There's a subreddit called /r/nomanshigh. NipNip is a literal nod to that community.
#nms-spoilers
nocturne zephyr
I once got suspended from the Reddit and they welcomed me with open arms
But I didn't spend much time there
And got reaccepted into the Reddit community
And lived happily ever after
The end
pine badger
Anyone else for?
pine badger
NipNip
nocturne zephyr
Anyone
nocturne zephyr
Nipnip
nocturne zephyr
no gracias
short parcel
I like snorting NipNip
pine badger
Too bad we can't mass production them... :(
Fils construction capacity. 😦
jolly dew
Not the nipnip chat lol
crisp fern
passin' around nipnip like it's nobody's business
nocturne zephyr
No Man's Business
spice gorge
mighty rampart
I still don't know how people are making bases there
Is there some mod that lets you
foggy jacinth
No. They're warping there. Using the DaRC web, one said.
mighty rampart
wow such effort
half jasper
what do you mean how, whats special about those screenshots that people wouldnt be able to make bases there?
is that the event planet from this weekend?
mighty rampart
in ur head....
@uncut harness the only canon "end" of the game is when you finish the artemis quest
since its a sort of exploration sandbox there's no proper end to it, the main story just serves as an extended tutorial
uncut harness
dissapointing but ok
mighty rampart
in my opinion I'm disappointed the game has a story :p
wish it was in the background like other sandbox games
mighty rampart
Hey PC bros is there an actual Bizarro Hub? They sure like to leave their mark on each weekend mission
fervent eagle
liek, having stuff locked behind story?
mighty rampart
@fervent eagle well it's not really locked, but the game really keeps nagging you to do the story
Anyway uh ignore my question above, Bizarro Star Empire is definitely a thing
fervent eagle
hmmm, I kinda wanna say 'fuck artemis' for making me have to do a story line...
I guess it doesn't really matter what I choose, huh?
foggy jacinth
Choose - are you at the point where you choose which galaxy to go to?
fervent eagle
I made the mind thingy and have artemis in it now I'm at the relic inside the nexus
upload artemis or allow him to DIE
foggy jacinth
Oh, that choice. What you choose doesn't really affect the game. it's mentioned a few times later.
fervent eagle
ah, so I've still got a ways to go, huh?
foggy jacinth
I've done it both ways. i generally choose to let her live.
fervent eagle
artemis is a her?
weird
I always thought they were a dipstick for getting trapped
gleaming rune
All characters are gender neutral, but I always thought Artemis is a she
foggy jacinth
Artemis is never given a gender. But the name Artemis is from a greek Goddess, so I go with 'her.'
gleaming rune
Artemis the Greek goddess is a she so
Same with the other characters
||Except -null-, who I assumed was male||
||Artemis more like Artemissed the portal exit am I right gamers||
fervent eagle
ripperoni
at least that's Artemis done...
now to do The First Traveller
I love how portals are just a janky looking stargate
fervent eagle
@foggy jacinth does it matter if I tell Artemis they're in a simulation or not?
foggy jacinth
For the gameplay, no.
fervent eagle
I'ma fuck their world up
yikes, when I hit end communication, they S C R E A M E D
Does it matter to the gameplay if I transmit the freighter log to Apollo or to Nada/Polo?
err, to Null
foggy jacinth
nope. The decisions you make in this mission path are only mentioned a few times in dialog later.
fervent eagle
is there a time when choices matter?
foggy jacinth
I don't think so? I can't think of any. This isn't an RPG, really.
fervent eagle
meh
foggy jacinth
I've been trying to word it carefully. to the gameplay etc. People, of course, have varying emotional reactions.
fervent eagle
I'm the kind of player that skips every cutscene if possible in games
fervent eagle
S I X T E E N
jovial stag
S E V E N T E E N
foggy jacinth
I do kinda wish they'd used a prime number, but 2^4 is cool, too.
jovial stag
8128
nocturne zephyr
I'm the kinda player that gets pissed when I hear someone skips every cutscene
nocturne zephyr
0
foggy jacinth
Yeah, warp/teleport/portal/black hole screens, and the various star base landing screens (Atlas, Anomaly, space station) are about it.
pine badger
I have now fully expandable working farms of:
- Cobalt;
- Copper;
- Dioxide;
- Gold;
- Indium + Oxygen;
- Magnetised Ferrite;
- Nitrogen + Paraffinium;
- Phosphorus;
- Radon + Uranium;
- Salt;
- Silver + Sulphurine;
- Sodium;
🙂
foggy jacinth
Farmer Neo
I have similar in one of my saves. I'm missing phosphorus, and mag fe, I get all my iron needs from my paraffinium mine.
pine badger
I'm only worried about the base pieces that can be used per save.
So peacefull just going to a farm and get what I want without the grinding or waiting for something to refine. :)
shrewd oar
Hello
cloud nacelle
Yo
shrewd oar
Ok
I guess I have to find Artemis first to spoil the whole Artemis mission
But I think everybody knows this guy
jovial stag
erm... Artemis is a she not a he... 😉
shrewd oar
Wait, what
I have talked to him more than a time
But he never mentioned something about his origins or gender
foggy jacinth
A gender is never given for Artemis or Nada. But then name Artemis comes from a greek Goddess.
shrewd oar
@foggy jacinth I know Artemis is a name from the Greek mythology, but I don't know if it's a god or godess
foggy jacinth
"Artemis was the Greek goddess of hunting, wild nature, and chastity. The daughter of Zeus and sister of Apollo, Artemis was regarded as a patron of girls and young women and a protectress during childbirth." -https://www.ancient.eu/artemis/
shrewd oar
@foggy jacinth so, she is the sister of Apollo, who Artemis gave me his signal to talk to him
Wow
When I was talking to Artemis last time, the signal suddenly disappeared and I took something named Apollo, and he was an entity who helped me finding Artemis
foggy jacinth
Other than the names, I haven't seen any real parallels with NMS and Greek mythology.
shrewd oar
Yes
In NMS, they didn't make all the universal creatures have the same two genders as earth
So I don't think Artemis or Apollo would be connected to the Greek mythology in something other than names
pine badger
Wait. If Artemis and Apollo are supposed to be interpollers like us, does that mean that we're gods?
More. The Atlas was supposedly created by someone else. Maybe a hint to a god?
uncut harness
Naw. We are a creation of Atlas that exists solely to help Atlas fix itself.
pine badger
Hmmm fix itself. Hence the nipnip... I see. ;p
uncut harness
😛
maybe!?
shrewd oar
Maybe
Maybe the Atlas is the god
And the travellers are preferred by the Atlas above all creatures
jovial stag
answers available on the 13th Floor 😄
gleaming rune
Or somebody tripped on the Atlas' power cord and in the few seconds it takes to plug it back in its panicking and running trillions of simulations to predict its own death
pale fossil
I like how this is an Atlas simulation so the universe as portrayed by the game can't be expected to be close to the theoretically defined universe that exists. Like for example, no gas planets.
tall vessel
@shrewd oar Those are individual glyphs, that is a portal address, once you have them you can find a portal and go to that system.
shrewd oar
I have collected glyphs, but they never showed me how they look like
tall vessel
lol, nice. Yeah once you find a portal, you can enter in a combo for a planet, it will also take some resources.
shrewd oar
I entered the portal to find Artemis, I saw how it is like, and Idk how it teleported my starship too
tall vessel
Yeah, I'm not sure if that is an every time thing, but it does that,
shrewd oar
Actually this happened after I talked to Atlas
fervent eagle
Hey, MAYBE discoveries being lost is just part of Atlas dying.
foggy jacinth
@shrewd oar If you go to your catalogue, you can see which glyphs you have, and what they look like. Bottom left.
shrewd oar
@foggy jacinth ok, thanks
foggy jacinth
sure
slim umbra
apollo had quick character development
slim umbra
some of them did
upbeat star
Eh
upbeat star
Yeah
slim umbra
btw in abandoned observatories data logs can be really depressing
slim umbra
i guess you're right
but i remember spending 10 minutes on these data puzzles
1-2-6-24-120-???
upbeat star
Eh
slim umbra
yep
upbeat star
I just guess it
cloud nacelle
These puzzles are way too easy
half jasper
the puzze there is number * the next index, 1 * 2 = 2, 2* 3 = 6, 6 * 4 = 24, 24 * 5 = 120, 120 * 6 = 720
slim umbra
yes i know
cloud nacelle
The only time nms had hard puzzles was WT
slim umbra
can you give me an example if its short?
cloud nacelle
We had to solve puzzles using real world tools and had to visit real locations to get puzzles and solve them for lore or teasers
slim umbra
ooooooh
cloud nacelle
A few times the puzzle was ingame
Sometimes we had to listen in to radio stations to find the advertisement which had a puzzle
upbeat star
What the heck
cloud nacelle
Or we'd get an email with a wheel and had to solve our one each individual puzzle to unlock a part of a picture
And then the completed picture led to New York and people had to meet up there
slim umbra
was it for beyond or next?
slim umbra
or there was but we didnt know
cloud nacelle
One time we had to make companies and video games to win a "vr" headset which came with a phone and the phone had a puzzle
uncut harness
Yeah it was awesome.
cloud nacelle
It was really fun
Oh and one time we had to guide a hamster on Livestream to get cheese so we could unlock the new ship type teaser
That was wild
slim umbra
wow.
uncut harness
There was an escape room where the group had to work out the answer using a star map that was on the wall.
icy citrus
uncut harness
We also messed up one time and sent a small group of people into the Louvre in Paris and they didn't need to go in at all. 😬
icy citrus
Tea party
cloud nacelle
Ahhh and the wildest
icy citrus
In Boston lol
cloud nacelle
With fluffy animal toys
muted cliff
My friends.
So, the universe is a simulation.
Or better: Everything is a simulation.
Atlas being an administrative entity with powers to "amplify" the reality of said universe or galaxy, even to the point of generating a new one?
Well.
lucid aurora
@cloud nacelle I still have the Level 4 Atlas Pass from WT. I don't think HG is going to do anything special with them like I thought they would.
cloud nacelle
They weren't supposed to be for anything, they clearly stated that @lucid aurora
mighty rampart
@fresh spruce you can return to your bases but you wont be able to visit your star systems through teleporters
fresh spruce
gotcha, thank you
worn warren
90 feline liver for this mission this week. I'm sorry, but I feel a some emotion when killing animals in NMS, so I can't do this mission
broken cedar
Should i do anything before i locate and enter final portal for The Purge?
foggy jacinth
save your file off of the game-rig.
broken cedar
Thank you
shell dew
i like the hint with apollo referencing to where the two streamers were in the same place at the same time
but couldnt see each other
broken cedar
So going to a new galaxy resets the atlas path?
foggy jacinth
I don't actually know. I do know, that on a lot of saves, the Atlas path always restarts when you finish it. It could be that.
broken cedar
Oh alright
foggy jacinth
Eissentam is the 10th galaxy, I think, if you go through the center, @solar aurora. But it's one of the posisble galaxies for the end of the Purge. If you go through the center of Euclid, you get the Hilbert Dimension.
solar aurora
oh i see, i watched a vidoe, dunno who but he said if u wanted a lot of lush planets to take the green portal
foggy jacinth
Yup, that's to Eissentam.
I have a base or two there, but my main galaxies are Euclid and Elkupalos
solar aurora
oh okay cool, would u know the farthest anyone has ever gone
foggy jacinth
At least one person has gone the whole way. Around all 255 and back to Euclid.
solar aurora
dam thats a lot of warp cells
foggy jacinth
yeah. And this was before hypercores.
solar aurora
holy heck, did they have universe maps for each galaxy to take black holes ir just wing it and do a lot of reloading saves
what was it called
blackhole roulette
pale fossil
I've been in Eissentam for way too long and now I'm comfortable there
foggy jacinth
I don't know how they did it, @solar aurora.
fervent eagle
They just kept warping the the center since day one
foggy jacinth
NMS changed how black holes work, in that they used to lead to a random system (Blackhole roulette), and now they always lead you to a specific one, but they still move you the same distance towards teh center. 5000-7000ly.
fervent eagle
considering you can get your ship to go around ~2000 light years... 5-7k is a good chunk lololol
foggy jacinth
It's meant to be an undertaking. BTW, if you're heading to the center, or anywhere for that matter, the warp screen is a loading screen. If you warp to systems with only 1-2 planets, the warp screen is much shorter.
solar aurora
i mean in reality 7k is a big distance and not achievable but it game its just 1 loading screen after another haha
fervent eagle
would you rather the blackhole to take you 100k?
5-7k is a good distance towards the center
fervent eagle
that's, on average 2.5 to 4.5 normal jumps
like allochthon said, it's supposed to be an undertaking. And the Galaxy is a BIG place
solar aurora
and they take you like 100k across the galaxy cause with 255 galaxies i see what they all have to offer
i get really stuck in one system for ages tho, i dont think im gonna reach the center for a long long time
maybe they could just add super mega black holes that send u straight to a random galaxy
foggy jacinth
Plenty of ways to jump galaxies, since BEYOND.
solar aurora
i havent even had an s class haha
ill get there one day tho
i tend to forget upgrades exist too and just make do with what i got
@foggy jacinth do u play creative also
foggy jacinth
I have 1 creative save. NOt doing much on it right now, except gathering QS For the base decorations.
solar aurora
u should build a creative base with me someday 💁
foggy jacinth
I don't play multi-player, as a general rule.
I'm happy to join folks to give them nip, or stuff, but that's pretty much it.
solar aurora
fair enough
fervent eagle
why is it so hard to find animals on this planet?
it says there's AMPLE fauna on this planet, but I SEE NO FAUNA
mighty rampart
Wrong chat?
shrewd oar
No
pine badger
Of course... I had to pull the shinny light bulb under water...
Scared the hell out of me...
Never seen one of those...
fervent eagle
I've finished The Purge and went to the final atlas interface and refused it
gleaming rune
I think I asked this here before but
Is there a central ATLAS computer
Like what's shown in the promotional art
Or is it all interfaces
half jasper
oh wow didnt know that, i thought it was random
err i was scrolled up
whts the item needed for weekend event?
pine badger
@gleaming rune, from what I understand there is only one Atlas that manifests itself thru all it's interfaces.
.
.
Achieved one of my goals: 20 mines with all the resources. :D
In Eissentem Core. :D
Only don't have the activated ores and rust. I see no purpose on having them. 😄
pine badger
What is the ship type with the max Light Years range?
Exotics are nice but have no space for upgrades... 😦
icy citrus
Explorer is the other one
upper void
If I go to a new galaxy can I come back to Euclid?
pine badger
I'm gonna start jumping galaxies and need a fast ship to get to the core of each galaxy the fastest way possible.
Yes, @upper void.
upper void
Ight thanks
pine badger
as long you have a base there or a friend to teleport to.
icy citrus
Base part is easy - more than likely at least one featured base will be in Euclid
vocal mica
Anyone found a date of when synthesis is going to release?
icy citrus
When they mentioned it, this was brought to my attention
Now, whether that means it is next week, I don't know
nocturne zephyr
Yeah why is it that Facebook gets exclusive information and sometimes early information
cloud nacelle
Facebook is superior you boot
rough copper
Ahh just in time for tomorrows autumn sale on Steam
pine badger
I've reached that point where I don't need to carry almost anything with me and have freighter, exocrafts and starships empty. So nice not having to manage inventory. 😄
crisp fern
@icy citrus they're just making food, that's all, everyone's being silly ||/s||
icy citrus
It will be a turkey update, so we can make thanksgiving dinner in game
cloud nacelle
Don't hurt the birbs
icy citrus
I won't hurt them personally
violet narwhal
SPRINT POWER SURGE DETECTED 🤔
icy citrus
Melee boost?
violet narwhal
That's like the jetpatck surge message from deuterium plants, but no idea when it'd be triggered... Presumably lets you run very fast or just sprint for a long time.
haha... they fixed a typo on one expedition message... Planetary survey team uncovered a Gek loot cache. Multiple layers of booty traps disarmed. Substantial quantity of artifacts recovered with minimal finger damage.
icy citrus
Whew, hate finger damage
violet narwhal
Not that.
icy citrus
violet narwhal
A technology module harvested from the remains of a salvaged starship. May also be collected from freighter crash sites or salvaged during frigate expeditions.
Can be used to expand starship storage capacity at the Space Station's Starship Outfitting Unit.``` I think that's a mistake there. That thing is for increasing a ships *class*. The inventory thing has the same description.
fringe jungle
Also perhaps to encourage people to still hunt the old way, but gives another option
rough copper
MODELS\COMMON\ROBOTS\MECH\MECH_SUIT__1_1_HOVER_COCKPIT1.MATERIAL.MBIN
Yeah... we're getting a mech suit
rough copper
Sean DID mention "oh now we could add mechs to NMS.." or something like that in the Beyond interview
violet narwhal
Heh, I was just trying to look into that.
icy citrus
icy citrus
WHAT KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT
nocturne zephyr
A good question
uncut harness
Lots of use cases.
- It's cool AF.
- It's cool AF.
- It's cool AF.
nocturne zephyr
I guess I'll put it on and just sit on the couch in the Nexus
violet narwhal
Presumably it'll work like any other exocraft, so probably not in the anomaly...
icy citrus
Mod it in there
nocturne zephyr
Figured
uncut harness
I imagine this would be good for extending base stats.
Extension to jetpack and underwater as a quick example.
As well as looking cool AF.
icy citrus
Yeah
nocturne zephyr
I guess it would be fun to take down the big sentinels quicker
uncut harness
We Fallout now bois.
nocturne zephyr
True maybe it'll have upgrades that improve your terrain navigation above and underwater
rough copper
Maybe it's just for fighting sandworms 😄
nocturne zephyr
Pls
uncut harness
Do NOT do this to me. 😩
nocturne zephyr
@rough copper do this to @uncut harness
rough copper
"Sandworms would be too hard for a player to defeat" "adds multiplayer, mechs" "okay, now we can do sandworms"
icy citrus
Lol
nocturne zephyr
Maybe they will be mech sandworms
uncut harness
I still am of belief that OP "boss's" would be awesome for community events.
Everyone opening fire and attacking to take chunks of health out.
rough copper
No you have to feed mechs to the sandworms so you can ride their backs
icy citrus
A digging exo could be neat, now that I think of it
nocturne zephyr
If they increase the depth limit
Would be cool if we could go to the core
Otherwise you can terrain manipulate yourself down to the bottom in like 10 seconds
icy citrus
I was thinking more like underground highways, but yeah
uncut harness
Hyperloop
violet narwhal
If anyone wants to know what the m||ech|| looks like...
devout bough
also why again
violet narwhal
Presumably in the next big patch 🤷♂️
violet narwhal
Same as why did we need another exocraft when we had 3... Why not?
icy citrus
Yeah
icy citrus
Maybe it can spacewalk
mental socket
so is the model same size as sentinel walkers?
icy citrus
Maybe you have to pitch an alien queen out a hatch
violet narwhal
Better lighting
icy citrus
Lmao
nocturne zephyr
GUYS!
icy citrus
Ok all joking aside - I don't care what the hell it is supposed to do, I want it
nocturne zephyr
what if it's used for exploring asteriods
nocturne zephyr
ah yes
icy citrus
Like I said - I don't care - looks neat
uncut harness
wow that's cool looking
icy citrus
Maybe it is just a bit bigger than you and replaces hazard modules if you want. Can still run and melee boost and harvest
nocturne zephyr
i would like that honestly
nocturne zephyr
it'll probably be used for cooking somehow
icy citrus
AWESOME
nocturne zephyr
would be a really cool community event reward down the line
icy citrus
It has 2 thumbs on each hand
nocturne zephyr
too many
violet narwhal
2 fingers 2 thumbs
violet narwhal
nocturne zephyr
oh
icy citrus
It is meant to grab something really well
nocturne zephyr
like, amazingly good job at grabbing !!
icy citrus
Yes
violet narwhal
Uproot trees...
icy citrus
And throw them
nocturne zephyr
for some reason i've always wanted to see a tree fall over in NMS
nocturne zephyr
yep
rough copper
@violet narwhal can I share the picture on Reddit?
violet narwhal
Sure... Someone else already made a mech thread I think... Credit me I guess?
icy citrus
Hell I already put it on ETARC, did credit of course
violet narwhal
🤔 "vehicle terminal", not new I don't think, but don't remember ever seeing it before.
icy citrus
What are they up to this time?
violet narwhal
There were more additions to the ||bytebeat|| stuff, which suggests that it may be coming eventually too.
toxic fjord
WTF is that a mecha????
icy citrus
violet narwhal
||"An advanced audio generator, allowing the user to synthesise complex musical arrangements."|| so some kind of ||synthesizer/tracker type stuff I guess||.
nocturne zephyr
ahh very interesting. sounds like something similar in warframe
violet narwhal
||UI_MP_REPAIR_DESC_1 Nada and Polo want you to go fix some things|| 
mental socket
ah
icy citrus
They better ask nice
violet narwhal
Hmm... Not sure if placeholders or not... ||This Gek looks nervous as they're visiting this Korvax system. This Gek looks nervous as they're visiting this Vy'keen system. This Korvax looks nervous as they're visiting this Gek system. This Korvax looks nervous as they're visiting this Vy'keen system. This Vy'keen looks disgusted as they're visiting this Gek system. This Vy'keen looks disgusted as they're visiting this Korvax system.||
I expect so though, as they're with a load of definitely placeholder things.. "Give them a thing" "Don't help" "Boo to you" lol 
icy citrus
Hahaha
cloud nacelle
Thank you Sean for adding gundam to nms
I can finally be a cute gek anime girl and destroy neets
desert timber
I need mech suit in my life
uncut harness
those have been there for quite a while I think, text like that
I could be wrong, but I think I remember seeing it a long time ago
hybrid pendant
i wonder if there other stuff
mighty rampart
@violet narwhal I think these are the new interaction dialogues in the space stations (was mentioned in the update)
And that audio synthesizer thing is available in the anomaly right now lol with a placeholder icon, unintended I guess
solar aurora
so i just unlocked a new helmet through doing a mission
foggy jacinth
the diving helmet?
foggy jacinth
I think that's the only helmet that's unlockable via mission. The rest of the unlockables are things like blueprints, which you can buy on the Anomaly, but get for free via unlocking.
solar aurora
ah okay thanks
violet narwhal
Heh
thorn token
Is the mech suit usable @violet narwhal ? Else I can make a mod to use it maybe ?
violet narwhal
Probably not, there looked to be some animations, but no cockpit or geobay or anything.
thorn token
Ok I try to make it buildable and the vehicle terminal too. Worked for the hovercraft too so.... What I noticed is that they worked on the spacebase and again added a lot of new files for it. It will certainly come
icy citrus
Elaborate please
mighty rampart
low key hoping they added it purely for the coolness of it though they definitely will give a real purpose to them
violet narwhal
The spacebase stuff I see all looks like freighter building parts?
mighty rampart
I wouldnt be surprised if they re use those assets for space building lol
cloud nacelle
As much as I do dislike building, I do hope they let us build in space with new parts
Hell let me build the starship enterprise
In space
foggy jacinth
There's at least one Enterprise in the NMS 'verse. There's a pretty cool video of it.
vocal shoal
icy citrus
@astral vapor
astral vapor
UMU
cloud nacelle
Ew peaceful gamer
tranquil flicker
do i lose my freighter if i decide to purge?
foggy jacinth
no
small pier
Do we have any new ship parts at all?
foggy jacinth
@small pier I don't believe so.
small pier
That is heart breaking
sullen glen
Can anyone explain a few things with the Atlas Path?
ocean wyvern
Atlas won't allow cities to exist; it'd destroy them.
ocean wyvern
idk that part; but im sure it has to do with the curated universe
prisma sedge
ocean wyvern
there's a whole thing about the vykeen fighting a war with the sentinels too
prisma sedge
Ah yes that
ocean wyvern
im sure there are more qualified people to answer
i just know Atlas is the reason there are no cities
split forge
Well fuck atlas lmao
It would be really cool
What if they hide the cities from Atlas?
ocean wyvern
its the Atlas' world you're just living in it 😛
ocean wyvern
the vykeen thing, if i remember correctly, is also why there are only freighter capital ships
and no warships
it reminds me of the Reapers except it doesn't eradicate all sentient life just kinda keeps them under control i guess
foggy jacinth
Community event spoiler: You'll need ||2000 solanium||
mighty rampart
took me a couple mins with the help of a nomad
cloud epoch
thanks for the event item tip 
icy citrus
I carry that in my cargo slots
nocturne zephyr
wow
icy citrus
LOL
violet narwhal
Heh, nice... What did you do, spawn the model or something?
cloud epoch
dat mech be thicc
nocturne zephyr
looks like the model isn't finished yet
thorn token
Just attached to the savepoint. But it is unusable, doesnt even have collisions
violet narwhal
As one foot was weird in my images.
thorn token
But they won't make such a time consuming model to not use it. Good times ahead for nms
violet narwhal
Yeah
nocturne zephyr
this could open up possibilities for harder places to explore
violet narwhal
Like what?
nocturne zephyr
maybe rougher, more exxagerated terrain and, like Gleam and I were talking about, maybe even asteroid walking and mining
just speculation
otherwise, I see no point in a new vehicle
thorn token
I see it clearly, we will have pvp base battles/wars. There are many hidden models ingame not used yet like turrets, a tesla coil and a energy field fences. The mech would fit perfectly into that. Imagine entire communities go into galactic wars with each other to conquer base by base.
icy citrus
Please no
thorn token
I mean if not pvp they need to introduce alternative AI enemies, creatures, sentinels. All these defenses must serve some purpose or do you think pure decoration lol
nocturne zephyr
I can agree with stronger, smarter space and planetary npcs
icy citrus
Getting ready for the abyss invasion
Really, I wouldn't mind if they did some pvp things for those that want it - I just think there are other areas they should focus on that would benefit everyone. Pvp will always be optional
foggy jacinth
Lots of folks want better combat, bosses, and such. I'm against all that. This isn't a combat game. It's an exploration game. Other games do combat, and do it better. It doesn't seem necessary here.
Lots of folks want better combat, bosses, and such. I'm against all that. This isn't a combat game. It's an exploration game. Other games do combat, and do it better. It doesn't seem necessary here.
thorn token
I mean star citizen has kind of a battlefield mode now lol
I'm for a best of both worlds solution: Depending on the galaxy, it's either a purely peacefull exploration galaxy and pvp is prohibited by the game and other war/pvp battle serving galaxies. Good idea ?
icy citrus
I think they have it right now - I can turn off other player damage
nocturne zephyr
A combat focused update would be great. in 2021. Make 2020 the year of exploration
small pier
What's the Abyss Invasion?
foggy jacinth
I have no idea. Context?
mighty rampart
@small pier they were half joking, the weekend missions all seem to be related to the Abyss
violet narwhal
A mystery heh.
Oh, looks like they've started adding some lore somehow connected to the exotic planet trophies.
devout bough
i chose explore the galaxy but now i cant do the atlas sequence
how do i get it back
icy citrus
Ask polo
icy citrus
What are your options?
devout bough
black hole, atlas station, say goodbye
mental socket
so is the lore about some ppl getting merged with the metal of some drones new or old stuff?
icy citrus
@devout bough atlas station silly
foggy jacinth
Which, if you're in Euclid, is the Hilbert Dimension.
astral matrix
Only via teleporters
foggy jacinth
Or you can get a ride: join someone's game who is in Euclid (or any other galaxy)
sacred pendant
so how does the end work with you picking a galaxy?
foggy jacinth
@sacred pendant What do you mean by 'the end' in this case? @sacred pendant
maiden leaf
How do I get the atlaspasses? I read that Polo was meant to give me one but he never did
icy citrus
Manufacturing facilities
mighty rampart
@maiden leaf that's been changed now, he doesnt give you any blueprints anymore
maiden leaf
Oh haha so just manufacturing facilities now?
mighty rampart
ye
maiden leaf
Any tips for finding those or is it just a matter of searching and getting lucky?
icy citrus
Buy maps from the cartographer at stations
You want ones that search for secure sites
maiden leaf
Awesome thankyou for the help! 🙂
astral matrix
Flatening tool + restore tool makes for some great half buried underground stuff
astral matrix
I need to figure out how to rotate just right so I can make ramp type things withthe triangles
astral matrix
I been talking in the wrong channel!
uncut harness
holy shit help what the fuck
i just saw artemis' death
and the portal
and I'm lowkey fucked up right now
foggy jacinth
It's a tough mission, @uncut harness. I agree. :sympathy:
fringe jungle
it's so well done
foggy jacinth
I love hearing that. Some people come in and crap all over it. I agree, I think it's a good story.
crisp fern
...? 🤔
mental socket
hmm
cloud nacelle
It's an alright story
maiden leaf
I just got to a new galaxy and I can’t find my starship anywhere 😭
foggy jacinth
Fix your scanner ASAP, @maiden leaf then you'll be able to see it again.
maiden leaf
Omg of course hahaha thankyou
foggy jacinth
Sure. I remember that panicked feeling well! LOL. The galaxy jump put me on a nasty irradiated planet, I had to find a cave immediately to survive.
To make it worse, I hadn't intended to galaxy jump. I was at a teleporter, that glitched. I was heading to a base on a lush planet. Oooops.
maiden leaf
Omg hahaha I’m a mess right now I thought when it said 16 minutes that I actually had 16 minutes left to finish the game so I was panicking
mighty rampart
lmao relatable
maiden leaf
My housemate was trying to talk to me and I was just screaming NO THE UNIVERSE IS GONNA END
violet narwhal
Divergence cube, I believe.
fringe jungle
Vykeen Tablet (left) and Convergence Cube (right)
gleaming rune
Bring back Grah Grahs
glass pumice
I have come to the part in-game where I have to chose to seek the final interface, follow the atlas path or continue to explore. What happens if I chose seek to the final interface?
Will I end the simulation and go to galaxy #2?
steel dove
yea essentially u will get to pick a new galaxy to go to once u reach the center
glass pumice
What will happen to my base in the current galaxy?
glass pumice
Can I easily get back to the base? 😛 I don't want to get stuck in the new galaxy 😛
solar aurora
u essentially will get stuck
yes u can visit
but the thing is ur teleporter wont record any euclud stations
so u will only b able to fast travel between bases in euclid, or u will have to warp everywhere
i ended up removing all my stuff from euclud and moving it all to my new galaxy because of this
glass pumice
Ok, my head is exploding. I can't decide 😛
solar aurora
make a manual save before going, if u dont like it after awhile just reload the manual save
glass pumice
If I want to visit other players farms with portals, that doesn't matter which galaxy I'm in?
solar aurora
i have no clue, ive never gone to visit other players stuff in this game lmao
but i would assume not
glass pumice
ok, I can ask in the main channel, since it is not a spoiler, per se
solar aurora
yeah go for it
glass pumice
Thanks for answering the other questions 🙂
solar aurora
np
oak violet
west inlet
Where can I find Storage Upgrade Modules?
foggy jacinth
Do you mean are systems near the center any different? They're more highly populated, higher chance of systems already being discovered, but the planets/systems are the same.
mighty rampart
I guess it was misinterpreted, and that he meant as you go towards the centre you'll find some weird planets (mega exotics) but not that they're actually near the centre or something
thorn prism
i need help, do i need to craft the heart of the sun to beat the game?
mighty rampart
yes
if by beating the game you mean finishing that one story
and it doesn't get consumed
thorn prism
idk where to find half the stuff it ask for like indium, emeril, i know where cadmuim is but should i go around making trades with people so i dont have to waste another 40 hours finding them
mighty rampart
indium and emeril are just like cadmium
thorn prism
i feel sad now
mighty rampart
well its completely optional to do anyway and it doesnt really reward you with anything
thorn prism
oh, so i can still kinda beat the game?
mighty rampart
not really, this is a sandbox game with a story
the atlas path and the artemis story
thorn prism
i guess, one missing elevators
foggy jacinth
@thorn prism There are 4 stellar materials, and 4 star colors. Yellow stars have copper (which is yellow[ish]), Red stars have Cadmium (which is red), Green stars have Emeril (which is green) and Blue stars have Indium (which is blue). https://gamepedia.cursecdn.com/nomanssky_gamepedia/thumb/d/db/SUBSTANCE.BLUE.2.png/100px-SUBSTANCE.BLUE.2.png?version=830cb3be0ede043060035c846807b3a5
thorn prism
thank you
pastel magnet
There are also "activated" versions of those four stellar materials, found on planets with extreme weather. They cannot be used in crafting recipes, but can be sold for a high price or used in a small number of refiner recipes. So you'll want to make sure you get the normal versions of them in order to craft your hyperdrive upgrades and Atlas seeds.
mighty rampart
grahberries were likely named after vykeens, and you find them on radioactive planets, which according to the lore, used to be gek homeworlds
short parcel
Bruh
short parcel
*Grah
short parcel
PRO TIP : You can sell a box of dirt for 1,000 units
it has to be special dirt though
peak prairie
Are we still canonically players of a game based on recovered data from the atlas simulations, or has that changed?
mighty rampart
@peak prairie still the case
In fact I just realised something
From the rogue data there was a mention about the future of the travellers
"The ATLAS witnesses the final sixteen minutes, simulating the future with perfect accuracy.
The walls between worlds fall, each simulation collapsing into the other.
Ten minutes left
The Travellers are no longer separated, no longer kept apart. They stand side by side at the end of days, traversing the remnants of creation, laughing, dying. "
We're at this point now, where we can see each other in the game and play together (we're travellers, in a way)
It was supposed to be meant for Next but even in that we still had glitches, it's not the case anymore
last iron
So I'm only a few thousand light years away from the center of the Euclid Galaxy
If I go to another galaxy, can I return to the Euclid from a teleporter?
I'd hate to lose my bases
fringe jungle
you can, just be sure to build a token base in the new galaxy
last iron
Token base?
fringe jungle
I'm not sure if they fixed it, but before if you went back to Euclid, you couldn't re-transport back without a base computer down and registered in the new galaxy
fringe jungle
rumor says it's fixed and you can go back through the Anomaly, but I know I don't want to test it!
forever 😄
last iron
Holy crap lmao, hopefully synthesis/beyond fixed it
last iron
I can't select the galactic core for some reason
Wait is all my crap supposed to be broken?
fringe jungle
if you go to a new galaxy, yes, your ship gets wrecked up and you have to repair it
next time, stock up on wiring looms 🙂
mental socket
I have a spare ship and multitool to equip when changing galaxies. They can break all they want
mighty rampart
tech inside of the tech inventory doesnt break
lime timber
Make sure your hyper drive is at 100% before attempting to warp through the core
100% fueled
uncut harness
tiny grove
Ah, big boi
uncut harness
Yes. Very exciting to see where this could lead.
tiny grove
Quite
visual mirage
I still don't believe it'll be as big as we think, though I wish it's gigantic because Pacific Rim.
tiny grove
Imagine how much resources that would take
mighty rampart
I bet it will just be two times the character height
visual mirage
smol mek
You know... I didn't look at Hex's pic before commenting. That's a new picture to me.....
and now I feel dumb
commits sepulcher
uncut harness
Mjjstral imported the model. As you see it is how it is in game files.
It's apparently just rooted to the floor, does not move atm.
visual mirage
for now
uncut harness
Very much so 😛
uncut harness
Hahaha
mighty rampart
@marble elk the general story of the game is you're in a simulation that's breaking down, hence editing your progress through external means leads to some really meta thought process
as in the ARG that happened a couple years ago, it implied that even us the players are in a simulation playing a game about a simulation which is why its breaking
marble elk
😮 never thought of it that way, that makes sense
mighty rampart
something about the more simulation-ception you do the more fragile and bonkers it gets
someone here could link the specific term/study of this, as I don't remember it right now
marble elk
yeah i heard something similar to that before. that somehow our "real life" is starting to break down more and more as a simulation
limpid zodiac
@marble elk 👀
marble elk
@limpid zodiac 👀
did you get back to nms recently too or have you been playing all this time @limpid zodiac ?
limpid zodiac
Came back when beyond dropped. Been splitting my time between the two.
marble elk
ah sweet, I just came back 2 days ago. haven't played since before beyond.
limpid zodiac
Had over 1000 hours in already.. I stopped playing when Atlas Rises came out, back with Beyond.
marble elk
😲 1000hours? i am no where near that lol. I only have 210hours, but I will soon change that. already clocked in 7-8hours yesterday alone 😂
small pier
@mighty rampart Do you have plans to continue the story in any capacity? I know you're doing very vague missions atm but will we get more 😮 ?
mighty rampart
Lol I'm not a dev
Anyway I strongly feel the weekend missions are going to lead to the next big update they've been teasing about
rough copper
I feel that way too, because Sean explicitly said that it would lol
Also the mysterious text that randomly pops up when you're in space seems to imply something is coming too
rough copper
It was basically saying somehting like "we are coming soon, you will meet us soon" or something like that lol
rough copper
I think now is a good time to go through the language files, haven't in like a month
ugh which pak file is that
uncut harness
🤞
rough copper
screw it, psarc not working. using modding station to extract all game files 😛
nocturne zephyr
Oh wow. Guess I need to go to space more often
rough copper
Yeah was weird, had just switched to having ghost in the machine active, so I was expecting the call to be from apollo lol. He called right after
fringe jungle
hmm I've spent quite a bit of time in space recently and haven't seen that
icy citrus
small pier
When do you guys think the big update is gonna happen?
fringe jungle
we just had a biig update so I'd guess months
rough copper
Yeah probably not until at least all of the heads are unlocked, which should take another 2 months or so. Maybe they're going to release it around march like pathfinder.
uncut harness
It hints at someone at Hello Games taking the biggest chocolate for themselves.
You have permission to @ me if I am wrong and shout obscenities at me but 24th is a dumb date to release an update.
nocturne zephyr
It was me
tall vessel
I blame Grant for the chocolate, he is my number one suspect
uncut harness
Imagine if it was Sean all along, playing the long game.
nocturne zephyr
Sean the chocolate thief
small pier
Has there been any new ship combos or new ship parts for this update?
nocturne zephyr
nope
fringe jungle
Instability Drive for pulse engine, teleport reciever is now needed for frieghter inventory and is two way
and the emergency warp upgrade
plus of course ship upgrading is now possible
onyx egret
Am I the only one who kinda agrees on how Shammy feels about the story?
I feel like being stuck on a broken computer for billions of years is kind of a shit excuse for not knowing how elements work and for brushing glitches off like it’s nothing.
Also the fact we can’t become a bad guy and just blast the locals for trying to sell us illegal junk or whatever is annoying.
The Overseer is a sick bastard who breaks your other staff at your base, and he even says you killed him in every other cycle, so why can we only leave or touch him?
Why is touch him an option?
Why not kill him?
Don’t hint at a choice we can’t make when all we can do is abandon our allies to a cruel fate or forgive the unforgivable.
Also, I’d rather see the alien races use their own security forces instead of relying on sentinels when it’s obvious that the sentinels do their own thing.
fringe notch
hehe, that really is the philosophical question
Your in a designed system, freedom is just a illusion, for the sake of the simulation
fringe jungle
I don't think the sentinels are what you are thinking. The sentinels are a 4th race, not creations of the Gek/Korvax/Vykeen
the Gek are also right bastards overall
fringe notch
Aerlons
I believe thats what the sentinels were called
That whole mess ended with the 6th race being erased.
We dont know much about them, or the thousands of races before.
We simply know the atlas starting culling them off.
Quite to the irritation of the assistant ai helping atlas
onyx egret
I haven’t met an asshole Gek other than like one or two who were just frustrated about other nonsense blowing up in their faces.
fringe notch
One thing is for certain, they do know how elements work, they simply made a choice to make sure nothing works.
Not how its supposed to
onyx egret
Thankfully haven’t met the First Spawn cultists myself, but my frigates have heard mention of them.
fringe notch
nods
onyx egret
But yeah, why can’t we kill aliens?
It’d be nice to see some more in-depth factions, too.
fringe notch
You can,, as long as you play by atlas's rules. If you dont, your deleted. Whether they change that down the line, who knows.
I mean atlas doesnt mind you killing pirates after all.
onyx egret
I mean like walking up to one and gunning them down with a multitool, having to flee a station due to the ensuing panic, etc.
fringe notch
A interesting concept for sure. Demographically Im sure there are a lot of people who would play a version of nms with such pvp and criminal systems.
fringe jungle
you can pvp; join a friends' game and you can certainly kill each other
fringe notch
Surely
I did some pvp in permadeath.
That being said, it really wasnt the game they wanted to make and they didnt add elements they didnt want to
No shame in making a game you want and if it works out financially, you did just fine. You dont need to make everyone happy
fringe jungle
right, and you can't make a pvp game where people can play in mul;tiple modes, with game altering mods, and even save editors to give yourself unlimited goodies
fringe notch
hehe
Valid point.
That and they are moving on to new games. They certainly have been hiring a lot of folks for that new game. Which is encouraging they plan to still develop nms and have kept so many staff on nms, while developing a new game.
But yeah , storyline wise, they crafted a story, to suite the game they were going to make. Explaining the clashes with reality and just ran with it.
Such is nms 😄
onyx egret
I’m just saying some of the characters you meet in person deserve to get shot and they write your character like he can’t get the hint. They’re such a damn mouth-breather.
uncut harness
apollo at the start ^^^^
onyx egret
The story is also quite grim for a game that appears so cheery. I mean there are places they went too far without letting you retaliate, such as the base building quests.
onyx egret
You should be able to fulfill what that gek says and blast him... Though another good choice to add with it is to demand he right his wrongs at gunpoint.
Even having some cutscenes and actual voices for story characters that require no translation would be nice.
Apparently the only way people could tell Artemis was a lady was because she’s named after the Greek/Roman goddess Artemis.
I sure as hell didn’t catch that and now I feel stupid.
But, y’know, it’s “aliens that don’t have to follow our biological rules” and blah blah blah...
Look, the fact that the minerals don’t work right on purpose is a sign that whoever thought that was a good idea was a jackass troll.
Alien galaxy or not, it has to make SOME sense.
icy citrus
Does not
cloud nacelle
it's a simulation made by a dying AI
onyx egret
Then it’s stupid and there’s no reason to try and understand it.
icy citrus
I don't
onyx egret
A dying AI trying to take everyone with them.
cloud nacelle
Well you're a simulation
icy citrus
No, trying to not die
cloud nacelle
you never existed
and plus
the simulation runs on an alien type scale
The atlas apparently has 16 seconds or minutes left
onyx egret
I thought we were just some guy who somehow got uploaded into it like the Matrix or something.
onyx egret
Oh.
cloud nacelle
People did get plugged in
cloud nacelle
but it's a dying AI and we're assuming no one is plugged in currently
cloud nacelle
Yes telamon
Telamon was a security protocol
to stop the atlas from getting out of hand
but now he lives in our backpack
icy citrus
And the dreamer we never rescued
onyx egret
How can a game be so colorful and chipper while also being a cartoony retelling of the Rekindling of the First Flame?
onyx egret
It’s just so... Depressing...
Really jarring with the kind of game this is.
So I know one ending is delete reality and die.
What’s the other one? Just walk away, or is there more to it than just leaving?
onyx egret
Isn’t there an Option B?
cloud nacelle
walk away
icy citrus
Yeah, don't restart it
onyx egret
That’s it?
icy citrus
Let it run its course
cloud nacelle
yeah
cloud nacelle
eh
deal with it I guess
You have 1000 years for every second that passes in reality
and plus the atlas has lost some of it's functionality so that's why it can't reset itself
it needs us
it created us to reset it
icy citrus
Or fix it
onyx egret
But we’d end up killing all of our friends and then ourselves.
cloud nacelle
fix it by resetting it
onyx egret
That’s because the player character is written like a total dipshit with the attention span of a 10-year-old.
And the critical thinking of a melon.
cloud nacelle
I thought we project ourselves onto our character
icy citrus
We are a program, you don't have any free will
icy citrus
We aren't humans jacked into the simulation, we are created by the simulation
onyx egret
But it’s clear that character has its own thoughts and feelings that give us odd and unfulfilling choices because our character refuses to act sensible.
cloud nacelle
That is something I can agree on partly
onyx egret
I dunno, this story is just overly depressing and nihilistic.
cloud nacelle
nihilism is the way to go though
icy citrus
We develop into that each time.. did you read the lore on the boundary failures?
onyx egret
Makes me feel like Sean Murray has some serious emotional issues.
cloud nacelle
Sean didn't write it though
fringe jungle
so you don't have to like it, but being the one true born hero is soooo overdone
icy citrus
It is the opposite of nihilism
fringe jungle
a change is welcome
onyx egret
Who did? An emo really into space and cyberpunk?
icy citrus
Our whole purpose is to save the atlas
cloud nacelle
We weren't the only traveler to try to save the atlas though @fringe jungle
onyx egret
I don’t wanna be the Chosen One.
fringe jungle
yes, and for all we know they also succeeded, many times
icy citrus
You aren't the chosen one
cloud nacelle
They didn't succeed
onyx egret
I’m saying I want there to be a damn point to what I’m doing beyond start over.
icy citrus
You are one of uncountable numbers of programs the atlas is running to try and survive
Over and over, panicked
Scared of dying, not wanting to
onyx egret
I just wanna be a dude in space doing whatever I feel like doing with my space life.
cloud nacelle
Then you can do that
icy citrus
So ignore the story
cloud nacelle
You have 16k years in simulation time
onyx egret
I mean, the whole idea of putting Artemis inside of a simulation without any company or contact with the outside world her simulation resides in - Hell, without anyone to keep her company - It’s like the game is trying to force us to be upset.
cloud nacelle
Artemis had already died
You take an echo of them
and put them into a sim
You created a new artemis with similar memories in the sim
onyx egret
Yeah. And we could give her a second chance, but the sim isn’t even properly populated from what I hear.
cloud nacelle
It's not the same person
Yeah
So let her stay dead
The reason the sim is not populated well is because you can't make a sim inside a sim
If you do
it will be less complex
from the sim you're currently in
onyx egret
Couldn’t they have just uploaded her echo to be an AI aide or something, like a friendly sentinel follower?
onyx egret
What’s stopping someone from reprogramming one?
cloud nacelle
The technology is not something they've seen before
onyx egret
She got killed by some real bullshit nobody deserved.
cloud nacelle
You really live up to your name, eh?
onyx egret
I’ll kick a dog that’s attacking me. Hell, I’d repeatedly stab a dog trying to kill me to make sure it won’t try killing anyone else ever again.
ocean wyvern
Stories need tension conflict and drama; the idea is to make you feel something
onyx egret
But I’m not gonna pull some Old Yeller bullshit in a video game.
But all this game makes me feel is empty.
ocean wyvern
A story that covers simulation theory for me is great since its a cool idea irl too
Obvs if the computer is dying it would be a pretty bleak outcome
onyx egret
If I want bleak, I can play like 20 other games.
The only thing that keeps me going in bleak games is a general rage against everything responsible for that mess.
But in the case where there’s no point to get mad or have that urge to fight anyway, then there’s no point to even try and continue.
ocean wyvern
Well I'm not sure what to tell you, the other 2 are better at explaining the story than I am
onyx egret
When every ending is a bad one, then there’s no reason to play.
ocean wyvern
Except as already said ignore the story and just free explore
Ive never even finished the story cuz I get distracted by exploring
onyx egret
But blueprints...
ocean wyvern
You only really need to get to the anomaly
After that you can get everything gameplay oriented
onyx egret
Free blueprints...
onyx egret
I’m definitely a fighty-boi, so killing pirates to earn quicksilver is the most fun to me.
I just feel if a game is gonna be bleak, it also has to be somewhat badass so you can at least feel like you’re giving fate the finger.
(Unless fate becomes convenient).
@cloud nacelle Also I don’t agree with nihilism since it invites collapse due to a stunted sense of motivation.
Nothing gets done and everyone suffers. If anything, apathy and nihilism are just as much enemies of humanity as vice and stupidity are.
Sorry to get all philosophical, but saying that made me feel better.
wicked cedar
Artemis ended up in her own galaxy, I presume there are other aliens for her to meet there just like our travelers do. I still don’t know how she died, but I do remember it sounded like some cosmic horror.
It definitely gave me something to rage against too, and I still want a real, closer encounter with whatever it was, and that “world of glass” as well. It could get tucked into any update and it’s part of why I keep in touch with NMS.
cloud nacelle
Artemis ended up in a simulation of the korvax prime star system and she's only restricted to that @wicked cedar
And she died by sentinels
They were hunting her down because apparently the place where she was stuck was a place between portals where the sentinels spawned from
uncut harness
One of you talked about actual people being plugged into the simulation ?
I thought the atlas only had a copy of the mind of its creator, and that’s how it created the travellers
icy citrus
@bleak matrix a mech suit was datamined
bleak matrix
-jizzm-
bleak matrix
super hype
lofty idol
unsure if this is spoiler but what happens when your ship is S rank, can you upgrade it further class wise? It says for example 60mil to upgrade it again but I haven't got to that much yet