I guess the game has a built in 'go to bed' timer. It froze again, triple beep, report error, time to sleep. Perhaps for the better, it has this 'just one more thing' compulsion. I wanted to quit an hour ago! Problem is I can't find copper anywhere for ship upgrades, I found a lot of pretty planets instead. I turned the sound effects down, to turn the music up. Great soundtrack, almost hypnotic at times.

I killed my first couple of ships, bastards wanted to steal my cargo. Combat is easy once I realized you can recharge your shield mid combat, doh. However it also tells me to recharge the photon cannon but it won't let me. Can't destroy it either to rebuild and while it says 0% it fires anyway. The (mining) laser beam overheats almost as soon as I use it, is that normal?

Plenty of other glitches, ? that disappear when I get close with nothing there, icons I've reached that confusingly stay on the display, terminals that sometimes don't work, purchasing new tech and getting already known tech and the game really doesn't handle things spawning on a hill well at all.

Anyway I'm still so immersed while playing that I again forgot to take any screenshots.

Here's a few tips I've discovered for anyone interested:

Waypoints: Hold your visor scan on any place of note (building, crash, transmitter, etc) and it creates a small waypoint that stays until you throw out a bigger scan near it.

Faster travel: Run > quickly melee then jetpack

Using upgrades: There are still nuances we don't know, people are still experimenting with connections diagonally and downwards, but generally speaking any upgrades must be next to each other to give you the full benefits so dismantling and reassigning are essential. Notice that in the bottom image whoever did this stacked the final upgrade below the last upgrade in the row:

Played about 15 hours so far and enjoyed it and i'd probably say the 7/10 it currently has has fair, Game does start of really slow and spending more time sorting out inventories and discarding things etc but once you grab a 20 slot exosuit and a new ship to have to room to spend some time on a planet exploring caves and not having to sell stuff every 5 minutes makes it alot more interesting. Bought this on steam and happy with my purchase so far and not had any issues like everyone is seemingly making it out to be constant and the only issue I had was alt tabbing in fullscreen (Switching so much between Dota and olympics on my second monitor) and not been able to maximize it back up but sorted that out easily by switching to borderless window.

Thats some good advice. Probably will spend a couple of more hours on it after Man United play.

I'm still trying to come to grips with the faster travel. It takes some getting used to but when you get it right it speeds things up a hell of a lot once you learn to dab the backpack to keep you flying across the terrain. Don't tell me the Man U score, I'll be watching it later on Match of the day.

Something interesting from GAF:

So that whole reddit thing with different colored stars needing different warp drive upgrades?

Yep that is true, just checked it. There is a white class B star 30 lightyears next to the one I am in. I can currently jump 280 lightyears in one jump. it won't let me enter that system cause I lack the warp drive upgrade.

I jumped into a class K system just now and the planet I am on is entirely unlike any i have seen before, when beforehand I was basically seeing one of like 5 planet variants over and over in different colors.

It keeps getting better :) Awesome advice about the fast travel, tried it and it saves so much time. Finally a good justification for those jetpac upgrades. I've reorganized my ship according to your tips. I need to organize my multi tool too but I'll wait until I get a bigger one. The last 5 I found were all one slot smaller, luck of the draw I guess. Exosuit is slowly getting bigger, that will help when I find an extreme planet. I have lots of tech blueprints for surviving different elements, but don't want to waste the inventory space yet.

I decided to just focus on the photon canon for now with my ship. I didn't use the beam laser much anyway and it all uses so much space. It's pretty easy to fight off pirates now. And these are all the elements I've found so far.

Another tip that probably everyone knew except me: If you look through your visor scanner you can see little 'pinging' dots to show you where they are. If they're white or white with green the centre, you have already found them, so I'm assuming if they're red (like when you see the actual creature) you haven't found them yet. This will make searching out the creatures so mush easier.

Another tip, always spend 20 carbon on aliens you meet after finishing their initial question. Bottom option should always be available and gives you another word of their language. You can keep doing this again as long as you have carbon as it cycles between 2 sets of things you can ask for. It's very slow to do that though but it still adds up if you ask a word from everyone you meet.

The fastest way to learn lots of words is to re-use the same orange beacon/antenna thing to highlight all the monoliths in the area. Dunno if it's intended but there doesn't seem to be a limit to the uses of each beacon. All you need is 10 plutonium and iron to make bypass chips.

I got all the copper and iridium I needed in space btw. Keep a look out for big rocks. It seems all the materials are floating around in space too. I found this huge space potato covered in tons of copper and iridium. Iron looks like some malformed X shape rock, Chrysonite was in a more oval looking rock.

If you pick the top option when the language option isn't available, the Corvax will give you carbon. ;) This way, every other option is 'learn language'. If you've got the patience you can learn every word the Corvax use.

I got the platinum trophy! I havne't finished any of the paths yet.