nms-the-future

[empty jetty]

My explanation for the buildings with no NPCs.

[limpid cargo]

oh

[turbid ember]

Autosort button would be amazing. I'm surprised they didn't do it yet.
Wonder if there's some sort of technical limitation against it

[vast wave]

Im more interested to know what kind of autosort y'all have in mind

Because I've seen it mentioned dozens of times, but noone has ever expanded on the idea

Sort by what? Name, value, category, use case, procedural or not?

[daring tide]

It would be best it the interface allowed for the player to decide the rules for auto sort and allowed for dedicated slots

[turbid ember]

Autosort? You have a shihh-ton of items in your inventory, all of which are scattered about in different slots.

I got pieces of carbon in my top-left, and bottom right for some reason. Click one button, and all my stacks of different items are suddenly right next to each other.

I can see what I have a lot of, and what I need.

We'll go with Atoms/Elements/Resources first, then building components, then trade goods -
Hell, I literally manually sort my inventory via how it's presented in the NMS wiki lol.

It's just a pain in the ahh most of the time.

[empty jetty]

Am I the only one who likes to manually sort my inventory myself?

[turbid ember]

Prolly not the only one. But it's defo a neurodivergent thing. 😌

[empty jetty]

The way I like things grouped isn't always how the devs do it...

Like a dishwasher, if you won't sort it my way, step aside and just let me do it. 😛

[turbid ember]

Shoot. Then don't press the nonexistant auto-sort button.

For everyone else that has 4 different stacks of sodium, scattered across the four corners of the inventory page, hidden between "Counterfeit circuits", and "marrow bulbs",
I'd love to press a button to put those sodium stacks riiight next to each other lol.

Along with everything else.

[empty jetty]

Oh yes, I'm fine with sort buttons. I just don't like immediate auto sort when I have no say in it.

[turbid ember]

If anything, it'll be an easy way to tell you what you already have in your inventory.
Then you can add/remove/delete/sell what you need or don't need, at a single glance.

Then sort how you want.

[vast wave]

I get the idea of this "group up items scattered across inventories" thing

[turbid ember]

YES

Something that accesses ALL of your Storage Boxes

[vast wave]

I just hate seeing the word "autosort" thrown out without any specifics

And later people will get upset that we got a simplistic system from HG

[turbid ember]

My initial idea was just doing it "per-inventory", but expanding it to across the storage boxes as well would be dope.

Maybe not Starships and Exocraft.

[pure grove]

honestly, the exosuit inventory should just have the full screen cargo by default

[turbid ember]

But at least the storage units.

[vast wave]

Cost: 5000 nanites

[empty jetty]

There are some games that auto sort by a predetermined system whenever you input anything and I kinda hate it.

[turbid ember]

I can try to find some examples of games with good auto-sort buttons.
First thing that comes to mind is Resident Evil 4's Remake.

You can totally sort out the attache' case how you want in that game, just like the original.
Buuuut if you don't want to fiddle around with it, click a button, and it puts all like-items together

Though it's hardly a good comparison, I gotta' find a better example.

[turbid ember]

Would peeps bihh about that? 😄

Hell, even if we just got a singular auto-sort button we could use, per-inventory, that'd be an amazing start.

But even more sorting features would be bomb.

[vast wave]

Yeah they would

People tend to bitch about everything

Source: I do

[turbid ember]

kek

[empty jetty]

They would. We got ship crafting and still complaints about the limitations.

[turbid ember]

The ship crafting system made the most sense, given the seed-method of generation they're using for everything.
What were the complaints?

[toxic slate]

an autosort button would definitely be better than the weirdo filtering tabs we got a few updates ago

[turbid ember]

Lowkey, 'm hoping they bring that same part-swap method to creating custom planets.
Like.. Travellers that reach the end-end game can take creatures/flora/fauna/biomes they've scanned, and place 'em together into their own planet.

Hell, Atlas been teasing me about that shihh for the whole questline >:|

[pure grove]

for the record I would like to let it be known that I really like the ship crafting and am PRAYING to atlas that we get weapon customization some day

ahem- aiming down sights

[vast wave]

There were couple complaints, from "this will kill ship hunting" (spoiler: it did not)

To "why I cant preview the ship, I need actual parts for it?"

[empty jetty]

Heh, you are certainly persistent. 🙂

[vast wave]

To "why is there no black colour option or shuttle customization where patch notes / trailer clearly showed it?!"

[pure grove]

I'm delusional, correction

[turbid ember]

Lol if anything, It feels like it sparked my interest in ship hunting.
I'm not checking reddit for the hottest ship anymore, and then calling it a day.

I'm actually going out to find ships with parts I like, and scrapping them to make somethin' better.

Second they add Sentinel Ship customization, bruh .
I'm making Metal Gear Rex.

[empty jetty]

My favorite was complaints about not being able to mix types.

[turbid ember]

I would like my Black back tho lol. Even my Freighter is Grey now >:|

[toxic slate]

to be fair, their implementation did not. but there were many possible implementations which would have really devalued ship hunting. they did the right thing and took their time to think about it

[vast wave]

You kinda can if you get the expedition paint job

[turbid ember]

Crap.

[vast wave]

Yeah that kinda sucks, locking the closest implementation to black ships we have behind an expedition

Or if you're on PC and can use mods, there are some mods that actually make ships black or let you set a custom black texture on the ship

[young pebble]

Me too, but it's not fun when I die and I have to start again.

[vast wave]

Pretty sure they won't but again, if you're on PC - see #nms-modding channel

[turbid ember]

// My current list for things I hope they add/tweak/change.

• Larger FOV sliders for 1st and 3rd person view.
  So my camera isn't stuffed into my Traveller's backpack for most of my travel.

• Per-Inventory, and Group-Storage Autosorting Button.
  Must have Quality of life.

• An option to instantly show text:
  No more waiting for that shihh to scroll when talking to an NPC, or reading something.

• An option for faster clicks:
  Instead of waiting for half-a-second to click something, an option to reduce, increase, or remove it altogether would be dope.

• Larger Fauna:
  Dinosaurs, larger pre-gens. Monster-everything. Meet the Momma of the Astroid Larva. Fight the Momma of the Larva Asteroid. Trigger my megalophobia pls. (Leviathans part 2?)

• Deeper Oceans:
  Paired with the above; give us that subnautica feeling. (Abyss part 2?)

• Custom-Planets:
  Make your own planet based off of biomes/flora/fauna/minerals you've found in the past.
  Will need to be heavily limited, I assume. Perhaps only doable once-per-week or something. And only with 1 planet per player.

---

Piping Dreams/Spitball ideas: (I got no idea how this could be implemented, or what HG's vision for it would be, but .. here's hoping)

Ground-Combat. NPC Combat. Race Wars (Korvax vs Gek BB).
Changes to the language learning system.
Monster Threats in the Night. Scarier Derelict Freighters. Scarier Monstrosities.
Orbital Bombbardment.

[turbid ember]

---

And wait.. are modded sentinel ships made on PC, able to be transferable to non-modded save files?

[empty jetty]

I'm okay with custom planets as long it's treated like your freighter. A separate build unrelated to the galaxies/systems.

[turbid ember]

You wouldn't want other players to be able to interact with it?

[tulip pagoda]

dude

that completely takes away from the main point of the game

which is exploration

[turbid ember]

Right. Aaaand why not use all the fauna/flora/minterals/biomes you've catalogued and place them together.

Now you'll have a bigger reason to go out, and find the biggest predator. or smallest prey. Or the weirdest plant/mineral or planet. If you can take things you've scanned or discovered out in the galaxy, and bring it to your own biome or planet, shooooot.

[tulip pagoda]

if it was done in a way where you could only use discoveries to craft your planet like you said then yeah because then you'd have to search for your planet attributes and collect

maybe it could be an endgame thing, like a storyline about creation which leads you to in the end create your own planet.

doable only once per player

[turbid ember]

^

It'd have to be hella regulated and limited, just from the technical load alone, I'd imagine.

buuuuut Atlas has been teasing me about it ... and with the seed generation system, it's defo doable-

[tulip pagoda]

there wouldn't be a lot of technical load i think. your platform maybe a little bit but not on the servers or anything.

but i doubt it would even be a big deal at all on your platform because it's not like you'd have a huge GUI of options to choose from down to the very tiny details to create a planet.

it would obviously be very simplified

there already exists a mod (although only being worked on) that you can generate and change certain aspects of planets in real time

[turbid ember]

I'm guessing planets only generate once a player visits them.
Each planet is assigned a seed number, based off of every aspect of the planet: the seeds of the fauna, flora, biome, etc.

For a planet we choose to "claim", anything we swap out of it would change that planet's seed number.

Hmn

[tulip pagoda]

this idea isn't that important to me but it'd definitely be cool to have. dont think we need it tho

[lean elm]

Total Jr. Traveller (only 75hrs so far). I have 2 suggestions.
First: Personal quarters on space stations. Rent/own/expand...
Second: Repair bays. Pay in Units or Nanites. The more damage the higher the cost and the longer it has to stay in the bay.

[warm cliff]

I still absolutely love this btw

[pure grove]

Honestly, I think it's fair to say that it's a bit reductive to label the game strictly or primarily as an Exploration game. It's many other things too, survival, crafting, trading, fighting, building, roleplaying, customizing. Each of which are just as important to exploration. We should call NMS what it actually is: A Sandbox.

[mild wyvern]

Really would like too see some kind of random enemy encounters or dungeons on the planet surface. Anything which increases the fun just exploring the planet per food or vehicle.

[molten lintel]

Ditto

[toxic slate]

The major tentpoles at launch, as defined by HG, have been Explore, Trade, Fight, Survive, and they exist as a whole. But it's clear that exploration was the masthead feature upon which everything else exists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw_pU6RNxCo

[turbid ember]

Suggestion: The ability to drive Exocraft on the surface of your Freighter.
Reason: the lols lmao.
We can already run across the entirety of our freighter... why not spawn an exocraft on it. Have little drag races across the surface of a Pirate Dreadnaught in space.

[icy thunder]

they should add ship/freighter graveyards on some empty planets in civilized systems, have them be scrap worlds. you could forage through old wrecks and find mods, nanites, ship scrap pieces, or ship parts

[pure grove]

That was 8 years ago dog, you're talking about a different game than the one we have today.

[toxic slate]

I'm more or less supporting your argument, so I'm not sure what your issue is. The game has four main tentpoles, not just exploration. That DNA of No Man's Sky is still the same as it was in 2016.

But it's also pretty easy to see that Exploration is the main part of the game. None of the other features of the game would be able to stand on their own without the procedural universe that HG created.

[toxic slate]

I really wish we had procedural upgrades that we could find while exploring. Not just RNG stats, but upgrades that give unique abilities. Put them in planetary freighter dungeons or pirate forts or something.

[rotund stratus]

To add to this, most additions to the game aside from building have added to these original pillars

Could probably say it's explore, fight, trade, survive, build

Though building is arguably a survival mechanic to an extent

[fringe wharf]

You think this game can handle large cities? I know there are canon reasons why there aren't large cities but how about if we had the ability to create one?

What if we had the ability to expand settlements into large cities?

[vivid adder]

it can prob handle it

i feel like the whole liquidator vangard would also be a great workaround for the canon reasons for large cities not being a thing

like if a group of liquidators could just keep the sentinels away from civilians in a settlement and that lets it grow to be city sized

[limpid cargo]

sadly

I'm still holding out for the day when I can fly a frigate without owning a freighter

[young pebble]

I disagree

[turbid ember]

Hoverbikes. a la' Speeders from Star Wars / Sparrows from Destiny.

I don't even care if ya'll straight-up rip them off, dude the movement on those things was legit.

[tulip pagoda]

that's fine bro. but all aspects of no man's sky including combat goes right back to exploration. no exploration and it wouldn't have any of it. everything in NMS is build on the backbone of exploration.

you can call it a sandbox exploration game

even in creative, or even if you've customized the game to your ideal gameplay, it ALL still hangs on exploration.

it's like yeah it's a sandbox and you can do anything you want but you are not getting far, or well doing anything at all without exploring.

[weary acorn]

Just started a new game and it does feel kind of empty right now hoping it gets better as I carry on but either way it's kind of chiller to play until light no fire comes out

[young pebble]

No, we can be there just to build bases, no need to explore. As for finding a good planet, you can look for addresses on the internet or ask a friend. With the latest update, you can even have unlimited resources.

[weary acorn]

Would be cool if the different character types you choose to play as had unique perks or abilities, the warrior ones obviously better at combat, the tech ones better at hacking or puzzles if we had more and also be able to research tech easier, we would have some that are very tough to the weather and might be able to breathe in space naturally

Could maybe have a new type that is like an animal tamer and can summon cool mounts to ride

[mild wyvern]

yea i think you are right. But some new additions like procedural dungeons on the planet or rare encounters with new giant creatures which you could fight will also add to the exploration aspect of the game. The game now has much of variety and lot to do, but it often feels pointless to walk on a planet for a period of time, cause once you got all the flora and fauna, its pretty much the same on every planet. I really would like to see some changes now, which will make it worth to stay on a planet for much longer. I also made some photoshopps with giant creatures, but cant upload yet because i am pretty new here on the server still low rank xD

so in conclusion, even if they add more combat/missions or some kind of dungeons, it would also add to the exploration of the game.

[rotund stratus]

If we ever got planetary dungeons I'd like them to have a more environmental lean, in terms of gameplay

To set it apart from derelicts which have quite a bit of combat

Stuff like traps, mini environmental puzzles like rolling balls, figuring out button sequences etc

[limpid cargo]

something akin to the depths of hyrule would be lovely

[sour jasper]

The puzzles aren't something that's very feasible to do procedurally

[rotund stratus]

Simple procedural puzzles exist in several roguelikes

Find the correct thing to put on the altar, find clues that tell you what order to press some buttons etc

[sour jasper]

They do exist, I don't think they're terribly interesting though :S The making-them-interesting part is what's hard when you're working with randomized layouts.

[tulip pagoda]

you need to find a suitable place to build your base

also gathering resources is just the tip of exploration lmao, thats why i said cusom and creative don't make it so you dont have to explore

you always gotta explore

it's objectively an exploration game i dont know why it's an issue to say that

[young pebble]

We don't have the same definition of the word explore 😉

[tulip pagoda]

also, base building used to be completely integrated into exploring btw. you had to find the computers on planets and claim them

[tulip pagoda]

true i gues

[tulip pagoda]

agreed

[rotund stratus]

Look at the game Unexplored, it does a fantastic job of making really fun light puzzles and intelligent feeling dungeon design procedurally

You even get notes written by dead adventurers you can find which give clues about future encounters at lower depths

[broken thunder]

Atlas building pieces or anomaly building pieces would be cool

so you could build your own "stations"

[turbid ember]

Pulsar had some dope-ahh Multi-Crew systems.

[oblique smelt]

Freighter settlement communication terminal would be nice . So u would not need to go there every time to solve every minor issue

[turbid ember]

Elite Dangerous had a pretty decent way to incentivize players raising their ranking/standing with various factions, through exclusive upgrades, ships, and parts that are only sold and available through those factions.

i.e., what access to a variant of super-shields called Prismatics? Gotta' work with a faction until they trust you.

Same premise could be adapted to No Man's Sky, to help flush out both the Major Powers , and Minor Factions a bit more.

Vykeen Alliance could offer exclusive state-of-the-art starship weapons. Maybe exclusive parts to fighters that can't be generated normally in the wild, a la the vulture.
S-Class Combat Frigates that can be bought at a station?

Mercenaries' Guild Minor Faction could offer exclusive ground-combat weapons and upgrades. A Prototype Boltcaster Mk.2 with boosted stats.

The Korvax Convergance or Explorer's Guild could give boosted Hyperdrive , Pulse Drive, or Thruster tech. Exclusive ship parts for explorers. S-Class Frigates pertaining to their faction theme, etc.

[pure grove]

As a Gek Last Spawn sponsored Korvax hater with -300 standing, I would love it if they attacked me on sight or refused trade with me or something to make it feel like I really did make an enemy of them

[fringe wharf]

This would make a cool expedition idea to segue into that idea/update

[sour jasper]

I thought Pathfinder added something like that? Did it get taken out?

[turbid ember]

As far as I know, the only bonuses you get are either trade discounts , or sometimes the Guilds will give you freestuff at the space stations.

Nothing exclusive though. All can be acquired by any other way.

[sour jasper]

Huh. Like back in the day you could buy tech at starbases with nanites and iirc ship, multitool, and suit tech was divided up by gek, vykeen, and korvax (I don't remember who sold what though) and you had to be at higher ranks to get certain tech

[pure grove]

I thought Vy’keen sold Multitool upgrades, Gek Starships, and Korvax Exosuit

Might be wrong

[sour jasper]

Pretty sure Vykeen was multitool stuff, but not sure what Gek and Korvan sold.

[pure grove]

Mhm

[turbid ember]

God I hope they add the remnants of the First Spawn as a hidden minor faction, similar to the Korvax Autophage.

Give us more extremist factions to join up with, or fight against.

[pure grove]

Yassssss

[turbid ember]

/ A splinter-group of the Gek who's bloodline wasn't TAINTED by the korvax birthpool brain rot

D:<

[pure grove]

I wanna RP a Korvax hater so bad 😫

I wanna see followers of Hirk and Nal with their own systems!

[turbid ember]

I wanna see them go to WAR

[toxic slate]

Honestly I find the whole idea of race-based factions pretty distasteful, and they are barely "factions" anyway. Would love to see them go back to the original idea of procedurally-generated, region-based factions

[pure grove]

On that note, why is everyone cool with letting other races into their system? Seems Ludonarratively Dissonant to me that they’re all cool with each other

[pure grove]

Would be cool if we got some of that too honestly, but I’m guessing it’s because of QA limitations. Plus managing only a handful of races must be way less of a load for HG to handle

That being said, I really am a sucker for an overarching narrative

[turbid ember]

They'd need to seriously rework the Galaxy Map if Region-Based anything would be a thing.

at the moment, the generated "map" is waaay too bloody big to have anything meaningful for region-based conflict.

It was doable in a game like Elite Dangerous, because of the shared space / crafted map.
The "bubble" was a coherent area that all players were familiar with.

For No Man's Sky - it's nigh impossible to distinguish the different sectors within any Galaxy.

[toxic slate]

I don't even need more races, although that would be way cooler. Just make them more like local political factions with spheres of influence. Just working together for profit or whatever

[toxic slate]

The galaxy map already has regions. Probably leftover from development when they were trying to do factions more like GTA gangs

[turbid ember]

Maybe more Seed Generated "Hybrid" races could be a thing.
Similar to creature/fauna generation. Galactic space-mutts and half breeds that travel the stars,
but the Gek, Vykeen and Korvax can be the most prominent races. Similar to how Biological Horrors are prevelant, regardless of where you go.

[turbid ember]

Right. Problem is, at the moment, it's extremely difficult to differentiate between those regions, with the current UI of the Galactic Map.

Not to mention the sheer number of them thins out the importance of each region.

So they'd need to rework the Galaxy map to distinguish those regions first

on top of that, how many "regional based factions" are you looking to have? Because even if there's 1 new faction , for every 10 sectors...
that's still literally *BILLIONS of sectors my guy.

You planning on having a seperate faction standing for all those sectors?

Nah. Race-based is the best we got

[toxic slate]

I mean...yes? Because I think most players stick to a few regions anyway.

[turbid ember]

Cap.

[toxic slate]

I've been playing since 2016, and though I venture out farther, I still have two main areas that I explore and expand in. The areas I just warp through briefly I have no interest in faction relationships anyway. So region-based factions makes total sense to me.

[turbid ember]

Right. Purely based off of your own personal playstyle, I'm sure it does.

Unfortunately, for the rest of the player base that actually explores past their little 5,000 light-year bubble.. we have literally past by hundreds, if not thousands of sectors on our way to, or from the Galactic Center. And that's just travelling in a singular, unilateral direction..

That's not counting the sectors if have your ship travel in any significant direction in 3D dimensional space, bruh.

You can't assume "well, since I don't leave my galactic front porch, prolly no one else does either, lmao" .

I spawned 700,000 light years from the galactic core. I have been Freighter Jumping with a maxed out Hyperdrive for 3 hours straight, and I have passed by more sectors than I can count.

That is a single direction, in a single galaxy.

No. Region-based factions is literally infeasible, and pointless, given how many sectors there are.

[toxic slate]

It's a lot better than the current unrealistic factions where you do something nice for a Gek and 20,000 systems away from you a trader is ready to give you a discount.

While I admire your commitment to wandering around, given how popular base building is I really think you're more in the minority of players. However I'm sure there's also some middle-ground that can also satisfy nomadic players.

[turbid ember]

Better in theory. Nigh infeasible for application. At least at first glance.

For the players that explore the galaxy, and stop at various stations, they're going to have hundreds, if not thousands of pages for every single system they've completed a mission, or destroyed a pirate in.

That's thousands of random-gen'd names in their log book. "Toefrog bandits: -2" , "The underwear orange corporation: +2".

Majority or minority aside, that'd be hundreds of thousands of players, with an individual standing for billions of sectors. Even if that standing is still 0.

[mint swan]

They should have an event where players have strategized fleet battles against each other that are automated every week

Winners obtain a portion of the galaxy in a nice clan like fashion

[vast wave]

In a game that has a toggle for PVP off?

[mint swan]

Haha okay here’s some fun ideas to ponder

Increase ocean depths and involvement of the game.
Colossal ocean planets that would require certain depth machinery like subnatica.

Create a new main story that has settlements vs sentinels and players can choose an overall faction to represent on their journey

You can now fight with all four races and sentinels against other factions

You’re base can be merged into a settlement.

And there becomes galactic war zones of such

Or you can be a bystander

[weary acorn]

I wish tameable pets could do a bit more riding wise
Would be nice if they could jump while riding them or the ground ones with wings could jump and glide
The flying ones be able to land and walk and takeoff and fly
Would be nice if we could still use weapons and lasers tools while riding them

[icy onyx]

When opening the inventory on the Switch, it pauses for a brief moment, which is really annoying.

[vast wave]

!hg

[misty iris]

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

[icy onyx]

I sent it there a long time ago.

[turbid ember]

Ere’body agrees that HG could do some Subnautica type Shihh so so well~
God I want there to be -actually abyssal oceans- . Like, I don’t mind if the build height is reduced or the atmosphere is lowered to compensate -
Gimme that deep-deep.
I want murky waters. I want the black of the ocean to surround me. I want to see leviathans in the water tryna kill my ahh

Trigger my megalophobia HG papi pls

[pure grove]

Don't get me wrong, HG did a great job with it. But holy moly is VR optimization atrocious

I hope they give it the love it deserves in a future update cause after World's it would be amazing to experience as intended

Also day 19 of asking HG to let me ADS with Combat Scope Tech

And also add proper sights cause I can not aim for the life of me in VR

[frozen fable]

I had an idea for something they can add to NMS is gaurdians of the galaxy themed ships frieghters and Multitools and items etc...

Cause I love Gaurdians of the galaxy the movie

yes I also hope the improve the vr NMS experience in the future someday too

[tulip pagoda]

Another idea for base building is the ability to mirror, even in free placement

[fringe badger]

there should be a way to make a map for a planet like map the planet like a world map kind of thing

also there should be like accented characters in planet and star names

[fringe badger]

Yeah and ocean life should be WAY more diverse than just tentacle plants teal colored crystals, all the same crap

Also there should be an upgrade that can have you scan things that you cant scan

like really huge things

like it looks like it could be scanne

d

but it can't

like in those "lost blue" or whatever planets

those giant rings

they should be minerals

and also the upgrade makes them harvestable i think

or maybe thats too far

i dont know

there should also be more natural points of interest

on planets

there should be more variated designs for hazardous plants also

like the tentacle ones already have that

and the gas pods

but thats really subtle for the gas pods though

and there should be more resources from them than oxygen

like what if it had like on lush planets star bramble barren planets echinocactus etc.

or just different materials

like we have sodium and deuterium plants

why not put those on the hazardous plants too

there should be more diverse caves too

and deeper caves yes

like

There should be like ceiling plants

or ceiling animals even

maybe little bugs or spiders going across the walls and ceiling of caves

[frozen fable]

I think A great adition wouold be more parts so you can have different triangles and rectangles based on the golden mean ratio of ie a 1 by the square root of two walls and the square root of 2 by square root of 2 sizes squares to go on diagonals etc and more angles that you can snap things too

like being able to snap to 45 deg and 22.5 deg and 15 deg angles etc... so you can make buildings with more complex shapes ?

I been wanting that for a long long time

[leaden bloom]

I will repeat what many of you have already said: the game is great and very complete. But it still lacks elements linked to its "core": planetary exploration.

We need more variety in places and outposts. There aren't enough of them, they all look the same (the single tentacle in the corner of the abandoned building... oh god).
Lairs of large monsters and underground complexes (equivalent to abandoned ships but on land) are missing. Deeper oceans, with more to explore.
Imo, planets are still too much simple sources of materials. They are lacking of dangers, surprises and treasures variety (too few rare three-star resources, always the same). Even predators are not dangerous and walk by your side without paying attention. There are more things to do in space than on the ground.

I hope Hello Games works on this for Light No Fire. Exploration needs a little more surprise, danger and rewards.

[pure grove]

“There are more things to do in space than on the ground.”
This. Ultimately, a vast majority of the activities planet-side boils down to stale, repetitive, self-isolated POIs. Base building aside, there is not much reason to be on a planet besides survival and voyeur purposes. There is very little engaging and/or exciting external motivators.

[mild wyvern]

i talked yesterday about more giant creatures which you could maybe fight against. Even the big sandworms are mainly for optical variety. On the planet surface the gameplay loop is very shallow, i really hope they will improve this in the future.

[pure grove]

Whatever ends up being implemented need to be in closer proximity to one another or more readily apparent; Can’t count the times a POI is shown and I just hop on my ship, fly to orbit, pulse to location, land, do the thing, f off. I need a reason to be ON the planet or to not immediately leave

[mild wyvern]

So much this yes. I really WANT to walk around on a planet, but it gets boring pretty fast

But maybe shawn allready knows that many people want that kind of change. I bet worlds part 2 will improve some more on variety , for example deeper and more versatile oceans and the next update after worlds part 2 will give us some new gameplay depth^^ fingers crossed

[leaden bloom]

Yep may be. I hope so.

[old meteor]

What NMS needs is proc gen planetside dungeons

Like derelict freighters but WAY bigger and more expansive

[oblique smelt]

Even same size would be ok

[toxic slate]

This will only work if 1) there are actual formidable enemies, and/or 2) there is unique and rare proc-gen gear upgrades that make scouring dungeons worth the time.

I don't think option 1 will ever happen because going by the new insect boss, they seem to have no desire to make challenging enemies. But procedurally generated, unique and rare gear upgrades is something I hope they're open to.

[dense valve]

Idk if this is the correct place for this but World's Part 1 is the new terrain and weather, do we know what part 2 is?

[pure grove]

Some datamined content, but it's all speculative until Worlds Part 2 is released. Most likely related to Planetary Generation, porting over tech that was developed for Light No Fire. What a time to be alive!

[fringe wharf]

Hopefully a cave and ocean overhaul

[weary acorn]

Survivor towns

[fringe wharf]

What's that?

[turbid ember]

Ground-Based Anti Air weapons might be.. niche, but fitting and appreciated. Perhaps automated/manual turrets someone can place down on their base , or settlement to help drive off pirate attacks.

Oooo, maybe Orbital Bombardment from Freighters.
Granted, the only thing that'd be worth blasting from orbit might be the larger sentinels / walkers. Still cool tho.

[pure grove]

Day 20 of asking HG to let me ADS with Combat Scope Tech

[lunar widget]

Are you posting this on Zendesk or...?

[zealous hound]

Do you think it would be possible for the portal menu to show you which guild envoy is in which station? It's really annoying to have to hop around to different stations looking for a specific one.

[vast wave]

You mean teleporter menu

I think that would be a nice addition

[empty jetty]

I second that. At the moment, I just have notable stations written down on my phone notepad (which ones have anomaly detectors, etc).

[vast wave]

Speaking of which, I would like to see a feature when we can add small notes to systems in our discovery page

Or at least the ones discovered by us

So we don't have to resort to naming systems / base comps "cool ship here"

[empty jetty]

I'd like to be able to favorite/lock stations on the teleporter to prevent them from getting kicked off. Yeah, sure, I can drop a base one of the planets. But sometimes the station in the system is what has the valuable stuff.

[vast wave]

Small sticky note like 140 characters lol

[turbid ember]

Would be a pretty good idea If it’s all saved clientside

[vast wave]

uhhh yeah, all save file data is stored locally?

You just choose to upload discovery data to servers if you want?

[turbid ember]

Oh no shi? I didn't know that

[weary acorn]

Just meant would be cool to see little towns or villages dotted around plants with stuff to do there or missions to collect for those planets

Could have missions for caves like survivors to rescue

[north smelt]

can you ride creatures in first person?

[weary acorn]

Yeah but wish creatures could do more while riding like jump them or jump and glide them, maybe sone kind of taming levels where they unlock abilities the more you ride them

[young pebble]

Or to access certain locations

[weary acorn]

Could sniff out and dig up hidden tech

[turbid ember]

Subnautica experience on the ocean.

DRG experience in the caves.

[weary acorn]

Fallout/star field experience on surface

[limpid cargo]

I'd really love to be able to use my Arwing from Starlink in NMS, and have Starfox as a playable skin.

[pure grove]

Day 21 of asking HG to give us ADS when using Combat Scope Tech

[fleet river]

So pretty much js pokemon scarlet and violet but with the funny aliens we encounter

[limpid cargo]

I really wish the pulse drive animation didn't have that damn graph paper overlay.

[prime ridge]

i just think everything in NO MAN SKY is good but the animals.....they real real need a big huge upgrade.Too se new sizes and big especies would make this game even more awsome

[toxic slate]

we already have big creatures that dwarf player sizes...how much bigger are you wanting ??

[tulip pagoda]

problem with the animals is that they are stupid both looks wise and behavioral and because the looks are procedural you'd have to handcraft the more advanced behavior for nearly each one of them. that is why they are kept as simple as they are.

I think they really should spend the time updating their behaviours and textures, and animations because let's be real the animations are pretty bad.

just take a look at the expedition we just had lmao, the "boos fight" was an absolute joke, the animation was horrific. Please bleach my eyes

similary the sentinel walker boss fight sucks ass and doesn't really work as they probably intended because of how they've coded the animations

it literally doesn't do anything for 99% of the fight

because the animations interupt it

[latent urchin]

HDR should be able to be adjusted. Four settings:

1. HDR brightness (0-100 starting at a default 50)

2. HDR darkness (0-100 starting at a default 50)

3. HDR saturation (0-100 starting at a default 50)

4. HDR temperature (0-100 starting at a default 50)

If the last two cannot be done at least the first two should be

[subtle bear]

If I use my scanner I should have an overlay just like my mining laser. Snapping into first person and then out is jarring. I don’t play in 3rd person because of this.

The decorative armor forms to some body types, but makes others look overly “chunky.” I like the idea of it being sized for a gek, but it should fit them better than the other species.

[pure grove]

Yeah, I wished they didn't have reservations about providing a legitimate challenging experience. I get that the concern would be worried about turning NMS into a sweatfest, but honestly, as it currently stands, trivial encounters are closer to nusances than they are sweatfests.

But in all fairness you can see that the team is starting to experiment with different ways to trickle in combat. I'm sure they'll figure out what and how they want to implement a more sophisticated system down the line.

Speaking of sophisticated

Day 22 of asking HG to let me ADS with Combat Scope Tech ;^)

[tulip pagoda]

that could probably be why but sometimes it feels like they make things just to look pretty for outside observers but then actually being pretty bad when you experience it yourself

i remember the exo mech being so trash to control

borderline useless

[gloomy hazel]

Cloud shadows, distant shadows

Volumetric distant fog

[spice trellis]

hear me out lil interior brig

lme explain

so a ship 3x to 5x bigger than a big hauler with a depending on what u buy could have a 360 top and bottom or side cannon turrets controled by crew back side will be eather storage or small weacle park space for tactical drop off

a bit smaller capt qourters than in the frigater and same customization as the starship only this ship will be able to be parked in a diffrent room that resembles a ship dock and being connected via expandable side doors like on airports when they connect the exit with a tube type of style warning this space craft might need evacuation pods w cords to the closest planet so just in case the ship gets shut down or sum else u have a way pf escape can be raided also ad that pirates can attack and board the ship if ur engines are down or stuned via sum sort of new weapon they after defeating a brig u can bring it to a scrapt yard sell the cargo and scrap the ship for parts or just own it for boarding ad magnetic condulators imagine it as a semi forcefield that keeps ur starship or brig 5-10 units away from the brig ur takeing over

for frigaters ad a new weapon type thing called shell launcher witch in u can dispatch a crew or urself limit is 5 people so 5 building placements this will send you or some other crewmate as a rocket but not an explosive type a boarding type and via that u can raid brigs aswell

[signal carbon]

Creature pokemon battles against players and NPCs

[elder nova]

YES, this could be a mod even, there are already thousands of creatures and they can be breeded to tune their traits, we just need IVS and move sets!!! It could be huge

[keen moth]

do y'all believe that nms can go for another 8 years? i mean we gotta see what they do for their
*// 16 // 16 // 16 //*th anniversary?

[vestal cape]

I wish there was a different system of encounters in deep space other than things spawning directly in front of you, something like persistent places you can visit or asteroid or debris fields like in freelancer

right now there's no reason to look for asteroid fields because they all give the same resources

like, rare debris fields that work the same as asteroids but have a very low chance of dropping salvageable scrap, like on planets

Just feels like the only purpose of space is to travel from one system/planet to another, but there's little space exploration itself

[short abyss]

i will kinda point out, its tougher if your not running end game upgrades. we're all people who have been playing for years now. so we already know the most op stuff.

[toxic slate]

I'm a day 1 player but I've never made it a point to minmax my combat gear. I don't have super OP stuff. I think both the damage output and the enemy AI on most encounters in the game are probably only a challenge for early game players. Once you hit midgame most encounters are fairly trivial. Even the walkers have been toned down from the early versions of the game, especially with the addition of the paralysis mortars.

The only exception to this is the derelict freighters, which can be a challenge if you screw up.

[pure grove]

Ultimately the spectrum of trivial VS challenging currently is entirely dependent on Vertical Progress. There is absolutely no depth horizontally as in, the ways that you can engage with enemies via their behaviors and the player’s movesets is mostly static

Honestly, I’m pretty sure the only reason that combat encounters are anywhere as interesting as they for me, is because I’m playing on survival mode with all difficulty modifiers as high as possible. They cap your max potential stats so I’m weak af at the start and perpetually on even playing field with enemies during end game.
This forces combat to become non trivial where I have to be somewhat strategic with my gameplay, hotswapping between different multitools in order to deal enough DPS to take on enemies. It’s fairly engaging but it’s just a bandaid on a deeper issue.

[old meteor]

different HP types and different weapons having different bonuses against the HP might be a cool way to add depth

like maybe if there was normal HP, carapace and shields
and we split weapons between energy and kinetic
maybe energy weapons have bonus damage against shields, and kinetic ones have bonus damage against carapace

could even have rarer multitool weapons that give penetration against certain HP types

[pure grove]

Vertical Progression isn't necessarily a bad thing as it plays incredibly well into the survival aspect, but it will eventually reaches an end point (a typical problem for any similar systems). This isn't to say there's no nuance or depth at all. Case and point, Tech loadouts. You can choose different tech that give your multitool various primary and secondary functionalities. The problem is being able to have it all in one. I know it's in the name sake, but this design choice leads to clunky gameplay, cycling through your different options until you land on the right one while running around avoiding attacks and trying to survive assaults in every direction.

A better system would be limiting a multitool to one primary tech entirely. This would allow for more specialized building of multitools while simultaneously promoting exploration as you search for more multitools to expand your arsenal, then providing a dedicated hotkey/radial dial selection system (i know, it's a really bad implementation tho, so it needs to be reworked) to streamline and simplify an extremely clunky cycle system into a selective one. come one HG, I know you guys are programmers and UI/UX is every software engineer's bane, but it's important.

Secondly, it almost seems like HG doesn't really know what to do with Secondary Tech.

• The Paralysis Mortar, which is a good option but way too powerful as it stuns any enemy like a Javalin already does but in an AOE isntead and trivializes combat (but it serves as a powerful CC option when fighting hordes so it has it's place).
• A Geology Mortar is a bootleg terrain manipulator if not worse.
• A Plasma Mortar is a damage dump that takes away from your primary weapon choice and would be better served as a primary weapon tech insteady, with the Geology function being a blueprint for that tech tree.
  The only ones that have proper niches would be the Personal Shield, Cloaking Device, and Combat Scope ahem. Each with their own issues, but being able to use only one at a time is good and can actually be engaging.

The fact that Personal Shields take away your Primary Function is a bad design decision. I understand that they didn't want to trivialize combat by letting you deal damage while blocking everything, but where it fails, is not accounting for horde situations.
Since shield is directional, if enemies are around you then you're taking damage while dealing none. Even if all of your targets are in front, they'll have staggered attack timings that cover each others cooldown periods.
The only time that this would be useful is when you're taking more damage in one direction than the other, i.e. Sentinel Dogs ( man... ). But guess what you can do that'll trivialize them? Any stun. So then your priority becomes 'Might as well focus on dealing as much DPS as you can while denying enemies with stuns, then regen any damage with dropped cells.'
So then I ask: "What is the point of the Personal Shield if it's trumped by other options and serves no specific niche?"
Either 1. Make the Shield Omni-Directional or 2. Let the player fire with the shield up (you can literally do this in NMS VR)

The Cloaking Device is more understandable since it literally makes all enemies lose agro on you, so you're taking and dealing net zero damage but it's niche is that it allows you to dictate when and where you reengage, allowing you to reposition to a more favorable situation, or escape entirely without being tailed.

Lastly, Combat Scope...
Day 23 of asking HG to let me ADS with it.

[pure grove]

The Fallout Doctrine I see, it is a pretty good system at the risk of becoming complicated.

[pure grove]

I'm planning on sending HG a ground combat feedback form on Zendesk, so I would like your guy's input on my takes before I send anything

[limpid cargo]

splitting the terrain manipulator up into separate tools would go a long way to making it less OP

[toxic slate]

It would be interesting to have a power system more like the ships, where your exosuit has a total power output, and everything you have activated draws from that. With four cycleable modes: Offense, Defense, Movement, and Balanced. These modes would dictate how much each system can draw from the total output.

You could turn the Personal Shield on, but it would reduce your weapon damage output and your movement speed. Or you could charge up the javelin for an overcharged burst, but it would drop your shield and movement to zero temporarily. The modes would adjust how much min and max power output can be routed to each system, so if you had your mode on Movement, your Javelin burst would be less powerful but you'd still be able to move afterwards.

I think that would give more flexibility in playstyle, put guardrails on making gear loadouts that are too OP, and open the door to more specialized gear modules (i.e. a shield mode that reflects energy beams back at target, but doubles shield power usage).

Regardless of that, I do think combat movement needs to feel a lot more responsive as well, and AI needs to be smarter.

[pure grove]

That's a great suggestion actually, should def submit a Zendesk form with that.

[toxic slate]

Submitted. It's funny how at some point they gave up trying to close issues on zendesk. All my issues I've submitted since 4 years ago are still listed as Open, even things I know were fixed or implemented.

[sour jasper]

Oh hey Uprising does that

[toxic slate]

don't know what that is. MP shooter?

[sour jasper]

Vehicular combat game with some RTS elements

[fierce cove]

We will never probably get a full-on planetary map since there are way too many POIs to uncover on a solitary planet. However, it could be we could get an AoE type map where it gives us information within a set radius of our current position. Perhaps sort it by type on the fly...minerals, resources, PoIs, Ruins, Shops, Outposts, etc

[dusty karma]

Interior customization of ships should be added, higher class ships should have better options. Just like cars irl

Sentinel beings should also be revealed, they have multitools and stuff so there should be a physical form

Corrupted sentinel ships and tools should exist

Unintelligent life or other intelligent life species should exist on planets

[short abyss]

while we dont get alot, we do have the bobble heads.

that being said, i really wish that trails and bobble heads were entirely cosmetic and not installable tech. they are basically a waste of a slot unless you really need a specific minor boost to a stat

[pure grove]

Say it with me folks: You should be able to customize your ship the way you customize your exocrafts

[hot flame]

Nah

[rotund stratus]

I would rather exocraft be proc gen imo

[fringe wharf]

I would like it if you could change the color of your ship anytime you want though.

[balmy cairn]

I did not know that ground regenerates so my first base basically got overrun. How would you like them to fix this issue if it's even possible? My suggestion would be for them to add a bot with a terrain manipulator that you can research that would periodically clean your base. You could set a route a bot would need to follow. Or just lay down a grid in which bot would clean everything inside.

[limpid cargo]

or just add an empty space item to base building to preserve those areas

[elfin condor]

I really wish yiu could be past expdetion rewards thatd be fire

[gray smelt]

i really wish they could be more technologies for combat like radars and ballistic computers and missles for destroying enemy spaceship and heavier variants to destroy ships like dreadnought

[frozen fable]

I know one very import thing they can add to the game of NMS is a real world time / a clock with your local time!! seems every game lacks this!

[limpid cargo]

it would be nice if the main story missions, including the tutorial quests, would be more spread out one of the reasons I feel put upon is that there is no progress bar and as soon as you finish one task another is dropped in your lap

like waiting a day or so to be given the next chore would let players enjoy the scenery more

[atomic hound]

I think one with the planet local time would be cool if that's what you meant

actual local real time would be a bit unnecessary

[narrow moss]

Halloween themed traveler items and base items

Halloween themed Expedition

[pure grove]

I found a Multitool with proper iron sights and the barrel lined up and everything, popped into VR and PHEWWWWWWW shooting that thing felt GOOD and it felt RIGHT

Day 24 of asking HG to let me ADS with Combat Scope Tech already mayn

[limpid cargo]

what is ADS?

[candid skiff]

Aim Down Sight.

[slate latch]

Pls hello games removed the Time of validation in the dialogue. Why should we hold the button instead of just click on it ?

[vast wave]

!hg

[misty iris]

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

[gloomy hazel]

BRING BACK DEEP OCIEANS!
I am still waiting for alternative energy. Wave Generators, tidal generators, nuclear fusion and nuclear fission,
We're waiting many years for something other than carbon, solar, and electromagnetic.... Come on Sean! lol

[frail parrot]

Fun fact : this isn’t the NMS « official » Discord server

So just put your suggestion on zendesk

[vast wave]

It's the closest thing to an official server there can be without HG members popping up to join

[south frigate]

i do agree you should be able to repaint an existing ship, since some ship colors are stupidly, stupidly rare, and there's no reason why the paint can only be applied at creation and never changed. i do think it would remove a lot of depth and the excitement of ship hunting if they were freely customizable anytime with parts and stuff. some ships are rare and uncustomizable for a reason. it wouldn't make much sense to rip out and replace an entire cockpit on the fly, either. like in-universe it wouldn't work

i would kill to repaint my black sentinel purple again, but i dont think i should be allowed to give it legs or whatever whenever i feel like it

it wouldnt be as unique and novel that way

[pure grove]

I was thinking about applying decals and messing with engine colors or the sort mainly

[pure grove]

WATER WHEEL WATER WHEEL
WIND MILL WIND MILL WIND MILL

[gloomy hazel]

for that water wheel, make a stream/river tool in the terrain manipulator lol I forgot to mentilon a windmill lol We have storms, we have wind, but no windmill lol yes

[sour jasper]

Water wheels are cool, you could add an entire quest line about how you have to leave the good job in the city, working for the man every night and day. The first part could have you collecting a bunch of geknip to keep you from losing one minute of sleep worrying about the way things might've been.

[pure grove]

I’m a simple man, I merely wish to settle upon a plot of land nearby the creek. Build myself a cottage for which to settle in after my days of galactic travel. Till the dirt to tender my crops and assemble a mill or wheel to power my appliances.

Also gun down Sentinels by AIMJNG DOWN SIGHTS
#day 25 of asking HG to let me ADS with combat scope

[sour jasper]

They should add ADS and let you milk the ADS.

[oblique smelt]

Imo ads needs a lot of work. Animations, maybe even mt model change bc u would not see through it properly. No mt has proper aming sights. All that for something that does not change the gameplay in any way.

[gloomy hazel]

They should add planets into the game

[toxic slate]

the lack of gun sights might be purposeful. I mean, they've never called it a gun, it's a Multitool. I think they've always wanted to shy away from the conventional shooter type of atmosphere

[pure grove]

Woah hey, it DOES change gameplay. In what way? I can actually hit something for once LMAO

I really don’t want NMS to become shooter focused, I just want to have proper aiming 😭

And besides the flavor text for the tech upgrade LITERALLY says that you’re installing a weapon scope

I just ask that it lines up with gameplay too

[toxic slate]

I could see a scope if there was a sniper type of weapon, but the current Sentinels AI probably wouldn't know how to deal with long-range attacks like that

[south frigate]

maybe a sentinel seeker unit, that pursues the player and can detect them over a long range? could have a minigun to get a bit of chip damage on the player

[restive zenith]

You can already change the engine effects

[pure grove]

Oh real? Then we just need Decals too

[pure grove]

A sniper would be SO sick. Galactic Hitman

[limpid cargo]

missiles

or for freighter players, call down an EMP

as in, plant a device as a target, gtfo, and don't look at the light

[limpid cargo]

how many units could it take to buy a planet?

[icy thunder]

i doubt they'd allow buying a planet but rather the station since thats the main hub of every system, thats probably enough defacto control to claim it as someones

[fiery coral]

Promote the “Black Space” mod to a legitimate, toggleable setting in the game.

[vast wave]

Mods are highly subjective and should not be promoted into official features, unless they are strictly bugfixes that HG can't be assed to do themselves

Everyone should be able to enjoy more robust game experience instead of hoping the same modders keep the same bugfix alive for 4th consecutive year

[toxic slate]

I just wish I could use mods on the Mac version 😢

also FriendlyFire I can barely see your name in that Top Autophage color against the Discord dark theme 😵‍💫

[formal sandal]

Here me out.

No Mans Sky stock market.

Let me waste away my Units on Gains and Losses, as Atlas intended it to be.

[oblique smelt]

Gambling mechanics in pegi 7 game?!? Oh wait . Its 2024 and we have literal slot machines in pegi 3+ games... smh.

[weary acorn]

Zoom camera out depending on size of creature you're riding 😂

[pure grove]

Give a couple hours and I’ll make a pachinko machine 😂

[pure grove]

No thank you, I personally like having my entire vision obscured

Also before I forget
Day 25 of asking HG to let me ADS with Combat Scope Tech

[tulip pagoda]

this is such a good idea

unironically

[dull garnet]

Is a base habitat for a freighter in the works?

[lavish zodiac]

Opinions? https://x.com/Faraoh025/status/1828745994449670417?t=p530fhBpPfcCk5moZyfZ0w&s=19

[tulip pagoda]

yes agreed

[rotund stratus]

Tbf we can already grow weed 😂

[weary acorn]

I hope they bring the animal riding stuff from light no fire back over to no mans sky, wouod be nice if they ride a bit slow at first but then actually ride decent after you tamed them a bit more

[bleak hearth]

Betting on pt2 of worlds coming out soon after Liquidators is over

hoping

[weary acorn]

Would be nice if crashed ships you find at least used materials found on that planet or solar system to fix them

[limpid cargo]

the only thing I've seen that I could never get was the special copper

everything else can be found somewhere in the system

either from resources or from a trade ball

but it's worth noting that the more repairs you make, the more it will be worth in trade or scrap

[weary acorn]

Or would be good if it was actually damaged tech that you can either fix or just scrap instead of a load of random stuff you can't get rid of unless you fix it

[limpid cargo]

that would be a trove of loot in itself

What if they made it so you can pay x amount at the space station to repair the damages?

[weary acorn]

Yeah that would be nice just fix the basic stuff to take off and pay to repair it

You could just pay for bits at a time if you can't afford all at once

[limpid cargo]

that or make the repair kit item more available

[weary acorn]

How do you get a repair kit as it is right now ?

[limpid cargo]

I'm not sure. but I have gotten them before. it's super rare

[oblique smelt]

Sometimes u can buy them on outlaw stations and u can find them on derelict freighters.

[pure grove]

Day 27 of asking HG to let me ADS with Combat Scope Tech

[weary acorn]

Wouod be nice if we had weapon wheel for type of multi tool function instead of tapping triangle to cycle

[leaden bloom]

oh god, yes

[weary acorn]

Something like holding triangle brings up the wheel and then tapping switches between two last used

[lone knot]

Yes. So much, yes

More often than not, I don't want to go through my full weapon list (and the Terrain Manipulator) when all I need is the ability to quick switch between a weapon and the mining laser (or variant, on the Sentinel and Atlantid multitools)

[limpid cargo]

yes, like the wheel thing in Zelda totk

[limpid cargo]

can we maybe get multitool mods to enhance fist attacks?

[warm girder]

Yes, 9 of 10 it's a bit of a joke to ride an animal now haha.

[sour jasper]

I wonder if the current NMS terrain generation could support ice shell planets/moons like Europa. Like I'm assuming it should be able to?

I'd think it should be able to do that? Land on the surface as per normal and then terrain tool down into the ocean

[shadow dagger]

Not really, the oceans would have to be quite shallow if there was terrain above them

not to mention there's no system in place that would allow ice planets to have their own terrain types

[lone knot]

Given that the melee attack is simply bashing something with your equipped multitool, I've been thinking that some kind of bayonet upgrade would be nice; at least it should be able to oneshot those eggs around abandoned buildings and on dead worlds

[limpid cargo]

a chain sword maybe?

[pure grove]

Glad we’re on the same page about a weapon wheel

[pure grove]

If you talk to a traveler you might come across dialogue that mentions a “MultiSword” from their universe so it shows that HG devs already thought of it

[weary acorn]

Would love an exisuit upgrade something like a force field hover board you can ride to cruise around planets on.
Could be linked to quicksilver missions then you can get an achievement quicksurfer 😎

[toxic slate]

I wanted a BOTW-style hang glider, but then they went and put it in Light No Fire instead. bittersweet!

[lone knot]

Sounds nice, but it would likely burn through whatever gets used for fuel fairly quickly... plus it would almost certainly be installed in the suit's tech slots, and those are kinda overloaded as is

[zealous hound]

Maybe we could have something that basically gives you a bash attack, with the damage you do being based on how fast you're going.
Something along the lines of Ultrakill's alternate shotgun/jackhammer.

[limpid cargo]

on switch

[pure grove]

Day 28 of asking HG to let me ADS with Combat Scope Tech

[prime ridge]

in no man sky if they reduce a lot the planets with animals.And add for example 10% of the all planets with life,and add really cool animals not that weird animals they got .It could mbe so much cool

i feel kinda bored after 2 or 3 planets, i want to explore all but the rewards doesnt make me want to explore 😦

and they could add more big huge fauna and flora

[weary acorn]

Yeah biomes wouod be cool dense jungles and stuff

[limpid cargo]

actually hostile fauna would be nice

[prime ridge]

oh yes and npc that attack u

[limpid cargo]

ngl there are npcs I would enjoy blasting

[pure grove]

If I could be 100% honest, a lot of suggestions I hear is always more variety and I don't believe that's necessarily what NMS needs. As an amateur game designer, I'm of the opinion that sheer volume of distinct variations for any particular thing is a lot of effort to go a short ways. What No Man's Sky truly needs ( IMO, everyone else is just as valid ) is Emergent Gameplay.

A good example of this is when you're asteroid mining, you might accidentally hit a nearby NPC cascading into an escape or a pretty epic space engagement. But NPCs on planets are just static receptacles for players to talk to. They feel lifeless, they don't react in any meaningful way. Imagine if they were capable of foraging and harvesting resources/crops, or attacking travelers with negative reputation, or retaliating against pirate raids, or could defend against sentinel settlements raids. Now imagine all of those behaviors blending and meshing to different circumstances like say pirates were conducting a planetary raid and got locked into battle because they agro'd nearby sentinels. This type of design philosophy could literally lead to endless possibilities.

My point with this is that NMS has very rigidly defined engagements where you're only meant to interact with it in ONE way. While this is clearly intentional, I don't think it's particularly interesting and at times even immersion breaking. These shallow experiences ends up diluting the MASSIVE quantity of 'variety' that's already in the game by failing to provide players with memorable, engaging moment-to-moment experiences. It'd be and extremely difficult challenge and monumental task, but by revamping/expanding systems to provide Emergent Gameplay, you end up with situations and scenarios that are VASTLY far more dynamic and varied to experience than any one thing that HG could ever specifically make all on their own.

[sour jasper]

I'd rather the combat just be removed completely honestly, the combat's my least favorite part of every single open world space game I've ever played.

[weary acorn]

Is when you get the big where sentinels won't stop searching 😭

[solar heron]

Deep oceans = 10/10 game

Add deep oceans

Please

[pure grove]

I'd rather be able to ADS with Combat Scope Tech installed HELLOGAMESSSSS #Day 29

[limpid cargo]

I might become interested in making a base if it were possible to transplant sodium and oxygen flowers

just a garden on some flat patch of land

[keen seal]

Imagine a NMS but like EA. Gotta pay 17.99 to get a warp cell for a new system

Naw but in all seriousness. It'd benaweaome ti have more physics based things that could allow us to build our own weird machines and vehicles. That'd spark some insane builds for sure

[limpid cargo]

a varitech would be sweet af

[keen seal]

What's varitech?

[limpid cargo]

or a cyclone-cycle you can wear over your exosuit

[limpid cargo]

very old robotech anime thing

[keen seal]

Honestly I just want more species to begin with. Kirvax, gek, an vykeen are cool n all but

3 wpecies in the entire universe-

Cool that they're sorta adding new one now tho

Like Autophages and the new Chitin

[limpid cargo]

yes, one of the most disapointing things about the Anomaly is that all the npc travelers are the last of their kind. would be sensible if they represented races from other galaxies

[keen seal]

Yeah

OR WHAT IF THEY ADD A SYSTEM WHERE YOU CAN CREATE YOUR OWN SPECIES!?

In other words, bigger customization lol

[limpid cargo]

Captain Kirk has entered the chat

[keen seal]

Whi's Kirk

Kirkland?

Like the brand?

[limpid cargo]

...

[keen seal]

Fr tho who's kirk-

[limpid cargo]

star trek

[keen seal]

What's star trek

Jk I heard of it lol

[limpid cargo]

a fishing poll attachment for multitools

bait it with animal pellets

[keen seal]

Just being able to fish in general lol

[toxic slate]

I think "variety" and "emergent gameplay" are scratching different itches though. People want to explore planets, and to keep it fresh there's a need to see new things. But deepening and connecting game systems is also part of that exploration, providing more moment-to-moment gameplay that can be as surprising as a new creature or plant.

The basic reason people keep asking for new variety is that HG has never really gone very deep with it. HG should be adding like 50 new base models for flora and fauna (along with new rocks, ground textures) every time they do a variety pass, but instead it's usually just a few new things. And usually just plants; it's rare to get completely new creature models for the procedural system. So people scour the worlds for these few new things, they find them, and then get bored again. It doesn't help that some of the new items they've added haven't really been procedural in nature compared to the old assets.

I still see a lot of the same basic creatures I've seen since 2016, eight years on in the game's life. That's just not enough variety in animal life, and that comes down to a lack of basic creature models for the systems to work with.

[gloomy hazel]

It would be nice if you could convert any flora you find into a base decoration.

[limpid cargo]

or frontier farmsteading

I think there's plenty of variety in animal morphology. they just all have the same passive behaviour. cow tipping is only fun when you're a teenager

real wildlife is predatory and anything that's prey will flee from anything that isn't also prey

so far nothing is hostile by default

[gloomy hazel]

Yeah more hostile worlds would be nice too.

[toxic slate]

According to one of Sean's old tech talks they had a lot of trouble just getting animals to behave in simple ways, due to the fact that the planet is only generated in the local area you're walking around in, and also that the terrain is completely dynamic and they can't bake in navigation paths like most games can. So getting more advanced behaviors, I would love that, but it's probably a big challenge.

[limpid cargo]

fight or flight wold really not be hard to set

things run away if you shoot at them, and some will try to somehow attack you in return. just have them do that without being prompted.

[toxic slate]

There are predator animals, and prey animals will run away from them in NMS. It's simplistic but it does happen

There's also simple migration patterns that happen. And a lot of people don't notice that animals will tend to gather near water sources

[shadow dagger]

We have two types of predator creature behaviors in the game, ones that just attack other creatures and ones that also attack players. It would be nice if there was a 'territorial herbivore' option that would attack players who get too close but otherwise be peaceful

I'd also like to see creatures interact with the environment. As a concept I made a mod a while back that added a type of flower that would behave like a creature pellet, it led to there being patches of them that creatures would gather around to eat at which I think is a big improvement over creatures just doing a basic grazing idle animation every so often. It also would be nice if the hazardous plants would kill/damage them, they could even trigger the 'scare creatures' event when they go off, like shooting your multitool does

Also, there are behaviours that companions have that would be cool to see on wild creatures

they could have it so animals that spawn during the day do the sleeping animation at night for example

[toxic slate]

Unless they removed it, I'm pretty sure that herbivores will still potentially attack you if you start messing with one of their kids. But yeah I don't think there's a general "get out of my face" aggressive posture for herbivores

[molten lintel]

Imma just...

Sentinel Controlled Systems.

These Systems are regions of space where Sentinels have established complete dominance. The systems are characterized by heightened security, advanced technology, and unique challenges for players. The Sentinels have fortified these systems to protect valuable resources and ancient secrets.

Key Features:

1. High Security Zones:

   • Sentinel Patrols: Frequent and heavily armed Sentinel patrols monitor space and planetary surfaces, and occasional patrols with vehicles akin to the Pilgrim and Colossus. Of which can be stolen and replace your versions of said vehicles
   • Restricted Areas: Certain areas are off-limits and require special clearance or hacking skills to access.

2. Advanced Technology:

   • Sentinel Outposts: Outposts that serve as bases of operations for Sentinels, equipped with advanced defenses and technology.
   • Tech Upgrades: Players can find rare and powerful technology upgrades by infiltrating Sentinel facilities.

Note this is being posted in multiple messages because I have no Nitro. And this is all just me throwing stuff I think would be cool, but unlikely-

3. Unique Challenges:
   • Stealth Missions: Players must use stealth to avoid detection and complete objectives within Sentinel bases. The Cloaking Device is not required, but provides a significant advantage.

Note that this would unlock the ability to sidestep and crouch to sneak more efficiently. This is via an Exosuit upgrade that makes said suit more flexible, enabling these abilities. Obtained after the side mission line introducing the Infiltration mechanic

• Resource Scarcity: Valuable resources are heavily guarded, requiring strategic planning to acquire them. These can include Gravitino Balls, Albumen Pearls, Larval Cores, Sentinel Technology (from Salvaged Glass), Anomaly Detectors, and various Trade Commodities.

5. Rewards:
   • Exclusive Blueprints: Gain access to exclusive blueprints for advanced ship parts, Sentinel Interceptor customization modules, weapons, technology, and even new forms of attack and defense.
   • Reputation System: Build a reputation with factions opposing the Sentinels, unlocking special missions and rewards. These "factions"

• New Nexus Missions: The Nexus eventually gets the chance to assign new missions, like Infiltrations, Liberations, and Intel Gathering.

Infiltration: You have to break into a specified Sentinel Base or Outpost and either destroy it or take back stolen goods/property. These are the most straightforward Nexus missions out of the three new types, so they're typically quick and don't dole out super valuable rewards.
Typical rewards include Pugneum, Crystal Fragments, Geodes, Glowing Minerals, Gold Nuggets, Tritium Hyperclusters, or Units/Nanites.

Liberations: Various lifeforms have been caught and put into confinement, you have to use stealth to carefully make your way to the cells and hack into them. Once freed, you can either use brute force or stealth to get out of the area where the captives will be picked up.
If Survival or Hostile enemy strengths are enabled, the pick-up has a high chance of being intercepted by the Sentinels. This initiates a short encounter of around 5-7 Sentinels.

Intel Gathering: Your mission is to get information on the Sentinels of a particular planet, by intercepting multiple patrols and taking whatever important info can be found. Since the patrols always have at least one specially dangerous Sentinel, the player has to be careful to not damage said Sentinel too much. This is all while fighting off the others as the target has the needed knowledge you're after.
Typically rewards Sentinel technology for your Multi-Tool and Exosuit, Carrier AI Fragments, Pugneum, or even Sentinel Interceptor customization modules/weapons.

Gameplay Mechanics:

• Hacking and Infiltration: Use hacking tools to disable Sentinel defenses and gain access to restricted areas. The hacking is shown to the player as a small series of "minigames" like memory or reaction based challenges.
• Combat and Strategy: Engage in tactical combat with Sentinel forces, utilizing cover and advanced weaponry unlocked throughout the side mission line introducing these systems.
• Exploration and Discovery: Explore the plethora of dangerous areas to gain valuable resources, lore, and new gear to take advantage of.

Visual and Audio Design:

• Atmosphere: Dark, foreboding, and technology-covered environments with a high-tech aesthetic can be found.
• Soundtrack: Slightly more present, intimidating music plays that heightens the sense of danger and adventure in these worlds.

I don't expect anyone to believe this is anywhere near realistic, just wanted to share a concept I like.

[restive zenith]

Minecraft did it

[short abyss]

minecraft is also a game that literally renders in voxels and functions on a basic block to block system thats bordering on grid maps

its alot easier to tell when an animal should jump or walk when any empty space is always an entire block wide

[fossil prism]

Stealth in NMS would suck. I don’t want to be space MJ

[molten lintel]

Lol

[molten lintel]

I mean a lot of stuff in the game already sucks-

[pure grove]

From the way that the game seems to render terrain, I’m guessing in their pipeline they have a global terrain mesh. I’m sure that HG is capable of turning it into a navmesh and using rules-based pathfinding to create different behaviors for animals to follow. I’m certain they’ve at one point created a Flock algorithm based on Light No Fire’s trailer, so this shouldn’t be off the table or particularly any more challenging than stuff they’ve already done. It’s just a matter of WILL they.

[short abyss]

if there is one thing i know about game development from personal experience, if something sounds simple, it absolutely isn't

yeah you've created a nav mesh, but now animals are running into randomly placed plants, they all are biased towards a certain part of the ground causing them to cluster to eachother trying to all reach the same point on the nav mesh, the nav mesh doesn't account for spaces smaller than the total size of the creature, etc etc.

[rotund stratus]

Iirc there's some planetary navmesh stuff in the worlds part 1 files

I'm not 100% sure though

[pure grove]

Of course, I’m speaking from a high level implementation. The details are always messier, which is why I said it’d have to be a rules based pathfinding algorithm.

[pure grove]

Day 30 of asking HG to let me ADS with Combat Scope Tech

[young pebble]

Volcanic creatures, found in the middle of volcanoes, eat basalt.

[frail nymph]

Would be cool Yeah. Rock creatures with magma visible on their joints and moving parts

[young pebble]

Exactly. And useful for visiting the heart of the volcano without dying.

[frail nymph]

I was thinking it would be cool to have polo build a shell for ||Artemis|| that turns out being ||Apollo from his own past and we can follow the quest line to watch him slowly turn his eyes from exploration to money because money is needed for exploration||

[young pebble]

New mission: "The Origin of Artemis"

[frail nymph]

more like origin of apollo

[young pebble]

Or the both 😅

Why not a ‘War’ mode? We would have to choose our faction and it would take place during the war between gek and korvax.

[frail nymph]

They need to introduce some new alien races

[empty jetty]

I'd rather have sub factions of the races we already have.

[lean lodge]

increase the number of starships and freighters we can own please

[solar heron]

deep oceans

[mighty coral]

this must've been said time and time again but i would love to see a more authentic approach to ship controls as an option, like shift to accelerate, wasd to pitch/roll, qe to yaw etc. a good example for this could be warthunder plane controls

[limpid cargo]

I would love to see a galaxy be just all one galaxy-size planet

[zealous trail]

Oh yes. NMS but with the janky, weighty ships of Elite Dangerous would be a dream. Spaceships should be hard to pilot.

[mighty coral]

yeah sorry for having a preference

i should've said "as an option" instead of pointing a gun to your head, specifically

[tulip pagoda]

nms ship steering is way more janky than elite

because of how arcadey it is

[zealous trail]

I meant that unironically lol!! But i can see how that can be read as sarcasm!

I genuinely want a space game with the wonder and variety of NMS and the depth and sense of weight and scale as elite

[toxic slate]

most people just don't want sim-level pilot controls for flight though, the audience for this game would be much smaller if HG went down that path

[empty jetty]

It's me, I'm people

[toxic slate]

hi people

[limpid cargo]

maybe not actual controls, just animate the cockpit view to make it look like it's not empty

[rotund stratus]

I could get behind animated hands on the flight controls

But the actual mechanics serve their purpose well

Maybe a strafing tech would be fun though

[mighty solstice]

Blaze Javelin desperately needs a buff. Made the mistake of fighting a brood mother on my “lasers only” save yesterday and man it took ages even with maxed out upgrades.

Maybe a critical hit bonus when fully charged or when hitting from a great distance

[modest nimbus]

I just want a crumb of satisfactory esque gameplay

Just some basic production chain automation that's self sustainable from start to finish

[rotund stratus]

Honestly, being able to put tubes from extractors into refines then into containers would be great

[oblique smelt]

All My containers are full but if u could connect refiners to storage depots. It would be nice.

[mighty coral]

LMAO i read that totally wrong we were on the same side

XD cons of written communication

[gloomy hazel]

Day one of asking hello games for dynamic shadows and screen space global illumination

[weary acorn]

I just wish vr could use thumbsticks for flight control

[frail nymph]

idea: Return of the first spawn
It would be cool if you could fight humanoids on planet surfaces. It would be even cooler if, when introducing this feature, the devs decided to make a return of the first spawn via a time displacement, similar to the one we go apparently go through during out visits with the atlas.
Also it would be cool if, assuming they didn't already have a known form, they would be tall and lanky like the horror actor, Javier Botet.
It would also be cool if this new dlc introduced exosuit tiers and D tier equipment that starts out weak but is designed to be upgraded using components from the first spawn settlements that you have to raid.
The D grade equipment has higher base values than normal S grade equipment when fully upgraded, and is capable of reaching U grade which has an additional supercharged slot

[fierce cove]

mumbles something about a hidden galaxy that can only be manually discovered by traveling through portals found in other regular galaxies in the game mumbles something about disabling the galaxy map in this hidden galaxy for travel purposes, only allowing players to see the reaches of the galaxy but restricted to the planetary system they get ported to says something about these areas being like an instanced dungeon or instanced planetary system that can only be reached by going to a very specific portal, and that portal alone. says the current portals will do the same thing but there is no way of knowing which location they will teleport you to, and not all portals will take you to these hidden locations (unless you've already used it of course)

[limpid cargo]

if you can't see a galaxy map, how would you know it's in a hidden one?

[oblique smelt]

Portals dont work cross galaxy anyways. Other than teleports only galaxy cores work.

[turbid ember]

// My current list for things I hope they add/tweak/change.
QOL:

• Larger FOV sliders for 1st and 3rd person view.
  So my camera isn't stuffed into my Traveller's backpack for most of my travel.

• Per-Inventory, and Group-Storage Autosorting Button.
  Must have Quality of life.

• An option to instantly show text:
  No more waiting for that shihh to scroll when talking to an NPC, or reading something.

• An option for faster clicks:
  Instead of waiting for half-a-second to click something, an option to reduce, increase, or remove it altogether would be dope.

---

CONTENT:

• Larger Fauna:
  Dinosaurs, larger pre-gens. Monster-everything. Meet the Momma of the Astroid Larva. Fight the Momma of the Larva Asteroid. Trigger my megalophobia pls. (Leviathans part 2?)

• Deeper Oceans:
  Paired with the above; give us that subnautica feeling. (Abyss part 2?)

• Custom-Planets:
  Make your own planet based off of biomes/flora/fauna/minerals you've found in the past.
  Will need to be heavily limited, I assume. Perhaps only doable once-per-week or something. And only with 1 planet per player.

---

Piping Dreams/Spitball ideas: (I got no idea how this could be implemented, or what HG's vision for it would be, but .. here's hoping)

• Ground-Combat. NPC Combat. Race Wars (Korvax vs Gek BB).
• Changes to the language learning system. Language Stones can be more rare, but give 3-5 words. It takes way too long to learn a language.
• Monster Threats in the Night. Scarier Derelict Freighters. Scarier Monstrosities.
• Freighter/Capital Ship Orbital Bombbardment.
• Multi-Crew Ships. Fly with a friend.

[unborn spruce]

for deeper oceans you would first need deeper planets

[rotund stratus]

Or just higher water

[unborn spruce]

?

[rotund stratus]

Higher water level= deeper oceans

[unborn spruce]

i assume you are joking but raising the ocean would mean just inflating the planet which would lead to all sorts of problems with bases and the likes

i just cant imagine that going well

the most straight forward solution is just to deepen the mantle level

could also allow for more interesting caves

i see deeper oceans requested quite often but im not sure if i understand why

they already seem to be deep enough to strike a good balance between gameplay and realism

[rotund stratus]

Minor potential update spoilers, but it's been there since origins ||there's a datamined ocean planet with a higher water level so HG seems to disagree with you there||

||new update looks like it'll add new star systems too so that negates the issue of overwriting bases||

[unborn spruce]

yep i saw the ||purple star system|| thing

i fail to understand how you can just push the water level up

[rotund stratus]

Why not?

[unborn spruce]

not without changing all the land around that mass of water

[rotund stratus]

||the ocean planets don't have land||

||alll ocean||

[unborn spruce]

WAIT WHAT???

theyre not in the game, are they?

[rotund stratus]

||they seem to be completely oceanic with no land. They're not in the game but they're in the files||

[unborn spruce]

every "ocean planet" ive seen has had atleast some islands and small chunks of landmass

ah ok

||i guess its doable now that we have water landing. it could be a good progression path. these planets are only "unlocked" once you get the upgrade||

dammit now you got me wanting deep ocean planets too 😛

[rotund stratus]

||plus purple systems are a tier above the blue systems so they're seemingly pretty high level! ||

[unborn spruce]

yup

[raven yoke]

Would be neat to add gas giants to systems. Specialized ships to mine the gasses from their atmospheres. Regular ships just kinda die on entry. Would be interesting if they're gonna have liquid planets, which I doubt they'll add in any time soon

[timid summit]

Imagine adding quasars to NMS

Neutron stars

[fierce cove]

You can see the galaxy map, you just wouldn't be able to travel outside of your current star system through any other means than portals in other locations in standard galaxies. And the planetary systems would not be connected to one another outside of the immediate solar system.

[pure grove]

Day 31 of asking HG to let me ADS with Combat Scope Tech

[vale schooner]

living freigthers

my gek biologist want more friends

[atomic crater]

Agree

[weary acorn]

And helldivers type planets to go with it

[young pebble]

It would be great if the pirates attacking you got out of their ships and chased you around the planet when you landed and took off when you took off.

[gloomy hazel]

Do we know what Worlds Part II will be?

[oblique smelt]

[pastel minnow]

In game patch notes.

I killed the chat. 😄

[wind gale]

From now on I going to think any update comes to nms is a feature testing for light no fire

[hot flame]

Wrong channel

[pastel minnow]

Derp, I thought this was spoilers

Yeah lol

[vale schooner]

would it really be a bad thing though ? xD

[atomic crater]

I think in the futur, no man sky gonna be à playground test for LNF

[grim steeple]

It would be nice if we could play older versions using steam betas, it would make everything much easier.

[wind gale]

Not at all. worlds update is the best update we had in years

[indigo marten]

caves and cliffs update in no mans sky

that would be something

[fallen hawk]

So do we think HG is gonna squeeze one last expedition in this year?

[vast wave]

They just did

New expedition starts today

I think this will be the last one for this year

[mighty goblet]

Suck my fishing rod!!!!1!1!1!

🐟 🐠

[fickle aurora]

🗿

“They called me a madman”

[rotund stratus]

If we ever get flyable large ships, it would be awesome if we could dock to stations using a docking port

Especially if they had their own entrance to walk through

[fickle aurora]

Agreed

[gloomy hazel]

It’s gonna be about worlds

[gloomy hazel]

audible gasp!

[fossil prism]

catches dark bramble anglerfish from my quagmire planet

[limpid cargo]

there's at least 4 different kinds of currency in this game, we really need an exchange office

and can we please buy things someplace other than the damn Anomaly?

[fringe wharf]

I wish you could drive your boat

[fallen hawk]

Nah, I mean expedition 16

This one ends around the middle of October, which is just enough time to squeeze another 6 month expedition if they cram the redux expeditions into December.

Or perhaps they’ll have some other solution for replayable expeditions this year

[tulip pagoda]

it's poorly implemented

i'm happy if you're happy though

actually im gonna say it's better than i thought it would be but it's missing key things like being able to interact with your catches.

right now they are just icons you can cook by going through menus, you also apply bait through a menu. you can never physically do anything apparently. takes away from the whole thing in my opinion

i love that they added a trap though

and also, you're telling me when i press G a couple of times now to cycle through my weapon configurations, i'm going to pull out the fishing rod? that's a horrendous gameplay design

it shouldn't be a multitool upgrade it should just be a fucking fishingrod

[toxic slate]

It was probably the quickest path to getting it done. If it was its own thing they would have had to add a place for that in menus and whatever other system modifications to make that happen. Not saying it was a good idea, but it was a feature I assume they wanted to release quickly inbetween other stuff

[mighty goblet]

They’ll probably change it in the span of like, the next two updates if we whine enough

[empty jetty]

Aquarius is the fourth exped of the year, though. They've never exceeded four. There's always a first time, but maybe not hold your breath.

[fallen hawk]

Sure, but on the other hand last year was the only year they had less than four

It may be that HG wishes to “catch up”

Or even that they intend for expedition 16 to be the last one before putting them on a rotation or something

[empty jetty]

They've done major content updates without expeditions before.

[fallen hawk]

I’m aware, yes

All of this is just speculation anyhow

[queen cypress]

They should put an a aquarium like in subnautica, só we could display The fishes we catch , in our bases

[pure grove]

The Fishing Tech turns your multitool into a fishing pole, but COMBAT SCOPE TECH DOESN'T GIVE YOU AN ACTUAL SCOPE?!? HELLO GAMES LET ME ADS WITH COMBAT SCOPEEEEEEEEE Day 32

[gloomy hazel]

How else do you want them to add a goddamn fishing rod?? Thats the whole purpose of the MULTI tool, it has everything

[turbid ember]

Ayo?? NMS just dropped the what a beaut update?

[tulip pagoda]

make it a real fishing rod

[gloomy hazel]

Just be happy that we have some sort of fishing rod

[tulip pagoda]

ill complain till they change this

im overall very happy that there is fishing tho

see all my posts in spoilers about it lol

[gloomy hazel]

They wont change anything about the fishing rod trust me, i mean it’s also a sci fi game lets remember, the multi tool thing makes total sense

Me i am grateful for the update and happy the way it is

[tulip pagoda]

fights sentinels
tries to switch weapon confirguration
pulls out a fishing rod

[fervent fractal]

Personally i want a menu revamp. The graphics are amazing but the menus feel a little old.

[fervent fractal]

Old fonts etc

[tulip pagoda]

i too want a menu revamp and i want them to try and get rid of as much menu "gameplay" as they can

[fervent fractal]

yh

[tulip pagoda]

it's bloated

[fervent fractal]

menu feels like a 2013 game but because its insanely open and so advanced it bumps it up to a 2025 game

💀

if you know what i mean

[tulip pagoda]

yeah

[weary acorn]

Weapon wheel for multi tool mode

Tranq dart for creatures would be nice too for flying ones

[rotund stratus]

If you don't want to have to switch past it, just have a fishing multitool 🤷

It's effectively the exact same

Just get any old c class and stick a fishing rod on it, there you go you've got a dedicated fishing rod you can swap to

[wind moat]

I’m not into fishing, I means it’s great they added it, but I so wanted more enemy types to pew pew.

[tulip pagoda]

good point

[toxic slate]

it seems pretty light on gameplay, not even as engaging as Animal Crossing fishing, so I dunno I would have rather they spent the dev time on something that would deepen the core gameplay

[frail nymph]

!hg

[misty iris]

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

[plush moon]

I think they just saw people want fishing in the game when they saw the new water and quickly made it a thing

[hot flame]

They literally made this update in a month

[toxic slate]

I look at it more from a project management perspective -- the number of employees at HG hasn't changed, but the feature surface area has increased. So fishing is now another thing that will be competing for limited art and engineering resources. The team could work on adding more creatures or plants to the game, but maybe instead they will be building new fishing poles or bait or fishing exocraft because a vocal part of the community is demanding more fishing content. It's another hungry bird to be fed, and the amount of food to go around hasn't increased.

That being said I don't begrudge anyone for wanting or liking the fishing feature, nor HG for responding to that community desire.

[icy thunder]

i think theres some that want entirely new content and others that want what we have now to have some deeper touches

[weary acorn]

Would be cool if the fishing rod was a seperate multi tool and then it could swap to other stuff like creating farming ground or planting flora

[molten lintel]

I'm absolutely in L O V E Aquarius but I just want an in-game note system so badddd

Like it would be immersive and convenient to have the ability to take notes to refer back to.

And it would compliment a roleplaying style of play as well, as it'd contribute to more authentic Logs!

I get outside sources are available but in-game note taking is far easier to go back to since it's easily accessible.

[tulip pagoda]

yeah no mans sky has always been shallow in the department of deeper more interconnected meaningful features/mechanics

[tulip pagoda]

cool idea

[molten lintel]

Also the ability to expand our inventory limit for Multi-Tools and Ships-

Perhaps via making the Weapon Rack deco useable.

Another wishlist thing for me is being able to treat the smaller Shelters and Observatories as Settlements in a way.

I mean...

[oblique smelt]

We need new tab in catalouge. Fishermans bait log or something like that. To keep track of what food item gives what bonuses when fishing. There is soo many of them. raw ingredients, cooked food, even catched fishes can be used as bait all of them gives diffent bonuses

Or at least aditional info in catalouge about what bonuses item gives as bait

[molten lintel]

It would ONLY be possible if you have a high enough reputation with the lifeform the system is dominated by.

You would then have the option to purchase the building, and be able to do the same things as Settlements (if you buy a Shelter).

With Observatories, you would be able to do things like launch patrols and exploration parties that would go throughout the planet to mark and locate particular items. This would play into the idea the Observatories are trying to learn more about the planet, so it is where all the information is stored.

You can potentially have said parties seek underground caves, buried caches and materials (like the organic stuff), learn about animals (perhaps could contribute to some leveling system that would make other Observatories in the system more willing to let you buy them)

With Shelters, you could have a somewhat more limited form of the Settlement system. Building some additional housing, services (like a mining operation building and such), and stuff like that. Again, it would be more limited but still offer a cheaper way to get easy resources, Nanites, and even benefits like having unscanned Fauna and such marked when nearby.

[worn forum]

I’d love to be able to glue my butt or buckle onto the skiff, I think it would be funnier if I stuck with it while it gets tossed around with the waves instead of occasionally kicking me off (this prevented me from making a catch in some cases)

[ember shadow]

Anyone know when we can expect the update on switch?

[oblique smelt]

Now ? #nms-news-ticker i fought 5.1 is out already

[ember shadow]

Ah, thanks! Haven’t been able to get on since this morning. And switch usually takes a while to release updates.

[fervent gull]

I’m hoping we can tame the turtles you find on planets. Just found some for the first time ever but I couldn’t feed them pellets 🥲

[glossy ore]

I hope they add plant city’s like markets and stuff on ground

[weary acorn]

Can't you build a chair on it ?

[worn forum]

I can?

[pure grove]

I am loving the new fishing update, but each time I use the fishing rod a piece of me dies daydreaming of a day where I can finally ADS WITH COMBAT SCOPE TECH RAAAAAAAAAAAA #day 33

[fringe wharf]

They probably have fishing in Light no Fire and ported it over in NMS. Of course they had to create new assests and think about the intergation but I definitely think they already had a fishing system developed already.

[tulip folio]

A tackle/bait box would be cool. I like using fish as bait but adding them just a few at a time gets tedious.

[brisk pendant]

i'd like a bait station on the skiff, personally

[weary acorn]

I hope you have to fight the fish a bit to catch them and not just yank and catch every time

[mighty goblet]

They could follow after Satisfactory. In that game, you have materials you need pinned on the right side of the screen and you can manually edit it with stuff like “improve base”

[solar heron]

Sometimes fish can escape

But yeah, would be cool

[weak dagger]

https://youtu.be/RGrtDgQlI-8?si=cZgG1nnMLNsAEORc

[tulip pagoda]

interesting

[weak dagger]

Very relevant to the discussion of resetting the universe and possible solutions to the "base building problem"

Specifically here https://youtu.be/RGrtDgQlI-8?t=1439

[toxic slate]

that talk was given six years ago, so if they had found a solution to moving bases they probably would have implemented it by now. the problem is not moving bases, but dealing with the edge cases of people building on top of terrain features instead of just flat ground

[weak dagger]

they're just discussing possible solutions, maybe for the time being they've chosen to keep things relatively static, but there is demand for change, its just an interesting talk on how they could approach said change.

[toxic slate]

yeah I've listened to it before, it's a shame they don't really do those in-depth tech talks anymore

[weak dagger]

Yeah, I really would've liked to see a tech talk post next update

[burnt plinth]

So i made it to phase 4 on the new Aquarius Expedition but i noticed you only get a small Fishtank Decoration...but why not Fish tanks and different sizes to add some of your best catches there.
Also...when does this game finally get a recipe book for all the food, materials and stuff you can craft? I know there are many google websites with recipes but why not a single one in the game you can open when you prepare something.

[toxic slate]

It's a bit cognitively dissonant that the fish you catch aren't actually species that exist on that planet. Not sure why they did it that way

[tulip pagoda]

yeah i spoke about this

i'm not 100% sure either but most of those fish don't actually exist outside of being an icon in your menu either

maybe worlds part 2

[toxic slate]

Yeah...it feels very videogamey in a not good way. Like why not utilize all the cool procedural fish already being generated in the universe

[weak dagger]

These mangrove trees were intended to grow branches

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/2218

[tulip pagoda]

yeah

[weak dagger]

there was a mod that enabled them

kinda sucks cause I hate how they're always hacked up

[tulip pagoda]

i said this and people got mad. fishing is a great feature but it's not implemented well. everything is done through a menu and your catch is also just a menu item.

aquariums where you can release caught fish plus a trophy blueprint for caught fish to turn them into displayable parts would help it

it's another skeleton feature that got added and might not be improved until many updates later, but at least we have it

skeleton meaning shallow

an actual exo-craft boat would also make it so much better, with a deck large enough to land a trade rocket onto

and with multi-crew feature

[toxic slate]

I think HG needs to designate someone on staff that checks every feature during development and makes sure they are based in procedural content and not just the typical static content you see in other games. I get the feeling there's not much management going on, which is fine, but there needs to be some consistency.

For instance like the Starborn Runner ship. One of the coolest ships in the game, but completely static. Every player's Runner is exactly the same. Those static pieces really stick out as feeling un-NMS

[tulip pagoda]

yeah

i agree

but i also get why

[toxic slate]

I get why in some cases. Making the Runner a fully procedural ship class would be more work, I get that. But would making the fishing feature use the real fish on planets be more work? I kind of doubt that

[pure grove]

Considering the incredibly resource hungry implementation of merely displaying an entity within the catalogue menu nor how sophisticated aquatic creatures behavior are, they probably decided it was best to prioritize providing the most streamlined form of fishing rather than the logistics of it. I can agree with why it was done, but to that end I wish the fishing mechanic was just a bit more

[toxic slate]

eh I wasn't meaning you'd actually fish for real instances of fish swimming around in a body of water, just grabbing a fish when you "reel it in" from the pool of possible fish on that planet. The mechanics wouldn't change

They could also precache the fish when you take out the fishing rod, rastering each model to a 2D sprite that can be displayed saved to disk, in order to avoid any resource intensity you mention. (sorry for going deep, I'm a dev)

[turbid ember]

I end up just typing to myself in the chat-box lol

[weary sinew]

I would really, really love to have planetary maps.

They could be an exosuit upgrade.

you could even make them upgradable, for instance
the lowest level map could just show a flat map of the planet
the second level map could show a flat map of the planet with toggleable contour lines to see altitude
the third level could show the second level + the player location and direction

[rotund stratus]

That's probably too many resources to put into what's ultimately a mini update to tide people over for a couple of months

Plus management will certainly have to sign off on what gets added in updates

[floral glacier]

Sword like multitools
That's all I want

[pure grove]

That makes more sense, but (just speculating) I’m guessing their line of thought was something along the lines of: “Since the Player isn’t directly interacting with actual instances of creatures, it wouldn’t be consistent with how you scan actual instances of Flora and Fauna. So we’ll just create unique textures to make up for it.”

[molten lintel]

So like Stardew Valley?

Honestly that'd be great, perhaps it would be much more difficult with larger and rarer fish.

Maybe the Legendary catches could even have slightly unique challenges to them.

Yanking in specific times (when they're pulling aggressively, or having only small opportunities to catch them via the few times they bite.)
Perhaps even having to do other things like throwing more bait (via the quick menu) or something else.

[fierce cove]

I am seeing the biggest picture I can (maybe) in terms of gameplay. Over the past eight years we have seen this game evolve interms of graphical, sound, audio quality, and in its storyline complexity. I often wonder to myself...was this all planned? Is there a real-world timeline connected to the development of this game and the plan to begin with was to keep us intrigued on developments for eight plus years? Not complaining...I quite enjoy the updates...I just wonder....what stories is NMS still holding onto? I know there is more

[molten lintel]

That's... Actually a really good thing to think about...

Hmm...

[fiery granite]

they need to update how the portal looks.. everything is glowing and blue and the portal itself just looks like a tide pod soup

[fierce cove]

we notice with each update how graphical fidelity of some items increases in quality while others are not touched. it's either just too time consuming to change everything in one update, planned out in stages ahead of time to keep us coming back for more, or somehow possibly a way to tie all of this in, into the end-game lore. running the risk of sounding contrived at the latter option, it might still be able to be pulled off.....

The Atlas is ||a simulation after all.........||

[static dirge]

Shhhh, not everyone knows that

[fierce cove]

lol

sorry. i didn't realize and took some things for granted. put spoiler box on it

[toxic slate]

They are a very small team. like 25-30 people. so yeah they have to do everything in small chunks of work

[rotund stratus]

It's a bug

[mighty goblet]

It’s probably something they made in like two weeks to capitalize on the new water tech. I think they’ll realize it later

[fiery granite]

how did it used to look

[sturdy plover]

Closer to what you see on the teleporter

[solid cypress]

They should put something in game for us to put the fish we catch that we want to keep. I have five legendary fish that I kept cause I thought that I would be able to put them in the aquarium and then I find out that we can’t put fish in the aquarium.

[short abyss]

Ngl they are onto something with the vile brood

they should add more of these health bar bosses, give them random parts and names

not just bugs, sentinels and maybe sandworms too.

[vast wave]

Sentinel Walkers and the worms you fight on infested planets (Their Many Mouths) have them already

[deft otter]

They should add more types of sentinels

Maybe a type of planet made entirely of metal made by the sentinels

That would be lit

[oblique smelt]

In pre release fotage there was planet where sentinel walkers runned in the wild.

Fighting multiple walkers could be intresting.

[vast iris]

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[weak dagger]

Portals used to look like this during development

Imo, this is much cooler

https://youtu.be/WQhSP82uhY4?si=zviX_JDtS6regKA0

[gilded plank]

would love for the game to generate these kind of quirky rock formations

generation is so toned back now

even the mist effects in the grass would be super cool

[primal herald]

I'd love to see a world inhabited in steam punk style, with some mad scientist as a ruler. And we get to crack his secret and obtain steam punk tech/armor/MT/ships/fleet.

[topaz saddle]

I wish we could keep marine creatures

[blissful hare]

In 2018/19 I stumbled across a walker randomly in hub space, nobody else was around. It was inactive

[blissful hare]

#nms-spoilers ||there's a jellyfish boss called the Deepwater Guardian that currently goes unused||

[short abyss]

meh thats such a plain name though

[blissful hare]

Kinda but its something we might see in the future

[short abyss]

like think about it what sounds more intimidating as a boss name

||Deep water gaurdian||? or.

[blissful hare]

Spoiler it

Datamined 😭

Future content

[short abyss]

darn wont let me post it

it was a funny name though

[shadow dagger]

You can still find inactive walkers today, but they only spawn outside manufacturing facilities (or it might be the other type of building with the destroyable door, can't remember) on extreme sentinel planets

[oblique smelt]

Yeah but no walkers strolling in the wild. Sean fix this.

[shadow dagger]

Ambient sentinels overall need some work

I'd love to see the dogs and walkers spawning in naturally, as well as proper drone patrols

right now the game is set up to just spawn a single drone nearby every x seconds

on extreme planets you cant even try to avoid them because they spawn right on top of you

[oblique smelt]

I sended feedback on it. Every vote counts

!hg

[misty iris]

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

[weary comet]

I would like to see a matchmaking option for multiplayer in addition to the conventional friend code to boost co-op sessions. I understand that the anomaly was supposed to do a similar thing but most of the time players don't team up at the anomaly. If players wants to team they should have a matchmaking option that automatically does the job for them. The server matchmaking could be an option added to the anomaly and it should look for players worldwide and not just in the same anomaly instance , this is already in place if you queue for a mission at Nexus. Something like this would boost the game co-op imho.

[vale schooner]

if you want to boost the game's coop, then first fix every bugs related to it, before adding more matchmaking

[opaque yoke]

sadly my experience with the anomaly is people 'playing singleplayer' and ignoring me, afk sitting, or lots of boxes with cross.

[vale schooner]

NMS is a solo experience before all, I dont see why people want to play with randoms so bad

[weary acorn]

Maybe they should make dedicated co op expeditions

[weary comet]

it's not about fixing bugs it's about designing a multiplayer system that brings people together. I won't waste time fixing bug for a system that is outdated and doesn't fit to the job

[weary comet]

yep, you don't see the reason because the game is mostly single player as you said. But if they would invest efforts in the re-design of the multiplayer session you would have more options available. Run resource gathering/mining missions, base building, piracy/anti piracy missions, etc. There are infinite options considering that it is a sand box like game. The anomaly already fits for that purpose but it only accounts for a single server instance where players voluntarily decides to host a session and people can join it or not. The anomaly should allow for a wide matchmaking between players and offer a more customisable mission set. Get rid of the current system which it doesn work and focus on a better design more in line with modern time

[opaque yoke]

in my understanding, the game is about discovery and the anomaly is sort of the place for people to meet and exchange information/team up. i guess making it the main place for progression wasn't enough to have people to be friendly with random people.
was just greetin people but got the cold shoulder every time lol.

[weary comet]

yep and I think that's because the anomaly is not only focused on teaming up, there are several other use of the anomaly. Grouping is just a small little part of it. So most of the players just mind their own business when at the anomaly, eggs breeding, updates, expeditions etc. The multiplayer is probably the last of their option 🙂

[opaque yoke]

it's understandable but kinda sad.

[weary comet]

if there is a demand for it, Hello Games usually listen very well to the base community. so who knows...fingers crossed

[opaque yoke]

I want the cockpit interfaces to be fixed.
the coords and exotic + explorer planet name lol
also make the other body shapes that is not the default one not becoming one with chair when they sit.

[weary acorn]

Even just a looking for players to join option that teleports new players to then

[weary comet]

Smart one!

[misty cliff]

would love to see that terrain does not change in base areas. would make underground bases possible and offer more interaction with terrain.

[empty jetty]

NMS is a solo game with multiplayer elements and a shared universe. But it's not an MMO. So if you go into it expecting an MMO multiplayer experience, you're going to be disappointed.

[empty jetty]

Because it's not an MMO lounge. Some people are literally just there to do Anomaly business and then leave.

[toxic slate]

yeah I don't know why they changed this. coming across a walker used to be kind of a "here we go..." moment. but now that they only come out at high-wanted level moments, and because they are so nerfed, the fear of those walkers is completely gone

[oblique smelt]

!hg

[misty iris]

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

[limpid cargo]

now that they've had an Aquarius expedition. they should do a Gemini one where you can have a clone of yourself that follows you around and you have to help it survive.

[oblique smelt]

U mean anomaly npc focused one ?

[limpid cargo]

i guess?

[shadow moth]

What if we get more photo mode options.

Like if we can render the objects in photo mode before taking a picture of it

[oblique smelt]

Thats what base building is for

[shadow moth]

Wait, what?

I’m new at this, sorry.

[molten lynx]

They should do an update called immersion making the games a bit more immersive like the animals don't do much and they could eat the leaves off plants an have better movement

[hoary wolf]

They should add a expedition where u go back to the old version of no mans sky (graphical wise) and u explore and have to find old things. As example as final reward u could get a old sentinel ship.

[rapid widget]

thats cool, like a earlier version of the simulation lorewise, where they can experiment with new features

[hoary wolf]

Yea or old features that were never added

And cause jts supposed to be old it can have some bugs. And maybe add intentional bugs as if the simulation is crumbeling down slowely

[gray cradle]

they should add that diffrent races could attack eachother have their own wars between eachother and you could join one of them since we already have respect + and - when we interact with them also they should add alot more to building more furniture more stuff to interact with like a chest to hide your stuff in and add diffrent biomes of one world for now we go to a planet and it looks the same everywhere the animals dont do anything theyre all friendly also when you ride them you can see through map and cant die since you dont get any damage when you do ride them ... i got that all from just playing 8h of the game and i dont think ill play anymore till some updates go on

[short abyss]

they should just update the expedition terminal in the anomaly to let you go back and play any previous expedition at any time

if they want to limit it for whatever reason, just have it at the end of the year, instead of just rerunning the expedition, the years previous expeditions are added to the terminal to replay at any time

[wheat creek]

There should be a planet base exchange system, where one could advertise his / her base planet system etc. I find it's unfair we can't exchange coordinates.

[weak dagger]

This sort of thing remains to be probably one of the most requested cut features, they showcased warring factions all the way back in 2015 https://youtu.be/v5sBbjckyzU?si=lMOv-bhVmmaZD37A

[short abyss]

there is actually a featured section in the big portal in the anomaly

[weak dagger]

How space battles like this are still not a thing is beyond me, and I don’t count the scripted dreadnought “boss” encounters. No I mean emergent space encounters like this ^

[short abyss]

yeah really the only factions are pirates and regular people

[wheat creek]

it's not what I wish it could be. Like a real "shopping area" for places to go. With ratings. And highlighted destinations would be because of highest ratings. Base of the day, of the week, that type of stuff

[violet belfry]

What do you all think Part 2 is gonna bring?

[violet belfry]

Being able to rate bases would be cool

[violet belfry]

You should look into the Galactic Hub fan group

[violet belfry]

What? They still look like that structurally, the portals themselves look WAY better than that glob of grey mess

[opaque yoke]

Do you mean to say that is a community with that kind of gameplay?

[limpid cargo]

it's a multi-player nation spanning a bunch of systems

they have their own subreddit as well

[opaque yoke]

I see, that sounds amazing. Thanks for the info!

[rapid widget]

Probably more variety as people have been demanding that lately

[cerulean sail]

For real though, I would like to move on to VR on PC once I got a stronger gaming rig, but I feel like I'm obligated to playing on Xbox now due to how much content I have expedition exclusive content I have unlocked for that version.

[short abyss]

you could always try to see if it will sync your saves to the xbox pc version, or just use a save editor to unlock the rewards manually on a pc save

i know you can convert from microsoft version to steam version, not sure about console to steam though

[blissful hare]

Id love to see some revamped animations at some point but that's also very far from being a priority

It'd be neat, especially when it comes to multitools

But at the same time whatever

Same with first person anims

I love when game let you see your character in first person

[short abyss]

i definitely agree, giving gun types unique animations, especially staves for the third person would really be a good idea

[blissful hare]

Staves do have unique walking animations at least

[short abyss]

in third person when using a staff instead of leaning it forward, or taking like... a casting stance, the character lays it on their forearm and fires it like a gun. its the goofiest thing ever

something like any of these with the weapon type firing out would have made way more sense and not look as goofy

probably the first one since that would match the current one and match the aim of the player much more

[blissful hare]

I also think it'd be neat to visibly see holstered multitools but that's just dreaming at this point

Would fit for an outlaw theme

[deft otter]

Sick

[brisk pendant]

i want to be able to repaint my ship without destroying it. and add decals, like i can on the exocraft

[vale schooner]

yes pls

[brisk pendant]

also why cant i have stairs in the deepwater building sets

nice spiral staircase around the outside?

[humble pawn]

Considering that it has already been shown that more star systems can be generated in NMS is there a possibility that we could get planets with multiple unique biomes on the same planet Kind of like you would see in real life?

[dusky saddle]

the game is kinda entirely built around having to go to a new planet for new resources, and being able to land anywhere and find what you need. There would have to be several new game systems to account for different biomes on the same planet, and I'm not sure how much it would really add to the gameplay to have this.

[hoary wolf]

What if space racing becomes a thing, like hacked ships with no limitations but they dont have too many tech slots, or if u overclock ur tech ur ship can break. Maybe even a racing scene full of npc racers. (Prob not happening)

[humble pawn]

I do enjoy it the way it is but I just simply thought it would make it more interesting to have some more diversity and weather systems on a single planet. That’s all

[gloomy hazel]

They should add planets to this game

Would be so cool

[oblique smelt]

And space

[rose peak]

you guys are asking for too much

[solar heron]

words cannot describe how sick deep oceans would be

[molten lynx]

And the big guns could be attached to the backpack or slung around they're back

[rocky jay]

WHAT IS THAT HOLY MOLY

wow

thats nice

[solar heron]

Its a abyssal horro

R

U can find it in the game, but its glitched currently - it doesnt deal any damage at all

[misty iris]

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

[solar heron]

Pls report it :}

[hoary wolf]

They should add a expedition where u go back to the old version of no mans sky (graphical wise) and u explore and have to find old things. As example as final reward u could get a old sentinel ship. SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS: And cause jts supposed to be old it can have some bugs. And maybe add intentional bugs as if the simulation is crumbeling down slowely

[wheat creek]

Have you actually played for more than half an hour? The whole point of the first half hour is to find and fix your craft.

Concerning the water animation, I like that there are waves in the water, but anyone who ever swam in the ocean or in large pools of water know that when the tide goes up, you also go up. This is not happening in NMS for the player character.

[empty jetty]

...I think you missed the joke.

[restive zenith]

That would be crazy

Massive update though

[lone knot]

I actually wouldn't mind some kind of flying exocraft

Something meant more for rapidly going from one PoI to another without constantly needing to scan one out with a exocraft, hop in your ship to go to it, land, do whatever, summon an exocraft, scan another PoI, and repeat that sequence until satisfied

Also possibly with better top speed than a ship can reach in atmo

[tulip pagoda]

jsut makes little sense to me

[keen bluff]

i just had an amazing ideA

drifter class starships

ships specially made to not be able to stop their motion like the normal ships do when you stop thrusting the engines. it would be so fun to send urself flying through space without holding down the thrusters. would open up fun and evasive maneuvers as well.

and make them able to easily spin around when ur not using the thrusters so you can shoot things behind you while flying backwards

[limpid cargo]

hang glider

not as fast as a starship, but very quiet

[turbid ember]

Question.. do they got multi-crew Exos yet?
Like, the ability for 2 people to ride in one Rover?

[toxic slate]

nope

[keen bluff]

sounds like a useful thing

[turbid ember]

;-;

[zealous hound]

Since the fishing system is now in place, perhaps we could have some quests, either Nexus or Space Station, added that are related to fishing? Like going to a specific planet and catching certain rarity fish like in the expedition.

It could also function like the ancient bones quest, where we are allowed to keep the fish that were needed for the quest.

[pure grove]

Space? Planets?? Starships??? PSHH
You know what this game REALLY NEEDS?

Say it with me now guys

DAY 34 OF BEGGING HG TO LET ME ADS WITH COMBAT SCOPE TECH

AHHHHH YOU ALL THOUGHT I FORGOT

I WAS JUST TOO BUSY FISHING

[dense basin]

Once again, I'll suggest a radial menu. The quick menu really sucks, so give us customizable radial menus.

[fluid vault]

This right here! Been wanting it a long time!

[oblique smelt]

U need friends first for crew ships tho

[limpid cargo]

there are galaxy map apps for iphone and other devices. some are quite accurate. it shouldn't be hard to make an app that shows the location of every system in Euclid

[humble wadi]

I’m using this app called assistant for no man’s sky mostly for cooking recipes but it seems to have everything so maybe give that a try if you haven’t

[restive zenith]

There is a pulse engine upgrade that does sort of do that

But I think I know what you mean

Like rotation without change of direction

[toxic slate]

Yeah I've always wanted an official second-screen app for NMS. Being able to even pull up system or planet info, filter discoveries by criteria, etc. on my iPhone would be really nice

[wheat creek]

Well I missed the joke apparently 😄

I'd love the game to hint me on areas where the missing flora might be found. On that note, I had a hint on a missing creature that it was on the south side of the planet, but what is the north or south side of the planet? Any way to actually understand planet quadrants ? I wish NMS would take planet learning more seriously is a less childish manner.

[keen bluff]

yes

like a special starship that has mini thrusters installed on its sides or something that allow it to rotate while moving in one direction

also i just realized there still isnt an auto sort inventory button and if there is i totally have no clue where it is lol

[oblique smelt]

There is no auto sort button.

[keen bluff]

do you know if there is any reason why? or has it just not been thought of

[limpid cargo]

they should add milestone awards for discovering planets and systems, to encourage mor exploration

[restive zenith]

So just RCS

[spring snow]

Bring us Freighter class upgrades!!!
We can upgrade the class of both starship and multi tool, but not freighter? You could even make it absurdly expensive, up to 1mil nanites for S class, just please let us have it!

[turbid ember]

// Current list for things I hope they add/tweak/change.
QOL:

• Larger FOV sliders for 1st and 3rd person view.
  So my camera isn't stuffed into my Traveller's backpack for most of my travel.

• Per-Inventory, and Group-Storage Auto-sorting Button.
  Must have Quality of life.

• An option to instantly show text:
  No more waiting for that shihh to scroll when talking to an NPC, or reading something.

• An option for faster clicks:
  Instead of waiting for half-a-second to click something, an option to reduce, increase, or remove it altogether would be dope.

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CONTENT:

• Larger Fauna:
  Dinosaurs, larger pre-gens. Monster-everything. Meet the Momma of the Astroid Larva. Fight the Momma of the Larva Asteroid. Trigger my megalophobia pls. (Leviathans part 2?)

• Deeper Oceans:
  Paired with the above; give us that subnautica feeling. (Abyss part 2?)

• Ship and Exo Multi-Crew Options:
  Have a buddy fly or ride with you.

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Piping Dreams/Spitball ideas: (I got no idea how this could be implemented, or what HG's vision for it would be, but .. here's hoping)

• Ground-Combat. NPC Combat. Race Wars (Korvax vs Gek BB).

• Changes to the language learning system. Language Stones can be more rare, but give 3-5 words. It takes way too long to learn a language.

• Monster Threats in the Night. Scarier Derelict Freighters. Scarier Monstrosities.

• Freighter/Capital Ship Orbital Bombbardment.

• Custom-Planets:
  Make your own planet based off of biomes/flora/fauna/minerals you've found in the past.
  Will need to be heavily limited, I assume. Perhaps only doable once-per-week or something. And only with 1 planet per player.

[keen bluff]

i have no idea what rcs is

[weary acorn]

Hanglider would be awesome to use after jetpack

Or some kind of hoverboard exosuit upgrade

[zealous hound]

I think it would be nice if they could add some way to sort or rearrange the order of the items on your multitool how you want it. Like if you wanted to have your Pulse Spitter come directly after your Mining Beam. Would be a good quality of life upgrade for those who tire of having to cycle through all of their tools just to get to the one they want.

[tulip pagoda]

orbital bombardment would go so fucking hard

unfortunately no enemies powerful enough to warrant that

[tulip pagoda]

tiny thrusters like on irl spacecraft for maneuvering

[keen bluff]

Imagine one day we have boss fights on certain planets

[tulip pagoda]

we do

[keen bluff]

And we get to fight it with our ship like king kong

Really?

[tulip pagoda]

we have several lol

[keen bluff]

Like huge bosses?

[tulip pagoda]

the problem is that HG is scared to make combat interesting or hard, or they just dont understand how to make combat interesting

[tulip pagoda]

nah not like what you describe but even if they added this, it would be no more interesting than a sentinel walker. so a complete waste of time basically

[keen bluff]

I dread the brain dead autolock space combat ngl

[tulip pagoda]

i hate it so much

why on earth did they think that was in any way a good idea

[keen bluff]

Are we able to barrel roll?

[tulip pagoda]

no

what do you mean

[hot flame]

You can turn off auto follow

[keen bluff]

Somethin like double tapping one of the rotation buttons to rotate from side to side to dodge bullets/rockets

[tulip pagoda]

so

[tulip pagoda]

not a thing

that reminds me of like star wars battlefront 2005

[hot flame]

Can roll, but not just with a press

[tulip pagoda]

that would make it way more arcadey like but star wars battlefront 2005 still has a better ship combat system than NMS

which is just embarassing to be honest

[keen bluff]

The game is immensely fun and i love to explore but i just wish the combat on both foot and ship had more dopamine behind it idk

I wanna feel like mr space badass peterquill and stuff

[tulip pagoda]

@keen bluff did you ever play or watch star wars squadrons? that is what i feel like the ideal NMS space combat should be like

[hot flame]

It seems they have intentionally not made it more combat focused. Even to the point of having options to disable it completely. Seems they could go the other way and have options to amp it up. But unless they overhaul a ton of mechanics it's always going to be super casual.

[tulip pagoda]

fits NMS perfectly and feels fucking great

would take a while to overhaul tho

[keen bluff]

I dont think so

[tulip pagoda]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX1e5MmHNGY

[hot flame]

Aye, but it's possible it's something they have been working on already

[keen bluff]

Hell id be satisfied with racer/drifter starships and events or missions or something where you have to race through checkpoints in space or something idk. The game is amazing as is tho and will continue to play it

[acoustic wigeon]

i would still love some type of "evolution" update, this is something i always wanted to see from NMS since the first few years. what i mean by that, is that planets could have their climate evolve, possibly form rings over time and have the fauna on it evolve

i know it's a little unrealistic in terms of how it is in real life considering some of this stuff would take millions of years to become apparent, but i feel like creative liberties can be taken

[limpid cargo]

more smaller moons would be fun. like super mario galaxy

for that matter being able to EVA in space would be neat. you just need to install an oxygen mod and a haz mod

[empty jetty]

Summon your freighter close to a planet's atmosphere and jump off.

[misty cliff]

agree on that 👀

its good for casual but a hard mode variant would be nice

[tulip pagoda]

thats acool af

original idea

[toxic slate]

That's a cool idea. I wish that creatures and plants would look like they had evolved to survive on each planet in the first place. Sean talked about this some in pre-launch interviews, but it wasn't something they ever built. Probably because their procedural generation system for flora and fauna is based on an artist building base models, which limits the variation possible.

[restive zenith]

(sorry for late reply) RCS stands for Reaction Control System, and is exactly what you described: small thrusters on a spacecraft that are used for rotation

[limpid cargo]

No freighter!
Only jump!

[keen bluff]

space dragon boss battles needs to be implemented asap

(the asap part is a joke)

[pure grove]

I do this and I look for excuses to take on dogfights, it feels so good

[pure grove]

You know what would make combat more interesting?

DAY 35 OF ASKING HG TO LET ME ADS WITH COMBAT SCOPE TECH INSTALLED BABY

[keen bluff]

i wish ur player held some of the multitool guns with 2 hands like a rifle. idk if they do already but i havent really seen it yet

[pure grove]

God I wish I could stabilize my MT with both hands in VR

[vale schooner]

arent the rifle type MT already 2-handed ?

[stone oriole]

i wish the staves weren't held like a pistol when u shoot with them 🥲

in that vein, i would love to see some kind of player and npc animation overhaul. just to help with the gamefeel.

[young pebble]

Join the Sapce Anomaly with your friends in private (without other players)

[marsh schooner]

A cool update idea would be adding more customization for freighters externally and internally.. design, additional add ons like a deployable flag, designs, weapons like turrets to use or automatically.. could be use for random raids and have a bubble shield add on like the pirate one we can fight. The inside have different looks then others and more decoration builds that’s interactive. Buy pod ships for extra storage that follows around and could be used for something to be potentially raided but you can protect it with a pre warn time. More unique weapons like how we have a staff… imagine melee weapons like light sabers, swords etc. and even guns like duel pistols, snipers, etc more options with certain weapons having it’s own ability for the weapon being use. It could add more resources to collect through out the galaxy too

[vale schooner]

for the weapon part, iirc hello games did not want to go towards a gun-oriented gameplay

hence why there is no aim downsights, and why we use multi-tools instead of weapons

for the freigther part, its a big yes from me, I d love to be able to manage my freigther even more

but first we should be allowed to build ALL base parts in the friegther without glitching the game

[marsh schooner]

Then it’ll be cool for more multi tool options and with the way we have staffs,it’ll be cool to have more options to use it out of

[marsh schooner]

True