nms-spoilers

[wanton path]

fourth race already in the game

before cities they could do proc shetlements first

untouched since day 0

[mental socket]

another experimental without notes

any major changes?

[wanton path]

Exp3 soon

we're literally at 2 months from anniversary

[mental socket]

So did they drop the files in?

[wanton path]

not yet

not trascendental changes yet

[mental socket]

what files were changed?

[wanton path]

exe and some xml i think

[mental socket]

again

rip

now 2 days in a row

[mighty rampart]

yea no clue what's up

launch issues?

[gusty berry]

prolly just crash and bug fixes

[gloomy isle]

This expedition may be going live strangely close to E3

[pure steppe]

Question

Is it possible to beat this game

[heady wyvern]

@pure steppe Define "beat"

[pure steppe]

💀

[heady wyvern]

This does not make question clearer

[rancid ether]

You did ask someone named gojira to define beat, so im not surprised haha

[gloomy isle]

😂

[heady wyvern]

The joke is, unfortunately, lost on me.

[mighty rampart]

gojira is a metal band

[crisp fern]

btw

universe is a sim within a sim within a sim within a sim within a sim within a sim within a sim within a sim within a sim within a sim within a sim within a sim within a sim within a sim within a s...

[mighty rampart]

Leon didn't you decide to not engage with the NMS channels again

[nocturne zephyr]

Leon IS NMS

[crisp fern]

does this count as proper engagement or just shitposting 'cause i'm filing under the latter personally

[mighty rampart]

Shitposting it is

[icy citrus]

All of this is

[crisp fern]

(but if u look elsewhere i'm breaking my own decision because i'm terrible)

anyway back on channel topic isn't it funny how they duped folks into caring about a sophisticated alien voicemail?

[icy citrus]

Not a spoiler though

[crisp fern]

yeah it is tho

Artemis

they a voicemail

sophisticated alien voicemail but still basically voicemail

[icy citrus]

[nocturne zephyr]

[onyx elbow]

Is there an ETA on the 5th anniversary update?

[nocturne zephyr]

no

probably summer

[storm shell]

August prolly

[nocturne zephyr]

July, August or September

July sounds less likely though since we just got a smaller named update

[storm shell]

What's the 257th galaxy?

[kind salmon]

||[REDACTED]]||

[glass flare]

it would be cool for them to do an in-game ARG for the 5th anniversary, send people to planets to discover strange new buildings, etc. kind of Elite Dangerous style. not that I wouldn't mind an in-person ARG again but the second season of Waking Titan wasn't as strong as the first

[crisp fern]

@wind panther any indications the cave stuff may be per biome or is it still treating them all as the same sub-biome throughout various biomes?

[wind panther]

I don't see any biome changes

[crisp fern]

figures, thanks!

[vague oriole]

Not real

It's just 256 with a different name

[ashen grail]

what does this mean

oh wait just another patch

:/

[dusk aurora]

3.52?

[subtle gorge]

If I remember that's the size of the last patch on experimental

[fallen warren]

Hey can I ask a question for dataminers here?

are there like, statistical rates at the chance of ships being certain colours? cause I've noticed pink ships, while exist, seem absurdly rare

[fathom notch]

ive never noticed colour weighting, only ship type weighting. seems colour is largely determined by chance

[icy citrus]

Are you looking for a particular type Eva?

[fallen warren]

hmm interesting.. maybe I just get bad luck, cause it certainly feels like some colour combos I run into much more frequently

[fallen warren]

not ATM, it's just sorta something I was thinking yesterday after running into ships with the same colour combos fairly frequently

[icy citrus]

Gotcha

[fathom notch]

could someone explain the abyss to me

i still don't think i get it

[icy citrus]

Sure!

So, lore mentions a signal coming from beneath the waves, broadcasting in bursts of 16 with a power similar in nature to the Atlas

It is capable of subverting even the most loyal to its cause

Corrupted sentinels?

Since Next they have steadily been adding references to the Abyss also - both in ship and multitool naming, as well as more beneath the waves references

[fathom notch]

so what's the hook?

[icy citrus]

My theory is it's another program designed to supplant the Atlas in case of malfunction

[mental socket]

Also aren't the corrupted planets with living ship/flesh parts the cause of Abyss?

[icy citrus]

And it's waking up

[mental socket]

as well as abandoned stations etc with slimy goop all over them

[icy citrus]

In theory, not explicitly stated as far as I know

That's what I head canon though

[mental socket]

Ah

[severe sun]

oooooooo, like hades in HZD

I like that

[icy citrus]

Yeah

Theory only of course

[fathom notch]

i think my biggest problem with the abyss is that i just can't connect with it on an emotional level, ideological level, even like on a horror level

[mental socket]

I would assume it's the abyss. Derelict freighters lore seem to hint at it

[high sleet]

I see the same color. And my brain thinks it’s the same person

[fathom notch]

and i mean maybe i just don't Get It but it actively disinterests me

[mental socket]

We really need some story/lore update

[high sleet]

I thought you were talking to yourself gleam

[mental socket]

too many things are left open

[high sleet]

But that’s an interesting idea, definitely worth more thought

[icy citrus]

I do

[fathom notch]

like i'm more interested in the terror of being alone and the existential aspects, and now there's a sort of overriding vague cloud over that that almost presupposits me towards a disliking of the more generic space horror elements

[ocean wyvern]

He was I think the opinion was formed before the explanation provided lol

[fathom notch]

i understood what was said, if that's anything

really i just want a bearing on why it's so intriguing, and it frustrates me that i just haven't clicked with it yet

[icy citrus]

Did you play the first set of community missions?

We went around and fed something materials at the behest of Nada and Polo, to stabilize the simulation

[fathom notch]

i missed a lot due to computer downtime, but if it means anything i have been with nms since day one

and yeah i remember those missions

[icy citrus]

For me it represents a change for the sim, a new power running it in new ways

[mental socket]

Yeah

It even ||killed Ariadne|| ;-;

[fathom notch]

that, i feel, is where our interests diverge. i don't think i could justify why

[mental socket]

[icy citrus]

The Atlas is dying

The programmers have a fallback

[mental socket]

But yea. Abyss has been long teased threat. Some of the abandoned building logs had hints of it even before all the fancy updates

[icy citrus]

Yep

[mental socket]

Seems like it's slowly getting more and more grip on the simulation

Corrupted planets appearing, derelict freighters through walls of realities, systems getting abandoned by races and filled with the disgusting corruption goop

Subtle hints

Kinda feel like this is similar to something like the darkness in destiny or thargoids in elite dangeroud

A bigger threat that slowly gets teased

[fathom notch]

i suppose my frustration is more fear at that point, but still only at an ideological scale. to me, this concept is very literally destroying the things i enjoy about no man's sky, filling it with pock-holes and distracting from the worlds and peoples and places. it's eroding what i like, and that fear becomes anger at something i fundamentally should be enjoying the continued development of

as more and more updates come out that address this specific item of my aggressive disinterest i fear i'd end up on the cutting room floor

[mental socket]

I personally enjoy this. For me NMS has always been about mystery and uncertainty of settling into an unknown universe.

This whole thing about corruption and the Abyss proves to be an extremely intriguing mystery that really makes me feel uncertain in the universe for the first time in a while.

The universe itself is largely known by players now. We know the general rules, we know how thing work and have even charted fairly big chunks of it.

[fathom notch]

maybe it's just my autism rejection-sensitive change-disliker brain speaking here but i find comfort in the universe having a fundamental set of rules and just kinda being interesting as it presents itself rather than being maligned and corrupted by some unseen force that Could Do Something, We Just Aren't Sure

it doesn't help that the agents of said unseen force are irritatingly consistent in their presentation

cool void egg planet
another one, same deal
another one, same deal, etc

[icy citrus]

Well take to heart that they aren't going to just yank all the rules away or change all the planets or something

Arent*

[mental socket]

Yeah, no more resets will happen

[fathom notch]

eh, they did it once on accident, i'm never made comfortable by changing sands

oh yeah, and freighter dungeons - those also irritate me terribly in their remarkable consistency

it's either derelict security systems or evil space critters or both and it doesn't get much different aside from the occasional lab/medbay and sometimes you get a hangar

[mental socket]

I just wish for clarity in things. Like, maybe allow us to see in world of glass or something. I wanna know what's out there in those mysterious places

what's behind boundary failures

[fathom notch]

i find myself in an awkward position where i appreciate the effort and craft put into these sorts of things but don't like that it's all smoke and mirrors

[mental socket]

What is the place between suns

where

[fathom notch]

just feels like all tell no show, and that's fine if you're writing a novel

[mental socket]

Well exp2 ending did prove that HG is fully capable of showing things too

[mighty rampart]

what if you wanted a setting where you wanted other people to write novels based around that setting

like a writing prompt

NMS and sandboxes are intentionally vague so you can do that

[fathom notch]

that's how i tend to approach NMS, yeah

but i find the abyss uninspired and uninspiring

[mighty rampart]

ah well that's just down to subjectivity

[fathom notch]

there's more interest for me in the extraordinary everyday, really

what do vy'keen eat

[ember copper]

cronus feeds them all

[fathom notch]

one quarter portion

[subtle gorge]

The abyss really hasn't been built up well up to this point I feel. It feels more like an excuse for stuff to happen, with minor threads that point to something bigger. I think you have have a vague overarching antagonist but it doesn't do it very well, as much as I love the lore and story

Admittedly, I have more interest in something like ||The Last Spawn||, despite them only being teased slightly. They're mentioned about three times in the entire lore and I want to know more about them than I do the central.. Whatever it is

[crisp fern]

never say no more will happen when it comes to HG

[mental socket]

I suspect them to just add new planets or another dimension behind boundary failures

if they were to add new biomes/environments

I recall Sean saying they added new planets instead of reset because community owns so much of the universe already

[crisp fern]

If we see them making planetside bases "portable" I'll get tentatively hype

[mental socket]

the copy/paste and move feature seems quite interesting

[crisp fern]

Because that will mean they have found a solution to player creation retention and unfreezing the universe

Also it's splitting hairs but it was less that players had colonized so much and more that they just seemed to want to avoid messing up people's builds, which still didn't pan out all things considering

[nocturne zephyr]

would be amazing if they introduced an alternate dimension as Azure mentioned, and it'd be just as many galaxies but limitless and players deciding to go there will have to suck it up and deal with the fact that big terrain generation improvements are more important than their lowly bases

lol

[mental socket]

umm

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/nwq28a/has_anybody_else_noticed_ariadne_is_missing_from/

Saw this

Anyone else seen Ariadne disappearing?

[empty cedar]

Nope. Just checked.

[mighty rampart]

probably their game bugging out but weird coincidence

[fathom nimbus]

isn't ariadne the one with the cat-headcrab hybrid head?

[mental socket]

ye

[indigo night]

she told me that she hides away if she does see you incoming

[ripe ivy]

If I reset the simulation do I lose all I have?

Like ships multi tool money, that kinda stuff.

[heady wyvern]

@ripe ivy Nope.

You don't even lose your old bases

[fathom nimbus]

you lose one thing

Nada and polo

they become strangers

but you gain a new galaxy

[mental socket]

:c

so sad they don't know you anymore

that's why I will never leave euclid

[fathom nimbus]

well, you reset the galaxy. you don't forget where they are.. but they don't know you

[empty cedar]

I don't recall seeing anything in the Nada/Polo dialogue to suggest they "forgot" everything. Huh.

[fathom nimbus]

they act like they don't know you

plus if you don't do it, they say something like "thank you for not forgetting us, we will never forget you either"

[fathom nimbus]

"new eyes", i'm not friend, i'm stranger

[green burrow]

is there any lore that relates gravatino balls and sentinels ?

[pine igloo]

I dont think we know anything about that, but everyone has their own ideas

[mental socket]

There is a lot of lore about sentinels

They are called Aerons btw. They did some crazy shit like eliminated all the life in the universe, destroyed NPC races capital cities etc

[uncut harness]

I mean the whole thing about sentinels is that they're supposed to contain anomalies. When harvested, gravitino balls cause a rift in realities, which is an anomaly, and so the sentinels hunt it down

[mental socket]

also they have access to the World of Glass

[uncut harness]

I think the reason hostile sentinel planets are ripe with gravitino balls is that perhaps the high concentration of gravitino balls on that planet causes the sentinels to go mad?

[mental socket]

currently Atlas doesn't have full control over sentinels so they can get quite mad for the littlest reasons

And something seems to corrupt some sentinels too. Probably the Abyss?

[uncut harness]

Yes, perhaps. But they're only summoned (in my experience) when salvaging containers on planets with salvageable loot underground, or when doing a specific nexus mission

so perhaps they're associated to the old technology you can salvage on those planets?

I see the strange screens the containers flash through, perhaps they mean something

[rancid ether]

I know theres a ton of wild theories out there on the World of Glass but sometimes I wonder if the world of glass is a reference to being under the terrain, where looking up is like seeing the world above from the other side. After all, sentinels can freely travel through as they so often pop up from beneath the terrain.
Not as fun of a theory but wouldnt be out of place among the other meta references in the game.

[gusty berry]

If you go under the terrain you can see the sky from below because the normals only face up

That's kinda like one way glass

[green burrow]

yeah we even get a title with that name when we kill enough of them i think

[green burrow]

ok that makes sense now

[fathom nimbus]

I.. think this is a spoiler?

i have never seen this.. head.. before

until the last bugfix

he's talking about finding me.. when he's caked in blood, with flesh in his teeth..

[icy citrus]

run

[fathom nimbus]

yeah, he sounds like he's either gonna be in a hell of a fight, or kill people

he talks like the gek

"i cannot prevent it, it has already happened, and will happen again"

the point was : i don't recognize this head

it's not one i can use

i've unlocked them all

[icy citrus]

We don't have all the traveller heads

[fathom nimbus]

this is legit the only one i've seen that i didn't have

[icy citrus]

Keep going, there is a whole range of cat heads we don't have

[fathom nimbus]

Oh?

I've not seen those

[storm shell]

Goat , goblin hybrid lookin ass

[fathom nimbus]

yup

[chrome depot]

Am I supposed to get the Atlas Path quest again after resetting the universe??

[fathom nimbus]

if you did artemis, you didn't do atlas

[chrome depot]

I-

Did, though?

I have all the Atlas seeds.

[fathom nimbus]

oh.

Hm. i dunno then!

[chrome depot]

Uuuhhhh

Bug, then? Maybe?

[chrome depot]

I was wondering why people said that the Living Ship is a big time investment.

Just got the fragile stem.

Please tell me the whole quest isn’t like this.

[leaden tapir]

Ohhh boooy you’re in for a long ride

It takes about a week or so

[chrome depot]

Bruh

Why Hello Games.

[fathom nimbus]

IT TAKES FIVE DAYS

[hardy yew]

Its worth it, though.

[chrome depot]

I mean.

[fathom nimbus]

Definitely

To be honest some people don't know something about living ships

NO RGB DRIVES

[chrome depot]

It'd feel more worth it if I actually had to do something instead of just wait-

[fathom nimbus]

it can fly EVERYWHERE

ALL STARS

[mighty rampart]

Intended, in case black holes don't show up for you in the new galaxy and also a way to read the Atlas messages again now that you might have learnt a lot of words

As it wouldn't make sense to teach you Atlas words if you couldn't read the prompts anymore

[craggy sluice]

Can each galaxy considered as separate universes/dimensions/realities? Like reality within a reality, universe within universe (since the galaxy's core is the entry way to another galaxy)?

[fathom jacinth]

question: i'm at the system closest to the galactic core in eissentam. how do i go to a new galaxy?

[stuck rose]

at the end of the Artemis path mission

[fathom jacinth]

i finished that already though?

[fathom nimbus]

make sure your hyperdrive is full, don't click the galactic center

click the line

HOLD your mouse, the circle will go around and then ZOOM

on your way to the next galaxy. dunno why. eissentam is great

[gloomy isle]

@fathom jacinth ^^

[onyx elbow]

@chrome depot I went through the living ship quest, wasnt happy with the colour I found so left the system and reloaded and tried another system. Did that a few times and then the quest bugged out and I didn't get a ship at all and lost my egg. Haven't bothered to get another

[chrome depot]

Rip. That’s why the wiki says to make a manual save as soon as you get the third soul I guess.

I’m hoping I can get a green one.

[winter radish]

how many colors can they have?

[fathom notch]

gonna be honest
'big drone with a gun on it' is the most convincing thing i've read all day

[viral geyser]

I think it’s just smart speculation

[fathom notch]

and as we all know, the blaze javelin doesn't exist

[dreamy forge]

one leak i read which i think is pretty obvious anyway is the water and the tech they're building for it

[upper basin]

I hope so Toto, that would be the update I have been waiting for...

[viral geyser]

Yeah that’s 100% coming. Did a bunch of data mining and water looks completely changed

I just don’t know when

[mighty rampart]

just fyi

[fathom notch]

although i'm sceptical i have heard whispers about some more creature tech, dynamic animations

[mighty rampart]

unless HG has lost it, they won't name their update "Downfall"

[viral geyser]

The leaker said we will find out in expidition 3, so I guess we don’t have to wait long lol

Downfall sounds bad ass

??

[mighty rampart]

Desolation still worked because it doesn't immediately come across as a bad name

[uncut harness]

Downfall is the worst name for an update.

[mighty rampart]

^

[viral geyser]

Hard disagree

[uncut harness]

Fallen Atlas would be so much fucking better than Downfall.

[icy citrus]

Abyss Rises

[mighty rampart]

yeah or well any word that doesn't immediately sound like they've given up

[viral geyser]

Damn y’all find any way to complain

[fathom notch]

so vague improvements, a drone with a big gun, the blaze javelin doesn't exist

[winter radish]

"That leak is fake" followed by "the majority of those things are indeed coming" 🤨

[uncut harness]

Nah, just getting bored of "leakers" tbh.

[viral geyser]

I never said it was real

[fathom notch]

i'm not sold

[viral geyser]

I was just asking for opinions

As a data miner I can confirm ray tracing looks like it’s coming along with new water

I just don’t know the ETA

[uncut harness]

My opinion is that it's dogshit, just like any other leak.
Only leak that's been legit is Mechs.

[dreamy forge]

i'm sold on the water tech and if true will be something very special indeed, i'll just say that

[fathom notch]

as a piece of speculative fiction, it isn't very well written

[upper basin]

Downfall sounds amazing to me. Real or not, just bringing those ideas to the front will maybe get the devs to eventually add something like that in...

[mighty rampart]

...that is how that works? its not a "leak" if its based on stuff we already know? the datamine itself is a leak, yes but that was quite a long time ago

[rancid ether]

Its a wishful thinking update concept repackaged as a "leak." Not the first time we've seen this

[viral geyser]

there is also new .mats that point to ray tracing, new animations for water (could be water falls) and new water shaders as well. Also looks like the flamethrower had been recently updated with the new visual fox

Fx*

[dreamy forge]

yes

[mighty rampart]

they worked on this since 2019
so you mean to say they were working on Beyond, Origins and 4.0 at the same time

[rancid ether]

It uses the same fx as the fire storm, thats why its updated?

[viral geyser]

That’s what I’m talking about?

You seem to have a vendetta against me @rancid ether even though I have never interacted with you

[rancid ether]

That just sounds like HG reused an asset

[viral geyser]

Petty.

[rancid ether]

No dude

[fathom notch]

bait bait bait

that's bait

[mighty rampart]

giving a rational explanation isn't petty

[uncut harness]

It's not even a creative bait, it's "lets take what players talk about and put it into a post"

[viral geyser]

Exactly

Just smart speculation

Not to mention the call out for the other leaker

Just trying to gain attention

[uncut harness]

We had lots of lore in the weekend missions and none of it has been reused so far, including the Abyss

[rancid ether]

This is exactly what it is. They just rebranded a fan service update concept as a "leak"

[uncut harness]

Why would it matter now?

0 concrete info, the names of new MT weapons as generic as they possibly could be

[viral geyser]

Personally I think the update is gonna deal with proc gen and combat.

They’ve been doing a lot of back end wave function tweaking

Which is a fancier word for terrain gen

[mighty rampart]

internal namings are always very generic

[dreamy forge]

from what i've heard about proc gen is they will just be small improvements/tweaks, no resets

[viral geyser]

Those are from leaks

[fathom notch]

colombian ministry announces no man's sky 2!

[viral geyser]

Which are usually wrong

[mighty rampart]

at least its now "WTF" WTF2" "SHIT1"

[viral geyser]

I’m coming from a data standpoint and saying there is a lot of back end stuff that leads to many exciting things

There was a depot that was hidden when prisms dropped as well

Too protect from data mining

They are hiding something

Just don’t know what

[rancid ether]

Exp 3

Be rational.

[viral geyser]

The depot has been there since BEYOND,

It was updated in prisms and then hidden

[jovial violet]

Who else remembers good ol' "OldBuildTest" and how that went literally nowhere.

[viral geyser]

Why do you constantly try to argue

[rancid ether]

You asked for discussion

Stop taking things personally

[jovial violet]

Just chill and wait and see what they do. It's better than petty fights over speculation and wishful thinking

[viral geyser]

I’m telling you data, and you are just being a dick

That’s not discussion

[mighty rampart]

yeah considering even in 3.0 they didnt add the new increased generation to all planets, gotta make sure bases don't die
so I'm speculating they're going to "sharpen" the terrain as that has still being lacking, or maybe add little stuff like thin valleys/canyons as that wouldn't break bases

[viral geyser]

That’s pessimism

[rancid ether]

Im telling you that leaks have mostly been fluffed up obvious updates in the past, and this looks largely the same

[viral geyser]

I’m not talking about the leaks

[rancid ether]

And you're actually being insulting to me directly

[viral geyser]

I’m talking about the data I have been following

[rancid ether]

So i guess im done with you

[viral geyser]

You even accused me of being the leaker

Good riddance 🙂

[mighty rampart]

yikes

[viral geyser]

Some people just argue for argument sakes it seems

[mighty rampart]

yeah, if only people could just post things and no one would engage with it!

[viral geyser]

/s

[icy citrus]

Stay civil, no need for name calling

[mighty rampart]

yoo they removed the other DLC

[viral geyser]

You can’t preorder the game anymore, so there wasn’t any point of keeping it

[wicked cloak]

This do make sense, based on those "fluctuation in history" from those new items in Expedition 2 imo

[mighty rampart]

looking real sus HG wyd 👀

[viral geyser]

Sussy😳

[mighty rampart]

they updated it in sept 2020 and then yoinked it

something big is happening??

[wicked cloak]

We havent got a major npc/faction/guild update are we? This could be true, buut still not gonna expect too much

[viral geyser]

Nah, just updated the files so they compatble with the newer ones

[mighty rampart]

um stop being pessimistic??

I'm telling you data

[icy citrus]

Cmon, no baiting

[wicked cloak]

Im interested with the new waters tho 👀👀

[viral geyser]

The new water looks promising

[wicked cloak]

(If it is true)

[viral geyser]

You can check the files yourself 🙂

[wicked cloak]

I see, alrighty

[viral geyser]

Guess I hurt his feelings by being realistic

[icy citrus]

That is also trying to instigate a comment - we can disagree as long as we are keeping the rules in mind. No need for any sort of personal remarks or snide comments

I personally think the update speculation may have some points right, but mostly wrong. A generalized statement that is bound to hit something

[viral geyser]

That’s my thinking

The wider net the more fish you’ll catch

[mighty rampart]

the usual nostradamus

[icy citrus]

Yep

But I like trying to imagine what they will do next

They keep surprising me

[viral geyser]

Indeed

[uncut harness]

Players: have expectations
HG: let's blow their minds with different stuff

[icy citrus]

Lol

[viral geyser]

Looks like ray tracing is coming down the pipe at some point. Though I feel that old gen might start to be getting screwed

Especially with prisms

They got like 20% of the update

[icy citrus]

Not so much screwed I think, just not able to maintain parity in all ways

Game is still fun, just won't be quiet the same looking

Quite*

[viral geyser]

It may sound mean, but I think they should drop old gen. It’s holding the game back way too much

[icy citrus]

That is inevitable

[uncut harness]

Wouldn't be surprised, Next Gen introduced some PS5 only features

[viral geyser]

Especially if they are adding ray tracing

I’m not even sure how that would look

Maybe that’s what the new water animation files are for

Idk

[uncut harness]

I doubt HG will fully drop old gen, given the state of the market for consoles. I reckon they will keep pushing the updates, but only the new gen will benefit from visuals / effects

[icy citrus]

Prisms is personally my favorite update yet, I love the new visuals, though I understand that some people want more content than just appearances

And macro ...

[uncut harness]

Bug fixes / QoL improvements are universal

[viral geyser]

I don’t see how they could though

The more they add the more cpu hungry the game will become

Old hardware won’t be able to keep up

[mighty rampart]

kinda why leakers are boring, they just say the shit the community has been begging for and yeah it would be nice to have those but I love it when they do something totally out there

imagine a real leaker showing up and saying something absolutely absurd

and they turn out to be right

[uncut harness]

Well, they uped the # of players in 1 instance and added pets, which surely was an extra strain on CPU, yet the game is still doing fine

[uncut harness]

Yup, also some things are too big to keep a secret, if you really have the inside knowledge

Like the Normandy

[viral geyser]

That’s more of a networking thing

[outer cobalt]

What is up with all that 'leaking' ? From what I can gather, there was a supposed leaker last year, who posted again on 4chan claiming to be the same person, getting archived before any replies made. Then we get another 4chan post with a new leaker calling the other fake, saying they made a screenshot from a certain Discord? This screenie is actually only a part of a Reddit post from several weeks ago. Now everyone is getting all riled up as if this is all something new?

sigh At least let us all get our facts straight?

[viral geyser]

Leaker wars for clout

[icy citrus]

Yeah it's guesses and speculation, not a leak

[uncut harness]

People are getting hungry for news, so they start fabricate their own

[viral geyser]

Source: bro trust me

[uncut harness]

Lol, 3 replies in a row

[rancid ether]

Or its the same person obfuscating the source (of the "leaked" info).
I see a lot of "its been datamined" without the proof. And yes, plenty of low hanging fruit mixed with fan service, then branded "leak."

[outer cobalt]

Plenty has been data mined, your guess would be as good as any for that matter.

[viral geyser]

Why do you doubt data mining

You can do it yourself

Quite easy

[outer cobalt]

I would not sign it with "Sean Murray" though

[mighty rampart]

even content wise (that all players can experience) it was pretty great:
-updated warping visuals
-freighter bases now transferring when buying a new one, and an updated menu on that panel
-cave variation
-rewards from lightning/meteor events
-better looking appearance modifier UI that will support a ton of decals for the future
-can tame more animals
-night starry skies
-creature fur
-bytebeat radio
-synthesis lab
-several improvements to charts

there's something for everyone

[icy citrus]

I agree

[rancid ether]

Some thing that get mined also never see light of day, so yeah, even that isn't very reliable.
It's one thing to be a legitimate leak, but this (and the other recent "leaks") would have been just fine as wild fan theories. Looking at the meat of each update, minor tweaks/changes were made that added up to what felt like a new experience everytime.
These leaks almost always have multiple foundational changes to the game, so they read as fan wishlists.

[outer cobalt]

It's all fine with me, in the end it's all speculation anyway, because nobody would be able to prove anything, or someone would be at risk losing a job

unwrinkles the foil ... where were we?

[austere mountain]

Spoilers for those who haven't completed the main mission!

||So, i'm done with the main mission - where the universe folds and implodes (or explodes?) in 16 atlas minutes, and i am asked to go to the core.
I'm now doing the Atlas Path, where i have to do a pilgrimage of sorts to each Atlas station.
For each Atlas station, i've been choosing "conform", or "succumb" or the equivalent choice (which is based on my milestone).
So once i do this completely, will it affect how i approach the core? Is this like a choice? Does me going straight to the core without completing the Atlas Path change the outcome?

Also, i think i kinda know that the game restarts when i reach the core. Question is, is it like a new save file completely with no ships or items or anything?
Or do i get to keep stuff from the 1st playthrough?||

[mighty rampart]

no need to use spoiler tags in spoiler channel

[uncut harness]

(You don't need spoiler tags in this channel)
No it doesn't affect the core and it's more like New Game Plus.

[austere mountain]

Haha i know, but i would feel bad if someone glanced over and saw this massive spoiler. Just being overly cautious.

[uncut harness]

You'll keep everything you got but it'll be damaged and you'll need to repair.

[mighty rampart]

and for your starship and exosuit, only the tech in general slots will be damaged

freighter remains intact

[austere mountain]

Ah okay! And new quests from the beginning? Like do i need to rediscover polo and nada?

[mighty rampart]

no

[uncut harness]

Nope! They'll remember who you are.

[austere mountain]

AH YISSS

[mighty rampart]

but atlas path may restart

[austere mountain]

If they forgot me, i would be so sad!

I was already hit massively in the feels when i had to say goodbye to them.

For each Atlas station, i've been choosing "conform", or "succumb" or the equivalent choice (which is based on my milestone).
So once i do this completely, will it affect how i approach the core? Is this like a choice? Does me going straight to the core without completing the Atlas Path change the outcome?

So what about this, if i may ask?

[uncut harness]

You can skip it entirely but nothing will change. Doing Atlas Stations will just quicken your journey to the core.

[chrome depot]

Will they? They treated me as a new comer after I reset the universe-

[crisp fern]

yeah but i want charts removed so only freighter base transfer and bytebeat radio (something i and others suggested here & there) for weirdos like me

haven't checked enough caves to determine impact of changes, as the few I have look about the same just slightly tweaked lighting

[chrome depot]

And refused to hear what I had to say about the reset too

[austere mountain]

Ah, got it! And the "black hole" waypoint on the galaxy map is just a random black hole which will transport me closer to the core?

[uncut harness]

Mostly yes but sometimes no.

[austere mountain]

Do my bases remain when i reset the simulation?

[austere mountain]

Cool, got it. I think i'll just ignore them for now.

[mighty rampart]

caves have improved volumetrics, water dropping particle effects, changes to old assets

[uncut harness]

Yes and you'll then be able to jump between galaxies if you setup a base in the new galaxy after you core jumped.

[mighty rampart]

and a different style of spread too, like now finding two cave marrow variants is much easier

[crisp fern]

maybe my settings having to be low is preventing me from seeing much of that then

[austere mountain]

Oh, going to the core pushes me to another galaxy? Nice.

[mighty rampart]

I'm also on low settings and I still saw the effects and content

[crisp fern]

then I'll have to check more caves

[mighty rampart]

especially the foliage

[austere mountain]

Think i've gotten most of my doubts cleared, thank you very much!

[crisp fern]

for me that's how some already looked

[mighty rampart]

I've never seen glowing shrooms before

and the ol' hanging cables have been extended and dangle further below

sometimes overworld rocks also spawn in caves but unlike before they can spawn on the cave ceiling too and it looks real funky

[crisp fern]

feel like whatever changes to caves may have been very slight but i'll keep looking about

[mighty rampart]

probably luck, my first 5 caves were practically the same so I thought there's only literally two cave types

oh also there's generally more colours for cave marrows, I've seen every primary colour at least once

and the assets in general also have a wider colour palette than before

[balmy nimbus]

and storms improve the look of the caves

[crisp fern]

so still getting that weird surface visuals leaking underground thing?

[balmy nimbus]

I don't understand

[crisp fern]

the lighting in caves, even in tunnels and chambers not exposed to the surface, tends to change according to time of day. The fogginess according to outside weather conditions.

Things that don't necessarily make sense given being largely cut off from the surface

[balmy nimbus]

I guess I would say yes then

[dreamy zealot]

Can't find any info about this online, what are the consequences for giving the glyphs to apollo or refusing?

how do I get him to survive? What's the difference between him surviving after going through the portal and surviving without going through

[fathom notch]

refuse to give him the glyphs and he will be disappointed but will ultimately survive

[dreamy zealot]

I also read about him surviving after going through the portal, how's that happen?

[fathom notch]

well, characters who enter the portals don't necessarily die

[dreamy zealot]

how do I stop him from dying though

if he does take the portal

[fathom notch]

apollo doesn't die

at least i dont think he does, ive run the story through a few times and he doesn't die, he just becomes trapped in the inbetween like artemis

[dreamy zealot]

well I'm seeing a lot of mentions of him actually dying

and if he's trapped can he ever be freed?

[fathom notch]

i couldn't say for sure then, and no

it's about as final as putting artemis in the soul dungeon

[dreamy zealot]

Anyone know? What choices lead to him being trapped or to him surviving?

[icy citrus]

You choose that, regardless of previous choices

That is unmissable

[dreamy zealot]

What do you mean? Could you elaborate? What is unmissable, him getting lost? Even if I don't give him the glyphs? Can I save him from dying somehow?

[icy citrus]

No matter what choices you make , you eventually get to the point that you specifically choose their fate

[dreamy zealot]

and I will have the choice to save him regardless?

And him not getting uh stuck for ever?

[icy citrus]

Umm, you sure you want to know?

[dreamy zealot]

Hm, maybe I just want to know if I won't be locked into a certain fate at some point from a previous decision?

[icy citrus]

Nope, no matter what, you will have 2 choices at the end

[dreamy zealot]

right, ok thanks

[icy citrus]

Np

[dreamy zealot]

oh and will those 2 choices be the same regardless of what you did before?

[icy citrus]

Yep!

[dreamy zealot]

right, thanks

[dreamy zealot]

How come after completing the atlas path, I still have that quest?

If I go to an atlas station, it's still the final interface, but it asks for another sun seed

[heady wyvern]

@dreamy zealot No idea, just ignore.

Ya won't really get anything from it.

[dreamy zealot]

what would happen if I got another sun seed?

[glass flare]

i came across the wreckage of a freighter in space last night for the first time, can you interact with them at all or is it just a prop

[olive cedar]

you can nuke 2 containers floating around. that's all

[glass flare]

gotcha. it's a shame they didn't make them explorable dungeons

[olive cedar]

yep they could also make infested space stations or mining stations

[heady wyvern]

@glass flare There's freighters that are dungeons, but they need an item in order to find and access.

[glass flare]

yes I'm aware, it would just be nice to find those once in a while without the resource cost

[buoyant cairn]

There is\was a way around the cost

Don't think it's been patched yet but you can put the beacon into your portable refiner to keep it from being consumed

Dude in the video in this link is super annoying but goes over how to reuse them. https://youtube.com/watch?v=eyPltWPItZE

Im pretty sure I've encountered them as anomalies while flying with pulse engine too. But that was while playing multiplayer so don't quote me on that

[empty cedar]

Videos about that dumb 4chan "leak" are circulating now, ugh

[dusk sorrel]

And? It encourages community discussion, I don't see a problem with it as long as no one takes it as the truth or sets it as expectation

[winter radish]

Yes you can find them as random encounters, they're somewhat rare though

[fathom nimbus]

@dusk sorrel @empty cedar I personally hope -some- of it comes to fruition

not hoping on all of it

[empty cedar]

as long as no one takes it as the truth or sets it as expectation
These being youtubes, one guess as to how likely that will be. :p

But seriously, calm, informed discussion is great. (See: recent discussions in this channel.) My reaction was more about potential fallout from breathless, clickbaity hype videos.

[fathom nimbus]

i mean, the section just under this one is literally for things we hope for or wish for..

And we discuss these ideas

[empty cedar]

And that's great! Seriously.

[rancid ether]

I was told the discussion was about the claims made by the person here and not the 4chan leak.

In fact, I'm not sure why people are giving any spotlight to 4chan's claims at all. It's an anonymous forum. Anyone of us here can hop on, put down a smattering of ideas that are either assumed to be coming or a frequently requested feature and sell it as a leak.
Is the average fan of the game doing a language analysis between the posts to determine if it's the same person? I doubt it. Is there a chance that someone intentionally made the copy-cat post appear as a copy-cat so their post would appear to have more validity. Absolutely, that's 4chan trolling for the last 15 or so years in a nutshell.

To me, that's the unhealthy part, it was implied to have a spark of validity without question, and when it was questioned, people got upset.

[empty cedar]

Hopefully my kneejerk reaction to the videos wasn't too off-topic or provocative. If so, apologies all around!

[fathom nimbus]

again, i'd LIKE to see some of them, but i don't hold too much of a candle for 4chan leaks

that crap happens about every game and tvshow ever, and is rarely right XD

[reef rock]

Is there a point to drop pod or the coordinate cards?
I mean, after I maxed my backpack thingy

[empty cedar]

Drop pod data, no. Nav data is used for calling your ship to landing pads, and for point of interest hunting (unless you have exocraft scanners).

[reef rock]

oh ok

I keep finding drop pods

[crisp fern]

they provide a very small shelter and save point for whatever that's worth

[high pewter]

what do you think is the size?

[reef rock]

very very small shelter

but barely

I went afk in one to get a drink came back being blasted by sentinals

[dreamy zealot]

what am I supposed to do during the purge

it just says atlas sequence 2/16 and go towards the center, and well, I'm already right next to the center but can't warp to it

[chrome depot]

Do you have all the runes?

@dreamy zealot

[dreamy zealot]

um 10 out of 16 I think

[chrome depot]

You’ll need all of ‘em, I think. Keep traveling from system-to-system and it should just give them to you. Once you have them all, it should direct you to a portal, but given you’re so close to the core idk.

[dreamy zealot]

I have all of them now but the sequence is currently at 8/16

:l

[chrome depot]

Hm…

Maybe try traveling to 8 more systems?

[dreamy zealot]

I did now

It's at 16/16, did the encounter, still can't travel to the center hmm

[misty loom]

You'll have to do the warps even if you already learned the glyphs from Travellers graves

Oh hmm

[dreamy zealot]

how do I select the center? my hyperdrive is fully charged

but my missions just say enjoy reality while it lasts or something

[icy citrus]

!you mean to jump to the core? Or just to head that way?

[dreamy zealot]

yeah just did it by using the q and e thing

kinda dumb that you can't select it normally

[icy citrus]

Weird for sure

[dreamy zealot]

is the screen being just black right after warping normal 🤔

with music

[icy citrus]

No

[dreamy zealot]

oof lol I always find a way to break every game I play

Maybe it's because I was under the core? Like not to the side, but I went to the bottom of the sphere of no stars

[icy citrus]

No idea really

[dreamy zealot]

Huh, it put me only 3000 light years away from hilbert spiral's core

[icy citrus]

It does that sometimes, I don't know why

[kind salmon]

Can anyone here help me decrypt this?

[uncut harness]

Yes.

[kind salmon]

ight

what do we do

[uncut harness]

Nothing cause it's already been decrypted.

[winter radish]

hasn't that been decoded many times already?

[kind salmon]

whats it say?

[uncut harness]

STATION STATUS: NOMINAL
SYSTEM AI MODE: SLUMBER

ONLINE
ONLINE
ONLINE
...
ERROR
ONLINE
ONLINE

[kind salmon]

mk

[winter radish]

If you want to cross-check it: https://nmscd.github.io/expedition-alphabet/#/alphabet

[mental socket]

that was decrypted on the same day it came out. Nothing new there

[green burrow]

i still believe there is a way to trigger the dialog with the damaged station core

like turning a flag on in the memory or something

there might even be material and shaders for the damaged core in game

[fathom nimbus]

it LOOKS like we will be able to customize (manage) stations if we get the item

maybe it will be from the next expedition

changing how a station functions is a very "community" thing

[fathom nimbus]

word of warning, if you went through euclid's core, you didn't complete the quest

"the purge" takes you manually, it tells you to go to the galactic core but that's a misguide

it just wants you to jump star systems 16 times while it gives you the 16 runes, then it forcibly warps you where it wants you after that

[dreamy zealot]

well I got to the part where in the atlas they ask me to reset the thing but I refused I guess

and now there's nothing really happening I guess, is it over lol

[fathom nimbus]

Oh.. you refused and it dumped you back in euclid?

[dreamy zealot]

yeah

[fathom nimbus]

as if you stareted the game over?

[dreamy zealot]

no

I had all my stuff

[fathom nimbus]

"find your ship nearby"

but it's your current ship, not the starter

[dreamy zealot]

only once I went to the core did it break the tech

[fathom nimbus]

yeah, you chose.. i guess you could say with your heart?

you chose not to restart the simulation

[dreamy zealot]

well I mean it hasn't worked the thousands of times it has apparently happened

[fathom nimbus]

if you had chosen to restart it would have given you a choice of four galaxy types to go to

hilbert is known as a "harsh" galaxy

[dreamy zealot]

oof

[fathom nimbus]

every planet wants to kill you

[dreamy zealot]

bruh, what's the next galaxy that isn't uhh that

I spawned fairly close anyway

[fathom nimbus]

i chose "lush" and got eissentam.. which there actually is a guide on how to get to eissentam from your point

there's a guide on the wiki, glyphs for each galaxy to get you 1 jump from the center, to help you get to eissentam in the shortest time

however, you need to find portals

I'd suggest this mod

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/1930

it makes it so you can place signal booster, pick "find portal" and skip going to a monolith, talking to it, passing it's test, giving it an item for a portal location

You need to go to hilbert's center, to start the route, but here it is

https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Eissentam_Route

each link for "edge portal" there will give you the glyphs to get to the center of the galaxy and get out

[dreamy zealot]

man I wish I could filter stars by their economy of poor/mid/wealthy

[fathom nimbus]

i think you can?

you have to install economy scanner on your ship

[green burrow]

I think its going to be something like improve a system economy / change conflict level so i ntheory any system will can become a 3 star system

[dreamy zealot]

it doesn't give you a filter, just the mining/tech/high voltage/etc

[fathom nimbus]

I dunno. it says it's monitoring commercial status, AND flight path

[dreamy zealot]

maybe you will be able to relocate the station

[fathom nimbus]

maybe

also if you go to one of those abandoned stations, that core is not there

it use to have lights back there, now it's just dead and dark

so -those- got updated, too

no walkway, no core, jsut dead and dark, like it's been gutted

[green burrow]

I think the flight path thing is to hint at that there is something wrong, just like that 1/12 error

[green burrow]

was there ever a core in there ??

[fathom nimbus]

no, there was the same light as the good stations

the blue circle in back

[dreamy zealot]

wait, didn't atlas say you could return to reconsider?

[fathom nimbus]

You can still do the atlas path

but that just gives you a new galaxy

no choice

[dreamy zealot]

I had already finished the atlas path though

[fathom nimbus]

Hm. dunno then

the atlas path ends with.. i believe "a new star has been created, a new traveller will wake up there. I'm free. free to explore"

oh dang, looks like i'm wrong

there was no light in the station when it was abandoned

@dreamy zealot so, know that if you do go the eissentam route, every galaxy jump breaks all your crap. don't bother fixing it until you're done

just like a crashed ship, just fix engine, jump drive, launch thruster, and go

[dreamy zealot]

what if I join the game of someone on that galaxy and set up a base

[fathom nimbus]

i think that works, but a little different

You have to join their game, then they have to logout

then you make base, save game so it says "restore point saved"

if it says "position not saved in multiplayer" then you failed

however, doing this you can just build bases in multiple galaxies, and the teleporter in stations, bases, and freighters will take you there

you completed the storyline, so it's really up to you how you go

i think any mission that says it's somewhere else can just be restarted where you are with middle mouse

[dreamy zealot]

ooh nice

heading there right now hopefully

Wait. The featured button doesn't work, any idea why? Does the nexus work for you? For a lot of people it is empty

[mental socket]

Anomaly has been broken for entire weekend for basically everyone

[flint beacon]

Does it matter which option i pick for Priest Entity nada??

[mental socket]

not really, pick what you feel is right

[hardy briar]

Anyone know what this pertains to?

[loud kettle]

found the same thing

[hardy briar]

Exactly! Lol.

[lavish marsh]

To my knowledge, nothing. Didn't even know u could interact with them.

[fathom nimbus]

boundary failures have a lot of seemingly random "lore"

[mental socket]

It's quite deep when you read through it all. Gets kinda creepy at one point

[mighty rampart]

and its definitely not random lol

ties in with the general lore, especially the artemis storyline

[hardy briar]

Haven't met Art yet...

[mighty rampart]

and you never will

[icy citrus]

[gusty berry]

they just want giant structures on the planet surfaces (because Constructs are cool) and they need some lore to go with it

same with space whales

[rough copper]

What in the hell is this new abcdef depot on Steamdb?

[outer cobalt]

No idea, it requires password and uses a build from June 4th

[rough copper]

Ahh lol oops

[uncut harness]

Current assumption is a rollback to see why the anomaly is broken.

[rough copper]

Makes sense

[nocturne zephyr]

when i don’t know what to type when naming some of my photoshop stuff, i type random nonsense like isicbshr

maybe that’s why

[mental socket]

the heck xD

[stuck hinge]

abcdef

[proper fog]

G

[tulip dirge]

H

[tired bronze]

What galaxy should I choose, Red, Green, Dark Blue, Light Blue? I know that green is a relaxing galaxy but I still want challenges

[icy citrus]

The other galaxy types besides normal just affect planet spawn chances in yellow star systems

[tired bronze]

Which did you choose?

And so it doesn't affect anything else, just more yellow system spawns?

Or less

[icy citrus]

I picked Lush in normal as I just wander and chill - so wanted higher chance at those types . I picked red for permadeath for more extreme

Yeah, it just affects the spawn chances for specific biomes in yellows

[tired bronze]

Okay, thank you

[icy citrus]

Np

[blissful brook]

How could I reach Galaxy Core when there is nothing to fly to 😒 ? (idk why but I can't paste screen there)

There is just straight line when I pick destination Galactic Core, but there is no destination.

[heady wyvern]

@blissful brook Ensure that your warp drive is full, and then hold towards the Core until something happens.

Do NOT de-select your current system.

[blissful brook]

Ah, okay, so that's my bad. I tried to do that in free look

[tired bronze]

When I chose another galaxy to go to, where did my Starship go? And can I get it back?

[heady wyvern]

@tired bronze Your starship is somewhere nearby, similar to when you first started the game. You'll need to repair it to continue.

[blissful brook]

🤔 How to choose another galaxy?

[tired bronze]

Do I have to look for it without any help of the game? So I kinda have to get lucky

[heady wyvern]

@blissful brook ||This choice occurs at the end of the Artemis quest.||

@tired bronze Check your multi-tool. Is anything broken there?

[blissful brook]

Ah, okay, but coming back is still possible or not?

[tired bronze]

Yes, but I repaired the common things I use

[blissful brook]

For example via anomaly portal to old bases

[heady wyvern]

@blissful brook If you still have a base in Euclid, yes.

[blissful brook]

Okay, that's cool then, thank you 😄

[heady wyvern]

@tired bronze What's still broken?

[tired bronze]

Just the weapons that I put on the multi-tool

I haven't repaired those yet

[heady wyvern]

Hmm

Have you checked your analysis visor?

[tired bronze]

Yes I did, but before I did all this, I called another Starship so I'm not sure if that messed with something

[heady wyvern]

@tired bronze Just take that ship and check your freighter (you DID get a freighter, right?).

[heady wyvern]

Only your currently-active starship gets a HUD marker. By summoning the other ship, that one became your active ship.

[tired bronze]

Yes I do have a Freighter lol, I will check that

Okay, It's in the freighter, thank you

[heady wyvern]

All of your non-active ships are sent to the freighter's hangar whenever it's forced to re-load (such as when it is summoned, or if you use it to warp).
@tired bronze

[tired bronze]

That is good to know, thank you for your help!

[tired bronze]

Should I listen to the Atlas?

I have gone so far I'm not sure if i should lol

[heady wyvern]

@tired bronze What quest are you running?

[tired bronze]

I am doing The Atlas Path, recover Altas seed.

[heady wyvern]

@tired bronze You should probably listen to the Atlas.

[tired bronze]

Good to know

[crisp fern]

tbh it is also the game's bad, as it doesn't really indicate how to warp to it, and if you've been using free look up to that point, using the other method is probably far from thought

[teal sundial]

Hello, i got a question regarding my main mission. I chose to not reset the simulation and was told to enjoy the galaxy, that's all, I've also tried "reviving" (i assume it is) Atlas with heart of the sun too, but I was just told to go to black hole with no continuous mission. So I'm stuck with next goal, what should i do now?

[crisp fern]

at that point you're basically free to do whatever you like

there's some flakiness to the Atlas Path, so not really sure what to recommend on that front

[teal sundial]

alright cool, thanks

[stuck rose]

is travelling to other galaxies only be available if we choose and do the artemis path?

[icy citrus]

No

You can reach the core and go forward one, join people in others - even use the anomaly bases to get to others

[stuck rose]

can I make a base there and save the progress?

[icy citrus]

Yep

[stuck rose]

cool, thanks

[icy citrus]

Np

[main bison]

Is there a lore wiki or video explaining the story/lore?
I kind of understand it from my playthrough but a thorough recap/explainer wouldn't go amiss.

[indigo night]

https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Storyline

[main bison]

hmmm.... not quite the summary or explanation I was looking for. This wiki just covers all the litteral quest steps. I guess I'm maybe looking for a deeper dive into the lore.

I'm assuming there's more to the story and world than we've seen but maybe there isn't. I finished all the story and it seemed really intriguing, especially the moral dilemma around Artemis' fate.

[indigo smelt]

Whats the deal with "station Override", where do I get such a thing?

[last anchor]

You can’t yet

[indigo smelt]

That makes me even more interested.

[fathom nimbus]

right?!

tell us something, HG!

[cobalt beacon]

So I've gone all the way through the list of Traveller systems as per the pinned post and system number 8 has no traveller. I've looked everywhere on the station.

[compact coyote]

I feel like the main story isn't really over yet

[fathom nimbus]

Another lovely day at the anomaly :

[empty cedar]

Obtaining Glyphs via Portal
EUCLID EUCLID EUCLID
Tip: disable multiplayer in Network Options before portaling, for best results.

[fathom nimbus]

☝️ that's the tedious way, going planet to planet

I'd rather say "just do either main story, they give you glyphs"

[empty cedar]

Completing the story instead is usually better, agreed, but this strategy is still the fastest and will still be useful to some folks (especially veteran players).

(One reason I opted for #nms-spoilers instead of #nms-questions was to reduce visibility, btw.)

[chrome depot]

So what’s considered good for a living ship? Or all they all the same?

Honestly I don’t think I care actually, this ship looks RAD

Black and red with green highlights-

MMM

“Press to ask if the ship would direct its vents towards the current target”

“Press to request the eyes gaze upon nearby targets”

This is oddly adorable.

[fathom nimbus]

So..

apparently sentinel status can lie.

You know how we get weather on paradise planets that's actually bubbles? (imminent toxic mist)

I'm on a infest planet, AGGRESSIVE SINTINELS, when i land it says sentinels are FRENZIED (in red)

Ain't seen a single one.

Also found a trade center that's completely dead. even had an atlas barrel on a landing pad

[chrome depot]

The sentinel status just affects what happens when they see you I think

[fathom nimbus]

there aren't any to see me!

i ran all over with my car, smashing trees, rocks ,animals. no sentinels

[chrome depot]

They’re on break.

[fathom nimbus]

the lighting in this planet is super gray, barely any red, for an infested

you can see why i was looking for sentinels points at bottom right

FINALLY one appeared

[fathom nimbus]

Ooooooooooooh

this explains "AGGRESSIVE"

gravatino balls always mean sentinels on attack mode

[chrome depot]

Yeah.

Even though it doesn't make much sense-

[fathom nimbus]

HAHAHAHA WHAT

it's like the catterpillar from antz

[chrome depot]

Chimera

[fathom nimbus]

well, that too

but i meant the tiny butterfly wings

[indigo forge]

Spoiler-Help needed. So I just Refused for the first time. I had some stuff to finish up. Now, I'd like to Reset and get to a Tranquil galaxy. Is there a way? I know I could save-game edit, but I don't like that option. If I fly to the center now, can I choose to Reset, or do I just get to G2, when I think the first Tranquil is like Galaxy 7 or something, right? So what's my best path to Tranquil?

[wind lichen]

i think if you refuse you don't get another option to do so, and flying to the center will just take you to hilbert

[indigo forge]

Hmm... I made bad choices. lol

[wind lichen]

unfortunately yeah

actually there is one way

you can find someone who's in that galaxy, join their game, and save there

[manic hearth]

you could also use featured bases

[wind lichen]

that too

[indigo forge]

oh yeah, I forgot that option. Thanks you two

[wind lichen]

np

[last anchor]

New update out

Patch though

[wanton escarp]

yo

whats the new update about?

[ocean wyvern]

Its a hotfix..

[wanton escarp]

awh

I see

so where is the Patchnotes?

[uncut harness]

#nms-announcements

[grizzled kraken]

2 gig hotfix...mmmhmm

[craggy sluice]

How can I get that Pillar of Light and the Doomed titles? It says explore the darkest of derelicts, how can I find this kind of derelict? Is this different from the normal desolation derelicts?

[tulip dirge]

I suppose it's the one with fleshy things and spiders?

Don't know just assuming

[misty loom]

It's the 16th. Is anything exciting happening? I read some speculation that something would happen on the 16th.

[last anchor]

No

[rancid ether]

If it has a 16 in it, you can count on random speculation, whether joking or not lol

[novel torrent]

I saw an image on twitter of something happening in space stations?

[rancid ether]

Yes. Have you played since Prisms update releaded

Oh

No, thats just broken

[novel torrent]

Maybe it's theirs pc

Yeah

Looks cool nonetheless

[rancid ether]

Yes, ive seen it mostly with ships, not typically stations or buildings tho

[novel torrent]

The simulation is collapsing

We are returning to reality

[novel torrent]

So there's any news about the space station override?

On what's supposed to do?

[rancid ether]

Nothing yet

[novel torrent]

Mmm

The theory is still expedition, right?

[rancid ether]

Really all there is to go off of

[novel torrent]

Super cool

[rancid ether]

I've been working on something else today while at the office. Trying to figure out what Apollo says at the end.
Its not in any of the game languages from what i can tell :thinking:

[novel torrent]

You mean when you refuse to help him

[misty loom]

I saw screencaps of other space stations with new floors but mine are still just the same shiny dark glass. I do have the big new orb instead of the old neon guitar guy though.

[novel torrent]

And make him feel bad for everything he has done?

[rancid ether]

Bad quality pic. Sorry

[novel torrent]

Hmm

Caesar cypher?

[rancid ether]

Maybe 🤷‍♂️

[novel torrent]

Imma try with Caesar

Seems plausible

[rancid ether]

I just tried, no luck though

Feel free to also try. Im wholly interested in knowing the answer

[novel torrent]

Ulv hol neus xannos, kunu. Ulv zoav Ulv hoi kuhilu zoav

[mighty rampart]

you need to enable reflections in graphic settings

and by enabling I mean setting it to anything other than the lowest setting

[misty loom]

I don't see that setting. I'm on ps4.

[mighty rampart]

oh then you wont

[misty loom]

Thank you anyway 😆

[novel torrent]

and son lear willor mala and void and sot mastna void

This is the best result I got @rancid ether

It mentions void twice

And the rest is nonsense

[rancid ether]

Yeah, i just got mostly garbled letters on my try

[novel torrent]

https://www.boxentriq.com/code-breaking/cipher-identifier

I used this

You can try and play a little with it and see what you can find

I would dismiss it as gibberish if it wasn't for the punctuation

[heavy glacier]

gibberish can have punctuation if it's written to look like a sentence

[novel torrent]

Correct

But I doubt it

[rancid ether]

Punctuation and reused words like 'Ulv" and 'zoav'

[novel torrent]

Yeah

[heavy glacier]

i do wonder what it is

[rancid ether]

Its likely not a letter for letter translation

I think i tried messing with this a month or so ago, but i need to find my notes on it.

[last anchor]

To people with space station glitch don’t tab out whilst loading the game

[austere mountain]

The atlas path recurs, even before purging out the first galaxy?

I am still in Euclid, finished the Artemis path, finished the atlas path using "heart of the sun", was asked to go through a black hole, went through it, and the quest was wiped off from the log.

I went to the anomaly in the new system and saw that polo had the " ask for atlas station coordinates" thingy, so I selected it, and the galaxy map showed a system with a new atlas interface (but in the model of the final one).

If I give the heart of the sun again, will I get the star seed again? And does this just keep looping indefinitely?

[austere mountain]

Should I maybe post this on #nms-questions with spoiler text?

[icy citrus]

Nah

The star seed won't be awarded again, though you can complete that final step

It will go away until the next time you find an atlas station

[austere mountain]

Ah, okay. It would be nice if it is just wiped off. Cool, thanks for the clarification!

[icy citrus]

Np

[rancid ether]

Ulv hol neus xannos, kunu.
Ulv zoav Ulv hol kuhilu zoav.
Unsurprisingly, I am still thinking about this. Its gonna bother me until I know :smile:

[jovial violet]

I think I know what it says through looking at the UPDATE3 language file.
"I see the chains, now. I – I see home –"
with "zoav" being the substitution for a hyphen. Guess the automatic translation algorithm HG uses can't parse certain punctuation! But if you look at the first sentence, the word count lines up, even down to where the comma is. And for the second, if you take "zoav" as the hyphen, the two "ulv's" to be "I" and "hol" to be "see", as in the first sentence, it fits as well.

I'm guessing based on where this entry lines up in the language file. It's right after a line Apollo says that you can see in a proper language "Eventually, they speak, their words measured, stronger, as if coming from an organic throat...". Give it a search in the file if you want to see it yourself!
There's another, even creepier alternative line which I'm guessing you get if you pick a different option: "I have learned to love my chains."

[stuck hinge]

Apollo extreme kinky

[storm shell]

Don't have it ;_;

[rancid ether]

😕 It's not your fault, I did bring it up in the spoilers channel after all, but I would have preferred never knowing the answer than getting it from the game files.
I typically avoid this channel because I prefer to learn these things through the game.
It was my mistake though, I should have known someone would just pull up the lang files.

[jovial violet]

Ah, damn, yeah! My bad. I get that, it does completely ruin the mystery

Your conversation got me curious enough myself, and I saw a few threads across the internet about it, but no one really finding the answer. That got me intrigued enough to solve the mystery in the most boring possible way

So, sorry 😅

[storm shell]

What's that?

[fathom nimbus]

translation of some bit of text from...somewhere?

[outer cobalt]

@rancid ether What is interesting however, is the fact that the language apparently changed over time.
Here is the same 4th race text from Atlas Rises (2017), but slightly different. (sorry for awkward 4:3 resolution)

Also try the Transmission tower comms more often for some interesting ones ;-)

Here are some oldies (2017 as well)

[storm shell]

My god discord is fucked

[outer cobalt]

How so?

[storm shell]

Embeds not working everywhere

[rancid ether]

@outer cobalt i appreciate it but as mentioned above, i prefer to avoid just getting the answer through the game files. Im a little on high alert now because somethings are better left a mystery to me

[storm shell]

1500 reports on down detector lol , anyway it's just untranslated stuff right?

[outer cobalt]

I read what you said earlier, so I only included the images without providing solutions

[outer cobalt]

Well yes, they are basically texts set to be alien for a specific race by using DNT (Do Not Translate), to make sure they stay alien

[storm shell]

Ah interesting

[outer cobalt]

Here is another interesting one from the Waking Titan days ;-)

[fathom nimbus]

so... they keep alluding to a fourth race, that they haven't given?

plus all this "void" stuff, where apollo was investigating

sentinels, etc.. and you know it REALLY does make you go "oh yeah" when you look at walkers.

they DROP .

From where? ain't no ship. they just "fall out of the sky"

[idle moat]

The big sentinel dreadnoughts?

[fathom nimbus]

the walkers, two legged

they just fall out of nowhere

[icy citrus]

World of glass

[fathom nimbus]

also artemis mentioned someone having glass seeds before you talk to apollo

which is an item used for the living ship mission

[storm shell]

Prolly gm spawning them lol

[compact coyote]

those binary numbers. i encountered one of those a few months back actually

[mighty rampart]

It's just saying ||ATLAS||, right?

[compact coyote]

yeah

[chrome depot]

Curious, do we know what the Anomaly race are?

Or possibly any theories on the subject-

[mighty rampart]

it's us

I didnt know it was a theory

[restive hamlet]

I want to make a oxegen farm but I dont know if I have to go to different systems from the story im currently on (The purge) when should I make a permanent base?

[candid lark]

After the purge, because the purge will jump you to another galaxy

literally, back to square one. You reset the simulation.

I suggest getting on with the purge and getting through it. Bear in mind it just has to be 16 jumps in any direction and you can even jump between two systems repeatedly if you want

At the end of the purge, most people will choose the green galaxy option that takes you to Eissentam

Also, when you jump, any tech not in tech slots on your ship and exosuit will be critically damaged and will need immediate repair. Your Multi-tool will also be critically damaged. Some people use a second/junk multi-tool just for this so they can swap back to their main after the jump.

[prime inlet]

some also use a secondary ship, since the main ship often has a full build installed, which can't be done solely using the tech tab

literally, back to square one.
to clarify, progress isn't lost

[candid lark]

Yeah, progress isnt actually lost

[prime inlet]

At the end of the purge
you may also choose to reject, and stay in euclid

exosuit will be critically damaged and will need immediate repair.
moving critical exosuit systems such as life support, hazard prot into the exosuit tech tab helps a lot with safety after you spawn in the new galaxy

that being said, nice write up 👍

[candid lark]

I'm an insane galaxy jumper @prime inlet, I'm doing what OD does

[restive hamlet]

This is so much to take in😅

[prime inlet]

oxygen hotspots can be found on any planet in the universe

fyi

[prime inlet]

well, i could say a few things about core warping

current main goal of the save is 1 base in every harsh galaxy in the game

secondary goal is fully map every region of space where i've got a base on, in every one of those

[icy citrus]

Umm

Jesus

[restive hamlet]

So basically use teleporters to get around systems and I can still activate a mission even if im not In that system?

[candid lark]

The Purge is 16 Hyperdrive jumps

[prime inlet]

pretty much, yeah

the bulk of it, really

[prime inlet]

are you worrying about hyperdrive fuel efficiency? my guess is that you haven't upgraded your ship's hyperdrive much?

when you visit a space station in a system, you add its teleporter location to your teleporter list

teleporters are a easy way to get back to places you've already visited

you don't use them all the time, you "plan" and use them when you need to

but they're not the primary means of travel

[restive hamlet]

Ive never used a teleporter i just thought once you walked the the portal your old planets where gone my brother has a teleporter and he can get back to my galaxy for the mission

[prime inlet]

teleporters aren't complicated

what i mean is, their function is not that complex, and have no such effect in planets

i just thought once you walked the the portal your old planets where gone my brother has a teleporter
to clarify, portal isn't the same thing as a teleporter

and yes, even if you complete the purge and switch galaxies, if you have at least 1 base still in euclid, and 1 base in the new galaxy, you can always teleport between galaxies

[restive hamlet]

Thanks you very much ill come back of i need i have anymore questions im going to get to bed Also I just had this bug where I wasent connected to online services but uninstalling and reinstalling seemed to work

[prime inlet]

connection to online discovery services is network dependent, so it may not be a problem on your end (it's not, usually)

[deep parrot]

Expedition 3 happen yet?

K

[stuck hinge]

Soon 😔⁉️

[fathom nimbus]

ask sean

[ebon juniper]

There is a second?

[mighty rampart]

there was a second

may 17th-31st

[ebon juniper]

The rewards?

[mighty rampart]

Normandy SRV as a frigate

https://www.nomanssky.com/2021/05/beachhead-expedition-update/

[mental socket]

Normandy frigate that is linked above, a banner, base decal and two titles

[wind lichen]

what were the rewards for the first

[heady wyvern]

@wind lichen A "Golden Vector" starship.

[wind lichen]

oh right that thing

[prime inlet]

as well as a new backpack, some decals...

[stuck rose]

and golden helmet

[teal sundial]

hello, correct me if I'm wrong, i think I've read some articles that sounds like when you chose to reset the galaxy you will be spawn in eissentam after it. or am i dreaming about it? that's been itching part of my mind for quite some time.

[mighty rampart]

at the end of artemis path if you submit to the atlas, you get to choose to go to a galaxy out of four options, eissentam is one of them

[teal sundial]

thanks

[stable valve]

eissentam is specifically the "lush" type planet if you submit to atlas in euclid

[hardy briar]

Does anyone here have a really good idea how MTs spawn in the latest updates?

[fathom nimbus]

MT's?

[mighty rampart]

multitools

[rancid ether]

I want aware multitool spawn changed since the update. The strategy for finding them still works the same at least.

[gusty lava]

What exactly is your issue with spawining mt's?

[static lagoon]

So I have reset the atlas universe, and I choose one of the orbs (I think these are alternative realities) I have no got to recover my memory by creating loads of different rare resources 16 types I think. So my question is. Am I best off building a big base and getting these resources over time rather than racing around trying to get them? Or is it best to get my memory back asap as apparently I need to explore the other realities too? When I went through the reality I had to repair like all my stuff which took a while a lot of money so don't know if what is best to prioritise basically

[icy citrus]

So the Remembrance isnt actually your memories, it allows access to some logs that give more background on the Atlas

You can build that at your own pace, no need to rush

[static lagoon]

Ah okay thank you! So explore the other realities I guess? Does my tech keep breaking each time I go through them as that's a pain in the *** I guess I can just fix the bare minimum to fly to the next atlas/reality portal

[icy citrus]

What happened at the end there was: You chose a new Galaxy to go to. If you use the core of that Galaxy you are in to jump to the next, it will break your tech again as before

You dont have to use the core for this though, you can join people in other galaxies, or find bases in other galaxies from the teleporter onboard the Anomaly

[static lagoon]

Ah okay so I have kinda "completed" the story then or is there more to come? Shall I just sit back and build now as been holding off till i reach a milestone/ending

Although I know the game has no true ending

[icy citrus]

That was the main story, yes

There is the Atlas path as well if you haven't done that