nms-the-future

[dapper sparrow]

new planets would presumably get a flag that says 'add this extra' which can mean 'existing biome with changes', 'new biome', etc.

I don't know how much work any of thes ethings is because I don't know what the game engine looks like

but theoretically it could be done

[granite cosmos]

Or they change parts of planets that haven't been generated by players exploring
The outlaws update did change preexisting stations like my main system's from tier 3 to pirate

I'm not butthurt. You are

[dapper sparrow]

yep I had a bunch change out from under meincluding home system on one main save

[unique radish]

Nah, I thought I’d you disable tutorial missions it skips you to the part where you unlock the Space Anomaly. Does it just skip the whole story and you get nothing out of it?

Let’s face it. They’d probably need to reset the universe if they wanted all planets to have multiple biomes. Having the “legacy” planets be all one biome and other newer ones multiple biomes would really stick out like a sore thumb

I’m not saying I don’t support the idea. Exploration really needs an overhaul. Sure it’s only been two years, but in that two years we only got two new biomes for planets. Like someone said earlier, spreading just 10 types across 18 quintillion planets leads to a LOT of repetition.

Not every planet needs to be handcrafted, I just want more variety. When I first started a survival save long ago and I got to see a volcanic world for the first time, I was obsessed with it. I never wanted to leave it. But then I travelled to another volcanic world and was heartbroken. Here I was thinking I found a true gem of a planet, something no other player before or after me has or will ever see, but it turned out the only thing different was the fauna and volcano colors…

[jolly idol]

I just want planets to have different "sub biomes" based on location and more prominent land features, like huge canyons that are visible from space but also exist on ground level

[unique radish]

Would poles be too much to ask for?

[jolly idol]

Poles would be nice

[flint wing]

Yeah, that’d be a pretty cool addition.

[jolly idol]

I don't think we'll get any of this though

[flint wing]

Sadly it is unlikely. HG has so far avoided messing up player bases by changing terrain gen, so I doubt they’d start now.

[unique radish]

Like I said, to be consistent in exploration they’d probably have to reset the universe.

[flint wing]

Yep.

[jolly idol]

Sub biomes based on location (like poles) could be implemented without changing the terrain; just change ground color and plants and fauna

[flint wing]

Or I suppose they could add a new game mode that uses the new planets, while leaving a “legacy” game mode that uses the current generation.

[jolly idol]

But terrain needs an overhaul too

I think we'll probably just get a new space game that does all of this before nms changes for it

[unique radish]

I just want gas giants. I know Sean said “no” a long time ago but I feel times have changed. You’re telling me you DON’T want a settlement like Cloud City? You DON’T want to see massive, unique leviathans flying around in the upper layers of the planet? You DON’T want to have a floating base with massive windows, where all you see are multiple swirling bands of gas?

Not to mention the huge potential to set up gas mining platforms. A couple platforms across different planets and you’d be set!

You could even build a replica of Sevastopol Station!

…or I could

[flint wing]

If it was a gas giant, where would you land in order to start building?

[jolly idol]

I think it's because you can't land on them, but there are ways to fix this even if they aren't realistic. There's a mod for the game Starbound that makes it so you can enter gas giants (normally you can't) and it solves the ground issue by having floating islands and clouds that are solid enough to walk on. It's not realistic but it's very fun.

And if you fall off the islands or clouds you fall for a while before dying, so it's a risky biome but there's lots of cool resources and creatures.

So risk/reward situation.

[unique radish]

A special vehicle the player could pilot specifically designed to withstand extreme gravitational pressure. A few button prompts and construction of a platform with an attached base computer would begin.

[jolly idol]

You also have to get a new environmental protection the mod adds called pressure protection.

So this can 100% work in nms if it's like the starbound mod.

[unique radish]

It would be an elegant vehicle, like a glider which could soar through the gas bands like an eagle. It’s different from a starship, you’d need this vehicle. Starships can fly, but they won’t be able to go deep enough before getting squashed by extreme gravitational pressure.

[jolly idol]

It doesn't have to be 100% realistic. NMS is already super unrealistic with many aspects of the game, such as how close planets are together and the fact that there no orbital mechanics.

[jolly idol]

I think doing it like the starbound mod does it would be better. Just limit landing your ship to the upper layers or add a new ship tech for pressure protection.

[unique radish]

Think of it like driving an exocraft underwater. You can do it, but it’s not ideal. You’d use the Nautilon, a specially designed vehicle for the task, for example

[unique radish]

Respectfully, I think adding a new vehicle would add more variety

[jolly idol]

And kill/destroy anything that goes too far down

[flint wing]

I like to think that the unrealism is Atlas optimizing by removing some of the less necessary laws of physics.

[jolly idol]

That doesn't make my point invalid lol

[flint wing]

Nope. Just giving my own headcanon.

[jolly idol]

Maybe the atlas wants life on gas giants

[flint wing]

Maybe.

[jolly idol]

Both could be done

We already have land vehicles despite being able to fly

[copper dawn]

I think the best thing in this case would be planet phasing. Player could either use the old generator to see old planets, either for retro feel or for the old player bases, which could be still there fine. Or the new generator for new planets and new bases.

[unique radish]

Imagine if we could become way more involved in terraforming a world, way more

[visual cloak]

HEllo GAAAAMMMMMESSS can we get this terrain back pls? thank you #legacy-screenshots message

[gloomy hazel]

I sent this in an email to hg long long ago, (funnily enough a bunch of stuff I put in there got added in some way shape or form I guess they were popular submissions) but I had an idea for gas giants containing floating islands, with the deeper you go having various hazards and more storms but also rarer materials

[gloomy hazel]

Oh man we’ve been asking lmfao

[visual cloak]

i know, i thought i'd blatantly scream it into the void once again for the billionth time

[gloomy hazel]

fair lol

[gloomy hazel]

If that happens someone is gonna build the entirety of skytown from prime 3 in NMS

[unique radish]

Exactly what I mean

[opal prawn]

hmmm

here's hoping that bytebeat got more music composing features like waltz aka 3/4 support…

[oblique smelt]

And conecting more byte beats for longer songs

[opal prawn]

i couldn't even try to compose something like this properly…

https://youtu.be/1zAFnn9JEtk

[potent elbow]

I don't use bytebeat for anything but a timer so I can't say for certain if this feature exists and even if it does it's not an ideal solution. Isn't there an option to do triplets? If there is you could reduce tempo to fake a 3/4 time signature.

[opal prawn]

i don't prefer pseudo 3/4 timings

[dusk yew]

Warring npc factions/rep overhaul would be nice. (Completely optional too like the rest of the content in game)

[versed mural]

They need to make atlas pass more special because its basically useless atm

[wary roost]

I want to have a good sorting tool for inventory

[unique radish]

I wanna be able to sort my companion tab

So…this update that everyone apparently wants, something where we can scavenge and build our own ships piece by piece, does anyone think this can actually work out or is it just a pipe dream?

[dapper sparrow]

bunch o' peple don't want it, and I have no idea

[toxic slate]

i would be happy just being able to sort by name. and actually showing the name. i just get lost in a sea of tiny icons

[oblique smelt]

Yes BUT, game should make is work for the customization and dont make hunting irrevelant, Like :
when you scrap ship you like , you will get one time use blueprint of random part form this specific ship setup. You need things like scrap to make this blueprint. When you get all blueprints you go to seperate building to construct a ship from all blueprints you gathered, and pay units.
1- you still need to hunt for ships
2- scrap will have aditional purpose other than sell

Ship colour could ne solved in 3ways:
A- you get rare paintjob blueprint from scraping ships. To make it you need plants for pigment
B- you put stuff to change colour into something that works simliar to egg machine on anomaly.
C-both of A and B. A if you want specific ship paintjob. B if you want to change it or make your own
It also has to cost some units since there is not many money sinks worth throw money on

Also junk dealer could sell you some total random ship part blueprints

[versed mural]

dear HG,

let us see a list of discovered waypoints on a planet, with coords on each of them. your update literally called waypoint and somehow didn't do anything with that part.

submitted this detailed suggestion to HG, hopefully they make change to that cuz honestly it would be nice for us to revisit waypoints we discovered (and it would make waypoints more useful + encouraging us to explore planet more)

[ionic flame]

I think frigates, especially warships, should get a tad larger as they progress in their tiers

My interestelar battleship is as big as my interestelar frigate

[versed mural]

maybe they can have max amount of slots to buy expand each time they upgrade their tier

[radiant sage]

Just make water and rocks a little more detailed and add more variety to different sectors of the planet. Would be nice to have a desert planet with some oasis’s or some cool rock formations on one side and a flat desert on another. Just more variety provides more incentive for on planet exploration and using the vehicles for more than just racing

[versed mural]

don't we have desert planet?

[radiant sage]

We have a desert planet, but I’m using it as an example of a way to add variety to planets

[pale zealot]

I think no mans sky is almost done. Like it is literally maybe 1 or 2 years away from being one of, if not the best survival exploration game. Like things they need to fix still
Water shader water depth
Interplanetary Diversity (multi biome, more freedom for the algorithm, etc.)
Standing system
Language system
Missions system (more variety, more story type missions, more mission objectives)
Economy

[versed mural]

yeah agreed

but they also need to make more variety hazard plants

and animals

I think to make thing more interesting is to hide primary source of a object such as plant having carbon as the primary source. They only reveal everything after analysis scan

it'd make thing much more unknown and bit mysterious

[lilac crane]

There should be a lot more stat types for upgrade modules. Some S-class modules only have 2 stats on them. Launch thrusters are the worst example of this, since the normal upgrade for automatic recharging is easily made obsolete by an upgrade module and that's the only other thing the upgrade module does.

[oblique smelt]

Game needs more variety in general. More types of fauna and flora, freighter types, ships, MT, buildings , biomes etc.

[lilac crane]

Yes

Open up generation a little more

[oblique smelt]

Living ship needs more vareity. living hauler, fighter, explorer and SOLAR living ship

[ionic flame]

There was an idea I feel we need to remember

That of solar freighters and frigates

They absolutely need to be like the ships from Treasure Planet

[dusk yew]

Solar armor would be nice

Solar freighters definatley

[ionic flame]

Solar armour? I take you mean a solar powered exosuit?

[versed mural]

I think they should start with the biomes, faunas, floras, rocks, and weathers

then they can do with rest of other things

[oblique smelt]

I dont care about the order as long as they will iplement it

[wintry acorn]

I hope they add multiswords. They keep mentioning them in lore and I want one.

[exotic crane]

When is the iPad port coming? I have the latest iPad Pro well the M1 at least

[lilac crane]

Multiswords could just be a different kind of multi-tool, which I am fine with.

[wintry acorn]

I was thinking mechanically they could be more fuel efficient (or not use fuel but that might be unbalanced) in exchange for the lack of range

[amber pelican]

that could be cool, although some additions to melee combat would also be nice, (as long as they dont remove the punch boost lol)

[lilac crane]

I feel like upgrades need to be more interesting and varied also, if we want multiswords to be fun.

[amber pelican]

yeah

[lilac crane]

Ships, exocraft, multitools/multiswords need the space for various kinds of builds. Multiple ways to play and have fun.

Which means multiple directions to take.

[amber pelican]

yeah, i definately like the idea of being able to specialize your stuff,

[lilac crane]

And unique upgrades for ships. Like explorer ships should be able to completely remove the launch thruster cost.

One idea is an upgrade for the teleport receiver that allows spawning exocraft within range. Make it unique to explorers.

Exocraft need additional features, like the minotaur got.

[amber pelican]

yeah, ive seen the idea of a walkable interior on the collosus and it sounds great lol

[lilac crane]

Walkable interior?

[unique radish]

Walk around inside

[vast path]

I wish solar ships worked a bit differently. In the Vesper Sail description it says the ship uses the solar wind to propel it, but it uses tritium and launch thruster fuel just the same as other ships, though it’s slightly more efficient.

My proposed change would be that it doesn’t use any pulse engine fuel when it’s in pulse, but does use slightly more when in normal space.

[lilac crane]

The colossus needs to be a mobile base: Storage, refining, appearance modifier, save point and trade terminal are a start.

[vast path]

Technically our exosuit already uses solar power. It’s one of the stats we can get on our health upgrades. The stat determines how much our health regents in daylight.

[vast path]

The colossus is big, but it’s not that big. I don’t think it could fit all the stuff you’re mentioning

[lilac crane]

Then make the colossus foldable

[vast path]

My main gripe with exocraft is the first person camera is damn near useless because it’s so sluggish. If the exocraft first person cameras were more responsive like the first person mode on the ships (when holding ALT to look around the cockpit) then I’d probably use first person mode more often. I really want that immersion.

[lilac crane]

Exocraft controls need to be independent from the camera, so you can shoot and drive better.

What do we make of the nomad, pilgrim and roamer?

[unique radish]

Be able to deploy little camera drones from a small room inside the Colossus.

[lilac crane]

I would start by giving the Nomad even more airtime. Start with a hover and a bigger jump.

Maybe even allow the Nomad to become a helicopter in exchange for resources?

I imagine the Nomad jumping off a cliff, inverting its blades and flying. This allows you to reach places even easier.

I find the Pilgrim awkward TBH. What can the nomad do that the pilgrim cannot?

[unique radish]

It’s clearly a hovercraft, so that makes sense

[lilac crane]

If we turn the roamer into a tank, would that make the minotaur obsolete or step on its toes?

[unique radish]

I’d like to see it move like the Batmobile in Arkham Knights, how it can move in all directions on the wheels alone

[lilac crane]

Ooh.

[frigid mirage]

Please HG, please. I have been searching since Outlaws in Eissentam for an Earth-like with a proper 'blue' atmosphere (and not peppermint/greenish)
Please add the Atmosphere color of planets to the Freighter's Probe System Scanner/System Discovery tab so I can just jump out immediately if I see an unwanted sky color..

[jagged forum]

Wait a second you have a point
That would be a nice feature
Terrain, ocean/water (if present) and atmosphere colour
I would love to see that

[icy onyx]

I hope the space station is a procedural generation like a freighter.
Is it too much greed?

[versed mural]

I don't think it's necessarily greed

I think it'd make more sense given how much emphasis on procedural generation

since Sean and HG have been emphasizing about everything being unique heavily

[dusk yew]

just armor that matches solar ships idk

[ionic flame]

I see, just cosmetic

[unique radish]

YES!!! YES!!!

[unique radish]

I’ve been searching for the longest time for a desert world with blue skies, flat terrain and very sparse flora. I want to live in a wasteland

It shouldn’t be from a freighter’s planetary scanner though. For the longest time I wanted little camera drones we could pilot, like an imperial probe droid. Maybe we could use them here? For the more “Advanced” characteristics of a planet?

They would be able to transmit a sample of a 3d grid map of the planet’s terrain, details on ground life, etc…

These drones wouldn’t reveal everything right away, you’d need to upgrade them and even then, you need to choose what you’d like to specialize in them. Gives you an excuse to have a small fleet of them

[swift bolt]

Here me out, auto-crafters that sync with your storage inventory to craft a desired object. It would make stasis device farming way easier and not just sitting their spamming the "e" button for 15 minutes

[gentle totem]

I would love to see a pilotable frigate type ship which I can load a single regular ship into as well as a single exocraft.

You'd be able to fly the frigate onto a planet and disembark however you'd like be it on foot or exocraft but in order to enter stations you need to leave it in space and disembark on your ship.

This could allow us to explore endgame with our preferred ship and exocraft without the need for a designated base or blocking a system with our freighter and who doesn't want to own a massive ship which can deploy a smaller ship on a whim

@shrewd oasis

[shrewd oasis]

So...like a personal aircraft carrier?

Or just movable garage...

[gentle totem]

Yeah basically but I want to land that thing on planets as well

Like the anaconda type ship from ED

[shrewd oasis]

ED?

[shrewd oasis]

Yea, I get it...it can function as a portable command centre that can also act as a supply station and such on planets.

[gentle totem]

Elite Dangerous

[shrewd oasis]

Portable base, of sorts...just pick it up, have some upgrades, garages and such...and take it with you when you go.

[gentle totem]

Exactly

[shrewd oasis]

Ah, never played, hence was confused.

[gentle totem]

Being able to go out and find a frigate somewhere for your freighter but then removing it from the freighter fleet to retrofit it into a personal flagship for planetary exploration

[shrewd oasis]

Dedicate frigate just for that. Doesn't have to interfere with normal frigates.

Totally behind that idea.

[gentle totem]

The other idea I had was to designate a fleet frigate (which would remove it from the fleet as well) which can then collect materials from a farm like gold for example and deliver it to a receiving base which you can then consolidate all of your farmed materials into whatever purpose you needed

[shrewd oasis]

So, only for the farm?

[gentle totem]

For that idea yeah so you could have various Frigates bringing farmed materials to you directly so you can make say fusion ignitors or whatever else makes cash

But it's a separate concept to the personal frigate/dropship thing

[shrewd oasis]

I don't have a freighter, so that's kind of over the head for me, but aren't frigates for just that?

Getting materials to you?

[gentle totem]

No you send em on missions to make units primarily

I'm thinking they could create a network between your bases to have a central material depot

[shrewd oasis]

So...a logistics train centred around your freighter...

Where planets are farmed, frigates are the logistics and freighters do the work of managing the resource intake.

[versed mural]

Since the permadeath is now its own universe and survival now play alongside with normal, creative, custom, and relaxed modes, I think it would make sense to have all players' bases visible across the modes. Unless if that is already done because I still can't see normal players' base whilst me playing on survival mode- except for those bases that are already uploaded to the server

[toxic slate]

I would rather hire NPCs to do the menial work of farming and managing industrial facilities, taking off the player most of the mindless and tedious grind work and making endgame trade/mining more about management and expansion

[versed mural]

This. But since this will generate a lot of units (if we use them to sell in bulk) we'll probably not going to spend much in endgame so I'm thinking we should start paying NPCs for their work with farming and managing facilities

based on the individual npc's skill and class

[marble orchid]

Gek need to wear the gek battle helmet

[toxic slate]

Yeah I agree. I already think it's weird that we're not paying the NPC squadron pilots anything

[trim star]

gek standing there in scalding rain. no problem man.

[gloomy hazel]

It'd be nice if you guys would fix the issue with built bases not protecting you from the weather.

And I mean hand built bases, not the prefab rooms.

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[gloomy hazel]

Already did that and included a recording vis Switch/Twitter.

[jagged forum]

I have a bit of ideas

1. Reworked planet exploration as it is not rewarding whatsoever.
   You know, we all get some units/nanites and some items but it is not pushing you to explore further after some time. Thats why I've had an idea to add planetary map.
   I should not be accessible just from the menu, maybe a new building part/freighter part (or both) that would allow you to actually MAP the planet.
   It could use the existing planetary model, but in greyscale for example, the planet might be divided by sectors and using those antennas, that are already next to most of the buildings on planets, would uncover the sector, giving it colours and you, the player - ability to mark your own waypoints

Ofc each antenna you would unlock could be marked on this map, as those areas are already being marked on your discoveries page

Would be nice if this map showed a 3d view of a planet with ability to scroll closer and further away, and freely move around it as well as having some kind of "waypoint sorting" so you dont always need to look at everything you discovered but, for example you can sort them to only show trade centres youve visited so you can mark them and go back there

Personal waypoints should also not be limited and give us the ability to change their name, icon and colour (while only being visible for player creating them)

And 2.
Would be just a planetary data rework
Like for example showing the avg. Temperature, diameter of a planet, specific colours (soil, water, atmosphere) and maybe amount of discovered species out of total on this planet just from the planetary view (?)

[astral mulch]

Anyone have any ideas of what the next expedition will be?

[marble orchid]

Well in customization there are infested theme capes we cant get yet.... so i think wormy/infestation

I would like to see some more specific way to judge Hit Points... the little circles feel to ambiguous...... they are fine for normal or even survival, but for permadeath it feels .... vague. Its hard to tell how many health circles something will take. For example i fell off a cliff and ran out of jet pack fuel way to early and was sure i was gonna die as i am on max difficulty but it didnt even take all my shields (no mods yet so that was weird), and then later i died 10 feet from the surface with all my circles in tact... so apparently drowning insta kills after shields regardless of how close to the surface you are

Most games have a HP tick when drowning giving you a little time but since nms doesnt seem to have this it feels uncertain.... maybe im wrong but it doesnt feel like it

[toxic slate]

well yeah, because drowning is you running out of air. i don't mind it because deep water is one of the few times in the game where I feel really in danger

[dusty mural]

another QOL i think would be fun would be to add more settlers to actual bases, like all the hotels people keep building or small cities/villages like Guildford

[modern jungle]

I've play No Man's Sky for a long time now, and there's always a lot of new things released regularly. I always loved to see what's new in every update, but there is something I really want to see in the future. 🙂
No Man's Sky is a game in which every player will collect a LOT of data about planets, systems, creatures, plants, ...
And I think the Discovery menu is not really suitable for so much data. Sometimes you will just go into a system and leaving it in a second to go to another. But that system will be registered like the others in the menu. In result : hundreds of systems registered, and if you've forgot the name of one you visited once, good luck to find it again. :/

I just want to see new tools that make the player's life easier when he's in the discovery menu. For example, a tool to search for planets/system already visited with filters. Tools that allows the player to see discoveries in a different way : currently it's system>planet>animals/plants, but it would be nice, for example, to see every animal with their origin planet precised without going to the planet menu. Sorting tools can be very interesting too. And finally, I would like to see tools that allow players to completely hide something. When you go for a trip in the galaxy, there's a lot of system in the map that have a circle around it. I don't really know if I'm the only who is bothered by this but I think it makes the map a bit blurry. These circles can be useful for systems you like, but for the other that you just visited once for like 10 seconds and never again, it's a bit annoying... (there's a lot of system I just want to see disappear in my menu...^^'>)

While I was writing these lines, I also thought of a tool that allows players to put annotations on systems or planets to help them remember about important things...

I think it's all... To summarise, No Man's Sky is a game with a lot of data, and it would be nice to have more tools to sort, search, hide, delete, add notes, ... in the Discovery Menu.
That's all, sorry if I made some mistakes, I just wrote this quickly and English isn't my native language ! ^^'>

And I would like to have your opinion on the subject. c:

[versed mural]

to add to that, it would be nice to be able to see discovered waypoints in each planets

with coordinates

right now it's just a section with 6 recent discovered waypoints, but we can't see all of the discovered waypoints

in discovery menu

[gentle totem]

Super simple one this one
Custom setting that makes it do all leyline portals are pre charged and ready for use

And a less simple one
A way to mark Coords on the planet map (in system) which drops a pin down so you fly to it making it easier to visit XYZ

[brazen nova]

I'd love to see this backpack being added in the game as a character customisation option. Artemis wears this one too ❤️

I learnt this was the default backpack before I joined the game.

If this backpack will ever return to the game I hope the colours will be customisable too like with the other backpacks.

[versed mural]

it would be cool to bring this outfit and backpack to life for the anniversary

also if this art concept is meant to be what Mega Exotic planet look like, they really need to be improved a lot to make it look much grander

[brisk thistle]

i feel like extreme weather could be improved a lot, like adding oncoming sandstorms or something like that

[visual cloak]

just some minor changes of variation in size and rarity for environmental assets would go a long way

plus procedurally generated shape variation for all assets

we have...1 of those circular rock assets and they're all massive all the time

they could create variations of that circular asset with different materials, covered in different flora like moss, have variation in the basic silhouette, have a 'broken' version so it creates a crescent shape sometimes, they could glow, they could be covered in the nests of rare fauna. Look at all the possibilities for just one rock asset.

then imagine if there were massive fauna that camouflaged themselves as these things. You walk by it and shoot a plant, it wakes up and slowly lumbers up onto its legs and wanders off into the distance

you could climb up onto it and just stand on top as it travels slowly across the planet

[copper dawn]

I remember one stone in the past running from me when I tried to mine it. So some camouflage creatures are already there.

[visual cloak]

see those types of things are awesome!

It's unfortunate that's the only surprising fauna behavior

those rocks can also bug out and take the form of a building

[copper dawn]

Living building... That sounds creepy.

[visual cloak]

it's rare, but I think I discovered one once

over the past 6 years, it's hard to remember what I've discovered and what I've seen others discover tbh

[gloomy hazel]

Need the option to place a decal name tag for Freighters on the ship hull.

[lunar widget]

Just some vague wishing on my part but I really want to see the original artstyle of the game make a return. Maybe it's just nostalgia at play but I think the style the game originally launched in is better than what it is currently

[toxic slate]

HG should take a look at The Eternal Cylinder game which just came out. It looks more like NMS concept art than NMS does. Really wild and fanciful stuff in both the biome and creature design. It's the kind of stuff I want to see in NMS

[copper dawn]

The Eternal Cylinder... After No man's sky another game where you can eat 💩 ...

But yep. While weird, interesting is that the game does one thing which was shown in the pre-release NMS trailers and which isn't in the actual game - big animal (if you are chased by a predator) running through breakable objects and actually breaking them.

Like breaking stones or chopping down trees.

But funny is also one thing - The Eternal Cylinder's one biome reminded me environment of one mod which I was using in No man's sky - Redmas terrain generation mod or whatever was its name. As both things has some worm like structures made of stones above underground sometimes.

[visual cloak]

plus the fauna are unique with their own behaviors

I'm even noticing simple, little things with flora and fauna in a game called The Riftbreaker that would be beneficial to NMS

oh and the worlds in Riftbreaker are procedurally generated

[copper dawn]

Also it has fliers which actually interact with the player and other creatures. Unlike NMS where fliers do nothing. Aside of few which are tameable.

[visual cloak]

fliers as in flying fauna?

[copper dawn]

Yep.

Though funny is that both games have problems of their fliers just flying in skies and not landing anywhere to rest.

[visual cloak]

from what I played, yeah that's true. I definitely appreciate the subtle details of how the fauna interact with everything in the world and not just the player.

Regarding base building, I've never been a big fan of base building in games, but if anyone plays The Riftbreaker, they do base building and survival right. Base building in NMS is more of a creative pass-time and doesn't really offer that much else besides farming, but it's fun in this other game, rewarding and challenging too.

[toxic slate]

yeah I have always wished flying creatures would land in trees or even just on the ground, and then take off in a flock when startled. it's a small thing, but those kind of small things can help the worlds feel more alive and dynamic

[visual cloak]

and then with Origins, they added a new special set of flying creatures that could land, but left all the other original flying fauna alone...

I think they made minor changes to them, like flying closer and in bigger groups

[copper dawn]

Also interesting is that for example flying creatures already have diving animation in NMS. Yet they only dive randomly to empty ground instead of collecting food from plants... Or hunting animals/player.

They also don't care about our pellets thrown. 😦

[visual cloak]

i wonder if HG even have any animations of the birds with their wings closed

[copper dawn]

Also one unrealistic thing - birds don't drop 💩 s. Unlike the real life birds.

[toxic slate]

Also creatures need some improvements to their walk cycles. Big creatures walk really oddly, they never feel right based on how much they weigh

[visual cloak]

hehe. that's one thing HG could get away with not adding. I've only been pooped on by a bird once

big fauna textures are also stretched

i still think they're a wip for HG

[copper dawn]

I remember that they used to be bigger.

[visual cloak]

definitely think they're planning on revisiting them

[copper dawn]

Like the Strider like creatures.

Huge on three spiky legs.

[visual cloak]

strider animations are my fave

the big ones look good

but the textures are not so good, compared to the rest of the game now

[copper dawn]

The parts made at 2016 or even before it look now outdated.

When compared with the new stuff HG was adding or remastering.

[visual cloak]

for sure. Atlas Rises started to add more detailed assets

[copper dawn]

Like static space stations or generally buildings outside of the settlements.

Also The Abyss added few creatures which behave different and can surprise you when you encounter them for the first time.

||The Hypnotic eye, the Anglerfish hidden in one object, etc.||

I don't know which update added the ||creatures pretending to be some stone||.

[visual cloak]

loved em the first time I saw them. but again, they're not procedurally generated. no variation to them. not even in size

[toxic slate]

the planetary outposts could use some love, all those 2016 buildings do look very dated

[copper dawn]

Yep. Same with the hazardous plants, which are also everywhere.

[visual cloak]

that was in the game at launch

right?

[copper dawn]

Nice.

Though one thing which looks interesting from the 2016 version is the old Terrain generator.

The screenshots showing stuff like huge stone worm structrures. Or square like stone structures with buildings inside them.

[toxic slate]

honestly it's less about how nice the buildings look and more about making them not look like the same building every time I visit one. would like them to procedurally vary a lot more

[copper dawn]

Look much more interesting than just generic planets which are now.

With rare flying islands.

[copper dawn]

The only variation it seems to me to be is per faction to which they belongs. And some might have the Atlass pass exclusive rooms or not. But that's only small difference.

[visual cloak]

hoping HG combine the old with the new

[toxic slate]

they did some good work with the settlements for procedural building tech, so hopefully they can apply that to other things

[copper dawn]

It's funny how at 2016 the game was hated for having all planets same, while it had probably the most different terrain per planet.

[visual cloak]

this is weird, but I'd rather explore the 2016 version of NMS in VR than the current build. Was more surprising to me

[copper dawn]

Its terrain generation feels more alien.

Idk about the rest of the game.

But they probably nerfed the terrain generation when they focused more on base building. And also maybe wanted to make easier navigation on planets.

[toxic slate]

yes, terrain is a lot more "manicured" now, not as wild as 1.0 was

but 1.0 also had massive problems with people falling through the world, so...

[copper dawn]

Though even its plants and other assets can have rare stuff to happen. In one case I have found a wooden structure from a tree which I could enter.

There was nothing inside it, but it was nice surprise.

Almost felt like some fairy tale place.

[copper dawn]

And being catapulted from their ships when they tried to exit them.

[visual cloak]

fun times

[visual cloak]

like, glitched out geometry or something?

[copper dawn]

Normal assets placed on the planet.

Trees.

[toxic slate]

yeah they added a little Yoda hut some time ago

[visual cloak]

i noticed there are rock assets on the volcanic planets that have extra geometry that look very low poly and untextured

oh those

another thing that would benefit from variations

did some sketches on those a while back

[toxic slate]

don't get me started on those volcanos...

[visual cloak]

lol

i know

i can't explore a volcanic planet

just kinda lose interest. sad.

[copper dawn]

These trees.

Volcanic planets being literally spammed with 🌋 s.

Now I see that the game thought that the hut is trade centre. 🤔

[toxic slate]

i do appreciate HG listening to the community who asked for volcanic and swamp biomes, but the way they were implemented was not great...

most of the swamp planets i've been to don't even have water...

[copper dawn]

What is swamp.... Without an actual swamp?

[visual cloak]

speaking of swamps, i did this really rough swamp concept a while back. Still a lot of potential with biome diversity

[copper dawn]

Reminds me Xen swamps from Black Mesa.

[visual cloak]

oh yeah

[versed mural]

Yeah, volcanic planet have no lava and not enough fires burning across the land. Should have constant extreme storm

Swamp…. I dont even have a word for that

[copper dawn]

Aside of lava, we also miss an actual ice on ice planets.

As there can be cold planets with seas or small lakes.

And by lakes I mean lakes of water.

🤦‍♂️

[versed mural]

yea

clearly need to do something with biomes

[visual cloak]

if they are, really hoping it ain't a 2 person team

[versed mural]

hopefully, they need to make the game more about exploration and finding something new and unique all time, not base building game

'cause it's a exploration game at heart

[gentle totem]

Since we got pirates a while back and they can attack bases on planets I think it's time we could build shield generators for our settlements/bases etc as well as anti air defences to ward off pirates

[dapper sparrow]

they cannot attack people's bases, no

they can attack settlements if you have not extended your base into it

[visual cloak]

what would people think about HG enabling destruction on base parts

I’m not 1 for basebuilding updates, but if they allowed fauna, NPCs and damaging storms to harm bases in different ways while also adding defensive elements to bases and the ability to repair structures, this would add a nice gameplay loop to NMS. I’d personally feel more interested in building

of course, fauna behavior is currently not interesting enough to warrant these changes, and NPC interaction besides in settlements and static placement is nonexistent

[dapper sparrow]

if it were an opt-in feature, that could be ok. if it were the dfault part of game modes, I think not. too many people build nice bases and expect them to be intact when they return or when players visit

[visual cloak]

yeah, it should’ve been a feature from the start of the basebuilding additions, thereby making players less entitled to having so many giant bases

of course, i think having an option to disable base destruction and making it non-destructible in creative would be essential, this would make basebuilding way more meaningful and give individual bases more meaning

instead of just being big decorations

after all, what is NMS? It’s a space exploration survival game

bases do not help in survival (besides during storms)

[copper dawn]

I think that the building destruction would fit more with Settlements - and would give us more reasons for researching defense techs, which now do nothing (they only decrease Sentinel attention level, which eventually goes up anyway) and for defending the Settlements. And maybe also adding some new buildings/protection additions to the buildings at The Settlements. Also it would give us more reason to do anything at The Settlements.

As eventually there is nothing to do than same random events.

[visual cloak]

i’d be okay with that, as settlements are lacking quite a bit of interest

[mellow grotto]

How about to make your own spaceship?

[visual cloak]

Settlements should also offer choice of building placement

maybe building upgrades too

[toxic slate]

i just want settlements to be like Animal Crossing towns. give me NPCs with their own personalities and agendas. let them request things, have beefs with other NPCs, etc. it just doesn't feel like a real town right now, it's just a big animatronic set piece that looks like a town if you're driving by it on an amusement park ride

[brisk holly]

Hello, I'm new to the game so I don't know if it has been discussed yet but are there plans for giving us the ability to manually land at least on planets ? I would love the satisfaction of the full control of my ship

[hoary scroll]

Will the number of ships that players can own increase in the future?

[gloomy hazel]

Manually land on planets?

….. isn’t that how it works?

[worn idol]

No man's sky is a pretty casual game, I wouldn't expect anything close to elite dangerous if that's what you mean

[dapper sparrow]

no, right now you land by pressing a button or key and the game actually does the landing sequence for you. I think the player is asking to do the landing themselves. I don't know how much of that is possible in a game that doesn't have much flight simulation in it though

[gloomy hazel]

Ohhhh ok I see now

[brisk holly]

I don't play realistic space sims like ED, You can land manually in Outer Wilds, GTA, and others casual games

[sturdy jackal]

@upbeat lichen It has been quite a few months since I went in to play Foundation 1.1 on Windows. Do I recall you told me there were driver issues or some such that corrupts the game, now? cc @keen shoal

[sturdy jackal]

A guy on Reddit just commented on a post of mine,

I have 1.0, Atlas Rises and NEXT all working fine, but it's specifically that Foundation and Path Finder always have graphical issues where you can't see the game at all. I see the menu and inventory and waypoints, but the world graphics aren't rendering at all and it only happens on those versions.

[keen shoal]

mmmm? i don't recall mentioning driver issues?

[sturdy jackal]

Someone, I feel, asked me if I'd tried to go back into the old game lately and did it still work. Hmm....

It's been a year or so since I tried.

[upbeat lichen]

Yes those mentioned versions in particular fail to run properly on modern drivers, but I reverted to the oldest driver compatible with the RTX 3060 Ti, and they worked fine (and so does everything else tbh - I haven't needed to revert since then)

Although yeah, @sturdy jackal did you ping the right fellow there? Im not seeing ECDM mentioning anything like this recently?

@keen shoal@sturdy jackal Here's my old pinned message which I updated with those details a while back
#nms-modding message

[main copper]

Ship colours

[gentle totem]

This ^

Let us change em

[dapper sparrow]

I'd like to see a bold purple added to the ship color palette

[gentle totem]

I'd like to see actual slopes for ramp building
And internal build hanger bays

The horizontal launch kind

[visual cloak]

didn't they add some kind of race course building parts in pathfinder or one of the earlier updates, and never finished them?

[dapper sparrow]

sounds like you oughta...

!hg

[misty iris]

You can submit bug reports, suggestions or feedback to Hello Games here: https://hellogames.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

[dapper sparrow]

https://app.nmsassistant.com/catalogue-item/build80 these would need glitching in but there's a way to do it, as one more ramp idea

[main copper]

Crouching

[sturdy jackal]

Yea, that's what I was recalling. I am going to install 466.77 Nvidia drivers and try 1.1 out again for the first time in over a year.

Tonite

https://www.reddit.com/r/NMS_Foundations/comments/uaglll/questions_about_going_back_to_older_versions/

[sturdy jackal]

I downgraded drivers and played 1.1 for an hour tonight - lovely!

[rotund stratus]

How was it?

[sturdy jackal]

Lovely

[upbeat lichen]

Was yours not working before the downgrade like mine wasn't?

[gloomy hazel]

Need to fix the Javelin. It can't hit the robo-dogs.

[upbeat lichen]

Dont aim for the body, @gloomy hazel Shoot them straight in the face and it should work

[gloomy hazel]

it automatically fires the laser at the middle of them and into the ground no matter where I aim.

[upbeat lichen]

??? You on switch or something? that sounds like an auto aim bug

[gloomy hazel]

Yes.

[upbeat lichen]

Maybe there is an option to disable auto, then, idk

[gloomy hazel]

But it's not a lock on thing. The center of the circle can be off them and the laser still hits under their midsection

[upbeat lichen]

Ive only ever played PC, auto aim hasn't been a factor, so idk

Oh the reticle is wrong

are you in 3rd person?

[gloomy hazel]

I mean the laser itself, the projectile, auto hits midsection and ground.

[upbeat lichen]

Yes, if its forcing the shot somewhere thats what we call auto aim / lock on

Its probably default on for non PC because no mouse, its a common difference in games with shooting

Anyway this whole convo really belongs in #nms-questions

[opal prawn]

ah dammit

whenever i take off of space station, sometimes a random freighter and its frigate fleet just warp in, near a space station

[sturdy jackal]

I play on PC w/ PS4 controller.

[upbeat lichen]

I also play on PC with a DS4

[gentle totem]

I'd like to see more ways to generate power in bases.
So far we have the early game bio fuel (it'll do in a pinch but very inefficient)
Solar panels (the classic workhorse with batteries)
EM generator (very effective if you find a hotspot)

I'd like to see new ways to generate power beyond those three, maybe wind turbines which could be more effective on turbulent planets to account for wind. Or Water based power for underwater/waterside bases to take advantage of the resource already there

(Please feel free to chime in I'm sure there's some good ideas to tag to this)

[mossy ivy]

I want to see more with bases.

I don’t think they do enough as of now. An example, when I look at bases in a space station teleportation portal or galaxy map, I can’t see what galaxy my bases are in.

[hoary scroll]

I hope to increase the number of ships that players can own.🙏

[potent elbow]

While the types of power generation you mentioned are interesting (and I'll rarely say no to new building parts) they aren't necessary.

1. Biofuel Generators are way more efficient then they used to be, but there's currently some bugs with them though.

2. Solar Panels and Batteries are good for low power needs.

3. EM Generators my primary pet workhorse. I don't know why people say they can't find a hot spot. I've always found at least one within 1000U of any random spot I drop my base computer.

[potent elbow]

Again?

[potent elbow]

I thought the teleporter told you what Galaxy they were in if they were in a different Galaxy.

[gentle totem]

Way I'm looking at it is in the sense of utility and visually so for example a water wheel would generate power but can also be used as a way to expand on a base design or a wind turbine (not the big propellor ones more of a slim vertical one if that makes sense) would add a bit of interest to a base and could offer varying levels of power dependant on what planet you build on so airless it wouldn't work at all but a high storm one it would almost be supercharged

Hotspots aren't terrible but in my experience they're never in an ideal location to build in which is where I thought alternatives would come into play aesthetically and practically

[potent elbow]

I get the part about wanting more build parts especially from a decorative point of view. Just saying they aren't necessary as actual tech. I'd rather see them as decorative parts like the Cyclonic Lathe.

I mean hot spots are where they are I wouldn't say their locations are ideal either but I mean I wouldn't want them to change them either. I mean I could see maybe increasing the base radius a little too make it easier to find several different hot spots from where you build your base instead of finding your hotspots first then building your base in the middle.

[icy onyx]

I hope NMS VR is an interaction like Half-Life Alyx.

[mossy ivy]

Nope

[brave plinth]

@potent elbow They do

[mental vine]

is there gonna be like a co-op game mode with features specifically for like 2 players to work together like 2 seater starships, shared missions, and shared bases and blue prints, that kind of stuff

[dapper sparrow]

I think hg would have to work out more of the game's multiplayer bugs for that to happen. so things like player soft locks when doing main storlyine quests in multiplayer; the "stuck during landing" in mp in the anomaly issue, etc.

[potent elbow]

Thought so

[hoary scroll]

Sorry, I thought nobody saw the message I sent before.

[potent elbow]

No need to apologize, what I meant was increasing the number of ships we have again... Went from 6 to 9.

LoL this is just one of those topics like storage slots that the will be people that always want more no matter what. We could have 50 and there would be people who's want more.

[oblique smelt]

Can always start new save if you are into ship collecting

9 more ships 😉

[gentle totem]

Not so much a wish for the future but moreso preculation

I suspect that the next major update could be focused on enhanced exploration. Maybe an update to the galactic maps and/or system maps

It could also add new procedural stuff to planets to further diversify them like new planetside events or even generation like flowing water (if that's even possible)

This could also allow for an exploration expedition to showcase all these new things and drop rewards we've had hinted like the solar helmet (side flairs like solar ships) or the tentacle Cape and who knows what else because it wouldn't be themed on any particular thing but rather exploration of everything

[desert lichen]

Ok so hear me out ,ik this would prob be a major update but what about gas planets?
Y'all recently added those machines in the big frigates that draw out things from the system there in ,maybe a feature could be like the more gas planets in the system the faster they go or something,I'm not sure on allot of the details ,so suggestions and all are greatly appreciated

[humble wadi]

An easy way to see your ships + compare stats between them

This is missing so badly, I have 2 saves I can’t remember every single one of them + which is on which save

Also same for multi tools

And being able to sell them

[gentle totem]

I like this idea, I'd go further and say that you could also have a new vendor for your freighter which can deploy a prefab of a gas mining rig into the atmosphere of the gas planet to harvest the gas type as well as affording you a small area to build your base and machinery within.

Maybe even let us expand the rig out with enough material which could allow for some recreation of cloud city

[brittle kestrel]

hey so, wanna ask is it weird that i prefer the vanilla one, in case of terrains and views of the planets compared to the now version that we get?

cause imo, the view of the planets usually looks stale and uninteresting whenever i step foot on it

[cunning kettle]

Waterfalls, they could add waterfalls and more things like that that are generated on planets. It would be great to see real cities on planets and not just villages in the middle of nowhere, a little more civilization, maybe a Coruscant style city planet as an extreme but cool example. Maybe biomes on planets? Because every planet is practically a biome, so there could be variety in that sense, a planet with a lot of forest and lakes and suddenly a desert surrounded by mountains, to give an example, and maybe with poles like on Earth if the planet has the characteristics to have cold poles. Anyway, I would love an update on this, I think any addition or improvement in this section is good and would not be superfluous.

[gentle totem]

I do like these ideas honestly. I would think a coruscant type might be a but extreme but scaled down to city type settlements maybe makes more sense

Unfortunately if this were to be implemented it would need one of two things.
Either a complete wipe of all planets and generations for a new system which would mean that every planet and build would be purged
Or
A new title launch with a next gen emphasis that can incorporate enhanced terrain generation though I would suspect that it would mean galaxies get smaller and the game size increases to account for all the additional benefits

[rigid lantern]

I think resource collecting needs a bit of an update, using the terrain manipulator seems too simple for early game, I think there should be a drill of some kind that you build and then it collects the copper deposit or magnetised ferrite deposit

Also if there was ever a generation update or things added to the random generation ( like the cities idea before my last suggestion) so make sure the builds are all safe and to maximize the amount of planets that get the update, planets with bases on them, bases that are big enough to upload don't get the update to make sure the bases don't get affected, if the base gets deleted by the person who made it then that planet gets the update

[sand phoenix]

Why did Hello Games ruin the Fkn INVERTORY!? IS A BIG NO NO

Instead of getting performance upgrades or sth like that they completely trashed it? Im inside My Freighter and it runnin at 10Fps when im playing with friends

Also why are the Item Symbol different!? I have no idea what what is

[rigid lantern]

Freighter optimization is definitely really needed, I personally love the inventory changes though, and I think the item icons make things easier to identify once you get used to them

[rigid lantern]

Larger and further apart planets would also be amazing, it would feel more like space. Also darker space backgrounds in systems because the bright colours in space don't work except for the nebulae. With the larger planets I'm thinking irl moon size or bigger instead of the current country and county sized planets. With the larger planets having structures generate further apart from eachother would be a given, like double the current distance/rarity. This all would help with immersion and stop the game from being boring fast because you'd have more distance to walk or fly to get to things like knowledge stones, cargo drops, buildings ect

[icy onyx]

More diverse biomes, more scanned targets, more diverse environments, more random encounters

[eager osprey]

Star citizen vibes

[cunning kettle]

Yeah I was clearly giving an extreme example, a bit dreaming, but I see the cities as more viable and reasonable, it doesn't have to be too big, if it is appropriate and not too complicated to implement it would be great, I wouldn't complain at all.

[brave plinth]

Allow me to introduce you to...

[rigid lantern]

yes but more like deep rock galactic mining ( i havnt played it ive just seen a short video on it) and its what you need early game instead of the terrain maniulator, that comes in a bit later when you reach a space station or somthing

[brave plinth]

i mean... you can melee stuff for resources if you want i guess

terrain manipulating for resources is definitely an early game tactic when compared to the other methods of resource collection

Even refining is better for resource collection and has a progression for making it better (single slot vs 2 slot vs 3 slot refining has increasingly efficient recipes for higher yield).
I personally don't think there needs to be focus on anything lower than terrain manipulation for deposit based resources (even though scanning minerals often reveals these items as secondary resources, which means you can acquire them before having the terrain manipulator).

[bright phoenix]

The game needs an armory station where players can buy and sell weapons and starships. Maybe even possible to make their own upgrade modules.

[deep latch]

have decals of the glyphs so you can record cool spots in your base

[cold notch]

I've always wanted to see gas giants that you couldn't land on that have surrounding terrestrial moonw

Moons*

Would be pretty cool

[cobalt fractal]

I think multiple biomes on one planet (earth isn't just one giant biome)

Giant space ports where you could dock your freighter, upgrade and customise it.

[long fog]

If not biomes, then maybe at least regional discoveries on a planet. Different (biome-appropriate) plants and animals depending on latitude and longitude. Different curiosities. Maybe parts of the planet would have its farmable plant, and then other parts would have large patches of pulpy roots, or fireberries, or whatever other biome-appropriate plants there are. And since a lot of those don't render in until you're close, it would give more incentive to explore on foot or use exocraft, rather than dart around in a starship.

This way a planet can still have believable diversity with just one biome. And having different trees and animals spawning in different regions could give the illusion of sub-biomes, anyway.

[gentle totem]

Such a simple idea and yet it's amazing
Want it

[tepid ravine]

Settlement features + freighter base + overhauled freighter combat with squadron-esque fleet...

I like what they did with the freighters in Endurance....

but it's not enough

[copper dawn]

Spore works like that. And if you happen to evolve your creature at such moon, you can see on sky the huge gas giant floating above you. In NMS that would be cool too.

[copper dawn]

The planets already have different regions which show up on screen once player enters one (usually being around some buildings). But I didn't notice much differences between them now. More difference between regions would be cool indeed.
Same could be with space regions, though I don't know how these could be different from each other. 🤔

[lunar widget]

Please just let me have freighter battles and actual visible conflicts within high conflict tier systems

[delicate garnet]

Planets divided into biomes: hear me out. One planet could be icy at the poles, temperate and earth-like near the equator. Another could be scorching and molten on the equator, desert-like in the in-between, and earth-like on the poles. There could be a section where the radiation begins to pick up, a few miles of wasteland that you have to avoid until you have the radiation resistance. No new biomes need to be made, just sort of puzzle-pieced together to make it so that the planets all feel more unique and filled with variety. Like imagine an airless planet, but theres a large crater where life thrives, etc.

[cold notch]

Icy at the poles would be nice

[toxic slate]

Considering people have been requesting multiple biomes per planet since 2016, my guess is HG thinks it's not worth the effort or it's technically unfeasible for them. Ultimately NMS planets are based on the kind of Star Wars planet archetype -- Hoth is a frozen world, Endor is a giant forest, Tattoine is a giant desert

I do think it would be cool to have ice/snow at higher altitudes and that could provide some variation without explicit biome changes

[copper dawn]

I think that they designed each planet to have 1 biome (when not counting the technical biomes like ground, water, caves, etc.) to force players to eventually leave a planet and explore the other ones.

[visual cloak]

im fine if it stays that way, as long as HG makes each biome a lot more diverse across an entire planet. It would be neat to see higher altitudes get snowy/icy but not on every planet, and maybe only on a part of a planet and not everywhere.

[tepid ravine]

do you guys think this game is still too easy?

i know its suppose to be like that but it doesnt reeally offeer much challenge if youre looking for it

[toxic slate]

Well, I don't think that adding supercharged slots did the game any favors in terms of game balance, that's for sure

[dapper sparrow]

have you tried setting some of the difficulty sliders to harder settings?

[hoary scroll]

Can the game restore the previous save mechanism? The current saving mechanism really makes players uncomfortable (all my friends who play NMS think so)

[brazen nova]

I hope this is on-topic but I kinda wonder how Elon Musk buying twitter will and if it will affect Sean Murray and his emoji advertising. If twitter will turn into a hellscape where else will he announce updates?

I think in the worst case scenario where twitter completely turns to shit he will either resort to Reddit or have a newsletter we can subscribe to to keep up with updates and announcements.

[visual cloak]

i think that would only matter if Sean has something against Elon

otherwise I don’t think Tweeter will get much worse than it already is

[copper dawn]

Put the enemies amount in difficulty to aggressive (the highest option) and then you'll have the challenge.

[dapper sparrow]

it can get worse for some groups of people, for sure. I'm not sure what happens if people leave the platform in large numbers

nms players are a small segment of twitter users in any case

[tepid ravine]

What exactly do you get other than enemies with more HP?

[copper dawn]

Maybe could then finally come to this Discord server... Unless he is there, watching us already... 👀

[copper dawn]

With everything being aggressive probably meaning that all animals on sight attacking you.

Or idk what else it does, I didn't try it.

But somebody looking for crazy challenge can check it up.

[tepid ravine]

I hope in the future they will introduce some kind of overhaul to the endgame

[copper dawn]

But one thing which I am personally missing is more combat/behavior abilities on enemies.

Like predators sneaking on player without being detected by the suit due their camouflage abilities, etc.

[dapper sparrow]

if I were Sean I would never say who I am in any large community server

constant pings, complaints, etc... nope

[copper dawn]

According to , they already did... By remaking the inventory and increasing its size.

You can disable pings or ban pinging him in rules, like how many official Discord servers do it.

But yep. I see the reason.

Though he already is redirecting all feedback to his 📱 and emails.

[visual cloak]

the whole game is an endgame

[potent elbow]

Most definitely

[potent elbow]

Not really I have all the sliders to max difficulty in PD the only ones I haven are the ones that I couldn't because I didn't feel like making a new save yet (inventory space) or the ones that just add to tedium (scanner recharge/faction points)

[dapper sparrow]

so if you're not in it for chill exploration, what do you want it to be?

[potent elbow]

You can have chill exploration/building/and some risk all at once. Personally, I liked how easy it was to damage tech when 4.0 first released. I wouldn't want them to change the existing settings, just add more challenging options for those who want it. I mean I can always Nerf myself by not maxing out but that seems mostly like a stop gap. Maybe a setting that changes the amount green barrels refill your shields...?

[dapper sparrow]

we-ell.... I can imagine S class upgrade modules just not being available. gone from the game on some setting

(and no fair just filling in the gap with X, those get a loewr cap too :-P)

[potent elbow]

That's about the same as a self nerf I can do that myself if I want to I'm currently doing a never leave the starter system self challenge where I'm limited to what I find on the planet or buy on the planet. It's made things pretty interesting, but you can only go so far with that sort of thing. I'm contemplating starting a new one though that I do the same thing but also limit myself to the small/personal refiner. I mean I started building and I haven't needed to leave I can just refund not materials lol.

I'm not uncomfortable admitting I don't know exactly what I want. I just think that a little more excitement would be nice. And not the instant death kind. I'm not exactly sure what that would look like so that it stays fresh and didn't just become tedium. And I'm definitely not saying that I don't the game as is, but if I'm asking, I may as well ask for the sky. And let me reiterate I'd want any difficulty/excitement changes to be opt in so that people who are happy with the way things are aren't affected by us crazies. LoL

[dapper sparrow]

yep hearig that, and players often don't know what they want, if we did, we would be designing games right now 🙂 I do know that I likethings to change up some, I'm not interested in the adrenaline rush, it really doesn't do it for me. I might have higher tolerance for inventory management than most people, I find the doubling of the slot count to be superfluous 😄 I've got a custom save where only the damage sliders are off and I have to grind for units, nanites, blueprints all that stuff, the opposite of what many folks seem to enjoy! freshness is hard with procgen unless it's "yet another side quest", that requires thought indeed

[potent elbow]

I guess for me it's less a desire for an adrenaline rush and MIT just a desire to be kept on my toes. I mean when 4.0 first released and taking damage almost guaranteed something breaking it wasn't typically something lethal unless things started to compound. It was more of an encouragement to make sure I had soft landings was posting attention for hazardous plants. Ie it's not that the penalty was bad (mostly just annoying) but the good feeling from doing it well. I mean I played that way for a long time and I eventually got lazy since it just didn't matter it was nice to have consequences for what I'd call (directly at myself) 'lazy play'.

I mean I think it would be nice that after the first piece broke it became a little harder to break subsequent ones.. lol getting bounced between two snap plants then taking a hard landing because of it to have three damaged at once it's a bit much even for me... Lol but I survived lol.

[dapper sparrow]

well I waited for awhile for things to settled down before starting to load into my saves and do cleanup, one pile of inventory at a time. Did most of the last one yesterday. Have not tried to take full advantage of sc slots on some saves yet. the three normal saves are still with the settings the way they are, and as a kind of conservative player I don't just eat the fall from jetpacking ever, not my style. the plants that get me are the chompers, their radius is just absurd. heck except on my creative save I generally don't melee boost either, peple love it but meh

[potent elbow]

I started in almost right away so far I've only got 4 of my saves cleaned up. Though so but one of the the remaining saves are just gonna be duping stuff since I only build on them and don't use them for general play. Though I may just say screw it and convert them to creative. The biggest reason they were normal was that more people played normal so it made having visitors easier. Now that all but Permadeath see the same bases this isn't an issue anymore 😁.

Yes I know that the opposite of the hard mode I was asking for but I have two very distinct play styles depending on what my aim is.

[dapper sparrow]

you know, play how you want as long as you don't grief anybody and if you enjoy it you're doing it right, etc. that's what I believe. I keep thinking (and haven't done it yet) about getting steam keys, if I do, that save is probably going to have all the base part knowledge edited in etc because I am not interested in going through all the grind YET AGAIN to be able tobuild, test, etc on another platform

I've done it a few times, that's good enough, shrug? 🙂

[potent elbow]

Yeah it would be nice if they added a new game plus option where you could effectively copy an existing save just without the bases

[dapper sparrow]

wow I would love that a lot. and honestly copying the bases as entities you could save, potentially put someplace else, also ok

most of that would probably not work out well due to terrain issues but sometimes...

[gloomy hazel]

A multi waypoint system would be nice for missions where you can warp to a system and ALL current missions within said system are marked vs. the current way.

[gloomy hazel]

Better controls/feel for Exocraft in first person. The feel of using a Minotaur in third person vs. in first person is oooof

[copper dawn]

Yep. There even isn't free look button unlike the space ship interior view.

[lilac crane]

People are talking about orbital cannons, but I want to blow up the sun, or 3/4 of a solar system.

[brazen nova]

**Sean Murray is typing... **

[oblique smelt]

It would be nice to have some ship tech to scan for deep deposits/power spots from your ship to speed up searching process. It can be seperate scanning tech for each resource ,gas/mineral/power and require fuel/battery

[glad onyx]

I'm a simple person. Can we please just be able to mute quest reminders!!!

fwiw they are not only annoying but get in the way especially in ship view

[oblique smelt]

Im also simple person but i doubt i will ever get UNDO button while building. To advanced tech from 2008 it seams 🤣

[copper dawn]

Also muting some hints would be useful too (like the Exosuit drop pod map spam one).

[toxic slate]

and they probably aren't great for OLED burn-in, either

[gentle totem]

An idea

Investing

What if we can invest in a station, trade outpost etc.. and have a weekly dividend to collect from a banker on any regulated station as well as unlocking rarer materials for purchase from the trade terminal?

[sturdy bramble]

I really wanna see the ability to own multiple freighters. one freighter of ur choice surrounded by the other 9 and you can own 120 frigates, which surround the freighters.

[gloomy hazel]

That seems a little much

Maybe have 3 other freighters and each freighter adds 10 more frigates (as if you need them)

Ore even less than 10 because that's still 30

[empty forge]

Tbh I would like to see Freighters battle. Having it help you in fight, and giving it the possibility to destroy others Freighters with your own using a "Freighter nuke" or something like that. Also the possibility to ask for fire support or air support from your frigates.
Ofc the game would need more and stronger enemies for that changes makes sense, since for now we have almost no threat

[hasty spade]

I would love to be able to see inside your ship and move around, that be cool

[grave geode]

i would love if you could change the colour of your ship or something like that

[tacit gust]

First of all thank you for this great game. A few things:

• Mines could be so much more difficult to build. I feel like I peaked at the game with a few mines now.
• Many more exotic starships 🙂
• Exosuit upgrades catered to your guilds so you can upgrade according to a guild you want to follow
• Randomized location for crashed freighters cargo. I quite enjoy this ones to upgrade mine, but it feels really repetitive to do the same one over and over.
• Random lost dudes walking around planets in need for help or direction for a settlement.
• Crashed starships beyond repair. Just a visual thing, signed of a previous battle, maybe some loot in there, maybe even starship expansion slots.
• The movement of large creatures should be much slower than small ones.
• Feels kind of wrong killing so many creatures for the mercenary guild.
• Larger mineral deposits in caves underground. Starbound vibes.

Got more ideas but don't want to spam on my first post. Excited for a new update!

[granite cosmos]

Maybe a buildable orbital base
You normally die in space when not in a ship or on a freighter or frigate
But a base platform you could place in an area around a planet would be great

[gentle totem]

The ability to decide which planet we want to orbit if wanted when we warp with the freighter so we can deploy to the surface via drop pod

[sturdy bramble]

this. this is good.

[gloomy hazel]

Sitting here, getting coffee going, thinking "It'd be sweet if something came charging out of that cave at me.".

[copper dawn]

Yep. That would be creepy. Meanwhile creatures in caves spawn rarely and usually only small ones. Like spider like creatures.

[gloomy hazel]

So, some ideas I have from my time on Switch so far based off what's been annoying me;

1. The ability to filter missions into types. I bulk run missions and usually do the same types before switching to another.

2. The ability to save/favorite/edit the teleporter list.

3. A filter for the Galaxy Map to show discovered/undiscovered systems.

4. Better controls/placement/camera angles for placing base parts.

5. This is Switch specific, but if you guys aren't adding Planetary Settlements or Multiplayer to the Switch version then please add the features locked behind those and any other things removed to the game. I.E. Nexus missions are the best way to get Quicksilver. Switch players are stuck with the little bit you get from the Anomaly quests and a painful grind for specific space encounters that grant only a hundred. There are also upgrades for the Minotaur locked behind Planetary Settlement missions.

[humble wadi]

did that once and got attacked by pirates

[gloomy hazel]

6. Please change the mission marker system to allow all missions within a current system to be marked. Currently only the one you have selected is marked and sometimes there is more than one mission to complete within a single system.

7. Better controls/camera/feel for Exocraft in 1st person. Anyone wondering on this one, just get into a Minotaur or anything really and play around for 10 minutes in 3rd person. Then do the same in 1st.

8. Maybe a trade list for base/freighter Trade Terminals similar to Teleporter Lists.

9. This one's a personal thing but maybe a coffee pot decoration/coffee cup figurine for ships like the ones from the Anomaly.

10. Freighter battles where you get to pilot the Freighter and fight with it. Also the ability to simply pilot your freighter.

11. I'm not sure if this is simply because I'm on the Switch, but main/secondary missions seem to be lacking quantity aside from Station Missions. Maybe adding some more main missions/story missions based solely off the races and guilds?

12. Adding a feature where freighter crew can gather the resources themselves and are automatically placed in storage with the same items or something similar to the Livestock Unit that can be placed near Hydroponics/Extractors to auto collect when full.

[humble wadi]

agree with 6. also, stop randomly changing the selected missions, I've got a whole organisational agenda going on and you're messing it up 🤣

[gloomy hazel]

Yeah. With the buggy nature of some mission types I hate that. I'll land to take out monstrosities or to raid a factory, it'll pop a "Take a photo" one up so I either do it or ignore it and when I switch BACK to the mission I was there for it tells me it's now in another system.

[rigid lantern]

This is a fantastic idea

[brisk holly]

I think it has been suggested multiple times but why don't we have a walk button yet ?

[gentle totem]

Spacedocks where you can customise our freighters? Love it
I'd go a step further and suggest we can pour material/nanites to upgrade freighter class as well to alleviate freighter hunting

[alpine leaf]

I want seamless travel from star system to star system. That would be cool. And have some scary encounters mid-way

[sturdy bramble]

Here's an idea: buildable turrets for the player's base and settlement. these cost 1000 chromatic metal, 500 ionized cobalt, and 500 gold. you can only build 5 per base and 7 for you settlement.

[gloomy hazel]

13. Poses specifically for Multi-tool.

14. Streamlined approach to "The Purge" mission if you already have all 16 Glyphs.

15. More functionality for companion accessories.

16. Ability to actually have flying (the birds) and underwater companions.

17. Should tweek the code to have the best item auto selected for recharging tech. Example; Hazard Protection is about to drop and you go to recharge it. You have Sodium, Sodium Nitrate, and Ion Battery. It should have the battery automatically selected instead of Sodium.

[dapper sparrow]

underwater companions -> fishing minigames, with an actual rod and reel you can equip or even build at your base, I want pics sitting in my lawn chair on the pier with my bait and tackle box next to me, a little pail for catches, and a line in the water 😄

[copper dawn]

I still wonder why we can't tame fishes or other sea creatures there. 🤔

[gloomy hazel]

Did someone say there was a way to reuse these?

[dapper sparrow]

yes, you put it in the personal refiner after you activate it, and don't pull it out until after the mission is complete

then pulse again (I think) is how it works.

[gloomy hazel]

Complete as in back on ship?

[dapper sparrow]

you might have to reload the save to get it reusable, I don't know (I don't use this method)

complete as in you have sold off theitems you wanted to sell or whatever

so the mission is no longer in the log

[gloomy hazel]

I want something like this to store extra starships on in your freighter or in bases

It's also a spinny boy

[gloomy hazel]

They would just need to change the animation to simulate a seamless warp

Say from a yellow system to a red system it will fade from yellow to black and then from black to red.
Also with stars and such wizzing past you

[golden cobalt]

an Endurance-era freighter salvage capsule room would be nice

[dapper sparrow]

yes it would, in case the cough base transfer glitch cough keeps on happening

[random roost]

Is this still an isssue? Must I still keep one lone item before transferring?

[dapper sparrow]

I kept one item on 4.05 I think it was, maybe 04. and no prompt, no base transfer, it just ate my base

it doesn't fail all the time, it's apparently random

[random roost]

That's a painful bug to encounter... happened to me once. Ouch.

Anyways.. This is OT here.

Any news about any expedition or anything new?

[dapper sparrow]

no, and from reading the tea leaves I am gonna guess that we will have a revisit of expds 5-8 later

given it's november, they are still rolling out bug fixes

in theory the mac/ipad port is due out "later this year", well there's only two months of the year left

[random roost]

Ok... guess that's good for all who missed the expeditions.

Can't complain. Was a good year for NMS.

[dapper sparrow]

I hope switch players are able to run them

of course I'm just speculating, I can be completely wrong

[random roost]

No word on that?

[dapper sparrow]

nope

we'll find out when hg tells us

[bleak knoll]

I would want somthing with sentinel freighters where you could cripple their weapons and board the freighter and its could be like the system that derelict freighters use where you would go through rooms trying to contend with swarms of sentinels until you reach a ending room (possibly a reactor or hyperdrive) and overload the reactor, or set the freighter to warp somewhere else and you would have too escape the freighter on a time limit. And after you escape, the freighter would leve behind some loot after it explodes/warps away

And if the freighter was destroyed it would leave behind a dreadnought wreck that you could further salvage.

It can give useful/valuable items that may be difficult to get outside of breaching sentinels freighters.

This could actually give a good purpose for fighting sentinels in space instead of just immediately fleeing.

And also haha explosion go boom

[gentle totem]

Great idea! I would have it though where you can explore it (like your derelict idea) and loot whatever, maybe nanites or could add new weapons types/mods and the end could be like you say the reactor where you could shut down all sentinels in that system as if you hit all the planets sentinel nodes at once as well as extracting high tier loot and when you fly away it could detonate itself like it was overloaded

[bleak knoll]

Maybe there could be a chance of there being some kind of signal transmitter/radio and when destroyed. Would begin to shut down sentinel forces across the system and eventually the freighter itself, leaving the freighter drifting in space. Where it could be plundered for profit

[gentle totem]

Could elaborate on that as well by having some derelict freighters in the future be void of anything as a result of an earlier traveller having assaulted the ship

Would be an interesting way to have a visual narrative

[bleak knoll]

Or maybe warping around a system. you could find a crippled sentinel freighter with vy'keen or some other species attacking it. And if you watched long enough. They would eventually destroy it, or would flee and giving you the chance to fight it the rest of the way.

[hoary scroll]

Will there be any updates on the playing methods of nms in the future? Maybe any new type of ship?

[gentle totem]

Who's to say, a new ship type would be interesting if you've any ideas for what it coupd be and what it's bonus would be

[bleak knoll]

Going off my previous idea. A decent size personal ship with a small building area and a launch pod bay, where after crippling a sentinel freighter you could board one of these launch pods and be shot into the sentinel freighter, breaching the hull and beginning to fight your way through the damaged freighter.

This could be nice because it would give a larger ship with a small place to build a mini-base in space that can be piloted.

It could potentially be able to transport more than one person so you and a team could fight a sentinel freighter together, making a new potential nexus mission.

It could be it's own ship type, or a special kind of existing ship types. (maybe Carrier class ship as a class). Or a varient of an existing ship type (heavy fighter, explorer, hauler, ect).

[gentle totem]

That's similar to an idea I had with a medium size ship which could hold one regular ship and a exocraft making exploration easier and wider

I like where you're going with it though

[bleak knoll]

Ohh didn't think of that, having a small exocraft bay where you could store an exocraft to have for planetary exploration.

[gentle totem]

Aye, to my mind it would be lowering the, for argument sake the barge, to above the surface but not actually landed (low enough to jetpack into but it has a bit landing footprint) and being able to drive the exocraft out of the garage bay and to retrieve it there's a teleport console to respawn it inside the barge

[delicate agate]

You can set your analys scanner to show you the nearest of any gatherable item if you select the item in the catalogue - which is great!

But it stays there for exactly one item. Make it so we dont have to re set it every god damn time.

[gentle totem]

I'd like to be able to open a planet map and drop a pin at X Y coords which drops a marker I can see and travel to

Make hunting for stuff 100x easier and quicker

[glacial temple]

What about the permanent save beacon?

@gentle totem

[gentle totem]

Wouldn't work for what I'm thinking because that relies on it already being there

I'm thinking for example you're ship hunting for a crashed ship and you know its at X Y you can then open the planet map, type in the coords and it drops a pin right there which you can then fly to instead of pot luck dropping in and then lining up the coords with the ship console

[maiden forum]

A sort inventory would be nice. As my OCD lol is constantly arranging all boxes and inventory.

[oblique smelt]

Yeah . You can highlight the item types but imo that option is useless. Auto sort option would be MUCH better.

[thick grove]

Or easier movement for console to make it faster similar to Minecraft keybind where you use the arrows to move the item selected to the next slot

I would like to see more pvp opportunities not necessarily like fighting to death but maybe community competition like maybe even like a scavenger hunt or like bingo but you find the items

[dapper sparrow]

you have to be able to account for save editors and mods, bear in mind.

[glacial temple]

Just curious would a defensive turret be too much to ask for on the aggressive sentinel planets?

[hoary scroll]

Hope to optimize the base loading speed of players. I often encounter the situation that one player places a base computer in my base. This makes me very angry. Destroyed the overall beauty of my base.

Today, I returned to my base and found that another player had placed the base computer 282u away from my base computer. If I remember correctly, the base range of each player can be 500u. This must be because he did not load my base and placed the base computer. Now I can place building parts in his base, and he can also place building parts in my base. As long as we stand in our own base, we can ignore the closed building authority.

I have also seen the teleportal where malicious players parcel other players.

[lilac crane]

Environmental base shields. A shield bubble protects us from the elements, and allows "open air" bases on planets traditionally hostile to them.

[dapper sparrow]

I love this idea, if I would make the radius rather smaller than thebase, maybe 75u from a center point. and perhaps a max of three to be placed in a base. so you'd have to think about the areas you want outdoor builds.

[lilac crane]

Why that small?

Or scale shield size with power requirements?

[dapper sparrow]

well I am thinking if you want a little outdoor area around certain biuldings, you would have to be intentional about it, this would not be for covering ginormous builds

because power can always be added, I think 'scale with more power' would in effect be a noop

anyways you could submit your idea to hg and see what happens, you never know!

!hg

[misty iris]

You can submit bug reports, suggestions or feedback to Hello Games here: https://hellogames.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

[lilac crane]

You know, the number of HG bug reports and suggestions/feedback must be high enough they will only use a keyword crawler.

[dapper sparrow]

they have humans do the triage on any incoming reports to zendesk, the requests might get stuck in a low priority or do not do queue, but someone (person, not bot) actually looks at them, standard industry practice

[lilac crane]

I find the suggestions/feedback part hard to believe. The number of reports could be tens of thousands per week for all you know.

HG isn't exactly a standard company.

Standard industry practise is hundreds of employees for game development.

[visual cloak]

an exploration request! what is this garbage??….throws into trash folder

[lilac crane]

You will probably see some categorization of files into folders depending on the keyword crawler, so I reckon if lots of people send exploration requests, you are more likely to get exploration updates, because the number of files will increase.

[dapper sparrow]

https://www.nomanssky.com/contact/ they say here that they read every email. here Sean says he will be reading every comment and email https://www.nintendolife.com/features/no-mans-sky-will-never-run-on-that-sean-murray-talks-defying-the-odds-on-switch as to the switch at least, that's him personally, not an employee.

we're not talking about a huge active player base like some games, this is still somewhat niche as far as that

and lastly, when you submit a report, the (automated) reply says: "As you can imagine we see a lot of feedback every day and therefore can't guarantee a response to individual messages. With that said, we do read each and every piece of feedback we receive and truly appreciate the time you've taken to get in touch. " So I take them at their word

[oblique smelt]

More parts with movement/animations, in every base you build or visit there is not much going on.

[lilac crane]

I have been burned before, excuse me if I don't trust the words of companies.

[dapper sparrow]

that's fair. I work in tech and I've seen some stuff, for sure

[glacial temple]

What about a living freighter

[azure night]

Making squishy sounds as you walk around inside? Store too much NipNip and it starts warping to random systems...

[gloomy hazel]

Living freighter would be cool. One with tentacles would be awesome and wonderful and great

Nice, too

[golden cobalt]

the ability to buy multiple EBS (emergency broadcast scanner) from the scrap dealer - i dont mind the 30M cost, it would be nice not have to go through the whole dialog every buy

[dapper sparrow]

especially 'new glory, don't use it in the same system' every.single. time.\

[marble orchid]

Gek need to be able to wear the gek battle helmet

Being able to let your pets wander your freighter and base.

Potentially seeing crew harassed by them or here them grumbling about having to clean up after them

Would bring me joy to see a gek being chased by a raptor and a korvax completwly ignoring a flying pet perched on its head and a vykeen chasing some smaller pet

Maby add a new floor type to the freighters... menagerie for ur critters

[gloomy hazel]

Last spawn

[toxic slate]

I want a proper Star Wars cantina experience in the game. Bounty hunters, smugglers, information dealers, dangerous thugs, and a dangerous band

[rapid tinsel]

That would be awesome

[tepid ravine]

I want a fully fledged NPC crew for freighters

Combining the settlement feature with the freighter base building sounds awesome to me

Making it a mini Anomaly for you and your friends.

I remember the freighter having the option to give you and your groupmates different missions depending on the system you were in...

I assume they took it out to encourage players to visit the Anomaly more

[visual cloak]

i feel a fauna update coming. It's inevitable. Fauna are one of the last things that have been largely untouched since 2016.

i can feel it. in me bones.

[rigid lantern]

I think no man's sky should partner with space engine

[oblique smelt]

Diversity update needed. In fauna /flora, biomes, buildings, ships, freighters, mt, etc.

[cedar onyx]

I mean maybe but we kinda got one in origins and companions

[visual cloak]

meh, i’d beg to differ. That was an aesthetic update. Didn’t really do much for fauna

[cedar onyx]

We got the new burrowing creatures and some weird anomalous ones like the wheels

[visual cloak]

just look at the oversized fauna. look at their textures. look at their behaviors. they are lacking compared to all the other features

yeah you’re right

that’s all they do though

the burrowers never stop burrowing

[cedar onyx]

So in terms of AI you mean?

[visual cloak]

the sea turtles are never in the water

yes largely

but also with just textures and visuals

[cedar onyx]

Maybe but idk if a whole update would be dedicated to that

[visual cloak]

hmm. consider the fact that the game’s focus is exploration

[cedar onyx]

Especially because the gave creatures fur recently

[visual cloak]

whenever you land on a planet, you’re greeted by fauna most of the time

it’s important. it deserves its own large update

[cedar onyx]

Sure that’s true but that’s not how HG thinks

I just don’t feel like it’s a priority

But maybe I’m wrong

[visual cloak]

how do you know how they think?

[cedar onyx]

I don’t but I’ve played the game for a long time and I’ve noticed patterns

I think they are more likely to add something new before they change something existing right now

But idk

[visual cloak]

you may be right, and they’re focused on less important things like freighters, basebuilding, and lackluster settlements

The majority of new players who are coming in, are looking for new features that stray away from the original vision of the game, and those are the people hello games are catering too, because they are the loudest

[cedar onyx]

The thing is that to some people those are the important things

I would agree that exploration should be the main focus though

[cedar onyx]

Exactly

[visual cloak]

i’ll be honest. I thought basebuilding added in foundations was cool. it was exciting

but they kept updating bases

it was a major focus in a multitude of their updates

so i feel it’s time to move away from that stuff a bit

[cedar onyx]

To be honest I don’t think they will update bases for a while though

[visual cloak]

hopefully

[cedar onyx]

They’re in a good state and like I said, new content over old

[visual cloak]

it’s at a good place

hoping they focus less on new stuff and more on existing stuff

it’s been said many times. lol

[cedar onyx]

I would hope that they will if the community as a whole makes it clear

Most people seem to ask for new stuff though

But also Sean did give an entire lecture about how he likes adding new stuff the most a few years back

At GDC

[visual cloak]

it would be the most exciting route for the devs i assume

[cedar onyx]

Yeah that’s basically what he said

Iirc

But we also know that they are dedicated to keeping stuff up to date because of 4.0

There wasn’t much new content, but they greatly improved the inventory

And difficulty

[visual cloak]

mhm. at the end of the day, it’s their game and they should do with it as they want. I’m only here for the journey. I’ve probably come across as entitled here, and that’s not always great tbh

yep they’ve done some good polishing of old stuff recently

[cedar onyx]

No you haven’t

It’s just your opinion

[toxic slate]

it's hard not to want things or make criticisms without feeling entitled, since HG doesn't charge us for updates. we are not allowed to have a financial stake in how the game is updated, so to speak

I mean I would be happy to pay for the major updates, because then at least I could write Sean and say, "Look mate, I've been asking for longer day/night cycles since 2016. Time to get to it. Chop chop" without feeling like a jerk for sending in another zendesk request every year

[visual cloak]

hehe

[gloomy hazel]

Asking for things you like or want isn't entitlement. Entitlement is demanding something you feel you deserve without any regard for the people you're demanding it from. That's also different from demanding people give you respect instead of mistreating you.

[median forge]

In my own opinion I think there should be an npc you can add to your ship that when you call them they come to fix all other stuff on your ship for units of whatever the money is called because it’s forget

[subtle python]

I really wish they would evolve the living ships more….new weapons, more mods. Just to make them more than a decoration in my freighter….

[subtle python]

I feel like when I am building, it’s constantly night. Can’t ever see anything.

[chilly vapor]

I just wanna turn my ship into a microwave Sean please make it happen

[violet saffron]

personally, i just wish theyd let you talk to ||Artemis after you uploaded them to the simulation, since we're told we would be able to talk to them at the anomaly, and the terminal is already there...||

[copper dawn]

I generally miss that with story characters - once you finish their story, there is no or only one repeated line as a conversation which they say again and again. Maybe they could have some more random lines which would be played after their story is done? Or even some procedurally generated conversations?

[mighty fog]

It would be nice to bring back what certain items used to look like. These new textures are getting on my nerves.

[chilly vapor]

I feel like the flying creatures look the same

[gloomy hazel]

Find a new spot, iirc there will be spots 100% day and 100% night

[fathom tusk]

I would like to see Amphibian like Fauna and more Reptile like creatures that can move into water to land

[subtle python]

I will have to find these spots.

[gloomy hazel]

Wish you could raid freighters with either 4 other npc's or 4 other players and fight through the corridors till you reach the bridge

Also, the freighter should have signs of damage after a fight

Like, charred walls, smoke coming from the floor, etc

[granite cosmos]

I wish there was a lie down emote
I wanna nap on other people's ships

[dapper sparrow]

I wann nap on my bed in my base

[maiden osprey]

I would like to be able to connect biodomes with supply pipes or something that would allow for harvesting all in one click rather than running from dome to dome to dome. On a really wild idea, allow biodomes to be connected to supply silos for a real space farm feel.

[sturdy bramble]

I want to see the galaxy core be an actual system whee everything's bigger. the station has different areas to explore, the fleets come with more freighters, and the flagship for the fleets are the capital ships.

[copper dawn]

Especially in Galaxy core it would be cool. As ||in the Artemis storyline we see what is there, but we can't explore surrounding area of the main station||.

And the stuff inside Galaxy core could be unique to it, so it could give us more reasons to reach the Core than just for ||entering another Galaxy||.

[half quail]

I love the run down look of outlaw stations and something about them gives me this idea/desire for a sort of combination of settlement/freighter building where we could build and repair a busted station. (pipe dreaming this, ik gamedev isn't gonna help) but if you wanted to add a defense aspect to it perhaps exterior 'hardpoints' to slap one of a few turrets on (rapid fire lasers/railgun/etc) perhaps expand into a repopulation/restoration theme with surveying potential sites to build trading outposts and archives? In turn receiving a cut of earned units?

Love the idea of having a custom built station interior, main 'lobby' remaining default with the usual "locked" rooms being a start of custom room setup stuff?

Of course, realistic expectations but out there speculation for new gameplay is fun.

[tepid ravine]

do you guys think it's a good idea for an expedition to take away the starship and freighter from the player?

making you rely on exocrafts only

using portals to navigate through planets...

[dapper sparrow]

we had an expedition that made the player do most of it on one planet only (oon foot/exo), that was expd 5

[copper dawn]

That's similar how Freighters already work. With hangar and bridge being pre-generated/premade without player ability to change them. And then the rest of the freighter which is buildable.

[copper dawn]

If there was any idea for it during development, HG already abandoned it when they introduced portals in the game. Where the spaceship teleports with you when you use one. But originally there was a limit that you were unable to jump to other star system while you were in the portal destination star system.

I wonder if they there worked with the idea in the pre-release versions of NMS (like the one where they shown the portal in one of the pre-release trailers).

[gentle totem]

Still gutted I missed that one

[dapper sparrow]

maybe if will get rerun, not to get anyone's hopes up unnecessarily but let's wait and see

I think that was expd 3 actually so it probably wouldn't make the rerun list (I guess a rerun might only be 5-8)

[gentle totem]

Probably aye, though I wonder what the chances are that they did a mega run

So complete an exped to 'reset' and it launches the next in sequence

Unrealistic and even more so unlikely but imagine

[dapper sparrow]

I would like to see them available to run on a rolling basis in between the regular expeditions, even if in a shortened form. Doubt that's in the cards though

[gentle totem]

It would be a nice thing to tide people over between New expeditions

[dapper sparrow]

it would mean a better chance for people who missed those expeditions for whatever reason to be able to get the rewards later

[pallid hearth]

@dapper sparrow That's exactly what I was thinking they should do. Keep some, if not all of them on a rotation.

I think they should add something like an automated mining drone to mine asteroid fields or something.

[gentle totem]

Deep space mining platform which collects over time both gasses and materials as well as affording a small base build area

[pallid hearth]

👍

[gentle totem]

I'd love to see either a way ro jury rig power into the portal console to circumvent the recharge requirement or a single button to recharge all

(The latter idea could stretch further to exo suit, ship and tool)

[dim vine]

There really needs to be a higher upgrade module cap

[zenith marten]

Quicksilver store rework would be nice

[dapper sparrow]

I'll say. just "have/don't have" doesn't help much

[zenith marten]

My issue with current QS store is that it was launched back in 2018 and never touched again. They've kept piling more and more stuff to a vertical list

[dapper sparrow]

yes they have. and in themeantime some people report that their oldest twitch drops aren't available as new ones come in

need some love no matter what

[zenith marten]

And a randomized weekly deal thing would be nice since with the current QS earning rate it would take a new player over a year to purchase entire shop empty

[dapper sparrow]

it won't though. multiple saves.

[zenith marten]

by doing a daily every day and every weekend mission

well true

but if they only did with one save

[dapper sparrow]

sure

now consider the poor switch players

[zenith marten]

And then there's the forever stuck twitch reward notification because I can't clear the items I've purchased with QS before

[dapper sparrow]

yuck

[zenith marten]

Yes game, I know but I already have those

[dapper sparrow]

same

"available" but ha ha not really, just keep on clicking, sucker

[empty jetty]

Just saying, would be neat if the pirates/outlaws were a actual guild. They already have their own missions.

[atomic lichen]

Maybe other players can create there own guild

And there is a leader board for so kind of points of the guild in total

OR

Hear me out

Putting multiplayer on the switch

I think that's a great idea

[chrome schooner]

The Switch battery is sweating :p

[granite cosmos]

If we do get deeper oceans I'd like to be able to use normal base parts without it flooding
Or at least bigger underwater rooms
Maybe a moonpool for the nautilus
Or hopefully for a better sub

[granite cosmos]

There is a glitch that's been usable forever
Purchase a blueprint and reload save
You get your QS back and can unlock the item for free

Doesn't work for items like fireworks or void eggs
I'd have a full fleet of living ships otherwise

[violet saffron]

a significantly more outdated store is the tainted metal one

you basically pay some 20 million units to get enough to buy... a damn box of goods?

or if you're lucky something like a single illegal boltcaster upgrade

while we're on the topic, we've all noticed that the box of goods and box of tech descriptions are inverted, right?

[zenith marten]

heck

[brazen nova]

Giant space tardigrades in NMS would be awesome

[jagged saddle]

I hope even if it’s not deeper oceans we get more fear factor content in NMS.

Oceans are bland, and NMS is the perfect grounds for having a planet that is just an absolute nightmare to be on.

[visual cloak]

mmm yes, but not all the same size, color and silhouette

[supple geyser]

I'd be content with an expansion to space battles with sentinels in general.
Like a way to actually blow up their freighters at the end of wave 5, so they stop spawning for a bit, for starters.🤣

Endless space sentinels are a pain in the thrusters.😅

[lean zinc]

Has anyone brought up recolouring ships and mutlitools like you can to freighters now? Be cool as heck

[celest flare]

Land on their freighter, fight your way through to a terminal, deactivate sentinels in the entire system for 24h

[potent elbow]

Not saying a more interesting result of level 5 in space wouldn't be nice, But the "endless" attacks are ridiculously easy to end by flying into the anomaly, space station, or your freighter.

[copper dawn]

Or just by pulsing.

Like mentioning many times already, it would be cool though if the battle could be eventually ended like ground ones... In this case by hijacking the Sentinel freighter. And through it disabling them in space.

[supple geyser]

Tried that; unless I'm doing something wrong, either it's the Switch being 2 updates behind, or pulsing just doesn't work, unless you've ran far enough away to enable the "escape possible" message first.

Anyways, yeah, having the freighters turn into places you can fight through to get to a terminal that disables the sentinels system-wide for a set period of time [or until you've left it, but that cuts down the time they stay inactive in exchange] would be a really nice thing to see.

Also?
LET US SELL SPARE MULTITOOLS.
PLEASE!

[supple geyser]

Yeah, but that's not so much ending it as it is running away.

It feels like a kid running into a room & locking it behind them during tag or something, ya know?😅

[copper dawn]

I pulse by speeding up (by shift key on PC) and then pulsing at same time (by holding both keys) when I get told that I can escape.

[near horizon]

but its nice, if you have things youd rather do...

[copper dawn]

And we can scrap space ships, but not the multitools. That needs to be fixed indeed.

[potent elbow]

Depends on when/where you leave. I usually do it after completely taking out the freighter. Just summon the anomaly and fly right in iirc they won't even start scanning you again. But like I said it would be nice if the end was not satisfying/interesting. I just wouldn't call it a pain since it's easily dealt with even if you don't like how.

[supple geyser]

I guess we just have different views on what counts as "A pain in the thrusters", then, & that's ok.🤣
I'd just prefer being able to end the fight & keep going, instead of having to spend a lot of time going through a lengthy docking-then-leaving procedure or running away for half a minute before I'm "allowed" to escape with a pulse.
It feels more like I've accomplished something when it's the enemy that's forced to back off instead of me, y'know?
The ease-of-escape is the lesser consideration, for me.

[potent elbow]

I agree we have different definitions of pain and that it's ok. For me it's spending 5+ minutes on something and not feeling like I've achieved anything.

You should be able to pulse immediately after defeating the freighter and all ships though.

But l won't complain if they had a more streamlined exit strategy like a cloaking device or that they stopped chasing you for a bit after defeating the freighter.

That said considering we're fighting a machine hive mind that can wipe out entire universes in seconds when it wants, it boggles my mind we can even temporarily clear them from a planet. LoL

[gleaming quest]

Hmm this internal update has been sitting there for 7 days now. I have a feeling that HG now has to wait for Nintendo to approve their updates before they roll out on all platforms... at least for things like content updates.

and by has to I mean they are choosing to

[hot flame]

Even though we haven't been on the same version as Switch at all?

Content makes sense though

[gleaming quest]

Yeah it feels like they're trying to let Switch catchup lol

[copper dawn]

Or they are having problems with tests or wanting to do some big update. 🤔

Because why they would otherwise were waiting for all platforms?

[gleaming quest]

Because Nintendo's approval process takes like a week for a single little patch lol

Just imagine them rolling out new features/expedition and making switch wait 2 weeks or something while verybody else is enjoying the new stuff

I mean it literally happened on launch for switch, they didn't even get 4.0 until like a week later or something

[dapper sparrow]

or they are working on quicksilver missions for the switch. or who knows

[copper dawn]

Maybe they are working on new expedition?

As we didn't have one for long time.

[subtle python]

How often do the community missions update?

[dapper sparrow]

the nexus missions? there's one weekly mission every weekend

then there are the dailies, one a day, these can stack up to three if you don't do them each day

[subtle python]

No, the community missions that you unlock more QS items in the shop. Has 3 stages.

[dapper sparrow]

oh. yeah it's been a little while but rumour mill says maybe tomorrow we'll get a new one

most of the time there is a sequence and we get them steadily for a couple months, then there might be a break

guess we're in that break now

[brazen mauve]

Okay I've been trying to play NMS in VR. While the VR support is great and looks awesome it is, in all practicality, impossible to manouver in space with any efficiency. First of all one can't switch which hands one uses to acellerate vs control the steering/weapons with. Second the ship joystick is extremely janky. I end up having to twist my entire body in order to get any horizontal movement going and I can't get the ship to rotate on a vertical AND horizontal axis at once, thus it can't move diagonally. This makes it utterly useless for combat. I can't even shoot asteroids with any effect. So while I would absolutely love to play NMS in VR it's really not something I can do at this point until this is resolved. What I would like to see is a smoother more fluid space flight control system in place. Maybe tied with a target lock system (that would be cool for the regular desktop version as well).

Also while we're on the subject of VR locamotion it would be nice to be able to toggle between walking and teleporting while on the ground. Teleporting might be good for longer distances but walking is still the preferred method for shorter micromanaging of movement. And what about when we get vehicles?

[sullen ridge]

It’d be cool if you could buy space stations for like a billion units and then collect income in it

Different systems and economies would have different profits, and you can chose what they sell and stuff

Maybe you can like reorient the purpose of them too so they can have specialized tasks and states where they produce certain items that

[brazen mauve]

I'd second the space station idea. Maybe also expand the base computer so you can upgrade the base into a community aettlement. Perhaps to do that you'd need to collaborate with other players but that could open up say more building options and more base coverage.

If the space station idea goes forward you could have a private station owned by an individual. Or you could open it up as a community project to be larger and stronger. Also if space stations and settlements become a thing then faction alluegence might become more relevent. With whom are these settlements and stations aligned?

[balmy cove]

Expanding on the space station idea, adding the ability to make a space station 2hich you then expand yourself

[ivory anvil]

A easier way to get quicksilver instead of mining for switch players

[dapper sparrow]

please consider submitting this to hg directly

!hg

[misty iris]

You can submit bug reports, suggestions or feedback to Hello Games here: https://hellogames.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

[past swan]

Do you guys think multi-player on nms will come to switch one day? I really hope it does. This game is really amazing

[visual cloak]

probably

[dapper sparrow]

if enough switch players request it from hg, then they will at least look into it

[cedar willow]

Yeah, random shootout between NPCs or against yourself would be nice

Or, you shooting first yourself

The outlaw space stations already retain the vibe, one lively cantina with interacting NPC could add life to it.

Well, they already implemented animal behavior, hunting and killing each other. Bar fight or npc business could be introduced on the same way.

Imagine you looking for a specific item in the cantina and then discover thet it has been already sold to someone else in the cantina.

Items could move around in this close space

And you could be obliged to talk to follow the lead and negotiate

Or shoot the guy 😬

Outlaw missions: robbing cargo, assault a space station, could be offered there too.

[weary acorn]

Make it so on creative mode you can get a menu with all the planet decoration stuff like boulders, trees, decorations so you could fully decorate your own planet

[gloomy hazel]

Those are in the game, they are quicksilver rewards

[weary acorn]

Why would you have to unlock them in creative mode

[balmy dust]

walk inn a shop with a gek that firing his blaster wildly in all directions cause he lost credits.

I'd like food physicality. return complicated animal food. maybe a wear and tear system()previous permadeath breakage(). weapon stats.

[dapper sparrow]

quicksilver is not a free item in any mode, and quicksilver items you get on one save apply to another (which is a reason they are not free for creative)\

[balmy dust]

It's a balancing mechanic

[lunar widget]

Idea: have that scrap you can find on planets that used to be part of old machinery be able to let you convert them into a part to build your own starship

[surreal trail]

what is that?

[zenith marten]

Alternative quicksilver store concept. Current one hasn't had any changes since its addition which isn't that convenient because they keep piling stuff to a single vertical list

[austere lantern]

For NMS for the future, I would like to see power generation via windmills.

[lime quarry]

Please overhaul the space combat ! I dont like this whole thing where your controls lock up and the computer forces your ship to try and follow your opponent..is this a new setting I have missed? This is not AC6 i absolutely refuse to do any space combat until this trash is fixed!

[thin patrol]

Maybe a way to ranch companions to feed them to use they items like milk berry or something to. To make a ranch líke expandable farms where players can show what companions they have collected and stored there instead of delete them and keeping them in eggs just

To give them a way to live instead to deconstruction or just delete then from inventory

To make the game bit more realistic

[hot flame]

It's an option you can turn off

[copper dawn]

It never happened to me. 🤔

[lunar widget]

I still advocate using the salvageable scrap you can find to get unique upgrades or build your own ship if you have the right components

Would be fun going on a trek across the planet, hunting for Starship parts

[empty jetty]

It's very minor, but changing "delete" pet to "release" would be nice.

[copper dawn]

||It spoils the twist of this game for ones who didn't finish the main story yet.||

[lyric vault]

If the first person view for exocraff

[copper dawn]

There already is one. But you can't look around unlike the spaceship cockpit and visor doesn't work inside.

[lyric vault]

Which one

[copper dawn]

For all the exocrafts.

[lyric vault]

I never noticed

[old verge]

Mamaged colony surplus should add up just like debt do … and be collected over time 👀

mamaged*

[old verge]

managed**

[lime quarry]

Ah ty so much!

[past cedar]

As a slight expansion on this idea, Players can already acquire starship parts in game by melting down existing ships, why not that you could expend those to create a new ship?(Where previously they are good only for selling)
This way, you would be able to make a new ship you like, and it might put more emphasis on the items that previously were only there to be sold.

[sturdy bramble]

this. this is good

[crimson whale]

Where is that setting found? Always wanted to turn it off to get a more star wars battlefront feel to space combat.. but I never found where to turn it off

[hot flame]

Options, control options, starship combat auto-follow

[crimson whale]

Thanjs

[crimson whale]

That would actually be so cool

[nova garden]

Would there ever possibly be a on-foot combat system upgrade? I was playing the other day with my brother and we got to talking about how the on foot combat system feels outdated at times (please don't get me wrong, this game is still one of my favorites xD)

Regardless we were talking about how it'd be cool to have a better combat system similar to that of other third person shooter games but in a unique atmosphere considering NMS and its genre.

My brother had suggested that it'd be cool to have a on-foot combat system similar to that of The Division or something. Honestly I think that sounds totally awesome, but thats your guy's call but its an idea.

Personally I think it'd be cool if we could have the option to modify our weapons with scopes, energy types, silencer's that could change the sound of the gun etc etc. As well as possibly have a seperate type of tools for guns and mining drills.

Maybe after that is done, who knows the animation on how we hold our weapons and such could be changed. But the option to modify our guns and mining drills would be kinda neat xD

[lyric vault]

Wait until a planet trader arrives on the ground and shoot it, look what it will do

[lyric vault]

Can you imagine Destroyer class ships to be in the game

You can fly with them manually

They provide a base you can live in

And they have big cannons

They would need fuel for both hyperdrive, pulse engines and normal engines.

Basically a small version of the freighter

[copper dawn]

After angering and getting killed by angry traders in Nethack, I don't want to anger traders in another game. At least in case that they would be able to use all their items in their inventory against the player.

But if you mean shooting the space ship of landed trader, I now wonder same thing. 🤔

[plush beacon]

do we have any info on the next expedition?

[dapper sparrow]

no. might even be reruns. we have 0 info at all

[plush beacon]

ouch

[austere lantern]

It doesn't though? If you're using a controller the L2 button toggles target tracking, but only as long as you hold the button down. If you don't then you have to fly and fight as normal. But even if you are tracking the target you can still control your speed and roll.

I'd love to see wind turbines, and some form of aquatic power generation - just coz it gives more flexibility.

[gleaming quest]

@plush beacon I'm sure you've seen by now... it's reruns as per the experimental patch notes

[nova garden]

I have no idea what you said lol. But a planet trader sounds cool

[lyric vault]

It already exists

[finite flare]

Just to save myself the effort of reposting it all, this was a concept I just put up on Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/z1szdh/concept_space_exploration_and_capital_ship_travel/

(Once it gets moderator approved that is!)

[hot flame]

Doesn't embed for you until level 5, here: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/z1szdh/concept_space_exploration_and_capital_ship_travel/

[finite flare]

Ah perfect, thanks for reposting!

Hopefully the moderators approve the concept image soon so my rambling makes some vague sort of sense.

[pulsar forge]

Yo

[fluid sparrow]

That looks amazing, as someone that uses there freighter for everything this would allow us to make more use of it. It would add even more content into the game. I love this idea completely

[pulsar forge]

I got screenshots of my what if Ideas, but I don't have the permission to send them. May someone do it for me or may I be given permission to send them?

[fluid sparrow]

You can post them in #nms-media

[pulsar forge]

Alright then. Thanks so much!

[violet vortex]

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[pulsar forge]

I appreciate the help, friend! I was having a hard time submitting them to this channel for some reason, so I took the screenshots and sent them to #nms-media . I'll be sure to show HG my ideas in hope they may takes some inspiration off of them if they have not yet thought of doing this. You have a good night

[dapper sparrow]

please please give us a way to turn off vignettes by default without impacting other photo mode settings. just a little preference setting that then gets saved, across all areas, so I don't have to disable it every time I go in a cave, come out of it, go in the ship, leave it, etc.

[pliant hamlet]

All the expeditions should come back as permanent playable game modes.

[copper dawn]

Such like was The Living ship quest line, which was sort of the first expedition (while not separate game mode, it was a quest line, which was unlocked by and it was different to other quests).

Though I heard that the quest line was dumbed down. That now there isn't looking for the target by the axises anymore.

[lone ferry]

Multiplayer on Switch that can play with other platforms

[dapper sparrow]

you don't have to use panetary coords to get p[laces, instead you have the rathe horrid location sweep thing, not sure which is worse tbh

[copper dawn]

Planetary coords was at least unique puzzle, while the location sweep thing (if it's the scanner feature which is also now used in majority of the missions for looking for nearby targets) is generic.

And also automatically changes my visor every time I close it, when I want to scan animals or other stuff instead.

[dusty raven]

I would love to see a Feature where when you see a ship you want to buy a ship, but you don't have enough money, you add the pilots "Contact", and as long as you are in the same star system as when u added them to "contacts", you can summon them and their ship when you have enough money, and then buy the ship from them.

[toxic slate]

Strange that HG are no longer mentioning the iPad version when talking about their future platforms. They did demo it on an iPad (supposedly) so I'm not sure what's going on there. In addition to all that, we also found time to announce that No Man’s Sky is in development for macOS and PlayStation VR2, the latter coming as a free update in February 2023 day and date with the PSVR2 hardware.

[copper dawn]

They probably want to focus first on macOS. 🤔

[plain island]

when macos release! i want to play on my mac :>

[dapper sparrow]

M1 is the determining factor as to the mac/ipad port, let's get to 2023 and then see 🙂

[brisk holly]

Hello, I know this might be a drastic change to add but I would love to have just more animations on our character when doing things like repairing the ship, crafting, putting stuff in the raffinery, entering the ship and so on... It would require to modelize the interior of ships on the 3rd person view... also to have the inventory menu changed in a way that we can see our character. Also (and I swear it wasn't planned when I wrote this lol) I'm a 3d animator with 6 month experience in a video game studio and I'm looking for a job so...

[old verge]

COÏNCIDENCES. (I’m just playin’)

[radiant sage]

Guilds with people? Maybe multi person empires in systems or across systems? Empire warfare? While this game isn’t intended to be a heavy multiplayer game I think it would be fun to be able to allow groups to make empires. Of course they would have to take over unsettled systems, and they would likely be found in the center as that’s where everyone usually is. Just think adding a little more of a multiplayer system would make the lonely game a little less lonely

[gloomy hazel]

A few things on my wishlist:

1. Alternative energy sources. (geothermal,wind, wave, tidal)
2. Upgrading Freighters includes upgrading their class
3. Farming might include pens that hold the animals?
   TBH, I don't really have much to mention anymore the game is just about perfect imho, XD

[gleaming quest]

@gloomy hazel Read the patch notes for the sentinels update, this already exists. You can also use the custom difficulty settings.

[austere lantern]

I think the geothermal, wind, wave sources would be really cool.

[austere lantern]

I think HG have a vacancies thing or something on their site. You could always send in your CV, couldn't hurt!

[brisk holly]

Haha what I mean is that I was genuinely thinking as a player when posting this, not as a job researcher I swear lmao

[brisk holly]

I'll check that out thanks

[austere lantern]

Hey, if you don't ask you won't know.

[gloomy hazel]

Yes! We have water, and lakes and oceans. we could put them along coastlines. Wave and Tidal Generators are a real life thing.
And geothermal. hot planets? Volcanic planets? Underwater we could put them near those vents that have the crystals on them. XD Planets with alot of storm activity would be great for windmills.
I'd even have a fusion reactor... right? You could fuel it with antimatter. We should have a fission reactor that takes uranium by now too. Oooo and it could leak radiation so you put it away from the base XD

[sturdy bramble]

It would be very interesting to see more of a freighter on freighter combat system, where you have these massive fleets of different system freighters attacking one another and you can intervine on either side. The chance of encountering one varies on the conflict level (eg: lvl 3 = smth like 85% and lvl 1 = smth like 5-15%). The freighters would have to be destructible for this to work tho (only sys freighters, capitals aren't present).

[tidal reef]

Expedition Wishlist

• Add Normandy as a Starship reward

• Add Leviathan as a Living Ship reward

• Add Abyssal Horrors from the Derelict Freighters as a companion

• Add Minifiends from the Derelict Freighters as a companion

• Each and every badge you earn from an Expedition can be unlocked as a decal. For convivence sake, shove them into like a "decal pack" when unlocked on a seperate save.

• They should totally make Traveler Graves a decoration reward for expeditions nad have it be colorable

[gleaming quest]

@gloomy hazel https://www.nomanssky.com/sentinel-update/

[dapper sparrow]

please give us food buildables that can go on plates, or something that can pass as food besides the mushrooms and pustules.... those are getting a bit stale!

[dusk yew]

warring npc factions pls sean 🙏

new armor/suit options would be nice

the origins update shows a guy on the far right with like a scarf and some other armors. that we still have not gotten

Mix and matching shoulder pieces with any other thing (mainly the life suppourt unit since im starting to dig that alot more now) would be nice.

[austere lantern]

Different variations of life support units would be cool. 🙂

[dusk yew]

YES

just

more armor/suits in general

we have only had the 5 we got now for a while

[austere lantern]

Um, you can?

[azure night]

Horse armor!

[nova brook]

I would love to see borderless mode actually being borderless mode in the graphics <.<
It keeps freezing the frame and locking when I tab out, which is rather annoying.

[sturdy bramble]

Frigates can fire their weapons

this would be very useful

[lone yew]

я would like if more than one person could ride in one ship

[manic totem]

That's been on the want list for lots of us

[late coral]

I want to have an organic freigter now, just so I can say "I have command of a Tyranid Hive fleet"

[torn fractal]

Being able to call them into a planetary battle for support would be 👌

[sturdy bramble]

yes

Railguns. need I say more?

[late coral]

I actually got a cool idea for living freighters

you could be soaring through space, when a group of living frigates attack you, led by a living freighter

or maybe it's chasing a group of living frigates like a predator

and upon defeating it, you can claim it as your own

[fallen hawk]

I've noticed that "supercharged" slots will visibly adjust the bonuses of technologies that are placed in them. hopefully HG implements similar visual function for adjacency bonuses, so it's easier to determine overall bonus.

[fading mural]

Do you think we'll ever be able to own an abandoned Space Station and bring back populace to that sector and the planets surrounding said station?
Always been a dream of mine lmfao.

[empty jetty]

More than just three slots to save avatar appearances. Would love to make one for each race.

And I still want a handglider lol.

[buoyant comet]

Bigger scale space battles like with capital ships

I’d like to see frigates and the mini expeditions get updated

[granite cosmos]

I kinda wished that warping through a black hole didn't have a warp tunnel animation but rather pitch darkness and little to no noise until you blink out in the new system

[dapper sparrow]

bear in mind that it's a laoding screen, so you want some indication of processing going on for the player's sake

[copper dawn]

Also the "black hole" is behaving as worm hole. As you probably wouldn't be even able to escape a black hole if you somehow would survive its 🍝 effect first.

[covert wasp]

Transferring base ownership could be cool. The ability to build a base for a friend and then transfer it to them or even sell it for units would be fun

[lime elm]

Also the ability to have 2 owners

Would be cool

[static canopy]

Colouring ships and unlocking colours by finding different colour ships

Also Apollo and null bodies

[subtle python]

If we have the appearance customizer why can’t we have the starship outfitter for our bases?

[rose apex]

I want more decoration

[dapper sparrow]

the quicksilver shop has a lot more items, but there could be still more!

[inland sage]

I feel the same.

Would really add a nice and unique touch to the game if we get starship customizer. Heck, even the freighters have color options.

[oblique smelt]

^ yes please

[dusk yew]

Boarding frigates and destroying it from inside plz

[copper dawn]

Especially in case of the Sentinel freighter it would be great.

[dusk yew]

Yeah

Just put sentinels in it too

[left blade]

Fr why can’t we board the sentinel Freighter and blow it up

It would be so cool

[left blade]

Tbh I think that would kinda mess up ship hunting if you could customize any ship to look however you want

[empty jetty]

I don't think giving the option to just repaint would ruin anything. They could make buying ship colors expensive to compensate, like with freighter colors.

Make it an option, like upgrading class. But have it require enough resources to still motivate coordinate sharing.

[turbid crag]

Tsunamis

Would be cool

Or very strong hurricanes for scorched planets with water

Because the water temperature and all that

TD, TS, CAT 1 etc

That would be pretty cool

Except since its so hot then it could progress into like a cat 6

Or a fire like hurricane

[lucid gazelle]

i kinda wish there were more than just habitable planets/moons in the game. Gas giants, ice giants, or an environment like how the actual moon or other planets are. Yes i know those wouldnt be as exciting but there are quadrillions of planets so just go find a new one. yeah anyways, it feels kinda weird having every single celestial body being habitable

[turbid crag]

Shooting rocks out with strong gales

That actually would be cool

[turbid crag]

Aside from dead planets, being the only habitable life is other travellers

[lucid gazelle]

yeah maybe kinda like that but with no atmosphere

[turbid crag]

Yeah

Because they still have a slight atmosphere that you can see

[lucid gazelle]

gas giants that have lots of moons (or just a couple)