nms-spoilers

[halcyon pebble]

is the atlas just a super advance pc

[storm shell]

I mean i already reset it , why can't i control it

[cursive kernel]

Because you're a part of it

[storm shell]

I mean let's hope we get a weapon we can use

[halcyon pebble]

I still wonder what this update is going to bring

weapon means so much

maybe new types of ships?

combat update

lore update etc

[mental socket]

ummmm

[storm shell]

What kind?

[mental socket]

the heck

box

what

wut

is it WT all over again xD

[mighty rampart]

no lol

relax

[halcyon pebble]

warships

[storm shell]

?

[mental socket]

umm

[subtle gorge]

Still skeptical

[mental socket]

2 people have gotten boxes

[compact coyote]

Massive cassette tapes vibes

[mental socket]

and cards

2

[storm shell]

Ships with interiors?

[subtle gorge]

Oh shit

[halcyon pebble]

Yes

[compact coyote]

Holy fuck if waking titan comes back

[subtle gorge]

WE'RE DOING THIS AGAIN

[halcyon pebble]

like star destroyers etc

[storm shell]

I'm confused , what is it?

[halcyon pebble]

A website game nms thingy

[storm shell]

So more capital ships?

[tame grotto]

what was the occasion for the "gift"? i dunno the ppl so i'm curious what they've been involved in?

[halcyon pebble]

yeah but not freighter like more battle like

[mental socket]

they are some nms streamer it appears

[mighty rampart]

probably just gifting some of the streamers some merch or something cute as thanks

[mental socket]

big one probably

[halcyon pebble]

they are a pretty big NMS streamer

[mighty rampart]

who is the second person

[storm shell]

Maybe our own personal anomaly?

[subtle gorge]

Wait who's the other one?

[compact coyote]

Dude this is giving me massive. MASSIVE atlas cassette tapes vibes

[mental socket]

water

pillars

[indigo night]

no Atlas

[mental socket]

nvm it was the same guy on reddit

[halcyon pebble]

he has like 4.8k followers and gets a decent bit of people every stream

so its not to far off for him to get a card

[subtle gorge]

I'm still skeptical

[mighty rampart]

same as I dont see anything interesting about it

[subtle gorge]

Remember the 90 times people tried gamejacking WT???

[compact coyote]

Giving me cassette tapes vibes

[mighty rampart]

remember when people got overly hyped when HG contacted some people for their game screenshots

[halcyon pebble]

if im being honest it might just be art

if there is stuff in the box he got maybe it will change

[mighty rampart]

box?

its a card

[subtle gorge]

He said he got a box on Twitter

[indigo night]

Hmm the two last missions are again discovery missions

for this we need that Myth Beacon

[mental socket]

he will soon show what's inside the box but it's likely nothing spoilery

[mighty rampart]

yeah probably some customized gift

[halcyon pebble]

I mean if im honest it makes sense he got a card

[mighty rampart]

or merch

[mental socket]

The weird thing was helmet with atlas reflection, water and those "towers that reach the sky"

[mighty rampart]

its the same as 2.0 lol

just the 3 guys removed and the atlas blurred more

[mental socket]

and some watery texture added

[mighty rampart]

it was also used in one of the consoles' screen too

[mental socket]

Ye ik

[mighty rampart]

people freaked out about it back then

[halcyon pebble]

maybe sean will tweet soon

[mighty rampart]

the two towers is just the light bending

its a fairly standard photoshop work

removing the details and only keeping the helmet

[brazen igloo]

What this man doing

[mental socket]

Well maybe the main thing being faded out atlas. What gave HG the reason to do that. Why would the guy even ask if we notice anything weird in it in the first place?

[mighty rampart]

he's just like you

[mental socket]

Well anyone can speculate

[mighty rampart]

being excited and noticing stuff he normally wouldn't

[tame grotto]

why would they even ask? to build up hype? encourage more retweets and visitors to his streams?

[mental socket]

Okay, we can forget about any hints at lore then. He is just a scummy streamer trying to gather attention. Nothing more

[subtle gorge]

Again Gamejacking is a concept

[mental socket]

Let's focus on the game itself

and current event

[tame grotto]

it's nice that ppl are more interested. but i'm def not seeing anything special that can be made out so far from the helmet.

[timid mist]

Idk about scummy but he is probably just as excited as the people who make crazy theories about updates based on emojis lol

[brazen igloo]

The only thing interesting from that is that he is wearing no backpack

[mighty rampart]

eh he's not being scummy he just got excited and overspeculated

since we already know this image existed before we're already informed, they probably aren;t

[tame grotto]

not scummy. you asked why they'd even ask. i presented a potential idea as to why. cuz we clearly aren't seeing anything that stands out in the helmet is all.

[timid mist]

But yeah likely just a cool thing they sent the dude for streaming for twitch drops

[mental socket]

Well I'm seeing a repeating pattern. Ever since atlas rises the atlas logo in nms cover art has been going further away

[tame grotto]

ooh that's a great point, actually

[brazen igloo]

Mhm

However I don’t think it really means anything

[mental socket]

Potentially hinting at its inevitable death

[tame grotto]

crap. why would we have our jetpack off

[mighty rampart]

is

check the right side of the shoulder

[tame grotto]

i MUST have my Pioneer jetpack on at all times

[mighty rampart]

classic exosuit back is poking

the camera thing is missing though

[brazen igloo]

I’d guarantee it’s a new sentinel variant or a new freighter thing

[mighty rampart]

like I said they just did this shop so it would look more portrait-y and minimal

[tame grotto]

yeah, the little dude's missing

[cursive kernel]

Oh

Right

[tame grotto]

def a possibility

[cursive kernel]

Pioneer jetpack was kinda cool

[timid mist]

Probably just to make it a little more symmetrical

[cursive kernel]

Didn't get it

[tame grotto]

kinda?

i heart my Pioneer jetpack

[cursive kernel]

It's just a bit too small

[tame grotto]

it's fun size

[mental socket]

perfect size

not too chonky

I can't wear the default backpack after trying the pioneer one. It's just.... C H O N K E R

[cursive kernel]

Yeah that's where I store my stuff

[mental socket]

Instead of a massive starship

because small backpack has more space in it

[cursive kernel]

Well we are an anomalous being

[compact coyote]

anomaly could be humans

[subtle gorge]

Anomalies have a canon reason for existing

But it essentially requires a complete explanation of Waking Titan season 2

[compact coyote]

Oh I went through all of that

[subtle gorge]

If I remember they were related to the dreamers from that arc

Like we are still travellers canonically

[timid mist]

i miss my boy toby

[compact coyote]

RIP emily

Hero

[viral geyser]

I think this update is gonna be massive

People got sent a postcard with what looks like cover art

Also just the teasing on Twitter

[mighty rampart]

I will lose my mind if it actually is a big update

as in 4.0 big

I'm expecting a more modest content update like Living Ships

[deep parrot]

I don't really see what's supposed to be strange on that postcard.

Is it that the helmet is supposed to have an antenna on it?

[mighty rampart]

the three chars and the anomaly was photoshopped off

and the antenna too

so people started speculating

[deep parrot]

Three chars and anomaly?

[mighty rampart]

oh oops I mean Atlas

[deep parrot]

Photoshopped off... is there an original image.

[deep parrot]

So... he's not wearing the jetpack...

[mighty rampart]

still wearing it

[deep parrot]

And he's not in an environment.

[mighty rampart]

the antenna was removed

[mental socket]

maybe because HG did it it gives a reason for some speculation

[mighty rampart]

jetpack visible

same with the card

[deep parrot]

I'm talking about the "strange" image.

[mighty rampart]

the card has that bit too

without the antenna

[mental socket]

literally the visor reflection in beyond is NEXT cover art

but photoshopped

and now the visor reflection is yet again altered by HG, could be nothing, could be something

but let's not get into any conclusions yet

[deep parrot]

Just blurry. Really...

Can vaguely make out the Atlas shape.

But that doesn't really mean anything.

[mighty rampart]

yeah my conclusion is that its just to make the card look nice and clean so they got some guy to shop it the best they could

[tame grotto]

btw, they also posted this for clarification: https://twitter.com/oskar1up/status/1395401146299256832?s=21
https://twitter.com/oskar1up/status/1395402237065707523?s=21

🛸Oskar1up🛸 (@oskar1up)

Just to clarify.
Hello games sent me a box as a thank you for the 70 hours of streaming during the Twitch drops. Soon I will show you everything, but seeing what is happening with Beachhead I wanted to show the card to see what you thought about it.

Twitter · May 20, 2021, 3:28 PM

🛸Oskar1up🛸 (@oskar1up)

And relax, the box contain gifts, nothing related with the story or "waking titan" stuff.

Twitter · May 20, 2021, 3:33 PM

[deep parrot]

I found thr back of the card more interesting.

Only because it looks like the character is wearing a ballcap and chill clothes.

And I'd like more glamour options. o-o

[mental socket]

it's literally the same art since next but slightly altered

[tame grotto]

And relax, the box contain gifts, nothing related with the story or "waking titan" stuff.

i think that's as clear as it can get.

[deep parrot]

https://twitter.com/oskar1up/status/1395400108250906625?s=19

🛸Oskar1up🛸 (@oskar1up)

This is the other side.
The first art.

You can check the video here: https://t.co/haCwu6m9V2

Twitter · May 20, 2021, 3:24 PM

[indigo night]

I still wonder what we should discover after we got that Myth beacon

[tame grotto]

the proportions of the Atlas itself does looks confusingly altered. so who knows why that choice was made.

[mental socket]

Boundary failures

are the next step

then mystery

[mighty rampart]

well as someone who works in a similar field, I would have done it just to make the design look less busy

[indigo night]

How you know that ?

[mighty rampart]

though I might have not removed the antenna but its not a bad call either

[mental socket]

there is litreally a boundary failure in the next missions badge thing

[deep parrot]

The Mystery 3 System has a planet with Bounary Failures, so it's highly likely we're intended to be there.

[mental socket]

also myth beacon reacts to boundary failures

[indigo night]

@mental socket dont have that pic in my save

[mental socket]

because you have to mod the game to make them appear

[indigo night]

ah got it

[mental socket]

people have already digged up as much as they can but HG is keeping this a secret

@wind panther tried to fly around the mystery system with myth beacon and it reacted to boundary failures

[tepid iris]

Is the Myth thing unlocked yet in the quicksilver store? 🙂

[deep parrot]

No.

[tepid iris]

Ah so Azure just got it with save edit? 🙂

[mental socket]

I never got it

[deep parrot]

79%...

[mental socket]

Gusk was the one trying to use myth beacon as I mentioned

[tepid iris]

Ah 😛

I'm blind soz

[mental socket]

Me and Rein were there just vibing and wondering what will happen

[deep parrot]

Order of operations:

1. I found the Mystery 3 system. Other users found it first, I just reported it first.
2. Azure swung by and started screwing with Boundary Failures.
3. Gumsk came by with his editted-in Myth Beacon and got "Mission Location Reached" popup text.
4. Azure and I helped Gumsk come up with different ways to screw with the Boundary Failures.

[kind salmon]

@icy citrus What am I checking out?

[icy citrus]

Anything in here, from the last 15 hours or w/e

[deep parrot]

I find it interesting that Hello Games marked a specific system for the Boundary Failures, though. And so close to the starting system, instead of Rendezvous 5.

[icy citrus]

I'm staying away

[cunning berry]

Hi @mental socket I see ur in here aswell

[tame grotto]

check out the lovely landscape

[deep parrot]

It's starting to look like Saturday morning or Sunday, with how slow the research has gotten.

[kind salmon]

I hope saturday morning 🥺

[tame grotto]

it's 80%, don't see how it wouldn't be done by Saturday, likely sooner tbh

[deep parrot]

Monday: Nothing
Tuesday: 50%
Wednesday: 75%

[fallen warren]

honestly

I don't see Saturday likely

Goin by past patterns

[compact coyote]

I'm gonna contribute to the research when I get home

[tame grotto]

it was less than 60% yesterday

[fallen warren]

I'd say tmr, or Tuesday

[tame grotto]

it's 80% now

on weekdays

when ppl are busier with work and whatnot

[fallen warren]

weekend releases for a new major update don't really make sense

[tame grotto]

don't see how it'd slow down all that much for it not to be done by Saturday

[kind salmon]

Tuesday!?

oops ment to reply to eva

[fallen warren]

I mean, Tuesdays seem pretty common update days for the game

[kind salmon]

I see

[fallen warren]

or am I thinking Wednesday.. I just woke up xD

[compact coyote]

Origins dropped on a Wednesday

[kind salmon]

Update may come out on tuesday, but the expe will 100% be ready before then

[viral geyser]

The atlas’s eye is gone

That’s on the postcard

[kind salmon]

What postcard?

[tame grotto]

the content creator who posted the postcard already made some clarifications: <#nms-spoilers message>

[deep parrot]

It's not. It's faint, but it's still there.

[viral yarrow]

Wait so what was the translation?

[viral geyser]

It’s 90% closed. That still holds the point

[fallen warren]

so, any idea what the weapon could refer to?

[deep parrot]

Let's see, for my close of business check times of 9:30pm Mountain Time
Monday. 0%
Tuesday. 51%
Wednesday. 69%

[tame grotto]

https://twitter.com/assistantnms/status/1395373581907988481?s=21

Assistant for No Man's Sky (@AssistantNMS)

@LoopCycka @NoMansSky Look to the monolith the weapon is coming!
https://t.co/XXgoDxgsji

Twitter · May 20, 2021, 1:39 PM

[deep parrot]

We only got 18% in 24 hours.

[viral yarrow]

The weapon?

Hm

Interestin, we’ve been usin the monoliths lore-wise

I mean unless the following challenges after this mythic beacon revolve around some form of weapon then

[kind salmon]

Hear me out:

The new weapon is the monoliths and sean murray makes them render so badly that every time you look at one your game crashes

[tame grotto]

https://nmscd.github.io/expedition-alphabet/#/alphabet

[viral geyser]

Not to toot my own horn. But I was the one who figured out the translation

[deep parrot]

If our rate of progress doesn't continue to drop, we'll be done with the research by tomorrow evening.

[viral geyser]

Unless they mess with us again

And it drops

[deep parrot]

Will probably only be at about 88% by 9:30pm Mountain Time tonight.

[fallen warren]

my wondering, is given mentions of the past.. they are introducing ancient tech.. would work like the living ships and void eggs in that they are consumable, but using that in the monolith would summon some sort of ancient technology, be it a ship, mt, etc

[viral geyser]

I think the atlas will die

Vykeen refer to the atlas as a weapon

I don’t think it’s a literal weapon

And a bunch of the story we have gotten has been through the mouth of a vykeen

[deep parrot]

The Atlas is dying in 16 minutes.

[fallen warren]

unless

hear me out

we are finally getting another galaxy wide reset

[kind salmon]

i hope not

[viral geyser]

If the atlas dies, it’s almost certain

[rough depot]

Not happening

[kind salmon]

because that nulls my entire 100+ planet collection

[viral geyser]

If you don’t want the game to keep progressing

Then

Idk what to say

[fallen warren]

I've said it before

id welcome another reset

[viral geyser]

You shouldn’t be against anything that betters the game

[kind salmon]

It depends on how big the update it

is

[viral geyser]

I believe this is going to be a big one

[viral yarrow]

^

[viral geyser]

Usually smaller updates aren’t hyped this much

[viral yarrow]

If it’s revolving around combat mechanics I don’t see it bein a reset

[viral geyser]

And we’ve never had in game content pertaining to an update before it drops

[vague oriole]

"look to the monolith the weapon is coming"?

Oh no

[viral geyser]

I think it’s city’s and combat

[vague oriole]

OH NO

[fallen warren]

the contrast between pre-origins and Post-origins proc-gen is immense, another reset fully pushing the algorithm to its knees would allow a lot more interesting stuff, and be really fitting for the 16th update thematically

[viral yarrow]

We’ve had

[vague oriole]

IT HAPPENING

[viral yarrow]

Cities are no where teased within this..

[kind salmon]

It especially matters to me because I've spent easily 20+ hours hunting/finding the best planets that I can and then helping others get to their dream planet.

[deep parrot]

It's a mother f-ing halo ring.

[viral geyser]

Yes they are???

[fallen warren]

Livin ships did

[viral geyser]

It got mentioned like 7 different times in the new lore

[last moon]

"weapon" = "tool" = "knowledge of time"

[viral yarrow]

Oh fo sho, I wouldn’t doubt a reset would better the capabilities but with what we’re being teased I’m not sure that it’s that big.

[viral geyser]

The void egg didn’t do anything until the actual update dropped

[vague oriole]

True, but part of me just hates the fact everything would be completely invalidated, all discoveries unseeable, all civs just erased

[deep parrot]

Weapon is an incredibly interpretive word in settings like this.

[fallen warren]

speaking of which, I need to hunt for a new planet

[kind salmon]

Want a planet!?!?!?!?

[viral yarrow]

Doesn’t mean it’s a must.

[prime spade]

Actually, there is a piece of dialogue from the historgraphical thingy that describes the weapon 'arcing over cities that reach above the clouds'.

But that would also be reading WAY too much into it. 😉

I don't think it implies we'll be seeing any such cities

[tulip dirge]

Reset? What?

[viral geyser]

But you said that it doesn’t hint at it at all?

[tulip dirge]

I don't wanna lose my lovely planet

[viral geyser]

The weapon is the atlas

[viral yarrow]

But you’re readin too much into it.

[fallen warren]

I mean, the civs can reorganize easy enough, hasn't galactic hub changed its capital several times?

[deep parrot]

The weapon arcs you say? Like a ring? Like... a Halo Array!?

[kind salmon]

@fallen warren Euclid or Eissantam? What's your fav planet color? Any other details?

[viral geyser]

Ok pecimist weekend

[viral yarrow]

Right, what Ryuujin said heh

[viral geyser]

The weapon is the atlas

[viral yarrow]

@viral geyser I just learned to control my expectations

Nothin more

[deep parrot]

Qyrae behaves so much like a Contract Demon. XD

[vague oriole]

They have, but they just launched project coruscant which was what me and many other players were planning to build on after beachhead

[tame depot]

proc-gen was updated less than a year ago, + there’s thousands of bases people have put easily millions of hours of work into. I really doubt they’re going to reset anything at all, let alone this update

[kind salmon]

81%!

[deep parrot]

What if that Galaxy 150 War was secretly Sean Murray shitposting the update?

[prime spade]

The most important thing to remember, is that patches generally only introduce a bunch of small additions; minigames, new ship types, new structures, new mechanics, a new generation algorithm.

I'm mosty excited to see the new lore and worldbuilding this introduces, being a nerd for that sort of thing 😉

[vague oriole]

If they just tell us one day "update dropping in an hour, unuverse resets" I'd be ok, if they announced it months in advance I'd be tottaly demotivated from playing nms until that dropped, maybe just to say a final goodbye to my favourite planets

[viral yarrow]

This beacon looks to finish like today

[viral yarrow]

“small additions”

I don’t see a reset

[idle jay]

Unless he was simply making a pun about the second expedition "Beach Head"

[vague oriole]

It could happen

[vague oriole]

He was

[viral yarrow]

He literally was

[vague oriole]

Look

[viral yarrow]

Ye ye ha

[idle jay]

Yes

[vague oriole]

Idk if a reset will happen

[viral yarrow]

But nah I don’t think this’ll lead to a reset.

[vague oriole]

It would definitely end in good

[fallen warren]

i mean, people put a lot of time into bases before and they reset

[viral yarrow]

This update doesn’t even have it’s own trailer.

Or teaser

[vague oriole]

But if they do, just drop it there

[viral yarrow]

Whatev

[mighty rampart]

I think its interesting to have old gen planets for legacy reasons and is more inviting for new players who would find traversing on those planets much easier, a reset is not needed at all and instead they can add a parallel universe with a smaller number of galaxies which can have even more alien and surreal terrain and assets

[deep parrot]

We're playing the teaser trailer.

[mighty rampart]

tldr add rather than clear

[vague oriole]

Oh no

[viral yarrow]

Yeah

[vague oriole]

Anyone remember last time a playable teaser happened

[deep parrot]

I don't, no.

[viral yarrow]

I like how they decided to tease the update with the next expedition

[vague oriole]

Spoiler alert: the game itself never came out and the teaser was pulled from the ps store

[idle jay]

Unless it does somehow end up being a secret 16th update there might not even be anything significant happening

[viral yarrow]

Unless you wanna call Waking Titan a tease

I mean, I’m not tryin to downplay it, it is the 16th update

[prime spade]

I dunno why people keep saying this'll be the 16th update. next will be named update 17, Expeditions was update 16
https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Patch_notes

[viral yarrow]

The hype being built up from the expedition itself now rather than some ARG or trailer

Ohh

I thought it was

[tulip dirge]

Ptsd

[viral yarrow]

Shit

[vague oriole]

I can imagine trailer lady saying: "no man's sky: the atlas fuckin dies update"

It is 16 content update

[mighty rampart]

they said it because of that image you're seeing

[idle jay]

^

[vague oriole]

(aka excluding crossplay and bytebeat)

[idle jay]

There are only 15 updates with a cover to it like in the image

[prime spade]

Ah, fair nuff

[idle jay]

The only ones that receive covers are the updates that HG would consider important enough to deserve one

[viral yarrow]

Hmm

[vague oriole]

Yes

[viral yarrow]

A weapon arching over the skies of floatin cities

[idle jay]

So it still stands

[vague oriole]

Crossplay wasn't content

[viral yarrow]

DEATH STAR BABY

[vague oriole]

And bytebeat was way too minor

And before you say "living ship just added the ships"

6 day long questline

[viral yarrow]

Lowkey I wish they could just diversify these ship types & exocraft types even more

[viral yarrow]

Exomech

Shit was shoortt

[vague oriole]

New content tho

Bytebeat was literally just a base part

[viral yarrow]

Yeah but that content only bein 1 exocraft

Bytebeat was actually pretty damn complex

People legitimately made soundtracks off of that thing

[prime spade]

Personally I'm wondering if 'beachhead' might not itself be the biggest clue we're all overlooking.

Thus far, nothing we've done in the expedition involves establishing anything I'd call a beachead.

And in which direction will it run, are we establishing a beachhead from which something new will happen. Or is something coming to our itteration, and establishing a beachead from which they will operate?

First Spawn: "It was us, all along!"

[tame shell]

bytebeat is a pretty interesting concept to begin with
it's math music

[idle jay]

But one of them has an effect on gameplay while the other doesn't

[vague oriole]

Exomech even added graphics stuff

And the minotaur is pretty damn cool

[viral yarrow]

I mean

Let’s look at what the term Beachhead means

[vague oriole]

And definitely more gameplay than a music tool

[viral yarrow]

If I can recall it has somethin to do with war

[vague oriole]

Yes

[deep parrot]

I need thr Minotaur to have a better tur ing radius.

[vague oriole]

Look

Just

[tame shell]

yeah, think D-Day

[mighty rampart]

Beatbyte>Exomech

[viral yarrow]

“a defended position on a beach taken from the enemy by landing forces, from which an attack can be launched.”

[mighty rampart]

dumbass mech that also nerfed all exocrafts

[viral yarrow]

Yeah like a literal d-day

[vague oriole]

It's what hg considers to be deserving of being an update

[viral yarrow]

so far Murray and the lore have been foreshadowin us with some arising weapon

[mighty rampart]

free Korvax Prime

[viral yarrow]

Could be Atlas

[mighty rampart]

death to First Spawn

[idle jay]

Cool so now I can get PTSD in the game with the D-day update

[vague oriole]

Bytebeat was never even "the bytebeat update"

[tame shell]

U16 - Korvax Prime Companion

[deep parrot]

The question is - who is invading who?

Are we invading "them"?
Or are "they" invading us?

[viral yarrow]

But if it has anything to do with a War, I’d see it bein an uphill battle

[mighty rampart]

yeah bytebeat isnt a named update or whatever, its just an involved easter egg they added for fun

[viral yarrow]

I mean if we’re talkin war lore-wise the sentinels literally have wiped out iterations of galaxies

[vague oriole]

Bytebeat was just patch 2.smth (bytebeat)

[fallen warren]

the living ships are invading, its time for living ship supremacy, are you with us, or against us?

[tame shell]

My guess is the Abyss, or whoever's messing with the history thingiemabob thing we're looking into

[deep parrot]

I'm against the living ships.

[prime spade]

Since they introduced launch thruster upgrades for mechanical ships... definitly against. They lost their one advantage 😉

[deep parrot]

I'll incinerate them all.

[vague oriole]

Living ships are cool and I'd def use mine but they're rlly not that practical

Especially with thruster upgrades

[mighty rampart]

I would have liked living ships more if they werent just another toy

[idle jay]

At least this seems like a content update that will possibly get me to play again. I passed on Expeditions personally

[mighty rampart]

so much missed potential

[viral yarrow]

They’ve introduced a wider variety of exocrafts n even a new starship that barely can diversify itself from the rest. If anything I’d see this update giving them new purposes perhaps?

[prime spade]

My biggest beef with living ships, is they have this narrow ass viewport, you can't see out of them in VR!

[tepid iris]

Opposite for me, I'm only playing due to the expeditions atm 😛

[idle jay]

I'm not much of a multiplayer person myself so 😛

[mighty rampart]

first expedition was pain and I didnt do it until near the end

me neither I did it solo and offline

[viral yarrow]

Expeditions was cool, definitely was refreshin to play on a wholly different build

[tepid iris]

I did all tasks so far in about 5 hours I think 🤔

[deep parrot]

I just looked it up cause I was curious. There's really no upgrade modules for the Rocket Launcher, huh?

[viral yarrow]

I didn’t really care about the multiplayer, it didn’t bother me to the point to switch it off heh

[mighty rampart]

yeah there arent

just a blueprint

doesnt need it anyway

[viral yarrow]

Only that one craftin modification to boost up the amount of rockets

^

That thing is a beast already

[dreamy quartz]

What's this about new content????

[mighty rampart]

added more things

[dreamy quartz]

I'm out of the loop

[mighty rampart]

not much yet

[deep parrot]

I kept looking, but I guess that just menas I have room to squeeze a 3rd weapon package on my Golden Vector.

[dreamy quartz]

Show me I like spoilers

[viral yarrow]

Ughh

[tame shell]

Expedition's teasing something thats possibly of interest

[viral yarrow]

There’s so much context you can tie to that phrase murray posted

[tame shell]

aside from that, just the usual update 16 speculation

[dreamy quartz]

No pictures?

[deep parrot]

All we know is a weapon is coming.

[scarlet carbon]

Wait is this update 16?

[mighty rampart]

just scroll up

[scarlet carbon]

Already?

[viral yarrow]

Vy’keens may also be the weapon too..

Sheesh

[mighty rampart]

it is implied that it was used against the vykeens

[viral yarrow]

Oh

Curious

It’s gotta be the Sentinels then

[mighty rampart]

kinda loose interpretation by me so take it with a tiny grain of salt

[deep parrot]

Sentinels are Atlas's "Virus Protection" that went rampant, basicslly.

[viral yarrow]

Maybe Atlas produced a new kind of Sentinel variant

[mighty rampart]

the dosimeter reading mentions korvax and gek, but when it comes to vykeen it just goes "grah" as if they're the narrator

[viral yarrow]

Yeap, wiped out dozens of galaxies including Nada and Polo’s

[tame shell]

Well, the atlas shouldnt have used McAfee

[deep parrot]

Lol

[viral yarrow]

Ooohh

[deep parrot]

(Queue Nord VPN ad-read.)

[viral yarrow]

This sentinel war-type beat could open up so much more mechanics

I mean they’ve actually tried to diversify their mechanics a bit more by changing their combat behavior etc.

[deep parrot]

I want to fight the Sentinels that can extinguish an entire universe in only 54 minutes.

[viral yarrow]

So I could definitely see this update revamping combat/sentinel combat

[scarlet carbon]

I doubt it

[viral yarrow]

I want to feel like i’m in a space holocaust

[scarlet carbon]

Pardon?

You want to feel like you are in a space Holocaust???

[viral yarrow]

Shoulda put the /s

[scarlet carbon]

What

[deep parrot]

Granted, I hope the Sentinels did more than just blow up all the stars or generate a massive black hole in order to do the extinguishing...

[scarlet carbon]

Is that some Twitter lingo or sumn

[viral yarrow]

But Sentinels have essentially been wipin galaxies out at a random so I could see the Atlas wiping this galaxy out due to the amount of anomalies there are in it.

[viral yarrow]

/s means sarcasm

heh

[scarlet carbon]

Since when

[viral yarrow]

For a minute, just reddit lingo

[scarlet carbon]

Yikes

[deep parrot]

Think I first saw that in AOL.

[viral yarrow]

/s is used a lot cause texts can be seen as pretty blunt

[fallen warren]

honestly, i know a lot of people seem to want a combat update but i honestly dont, like, if i want engaging combat, an open world exploration sandbox isnt normally my go to

[gloomy isle]

Hey everyone I'm kinda stuck on the 16/16/16 step. Nada won't give me the location of the atlas station

Does anyone know how to work around it?

[storm shell]

It's polo

Polo gives you the location

[viral yarrow]

Eh, combat had always been a major mechanic even base game

[tulip dirge]

Combat update but not pvp

[deep parrot]

Go to Rendezvous 5, and look for a Yellow Star that's 78 LY away from there called "The Atlas Calls."

[scarlet carbon]

Polo

Not nada

[deep parrot]

Just bypass all the people that want to try and make Nada and Polo work for you.
THEY WON'T

[gloomy isle]

Thanks everyone

[idle jay]

As long as a supposed combat update doesn't end up being some weird thing where it has a big focus on multiplayer combat then fine by me

[scarlet carbon]

Yea

But I’m saying don’t get your hopes up

[viral yarrow]

I’m still iffy on the whole cities debate

[idle jay]

I don't think we need cities for this game

[storm shell]

Ghost cities would be cool

[viral yarrow]

They could very well be referrin to those giant procedural data towers that have been spawnin in recently, and hell even playerbases.

[idle jay]

Settlements sure. Cities not so much

[prime spade]

if it still doesn't work, make sure you highlight it in your quest log

[storm shell]

Abandoned cities would work

[deep parrot]

I'd like to see populated cities, but they'd need to do something to make me feel compelled to be at them beyond just "social intrigue".

[mighty rampart]

Cities are boring, the towering archival buildings look way cooler

[viral yarrow]

Nah that’d just be boring

[viral yarrow]

That’s what I mean, the lore could be referrin to those archives

[idle jay]

Abandoned cities would be fine. That would at least make sense lore-wise

[rough depot]

Cities will provide literally no gameplay mechanics what so ever

[tulip dirge]

What if instead of cities, they give us better buildings blueprints so we build our own better looking cities

[gloomy isle]

Yeah I ended up resetting then talking to polo

[mighty rampart]

points towards all the buried ruins

[viral yarrow]

And I mean there have been tons of builds in the playerbase that hover over the atmosphere

[storm shell]

You could claim them as your own

[viral yarrow]

Nahhhh

[rough depot]

Why

[wild iris]

Like Origins then?..... Sometimes cool things to see is what makes NMS

[viral yarrow]

Seems like a whole different monster in itself

[idle jay]

At that point play a city management game

[mighty rampart]

bad argument, if they added cities they of course would have some game mechanics pertaining to them

[deep parrot]

I still need to find a world on my Normal save to build Delta Mac Anu.

[viral yarrow]

and it seems so unrelated to what really goes on

[storm shell]

Why not?

[viral yarrow]

Cause we already have a bunch of other mechanics that still need to be polished and need to be interwoven with eachother

[deep parrot]

So, what are these "Galaxy Hubs" I hear about?

[viral yarrow]

And besides, why would you need to build cities when players can already do that together as a community.

I’d say just optimize playerbase building a little more to give more common access for city scapes etc.

(If we’re referrin to cities)

[halcyon pebble]

because if players log off so do there buildings so cities could have some functionality

[viral yarrow]

But tbh this update looks more like a potential revamp in combat mechanics and an introduction to a new Sentinel variant that could easily wipe out life at an instant.

My mind is jumping to heavy Death Star vibes hehe

Or maybe make ship battles against sentinels a lot more common

[idle jay]

Yes going off of the Beach head thing that does seem like it would be the more likely scenario

[fallen warren]

cities i dont really see what they would add, but i would still like the ability to claim a space station in an abandoned system and rebuild it as a base

wont happen, but pipe dream

[viral yarrow]

I could see the current story picking up the pace where the 3 races band together to defend themselves against the sentinels and try to save their galaxy.

[mighty rampart]

I prefer the more existential dread

[halcyon pebble]

I hope we get more sentinels

[viral yarrow]

As much of the past lore Nada n Polo explain, they’ve always had the potential to wipe out entire galaxies and shitZ

[mighty rampart]

of the abyss

[halcyon pebble]

because combat is kinda boring with sentinels or even like in general

def what i want is a combat updaye

update*

[unkempt canopy]

combat update would be welcomed

[maiden stratus]

eh, id be sad if i didnt have the melee boost jump but ok

[unkempt canopy]

would also be cool to setup base defenses to prevent attacks

[idle jay]

Well I'd doubt they'd be removing that if there were a combat update

[viral yarrow]

I kinda wish for more passive effects

But we just gotta wait

what’s the percent at rn?

[maiden stratus]

83 on my screen

[unkempt canopy]

was 69 about 12 hours ago

[halcyon pebble]

My two large ones are More Dense Flora and Fauna and Combat

[unkempt canopy]

so prob another day or so

[viral yarrow]

I can’t say anythin

This process is all manual at this point

The percentage has been sporadic as hell

[idle jay]

Intentional manipulation of percentage increase for sure I'd say

[subtle gorge]

They (us and HG) exclude the more technical updates from the lineup, excluding next gen

[mighty rampart]

the wiki list almost works, just that its also listing release as the 1st "update"

[mental socket]

Yeah, they only count titled updates with trailers etc

[mighty rampart]

and also listing 2.5 crossplay even though its not a named update

[mental socket]

if we counted literally every update this would be like 300th

including all the small ones

[mighty rampart]

oh hold on crossplay was a named update, just didnt get the cover treatment

my bad

[vague oriole]

It's what hg considers to be the 16th update

That's all that matters rlly

[mighty rampart]

^

Sean did tweet that image

[vague oriole]

He did

[mighty rampart]

man I still love Origins trailer

arguably the best since 1.5

[compact coyote]

I remember when we all went crazy when NEXT trailer dropped on Twitch

[mighty rampart]

I didnt even know the game was getting updates, back then

thought it bit the dust after release

[vague oriole]

Look

Major updates should have the every one procedural intro

Not trailer lady

Trailer lady was good for expeditions

If she's in ghe trailer for 4.0 I'd be pissed

Imagine if they do the every one procedural intro and then it glitches out and shows the atlas dying

[deep parrot]

Yeah, I didn't know No Man's Sky was getting new stuff until I saw news about Expeditions hit my feed a few weeks into it.

[vague oriole]

I'd just visibly pog

[deep parrot]

Atlas actually dying means No Man's Sky being shut down.

[mighty rampart]

you're treading on dangerous waters here, friend

[vague oriole]

I have done the same before

And I won't hesitate to do it again

[mighty rampart]

||I fully support you||

[vague oriole]

If they have trailer lady in the 4.0 trailer I'll change my title in game to the every one procedural one

Even tho every ZaGroovyPhrog procedural sounds wierd

[mighty rampart]

for sometime I was Every Sohail Procedural

[deep parrot]

Anomalous Research is definitely moving faster today than yesterday.
Yesterday we averaged 0.75%/hour.
We're averaging 0.93%/hour right now.

[vague oriole]

Rn I'm pioneer ZaGroovyPhrog

[vague oriole]

Well yesterday the great research holocaust happened

And yes I'm intentionally saying holocaust cos it's beachhead

[bronze delta]

Anybody know what the encrypted expedition goals are?

[vague oriole]

Nope

Only the first 2

[mighty rampart]

not exactly but we know the next one after acquiring the myth beacon has to do with boundary failures on exotic planets

[bronze delta]

I am going to donkey punch the developers

[vague oriole]

Ah yea i forgot we know the icon

Also

In that pic gumsk shared

The last one was still just the encrypted icon

[bronze delta]

I already had to walk the ten minutes to my ship because the devs didn't remember the geobay limit

[vague oriole]

What limit

[bronze delta]

5 geobays per planet

[vague oriole]

That exists

Idk

I'm sure there were more than 5 players when is started doing it

And i saw 3 other ppl in roamers

[bronze delta]

Yeah, but they uploaded their base, so I physically couldn't place any

[storm shell]

Any news?

[vague oriole]

No

[idle jay]

Any news now?

[bronze delta]

What about now?

[fallen warren]

are we there yet

[bronze delta]

Are ya feeling it now mr krabs?

[storm shell]

They slowed down the research right?

[tepid iris]

my favorite trailer is still the NEXT trailer

[kind salmon]

I loved the discord reaction

LOOK AT THOSE CLOUDS

RINGED PLANETTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

[mental socket]

no mans sky is a game

[kind salmon]

🤔

[vague oriole]

It is

[deep parrot]

Hehehhahhahahah!
Our CEO just left work without locking their computer.
It's game time!

[vague oriole]

You know what here is an original suggestion:

Make doors work again

They open too slow

Did they ever even work properly

Too slow to walk in with the motion sensore thing

[deep parrot]

Anyone else notice that you can unlock Large Power Doors, but can't build them?

[bronze delta]

Launch thruster module

I just got one

[vague oriole]

Yes

They exist now

[vague oriole]

Load struts

They also don't exist

[bronze delta]

They only exist as a reward

[vague oriole]

They aparently removed them from researching blueprints in synthesis

[bronze delta]

There are also freighter modules

[scarlet carbon]

Any news now?

Lol

[deep parrot]

Current news is Anomalous Research is at 83%, representing a roughly 1% increase per hour in the last 14 hours.

Anomalous Research stocks are up by 0.25%/hour since yesterday.

[kind salmon]

@deep parrot I don't feel like number crunching. If it continues at this rate,^ when will we be done?

[storm shell]

Fucken tomorrow i guess

[deep parrot]

Friday, 5am Mountain Time

[kind salmon]

what in est?

[deep parrot]

Assuming we maintain 1%/hour.

7am.

[kind salmon]

fuck

I'm not gonna be on til like 12

[deep parrot]

You'll be fine... I anticipate a phase 2 of community research anyways...

[gusty berry]

what that

[deep parrot]

You know the portable base research unit?

[gusty berry]

no

that the blueprint analbeads?

[grim cloud]

lol

[deep parrot]

It has an extra buildable item in it for each of Wood, Concrete, and Metal that the Anomaly Vendor doesn't offer.

[grim cloud]

and u can build large power doors i think

in creative at least im pretty sure

[gusty berry]

the garage doors?

[grim cloud]

yeah

[gusty berry]

oh ok

that I know

[deep parrot]

That extra buildable is Large Power Doors. It lets you research it, but can't build it.

[grim cloud]

really?

i dont think thats right

but could be wrong

[gusty berry]

just report it as a bug

[deep parrot]

You can also observe that the wrong image is represented in the UI, and they all take Carbon to build.

[grim cloud]

report it as a bug then

[deep parrot]

How am I the only one to notice it? 0-o

[gusty berry]

tbh no cars can go thru em right

[grim cloud]

cause i think you might be wrong lmfao

[deep parrot]

Small ones, no.

[grim cloud]

i might be wrong

[gusty berry]

HG prolly don't really care enough atm

[deep parrot]

Which is what I assume the large one's supposed to be for.

[grim cloud]

yeah

[grim cloud]

maybe so, but are u sure u cant build them

[deep parrot]

Yep.

I may develop a video bug report this evening.

To clearly demonstrate

[gusty berry]

you can test it out by just building a 1x1 basic module tunnel

if cars can go thru em then maybe they can work

[grim cloud]

yeah

is there any way to make a door that cars can go through>

cause i want to make a garage

[gusty berry]

but since cars were embiggened 1.5 times its original size since VR

[grim cloud]

but idk how that would work

[deep parrot]

I would like closing hatch doors for my landing pads, but I guess you can't build above the middle 5x5 area.

[gusty berry]

I doubt they are of any small size to go through any normal garage doors

[grim cloud]

yeah

[gusty berry]

but then back when infrastructure walls/floors were a thing garage doors don't fit the truck either

anyway my guess is that since they don't fit jackshit HG just don't care about em much rn

[deep parrot]

I think the existing power doors are neat as is.

[bronze delta]

I am already almost finished with phase 4 and I haven't been to rendezvous 2

[deep parrot]

Went adventuring first then, eh?

[grim cloud]

lol

[bronze delta]

Yeah

[grim cloud]

I did the rendevous points firt

[deep parrot]

Same.

[bronze delta]

I am still mad that I had to walk the 10 minutes to my ship when I first started though

[grim cloud]

Well I did
Rendevous Point ---> phae quests

then repeated

[deep parrot]

You did it wrong. FURY. Xd

[bronze delta]

There is a 5 geobay limit

[deep parrot]

You were intended to build the Roamer Geobay ASAP.

[grim cloud]

yeha

[bronze delta]

5 geobays per planet

[grim cloud]

I just built it and drove

[deep parrot]

That doesn't sound right.

[bronze delta]

I physically couldn't place one

[grim cloud]

thats not right

we all spawned on the same planet right??

[deep parrot]

Yes.

[grim cloud]

And I could place mine easily

[deep parrot]

Same.

[bronze delta]

It isn't, yet I still had to do it for some infuriating reason

[grim cloud]

and I started like 15 hours late

i have 2 expedition saves rn

[bronze delta]

I am on single player

[deep parrot]

0-o

Even weirder.

[bronze delta]

So there is a limit for me

[grim cloud]

?????

Weird

Well then add multiplayer

[deep parrot]

I did it with multiplayer active.

[grim cloud]

lol

same ^^

[bronze delta]

Because people uploaded their base

[deep parrot]

I should go check that system out now.

[bronze delta]

The hardest part of phase 4 is discovering 10 systems

[deep parrot]

I built an Exocraft Station on a planet in the Mystery 3 System.

[storm shell]

We are up another %

[bronze delta]

What was that little machine reward for phase 2, why did they remove it?

Dosimeter was it?

[deep parrot]

Dosimeter is for reaching Rendezvous 5.

[bronze delta]

It used to be phase 2, weird

[deep parrot]

I might be misremembering.

I got a lot done in the first couple hours.

[bronze delta]

What does it do?

[deep parrot]

Primary function:

• Allows a unique Ancient Artifact Site interaction that awards 15 Quicksilver per use.
  Secondary function:
• Progresses the Anomalous Research, which eventually unlocks the Myth Beacon.

[bronze delta]

What are the encrypted goals for phase 5? Are they hard?

[deep parrot]

Unknown and unimplemented.

[bronze delta]

You are telling me that I physically can't finish beachhead on what is it? Day 2

Oh cool

[deep parrot]

Correct.

Day 3 today.

[bronze delta]

You know those random generations of oxygen and sodium plants that spawn a lot of them

[deep parrot]

Err

Day 4 today, sorry.

And yes.

[bronze delta]

I found one of each right next to eachother

[deep parrot]

Comfy.

If the rate doesn't diminish like again like it did yesterday, was should be able to complete Phase 5, Task 3 tomorrow.

[bronze delta]

How do I start task 2?

[deep parrot]

I suppose we don't necessarily know if Phase 5, Task 4 or 5 will be progressable after that yet.

Task 2?

You use the Dosimeter at 3 sites.

[storm shell]

The research rate has been killing me

[deep parrot]

To start it, you need to acquire the Dosimeter.

[bronze delta]

I made a promise to myself that I would do one phase a day

[deep parrot]

A bit too slow, for my taste, and I think it's gonna influence some players to start the Expeditions later when they can do the full thing in the future. I don't think it's good implementation.

[storm shell]

Was the research rate artificiality slowed?

[bronze delta]

I then proceeded to do 3 of them in one

[uncut harness]

Wait the dosimeter awards 15 quicksilver each time it's used!?

[deep parrot]

Yes

[uncut harness]

oh dang

[storm shell]

You can do everything in 2 hours or are you just doing it slowly?

[uncut harness]

I thought the qs was just for completing the mission

[deep parrot]

Nope.

That's a permanent feature of the device.

[uncut harness]

That's great

[bronze delta]

I was tired after walking 10 minutes to my ship in phase one after the geobay limit

[storm shell]

Ah

[storm shell]

Any idea on this?

[deep parrot]

We can't know, honestly.

[timid mist]

they've done it before so it's possible they did for this as well

[deep parrot]

It didn't work at all on Monday, which makes me sus as is.

None of us possess the server side tools that can track what the entire player base is doing.

To really know if it's artifical or not.

[uncut harness]

I'm still under the impression that the counter is fake

[timid mist]

we used to have access to totals for the community events but once we started noticing them change numbers midway thru they changed the API to only give a percentage lol

[deep parrot]

Sounds about right.

Reminds me of certain... voting systems.

If I were them, I would've probably measured something like:
How many people completed Pioneers within X time.
That many Pioneer completions x 3 will be how many Ancient Artifact sites need to be scanned to get progressed to the next step in that X time.

[timid mist]

that number would be a bit inaccurate given how long pioneers was compared to beachhead

[deep parrot]

Right.

But I'm curious how they determined how many scans would be needed for this one.

Like if they did something nuts like "all pioneer completions x 3".

Btw, the "x 3" I'm pulling out of my rear end is just from how many each player is personally required to do for Phase 5, Task 2.

[timid mist]

yeah id be curious to see the numbers for everything

[deep parrot]

I'm curious if it's actually just completions of that task that count towards the research, rather than site scans.

[timid mist]

sometimes they put them in dev blogs like "over x number of people"

[deep parrot]

I have a feeling Monday probably should've been like 15% prog. And Tuesday should've been like 35% prog.

If Monday research actually worked.

[storm shell]

Were we finishing it too fast maybe?

[bronze delta]

Curse you Siriill_VR the xbox player

[maiden stratus]

no one thinks its just community progress divided by active expeditioners? big influx of new expeditioners, number goes down

[storm shell]

Mate this is the spoiler section lol

[supple hollow]

Hi

[bronze delta]

When do you think we will be able to unlock the golden gek first spawn helmet?

[supple hollow]

any way to post an image in this channel?

[bronze delta]

Yes

[supple hollow]

#bot-spam

[bronze delta]

I am trying to help you and you correct me?

[supple hollow]

I was trying to find it myself quickly as I couldn’t see it in the list of channels

sorry

[bronze delta]

You have to be level five

And then you @ an admin

If it doesn't do it automatically

[supple hollow]

Thanks! Sorry for the confusion

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/471868642204712971/845033755525644339/image0.jpg I found this system that might have something to do with the mystery tasks for the expedition

does anyone know what it is?

I was told to come here for #nms-questions

nevermind, I found it!

[bronze delta]

Is the ship reward anything special?

[prime spade]

It was a reward for the previous Expedition. It's unclear it'll ever be possible to unlock it retroactively if you missed out (Besides by using save game editors)

[bronze delta]

You do realize I mean the phase 2 reward, right?

[prime spade]

Oh, derp. My bad I didn't notice it was on the phase 2 reward lists too

EDIT: Are you sure/ - I'm not seeing it listed

[wind anchor]

What do the numbers mean on the rendezvous pinned image in this channel. This -> "0AB3:0082:0184:0033"? (I'm looking for the coordinates on the planet since I could use a portal at the moment. Does that equate to coordinates somehow?)

[bronze delta]

You theorizers do realize if you just chilled out and waited for the stuff to unlock it will reveal itself, right?

[prime spade]

Are you sure, where are you seeing the Golden first spawn helmet on the Expedition 2 reward list?

[bronze delta]

When did I ever mention the golden gek first spawn helmet in reference to the current expedition

[prime spade]

When do you think we will be able to unlock the golden gek first spawn helmet?```

[bronze delta]

Yeah, in reference to a future expedition

Because if you go to the character customizer for anomaly you will notice that there is a locked helmet called golden gek battlemask

[prime spade]

And the answer is "The golden first spawn battle mask was a reward for the first expedition".

Whether or not people will have a second chance, I don't know.

[bronze delta]

It was?

I didn't do the first expedition because it seemed pointless

Besides the fact gold doesn't go with anything but gold, why would I complete the game again for a cosmetic

Could you not type a paragraph?

[prime spade]

I don't get why you're so hostile to people trying answer your questions :/

[mental socket]

that's where the next encrypted phase of the mission will happen as soon as we unlock the myth beacon

[bronze delta]

Because the answer doesn't always have to be long and thought out

[viral geyser]

What’s the %

[bitter hedge]

I always thought that the Golden Gek helmet will probably be able to be bought with Quicksilver eventually. probably when expedition 3 starts

[bitter hedge]

85

[viral geyser]

Oh shit

It might be done tonight

[bitter hedge]

I am hedging my bets on Saturday morning myself

[viral geyser]

Why would it take 2 days for 15%

That doesn’t make any sense

[tulip dirge]

Society

[bitter hedge]

Cause last time we were getting close and making progress the bar went back 10%

[viral geyser]

That was a glitch I’m p sure

[bitter hedge]

I don't think so, the progress has been really random. some hours I actively see the number going up/down and other hours I see it not budge at all.

I honestly think its just Sean playing with a slider lol

Don't get me wrong I'd love to see it done tonight, but the bars movements have been dubious

[deep parrot]

Yeah, found that a couple nights ago. I certainly wasn't the first to discover the system, but I suppose I'm the first to report it's existence here.

[bitter hedge]

I'm not too far from that place either, I'm on a blue star nearby

[deep parrot]

I often ask the randoms I see fly into the system why they went there, and the most usualy response was "I thought I'd find an Atlas Station here."

[bitter hedge]

guilty as my Polo and Nada are glitched lol

[deep parrot]

Do you need guidance for where to find one?

[bitter hedge]

Nah found one already but cheers for the offer!

[deep parrot]

Cool.

[prime spade]

Lol, yes. I saw the Atlas icon and thought "Huh, did they mark the atlas station for us? - I guess I'll go check it out before I go bother polo for the co-ordinates"

[deep parrot]

I suppose it's a logical guess, since it does have an Atlas Icon.

The mission tag is suspicious, though.

[bitter hedge]

I'm more concerned about the alternate history unfolding

I have theories about whats going down but they are just theories, though we probably won't get answer and Sean will just scream 16 in our ears

[deep parrot]

The pattern repeats, the pattern repeats, the pattern changed.
Gek, Korvax, Vy'keen.
Gek, Korvax, Vy'keen.
The pattern is always these three.

[bitter hedge]

Can you imagine if they dropped a new race?

[prime spade]

I'm intrigued to find out the cause :p

It'd imply that the seed conditions for the universes has been altered recently. Is that an error caused by the breakdown of the system? - Did Atlas makes changes again? - has someone else found a way of injecting changes into the system?

[tulip dirge]

We are the new race

[deep parrot]

Assuming we're internal to a simulated universe, the assumption is that there's "others" who exist outside the simulation that made the Atlas and can change things.

[bitter hedge]

Presented by M.Night shyamalan

[storm shell]

Thing i picked up is that stars were created by words

[bitter hedge]

Also I'm not sure if its just me, but the Gek monoliths seem a lot more aggressive in mentioning the Korvax in this expedition. Or is it just me?

[prime spade]

I mean, there was a 4th race that Atlas purged from the simulation (Likely representing it's creators), but we're probably not seeing them coming back, the traveller not withstanding.

[deep parrot]

Oh yeah.

Maybe the pattern changed by not erasing them this go around.

Cause it's a "reboot" every time.

[bitter hedge]

What if the "Metal Dragon" that's mentioned is a Gek Freighter...

The one that is mentioned to have been destroyed

[deep parrot]

Eh...

[storm shell]

I mean it probably means the atlas language

[bitter hedge]

I would like to see an alternate history when the Korvax didn't mess with the Gek Spawning Pools

Just to see what would play out

[deep parrot]

That might be the timeline where the Gek are slaughtering Travelers and researching their corpses, and probably containing the place our Iterations keep reseting.

[storm shell]

So the weapon is handheld

[prime spade]

The historigraphic thing puts a lot of emphasis on the duality of two halves of a whole, with two fates.

All three of the races could fit the bill.

The Korvax/Gek duality, if the spawning pools never happened, the First Spawn would be a threat still. Nal/Hirk likewise, had a different leader prevailed, the universe would be a very different place too.

[storm shell]

And it's held in a great tower

[deep parrot]

The weapon "arcs over cities."

[storm shell]

The translation says it's held in a tower tho

[deep parrot]

The translation says a lot of things, plenty of it being contradictory to itself.

[storm shell]

And it's also a hero's weapon

[prime spade]

Highly unlikely. The historgraphic info implies it having a will of it's own, and being able to soar through the skies, at the very least it's some sort've living (Or, machine) entity.

[bitter hedge]

in before Mass Effect crossover with the Reapers lol

[uncut harness]

trebuchet update?

[bitter hedge]

I was drinking damn it

[storm shell]

It also said that it returned to the heroes and it's locked up in the tower

[prime spade]

I mean, I wish it was a handheld weapon.

I personally really wish we had a 'multi-sword'. And a sword is a fitting weapon/tool for a hero of myth 😉

But I'm not expecting it to be the case

[storm shell]

I think the weapon may be words lol

[deep parrot]

The pen is mightier than the sword.
Update: expanded interacial diplomacy system.

[storm shell]

The words also created stars

[prime spade]

Marrying a (or several) Vy'keen wasn't interspecies diplomacy enough for you?

[deep parrot]

Haven't found that dialogue yet. o-o

[storm shell]

I married one without my consent lol

[compact coyote]

The others who made the atlas is probably us

Humans

[deep parrot]

"Anomalies" as it were.

[prime spade]

That'd be my guess based on the style of speech/writing recorded in the crashed freighter records.

[compact coyote]

Humans are also probably the Anomalies/Astronauts

[deep parrot]

But why? What happened to them?

[storm shell]

Now there is a citadel too

[compact coyote]

Anomalies are basically astronauts

[deep parrot]

What do they think of their simulation becoming aware of the outside? Of interfacing with their administration console, the Atlas.

[storm shell]

So , a citadel , A tower and weapon

[prime spade]

Atlas deleted them according to telamon's records (Assuming they are the missing 4th race). It's motivations are unclear, but I'd hazard a guess that, having been abandoned by it's creators, Atlas probably didn't want to keep seeing and simulating them, or perhaps their predicted future/fate was traumatic to keep reliving and knowing.

But for whatever reason it deleted them, well besides for the scan it took of it's actual creator

[deep parrot]

The outside creators obviously couldn't be deleted by the Atlas.

That's like saying The Sims deleted the real me.

[prime spade]

Yeah, obviously in this context I'm talking about "Within the simulation", we can't really know what exists beyond the Atlas, anymore than we can know what exists 'beyond' our universe, if there is anything

[storm shell]

The metal dragon is a freighter right or something else?

[deep parrot]

Whatever happened to the outside creators that left the Atlas to fall into disrepair. It wasn't caused by the Atlas.

[compact coyote]

The creators of the Simulation is are a collab of Atlas, Multiverse, Superlumina, and Echo

This is true

[storm shell]

Anyone know?

[deep parrot]

Nope.

[compact coyote]

And Myriad

[prime spade]

Well the creators abandoned the Atlas, it was supplanted by another AI of it's own creation. That much is explained in the remembrance dialogue

[storm shell]

Maybe the weapon pierced the citadel

[viral geyser]

I don’t think the weapon is literal

I think it’s the atlas

[deep parrot]

Well.

[viral geyser]

I think the vykeen are calling it a weapon

[compact coyote]

So Myriad, Multiverse Technologies, Atlas Foundation, Superlumina, and Echo

[deep parrot]

The weapon is coming.

[viral geyser]

Is it at 90 yet?

[storm shell]

Maybe the weapon is a living freighter lol

[deep parrot]

We'll be 100% tomorrow.

In time for most US residents to pick up the Myth Beacon after work.

[compact coyote]

If you all arent familiar with atlas. Go to csd.atlas-65.com

[storm shell]

I mean it says the weapon is coming

Imagine a giant living freighter appears for us

[mental socket]

freighters aren't exactly weapons

[deep parrot]

Cool if they were. I'd love to be able to call my Dreadnought to rain hell.

[mental socket]

if you're lucky enough to have your freighter near a battle the turrets will barely do any damage to enemy ships

[storm shell]

The weapon had a master and a commander

I think it's a living thing

[mental socket]

the abyss

maybe

[storm shell]

The weapon wouldn't be the atlas because it's not lost

[deep parrot]

Welcome to the DeepSpace update.

[compact coyote]

NMS is deep space yes

[deep parrot]

Nah.

Deep Space is outside the galaxy.

Can't leave.

[compact coyote]

NMS is Interstellar space

Intergalactic space is outside the galaxy

[prime spade]

I took part in the waking titan stuff, but always struggled to reconcile the Waking Titan lore, with the lore presented to us in the game

Is there a synopsis someone wrote up, i need to refresh myself on it

[compact coyote]

So basically with the collaboration of Atlas, Myriad, Multiverse Technologies, echo. They created no mans sky

The "Simulation" they call it

With W/ARE

[tulip dirge]

What if freighter with huge energy cannon on front

[prime spade]

Right. But the inconsistencies between the depiction of the world beyond, and the purpose of Atlas I had trouble with.

Like Remembrance makes pretty clear Atlas was some sort've predictive AI created by an advanced race who abandoned it when it it created a superior AI to replace it, and the Travellers are based on a scan of Atlas's creator.

But Waking Titan says Atlas was created as a contemporary simulated reality alongside a bunch of other processes (I seem to remember part of it's purpose being to test the hypothesis the real world is itself a simulation? - It's been a while), and there was a thing about uploading people as 'Anomalies'.

Within the game there's been little to no references to the lore in WT either, which makes me wonder how canon it's even considered to be.

[deep parrot]

Yeah, the purpose of creating an autonamous reality simulation is to experiment with the possibility that the creator's reality is, itself, a simulation.

This is the basis of Simulation Theory.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis#:~:text=The simulation hypothesis or simulation,such as a computer simulation.

The Atlas would be considered one of these "Ancestor Simulations."

If anyone's seen Sword Art Online: Alicization, the Underworld would also be considered an Ancestor Simulation.

[prime spade]

yeah I'm familiar with the concept. I just meant it seems like there is a disconnect between the Waking Titan lore, and the No Man's Sky lore we see in the game/

[storm shell]

Does anyone have the historiographical stuff?

[deep parrot]

You mean a compiled list of the text from it?

Someone made one, but it didn't get pinned.

Idk exactly what to recommend for searching for it.

[storm shell]

Can't find it

[mental socket]

there it was

[storm shell]

I think the weapon is sentient

[deep parrot]

Could someone pin that, please?

[prime spade]

The weapon is you!

[deep parrot]

Dun dun duuuuun

[storm shell]

-_-

[dreamy oracle]

y'all seen the tweet I assume?

[storm shell]

The weapon one?

[dreamy oracle]

yeah

[storm shell]

Ye