The game froze while warping to the next system this time. I guess averaging 1 crash per day is still an improvement over 1 per hour.

Hunting down the species on that world with Fauna high did not work. 90 minutes later and still 2 species not found. It seems it's the agressive ones that attack you are the ones that are always rare. With a bit of bad luck there's multiple of those hard to find ones on a world. I found 3 agressive ones, 1 in the water and 2 on land and still 2 missing. I did find the last guardian.

It was a nice planet, time to move on

After reloading the game on to a B9p system, pretty vistas


Odd square tilted tunnel things


And one planet with abundent life to try tomorrow. No water so that rules out 1 place to look.

I'm working on farming Radnox and Emeril, to build my cash back up, since it was down to nothing, from fully upgrading my exosuit slots.. Currently at about 2.4 million. I have found a ship or 2 that were about 23 or 24 for slots, but all of the tech was in weird spots, so i didn't want to buy them. I'll keep looking, but it's definitely looking like a space station is my best option for my first upgraded ship. My current ship is 14 slots, and current multitool is 17 slots.

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;

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.

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.

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.

I've been there too a couple of times, especially after having to start over after 8 hours beging stuck in the start systems and after crash streaks so bad I didn't think the game would come back up anymore, repeatedly crashing on start up. Staying in the same system or same planet too long might still cause memory problems, too many local changes perhaps. I've had more luck with 1.05, only 2 crashes so far (One a freeze I had to manually turn off the game) Kinda telling that 'only' 2 in a few days sounds good, yet with 1.03 I've had at least 40 crashes.

Since I have a physical copy I didn't take the trouble to bring it back to the store, instead send hello games a large email with all the issues. Ofcourse all I heard back was the standard reply email and a ticket number 28196. I wonder if they started at 1, quite a lot of emails, 1% or not...

We are a small team, so unfortunately we won't be able to reply to general messages here but we'll try and get to all urgent game queries within 48 hours during office hours.

Please do not send repeat emails unless in direct response from us as this may risk your email address being marked as spam and blocked.

I don't expect much. Elite Dangerous wasn't any better in the beginning and that is MMO with your save online. It took a month before I got a reply after losing my ship due to a game bug. Random ship explody bug was fun, the ship was insured for 90% of the value, yet you lose all the cargo, many hours of trading gone in an instant, not enough money to fill the ship back up, start small again.

Hopefully NMS will get an 'apology of the year' edition with all the bugs fixed and the promised content added. Maybe you'll feel like trying again.

Last night I had a lucky streak, no crashes and another beautiful planet with all the species appearing within an hour. The last was a hunter again, night time pack animal easier to find, big angry horny dog.


This was in a green Class E system.




Still no luck in the manufacturing plants and operations centers. I keep getting already known recipes, where is that v2 pass! No neutrino modules anywhere in loot boxes or galactic terminals either, I can't repair my pulse jet, it's been broken for half a week. But I'm almost getting fully translated vy'keen sentences now and Gek is gettting along too. I haven't seen the Korvax lately.

It's al long way to the core, I'm still over 160k out. I seem to have mastered vy'keen! I get "nothing new learned" now at vy'keen monoliths. Time to find some Gek and Korvax controlled planets. 100% of Vy'keen is readable.

I've warped 69 times so far and have found all species on 6 planets, 4 to go. Sometimes it helps to fly to a different spot or even reload to make new species spawn, resets the instance I guess. My strategy so far is to find a beacon, get a waypoint to a manufacturing plant or operation center and scan on the way there, repeat until all are found. But also climb mountains and check caves in between.

One of the last planets I was on had very deep oceans, unfortunately nothing interesting down there, no more fish nor plants that deep. Yet still plenty light and the occasional crashed module. It never gets dark.





It's also still fun to check out ruins to follow the story between the races and the sentinels. It would be nice if the game put it in a journal.

Is there any way to find specific ships to purchase? I have a 48 slot ship I salvaged, but it's ugly and I want a new, even if it has less inventory slots.

I saw ship once that had dual solar wings and body like a locust that I really wanted, but didn't have enough units for at the time. I've been looking for it ever since, haven't seen one. I have 180 million units i'm looking to burn.

Had this ships body:

And this ships wings: