No Man's Sky owners chat - Park up your starship and drop anchor!

[Zanten]

SvennoJ said:

Zanten said:
In my case, I've found a delightful solar system that I'm deeming 'home base,' and I'm just kind of going to settle down here. Explore the half dozen or so planets and moons in it, (already found an inactive ground portal on one, so if either portals become functional, or some super secret way to turn them on is revealed, I'm literally sitting on one!) I'm going to roam the surfaces of each world, eventually try picking a fight with a Sentinel battleship, and do some very light exploring of the surrounding solar systems, (but never losing sight of my home system.) Whenever updates like bases and freighters happen, this will be where I take advantage of them.

Here's the first planet in my new home, Voltaire in the Antaeus system;

Lovely system. Wouldn't it be great if the planets started moving in an update and the game introduced seasonal variety as well. Those big planets rising above the horizon and eclipsing the sun would be a great sight. Btw -67c, those are some hardy evergreen trees :)
Great find that portal, I haven't run into one yet. It seems lots of things were cut that were meant to link worlds. It's always odd when one of those huge antennas talks about discovering some distant world, then shows some standard waypoint barely over the next hill.

SWORDF1SH said:
I'm absolutely loving the planet I'm on. I have to do they survival achievement so thought it would get boring but the sentinels are very hostile. Constantly mining materials while on the run. I've mastered the jet pack having to constantly escape. I'm still saving up for a good ship. I also have to make my equipment's upgrades more efficient by deleting and rebuilding. They seem to fuck you over with the initial mod placements.

I wish I could delete my hyper drive and put the upgrades that belong together in squares. The base ones can't be removed although I have all the blueprints to rebuild them. Perhaps still a reason to look for a better ship.

Finally success finding all the species, abundant fauna was finally sufficient. The planet was teeming with life, easily 50+ dots visible in certain places. Still, while it took less than 10 minutes to find the first 10, it took another hour to find the remaining 2. One of the missing ones was a bird that looked exactly like the bird I had already found, while another land animal that looked very different (completely different head section) turned out to be a member of the same species. Never make any assumptions. That one I couldn't find was a lone hunter again. Nowhere special, it finally popped up on the side of a hill at dusk under normal conditions. Guess there's always a rare one. I guess it's a matter of luck and covering a lot of ground with the jet pack. There are also very small animals, hard to scan when they're hiding in the grass. Chase the moving grass until they appear long enough for the scanner to work.

Wth is this
On to the next system, I'm out of zinc.

Thanks but, and this is going to sound really sudden, I sort of don't own the game anymore. >>;;;

Basically, after I made the last post I went to play some more NMS, explore Voltaire a little more, maybe branch out to the other planets and moons in the Antaues system. It was then that I ran into a brand new crash-inducing bug that was worse than the other dozen or so crashes I've put up with since playing. Worse because it actually caused my entire console to lock up for ten to twenty seconds before finally crashing, and unlike the menu bug, the hyperdrive bug, the multitool dispenser bug, etc, these didn't seem to have a direct cause that I could predict, much less avoid. I'd start the game, walk, walk, walk... game crashes. Restart the game, try a different direction, walk, walk, walk... game crashes. Restart the game, walk, walk, walk... game crashes.

Over the course of the twenty minutes I was playing, this crash hit me three times.

So I went through a few moments of finally releasing some of the pent-up rage I'd been bottling up. Considered waiting on a patch that might or might not fix the issue. Checked Hello Games for any updates, then the patch notes on 1.05. 'Bug Fixes.' HMMM. So I ran out of patience, hit up Sony's support chat, and got a refund. The process was actually much smoother than I anticipated, guy on the other end was a gentleman and a scholar.

So yeah. Despite having massively looked forward to this game for the last few years, the numerous crashes and other issues have just kind of killed it for me. x_X I seriously envy those of you who haven't had to deal with this mountain of technical bullshit.

 

Happy flying, everyone.