I feel like the expedition itself is kinda meh, but the garbage delivery gameplay loop is excellent.
It recontextualizes a lot of the planets for me. Hunting for gas giant moons with Salvage atm
#No Man Sky
chrome gulch
willow sky
I'll have to remove something from my multitool to fit the new grav gun
A shame, that shield is going to live and die without ever being used
rich spear
rip
chrome gulch
Funky things I've observed:
-Hydrogen crystal fields are like brick walls for the colossus (even with, or because of the excavation blade). Probs a bug.
- Once you're out of the expedition, to unlock the garbage stuff
- Get to a salvage planet
- Get to a waste reclamation plant
- Make sure you've got your gravity gun attachment
- Huck garbage into the furnace. It will unlock the flat bed
- The exocraft furnace attachment seems to need a lifetime reclamation value of 3,000+ nanites, and at least one use of the auto-collect service
That formatted weird but whatevs
rich spear
interesting
chrome gulch
Excavation blade is sick on Relic planets. Pulls down even the giant archways.
Good on dissonant planets too to snap up a lot of atlantideum, but radiant shards still need the mining laser
rich spear
excavation blade?
chrome gulch
It's like a snow-plow looking attachment to the front of the colossus. Allows you to just drive through most things and collect a fraction of their resource drop value
rich spear
i hate this planet dawg, i gotta travel so far across such horrid terrain with a bunch of phys items in my flatbed
willow sky
Funky things I've observed:
-Hydrogen crystal fields are like brick walls for th...
What about the wide cabin?
willow sky
NVM, you need to recycle 75 things
Now, how the fuck do I get the excavation blade bp
And it seem slike the incierator body is laregely useless
chrome gulch
Excavation Blade is found in the Exocraft research terminal on The Anomaly
Why's the furnace body considered useless? I've only just messed with it a bit, but seems to work fine
willow sky
Doesn't seem to count towards unlocking the customization options you unlock by recycling the special trash
It's good for the normal trash tho
But you don't unlock a lot with that
chrome gulch
Mm, word. I think I'll probably switch to it after getting these last two treads/wheels though
chrome gulch
Aaaaand done. Toxic waste seems the most uncommon to find. Took a couple trips more after finishing radioactive waste.
Looks like you need 50 of each specialty type redeemed to unlock a title/tread
willow sky
Yep
neon ice
My greed knows no bounds
44 items
uh actually it fluctuates as I move apparently, the volume that is counted must be smaller than my actual pile
Anyway flamethrower is effective at melting pesky piles of di-hydrogen crystals
I call this technique "letting the cargo settle"
rain condor
Reviving this thread with... Uh... News.
You wanted Pokemon In Space? We got Pokemon in Space.
rugged adder
palworld: he...hey...that... that's our thing
rain condor
This is just another layer of things that I have already a lot of stuff for (I have like a dozen pets, now I need to check their Nomanskymon stats)
chrome gulch
They keep pulling me back in!
willow sky
I've discovered who probably is the best shipwright in the community
All by the same person
willow sky
All of them are
neon ice
Ah, fair
Yeah, I obviously cannot access such techniques on a console, still neat nonetheless
willow sky
If you have access to a PC it's possible through
Uh
The thing that connects saves
The name left my mind just now
I want to say save share but that's not it
neon ice
They're nice ships anyway
willow sky
I often find it frustrating how blocky ships look if I'm not using offsets
Everything ends up looking like a toy
neon ice
That's kind of endemic to the particular way the grid-based construction system they used ends up, especially with such a primitive "vocabulary" of shapes
willow sky
Yeah, I really, really hope they expand it
neon ice
Unlikely, as evidenced by the past and future of updates, Hello Games likes to just jump around adding new content than refining older stuff, save for terrain generation modernizations
willow sky
We got some vette parts after the original drop, and we've gotten lots of new multi tool kinds over the year
I doubt we'll see super big additions, but maybe a number of smaller ones
neon ice
They did seem to do a pass adding new modules, but I doubt they will do anything to officially add any of the building techniques players employ using glitches or external tools
neon ice
Personally (without glitches or tools) I would have liked the ability to rotate basically all blocks and maybe rotate incrementally and nudge them around KSP style
willow sky
The fact we are limited to one axis of rotation in most pieces is so frustrating
neon ice
The fact you can't rotate hab modules is itself kinda silly to me
I have sideways ramps on my ship because I used a glitch and the game does not recognize sideways habs for making doorway or stairway connections, as you may know
There are workarounds but it's always just more awkward than if it was just a part of the game
willow sky
Yeah
neon ice
Because the construction of the ship has little to no impact on its actual performance idk why they then decided to make it all so restrictive
willow sky
My ship has remained the same, with small 1/2 offsets to cover holes, and some smart decoration, and that's that. More advanced techniques produce (often) prettier results but interiors become extremely frustrating, and I value more internal function than just looking pretty
neon ice
Speaking of, a few of the interior modules still seem to be just decorative despite suggesting they could become functional
willow sky
The resting module and the medbay, iirc
neon ice
And there's like very few tools on controlling the paths of circulation besides adding otherwise unnecessary wall modules, just a blank one that removes the doorway would have been good imo
Anyway, these are all laments from a person who can ultimately just play like, space engineers or something if I wanted
willow sky
I'd love wall "cleaners" and actual closing doors for compartmentalization
I know I can use base doors for now
But they are glitchy
neon ice
I just drape a flag or cloth or whatever over the doors often
No Man's Sky strangely tends towards a sort of Artisanal interior design
willow sky
It's a weird mixture of either super clean or rugged
I quite dig it but feels hard to explain to people
neon ice
By that I mean your choices are often between like, old pottery, cloth, small metal trinkets, and then server racks lol
willow sky
Hilariously right
The closest I've seen
Is the murderbot series aesthetic
Idk if you have watched it
neon ice
So it seems to make sense to just drape cloth over some doorways
Have not touched that personally
willow sky
Was enjoyable, but got pulled into it mostly because of how much the aesthetic reminded me of nomans
Hm, it's actually hard to pinpoint the style
Because yeah, it's very artisanal and loves to use decently aged prefabs, and then you land in a station
And it's all neon, vapour and hard lines
neon ice
It is indeed a strangely attractive vibe overall, the sort of aesthetic version of mixing two really different foods
No man's sky's aesthetics are like apples and steak
willow sky
"And yet, it works"
chrome gulch
Man, finding triple S-rank gene potential xenos is super hard.
Kinda happy it is, though. I'm exploring the infinite with purpose in a way that ship hunting didn't quite reach
chrome gulch
Finally got around to building my first corvette. You may recognize the layout from a fairly well-known build. Copied that and played around with it with way more greebly bits
willow sky
It looks great
dim harbor
Sleek
neon ice
well done
chrome gulch
Took a crack at making my own original design, applying what I learned from copying the junker and making the opposite: Big, symmetrical, clean. Pulled inspiration from Star Wars and Alien.
I really dig the radar dish face, the exposed spinal canyon of goodies, and the big engine array. Not terribly happy about the insides. The interior suffered from some of the off-set clipping, so it's a bit smaller than you would expect. And I just never found a spot I was happy with to put another ramp or elevator hatch.
chrome gulch
Thanks!
The interior is just one floor of Ambassador habs arrayed like:
⬜⬜
⬛🚪⬜⬜⬜🧑✈️
⬜⬜
with the door being the thunderbird elevator entrance.
There's some clipping from the anchor points of the titan engines on the backmost habs but they're still fully functional. And there's technically a 2nd floor I could build stairs to, but it's so cluttered with clipping components there's no point.
Really regretting the ambassador tileset, because the lighting is rough in stations and it's very difficult thinking of ways to decorate around clipping blocks.
chrome gulch
Found a triple-S poison flying pancake in the Euclid galaxy
marsh hawk
Hello chat I've started nms and I just built my first corvette.
Funny reddit post (not mines): https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/s/p9ACvJwrUd
Reddit
willow sky
It comes.
midnight sandal
willow sky
Got ready for the new No mans update in honour of the upcoming darktide playable class
marsh hawk
My unintentionally Land Raider shaped corvette
midnight sandal
Noice
rugged adder
oh hey the white horse
marsh hawk
White horse?
rugged adder
white base from gundam, misremembered its english name
its chinese name directly translates to white wooden horse/white trojan horse
marsh hawk
Oh I see it, I think its just White Base in english
marsh hawk
Bees, clearly it's the apiary update
gleaming sequoia
rugged adder
wait winged got hired by hello games?
rain condor
SEAN.
SEAN.
Please stop. Let us give you more money.
You can't keep delivering BANGER updates for 10 years, for FREE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NomizORoqU
Also, if you can believe it... It's a relatively small update, with only content related to The Swarm expedition... So I do not think this is the Update that marks the 10th Anniversary.
That'd be August, so....
Travellers. Get ready.
willow sky
Also, if you can believe it... It's a relatively small update, with only content...
Small updates like this happen every 40~50 days
The big ones usually take 70~ days
willow sky
YAY
uneven anvil
I'm a weaver
dim harbor
I got lost. I did get royal signal though
grizzled panther
Sage here
marsh hawk
Is this live? How do you start it?
uneven anvil
Is this live? How do you start it?
You need to get to the anomaly and there to the expedition terminial
marsh hawk
Thanks!
willow sky
A lot of people hate this expedition, but I haven't seen anyone notice how a lot of smaller POI have been redone and redecorated
dim harbor
Oh lmao, the new armour
How’d you get it
willow sky
Not available yet, this was on the trailer
dim harbor
Ah, aight so I didn’t misread 3.4
willow sky
Nope
TBH
I wish we could play the expedition with our nomal characters
Would make it way more enjoyable IMO
dim harbor
And quicker
I’m not sure I like the whole faction idea. On a lit and sublit level it makes sense but I’ve also already seen “ours is the best faction”
willow sky
Yeah
In world is not a competition
It's cooperation
But the ladderboard makes people go
Weird
marsh hawk
I wish we could play the expedition with our nomal characters
I have not done it yet because of this
willow sky
Sadly, that's not going to change
uneven anvil
I fear at the current rate we may not even be able to complete it.
We are just at 10%
And we are still 5 objectives behind
willow sky
Not the first time they fake results, it's ok
Also, this obejctive ends on the 10th anniversary of the game
It's so obviously a delay
uneven anvil
Fair fair. It's still a bit long. The tasks aint really interesting sadly. If they are doable at all. People already try their best to sabotage the whole thing
They plaster digging spots and crashed drones with bases
willow sky
The quick menu -> report pipeline is something I always do as soon as I land
uneven anvil
Yeah, but it feels like they cant keep up with it