire]

they level up now

i got that part

i have not gained anything from bones or fishing maybe a snack here n there. and a soup from bones. that is a stretch tho

[graceful mountain]

they also do random helping now, i got one that constantly scans for me

[deep mountain]

The trailer heavily uses the robot mouse and I cannot get it on switch

0/10

[paper spire]

one more thing to stand between you and the targets?

[paper spire]

there is no quicksilver?

it might be on the 2 tho?

[deep mountain]

switch missed the exp
Two exps actually lol

[shut widget]

I lowkey think game need's more pve or potential pvp than chicken fight's type of minigame with pet's

Update is good

Anyways

Still I think again. Staf add features. When main game have problem's

[paper spire]

too much cheese for proper pvp tho

[shut widget]

Dmg cap's are must have

And cooldown's

On shield regen

Especialy

I talk about pvp only with proper system rework

[paper spire]

r n you can open a file and type any factor for movement or damage you want... that would be disaster

[shut widget]

Dmg cap on server

There easy way's to make curent system a lot better

Easy from technical side

[paper spire]

but this is my mary poppins of v-games

its perfect in every way

[shut widget]

I think one od biggest problem's is lack of challenge

When you have max tech you are immortal

Before this you close to be immortal

Were have pokemon's.
Why we don't get apex predator's with same abilities on terrain?

Shield's, toxin's and lightning?

[hard stirrup]

That is not going to happen. And single player is always infinitely better than any multiplayer because no matter how tough the game is, you can trust the AI not to cheat. I literally had the most epic showdown with Oceanus for the first challenging daily fight. Both of us were down to the final hit on the final pet and I won because it was my turn and he missed a hit earlier in the fight..if he didn't miss that he probably would have won.

[paper spire]

you are saying it way fun to play creature battle?

[shut widget]

I don't tell minigame is bad or pvp must be all area in game.
I'm also stick a lot more in pve side

You forget something

Nms is game of choice

You can turn pvp off

Rework is lowkey must have. I think new star type with potential always on is not wrong idea

Btw

You propably don't see Player in big cosmos anyways

Still

Some spot's

Cord's

Expensive multitool's can be write on channel

And manny people can go to hot place's

Because they want

Not because they must

[graceful mountain]

Don't be miffed, robot mouse has horrible stats

[paper spire]

yeah ash started with a poke that hated him and look how that turned around

[graceful mountain]

Except stat potentials actually matter, and Ash's Pika-nuke might as well be a god by default.

[limpid patio]

Still no Xbox update

[hard stirrup]

I don't think there is going to be a multiplayer rework. Multiplayer alone is responsible for 80% of the bugs in the game, and it's too easy to exploit ships and multitools to be vastly better than they legitimately could be and it's too easy to save edit things for insane illegitimate stats. And for what you want it would require ruinously expensive servers...the kind of costs that drive AAA studios bankrupt. So what you want isn't going to happen.

[graceful mountain]

I'll see if newly hatched robomouses have different stats, if not, I guess we could try to breed a good one.

[shut widget]

What I even tell about challanging technology?
From technical side I only tell about fixe's of already existing features. Not new AI, not new mechanic's

[paper spire]

well splittin hairs yeah there was deep potential - maybe we dont know what the mouse's secret is ...

ever figure out the genetics? seems random for years

[shut widget]

You already have cap's on things like server base upload

[paper spire]

in so asia the use rats to find mines.

[graceful mountain]

not quite random, not at all, we just have to figure out what things affect stats in what way

I saw someone having a radioactive nature mouse despite mine being mechanical

[paper spire]

well, back when i gave up trying we didn't know what to use.

[graceful mountain]

so that may be changeable as well

[shut widget]

And Corvette havd already multiplayer type of nexus task

I don't see any issue with adding potential next seat with gun to ship

Were have purple systems for now

They work's diffrent

From other's

[molten karma]

I don't know I think a MP overhaul/rework with optional PvP modes is not off the table. If we can get entirely new procgen, buildable ships with full interiors, gravity gun, and a whole damn turn based creature battle mode in a space exploration game 8-10 years after launch I don't think anything is to far fetched at this point tbh.

[cosmic anvil]

We are huge fans of Pokémon, Palworld and pet battling in World of Warcraft. Now when discovering a rare robotic creature in a far flung purple system planet, you can check their abilities, and for instance discover a powerful neutron blast attack. Suddenly it brings a new dimension to exploration. Rare creatures and beautiful pets become something exciting to show off in the Arena.

• from the Update notes

Nintendo definitely noted this down 😂

[shut widget]

Making special zones for this doesn't affect all game

Doesn't ruin solo experience

[paper spire]

nintendo gains sales from NMs addicts

[hard stirrup]

Nothing about the nexus is multiplayer. Half of those quests don't even work properly if you try to do them in multiplayer...and the other half of the time you might as well be doing it in single player because the others on the mission with you are freeloaders who just wait for you to finish it so they get credit.

[molten karma]

To add to my point if we're backporting LnF tech to NMS I think MP is a highly likely tech to port over since the player base for NMS is quite big and generates lots of sales still.

[shut widget]

I only got issue with archeology type's and no one talk's to you to play with random's

[steady surge]

Is there any videos of new arena thing

[gloomy isle]

Just saw the trailer

[raw girder]

The last thing I never want on nomanssky is pvp.What we need is pve combat rework on foot and spaceship . pvp is never going to work in nomanssky anyway, because of its engine and procedural tech. Pvp games mostly based on static confined maps. Btw I think most of the fans are in nomanssky for the endless single player activities that they can do along with their friends. There are tons of pvp games out there for the pvp lovers to enjoy. After the xeno arena and remnant updates, I want dozens of gameplay loops like these in no man's sky rather than pvp.

[gloomy isle]

There's no way this wasn't an April fools idea that ended up getting bigger than they intended 😂

It seems cool though

I'd rather have pvp in minigame form like here than actual shooting each other pvp

[shut widget]

I'm tell about optional rework. Not main thing I want.
The main problem of game is lack of challenge.
With current AI and scaling any enemies can be easy

It's easier to fix something with player combat

Than make new AI system for mob's

[molten karma]

Just like how one would think turn based combat would work in a space exploration game. 🙄 No offense PVP and MP fixes seemed more realistic than this and PVP and combat reworks and more PVE is becoming more and more requested as new players come in and with HGs track record I wouldn't be surprised if something was in the works.

[hard stirrup]

It kind of boggles the mind to think that basically overnight it upended Pokemon.

[gloomy isle]

Yeah. I'm not the biggest fan of this kind of update usually but I can't lie, it looks fun

Plus pets have been pretty much useless forever

[molten karma]

I mean I think Sentiel and Outlaws feel like it already set up some of the ground work just like the first iteration of ship building before corvettes layed the ground work for it.

[raw girder]

Imo player combat is never mentioned in any updates. I guess they just added it as a sandbox element so that friends who hangout together can roleplay some pvp games

[karmic lichen]

where to get more of the new pellet?

i can't see the recipe on anomaly as well

[gloomy isle]

We're defo going to get bigger overhauls of some kind but I'd wait till summer to get your hopes up tbh

This year at least

[hybrid pendant]

Give a use for pets im never against improving previous features

[molten karma]

Not saying this year just saying I wouldn't be surprised if it happens eventually.

[hybrid pendant]

Any datamining?

[gloomy isle]

Yeah definitely. I wonder if the old gene modding system ties into the new combat system, or if the seperate upgrade path is the only thing that effects them

[hard stirrup]

Win more battles and eventually you'll fight a champion enemy. As far as I can tell the new pellets are basically free levels...your pets will also naturally level up as they win battles too.

[hybrid pendant]

Also its kinda pvp multiplayer

[karmic lichen]

oh I see...

thank you

[molten karma]

Probably more ground work in disguise tbh.

[cosmic anvil]

won't be that much tho, peak player count was in Voyagers

[hybrid pendant]

I like weird shit updates

[safe quarry]

The biggest plus of this update, is it continues to prove an ongoing trend of them revisiting half baked content and giving it more meat on the bones. Paleontology, this, beacons, the colossus improvements. All of them are about adding more to what we already have, some more successful than others.

Id wish they'd tie them all together and make the game feel more cohesive

but at the very least, at least they're going back over half baked content and making them more meaningful.

[deep mountain]

I am home and the update not even on switch yet lol

[molten karma]

Idk I somewhat agree. Like yeah it adds more to do for companions but I feel a proper farming update with breeding mechanics and interactive way to harvest milk/other substances from them would've been a better fit. Keeping them in pens killing them or their offspring for meat, etc...

Could've given more love to cooking this way to.

[deep mountain]

You not happy that they went back and gave companions a point?

[dreamy quartz]

Okay so I the trailer, there are several brief shots showing animals fighting that you cannot normally tame and capture

Not without mods or save editing

[safe quarry]

I do agree with this too. Though HG also always goes for updates that make a splash, and a pokemon lookalike does more than animal husbandry, even though the latter makes way more sense

[molten karma]

I said somewhat lol. I think there could've been better things to implement for companions this falls in the gimmicky camp for me personally. If I want to play a turn based game I'd play Persona, Shin Megami Tensei, Pokemon, etc.

[safe quarry]

To me, this has become the Gwent of NMS.

[hybrid pendant]

I feel like this update gonna bring quite a lot of people to play nms

[safe quarry]

Its meant to be an in-game and in-lore game that people play

So I guess they've now ticked that gaming cliche of having a minigame in your game

[hybrid pendant]

Also make u have a reason to scan animals than money

And explore planets

[dreamy quartz]

Bird that cannot be obtained in vanilla seen twice in the trailer

Fuck up or new feature?

[safe quarry]

It also doesn't stop them from doing animal husbandry later on. That's another half baked feature that exists currently but needs a revisit

[hybrid pendant]

Hmmmm

[deep mountain]

Animal husbandry is pointless by itself it's a small feature included in the bigger packages of farming games

[molten karma]

Don't get me wrong I think its neat and I don't hate it but I think the initial hype and saying it adds all this depth to companions is a bit of a reach tbh. It does add to them but I feel companions could've played a even bigger role in something like a farming overhaul that could've even touched up on other mechanics on top of it.

Farming could contribute a lot especially trading and cooking tbh. Hell imagine NMS getting optional hunger and thrist systems that could even add more depth to the survival aspect of the game and give even more purpose to cooking and husbandry.

[hybrid pendant]

U know u talking like this is the last update

[safe quarry]

Yes this is one of those times where i wish they used to do the old update model like beyond where there were a lot of features rolled into one. This feels like it would work best being something alongside other content, rather than a prime time feature all on its own.

[molten karma]

I know its not but obviously HG listen so I'm going to state my opinion because I know they do.

[cosmic anvil]

Once the honeymoon period is over, it'll wear off

[safe quarry]

I still think what I want most is physical trade goods we have to load on our corvette with the grav coil

[cosmic anvil]

The same happened with Remnant

[safe quarry]

and unload on the other end

[cosmic anvil]

And ofc settlements

Sorry Evellin, I interrupted you

[safe quarry]

hehe no it's fine, that was the end of it :p

[hybrid pendant]

We still not done

Its april

[molten karma]

Like a Star Citizen loading system would be so cool.

[hybrid pendant]

Plenty to go

[deep mountain]

Settlements are still mid af

[safe quarry]

They don't even have to replace the current trade goods. Just be a tier of industrial trade goods that requires a corvette because of the container size

[dreamy quartz]

Made a reddit post about it https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/s/IKBYTYsSjZ

[deep mountain]

The only good thing to come out of settlements is more building parts lol

[paper spire]

i adopt pets for the milestone, make the bars green and dismiss them... what happens after that, not much until I need a slot for something interesting

[molten karma]

HG have shown that they don't have to change old systems to add new ones on top without replacing them entirely. Corvettes prove this as well as Worlds Part 2 with purple systems.

[paper spire]

share the toxicity

[dreamy quartz]

Hell yeah

I mean I have one of those but from mods lol

[paper spire]

reddit became so harsh even some guys web-comic had to make a second sub for real fans

[cosmic anvil]

Oh great

How did this happen

False advertising?

[paper spire]

what happened?

[hybrid pendant]

i dont really understand this way of thinking like maybe u think they wont do settlement updates again or they wont update certain parts of the game again

its like we already thinking omg they never gonna touch this part of the game again just because they did a pokemon update?

[dreamy quartz]

I have no idea. Either they screwed up or are secretly shouting out modders

[deep mountain]

I pray on all the dead homies they don't waste time on more settlements

[drowsy dune]

Oh yikes, could be like the large asteroid fields we saw in trailers for months before they added them in endurance

[molten karma]

Settlements are getting there but they can be a bit more refined. One thing HG proved though especially with Worlds is nothing is impossible for a overhaul even 8 years later lol.

[hybrid pendant]

i mean i already expected developement ended back in 2020 soo

we still here

dont know how but we still are

[cosmic anvil]

Bruh why?

[deep mountain]

It mid
The free fishing pond cool for planets with no water I guess if I gotta say one thing positive ontop of already saying the new build parts are cool

[drowsy dune]

I mean if they have these battles on the anomaly, then it’s not unrealistic to expect modders to be giving out eggs left and right

[dreamy quartz]

Just seems weird to show off in a trailer

[flint hollow]

bro

wtf is this update

[molten karma]

I cant wait for Worlds Part 3 in 2032. I feel no matter what procgen could always be improved with new assets and colors and algorithms. It is a supposed to be a space exploration game about endless discoveries after all.

[flint hollow]

oh

new mobs?

[hybrid pendant]

i mean we got more unexpected shit before

[flint hollow]

or just the that arena

[hybrid pendant]

byte beat was something living ships was something fishing is something.... for some reason?

[drowsy dune]

Lowk I kinda just wish they put all their dev time into settlements. It has the most potential out of everything but they kinda suck. I think it would be sick as hell if they weren’t so restrictive, maybe have you build the structure, you add npcs, you make it your style. But they settled on some lame half assed sim city shit

[deep mountain]

On regular consoles you forced into settlements for the mech right

[hybrid pendant]

just to remind you a lot of big features do get work for more than a year sometimes before being released

[deep mountain]

Hard frame parts

[drowsy dune]

Yeah, you’re on switch right?

Outside of the trace of metal quest they are just useless

[deep mountain]

Technically I own a switch 2 but no real need to use it now

Voyagers on switch 1 and shit looks the same handheld

[hybrid pendant]

well good news this patch improve rendering

[drowsy dune]

Your not missing much 🙏, most half assed feature in any game maybe

[hybrid pendant]

Implemented a number of significant optimisations on Nintendo Switch 2, improving rendering performance by up to 15%.

[dreamy quartz]

IT'S ON THE SITE TOO

What am I missing here?

[drowsy dune]

Did they just make them tamable?

I have one from a modder but they aren’t vanilla

I’m gonna scan through the fine print at the bottom

[dreamy quartz]

I don't see that in the patch notes; i was hoping someone could check as im on mobile right now

[hybrid pendant]

Improved the appearance of a number of UI textures in 4K resolution.
interesting wonder if that would be showing up on PS5 and others

[drowsy dune]

Me too, luckily this patch is small enough that it doesn’t crash my phone after three scrolls

[hybrid pendant]

we usualy start slow

except last year where we went fucking bonkers with part 2

[analog breach]

I have no idea. Something that HG forgot about. Flying animals are in npc pet pool . But forgot that we cant tame high flyiers imo

[graceful mountain]

The anomaly NPC and npc's in general seem to have water and flying creatures tamed, so they might become actually tameable in the future ig.

[drowsy dune]

Ok I looked through it, no

[hybrid pendant]

or that they will be tameable in the future

[drowsy dune]

Some water creatures are tameable tho

[hybrid pendant]

happened before the future stuff in some update trailers

i lost count how many times that happened

[graceful mountain]

the crabs and other walkers yes, fish, i don't think so?

[drowsy dune]

They’ve got fish?

[molten karma]

Wouldn't be surprised if its an unintentional tease. They apparently have multiple builds they're working off of and that's the main reason bugs keep reappearing sometimes.

[graceful mountain]

I've seen fish in NPC battles. yes

[drowsy dune]

I just want an auto summon feature for favorite companion, kinda bummed they aren’t here

[dreamy quartz]

Lmao

[analog breach]

They would done it already imo. This update was perfect oportunity. Maybe they raced towards releaseing it when nintendo got patent rejected. Would be funny if other devs added pet battles soon

[gloomy isle]

Been watching gameplay and it looks way better than I was expecting 😭

[drowsy dune]

They should add previously released expedition pets to the loot pool

[gloomy isle]

Weirdly enough they actually work in battles too, if you mod them in

[analog breach]

U can get expedition pet eggs from players

[analog breach]

Ik. I have one lol. And it rolled good stats for me

[drowsy dune]

Ik, I have most of em, but what’s the fun in not earning them if they can be cheesed to obtained anyways?

[gloomy isle]

I'm not sure I have many pets on my current save 🙁 will try and see what I can find

[drowsy dune]

Hoping this is like endurance where we get new features in bug fixes (freighter walls and staircases where both added in random bug fix patches)

[runic mesa]

Why do I think Gleam gave me a Pokemon type name because I mentioned it lol

[hybrid pendant]

what a timing

[graceful mountain]

On an unrelated note I seem to have stumbled upon a god. I have a triple S anomalous nature creature with reflect shield, enemy buff cleanse and two polar opposite attack types so it has no attack weakness, only being allergic to grass and other buff cleansers so its shield gets deleted.

[hybrid pendant]

remind me to never battle you against your pets

[graceful mountain]

lmao, 1500 anomalous move and 600 desert basic attack with 1000 reflect shield go brrrr

[runic mesa]

Are people finding meta battle teams already. Niice

[graceful mountain]

I mean, its still allergic to buff cleanse but it doesn't mean the opponent has a chance. even when hitting on a weak, the supernova does like 1000+ damage

so you'd have to be really shielded or be full tank to survive even if shield gets cleansed

[hybrid pendant]

i hope paul will release the new tracks

[gusty stream]

Holy yikes

[hybrid pendant]

yeah...........we are fuckt

[graceful mountain]

did i mention its also a small creature with unholy agility

its only bad part is it got the agility buff as the special move

which is, well

useless if you don't have DoT

unless the opponent is slow enough that i can do three moves instead of two

[gusty stream]

So anomalous creatures can have different elemental attacks?

[graceful mountain]

yep afaik, every one i have has this

they usually have 1 anomalous move and 1 something

i think all of mine got either reflect shield, shield or conversion as the third

no straight heals

[hybrid pendant]

wonder what the max level or etc

could do a team of descendaant of the same original pet

[graceful mountain]

30 + ability mutations iirc

[gloomy isle]

Time to use a mod that adds gek as fauna so I can battle people in the anomaly with gek

[hybrid pendant]

that be a funny mod

tbh everytime there silly shit updates like that i always think modding people are gonna have a funny time with this shit

[analog breach]

Protogek?

[stuck plank]

So new updated is a trash pokemone arean but whit pets that is so disappointing i would have perfer the stickers over this pokemonee trash play

or better yet to increase storage in owing pets

SPOILERS NO ONE IS WIING AGAINS MODERS AND CHEATER IN AREAN BATTLES LOL LMAO

[drowsy dune]

Didn’t see this in the patch notes, 2.5k nanites instead of 20k (third tab)

[paper spire]

thereare teams too?

[cosmic anvil]

First Spawn intensifies

[crystal scarab]

oh did this update add new music?

[deep mountain]

Looks like switch is not getting this update day one lol

[paper spire]

sorry switch is a minute behind on everything. it really seems wrong to detune so much to make it work

[deep mountain]

They don't want to see switch players enjoying space pokemon 😅🙏🏾

[paper spire]

well, if it is the switch 1 i would not hold your breath. being a MP centric update

[distant bronze]

Im legitimately wondering when the first civilization tournaments are going to kick off

[deep mountain]

It's single player too NPCs will fight you

[paper spire]

oh good

sounded different - i been getting spotty info in here

[paper spire]

what will that look like?

[agile crystal]

oh the update is here, time to put my bleeding balloon to the test, surely he can beat a big scorpion

[near forge]

Still can‘t believe HG stole my idea

Now I‘m gonna have to pull a Nintendo

But ngl I wonder for how long this was in development, it‘s surprisingly deep I‘m actually scared to get into it

[cosmic anvil]

I'm more interested in Yutaka raging in the background 🤣

[cosmic anvil]

So we will see Sean take the stand in the Bundesgerichtshof /s

[humble kayak]

woow HG I can't believe PlayStation gets the update first yet Xbox has to wait

[hard stirrup]

Done battling for the day. So far I have won 25 normal battles, 5 champion battles, and 1 daily challenge battle against Oceanus.

[deep mountain]

No switch release either

[humble kayak]

with all due respect that's typical

😂

but then again I suppose Xbox taking awhile is typical too

[deep mountain]

It a small update not even a exp should be no holdup lol

my main save is on abandoned mode so I won't even be using these features alot tho lol

[paper spire]

well, yeah, no NPC battles either

[deep mountain]

Lol yea

[paper spire]

like what class freighter you have there>?

[humble kayak]

yeah that's what I was thinking too

Figured there'd pretty much be parity between the platforms when it came to release times

Guess not

[deep mountain]

You don't really need freighters since corvettes but there ain't no freighters on abandoned

[paper spire]

yeah - it was a ... uh .. funny about abandon mode

where there are no npc to deliver them to us

[deep mountain]

Corvettes made freighters obsolete unless you want a space base which is fair

[paper spire]

i hadly corvette these days - i have been know to say, I love them for MP but alone i get a charge from fighters and interceptors

[hushed wyvern]

I just want planetary probe on corvettes otherwise i'm not leaving My freighter

[paper spire]

i have never thought feighters were dead. corvettes fill a gap, and are great for totin friends about. freighters still have frigate missions that are irreplacable

[deep mountain]

I gotta make a non abandoned mode save to be a pokemon master, so I'll make a freighter base

[paper spire]

i used my corvette for 3 days in abandoned mode and got stark raving mad at the walk to the station facilities

[agile crystal]

you can archive starships in corvette?

[paper spire]

my alone time play is spent doing old expeditions on PC otherwise i am in perma with the sigma group

[deep mountain]

I use perma too

[shell depot]

If the updates gets to the switch version when it dies could we expect the same or some sort of limited content?

Covettes we're harshly worked just to be working on switch

Does**

[paper spire]

you know - they might - but the system sounds like it is using the MP points station and anomaly 'tables'

[paper spire]

not that i had ever seen

that is a great feature - I missed it on abandoned mode too

i had to make regular stops to grind up ships

ships are harder to find too... they don't get delivered

oh dear, if you make too many corvettes you would be stuck with them right now

[mental socket]

Look who I played against 😮

Hecc

[cosmic anvil]

Sony vs Microslop perhaps

[shut widget]

There is any option to place game table in base?

Like prop?

[distant bronze]

I think they mostly spawn in existing POIs, and I think saloons in settlements

[cosmic anvil]

seems this update has quite divided the community

[runic mesa]

/tin foil hat Think Nintendo deliberately held off on release to not compete with Pokemon Champions? 😛

[cosmic anvil]

I honestly think while it is nice to have, focus should still have been on improving existing features like corvettes and remnant.

[cosmic anvil]

you abandoned your Switch 1 allegiance?

[runic mesa]

...are you new here. 😛

[runic mesa]

Huh? Oh no.

[deep mountain]

it pretty reasonable to think the update will have issues with Nintendo again it's half a online update lol

hopefully it not voyagers all over again

[runic mesa]

There's PvE, so likely not.

[deep mountain]

Corvettes were pve too

[cosmic anvil]

haha been since Relics but I personally have never seen this level of different perspectives. At least Voyagers I felt was universally well received, Beacon was meh but this update seemed to have elicited strong opinions from various sides.

[runic mesa]

Ohhh, you missed Aquarius, gotcha. Yeah, the combat peeps were a bit miffed with fishing.

[deep mountain]

Idek what was in older updates from the updates themselves I just see people complaining about them

[shut widget]

Good I have city in archives

Lowkey hit jackpot. I destroy one wall in my tavern and have Glass Window above table

[vale sun]

I am all for more variety in gameplay

From trash collector to pokemon trainer

[deep mountain]

imo it makes sense they going over the old crappy features

It makes the package better

[vale sun]

Also this actually is a revisit to older stuff with it adding more usages for companions

[runic mesa]

The idea that a hologram creatures battle game suddenly took everyone by storm and went viral is kinda hilarious tho

[distant bronze]

I honestly like it, it redirects attention towards adopting creatures we come across, wanting to edit them in the gene sequencer, and gives them more use than just showing them off in the anomaly

im also never going to say no to a new system to master, just wish there was a little bit more built around it, like it being in one of the store slots on stations with merchandise around it like cards or models

[glass flare]

For me, I see a lot of work was put into creature attacks which were not integrated into the main gameplay loop, which to me is still exploring planets. Not being able to see creatures use all these cool new abilities in the environments they live in is a huge, huge, huge missed opportunity to make the fundamental game better

[distant bronze]

thats the one thing I wish they added, even if it was limited to certain locations on planets like an animal fighting ground POI where wild creatures would wander up and get into fights

[glass flare]

I mean I would love to fight them myself with all these abilities. make planets feel more like Jurassic Park, filled with unexpected danger, than a trip to the zoo

[distant bronze]

maybe theyll expand on it, they have the assets in place

[shell depot]

'Life finds a way - Hold on your butts!'

[glass flare]

Actually can anyone confirm that creatures aren't using these attacks on planets? I just assumed because it's not in the patch notes, and I'm at work so I can't check yet

[ebon spoke]

I hope not. Those attacks look rediculous

I feel like with biomes being a stand-in for Pokemon's type system that it would have made sense to make creatures more biome specific.

Fauna from frozen planets have frost abilities, but they don't look any specific way that would indicate that. If there was something that made certain types of creatures more common on frozen planets it would work better I think

[glass flare]

and the current bite and headbutt attacks don't?

[cosmic anvil]

"Yeah, but John, If the pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists!"

[ebon spoke]

this is not an improvement on headbutt and bite attacks

its totally fine for pokemon battles

and I get that they're aliens, but creatures shooting laser beams at each other in the wild would be stupid

at least in my opinion

[glass flare]

Massively disagree, but this discussion is off-topic for this channel so I'll leave it there

[shell depot]

So with the latest update you can have up to 30 companions all modified

[cosmic anvil]

You know, I have one simple request, and that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!

[ebon spoke]

Anyway, back to spoilers territory. Does anyone know if the xeno arena involves dice? I'm seeing that a bunch of the new files for the 'gametable' are related to them.

Not sure if that's part of the main update or a different, unreleased minigame

Also, a bunch of new items calledPURPLESTARSEED 👀 removed, not added. Whoops

Maybe an Abyss equivalent to the Atlas path is coming?

[glass flare]

the purplest

[hard stirrup]

Sounds like an extension of the Atlas Path or a post Atlas Path mission that has us return to deal with the Atlas.

[glass flare]

yeah I wouldn't be surprised if the anniversary update continues the VM storyline

[hard stirrup]

Maybe the purple star seeds will be from the Void Mother instead...maybe HG will add Void Mother stations to some purple systems or something.

[distant bronze]

A void mother path makes a lot of narrative sense, we see her emerge and then establish her systems, makes sense she would make her own stations and path

[modest verge]

Did they reintroduce pokemon to this game? With the creature battless

[frigid storm]

Could be stuff for the next major update, they have a bit of storyline to release yet someday.

[modest verge]

How is everyone today?

Glad everyone is doing well enough not to respond " p

😜

Reason I was trying to make BS small talk cause I am trying to find some people that would enjoy having others to play with

[cursive ivy]

Worlds part 3 confirmed

[stuck plank]

IMMORTAL PETS ARE ALRADY IN THE PLAY LOL THE CHEATS ARE ON IN THE ANOMOLY LOL AND CORVET TECH KEEPS DESAPIRING LOL pokeTRASH LOL

[violet cosmos]

Unsurprisingly, updates to defaultseasonaldata.MXML (the file that has all the defaults for expedition configs) are mostly adding pet battle defaults. There are a few new defaults in the rendezvous planet attributes:

"OverrideGameTableGameConfig": "",```

"RequireDefaultGameTableConfig": "",

No idea what those could be, but I'm guessing the rdv planets (or whatever) will have some new mechanic in the next expedition.

[ebon spoke]

GameTable is the internal name for the creature battle system, so it looks like they're planning to have custom xeno arena battles on rendezvous planets, possibly?

[deep mountain]

wonder why it didn't launch with a exp in assuming switch

Im

[violet cosmos]

Ah interesting, so probably a way to make/change existing creature battle tables, or whatever. I haven't played with the system yet because I find it wholly uninteresting. Can't wait to hate on the next expedition!

[vale sun]

Yeah not to ping this far back but could've even used that entire third level that is delegated to seating and storage for a games shop sort of setup

[grizzled apex]

These are a few years old now. Aren't they in the removed files section of the diff?

[ebon spoke]

Yeah, you're right. Nevermind

Okay, there definitely is a dice game in addition to the pet battler:

So anything related to the GameTable may not necessarily be for the xeno arena, re: the new expedition overrides

[grizzled apex]

Oh interesting. That makes the lack of exped with this update a bit more baffling honestly, unless they plan to only have a few milestones related to the GameTable in future expeds as a staple

[ebon spoke]

Unless the dice game is part of the xeno arena? Like to determine who goes first? I haven't played yet lol

[grizzled apex]

I think the first player is decided on the pokemon creature's agility stat

[paper spire]

So I did strange thing

Took three mecha pets from expeds put on a team. lil’ball droid

The blue quad pet
The mouse.

First time with team was second battle.

I won but only by slim margins

Battle one was only ball droid

Won that too. But felt scripted. For me to win.

That guy and the quad have dot 32-45 on their turns. Mangle

[violet cosmos]

Could just be an expedition breaking bug they caught at the last minute and decided not to release for a change.

[grizzled apex]

Didn't see any indications serverside that they ever had an expedition planned though, which might mean that it was axed pretty early

[paper spire]

When I got the eggs I genetically seq to make larger. Plat on quad and phosphorus on mouse the color and meanness didn’t come through

I can’t find what elements do what

[grizzled apex]

Huh, yea the dice game looks a bit unfinished

They had configs set up for different types of die it seems but only have a D6 set up

UI shows you were supposed to get to 50 wins to win the game?

[ebon spoke]

GameTableGlobals has <Property name="DiceGameWinningScore" value="50" />

[paper spire]

We have no sequence spoilers for me?

Dice with gek ha trouble

[modest verge]

Looking for space companion

[white edge]

a better channel would be #nms-fauna or #nms-lfg-or-trades

[grizzled apex]

Ahh so it looks like these arent exclusive to the expedition. It's a change to the GcScanEventData struct, which is used for both marking rendezvous planets, and for finding a challenger for the pet battler.

So this likely isnt evidence for a pet battle expedition, but just a carryover from the other parts of the update

[wind panther]

Just woke up, yes there's a dice game in the works, too

[deep mountain]

That's cool as hell

I hope it comes with a building upgrade

[wind panther]

It's apparently going to be an option on the game table

Pick which game to play

Maybe it's already there, I haven't built one

Just had time for 3 battles before bed last night, and have to go to class in 30 minutes

[grizzled apex]

Looks pretty unfinished compared to the pet battler, so I'm guessing not

[wind panther]

Yeah, we would need a bunch of models and materials, too

I need to make the holograms less hologram-y. They don't stand out enough

[grizzled apex]

There are a few models for it but that's probably not the full story either I suppose

[wind panther]

I wonder if I can make them like the Star Wars table, claymation like

[wind panther]

For anyone that wants the matchups

[grizzled apex]

oh lmao, the default names set in the ui are kinda funny

[deep mountain]

Would be funny if this wasn't even the update we were supposed to get but it was ready waiting

For Nintendo to fail

[violet cosmos]

Oh how embarrassing. %NAME% is my name!

[grizzled apex]

Oh so the timer icon was for the dice game

[midnight saffron]

When they adding no mans chess

Also can you battle other people?

[grizzled apex]

yep, in the anomaly's game tables

[hard stirrup]

Technically yes though I have no idea why you'd want to do that. To max out all medals will take months without having to deal with other players' nonsense as it is. Dealing with others will only slow things down.

[midnight saffron]

The dice thing sound interesting. I wonder if they will have different types of dice like dice made from certain material and designs

[grizzled apex]

they've got a setup to define various die types rn, but only have a D6 config. Not sure if the designs would be customizable or not atp

Dice Game UI, seems pretty simplistic

[ebon spoke]

Guess you take turns rolling until one player has a score a 50

[grizzled apex]

Looked up dice games w/ a banking system and I think it might be based off something like this?

maybe w/ fewer conditions

[dense quartz]

I hope they implement more of the mini-games into stuff like repairing frigates or outposts instead of just being a single button press.

[ebon spoke]

The die model is set up with a descriptor, which allows it to be either procedural or customizable. For some reason each face is a category with a single option each which is obviously just the number.

the model itself is still very placeholder though

[molten karma]

I kind of hope for manual interactions to that are more gameplay. Repairing ships should be this way to. Cargo quest should allow you to pick up items attach them in standard ships or place them manually in corvettes/freighters. I think this is a problem in resource gathering to. I think just pointing and shooting at resources is very underwhelming I think itd be better to use like some kind of harvesting tools. Imagine farming plants worked similar to Schedule 1. I still hope for on foot combat and bounty hunting missions. Add pirate settlements and have wild west shoot outs. Lose a a pet battle kill the NPC lol.

[ornate condor]

how can i see the 1 and the 6 at the same time

[dense quartz]

TIL squadrons were pokemon in disguise this whole time.

[molten karma]

If you really think about it yeah and just like old ship customization was the corvettes in disguise. I kind of hope we get a multitool builder at some point or if we get new on foot combat and FPS overhaul maybe several new weapon types with customization?

I think NMS can benefit from a weapon wheel though even with the current multitools. Having to cycle G just to get something is annoying holding G and bringing up a menu would be so much better.

[grizzled apex]

Ah I saw that the diceshaker was just a placeholder cube. Didn't expect the dice itself to have descriptors though.

The nesting structure is a bit weird if it really is face -> number, but if they were working on more than 6-sided die I could see how it might work

[ebon spoke]

First list is _DICE_, with the only option being _DICE_.
That option then has a child list labeled _A_ with it's only option being _A_1, which is the single dot. _B_ has the option _B_2 which is the two dots, and so on

[grizzled apex]

Ah I thought the descriptor groups weren't a part of the placeholder model, woops.

[feral pelican]

is the new update an expedition or not

[humble kayak]

Interesting that there's a dice game

That implies they're considering adding other games

chess or some cool sci-fi variation therof would be interesting

[ebon spoke]

The game table being used for all types of minigames in the future would be pretty cool

[deep mountain]

we need a poi update or at the minimum a building refresh

[glass flare]

the dice game sounds more like a LNF thing

would be cool if they did a full-on space cantina though with games you can play with NPC

would love to play space poker with some NPCs in some space station bar

[raw girder]

Planetary Poi overhaul plus space poi overhaul too like in space,

1. let planets spaced in decent distance so that they look like they are in orbit rather than clubbed balls.
2. then procedurally place space pois(derelict freighter, npc freighters,space anomalies and some new pois) in fixed locations like space stations and atlas stations with poi markers so that we could fly or auto pilot to them.

[humble kayak]

Kronus opening up a cantina would be pretty cool

Inside the anomaly

But yeah card games and stuff would be sick

Poker Night at The Anomaly

[humble kayak]

I wonder if this dice game thing would be finished in later patches or if they'd wait until the next title update

[cosmic anvil]

Would be nice if we could have these setup in our settlements

We have a building for dancing and music right. The bar thingy. This should be put up there and we should be able to play with the settlement NPCs

Now as I've said earlier, I don't really care for this particular update, but I'm willing to try if they put it in settlements 🫣

[glass flare]

Huh there’s new digital signs in the Anomaly, unless those were in the last update and I didn’t notice. They’re up at the front of the landing pads

[analog breach]

Pic?

[tulip star]

They were there before I believe

[cosmic anvil]

the parking indicators?

[wind panther]

They don't really add content in between named updates

just bug fixes

[safe quarry]

Yes they were already there. I didn't notice them either for the longest time!

[ebon spoke]

They did. Patch notes just say "some settlement buildings" but based on the file changes it should be the cantina and market buildings I'm pretty sure

[gloomy isle]

You're in luck!

[cosmic anvil]

Ahhh

[cosmic anvil]

Let's gooooo, I'mma login ASAP and give my residents the blast of a lifetime 💙

[sand karma]

Oooh that's really neat 👀

I know some people are being salty about this update, but I for one have really been enjoying getting some downtime with pet battles

[shell depot]

Is it me or its starting to look like a casino? Weird Vegas vibes

[mint lynx]

I'm not really too salty but it plays like an old feature they have had waiting to release not a new update, extremely small patch note list , small amount of new features, no exp

[sand karma]

I assume it's meant to tide us over until the anniversary update. That said, it does tie into some other features, gives us nanites, and honestly has a lot more depth than I expected 😄

Like my first battle against one of the higher tier challenges with the orange invites was really hard

[mint lynx]

That's standard NMS of course the activity is gunna give you nanites

[sand karma]

I'll never say no to more though 😄

[lost mulch]

Yo

The vfd

I rate that

[sand karma]

My pets are mounting a Very Fierce Defense against their Xeno Arena opponents

I was just going up against this one champion again and again until the world is queit here

[cosmic anvil]

I want that vibe anyway 🤣

[midnight saffron]

Were any new quick silver items datamined?

[hard stirrup]

Sean retweeted this and often interacted with the devs of Palworld on X, looks like a crossover might actually happen.

[cosmic anvil]

Nintendo probably exploded from within /s

[analog breach]

What is the idea tho

[candid lynx]

And perfect timing since Nintendo’s patent just got revoked

[cosmic anvil]

I think that is why HG is even bold about this

[candid lynx]

True

Can’t wait to play the update when I get home

[cosmic anvil]

hope you have fun!

[candid lynx]

Ty :)

[hard stirrup]

I mean they didn't develop this overnight and Nintendo just lost its patent in the past week or two...the must have had this ready for a while and after Nintendo lost the patent they pulled the trigger to release it.

[cosmic anvil]

so they did all this work based on a hunch?

like what if Nintendo had won? all this would have been for naught

[hard stirrup]

Possibly...but it was pretty obvious Nintendo was going to lose...it was only a matter of when, not if they would lose.

[distant bronze]

I wouldnt be shocked if they had this done since worlds part 2, but the patent situation made them hold on it until they were clear

[gloomy isle]

Maybe it was just a fun side thing a few devs were making that wasn't originally going to be fully developed into a feature

I think that's how byte beat started

[deep mountain]

Nintendo ain't approving the update bros we are so fucked

[candid lark]

read up. They cannot oppose it

[deep mountain]

its joever

[zenith perch]

How would they enforce it

It's WAY too vague genuinely

Creature collecting means the following games would technically be in violation of the patent, and this isn't a full list

NMS because of fishing and this new update, Palworld, Terraria, Minecraft, Skyrim etc etc because creature taming or fishing could fall under the patent in theory and Nintendo are litigious enough to where I'd not be surprised if they tried striking back at it

[cosmic anvil]

https://www.suedbynintendo.com/

[zenith perch]

The patent is legit cause they don't like the success of Palworld, its so petty.

[cosmic anvil]

the fact this exists is proof enough that something works on their side

[zenith perch]

It's a Tim Sweeney going after Apple pretending to be pro-consumer style of logic

(a joke)

[near forge]

Nintendo has truly fallen from grace, it's sad to see.

[zenith perch]

I'd not say fallen cause they were like this for a long time afaik

[cosmic anvil]

and I've said this before — the point is not to win, it is to drag the defendant's time and money out in court

make them give up through sheer bureaucracy

[near forge]

Yeah ig so, in the end they were just another huge company, not worthy of their talented game devs

[cosmic anvil]

every game company ends up this way

take Ubisoft or EA

[near forge]

The exception are private companies like Steam or HG ofc

Going public just means you're greedy, which means you don't really care about the passion but are just in it for the greed

[deep mountain]

Money makes the world go round
I can only assume hello games makes alot of money everytime the make a new console version

[cosmic anvil]

HG is very small, they will also become like that if Sean loses control or it becomes private equity

[sand karma]

Hah you can heal past max HP by blocking more than 100% 😄

[civic magnet]

Anyone got any ideas on what the next expeditions gonna be about?

[sand karma]

I'm assuming these are for max level with each medal?

Two of them definitely are, so assuming yes for the others as well. Gonna take me a few decades

[deep mountain]

Isn't the boundary horror a old pet

[frigid storm]

Bet World of Warcraft would fall in that list but that has a lot bigger backing.

If NMS has enough tweaks to the system tough it would be something different.

[deep mountain]

Maybe they'll stop exp locking pets!

[runic mesa]

Different animal. That was the Whispering Egg biological horror.

This is I think one of those squids from The Cursed, which has never been available as a pet before. These are all new.

I'm not going to start worrying about Switch until we're a week out. Week delay is pretty normal.

[near forge]

The new worm pet is by far the coolest one, not just out of the new ones, but generally the coolest pet they've ever done imo

I need it ASAP but im also burnt out of NMS a bit

[deep mountain]

I don't even care about space pokemon I want the fuckin mouse

👴🏾

[near forge]

the mouse is cute too tbh, but the new worm is peak

[deep mountain]

switch missed two different sets of exp rewards now would be a good time for one exp if there's no exp

Space pokemon does look cool don't get me wrong but comon bro

[runic mesa]

I'm annoyed by the mouse too. Only expedition pet I don't have.

[near forge]

It's decent to ride too albeit on the slower side since its so little

but it genuinely feels like the companion to always have around

basically the closest to owning a dog irl in terms of vibes

[deep mountain]

I hope we get it

[near forge]

It was one of the few good parts about the otherwise lackluster expedition 19

[hot trout]

What

Worm

New worm?

[analog breach]

Medal reward pet

[hot trout]

I should really check out this update, man... theres so many cool game stuff I'm trying to catch up with

[humble kayak]

I got on and discovered it's really not my cup of tea, but i've certainly seen quite a few people enjoying it

maybe you would too

[near forge]

From the patch notes:

and even a lil quad finally

Boundary horror too...we eating good this one, and none of it locked behind an expo

[hot trout]

SQUID SQUID SQUID

IdeiJwjsnsnskehwvsjdogyisnhwwsisndhfikwnwjwoc

[unreal timber]

You know how to get them?

[sand karma]

Each comes with a level 5 medal for the new faction

[unreal timber]

Ooh okay thanks

[near forge]

that worm will 100% be new main flying pet

[sand karma]

It's really, really cool yeah

Lotta work to unlock these though 😄

[near forge]

wondering whether the boundary horror will have unique dialogue, teasing us the way they did in cursed

[near forge]

yeah, it's gonna be a toughie and I'm a bit burnt out of the game as is...

[sand karma]

I was too, but I've very much come back for this and the previous expedition

Cuz it feels separate enough from the main game 😄

[near forge]

yeah ig, thing is i still need to do a few things in my main game to be in tune with the rp i'm going for before I can commit to anything else, so it might just be a while until i actually get to this new activity and pet

there are also other games I'm feeling drawn to rn, so yeh. Will see how it all goes.

[sand karma]

Hey, there's absolutely not rush. Never play a game unless you think you're going to have fun 😄

[deep mountain]

Gotta inject abandoned mode directly into your veins it's peak

[near forge]

it's something i plan on doing yeah, especially once I spice up my game with gumsk's gDamage mod. Will do it after I jump through the centre on my main, to keep it somewhat natural.

[frigid storm]

Been spending most of my time on that since I got done unlocking all the remanent stuff.

[distant bronze]

Not going to lie, I appreciate the decision to not have the game tables be buildable. It makes it so that players have to converge on the set points where they are in a system. So in say a civilization, if youre playing xeno arena , youre very likely to see other players looking to play and face the local champions

[sand karma]

Oh, I managed to get my first two mutated abilities on a level 30 pet and they are really sweet. 😱

Like seriously. Arcstorm doesn't have a very long cooldown either

[distant bronze]

I like how they have the tables at archives, trading posts, and settlements, it looks like theyre working to drive up traffic towards points of interest with multiple landing pads

[sand karma]

It makes the world feel a bit more lived in, yeah

I always like the idea that the people who live in a game universe have fun things they're doing while they have downtime 😄

[grizzled apex]

there's a switch-only version of the patch notes omitting MP in the lang files, so i'm pretty sure it's coming alright.

[deep mountain]

Idk how you found that but bless you sir I need the mouse 🐁

[hard stirrup]

Old monster...we fought it in previous expeditions though I don't think there's any way to fight it in the base game. But it was never obtainable as a pet until now.

[hot trout]

Could be confusing it with one of the other horror pets we have gotten

[glass flare]

I'll be cynical here, but I think they're mainly looking to drive up user engagement numbers

[humble kayak]

I think so too

[violet cosmos]

That's the motivation for every developer really, but some are better than others. HG/NMS aren't the worst.

Also not the best.

[glass flare]

true, it's relatively benign compared to what else is out there

[deep mountain]

its surprising to see how many people are low-key mad the update was spent improving the pet feature

like how settlements were more mid before isn't it good thing

[mint lynx]

At risk of being a hater it's a exp update with no exp.
Like if they just threw fishing into the game.
Too small

[night helm]

i would say that if it was a free to play, but at their price point i dunno

[night helm]

the robo dog (i call frog) is pretty cool too for this

but i still have my hacked sentinel always around

[glass flare]

This is purely speculation, but they may have analytics on how persistent user engagement feeds into people coming back when a new update comes out, which might also affect new purchases. Like if the game is doing good CCU numbers on Steam, others are more likely to purchase or something

[distant bronze]

Could be, but theres nothing particularly wrong with how theyve gone about doing it, its a so far very engaging thing to do at points of interest, and I get the feeling its locations at some places are placeholders for future reworks

[dense quartz]

Feels like every update expands an existing mechanic and they're slowly expanding the whole game one content update at a time, but every single time the number one criticism is that it's "a brand new feature that's disconnected from everything else and doesn't add anything"

This realization really hit me when Relics dropped and I saw that no one was saying it expended the buried bones which used to have no purpose. Everyone was convinced it was a new addition that didn't do anything while I saw it as being tied together with other aspects of the game.

[distant bronze]

Ive been noticing that too, each update now is revamping and adding additional functionality to existing things in game. im sort of wondering if thats ultimately what the still closed storefronts on the space stations will eventually be used for, to make it a center for all these activities within a solar system.

[dense quartz]

They're been revamping since 2022. I'm baffled most of the community hasn't noticed... or that they keep saying it's just new additions. I don't get it.

Almost every update has been taking something existing and expanding upon it.
With few exceptions like fishing I guess.

[violet cosmos]

Fishing is a way to make nanites with some tacked on addition to your multitool. Waste is a way to make nanites with some tacked on addition to an exocraft. 🤷‍♂️

[deep mountain]

Fishing gives a point to the water/ an activity to do on the water and added water landing
The garbage truck updated the truck & gave a activity to do with it
Pokemon battling does the same for animals

[violet cosmos]

I agree, they all tack on about the same amount of activities that synergize with very little else in the game.

[deep mountain]

but either way that feature existed in a worse state and didn't really synergize well with anything, now it better

[violet cosmos]

Fishing, recycling and pet battling didn't exist. And now that they do, they don't have synergy with any other features at all, except through nanites.

Well, and expeditions that a lot of people can't play.

[glass flare]

I think they've taken some of the feedback here that the disparate game systems need to feel more coherent and interconnected. Hopefully they will do that with more of the central gameplay systems rather than the side activities

[deep mountain]

I wasn't saying specifically that fishing existed before but it was the missing piece of interacting with the water
you had no reason to use the truck before
And animals were kinda pointless before too
The old state didn't have synergy either

[deep mountain]

Now this I'm mad I can't get the mouse lol

[violet cosmos]

Sure, and you still have no reason for them

[deep mountain]

That was true before and now it's unchanged but now they are undeniably better features

Fishing giving water landing & animals having a point I would rank higher than the truck upgrade though

I'll give you the truck dlc was random as hell

[violet cosmos]

I don't think the argument that "something was added" = "undeniably better" is some sort of truism

[glass flare]

"animals having a point" 😿

[deep mountain]

Not just being something added alone by itself that's looking at it too literal but would you deny it's good to interact with the water, land on the water ect?

[glass flare]

animals already had a point - to provide a sense of a living ecosystem for the player (if rather shallow) and provide occasional dangers (toned way down from the original versions of the game). they didn't need to be part of a Pokemon minigame to be relevant to the player experience

[violet cosmos]

I think the problem with the above features is the "why" is always answered by "so you have something to grind to get the rewards they added," which sucks. I think a lot of people would prefer something more meaningful like "so I can progress to the next thing"

[deep mountain]

I can agree the garbage truck stuff was sort of weird and gamey but the other ones I'd say are pretty straight improvments

[violet cosmos]

That said, I dunno how the hell you have any progression from fishing, recycling and pet battling. But it could all just be something as flimsy as "that's how you get items x y and z so you can build the thing"

Even just "so you can beat the expedition" is enough to get me to play. But guess what we didn't get this time 😆

[deep mountain]

it is weird there wasnt a exp maybe bc of switch

Would you say you feel the same way about corvettes takeover of ships

[violet cosmos]

I was literally just thinking about Corvettes in all this, lol.

[deep mountain]

Corvettes are the most random thing it doesn't improve a feature it a new feature unless you count the changes to space

[violet cosmos]

Like, there's no progression TO corvettes, it's just you know about them and you ditch your ship for one asap because ships suck. This also feels like a bad design overall, in spite of corvettes being amazing.

[deep mountain]

I only bought nms because of them but they the worst offender of what you're describing

[violet cosmos]

Yeah, if I thought about it a lot I think I'd come up with a big map of all the decisions HG has made to make the flattest, widest game imaginable.

[deep mountain]

It a good thing they going back and deepening features then right?

[violet cosmos]

I don't see depth to these features, just width. They are just straight lines jetting out, rather than some interesting, tangled mess.

[humble kayak]

I love corvettes but I can't ignore that they break the games progression

You guys have a point there

Once you build one there's not much point to have a regular starfighter

[glass flare]

they've been unfortunately breaking progression with QoL and community desires for a few years now sadly. the magic backpack really made the friction point of being a space hauler less engaging, as well as reducing the diversity of ship classes by allowing small crafts to have magically large cargo space

[violet cosmos]

Yeah that's what I want, a friction mode. Make me do stuff to earn what I need to progress.

[deep mountain]

you can play on pd and turn options all the way up
i also like the added challenge of abandoned

[violet cosmos]

Oh I do. Also did all the expeditions in permadeath. That's not friction in the gaming sense, that's just changing stuff into damage sponges, which isn't much more fun.

Friction is more like making you spend time doing something before you can get to the next step in the game's progression. Maybe something like forcing you to use a ship to find corvette parts before converting your ship into a corvette or something.

[deep mountain]

you can just do stuff the regular way and not use the anomaly too it just your choice to do so

[violet cosmos]

Yeah I was about to say, you have to figure out your own friction in this game because, as mentioned earlier, they keep getting rid of it for one reason or another.

[deep mountain]

i can only judge the game based off when I started playing but it all seems fine to me it's no star citizen but pretty alright

[violet cosmos]

I think in the case of NMS its width makes up for its lack of depth.

Doesn't mean I won't complain about it not being what it could be, though.

[deep mountain]

my biggest complaint is the submarine sucks and I can't get the mouse

[near forge]

Eh that one is actually quite a murder hobo lol. It‘s nice riding it, but I hate how it will attack fauna around it.

[near forge]

It‘d be so easy too with the extensive settings we already have they could easily add additional ones, like one for disabling ship calling for example.

[violet cosmos]

Well, again I’m not just taking about making things difficult, but adding work to get something. For example it would be cool if I could start with the minimum storage slots (250 stacks I think?) but then have some way to upgrade them to 9,999. Maybe one step could be winning a reward in pet battles that let you use inventory upgrade items to go from 250 -> 500 or whatever.

Or forcing me to upgrade the class of my ship before I could go to higher tier stars, and force you to go to higher tier stars to progress the story.

[near forge]

Ah yeah that does sound interesting. There is one mod which kinda turns NMS into a more progression based survival game but I haven’t tried it myself, heard only good things about it though.

As of right now, the only real progression in that sense are purple star systems

[dense quartz]

I kinda really like HG's approach to new content, they're deepening various parts of the game, connecting them to other aspects of the game, but also keeping it an entirely optional side activity.

Like can you imagine if trucking or pet battles were a mandatory part of the game loop?
The special appeal of NMS for me is it doesn't force you to do anything, it's all up to you.

And half a decade ago it used to be
"I have a living ship..." or "I have a mech..."
And that was literally all there was to it. Now, something like trucking or pet collecting have their own whole entire mini-games.

[frigid storm]

Well now you can RP as a garbage hauling space trucker who does creature battles with the locals on the weekends.

[deep mountain]

unless you use abandoned mode then everyone is dead no pokemon battles 💔

[timber crescent]

HG doesn't have a creativity problem, they have ADHD.

Space trucking clearly should have been a part of settlements, its ridiculous that its not.

Companions should give the player passive bonuses when out to deepen the connection between "tamed" fauna and player.

Otherwise, just look at the friction between being a creature battler, and then having to mine & whatever to travel the universe to help with genetic sequencing.

If creatures gave you passives such as mine % quicker/faster, periodically produces antimatter etc etc

It would tie the game systems together.

[distant bronze]

Personally im hoping they make use of the new trucking and gravity coil to add additional function to points of interest, I like the concept, but I want to haul cargo or passengers around a planet instead of garbage, which would give the colossus an ability to use its new functions on worlds that dont have scrap.

Though it seems more and more like thats what theyre building up towards

[dense quartz]

Yeah the trash minigame feels like a good demonstration for the gravity gun, but I'm hoping they ad the gravity gun to other parts of the game.

[wintry berry]

do we already know how to level up as fast as possible?

[cosmic anvil]

in game or here? 😂

[wintry berry]

I don't think bk allows memes in here, so link instead

not even the link :(

but i meant my companions :)

like: is it more effective to do training battles against oceanus, do hard fights with weak companions so they have more room to level, does it matter whether you win or lose, etc?

[wintry berry]

or, for that matter, how to up the class of your companion...

[tropic radish]

hey so hypothetically if i accidentally walked away from the atlas instead of choosing to enter a new galaxy

how the shit do i get to another galaxy

[gilded girder]

Warp to the galactic core, it takes you to the next galaxy in order

You can also go to the Space Anomaly and visit featured bases, or uploaded bases of other players currently on the space anomaly

Some of those may be in other galaxies

(the bases option ||doesn't wreck all your installed tech||)

[upbeat gazelle]

poo poo and pee pee

[tropic radish]

imagine not having tech damage disabled

[humble kayak]

You know I had a big brain play when it comes to the gravity gun and cargo

They could reuse that system to allow us to haul cargo crates in our corvettes

And/or add functional cargo racks as exterior Corvette parts, so you'd use the gravity gun to place the cargo crates onto the racks where they'd snap on, and then you'd go drop them off somewhere else

[distant bronze]

For corvettes and for the colossus, imagine cargo runs between planets and systems, as well as shorter runs between POIs

[hard stirrup]

I haven't tested it as I haven't been warping through galactic cores since before the difficulty customization options were added to the game but last I heard people were saying that even if you turn off tech damage in the options(which you should) it doesn't prevent all tech being broken by a galactic core transition...though it does protect your tech in all other circumstances. Still...best prepare accordingly before going through a galactic core than rely on difficulty settings.

[tropic radish]

As long as I have 60 chromatic metal for a base computer I can make it work tbh

[glass flare]

And then pirate attacks where they can destroy your cargo

[dense quartz]

You can start a regular battle with an S tier pet and then halfway through switch to a brand new pet you just got.
Even if they die in one hit, they'll have 10 genes for you to spend after the fight.

[wintry berry]

yeah i noticed something similar

[dense quartz]

The battles do the same annoying scaling thing that space combat does. It really sucks and I don't get why HG keeps adding it.
What's the point of taking out a pirate ship with a maxed out S class ship when I'll have near the same difficulty with a C class ship with no upgrades?

The weirdest part is ground combat doesn't have this issue at all. Fighting sentinels with weak multitlls is hard and fighting with powerful multitools is easy.. HG please do that for space and xeno fights lol

[lean nova]

so when i complete the purge do i get sent to a new galaxy outside of euclid

[gilded girder]

It depends on the choice you make. You can get sent to a new galaxy, or you can remain in Euclid (you can still return later if you leave).

[hard stirrup]

If you choose reset the simulation you will be offered four choices...each relates to a galaxy type. Red=hostile, green=lush, blue=dead, and cyan=normal. If you choose not to reset the simulation you stay in Euclid.

[mental socket]

Dice game seems like something you'd play in a fantasy setting tavern hmm hmm.

[distant bronze]

when you look closer at the game table, it does have space for 4 players

[humble kayak]

I'd hope that with the dice system being a thing, they'd be open to adding more games to the table too

Like card games or what-have-you

[hard stirrup]

Maybe...who knows what the future will bring. If nothing else we can be fairly sure we will get the dice game at some point in the future. But I think these are just morsels of content to keep up preoccupied as HG likely plan some mega update for the anniversary update...likely august 12th. That is when we are likely to get something truly awesome, maybe that freighter update they've been cooking for a while now. But we are likely to have another smaller update before then...at least and expedition and maybe that dice game, whatever it is. Around June would be my guess.

For now I think we are on a fairly unforgiving time limit to max our all medals for the Arena League and prepare a full lineup of ultimate pets before whatever next expedition and/or update lands next. I have being caught unprepared when updates drop and then I have to work on multiple things at once and fall one a list of things to do before yet another update drops and I end up in a deeper hole than before.

I'm thinking a team of 8 maxed SSS battle pets is the goal after the medals are maxed...one from each biome.

[hot trout]

I dont think theyd do something where the best companion team is required for an expedition, lol

[humble kayak]

Damn spirit I didn't think you'd go so hard on the xeno arena

[hard stirrup]

Nonono, I don't mean in the sense that the next update would require or have anything to do with pets, though they did say that there will be seasonal content to the Xeno Arena...likely more unique reward pets from Oceanus for completing time sensitive challenges.

[humble kayak]

I'm glad you've found something to grind away at though. I haven't really gotten on the game much and my first xeno arena round I played I lost LOL

[hard stirrup]

I go hard in all NMS content. I do everything there is to do. I max everything there is to max in NMS.

[humble kayak]

He's Him

[hot trout]

I mean, its your first round, I wouldnt expect to win first try tbh

[humble kayak]

That and I only have one (1) companion

I got on the game all hyped and opened the companion register and my heart just sank

I was too lazy to go find more creatures so I decided to play oceanus with what I had

didn't end well

[hard stirrup]

I have no idea when the seasonal content will start dropping for the Xeno Arena but I hope to be ready when the time comes.

[hot trout]

Oceanus be like: "This ain't no start of a pokemon game where you kick your rival's starter into submission!"

[humble kayak]

Yeah I got my ass kicked

Like two shotted

[hot trout]

Isnt the first fight a tutorial?

[analog breach]

I think so. After oceanus inspects your pets

[hard stirrup]

There are 3 aspects to every pet. 1) Its abilities...some have stronger powers than others...you can change an ability but it costs a level up and you don't know what the power will change to, you can try to sink levels in improving powers of a pet but it's a gamble and every level spent changing a power is a level you're not getting towards leveling a pet to level 30 so that slows your medal progress. 2) the pet's nature...a lush planet pet will get wrecked by a pet with toxic based attacks...which is the 3rd key aspect. Some powers are a lot stronger or a lot weaker against pets from certain biomes.

[humble kayak]

Lmao

Oops

[hard stirrup]

I don't think the game tuttorializes the pet battle system much...it briefly tells you the nature and attacks matter, that there are resistances and weaknesses at play, gives you one free level pellet to use so you know what those do and then you're on your own. It legit took me 3 days of trial and error to understand all aspects...or at least most of the aspects.

[runic mesa]

I can't wait until Switch gets it. I play strategy RPGs, I'll be fine. 🙂

[native carbon]

its stupidly fun

like surprisingly it isnt super basic like i expected

also the enemy AI isnt stupid either especially champions

like champions last pet is really strong if u arent prepared/dont have any good moves

[distant bronze]

yeah ive been surprised at how well thought out and structured the mechanics of it are

[native carbon]

my only nitpick is that only one battle theme is.... kinda meh

like maybe a special theme for oceanus and champions?

that would be cool

but the one we have aint bad

[rough copper]

Maybe one for each races systems + one for anomaly/oceanus