nms-spoilers

[dire dagger]

I just didn't like how hirk basically gets upset that Atlas didn't talk to them and kills nal because they were chosen instead

[crisp fern]

it wasn't that alone, but also the idea that they should stop the war against the Sentinels

[dire dagger]

Was cool to learn that there were other vy'keen, forget the name but one was something like by'keen

Yeah, I guess the Atlas picking was the last straw

[crisp fern]

I think it was honestly both, a one-two punch

[fathom notch]

i wonder if Hirk had heard the voice of Atlas, things would be the same

[crisp fern]

first ya tell me Atlas chose you, then you tell me we should stop fighting the Sentinels, after all this time and near success?

Or what they thought was near success anyway

[fathom notch]

a religious war with no end in sight

[dire dagger]

Hirk must have asked why right?

[crisp fern]

probably not

[fathom notch]

it's an odd thing, isnt it? they could very well exist in harmony but they don't, every world is a trench

[crisp fern]

Vy'keen are quick to act, so i doubt they would ask Nal why

[fathom notch]

it's a constant war of attrition in all variants of the simulation that see the rise and maintained survival of all three races, the vy'keen just decide that they need to spill pugneum and that they do. i wonder if there's some ulterior motive for that

i mean, it's very easy for a commanding general to conscript warriors and send them to die when he's eating fresh grahberries and drinking wine from emeril flagons, no? what do they really want to do, other than destroy the sentinels?

[dire dagger]

Die a glorious death ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[main rock]

I found my first ever relic warp gate... and seem to be further from the centre than I was before

[prime inlet]

their exit points are random

and i believe that the closer it is to the galactic core, the higher the chance it will choose a exit point far away from it

[glad spoke]

Quick question guys, I did my first reset... now what? It just says "explore"... but to what end?

[haughty quarry]

I think it's funny that Nanites are at once both a currency type and also capable of causing infections

[devout sedge]

"hey so you give me that upgrade module and ill give you 500 seeds of infection"

[heady wyvern]

That's it. Perhaps exploration is an end in and of itself...

[glad spoke]

https://tenor.com/view/well-wellshit-wellfuck-yougotapoint-yougottapoint-gif-4803471

@heady wyvern

[rancid ether]

@slender kelp The color decides the type of galaxy. Its your choice

They give a one word description of each galaxy type

[slender kelp]

Does anything happen when I reset?

[rancid ether]

Yes, you go to the new galaxy

[slender kelp]

Do I keep all my stuff?

[rancid ether]

Yes *

[slender kelp]

Good

[rancid ether]

• being ||you're currently selected shit will be broken||

[slender kelp]

So, there's no reason to not reset it then?

Except for that

[rancid ether]

Aside from the repairs, you only stand to benefit from choosing to reset

[slender kelp]

I see

[rancid ether]

I would not select one of the colors though, im trying to remember which

Since youve already been to Hilbert

Its one of the blues

[empty cedar]

||Move your devices into tech slots|| if you can

[heady wyvern]

I'd suggest green (lush, Eissentam)

[empty cedar]

And ||stock up on repair mats||

[rancid ether]

Yeah, you'll want to do some reshuffling to prepare. Honestly, its not that terrible unless you have a bunch of tech installed in your inventory

[heady wyvern]

@empty cedar He's already in the Final Interface, it's too late to stock up.

[slender kelp]

So my current choices are...
Ask if there is another way
Reset Simulation <--- pick this?
Refuse the Atlas

[heady wyvern]

Rest Simulation, yes.

[slender kelp]

My tech tab is full

[heady wyvern]

*Reset

[rancid ether]

There is no other way, refuse or reset

[heady wyvern]

Asking for another way just loops back to that choice again.

[slender kelp]

So I have 4 color options

[heady wyvern]

Blue is out of the question.

[slender kelp]

Red, Green, Blue, and Cyan

[rancid ether]

ah k, so Hilbert is blue then

[heady wyvern]

And I've already vouched for green.

[rancid ether]

i couldnt remember if Hilbert was blue or cyan

Green is pretty great, Red is pretty rough

Cyan is kind of weird iirc

[heady wyvern]

We know that it can't be red (Calypso) or green (Eissentam)

[slender kelp]

What exactly do these choices do? I mean, what is the difference really?

[rancid ether]

It changes the frequency of certain planets within the galaxy

[slender kelp]

Everything is procedural, isn't it?

[heady wyvern]

Blue is an Euclid-like galaxy

Green has more lush planets

Red has more extreme hazard planets

Cyan has more dead/exotic planets.

[empty cedar]

Red will have lots of dead/weird systems and angrier sentinels

[slender kelp]

I see

Green it is then. Thank you

[empty cedar]

More angry sentinels, I should say. Although that was mostly just my own impression.

[slender kelp]

Ngl, I was kinda hoping for more of a Spore-Like ending.

[rancid ether]

You know how High Sentinel Activity planets have orange text but the sentinels arent immediately hostile?
Those planets dont exist in Survival, its just immediately red text pissed off sentinels.

[slender kelp]

I think the first planet I got put on was already visited by another player, OR the quest automatically built a base here in a player-like format. (Base computer with a generic username, Recon-X)

Another player has definitely been here. It says the planet was discovered a year ago by a player named 'BamaHunter'

[sacred furnace]

👀

[pallid stump]

Null, if you're trying to convince me not to go to the center, try not to sound vain as fuck while doing it.

[rancid ether]

If the base computer was in a circular and flat area, then it was probably a wild base computer that you could claim.

[ionic frigate]

Ok i dont give a care about spoilers lol just is artemis actually alive or dead or the hologram I just watched Z1 find? @warped tide

[warped tide]

he's dead, you take his soul and inject it into a simulation on the anomaly

or you can choose not to

[ionic frigate]

Ah that sounds creepy xD

[warped tide]

and you can tell him he's dead, or pretend he's alive and you're going to visit him "real soon now"

[ionic frigate]

and then... Ohh thats the simulaion in the anomaly side door

[warped tide]

yes

i went with putting his soul in the simulation and lying to him about his death, so i don't know how the other paths end up

[outer relic]

If you want to know more about that and you really don’t care about spoilers, ||you later find out the world you live in is also a simulation so what you’re putting Artemis in isn’t any different from what you live in||.

[heady wyvern]

This is how base computers were WAYYY back in Foundations.

[open canyon]

yea, you had to find a place with a base computer and it was all leveled off for you

I think you could scan for them though with signal booster type thing?

or fly in the clouds looking down watching for circles to render differently

[winter kestrel]

Not sure if this classifies as a spoiler, but am I the only one that goes into some of the Atlas Pass locked doors and think "oh boy, more carbon"

[fathom notch]

yeah thats pretty much the limit of usefulness unless you want to Remember

[open canyon]

i ended up trashing my pass after the 500th room being that yea @winter kestrel

[heady wyvern]

I dunno, cannisters in cargo drop areas tend to have decent stuff.

[ionic frigate]

the wo- What da hecc what is this storyline

[dire dagger]

The story gets kind of disturbing lol

[crisp fern]

well there is a difference...||Artemis' sim, at least last I went through the story, was described as being of a single star system. Much, much more limited scope compared to the one we navigate.||

[uncut harness]

Really? Damn, now I feel sad for him / her / whatever

[fathom notch]

just say they

[sick mesa]

So I just hired my first base overseer. How much longer is the story?

[rancid ether]

@sick mesa I think thats mission 3 of 8, but the rest of it can go by kind of quick at this point.

[opaque elm]

Is there a Tron world? LUL

[sick mesa]

Should I tell Artemis ||that they’re kind of not alive?||

[dire dagger]

Read a freighter log about how the gek melted down Korvax to build ships, wonder if those ships still exist

[heady wyvern]

Maybe you're flying one now...

OoOoO, spoOoOoky

[sick mesa]

I’ve decided

[heady wyvern]

Decided?

[sick mesa]

To let Artemis Rest In Peace

The game keeps reassuring me that I did the right thing ;0; ....

[dire dagger]

Must be why it screams everytime I pulse

[vague thorn]

hey all, whats the best way to get to the calypso galaxy? none of my friends have a warp point / base there yet

[fierce monolith]

Pft i plugged his ass in to the matrix

[sick mesa]

Nuuuu

[fierce monolith]

And then immediately told him about it when he contacted me telling me he was in a new world

🤣🤣

[sick mesa]

Whyyyyy

[fierce monolith]

Lol hes just play NMS now!

[sick mesa]

These tiny little half-sized lizard dogs did what?

[dire dagger]

Get to the center and pick red

[vague thorn]

I got to the center Re. . . . But couldn't warp to the core. . . So I'm working on glyphs again

[dire dagger]

Oh yeah I think there's a mission involved, one gets you all the glyphs once you warp a bunch

You're probably pretty close

[vague thorn]

I'm having an issue now. . . talked to a portal when i left my guy is gone, screen is stuck looking at the portal

i can see my jet pack when i jump heh. . .

Is there any way to get out of this without reloading a save? x.x

[pallid stump]

Speaking of that mission, does that trigger after you jump enough or after you get all the glyphs?

[sick mesa]

Oh greaaat now Apollo is repeating dialogue just like Artemis was.

[weary wigeon]

So I'm in galaxy 7 and decided to finally finish the main quest. First of all I think it's kind of unfair that you get all the glyphs for free when they weren't easy to get originally... But whatever. The problem I'm having is that during the purge, it's not letting me warp to the center of the galaxy.

[sick mesa]

Null just wants to be appreciated 🥺

I appreciate Null

Their line before hanging up on me on the holo-terminal was “Why wasn’t I enough” and I felt that

I want to hug all of the character. They need it :<

[sick mesa]

Why is everybody allergic to the number 16 .-.

[weary wigeon]

You'll find out soon :P

[sick mesa]

I think I just did, but based off of what the game says, it makes no sense

Atlas has 16 more minutes of life, and I’m pretty sure it took more than 60 seconds for me to do everything I’ve done.

Ah, drop me in a boiling monsoon planet, thank you, Atlas. -_-“ now I’m not even gonna try to help

HAHAHA I start thinking about my exosuit’s voice and how it’s always been there for me, and an option you have is “Ask if it knows any jokes”

Damn, it doesn’t

[wraith hawk]

Hey guys, played at launch got through the centre 3/4 times back then. Just started playing again, wondering if the Atlas path has changed at all? If you Birth a star now can you get to it or is it still kinda pointless?

[weary wigeon]

Nah it's still pretty pointless

You get an extra health bar from it but that's it

[prime inlet]

if you're looking to use/install Remembrance, you will need to complete the atlas path.

[weary wigeon]

16 minutes Atlas time, not simulation time. So maybe millions of years or something...

Is remembrance also just extra health?

I don't think I ever had any need for health, even in permadeath mode

The shields last ridiculously long even if you are just standing around doing stuff while getting attacked by sentinels

The only thing that ever really killed me besides glitching through the ground was fall damage, and that was basically always an instant kill anyway

[wraith hawk]

Ok cool, cheers guys. Forgot about the stones you get and install for the extra health anyways

[dire dagger]

It's after the jumps, if you don't have all the glyphs you'll get them by the end, if you already have them I think you still need to do the jumps

[rancid ether]

Remembrance allows you to access the secret lore terminals that are strewn about random npc settlements. The lore is sequenced but kind of "mind-fucky".

[pallid stump]

Star Seed is the one that gives you extra health.

[rancid ether]

They both do

And placed adjecent will give you an additional point of health, so a total of +3

[uncut harness]

Would this fall under spoiler? Since i don’t get >~>

[rancid ether]

Gek -- Korvax -- Vykeen

[uncut harness]

O

Okay okay ty

[sick mesa]

So No Man’s Sky ||is just a giant simulation?||

I will say that I thought this was just space Minecraft at first. I did not expect these deep thoughts or sad decisions. Thanks for the existential crisis ✌️I’m going to bed lol

[rancid ether]

When you come back to it, start exploring the crashed freighter logs, the Boundary Failure structures, and the Remembrance terminals. They have extra story / lore.

[pallid stump]

NMS, aside from being space minecraft, is also a giant love letter to old sci-fi stories, many of which frequently delved into deep/existential topics.

[bitter dew]

Alright boys, I'm on the final mission right now. Which option is Eissentam?

Is it halcyon?

[sick mesa]

I put all of my most valuable stuff in a storage unit in the GALAXY I ERASED FROM EXISTENCE

[weary wigeon]

It's not even gone

I'm pretty sure the storage is the same across galaxies

[sick mesa]

It’s not gone?

[weary wigeon]

The way I interpreted it is that you started a new simulation of a new galaxy, but the Atlas is still running the other ones. I guess the only way it would really be gone is if you didn't leave any bases behind... Though even then you could still access Euclid through the Anomaly

Idk if that interpretation is correct, since the story makes it sound like you're erasing it from existence... But that's not really consistent with the fact that you can go back whenever you want

[weary wigeon]

Eissentam was called "tranquil" for me, but I was in Budullangr at the time so that may have affected it

I was kind of planning to go to Eissentam and them jump to the next lush galaxy, but apparently once you start the purge quest you can't jump galaxies anymore until that final option, so oops.

[prime inlet]

sure you can; just need to core warp through the list

next lush is isdoraijung

#19 on the list, iirc

[weary wigeon]

I know, I just need to do it the slow way

[prime inlet]

slow?

nah

[weary wigeon]

I was hoping to skip a few

[prime inlet]

jumped from calypso galaxy through all in between to budullangr in less than 15min

[weary wigeon]

That doesn't seem possible

[prime inlet]

it does.

[weary wigeon]

The animation alone is like 2:30

per galaxy. and unskippable.

[prime inlet]

it doesn't take that long

[weary wigeon]

How do you find a portal quickly?

[prime inlet]

i don't use portals at all

i use core to core jumping method

[weary wigeon]

Okay, I guess I'm not familiar with that

Because when I go through the core it puts me like 700k ly away

[prime inlet]

@weary wigeon <#nms-questions message>

as an alternative, why not submit a taxi request to PGSC?

they could get you anywhere in the universe

[weary wigeon]

Okay, that's good to know. Makes the end of the line run seem more viable lol

but there's still no way to skip that cuscene, which in total between all the galaxies is like 40 hours

[prime inlet]

dude, it doesn't take all that long

[weary wigeon]

Sorry, 10 hours

The song is a jam but idk about listening to it 255 times lol

[prime inlet]

take breaks, that's what i do

lol

jump a few, take a break, explore for a while, go back at it

[molten stump]

@mellow spear go speak to nada, then find one of those big comm towers to speak to apollo

[mellow spear]

Hm, it doesnt seem to be pointing to one, I guess I'll have to find one myself

Kinda sucks considering the size

Wait I forgot the scan feature lmao

[molten stump]

^^ there ya go 😁 i didnt wanna say more coz i dont wanna spoil

[fathom notch]

taxi request? tell me more

[prime inlet]

@fathom notch take a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/NMSCoordinateExchange/comments/iay32y/pangalactic_star_cabs_is_now_the_official_taxi/

[main rock]

This is going to be a very silly question for a player-of-two-years to ask; but what actually happens in the purge? I've never got around to hitting reset.
Do we lose everything? Even the beautiful max-slot ship I spent 20h searching for?

[uncut harness]

The end of the storyline? No, it just does the same thing when you go to a new galaxy

everything breaks

[main rock]

It's just a normal warp that breaks your launch system? That's such a relief!

(Warp to a new galaxy, of course)

[uncut harness]

No

EVERYTHING

EVERY DAMN SYSTEM

if its not in the tech slot bye bye

gotta fix it

[main rock]

Ahhhh. That's what I was wondering. So items get destroyed?

[uncut harness]

no, just technilogies

[main rock]

How about upgrade modules? And do you keep the multitool, freighter and other ships?

[uncut harness]

all that stuff stays, its all tech thats not in tech slots

Which includes upgrade modules

[main rock]

Gotcha. I'm really happy to hear that.

[uncut harness]

ya, you dont lose everything

[main rock]

And is it hard to fix or are they simple materials like at the start of the game? ♡

[uncut harness]

Just like this type of stuff

well it takes all the stuff you needed to make it

[main rock]

Oh my. Hahaha

[uncut harness]

half

[main rock]

Ahhh. I understand.

[uncut harness]

which is why when I did it I used a throw away ship and multitool

[main rock]

Yep, warp in a crappy ship and then just jump in your good one lol

Thank you for the reassurance, I'm going to find a new galaxy now. :D

[uncut harness]

ya

no prob mate

though when I did it, I did it back in AR, so maybe its different now

[main rock]

My save file is so old that I probably have the same quest as you no matter what. Hahaha
It's just anxiety that's kept me from resetting all this time.

[uncut harness]

ah lol

[main rock]

Oh! One more question. Do I keep my units and nanites? :o

[uncut harness]

ya

[main rock]

Just thought I'd check hahaha

[uncut harness]

its just like warping between galaxies

[main rock]

But everything breaks. XP

[uncut harness]

well that happens when you warp from the cores

[fathom notch]

why is it that ppl are so often surprised by the game like, being a simulation

it is a simulation! it's just being honest with itself

[main rock]

I think the premise is so incredibly clever.

[fathom notch]

i mean, it's a simulation of a universe within an independent universe that is played in our universe

but its like... weird

i dont get why ppl are thrown for a loop whenever its brought up bc its obvious in retrospect, you're playing a game, this is a simulation, relax

maybe it's just my aspergers brain though

wonder what the lore is behind the corrupt sentinels

[rancid ether]

I think the corrupt sentinels are not necessarily "corrupt" but are still in attrition mode from when they wiped out every living thing.

[devout sedge]

yeah this game is really meta
you got artemis being (maybe, depending on choices) in a simulation inside of a simulation being accessed by us, and our world could even be a simulation

[fathom notch]

i think its more that it doesnt matter

we could be inside several simulations in sequence repeated uncountable numbers of times and it wouldnt matter, bc the experience is what's important

when you start nms you don't boot up simulation iteration # whatever, you boot up no man's sky

it's an interesting thing at least

[pallid stump]

Haven't seen this one before. It's apparently called a "plasmic accident".

[fathom notch]

oh no they crashed

[opaque elm]

oops, so it seems I have ||16 minutes to live||

[pallid stump]

||16//16//16||

[molten stump]

howv hard is it to deal with the horrific nest aboard derelicts?

[dire dagger]

not hard, more annoying

[mental socket]

Ah, someone else also has the og 1.0 disk left

[uncut harness]

preordered the game, still have the Alpha Vector and 2 atlas seeds

Well Not in my main save, but I can pull it out in any new saves

[fair bone]

I dont even bother shooting the little spoggers

[fathom notch]

did the gek just fart on everything

[heady wyvern]

They still do

[open canyon]

ok didnt know ppl were calling the derelict freighters now, used to be just derelicts ty

i have 1.0 ps4 disc

or whatever the first version was when it was released

[fathom notch]

i'd like to know more about the by'keen and their relationship with the vy'keen

[molten stump]

lol, artemis died like 50m away from one of those ground based trading centres

[sullen hornet]

Lol artemis is a loser

[opaque elm]

Atlas got real freaky, wtf

[solid fulcrum]

You can either spam plasma grenades into the room, or, or you can just let them stay sleeping and sneak past. If you don't shoot the goopy nest things, they're just motion sensitive, you can keep them from hatching by not moving too fast when you're close to them, pay attention to the heart beat pulsing they do when you're about to set them off

[molten stump]

yea, i lay with controller so i can move around just slower than what they react to, but its tedious lol

[solid fulcrum]

You have to get pretty close to trigger them

[main rock]

How does the galaxy selection for resetting the simulation work? Is it random? Or is it the same order of galaxies for everyone?

[mellow robin]

You get a choice of color/type

Each leads to the next one of that type in the list

[main rock]

I'm at that part. So I'll go to the same galaxy everyone else that chose the colour went to the first time they chose it?

[mellow robin]

I picked a lush when I did it, so I went from Euclid-1 to Eissentam-10

Think so yeah

[main rock]

Thank you. I just went and did it.

[devout sedge]

is there anyway to get to an earlier galaxy that you havent visited without loopinjg through all 255 galaxies?

my first reset i went to eissentam and im worried i locked myself out of 9 galaxies

[heady wyvern]

@devout sedge You can teleport back to a base you had in Euclid and go down the list by warping to the Galactic Core.

Or you could call a Star Cab, if you find a cabbie who can take you to the desired galaxy.

what

I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Must've been a minor dialogue choice.

That, or you're talking about the Simulation Reset.

[fathom notch]

you delete atlas

[ocean wyvern]

spoiler

16 minutes means absolutely nothing

regardless of simulation time

the Atlas is falling into a black hole

16 minutes will stretch into infinite time toward the schwarzchild radius

there is no actual 16 minutes

its theoretically impossible to ever enter the event horizon of the black hole within conceptual time

due to the infinite drop off

this has been brought to you by an astrophysics major who specialized in black holes

HOWEVER

functionality of the computer would be affected by it being stretched to infinite length as well

beyond the event horizon all bets are off

there are no more rules beyond that point that we understand

[mighty rampart]

I get what you mean - the 16 mins also gets confusing when you read other lore that seem to coincide with updates, like how it was predicted that in the 10th minute that travellers can meet each other and explore hand in hand, alluding to full multiplayer that we got in 1.5 and more so in 2.0

but like when did we go from the 16 mins left to 10 mins left

[fathom notch]

it's so incredibly funny that the korvax and gek are constantly spying on each other in the lore

like synthetigek and disguised korvax

the imitation synthetigek aren't even that good, is what gets me the most

[fathom notch]

ideally infested planets should have corrupted sentinels

[opaque elm]

why is that ideal

[opaque elm]

I was actually asking

[fathom notch]

just think it'd be ideal

[opaque elm]

oh, I thought I was missing something cool about them

[fathom notch]

honestly they are kinda cool, weird mutant sentinels

[lethal trellis]

is it ever specifically stated that the atlas is falling in to a black hole, or is it just the line about the gravitational anomaly that we assume is a black hole?

just checking I haven't missed anything

[opaque elm]

I thought it was an Fdisk

[heady wyvern]

I think it was largely through Waking Titan that we learned that.

I say "we" as if I were a participant, which I was not.

[normal egret]

Why do I wanna travel to a different galaxy? I tried to do that, and ALL my technologies got damaged.

I mean, I have plenty of stars in the first universe to visit

[thorny gulch]

to increase a change to find certain types of planets

like for an example in lush galaxy (for an example in game 10th galaxy called Eissentam) you have much larger odds on you to find lush and paradise kind of planets in the star systems.

[uncut harness]

@normal egret Tech being damaged is a normal thing to occur after uncoventional travel (black holes, jumping to new galaxy)

As for the why I wanna part - there's no real need, each next galaxy has a type that makes certain planet types more / less frequent

But no new mechanics / game elements are being introduced

[normal egret]

@uncut harness , Ill probably stick to the first galaxy then. I mean, if like 4-5-6 technolgies got damaged, that would be alright. But not a single technology survived. Thatll cost too much to repair 😛

[uncut harness]

Well, we are kinda breaking the laws of physics by travelling via supermassive black hole or whatever it is in the center

So it's justified in my book

[mighty rampart]

more than that you're essentially jumping between parallel universes

[uncut harness]

😩 my first blackhole was such a terrifying experience

I encountered one pretty early, no clue it would damage my ship, it was so flippin intimidating to look at, and I hated the lack of control. Not knowing where I was going was stressful.

I'll take a blackhole over those giant anomaly eyes tho. Fuck those things. I normally like creepy stuff, but I have an irrational fear of those things.

Sorry I used your conversation to complain

[wide lodge]

@lethal trellis We're inside the ATLAS

from what I understand the interfaces are its manifestations

The real threats to it are its decay and the Abyss

[lethal trellis]

Oh you I thought so! Was just checking what was happening outside of the simulation

[earnest carbon]

Need help

So im in Euclid

This reddit post: planet full of knowledge stones in Calypso

I can't get there currently?

because i went to the glyph location, and there's a message thing floating there saying: Knowledge stones are in the galaxy Calypso

[fathom notch]

i'd get in touch with someone in starcabbies

ill dig around for an invite

[fathom notch]

https://discord.gg/esyPWtm - drop in, go to # request-a-starcabbie, they'll lead you through the process

[heady wyvern]

@earnest carbon Portals can't take you to a location in another galaxy.

[uncut harness]

Can’t base portals teleport you to a different galaxy if you have a base in each?

[fiery tide]

yo fellas I am on the cusp of dropping in the heart of the sun

im nervous lol

does that start the reset for my game? Ive heard I should equip a less than desirable multi tool and ship since they get damaged, is this that event?

also Im thinking LUSH galaxy, and reasons for or against that?

[rancid ether]

Heart of the sun doesnt lead to a reset. Is this the end of the Atlas Path?

[fiery tide]

it very well may be

Im not totally sure. but I noticed I only have 13/16 glyphs so I didnt think it could be the end

[rancid ether]

Do you have some podium/pillar looking things with a red beam of light coming from the top of each?

[fiery tide]

yup

and this special seed ive been crafting

[rancid ether]

Just finish that there with the Heart of the sun, youre fine

[fiery tide]

its pretty sweet now

okay cool thank you

[rancid ether]

The end of the Purge is where you choose a galaxy

[fiery tide]

will going to a new galaxy affect my ability to play with friends still in Euclid

[rancid ether]

which it sounds like you might be on...?

[fiery tide]

yeah dude Im super close

[rancid ether]

no

You can always teleport back to an old base in euclid

[fiery tide]

this game is so much fun jeez I wish I started earlier ive been playing non stop for a week

okay sweet thank you again dude youve answered like almost all my questions since ive joined this discord

[rancid ether]

Also, if you are worried about stuff breaking, just swap out your good stuff before completing the purge

[heady wyvern]

I'm talking about planetary portals, with glyph addresses and all that.

[uncut harness]

Ah okay

[heady wyvern]

Or, I was

Five hours ago.

[uncut harness]

Lol

[heady wyvern]

*Eight hours ago

[fathom notch]

what's up with vy'keen and just using organs in their industrial processes

[hazy osprey]

the free market doesn’t slow down for anyone and the only way to keep up is using organs

[fathom notch]

the zath'keen... huh

[humble haven]

should i end artemis or save artemis

[mellow robin]

Up to you

[thorny gulch]

Lush is good, if you want more of lush type of planets.. and it doesn't really matter that much which one you choose in the end ot the purge, since it's really easy to get in every galaxy in this game, just by using a "Pancalactic Starcabs".

[fiery tide]

thank you. does your gear get damaged every time you jump between galaxies, or just the first time?

[outer relic]

Every time

[dire dagger]

I wanna know how their artifacts work, I think it's the. knife one of the base dudes uses and becomes younger. are vy'keen near eternal?

[fathom notch]

the daggers are ceremonial and coated in enzymes which, when plunged into the body, reinvigorate the user and reignite their spirit

or something to that effect

oh and the sentinel effigies are often referred to as grahgrah. i like to think they burn them and inhale the smoke to rejuvenate themselves and prepare for battle

[dire dagger]

intersting, so they don't necessarily get younger from the knife. yeah the effigy was odd to me, being base on a sentinel but as something they burn before battle makes sense

[fathom notch]

yeah, they don't literally get younger, but i imagine as they age those enzymes become less and less prominent and they require rituals in order to replenish them

i actually believe the grahgrah is a mixture of incenses and herbs that are within the effigy, and that they smash the thing and mix the splinters with the incense before burning it - like the wood itself has some special property

[dire dagger]

I guess it is how it described during the mission. it's just nipnip 😉

[rancid ether]

Did anyone keep track of the weekend event storyline while that was going on? Im trying to make sense of some of the events and referenced locations, such as what triggered the disappearances of several of the Iterations, and what or where is "The Rift".

[prime inlet]

@rancid ether the assistant for nms app has the lore entries for the weekend missions, iirc

[rancid ether]

Really? That app is consistently getting better for me.

[dire dagger]

oh cool the app really does have it

[sinful lichen]

i discovered the anomaly finally

my mind is blown at the fact that there are other players

[heady wyvern]

Oh yeah.

There are indeed players

Lots of em.

[next ridge]

OKAY

This fucking game

I'm at the part where Apollo states they are in the same location as you and you can't see eachother

Is this a reference to when NMS first came out and the first two players were in the same location and could not see eachother????

Because goddamn brilliant.

[heady wyvern]

Might be

That was how multiplayer worked back when the Atlas Rising patch came out.

I think

It's been so long, man.

[fathom notch]

yeah

its pretty cool how theyve sorta stamped that history into the lore

[snow breach]

Can I reset the simulation even though I havent finishef main questline?

[prime inlet]

you can, just need to warp the galactic core - although that won't let you choose to which galaxy type it will reset into

"reset" isn't an actual reset, fwiw

[snow breach]

I wanna find lush planets :(

[prime inlet]

you can find lush planets pretty much in the whole universe, but a lush galaxy then would get you the best odds

[snow breach]

How can I tell its a lush planet?

[heady wyvern]

@snow breach It has any of the descriptors associated with lush planets. The presence of Paraffinium is also a dead giveaway.

[prime inlet]

if it has star bulb in its resource list, when scanning planets from space, it's a lush planet.

[fathom notch]

so Korvax rebels built the Atlas stations?

or were they always present?

[crimson swan]

yeah

atlas is the supercomputer that runs the simulation isn't it

so atlas stations were always president

very nice logic, isn't it

[fathom notch]

but why would the atlas create such obvious points for internal entities to communicate through, and why so religious?

no, i think it's a korvax thing

[crimson swan]

wasnt it the gek that worshipped atlas

[dire dagger]

Thought it was both

Didn't the Atlas create the stations more for travelers to interact but other races could too?

[fathom notch]

it feels like something the korvax did, or at least discovered

[crimson swan]

yeah i think the atlas did it tbh

[night mural]

~

[flat whale]

yo, i have made it to the center of the euclid galaxy and ALL of my equipment is damaged including my life support, i beat the rocks with my fists and repaired my multitool. and now im at the space anomaly. what do i do now?

[uncut harness]

You got transported to the next galaxy called Hillbert's Dimension. You can do whatever you want - go back to Euclid via teleporters or stay and discover Hilberts.

[flat whale]

cool

how many galaxies are there?

[uncut harness]

Old missions you got backed up in log should have an option to reset to new location (middle click on PC)

[flat whale]

ok

[uncut harness]

255 + 1 special galaxy but I don't know the details

[flat whale]

1 special galaxy?

whats that?

[uncut harness]

You basically carry on with the game just in a new galaxy, no new mechanics / features are introduced there

Like I said, I don't know the details

[flat whale]

ok

do you also know what happenes after a complete the atlas path? ive got the heart of the sun and birthed a new star using it, but i can still go to the atlas, do you know if the atlas path has anything else or does anything if i give it another heart of the sun?

[uncut harness]

Not sure, I think nothing new happens and the quest just stays in the log

But I haven't really explored it afterwards

Also, you should get a new technology piece to install in your exosuit

It grants +1 health point (those + signs under shield bar)

Meaning you get +1 chance to do stupid shit and not die from it immediately

[zenith salmon]

Actually there were 257 galaxies then the last bugged now there are 256 @uncut harness

When you get to the end of the story you have a choice in which Galaxy you want to go.

Or you can remain where you are if you refuse.

[prime inlet]

256th is unreachable if core warping 255th though - only ways to get there afaik, are via multiplayer or save editing

core warp 255, land on #1

[prime inlet]

this behaviour - the atlas path still showing up as a mission, and giving it another heart of the sun, birthing a new star - can be used to trigger core to core warping. however, since the discovery of the second (and imo, way better) method to c2c warping via black hole triggering, there really isn't any incentive to "run the atlas path again".

in other words, you don't get any new lore or any rewards from pursuing the atlas path again. after completing the atlas path and getting the rewards from it, once in a save, there's no need to run it again.

its mission entry should go away eventually, mine did, right after completion. however, it can return; if i warp to an atlas station system at random ("gather atlas seeds" mission objective) or i'm close enough to a black hole ("go through black hole" mission objective)

[zenith salmon]

I just love the 256th @prime inlet

I must say the core is a bit crowded on the two planets tho.

[prime inlet]

well, if it's still there by the time i get to #255, i'll probably try and get a cab there 😄

[dire dagger]

Where is it that you can read the lore about the traveler who befriended a Sentinel? I remember getting bits of it but I don't remember where

[zenith salmon]

Well @prime inlet the PBF made the 256th their home. There in the Sea of Kigaibo.

[crisp fern]

@dire dagger I think that may be buried away in the second worst timegated set of missions in the game, Base Computer Archives, but I may be mistaken.

[dire dagger]

ah yes i think thats right, haven't done one of those in a whilr

[uncut harness]

Yeah, it comes at the part where the base computer sends you to other planets

[fathom notch]

yknow, i'm not sure it's the sentinels' fault the universe keeps destroying itself

[velvet patio]

So I have reached the purge storyline and Atlas is telling me to reset. What happens? Does it erase any progress if I do?

I assume it doesn’t, but would like to be sure

[prime inlet]

no, it doesn't reset any player progress

if you choose to reset, you will be presented with 4 orbs, representing the 4 galaxy types

if you refuse, you will stay in your current galaxy for now

[mellow robin]

As long as you have a base in your current galaxy, you can always return there

[gusty salmon]

Dang, eventhough this is just reading text on a screen, null begging me not to go to the center of the galaxy is like, actually emotionally taxing

[rancid ether]

Personal opinion, Null's a selfish bastard but I dont want to get too into the speculation of who Null really is.

[fathom notch]

honestly i thought null was an asshole and called them out on it when i got the chance

the pain they've inflicted to selfishly prolong their own life is not all that great

[velvet patio]

I was so torn when I had to decide whether to kill Artemis or not

I felt like I should keep them alive but it felt so cruel

[dire dagger]

The game tries to reassure you after any choice that it was the right thing to do lol

They've written the story stuff so well

[velvet patio]

Yeah

[manic hearth]

i dont like null

[dire dagger]

did null even know that there was more than one galaxy? I don't think null got the chance to reset right?

[rancid ether]

I was pretty sure the implication was that Null did reset.
And then the speculation thereafter is that the Traveller and Null are the same entity in an unending cycle of resets. I think there's better theories out there about Null though, as that one seems a little too cheap to me.

[velvet patio]

Apollo and Artemis r nice, null is an asshole imo

[dire dagger]

Yeah I thought null had explored one Galaxy in its entirety and was cut off from going anywhere by the Atlas idk why I assumed that though

[lean mountain]

I was hoping to meet Apollo in person before endgame

Probably should have figured I wouldn’t get to but, cool character

For how cocky and selfish he seemed at first, he certainly didn’t react to Artemis’ death the way I was expecting

[velvet patio]

He was kinda like null at first, but he eventually got nicer and seemed to genuinely like you, whereas null was just a dick the whole time

[lean mountain]

Yeah I called null out at the end

I legit smirked at my screen when it was talking about him screaming and pleading with me to reconsider

[velvet patio]

How does it feel to be on the other side, eh?

[lean mountain]

Meanwhile, this dude definitely got a flair for the dramatic by the end, big fan of his writing

[velvet patio]

Yes

[manic swan]

I really wished we could jam Artemis into a bobhead and place it in the cockpit to explore the universe with the MC.

[pine pier]

Anyone know of a novel, novella, or fan fiction that explores a decision similar to the Korvax choice to "adjust" the Gek? I'm fascinated by this moral dilemma

[south wyvern]

What is adjusting the Gek?

Is that later in the story

[dire dagger]

It's probably later, eventually you can find out the pasts of the races. I think it's part of the null missions

[pine pier]

There's a point in the story where you have to help each of the races and get back story about stuff that happened in their history.

[velvet patio]

What does a remembrance do?

It was a pain in the ass to craft, is it any good?

[zenith salmon]

Rememberance is what you get once you played through the storyline @velvet patio

[velvet patio]

I know, I have one, what does it do?

[zenith salmon]

It gives you. I think like 10% more life.

[velvet patio]

Oh cool

Thanks

[zenith salmon]

You have to add it in to a slot.

[velvet patio]

Ok cool

[lean mountain]

It lets you get lore from special terminals you’ll sometimes find in observatories or space stations, behind L3 Atlas Pass doors

I only ever found them in my starting system (maybe they’re much more common there) but they can and do appear anywhere

If you ever see a L3 pass door that ISN’T on a space station, that’s what’s behind it

[fathom notch]

so where's the lore about "knowing the sacrifice of Hirk"?

i read all the stuff at the monoliths but it seems it's just looped

[hollow tangle]

I have two primary missions left, The Space Anomaly which says "enjoy reality..." and New Beginnings, which says "Enjoy the galaxy". I'm guessing these are not possible to complete?

[prime inlet]

nope

select new beginnings to not get bugged with mission popups

[hollow tangle]

Got it. Guess I'm in a basebuilding game now.

[prime inlet]

well, sure, if that's what you want to do

at this point, it's pretty much a sandbox experience, with some multiplayer content on top if you want to

[hollow tangle]

Base building in space isn't a thing yet, right? Just the base inside your freighter?

[prime inlet]

there's methods people use in order to get a base up to the max height possible, like 2000u high

and that allows for "orbital" looking bases

go above that height, and things don't get rendered, stuff like that

[hollow tangle]

Yeah, those methods seem pretty hacky. I wonder if Hello will add that in as a first-class feature

[dire dagger]

it also allows you to get extra lore from atlas pass rooms

[velvet patio]

Oh cool, thanks guys

[summer cave]

^

[limpid locust]

Jumped 70k ly just to find out you need to wait a second b4 u continue with ATLAS Sequence

What's this? Whys my name green

[heady wyvern]

Your name is green because apparently the roles were all recolored lately.

[lean mountain]

Being able to build a structure, add thrusters to the bottom, and lift it off using fuel would be neat. Like, standard thrusters need a steady supply of oxygen to burn for lift, or you could go with other options, like an expensive antigravity system that eats a lot of energy, or light gas ballasts that can only support lighter weight

Something to make it challenging to make it not just what EVERYONE does,

I feel like actual orbital structures would need a reworking of how the base building system works though, if that’s the goal

Why not just let players make space stations a fixed distance away from a planet, one per player per planet, instead?

[last ferry]

Space Elevators

I have a base in the second system that has several thousand kps generation

It could supply an orbital station and Elevator

[fathom notch]

i still don't understand why it's such a dramatic revelation that no man's sky is a simulation

i mean, wasn't it obvious from the start, before you even bought the game? no man's sky is a simulation because it's a game, but it plays this forward in a defining and impactful way

i mean, wasn't it obvious from the start, before you even bought the game? no man's sky is a simulation because it's a game, but it plays this forward in a defining and impactful way

it's like saying that star wars is set in a fictional universe

[tawdry mica]

They mean like matrix type stuff. The universe is “real” for the characters until they realize it’s fake, not the player knowing it’s a game

[dire dagger]

yeah after watching the matrix movies again I couldn't help but see the parallels between it and nms

[storm shell]

What choice should i make

I'm at the end of the main quest

[rancid ether]

Complete the main quest, meaning Artemis path stuff?

Or are you going to all the Atlas stations

[storm shell]

Creating a new galaxy

[rancid ether]

If you have a base built in Euclid, you have nothing to lose by resetting

[storm shell]

Which galaxy is better tho

Green, blue, red or white

[rancid ether]

Green is lush, red is harsh, blue is normal(?) And white is empty(?)

I confuse blue and white all the time

I would say most players choose green

[storm shell]

What does the empty galaxy mean?

[rancid ether]

More weird anomalous or dead planets

[storm shell]

Ah

I'm gonna choose green

[rancid ether]

Nice, enjoy the music 🎶

[storm shell]

Now the real question, can i do it again?

[rancid ether]

You'll have to travel to the center manually next time. Otherwise, to repeat the main storyline, youd have to start a new save.

[storm shell]

Ah god, that will take a long time

[rancid ether]

Nah, you can use portals nowadays

[storm shell]

Ah that's good

[heady wyvern]

And also Star Cabs is an option.

[pale merlin]

Question if you find an atlas station after doing the main story the atlas path and starting in a new type of galaxy and go to do it again is it kust the same

[prime inlet]

@pale merlin no point doing it again, you only need to complete the atlas path once per save; there will be no more rewards to get from running it again

[pale merlin]

I kinda just want to have all 4 types of galaxies

Idk why

[prime inlet]

that's unrelated to the atlas path anyway

[dreamy jasper]

So first i take artemis' ship then I euthanize her

Cool game lmao

😐

[fathom notch]

don't you love it

[vital hedge]

just reading this and finding out that the whole game is a simulation makes me happy. i had a thought it was

makes it very weird that artemis is in a simulation in a simulation

[languid crescent]

question: im now at the point where i decide to either a: upload artemis, or b: let her die. does this greatly affect the story in anyway? is there anything i wont be able to access if i choose a certain option?

[agile crypt]

so i just did the final atlas thing and i refused the atlas. I regret it now. The atlas said the offer was still up to me tho, so how do I go back to that final atlas thing? I also didnt save before it so im real mad. I just wanna go back to the final atlas meeting. How do i go back to accept the offer?

[heady wyvern]

@agile crypt It's talking about the Galactic Core, which will only take you to the next galaxy in sequence.

[stoic estuary]

When you finish the Artemis Path do you lose all your bases?

[heady wyvern]

Nope

[agile crypt]

@heady wyvern yea I know some of that, but how do I go back to accept the offer?

[heady wyvern]

You can go back

[heady wyvern]

You just

sacrificed your chance

now go to the core

and take the long way through the galaxy list

[agile crypt]

So I go to the galaxy map and just warp to all those galaxys and eventually I will get there?

@heady wyvern

The galaxies that the line go through when I select galactic core?

Systems

I mean systems

[heady wyvern]

This is where calling star systems by their proper name becomes important...

Basically

[agile crypt]

Lol

[heady wyvern]

Once you reach the core, you'll be flung into the next galaxy in a list of all galaxies in the game.

I'm not exactly sure which one comes after Euclid.

[agile crypt]

So to get to the core, I follow that line of systems that shows up when I select galactic core at the top?

[heady wyvern]

Yes.

Make sure you have an Indium Drive, though.

[agile crypt]

Sooo, just curious, what would happen if I would’ve selected to reset the simulation

Why do I need indium

[heady wyvern]

You would've been able to select between four separate galaxies.

[heady wyvern]

You can't warp into the core without one.

[agile crypt]

So just trying to get an idea of how bad I messed up....how much easier would it have been if I chose to reset it

And would my base still stay there when I reset it?

[heady wyvern]

If you chose to reset, you wouldn't have to make the pilgrimage to the Core

[agile crypt]

Ok

[heady wyvern]

And your bases do persist, and you can return to them via teleportation teminus.

[agile crypt]

Aight I guess it’ll give me something to do, thanks so much @heady wyvern

[dreamy jasper]

It doesn't change anything. If you leave her in the simulation you can choose to lie to her later or tell her the truth.

I chose to euthanize her and everyone was like "you did the right thing" idk lol

She was so sad and alone and scared. I didn't want to put her thru that again, knowing she would always be alone, again...

[halcyon field]

the atlas is a lie....

[crisp fern]

i mean so are we (the players), it's just not as clear via in-game sources as it was revealed in the ARG instead

[uncut harness]

Which ending do i follow

That seek the final interface , explore the galaxy

Idk if its the ending

[mellow robin]

Probably best to finish the Atlas path before the Artemis path

For logistics sake

[uncut harness]

So i should go for atlas path ?

[mellow robin]

That is what I was saying yes

[languid crescent]

im now at the part of the story called "the purge" where i must begin heading towards the center of the galaxy. have i learned all the glyphs already?

nope, i havent

so i have to continue the story?

[agile crypt]

@languid crescent well u gotta warp to like 16 different systems, and when u arrive at each new system, you'll get a data injection from an unknown source. Then, after you have done that 16 times, and gotten all the glyphs, the game will direct you to a portal, which you have to charge, and then when you click activate portal, you will be able to continue the story

[languid crescent]

alr, after i get the last gylph im OUT of the story. dont wanna reset the universe, and i honestly just want the glyphs so i can get my expiremental multitool

[languid crescent]

do i HAVE to go to the transmission coordinates to get the glyphs? or can i just skip em

cuz i dont give two shits about some guy who drowned lol

[rancid ether]

"Reset" is code for going to a new galaxy btw

[languid crescent]

i just want the glyphs and then im OUT

[languid crescent]

ohhhhh

so i dont actually lose everything ive ever done?

alr thank god lmao

i wouldve been insanely upset lol

[rancid ether]

I wouldnt bring your favorite ship or multitool though

[languid crescent]

alr

is my plan of saying screw you to the main story and just taking the glyphs and running possible?

[rancid ether]

I would still take advantage of the new galaxy option, make a base computer there, then just teleport back to euclid (from a space station, etc) to get your multitool @languid crescent

[languid crescent]

whats the point of new galaxy tho? better planets? no sentinels?

as long as its not story related, im fine with you spoiling what it does for me

[reef urchin]

Have you ever found sentinels to be a problem? Even the walkers are fairly easy to take down without taking any damage

Annoying though

[rancid ether]

Different galaxies have different chances for certain planet types

[languid crescent]

nah not really, im just listing ideas, since the sentinels are related to fixing errors and stuff and i imagine the reset is SUPPOSED to fix the errors in the galaxy, but nada said reset wont do anything

[languid crescent]

eh maybe later

[rancid ether]

Red galaxies are harsh, more sentinels and bad weather.
Green are lush, paradise planets and such

Oh ok

[languid crescent]

of course, i will do it, but not now. i already have a massive list of things to do :P

pretty sweet story

i was already guessing we lived in a simulation after i saw the artemis simulation

[rancid ether]

Well, once you get the glyphs, just switch the active mission then

[languid crescent]

i also hypothesized that the atlas is actually someone trying to communicate with us, who is outside the simulation. when we tried communicating with artemis into the simulation, it said that it didnt work, and "how could an entire universe listen" or somethin like that

[languid crescent]

will do

[reef urchin]

Unrelated, the guild envoys strike me as though they oughta offer some missions? But regardless of my standing, they just shower me in petty cash. Is that all they can do?

[reef urchin]

Huh. Haven't finished the story yet, but so far it seems pretty on the nose that by "this is a simulation", they are referring to NMS being... well... a game. To that end, Atlas -with its struggles to communicate a creative thought - seems a lot like a developer surrogate.

Think they might be trying to pull a Pathologic on us :D

[languid crescent]

it does seem meta, but it doesnt feel like they are suggesting the world is a game necesarily. just the way they talk about it and such doesnt give me that sense of it being a game

[reef urchin]

I assumed they were referring to the in-game world and it's self-evident artificiality

But I'm really talking out of my ass, haven't finished it yet, don't have all the pieces.

[rancid ether]

Yeah, wait until you access the Remembrance terminals. Stuff gets pretty weird

[languid crescent]

me neither, but in the sequence where atlas confirms it, it doesnt sound like they are saying this simulation is a video game, rather just a whole simulation. and the whole thing about the various universes, the multi verse, doesnt make sense if this simulation was actually a game. its not like multiple no mans skys exist anywhere. unless its talking about irl multi verse. then sure, multiple no mans sky's exist and this whole thing makes sense to be a video game

[reef urchin]

Man, I just used my first Atlas V3 pass earlier today - got there before I had any access to this Remembrance stuff, ouch!

[reef urchin]

Well NMS does have multiple galaxies. Plus, it's story technically happens multiple times in parallel with each of the players 🤷 don't want to push it too hard, but I don't imagine they are arguing an actual metaphysical point.

[languid crescent]

but the galaxies are different from the multiverse in this game. when you go to a different galaxy, from what ive seen, history isnt different, its the same. nothing really changes, suggesting were in the same universe.

[reef urchin]

Fair enough

[languid crescent]

now how to explain the different players being in different universes, no clue.

[reef urchin]

I'm mostly coming off the Travellers you can meet on space stations; I'm assuming they are a left-over from before multiplayer, but the implication seems to be that each player is his own universe.

[languid crescent]

well i mean in that case i shouldnt be able to meet other players, right?

that would only really make sense BEFORE multiplayer was truly added

(before next/beyond was developed)\

[reef urchin]

Well, have you ever ran into anyone outside of the anomaly that bridges us?

for all intents and purposes, we are from different worlds :D but I don't really imagine the script of the game is so bulletproof, what with all the changes it underwent

[languid crescent]

true, but now that i think about it....

when we disable multiplayer, we have entered/created our own universe, while enabling multiplayer joins another identical universe

and it is posisble to just wander around and stumble into another player, though its highly unlikely

[reef urchin]

Well if you really want to get into how identical it is, I'm not so sure we can see the changes other players have made to terrain unless we are in the same session

First of all the game wasn't built for that, and even now, with multiplayer, our saves are still very much a file on our computers to be tweaked

[languid crescent]

thats true

[reef urchin]

So I really don't know just how much the game retains aside from who discovered what

but it feels like I'm playing this guessing game wrong :D

[languid crescent]

alr, revised version: when we disable multiplayer, we have entered/created our own universe, while enabling multiplayer merges our universe with another identical universe, which is why they may see the elements of their universe (the changed terrain and such) while we see the unchanged version, because in our universe that terrain wasnt changed, while in theirs it was.

[rancid ether]

That is 100% how it currently works.

Go to a space station with another player and ask them to pick up the glowing cube on the table you found.

They'll ask you "what glowing cube?"

[languid crescent]

on that topic, can we agree "cross play" is at the bare minimum that it can be?

its like juuuuust good enough

[rancid ether]

I mean, i was surprised this game got crossplay at all. Its not exactly a multiplayer game either

Single player game with an additional multiplayer function

[reef urchin]

Personally, the only additions the multiplayer needs, to me and my understanding of the desired effect, is more options for chilling around. Maybe if we could share meals or play music together. Kinda like the moments of Stalker when you sat around a bonfire with other wanderers.

Trading a few trinkets and gestures with travellers at the anomaly is a nice pat on the back on the long, lonely trek.

[languid crescent]

yeah i agree with that, but its a bit annoying when on their screen they see an S class exotic while i see a b class hauler

and having the game act extra broken at times when playing with someone on another platform

[rancid ether]

My discoveries menu got super glitched out during my first experience with the Atlas interface and I for sure thought it was scripted to act like that.

[languid crescent]

lol

[reef urchin]

100% agree, but I don't know if it's even possible to remedy that without rebuilding the game from scratch

[languid crescent]

true

[rancid ether]

I had a lot of weird stuff like that happen before I started playing multiplayer. I miss the magic of not knowing it was just a bug.

[uncut harness]

Should I go for reset simulation ending choice ?

Is it better ?

[thorny gulch]

Yes.. and when you choose the Green one it's lead to the lush galaxy called Eissentam.. it's most common choice and place after Euclid (your starting galaxy).

[uncut harness]

I should make a base on it before I leave so i can go back to green galaxy too ye ?

[thorny gulch]

Yes..

Allways good to put base to places where you may want to return 👍

[uncut harness]

Ty dude ^^

[thorny gulch]

Np

[prime inlet]

why is choosing to reset a better choice?

i really don't see why it is

like, if it were like in the "old days", that you absolutely had to core warp to get to eissentam if you didn't reset via quest

i would get it

but these days, simply using a anomaly featured base or playing roulette with bases of players in the anomaly at the same time you are can get you to eissentam

[uncut harness]

Dude my game just crashed when I choosed the green galaxy

lol

[prime inlet]

there's even PGSC

and like, not everyone wants to visit a galaxy that has 3 or 4 lush planets per star system

in any case, even if you had choosen any other orb, or even refused to reset, it would still be very easy to get elsewhere in the universe

[north vapor]

Just to know... What going's on when I reach the galaxy center or if the count down of 16 minutes goes down? I am quite new but I want to be spoiled on that cause I am scared of what will happens.

[prime inlet]

just keep playing, if you pay attention to the lore of the main quests you will know what's about. that being said, there's no time limits here.

your game isn't going to end or anything.

[vital hedge]

I remember when the game was released once you gotten to the center it put you all the way back. Is that still the same or?

[prime inlet]

i'm not clear on what you meant by "all the way back", but when you get to the center nothing really bad happens: if you warp the galactic core, you just spawn in the next galaxy on the list, some stuff on your gear might get damaged, depending on how well you prepare, and in normal conditions, away from the core, like 700K LY away

[vital hedge]

Ah that cool

[mellow robin]

Yeah I took it as 16 minutes being subjectively a small eternity of simulation for the most powerful supercomputer in all possible existence

[quasi stag]

Do I need to spoiler tag stuff in this channel?

[heady wyvern]

By precedent, no.

[quasi stag]

Just making sure

Had a question. I read online there are non-sphere planets. Is this true?

Like just yes or no would be preferable.

[heady wyvern]

Nope.

@quasi stag

Though something like a Halo Ring would be nice...

It'd be pretty difficult to program, I'd imagine...

[quasi stag]

Hmm.

Thanks for answering

I guess I misunderstood and thought the hexagon biome was a planet type.

[heady wyvern]

It's just a ||planet made of hexagon-shaped plates||

[quasi stag]

Yeah. I had just misunderstood. I was hyped for non standard shaped planets too.

[pale bough]

Hi all, I finally went to do something about protocol 16... I chose not to reset and the game just let me keep playing... that is uneventful.

[proven inlet]

So not sure where else I'd talk about this so I came to this channel.

Just bought the derelict freighter locator and explored it, I had no idea that NMS also came with Dead Space Lite. That was really cool.

[uncut harness]

Ok so I’m not actually done with the story but fuuuck shit gets deep

[polar pond]

what would the atlas core taste like

probably like reality

[mighty rampart]

tastes like poop then?

[gaunt sedge]

ya know, you have a point...

also, id suggest not sampling something made with thousands of tons of metals compressed into a tiny orb.

[dusk kernel]

atlas has at least 9845 back up generators.. damn

[polar pond]

nah im talkin like grabbing it and biting into it like a apple

[uncut harness]

...i just found artemis grave

i got chills in my spine

noped the f out of there

[hazy kestrel]

What are the biological horrors?

[lean mountain]

As far as we know, sentinels are manufactured SOMEWHERE in the galaxy, right? Just an unknown location?

[lean mountain]

They’re the result of data corruption in the Atlas simulation

[hazy kestrel]

Wait.

Simulation?

[lean mountain]

And they’re highly viral, spreading like wildfire wherever life is found

You ARE in the spoilers channel, my guy :V

[hazy kestrel]

Is that why there's literal abandoned systems?

[lean mountain]

Yep, if you go into the stations, the areas normally inhabited by living things are infested

It’s a corruption that spreads to everything it comes in contact with

[hazy kestrel]

Then what's a and I'm quoting this.

Abyssal horror?

So like that one thing from destiny 2?

The taken or whatever they called.

[lean mountain]

Biological horrors, abyssal horrors, and glitch planets are all the same thing, basically. It just depends on where the corruption started and how it spreads

Or rather, they’re all the result of the same thing

Glitch planets were basically made wrong to begin with, and may or may not be the origin of the corruption that spreads to life forms and consumes them

Said consumption is not instantaneous either, so it can be accidentally spread or transported, to another planet, to a space station, or on an interstellar voyage on a frigate

[hazy kestrel]

That's.

Actually horrifying.

[lean mountain]

The terminals you read in abandoned buildings planetside are the mad ramblings of someone who is slowly melting into an amalgam of flesh, teeth, and eyes

The horrors you see throughout those buildings, all over the walls and the terminal itself, might actually be the former occupant

[lean mountain]

It’s grisly stuff

You and presumably other travelers are immune, though for reasons that cause other problems

[hazy kestrel]

Hopefully I can find a person or two to play this with me.

Because while I enjoy playing it by myself.

It's a bit more enjoyable with someone else.

[fair parrot]

hi, i'm asking here rather than in "help" due to spoiler, i have started the starbirth quest for the living ship, and i'm also progressing through the main story.

but i got told i need to get the portal glyphs to do the starbirth ( i am currently waiting for the first part to mature ), when do i learn of those glyphs, because i am currently at the part where i have to get to the center to reset the universe or something like that

[marble mountain]

Could anyone explain the korvax lore to me? Did anyone make the korvax, and if so who did?

[weak lance]

Does anyone know how to reset to Artemis mission? Like go back to that mission from 16/16?

[prime inlet]

you can learn the glyphs by running the storyline; mission name is called The Purge

simply warp 16 times in any direction, you will learn 1 glyph per warp

if you haven't completed the atlas path, i suggest you do so now

[fair parrot]

I don't have access to the atlas path for whatever reason, it disappeared from my quest list @prime inlet

[prime inlet]

what do you mean, reset

[prime inlet]

go ask polo for coords to an atlas station

[fair parrot]

Oh, clever

Ty

[prime inlet]

np

[fair parrot]

I didn't spoil myself with the starbirth quest cuz it looks cool, only got told you needed the glyphs at some point

[prime inlet]

i told you that, iirc

[fair parrot]

I hope I don't need to wait 20-24H dozens of times tho

Ye

[prime inlet]

4 time gates for starbirth iirc

[fair parrot]

Sadge..
Is fine

4 isn't too bad

[prime inlet]

nope, i didn't think so either - i just used patience

[fair parrot]

Kinda annoying to be gated for quicksilver then 4 times again

But it's ok

[weak lance]

I want to save Apollo and Artemis both of them

So i want to reset my game to artemis's mission

where I got him in the mind arc

[prime inlet]

if you've already completed the mission, your only way is to reload a save that's before that

[weak lance]

how do I do that

I made a manual save before doing this all but accidently made another manual save while doing the merchant quest

[prime inlet]

other than that or save editing, there's no way to restart the storyline at that specific mission

too bad

you've overwritten it

[weak lance]

Can save editor help me?

[prime inlet]

it might, i know it can be used to reset quests, but i don't know how, not a save editor user myself

[weak lance]

Ah is there any way I can start a new game and transfer my items and upgrades to that new game

[prime inlet]

@weak lance sorry for the late reply. you could use the save editor to get all the stuff back, basically replicating the save

[weak lance]

Ah could help me with that? And its alright

Because when I go to defaultuser and cache

I cant see my saved files when I try to open it thru save editor

[prime inlet]

i can't help you there, basically have no experience with save editing

[weak lance]

Ah anyways thanks for the help.

[prime inlet]

take a look at <#nms-modding message>

might give you some leads on where to go next

[weak lance]

Alright thank you!

@prime inlet Thank VERY MUCH I mean that. Spent 2 hours trying to figure how do I locate my saved files but this one help me and it located my save files!!!!!!

[prime inlet]

sorry i can't be much help from this point on

[weak lance]

Its alright I got it from here.

[viral veldt]

There

[reef urchin]

Hey guys

I just reached the galaxy center

and I didn't get any choice about reseting the simulation or not?

I just spawned in a new galaxy and it looks like my quests reset a step back

[prime inlet]

to get a choice, you just had to select The Purge, do 16 warps, and go to the final interface

you didn't have to go to the centre at all (aka, you didn't have to actually core warp)

if you core warp, you don't get a choice, you just go galaxy by galaxy, working your way through the list in sequence

[reef urchin]

oh dear

well, my damn bad :D thanks for telling me what's what

[prime inlet]

in any case, you should still be able to complete that quest

[reef urchin]

that really sucks because I was on 15/16 anyway

[prime inlet]

yep

[reef urchin]

the quest rolled back to "alert Nada and Polo of the fate of Atlas"

[prime inlet]

i guess if you try to pursue it, you will first, learn the last glyph, and second, be able to actually "choose" which galaxy to reset into

[reef urchin]

Ok so it reset the counter to 1/16 when I returned to my original galaxy

but I got all the glyphs anyways

yea it's no biggie at all!

in case this happens to someone else

[prime inlet]

lol

seems like it bugged

[reef urchin]

I just assumed I had to reach the center before I ran out of time :D

Thanks again for such quick reply, I was really worried I screwed myself over there - you were great comfort, traveller

[prime inlet]

no problem

[lean mountain]

Technically Atlas is still going to die in 16 minutes, but 16 minutes as seen from the center of a galaxy may as well be eternity

(It’s the game’s way of letting you finish things up in Euclid before you’re ready for the next galaxy)

[quasi stag]

How rare are hexagonal planets?

[mellow robin]

Somewhat rare, about as frequent as any other exotic biome, then 1:11 chance

[quasi stag]

@mellow robin thanks. Not as rare as I thought

[cedar shell]

I don’t know if this has ever been mentioned before, but I think the player character is the only actual human in the NMS universe, along with every other player character

The Appearance Modifier doesn’t change the actual race of the player, it just makes them look like someone of that race. Since the default race is the Anomaly race, that would mean that all players are Anomalies (Ofcourse this is different for each person’s headcanon if they want to roleplay as an actual Gek/Vykeen/Korvax/Traveller but for the sake of this theory, let’s forget about that for a second)

The player character, the last Traveller, is created by the Atlas, using a brainscan of its original creator. The Atlas' creator is implied to be a human in the real world, which explains why they are an anomaly in the universe, they are not supposed to exist

There are many different 'realities' in the NMS universe, each reality having its own Last Traveler, each Last Traveler created using a brainscan of the Atlas' creator. Since the Atlas' creator is most likely human (Atleast, that's what I think, considering the text you see in the space station terminals), that would make each Anomaly a human as well

Might be a dumb theory but it's something I've been thinking about

[latent drum]

I'm currently doing story in PM mode > Part after Artemis soul has been inserted into a matrix. I still don't exactly know what happened to him/her in the 1st place

When I entered the portal, it sent me to a weird planet. I instinctively started analyzing the objects around me, and then it suddenly teleported me to what I assume is the ATLAS. Someone care to explain that part for me? XD

[heady wyvern]

@latent drum I'm not entirely sure myself, but I believe it's a representation of a near-core planet.

[real sapphire]

ehm... does extreme planet that have does not deplete your hazard protection exist?

[prime inlet]

while not in storms, yes

in fact, there's planets that don't drain your hazard prot even while in storms

storm, no hazard prot drain, exosuit did warn "incoming storm"

that's -9.5 celsius

[real sapphire]

@prime inlet i just found a planet similar to this

during storm with UI

w/o UI

i'm probably going to build a mining facility here

[prime inlet]

Yep, same kind of weather :)

Bubbly :D

[real sapphire]

its probably the safest haven to build a A. Indium mining facility

and yep, the bubbles go crazy during storm

so far i found one S class A. Indium hotspot, but can't find EM spot nearby :/. But i mark that place anyway

[prime inlet]

Mark it, then run 400u, 800u, 1500u and 2000u radius searches around it

That's how I go about it

[real sapphire]

i go up to 600 u, cuz the maximum radius for a base is about there

after exploring the rest of the planets in this system, i'm going to look for A. Indium hotspot (minimum A class) with EM hotspot nearby (Any class, best would be S)

[outer relic]

It can go out to 1000 if you try hard enough

#nms-questions message

[prime inlet]

correct

i said 2000u because max "diameter"

first hotspot < 1000u > base computer < 1000u > second hotspot

[wind panther]

For people that want evidence of my predictions of upcoming changes being ||pets, mod support, space bases||

[prime inlet]

nice @wind panther

thanks man

[wind panther]

Someone on Steam wanted evidence, so thought I would share here, too

[uncut harness]

Maybe || SpaceBases || refers somehow to the freighters?

There must be some limits to how far we can build inside

Not saying your findings are wrong, just that there may be another possibility of devs using simplified terms for variable names

[outer relic]

Don’t freighters have room limits instead of distance limits?

[uncut harness]

Could be, I dont build inside freighters hence my question

[wind panther]

I tested that already. It doesn't have any effect on freighter base limits

[uncut harness]

Ooohh, I just noticed the before Origins bit

And we had freighters before that

Disregard what I said

[rocky heath]

So basically the atlas is a "Computer god" that simulates the entire universe

@muted phoenix

[muted phoenix]

Oh

Oh I I wus right wen I see robot god

[rocky heath]

this thing

yep

[muted phoenix]

Sed

[idle jay]

Interested in seeing what it could mean by mod support

[sharp sleet]

finally no spoiler tags xD i literally am sick of spoiler tags

spoil me boys

[astral karma]

OH I forgot we decided to allow datamining in here

[sharp sleet]

sweet

[astral karma]

that change was years ago lmao

[sharp sleet]

so to the guys and gals that have been to a galexy core, does it really change anything?

[mighty rampart]

well depends

[sharp sleet]

on?

[mighty rampart]

if you go to the center physically, you go to a new galaxy but that's fixed

and its composition is similar to Euclid

[sharp sleet]

but isn't that the point?

[outer relic]

It takes you to a different galaxy, which can have different spawn rates for certain types of planets

[mighty rampart]

ya it is

[astral karma]

it can be the point 😛

I will note that the tool HG has on their website I am blanking on the URL for only supports Euclid last time I checked it though

[mighty rampart]

if you do it through the story, you get the option of going to a certain galaxy of your choice, where the planet type rarity changes

[sharp sleet]

just gonna put it out there. i barely look at quests and havent found the motivation to stop my rush to get there

[mighty rampart]

its not necessary at all

[sharp sleet]

cool

[astral karma]

that was exactly me when I played, I was bumrushing towards the core

[mighty rampart]

plus, most of the coordinates people share mostly work for the current galaxy

[sharp sleet]

for the current?

[astral karma]

had a freighter with some 500ish warp fuel in it

[mighty rampart]

the one you're in and most others

Euclid

[sharp sleet]

oh right, so if i get to it's core i'll be sent to an older one?

[forest spear]

Not sure if this is a spoiler, but I just got to A Leap in the Dark mission and rip, the lil creature thing ;-;

[mighty rampart]

no you'll be sent to the next galaxy in the line, Hilbert

[sharp sleet]

i actually know where you mean because of youtube. if i didn't i'd be certain it's not a spoiler

[mighty rampart]

https://nomanssky.gamepedia.com/Galaxy

[sharp sleet]

okay so my hurling towards the center isn't an entire waste

well, sorta waisted if i don't figure out whish station i was at. lost a few days progress from joining somebody

[sudden pond]

@sharp sleet if youre looking for a quick trip to the center you can use portals. putting the Dawn glyph for the whole address will take you there (in all galaxies)

[sharp sleet]

so one galexy's portals have the same addresses?

[heady wyvern]

The glyphs are basically a way for the game to encrypt an X/Y/Z coordinate point.

The same glyphs in different galaxies will bring you to approximately the same location relative to their respective Cores.

[fierce valve]

Wait so how do I control where I go in a galaxy using the glyphs? Is it like a way of inputing the mats or smt?

[latent jacinth]

still hits you the second time, ooph

the lack of punctuation ruins it a bit though, gotta say

[heady wyvern]

@fierce valve When you use the portal, you can punch in a sequence of glyphs that corresponds to a planet somewhere in that galaxy. Usually, the desired sequence comes from somebody who went to that planet the normal way.

[fierce valve]

To be clear, when you say « glyphs », you mean those little symbols where I insert carbon, sodium, and du-hydrogen, right? If so, do I control where I go via the mats I put in or which ones I fill or how much I fill?

[uncut harness]

Yes, those are portal glyphs

In order to activate the portal (to use it in any way), you need to charge all the glyphs

Then you input a sequence of 12 glyphs

These represent numbers that show relative position of given location to the center of the galaxy

Eg. using only the 1st glyph in a sequence will get you pretty close to the center

If you'd like to get to specific XYZ point in the galaxy, you'd need to somehow convert these XYZ coords into portal glyphs

And enter those at a portal

Maybe there are some tools online that allow you to do that

The number or type of materials used doesn't matter

Just like you can power your ship launch thruster with either starship fuel or uranium

[sinful tree]

hello...question

is any of this wipe my current gameplay?

im a new player and have so many stuff pending. 🙂

[polar drum]

The final interface gives you a chance to go to another galaxy and do a wipe but you can refuse

It will be obvious either way

Where you go from here is up to you

I recommend going to the final interface and refusing simply because it will give you the glyphs you need to use portals later on for ship/freighter hunting etc

But its entirely up to you

And spoiler ||you only need to do iirc 15 jumps then activate a portal, you don't need to go to the center actually... you will if you refuse and want to change galaxys later however||

[heady wyvern]

@sinful tree None of this wipes your gameplay progression in any way, mind you

[sinful tree]

👍 ty

[polar drum]

Important to note if he chooses to go to another universe it will trash his ship modules etc

Just something to note when making your decision tis all

[latent jacinth]

Do we ever find out wtf is up with the Overseer?

or is it just one of those things where the game makes you uneasy and then just leaves you hanging

[lean mountain]

Also once you fix up your ship and stuff, if you want to go back to your old galaxy (Euclid), make a base in your new one to easily return to it, summon the anomaly, and use the big portal to visit a featured base in Euclid. From there, you can continue whatever it was you were doing.

You can return to any galaxy you’d built a base in, but by far the easiest one to return to is Euclid, as a vast majority of featured bases are there

[wind panther]

Nothing specific, unfortunately

[latent jacinth]

That's unfortunate. There's a bunch of buildup for it

[wind panther]

Yeah the farmer chain builds it up a lot

[latent jacinth]

The overseer one itself does too, if you talk to him in between completing the steps

[idle basin]

guys how do i know in which galaxy am i?

[indigo night]

just open the galaxy map in space

[idle basin]

oh tyvm

[winter oasis]

what is the purpose of this chat?

[mighty rampart]

No Man's Sky Story Spoilers and Datamined Info go in here!

[novel torrent]

@wind panther I saw your post about mod support, do you think it'll be steam workshop too?

[wind panther]

Absolutely no idea, honestly.

[novel torrent]

I hope so