No Man's Sky Catch-All 2.0

PC?

I haven’t played it in quite a while, but I don’t remember any crashes.

Restarting my laptop seemed to fix it

This game has really got it's hooks into me. I now have several warp gates leading to different mineral deposits and large refineries. Two cargo ships and a nifty little fighter. Upgrades that let me sprint and jetpack faster and longer and a frigate hovering above my fractal base.

I get a crash to desktop at least once during every session.

Also, WRT to saving, you can build a mobile save point that you can keep on you so you can just drop it and save any time you want.

My kids have been talking about how Minecraft has had a resurgence of late, so I fired it up for an hour or so last night to see what's new.

After an hour of Minecraft, I realized that No Man's Sky gives me the same emotional experience, and that I like No Man's Sky better.

Yezterday I got four or five frozen screen crashes inside my freighter on the PS4. Outside of my freighter, no crash issues at all.

This guy has some really helpful tutorial videos.

No Man's Sky 2019 Tips and Tricks
Jason Plays

One thing that caught me by surprise is that the things I discover are being labelled with my real first and last name. Kind of annoying as I don't necessarily want to mix that with any of my NSFW writing and game posting on twitter. I'm sure this would be a big issue with people who have a vested interest in keeping their online and real names separate. I don't remember checking any tick box giving Hello Games permission to potentially broadcast my real name but presumably somewhere I did? Be interested to know where.

For me, it's using my Steam username. So things are "discovered by Robear".

That makes sense. I set up my steam account many many years ago and forgot aboutitm. I guess I never expected random games to take information from it and put it on the internet. Is that kind of thing covered by terms and conditions?

Almost certainly. It takes your Steam profile name, not your account name. You've currently got it set to the same thing but you can change your profile name anytime (Go to your profile and profile name is the top field, you can also change your privacy settings from there). It won't change things you've already discovered but it will use the new profile name for future discoveries.

Awesome. Thanks.

You can rename at least some things you've discovered, but I'm not sure if you can change the name they were discovered under.

I am really, really looking forward to the next expansion. I don't own NMS yet but the moment I can play it with VR, they can take my money. All of it.

K, not all of it. Maybe £30.

John Santina wrote:

I am really, really looking forward to the next expansion. I don't own NMS yet but the moment I can play it with VR, they can take my money. All of it.

K, not all of it. Maybe £30.

That's not all of it? Wooo.... high roller!

vypre wrote:
John Santina wrote:

I am really, really looking forward to the next expansion. I don't own NMS yet but the moment I can play it with VR, they can take my money. All of it.

K, not all of it. Maybe £30.

That's not all of it? Wooo.... high roller!

It depends whether it is released before or after my next pay day. My account looks a bit depressing at the moment... Lol

John Santina wrote:

I am really, really looking forward to the next expansion. I don't own NMS yet but the moment I can play it with VR, they can take my money. All of it.

K, not all of it. Maybe £30.

Is there any info on the next expansion?

NathanialG wrote:

Is there any info on the next expansion?

This is the last thing Hello Games published on their website... back in April.

https://www.nomanssky.com/2019/04/vu...

I can't find anything where they officially stated what all was coming with the Summer update. It has full multiplayer, VR/PSVR support, and a few other things, but those were all features that were originally announced as separate updates early this year/late last year. Back in March, they made a very brief and undetailed announcement saying they were going to package them all together as a single "No Man's Sky Beyond" update.

If there's anything more official than that, and not including all the online and press speculation, I'm not sure where it exists unless it's scattered across months of Sean Murray's twitter posts.

Argh..the wait for the "summer" update is so long!

Did they specify which summer?

52 days 'til the end of summer.

fenomas wrote:

August 14 mofos!

But what's the 3rd pillar??

Well, I snapped up NMS in a recent sale since I finally have a PC that will play it. Sounds like I'm waiting for the patch to drop to mess around with it, since I always like playing the best version of a game when I can. I'm glad it's not too long of a wait.

But between this updating on Aug 14 and Rebel Galaxy Outlaw dropping on Aug 13, sounds like it's gonna be a spacey couple of months.

Actually, you won't be hurting anything by starting up now, since you'll just be learning the systems for a while. I'd recommend not waiting. The game is not "missing anything" today. It's going to get more features, but that won't change the early experience at all, most likely.

I'm excited to try this in VR!

I booted up the game, and immediately spawned on an irradiated planet. Died once while exploring before I could get my bearings. I got a hold of how to get the elements and keep my bars filled up after that, but I had at least a couple of runs where if I was 20 seconds later getting back to the ship, I was dead.

I got off the starting planet around the 90 minute mark, and hopped planets a couple of times. I actually thought I was stranded on a planet when I ran out of uranium and couldn't find any more, but the internet told me that I could make jet fuel, I just needed more of the stuff I already had. An pointless restart was averted. Now I'm off to build my first base, and terraforming gun already tells me that I'm going to get up to some shenanigans sooner rather than later.

My biggest problem now is I have a ton of elements, and not much I can do with them yet, and no room left to store them. Next stop might be a space station to try to sell them off, but I don't know if one is on my way.

I like the missions so far. Basic, but I learn the ropes and it doesn't leave me wandering aimlessly. I don't know how much of that was in place at launch, but I'm glad it's here now.

Dying quickly due to environmental conditions is about the worst start you can have, so having got through that, you're doing well.

Question

Spoiler:

I haven't played in about a year. I played the next update but never jumped in the black hole. Should I go ahead and catch up on the underwater stuff now? What happens when you actually go through the black hole?

Robear wrote:

Dying quickly due to environmental conditions is about the worst start you can have, so having got through that, you're doing well. :-)

The joys of the random start I suppose. I wondered briefly if they give everyone a rough start, but that would probably put off way too many people.

So one of my planets had red water. Neat looking, and I scavenged some clams or something, but then it occurred to me there will be some sea monsters around somewhere, and now I'm nervous about going in deep water.