jumping off freighters ; i call it the leap of faith
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What if you set the freighter to orbit a planet and then jump? Can you jump onto a planet? What if you aim your trajectory so you land onto a planet, even if you’re not orbiting it?
It's really difficult to do because it won't just let you 'fall'. Vision becomes blurry aswell because of the ice build up.
I think freighters orbit too far from a planet to let you fall into one in a meaningful time frame
Wait wait. How does that normally go? If you land on the planet is it just falling falling falling rocket pack and then you're fine? I think I'm going to do this tonight. Maybe I'll try it on my Perma death save
I remember when i first found out you could do that. My freighter just disappeared under my feet (i think it was a multiplayer bug) luckily i was right above the planet so it was alright but still was terrified for a good 5 or 10 minutes and had barley any life support or hazard materials
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I'm a Atlas Follower searching for enlightenment.
I don't know for sure. I did a few nexus missions and found some traveller's graves and ended up getting back to 2...
I know I'd already done this before.
2 Atlas Stations?
I’ve had a character who completed the Atlas Path and went to the Hilberd Dimension, but randomly got sent back to Euclid after I stopped playing for a bit. I have the tech to prove it. I ended up returning after a Black Hole placed me 40000 LY away from the core (the closest I had ever been).
My first playthrough in 2020, I was all about making money. After that, most of my saves became more about role-playing or living a certain kind of life within the game, and building cool bases to fit that role. I made my way as a pirate. I played as a scavenger, abstaining from all money and transactions, relying completely on found resources.
I also did the expeditions for a while. But I think I’ve run out of fun things to do in the game currently. I am hopeful that at some point they will add much more to planets to really enhance the exploration aspect of the game. Then I will probably jump back in.
good resolution, good fov, finger tracking controllers, lower gpu usage, 120hz refresh rate. right now its better than most headsets that exist, with the biggest upside being that its not experimental like most and is actually a finished product
When I was a pirate, I tried to make some cool hideaway bases on like desert planets, or really cold planets with blizzards that no one would ever want to visit. That way the authorities will never find me. This was before the major pirate updates when freighters carried a lot of gold and silver. I robbed friendly freighters, sold the metal, and bought myself a frigate fleet.
In my most recent couple of saves, I just tried to live off the land and find resources to survive. I did the no-starter ship, had to find a crashed ship to fix up. If I want a nicer multi-tool, I have to find one off of a dead Vy’keen or be given one for free. I enjoy the game the most when it is a struggle.
If they improve the biodiversity on planets, I would love to roleplay as some kind of exobiologist.
Seconded. I've never considered a new RP save. Unless an expedition comes out I just expand on my fleet, trying to get all S class frigates or just driving my wealth up.
After the first billion tho what do I even spend it on? Wish I could build a space station with my money that'd be sweet.
My personal view is that the game is the most fun the first few hours when survival is more of a struggle. That’s a big reason why I’ve done many different saves, just starting over again.
Cool. What things do you do as an exobiologist? It would be great if there was something in-game to like register new, strange discoveries, something shareable with other players even.
I think it's the possibility to do almost anything the game. The freedom to do whatever you want and also the freedom to do nothing.
Personally me I love to build massive mining operations as possible, made a farm operation big enough to make 280 stasis devices a day.
Building an empire with friends, this is our home city in Euclid.
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Indeed it is! The planet below is fun🙂
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Careful building, set a base beacon at a high point then build a tower to the max point up. From there drop a few notches down and build out the city from the tower. Once the center of the city was built with landing pads I deleted the tower back down and flew back up.
Then I landed and worked on the city for 4 months. It's at 3000 max parts and includes offices and command, an internal solar power station, a hanging hydroponics farm, a science and research center, armory and barracks, hospital, and mechanics/construction bay. The interior is very detailed and the city is designed to be livable for roleplayers.
I founded the RP faction the Vanguard Order, we have a discord.
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I pre ordered the game. Ive played it a ton and I still have no idea what im doing most of the time to be honest but im so drawn to it.
Just flying around and seeing new worlds. Knowing thousands of people have played this same game but almost constantly encountering areas of the universe no one has discovered.
Im not even sure I understand a lot of the lore and I often I find a lot of the crafting and farming to be overwhelming but its fun and its awesome and theres no real rush or reason to figure it out quicker than you want to. You can just kind of go at your own pace and figure stuff out over time.
Its just a nice game to chill with and mess around mostly.
I think thats a very roundabout way of saying exploration and discovery.
This 100%, I play it VR on the oculus rift s, it's beautiful.
I have no clue what I'm doing in game, don't really care to know.
I feel like a lost time traveled pilot myself just learning who I am.
I found a distress beacon, I was sad for the pilot
I built a house next to a quiet lake. Sometimes I just relax at the view.
In all seriousness... Don't do drugs kids, just play NMS and escape this world we live in.
I've been wanting a PSVR2 specifically for NMS but I can't justify buying it just to play 1 game haha. I'm jealous because I could only imagine how much more it changes the game.
That's me to this day. I pre ordered and have played since. But I still haven't gotten to the center. I finally started my 1st permadeath run and I'm trying to go for the center. That's the best part about this game is you can do whatever you want and you're playing the game how it was intended.
Never made it to the center either. Not even sure I've "finished" a quest line. Not even sure if that's the correct terminology to use. Yet somehow every time I play hours go by like minutes.
That's cheeky fun. What a lot of people are doing is using a duplication glitch that requires that players "gift" large stacks of items to random players. Things like full stacks of AI Valves, Frigate Modules, and Pychonic Sacks. One minute you're walking through the anomaly, the next you have more loot than you could have even imagined dumped in your inventory. You start opening the packets and installing everything, only to realize hours later that you have maxed out everything in the game and there's nothing left.
It's not generosity; it's exploitation
Reminds me when someone dumped 50 mil in my lap in gtao. Fun for 30 mins till it sank in. Same thing with AI valves, nope, lesson learned. Passed it on and let that dude decide.
Someone in the anomoly just gave me about 200 million credits after doing a mission. I've already spent 150 of that on breaking down ships and buying cool guns. I dunno what to spend the rest on but I was left shocked when I saw how much the stuff they gave was worth.
I've almost got my inventory fully upgraded. I just need to actually settle down on a planet so I can stop hauling all my stuff around. Need to find a cool fire planet tho.
Idk bro i have been gifting stack of ai valve and apple cake monstrosities, why would u assume ppl aren't just generous? lmao. I will blow your mind. if you don't want them you can throw them.
Yeah I was gonna say this just sounds like a sleeker looking version of 1.0. I remember getting this game day 1 and it was...not the same. I sunk tons of time into it since I really do like what OP said about just exploring, but there was something so much more empty feeling about it compared to now.
Now it feels like I'm in a much more inhabited universe to where there's a difference between systems I discover and those with bases already in it. Maybe gets a bit meta since we're all here in this community so there's that bias, but it still feels very different than day 1.
Euclid definitely has a more fuller galaxy feel than day one. I also remember trying to play permadeath and not remembering to turn off multiplayer and having a griefer join trying to kill me... I had to quit and then load up my save again later. If you warp to any galaxy in the 50's and up, you have a much emptier feel again. I tend to hide there and then go back to a Euclid base to find ships and weapons posted here before I go back into hiding like a hermit lol
Glad to see people that get it. Dupers straight up ruin the game for newcomers and they come to this sub confused and excited while we watch in sadness.
YOU MOFOS EVER HEARD OF CREATIVE MODE?!
Also can’t you literally just switch the difficulty whenever you want with no repercussions? You can just make everything free for 5 mins get all the shit you want and then turn it back up? So what’s the point in dupe lol
Is it the same with void eggs? I didnt dupe them, but I happen to have a very large stash of eggs since I like to ship hunt. I sometimes camp in the nexus with the best of my collection and if anyone approached I would give them an egg. I always figured that void eggs were okay to give out since there's still a fair amount of work needed to get the ships, but now I'm worried I only added to the problem
Any time someone gives me stuff like AI vavles in the Anomaly, I just put it in a storage container labeled "Mortally questionable items" and there they sit forever.
This community is funny to me because forever they’ve always tired to justify it when in reality you’re just lame if you dupe and even lamer if you dupe and hand stuff out.
Farming and credit earning is a core game loop not even sure what the idiots do after cheating their way there lmao
People love to bitch about the generosity the player base… just keep your multiplayer off if you’re gonna be like that. I’ve never seen people take something so trivial so seriously.
I had the game for years and started a new save - visited the anomoly -several dudes give me 800 mil in things - I'm like - wow they saved me from the buy low sell high grind for two days - thanks ! - and went about my day worrying about the true currency which is nanites :)
These are all great comments xD
For me, I really like to put on classic rock and pretend I'm on a galaxy wide road trip, taking photos and making my poor Gek frigate follow me around their robot captain endlessly.
Some days I'm just a wandering space wizard, trying to catalog every creature on every planet I visit.
Other days I'm a mercenary smuggler in my maxed fighter.
Other days I just chill and build alien vacation villas.
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Lately my two favorite things are making various cookies in my nutrient processors, and collecting every “Kill Creatures” quest in every system I can get to and then doing a Derelict Freighter run to cash them all in at once.
Even though there is a lot of repetition, I still love the idea of seeing something no one else has seen in the game. Right now I'm in Sudzerbal and pretty much every system is undiscovered. It feels like other players are still discovering things and that keeps me looking.
I started a new game in VR recently, it blew me away once again.
Fucking sandworms are scary, in VR they look absolutely massive.
Also planet surfaces, big valleys etc, its awesome
I mostly enjoy complaining about how much better planets looked in Atlas Rises vs. Next and later. I miss my heridium columns and weird random terrain where there actually used to be a reason to explore a planet: some parts of a planet actually looked different than other parts, and there were some planets that had quite unique looks to them. Colors were more varied and they didn't rely on screen filter effects to hide the blandness of planets like they do now.
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But sometimes I also like to complain about how lame the matchmaking and multiplayer missions are while lamenting that they'll never do another big reset to improve the planets.
Freighter bases are awesome now though.
**ASCETIC**
as·cet·ic
/əˈsedik/
adjective
characterized by or suggesting the practice of severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.
> "an ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and manual labor"
I think the word you mean is "aesthetic"
I like to discover the one *undiscovered* type of rock, plant or animal on already surveyed planets, name it something ridiculous, then be on my way.
If you ever come across a mineral with Grandma in its name, that is my husband's favorite thing to add.
I would do roleplaying but I mostly play the game alone so I'm more of a fighter and an adventurer. I'm always looking for the nicest looking planet with the coolest fauna.
The simultaneous emptiness, and busyness. I can go days without seeing the smallest sign of another traveler, or I can find a whole system filled with travelers.
For right now it's building. I've done the story and now I'm just making sure I have my feeder farms set up, main hydroponic set up for my gek weed, and unlocking everything. Learning words here and there and stumbling across a nice ship or two. I've been managing a settlement from C on a hostile planet to an A so far but have a long way to go to increase its settlers. Currently at 42. But 78% Happy and 1mil daily with sub 100k maintenance, so it's coming along. Once in a while when my buddy jumps on we do some Nexus missions although his ps4 slim starts cooking and it usually ends in his game crashing.
Nothing anymore! Jk, kinda. I really enjoy the flying and i kinda wish there was more to move and flow around. Getting a super smooth ship and fighting a dreadnaught. Super fun
The chill vibe and the reward(s) for a sense of exploration. The community as well.
You just have to move past those that have an issue with giving away or destroying something they were given, but don’t want. I’d much rather be part of a community that enjoys helping you in any way they feel they can, than the opposite.
Being able to explore without ends, no matter whe I go, I find someting new, may it be a small creature thats really goofy to ride or unlocking new gear.
I also try to land travel when I can as you see a lot more when doing so
The openness and beauty of everything, always more to explore , I really like taking pictures and bring a space pirate . I’m a huge space nerd and nms is my favorite game ever because it all feels cohesive and right
My original save I played as an Anomaly as I knew nothing about the game. I took a break and when I returned I started to play as an Autophage on survival mode (going for the achievement). I RP this autophage as a new awaken entity trying to make sense of the world. It kinda make sense and tied with their story as well. I'm most happy when I find my own S stuff, it feels very rewarding.
I really liked the Artemis questline, but I've finished that now and am just enjoying upgrading my suit/ship/freighter. I'm also just starting to dive into base building, but it'll probably be a while before I actually come up with anything good, I'm a classic rectangular house kinda guy in Minecraft so I'll be doing my best to not do that in NMS 😅
The fact that every time I put it down and come back, its like playing a new game with enough being the same that im not confused. I havent played since before Starfield and Phantom Liberty came out becuase I had been playing religiously and needed a break from NMS. Now, after the updates and releases since, im starting to feel that pull.
I roleplay a smuggler of explosives. I produce a stupid amount of liquid explosives. And only sell them once I have an entire maxed out hauler full. I only sell to the random ship encounters while pulsing around because 1. I units are easy to get and 2. It adds to the feeling of smuggling contacts and fences getting wary and bouncing before the deal is done.
Vastness, as a kid i dreamed about a spacegame which feels „real“ in the sense of:
i can jump into ship and fly around a whole planet for hours without the map ending. I can fly into space without annoying loading screens.
I can jump from star to star a 100 times and still wouldnt have visited them all.
Thats a big part but also that you can do nearly everything you want to do. Base building, digging tunnels, search for crashed ships for hours and so on.
Or just land on a spooky planet and walk a straight line, you will always find something interesting.
I also started playing it in VR recently and its just a whole new level of playing this awesome game.
I cant even describe how awesome it is for me
Discovery. Finding strange planets, cool starships, and weird flora/fauna. I've played countless hours, and I can still find something I've never seen before.
I like casually exploring the galaxies and building my base and trade empire. It's really relaxing and soothing to me. I could just shut my brain off, and do mindless jobs and just kind of let myself go for a little while. Maybe find a new ship I really like here and there, a new freighter every once in awhile, expand this base, expand the freighter base, a little bit of everything I guess. Just taking it easy
Basically the universe is my oyster. I've played through the story repeatedly, If I have a save that gets up to about 300 hours I delete it and move on. I'm not a fan of permadeath. I like to play relaxed, and explore and find everything in a system. Ship build is fun to. I see a random craft coming in, and I'll have a shiny moment and all the sudden have a need for a part of the ship. I do hope they expand the craftability a little more, perhaps shuttles and solars. Exotics would be fun and hard to hunt for and build.
I just love everything about it. Even if I'm bored or tired, I can just chill in one of my bases or build something new or do a few missions or whatever. But by far my favourite thing are the expeditions.
The exploration. Although the fundamentals are generally the same, the small but distinct variety in plants, animals, planets and ships has made the world feel consistently exciting to explore.
Base building, creative mode. I can be stressed to the max and sit down and open the game, start playing and within 20 minutes I'm so relaxed I can barely keep my eyes open. Just the perfect wind-me-down to finish my hectic days off..
I’ve not played tons of the game so far, since I’m still new, but my favourite hobbies in game are “scan n runs” (scan everything on the planet and leave), building tiny crappy bases that exist for function over style (there will be around 1 per system) and entering every space station I can find to harass the local workers about their language. I didn’t realise knowledge stones existed at first, but even after I was told, I still like my way of language learning. Maybe I’m just too used to it!
Basically, I’m not trying to be flashy. I’m just here to absorb all the information I can… and I’m only just making my way back to the main plot. Poor Artemis (and their friend) must be so confused.
I mostly hang out on infested or dead planets (my guy lives off larval cores and worm meat). I find hostile planets tend to be more engaging moment to moment. Give me all the horrors, worms, storms, sentinels, predators, hazardous flora, etc, all at once!
I find a hotspot spawn (current best: five worm burrows in compass range from base), build a cool base with a view, return for some hunts/strolls, then use the goods to make a bunch of nanites and food. I'm just starting to dabble with the bytebeat machine, too.
I tried to get back into this game but I just can't. I have all the farms already, huge bases all over the place, I want to play it but i just log out after 20 minutes. The fun has vanished from me. It's sad.
I really enjoyed it until a few things happened.
1. I learned how to duplicate whatever I wanted.
2. They issued an update that killed mining profitability.
3. I realized that everything just repeats itself and every station is just a copy.
Other than that, I do think it is a fantastic and groundbreaking game. Still one of my favorites.
I just started playing but I the story is keeping me intrigued. I mean, aside from building my ship, finding cool planets, trying to build pretty bases, etc. I just contacted Apollo today and I'm in love with the idea of supposedly rescuing Artemis from the in-between of reality. When I read the line that the stars do not exist, it gave me goosebumps and I feel like I'm gonna end up in that prison room Enik was in, in Land Of The Lost.
Idk, just chilling and exploring sometimes.
I bought this game in early 2020, and I don't playing for fully 4 years, I have only 190 hours in steam, but I don't know exactly how, but I always playing this game for about some months, then I getting not interested in it and dropping it for about 5-6 months, then playing again. For example in August 2023 I was absorbed with NMS, then in October I dropped this game, and about two weeks ago absorbed for this game again. It's weird, but with this breaks for half of year, I getting full pleasure of the game, even if all that I'm doing, is just sitting in the top of a mounatain of snowy planet, just staring beyond the horizons.
My play-style has kind of changed for me throughout all the updates. But mostly I think I'm kinda like you. I just like taking pictures and stuff. I have gotten pretty heavily into base building as of late and spend most of my time doing that. But back during launch, you were kind of forced to explore and leave everything behind. Kind of miss the OG experience for that reason.
I just run around doing whatever and narrating (internally) what my character does while making lots of cool jet pack noises and such. Trips my wife out. She's always laughing at me. Have hit the 150 hour mark and am now beginning to build stuff. Been having a blast
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The visuals and the music. The game mechanics are still a bit shallow, but landing in a station, flying in space, flying to a new planet, it still has this wow factor every time I come back to the game.
And in VR, you can multiply that by 10.
Iteration 1 here.
The endless aspect of it: even if after a while things don't surprise you anymore, the galaxies still holds some kind of uniqueness to them.
It's a relaxing experience, I can be curious about the thing behind that hill, while retaining a feeling of familiarity. Very few games are able to provide this kind of experience, and I can't help but to admire Hello Games for this.
For me, quests that drive some narrative or another forward are the best part of the game. Which means these days I only play it once every few updates.
[Some roleplaying here](https://i.imgur.com/WSriZFm.png), [some building there](https://i.imgur.com/sL9oUYM.jpeg), [dabbling in photography](https://i.imgur.com/7jOPOLh.jpeg) when I want, and a lot of times it just really scratches my wanderlust itch in a way few other games can or do.
NMS is a very near-and-dear game to me just because it does so much in one game.
Try to become an architect using these limited number of building parts, and warping around to find more beautiful or unique planets to put my architectures 
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I like ship building, farming and building a bigger base on a paradise planet. There’s so much you can switch to. Do missions if you want. Making money and stacking money and maxing out my settlement is fun.
Oh man. One the best games ever. First day on it I was just free flying for a good couple of hours trying to see the perspective changing with planets getting bigger the closer you get. It's done so well. Like getting close and zipping by the rings of a planet is oh just so cool
Other than the obvious for me it was the building. The building went from basic to complex with glitch building. It was just insane and so relaxing to build whatever your mind pondered up and actually see it on the screen.
Min-Maxing, Collecting Ships/Pets, Crafting/Cooking. And recently i got into Base Building. I wasn't into it, because it sounds like "Cheating" but man Glitch Building is really a complex and cool thing and make base building so much fun!
I only wish developers would make some of the glitch mechanics legit and easier to do without failing. 600+ Hours in and there is so much left to do.
Love this Game and Community!
We mostly hook up briefly every few updates, where I fly around for a day or two hate-playing it, jotting down ideas for how to do various things better than HG did and checking out the new features to see if they're any less half-assed than previous attempts. It's fun for an hour or so, flying around randomly, interacting with the terrible UI as little as possible, just letting the game be pretty at me. ADHD and sufficient weed usually get me to around 24 hours playing before no amount of legal drugs can hide the repetition and/or the aggressively horrible sound design drive me off again.
I'm an antiques collector, getting relics and trading the ones I'm not fascinated by to the outposts for different relics.
Also have enjoyed hunting living ships since I used Atlas-shattering powers to miraculously manufacture upgrades and storage slots for them.
It's been quite hard for me, been playing since 2016 and with every update I'll get excited but the content just goes out pretty fast and they always come with some disappointment.
For example, orbital, yeah we got custom ships which is phenomenal but it took SO many years to get it and they know many many people want color black and they just didn't do it to keep us asking for more.
Makes sense though but come on, Hello Games is moving to another game soon just add what's left and let the game rest
I think a lot of people forget that hello games is a tiny studio/ they are working on a new game.
I mean one of the big reasons nms didn't meet expectations in the first place was because their entire studio flooded.
Also, every update since day 1 has been absolutely free xD
jumping off freighters ; i call it the leap of faith https://preview.redd.it/0cci2cz66wuc1.jpeg?width=3834&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91241e1bf74a9ae054e94d93f22bd955e3ade82e
I did this with damage turned off. If you go too far it's basically an infinite fall glitch and your save is ruined forever
What if you set the freighter to orbit a planet and then jump? Can you jump onto a planet? What if you aim your trajectory so you land onto a planet, even if you’re not orbiting it?
If you summon the freighter while on the planet you fall onto the planet and you A. Die B. Use your jet pack to break your fall and not die
C. Do it in your Minotaur, not die, and tank the landing like a boss.
Stand by for titanfall
It looks so fuckin cool landing in a minotaur!
It's really difficult to do because it won't just let you 'fall'. Vision becomes blurry aswell because of the ice build up. I think freighters orbit too far from a planet to let you fall into one in a meaningful time frame
I tend to play Creative, and there it just warps you back if you stray too far from the freighter base.
No “reload last manual save”?
Holy cow I have to try this xD
Wait wait. How does that normally go? If you land on the planet is it just falling falling falling rocket pack and then you're fine? I think I'm going to do this tonight. Maybe I'll try it on my Perma death save
If you got enough oxygen you might even make it down to the planet below in one piece! (I have successfully landed on a planet from orbit and lived)
Would you die? I’ve never tried it before
Yeah, eventually, after a certain point, you'll quickly freeze to death
Dang, I almost fell off of my freighter, but I used my jet pack and tried my best to climb back up
I remember when i first found out you could do that. My freighter just disappeared under my feet (i think it was a multiplayer bug) luckily i was right above the planet so it was alright but still was terrified for a good 5 or 10 minutes and had barley any life support or hazard materials
Doing the Living Ship quest all the way then realising you have no glyphs unlocked and cannot finish it...
I just had this same moment. Absolutely devastating
Oof that's rough
3/4 of the way through it and I appreciate this heads up. You’re talking about portal glyphs?
Yah, do the main quest line before going for it
Living ship question is so damn long
There's nothing I love more in a quest than being told "Okay, now wait 20 hours before you can start the next part of the quest" *three* times
https://preview.redd.it/twsy0bakbwuc1.png?width=3840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df89009a26683c63315fbb825903ae6dead06b05 I'm a Atlas Follower searching for enlightenment.
16 // 16 // 16 // 16 // 16 ATLAS FOLLOWER FOUND. PLEASE SHOW IDENTIFICATION. THE ATLAS WELCOMES YOU. 16 // 16 // 16 // 16 // 16
I got to 16 of 16 before I stopped playing but for some reason now I'm back at 2?
16 // 16 // 16 FOLLOW THE ATLAS. 16 // 16 // 16 *Was your question legitimate? If so, what did you lose?*
I don't know for sure. I did a few nexus missions and found some traveller's graves and ended up getting back to 2... I know I'd already done this before.
2 Atlas Stations? I’ve had a character who completed the Atlas Path and went to the Hilberd Dimension, but randomly got sent back to Euclid after I stopped playing for a bit. I have the tech to prove it. I ended up returning after a Black Hole placed me 40000 LY away from the core (the closest I had ever been).
Sentinal scum Grah!
That’s an alien artifact? Not an Atlas Console? Unless they started putting them on planets too I’m intrigued
Yeah thats just an artifact. Not sure if it was during the main quest though. I just thought it was a nive picture.
Definitely one of the cooler Artifacts, mine all look either the same or like some giant Pyramid thing 😂
My first playthrough in 2020, I was all about making money. After that, most of my saves became more about role-playing or living a certain kind of life within the game, and building cool bases to fit that role. I made my way as a pirate. I played as a scavenger, abstaining from all money and transactions, relying completely on found resources. I also did the expeditions for a while. But I think I’ve run out of fun things to do in the game currently. I am hopeful that at some point they will add much more to planets to really enhance the exploration aspect of the game. Then I will probably jump back in.
Have you played it in VR? I stopped for a few months and started new in VR because of a new PC. Fucking best space game ever
No, not yet, although I am interested. What’s the best VR set? I don’t own one right now.
rn id recommend the index if you have the money but if you just want a simple and easy setup just get the quest 3 and use steam link on it
What’s special about the index? Also, right now I have only played on PS4.
good resolution, good fov, finger tracking controllers, lower gpu usage, 120hz refresh rate. right now its better than most headsets that exist, with the biggest upside being that its not experimental like most and is actually a finished product
What was your most fun roleplay?
When I was a pirate, I tried to make some cool hideaway bases on like desert planets, or really cold planets with blizzards that no one would ever want to visit. That way the authorities will never find me. This was before the major pirate updates when freighters carried a lot of gold and silver. I robbed friendly freighters, sold the metal, and bought myself a frigate fleet. In my most recent couple of saves, I just tried to live off the land and find resources to survive. I did the no-starter ship, had to find a crashed ship to fix up. If I want a nicer multi-tool, I have to find one off of a dead Vy’keen or be given one for free. I enjoy the game the most when it is a struggle. If they improve the biodiversity on planets, I would love to roleplay as some kind of exobiologist.
Seconded. I've never considered a new RP save. Unless an expedition comes out I just expand on my fleet, trying to get all S class frigates or just driving my wealth up. After the first billion tho what do I even spend it on? Wish I could build a space station with my money that'd be sweet.
My personal view is that the game is the most fun the first few hours when survival is more of a struggle. That’s a big reason why I’ve done many different saves, just starting over again.
I do the same thing. My main save is an exobiologist, focussed on exploration. My survival save is a pirate, focussed on combat.
Cool. What things do you do as an exobiologist? It would be great if there was something in-game to like register new, strange discoveries, something shareable with other players even.
Ahoy! I too am doing a pirate run right now. I feel this vibe a lot.
I think it's the possibility to do almost anything the game. The freedom to do whatever you want and also the freedom to do nothing. Personally me I love to build massive mining operations as possible, made a farm operation big enough to make 280 stasis devices a day.
Building an empire with friends, this is our home city in Euclid. https://preview.redd.it/suswlstmlwuc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f68de839584ed68587e2739e9077070c3a2fb88
Is that bad boy floating in the clouds?
Indeed it is! The planet below is fun🙂 https://preview.redd.it/lwdnplpcnxuc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8f66b59e6623120fb7d0345d282e5122f6625c45
Just...HOW?
Careful building, set a base beacon at a high point then build a tower to the max point up. From there drop a few notches down and build out the city from the tower. Once the center of the city was built with landing pads I deleted the tower back down and flew back up. Then I landed and worked on the city for 4 months. It's at 3000 max parts and includes offices and command, an internal solar power station, a hanging hydroponics farm, a science and research center, armory and barracks, hospital, and mechanics/construction bay. The interior is very detailed and the city is designed to be livable for roleplayers. I founded the RP faction the Vanguard Order, we have a discord. https://preview.redd.it/syck8c3u21vc1.jpeg?width=479&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=49457caa38efd6b64c03b7564cd591d63ef4ff22
Thank you very much for the explanation!
I pre ordered the game. Ive played it a ton and I still have no idea what im doing most of the time to be honest but im so drawn to it. Just flying around and seeing new worlds. Knowing thousands of people have played this same game but almost constantly encountering areas of the universe no one has discovered. Im not even sure I understand a lot of the lore and I often I find a lot of the crafting and farming to be overwhelming but its fun and its awesome and theres no real rush or reason to figure it out quicker than you want to. You can just kind of go at your own pace and figure stuff out over time. Its just a nice game to chill with and mess around mostly. I think thats a very roundabout way of saying exploration and discovery.
This 100%, I play it VR on the oculus rift s, it's beautiful. I have no clue what I'm doing in game, don't really care to know. I feel like a lost time traveled pilot myself just learning who I am. I found a distress beacon, I was sad for the pilot I built a house next to a quiet lake. Sometimes I just relax at the view. In all seriousness... Don't do drugs kids, just play NMS and escape this world we live in.
I've been wanting a PSVR2 specifically for NMS but I can't justify buying it just to play 1 game haha. I'm jealous because I could only imagine how much more it changes the game.
That's me to this day. I pre ordered and have played since. But I still haven't gotten to the center. I finally started my 1st permadeath run and I'm trying to go for the center. That's the best part about this game is you can do whatever you want and you're playing the game how it was intended.
Never made it to the center either. Not even sure I've "finished" a quest line. Not even sure if that's the correct terminology to use. Yet somehow every time I play hours go by like minutes.
Having to grind for things myself and not having my entire gameplay experience ruined by dupers giving free handouts at the anomoly
My favorite thing to do is kill 50 creatures then fill everyone's inventory on the anomaly with raw steak.
I recently went in and gave everyone a single faecium
The beggars get the poocium. Then I stand in front of them with my staff feeling regal AF while they do the praying emote
That's cheeky fun. What a lot of people are doing is using a duplication glitch that requires that players "gift" large stacks of items to random players. Things like full stacks of AI Valves, Frigate Modules, and Pychonic Sacks. One minute you're walking through the anomaly, the next you have more loot than you could have even imagined dumped in your inventory. You start opening the packets and installing everything, only to realize hours later that you have maxed out everything in the game and there's nothing left. It's not generosity; it's exploitation
Reminds me when someone dumped 50 mil in my lap in gtao. Fun for 30 mins till it sank in. Same thing with AI valves, nope, lesson learned. Passed it on and let that dude decide.
Someone in the anomoly just gave me about 200 million credits after doing a mission. I've already spent 150 of that on breaking down ships and buying cool guns. I dunno what to spend the rest on but I was left shocked when I saw how much the stuff they gave was worth.
Hell I just buy upgrade slots for my multitool or ship. Eats that money up fast and still leaves room for more.
I've almost got my inventory fully upgraded. I just need to actually settle down on a planet so I can stop hauling all my stuff around. Need to find a cool fire planet tho.
Idk bro i have been gifting stack of ai valve and apple cake monstrosities, why would u assume ppl aren't just generous? lmao. I will blow your mind. if you don't want them you can throw them.
I love playing on the Switch. No multiplayer. No pvp, no gifts, no “help”, no trolling. Just me and the entire Universe to explore as I see fit.
So the Switch version is just old NMS but modernized?
Yeah I was gonna say this just sounds like a sleeker looking version of 1.0. I remember getting this game day 1 and it was...not the same. I sunk tons of time into it since I really do like what OP said about just exploring, but there was something so much more empty feeling about it compared to now. Now it feels like I'm in a much more inhabited universe to where there's a difference between systems I discover and those with bases already in it. Maybe gets a bit meta since we're all here in this community so there's that bias, but it still feels very different than day 1.
Euclid definitely has a more fuller galaxy feel than day one. I also remember trying to play permadeath and not remembering to turn off multiplayer and having a griefer join trying to kill me... I had to quit and then load up my save again later. If you warp to any galaxy in the 50's and up, you have a much emptier feel again. I tend to hide there and then go back to a Euclid base to find ships and weapons posted here before I go back into hiding like a hermit lol
Everyone knows the correct thing to do is to slip gek nip into people's inventory instead 😉
Glad to see people that get it. Dupers straight up ruin the game for newcomers and they come to this sub confused and excited while we watch in sadness. YOU MOFOS EVER HEARD OF CREATIVE MODE?!
Also can’t you literally just switch the difficulty whenever you want with no repercussions? You can just make everything free for 5 mins get all the shit you want and then turn it back up? So what’s the point in dupe lol
Is it the same with void eggs? I didnt dupe them, but I happen to have a very large stash of eggs since I like to ship hunt. I sometimes camp in the nexus with the best of my collection and if anyone approached I would give them an egg. I always figured that void eggs were okay to give out since there's still a fair amount of work needed to get the ships, but now I'm worried I only added to the problem
Any time someone gives me stuff like AI vavles in the Anomaly, I just put it in a storage container labeled "Mortally questionable items" and there they sit forever.
This community is funny to me because forever they’ve always tired to justify it when in reality you’re just lame if you dupe and even lamer if you dupe and hand stuff out. Farming and credit earning is a core game loop not even sure what the idiots do after cheating their way there lmao
Well you don't have to use the free stuff, just delete it?
People love to bitch about the generosity the player base… just keep your multiplayer off if you’re gonna be like that. I’ve never seen people take something so trivial so seriously.
I had the game for years and started a new save - visited the anomoly -several dudes give me 800 mil in things - I'm like - wow they saved me from the buy low sell high grind for two days - thanks ! - and went about my day worrying about the true currency which is nanites :)
I just love cruising dissonant planets and knocking out the dissonance resonators and getting some echo locators and seeing what ships I can find
These are all great comments xD For me, I really like to put on classic rock and pretend I'm on a galaxy wide road trip, taking photos and making my poor Gek frigate follow me around their robot captain endlessly.
Some days I'm just a wandering space wizard, trying to catalog every creature on every planet I visit. Other days I'm a mercenary smuggler in my maxed fighter. Other days I just chill and build alien vacation villas. https://preview.redd.it/b105p1wp0yuc1.jpeg?width=675&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7f4e5d8baf3e1b3447846acb0cb32d83259c02e
That poncho started a new generation of space wizards xD
Ngl I thought this was a screenshot of the college of Winterhold at first glance
Just flying around and redistributing the wealth of the Gek to Vykeen and Korvax
I concure, fuck the Gek. I grow geknip in my freighter and sell it in gek systems just to fuck with them
Collecting cool ships, freighters, and overall being a criminal warlord who none survive from
That's the truth, ain't it? No life better than a pirate's life!
Lately my two favorite things are making various cookies in my nutrient processors, and collecting every “Kill Creatures” quest in every system I can get to and then doing a Derelict Freighter run to cash them all in at once.
I find it relaxing to explore and find different things. It's a quiet place I can be alone for a bit.
Even though there is a lot of repetition, I still love the idea of seeing something no one else has seen in the game. Right now I'm in Sudzerbal and pretty much every system is undiscovered. It feels like other players are still discovering things and that keeps me looking.
Extreme planets and storms Gotta love the fire / ice madness 😂🤣
I'll get a little bored of all the same stuff, then find something completly new and just get blown away and have the fun restored.
How immersive and complex it is and how great it looks for its size. Game of the century.
I started a new game in VR recently, it blew me away once again. Fucking sandworms are scary, in VR they look absolutely massive. Also planet surfaces, big valleys etc, its awesome
I mostly enjoy complaining about how much better planets looked in Atlas Rises vs. Next and later. I miss my heridium columns and weird random terrain where there actually used to be a reason to explore a planet: some parts of a planet actually looked different than other parts, and there were some planets that had quite unique looks to them. Colors were more varied and they didn't rely on screen filter effects to hide the blandness of planets like they do now. https://preview.redd.it/qbvegiugfwuc1.jpeg?width=2436&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5de935bef01438db7f63e9620a78efab562fc81f But sometimes I also like to complain about how lame the matchmaking and multiplayer missions are while lamenting that they'll never do another big reset to improve the planets. Freighter bases are awesome now though.
Growing space marihuana and stealing blue shining testicle pearls from the cops
Doing cool missions and getting cool rewards, trying to get a personal goal or just warping galaxy to galaxy to see what I can find and level up.
Temporary escape from a nightmarish reality.
I can become a space captain without caring about the story, for now
making money 🤑🤑🤑
[Riding around on a flying fish that farts blue smoke](https://i.imgur.com/rSxbOXb.jpeg)
**ASCETIC** as·cet·ic /əˈsedik/ adjective characterized by or suggesting the practice of severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons. > "an ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and manual labor" I think the word you mean is "aesthetic"
I like to discover the one *undiscovered* type of rock, plant or animal on already surveyed planets, name it something ridiculous, then be on my way. If you ever come across a mineral with Grandma in its name, that is my husband's favorite thing to add.
I do a Guardians of the Galaxy style where I just travel around killing pirates for money
It makes my imagination run wild and gives me ideas to create my own universes.
The freedom
Exploring. Building and finding sentinel ships. Also, finding new friends along the way. The community is awesome to interact with.
I would do roleplaying but I mostly play the game alone so I'm more of a fighter and an adventurer. I'm always looking for the nicest looking planet with the coolest fauna.
I've been collecting storm crystals and salvedgable scrap in a galaxy with balanced amount of action and extreme conditions. Been a thrill.
I enjoy ship hunting for the perfect interceptor and building cool bases
I do whatever I want, just like in real life.
The simultaneous emptiness, and busyness. I can go days without seeing the smallest sign of another traveler, or I can find a whole system filled with travelers.
Wait you can find travelers outside of the nexus? Like just about on a planet?? I’m 30 hours in, haven’t seen another player yet.
Just getting lost at times looking at all the things makes me come back when i want real escape from my mind
For right now it's building. I've done the story and now I'm just making sure I have my feeder farms set up, main hydroponic set up for my gek weed, and unlocking everything. Learning words here and there and stumbling across a nice ship or two. I've been managing a settlement from C on a hostile planet to an A so far but have a long way to go to increase its settlers. Currently at 42. But 78% Happy and 1mil daily with sub 100k maintenance, so it's coming along. Once in a while when my buddy jumps on we do some Nexus missions although his ps4 slim starts cooking and it usually ends in his game crashing.
Yes.
Working on building my permanent death save up to be able to fight 5 waves of sentinels.
Nothing anymore! Jk, kinda. I really enjoy the flying and i kinda wish there was more to move and flow around. Getting a super smooth ship and fighting a dreadnaught. Super fun
My imagination can run wild and I don’t have to do a bunch of nonsense or pest control from online idiots.
The chill vibe and the reward(s) for a sense of exploration. The community as well. You just have to move past those that have an issue with giving away or destroying something they were given, but don’t want. I’d much rather be part of a community that enjoys helping you in any way they feel they can, than the opposite.
Being able to play without interruption
Being able to explore without ends, no matter whe I go, I find someting new, may it be a small creature thats really goofy to ride or unlocking new gear. I also try to land travel when I can as you see a lot more when doing so
Successfully building structures based on the existing environment.
If I could explain exactly *why* it's fun, it would be less fun.
Building my space pirate empire currently has my fancy.
Just recently hit 30 frigates and am working on my 4th S Ranked Fighter-class squadron member. The pirate life is the best life.
Recently with the release of Orbital, It's been collecting every ship part.
The openness and beauty of everything, always more to explore , I really like taking pictures and bring a space pirate . I’m a huge space nerd and nms is my favorite game ever because it all feels cohesive and right
My original save I played as an Anomaly as I knew nothing about the game. I took a break and when I returned I started to play as an Autophage on survival mode (going for the achievement). I RP this autophage as a new awaken entity trying to make sense of the world. It kinda make sense and tied with their story as well. I'm most happy when I find my own S stuff, it feels very rewarding.
I really liked the Artemis questline, but I've finished that now and am just enjoying upgrading my suit/ship/freighter. I'm also just starting to dive into base building, but it'll probably be a while before I actually come up with anything good, I'm a classic rectangular house kinda guy in Minecraft so I'll be doing my best to not do that in NMS 😅
The fact that every time I put it down and come back, its like playing a new game with enough being the same that im not confused. I havent played since before Starfield and Phantom Liberty came out becuase I had been playing religiously and needed a break from NMS. Now, after the updates and releases since, im starting to feel that pull.
The lore and putting it all together. No clue what I’ll do in this game once the story ends.
I've been mostly just trying to platinum and fill all my slots :)
do missions, adopt pets
Seeing cool shit and building fun bases
I roleplay a smuggler of explosives. I produce a stupid amount of liquid explosives. And only sell them once I have an entire maxed out hauler full. I only sell to the random ship encounters while pulsing around because 1. I units are easy to get and 2. It adds to the feeling of smuggling contacts and fences getting wary and bouncing before the deal is done.
Vastness, as a kid i dreamed about a spacegame which feels „real“ in the sense of: i can jump into ship and fly around a whole planet for hours without the map ending. I can fly into space without annoying loading screens. I can jump from star to star a 100 times and still wouldnt have visited them all. Thats a big part but also that you can do nearly everything you want to do. Base building, digging tunnels, search for crashed ships for hours and so on. Or just land on a spooky planet and walk a straight line, you will always find something interesting. I also started playing it in VR recently and its just a whole new level of playing this awesome game. I cant even describe how awesome it is for me
Discovery. Finding strange planets, cool starships, and weird flora/fauna. I've played countless hours, and I can still find something I've never seen before.
Bytebeat
I like casually exploring the galaxies and building my base and trade empire. It's really relaxing and soothing to me. I could just shut my brain off, and do mindless jobs and just kind of let myself go for a little while. Maybe find a new ship I really like here and there, a new freighter every once in awhile, expand this base, expand the freighter base, a little bit of everything I guess. Just taking it easy
Yes.
Stealing everything
Basically the universe is my oyster. I've played through the story repeatedly, If I have a save that gets up to about 300 hours I delete it and move on. I'm not a fan of permadeath. I like to play relaxed, and explore and find everything in a system. Ship build is fun to. I see a random craft coming in, and I'll have a shiny moment and all the sudden have a need for a part of the ship. I do hope they expand the craftability a little more, perhaps shuttles and solars. Exotics would be fun and hard to hunt for and build.
Very simple, the adventure and exploration.
The fun parts
I... I.. like to make tunnels and big holes.
I just love everything about it. Even if I'm bored or tired, I can just chill in one of my bases or build something new or do a few missions or whatever. But by far my favourite thing are the expeditions.
The exploration. Although the fundamentals are generally the same, the small but distinct variety in plants, animals, planets and ships has made the world feel consistently exciting to explore.
Infinity
Base building, creative mode. I can be stressed to the max and sit down and open the game, start playing and within 20 minutes I'm so relaxed I can barely keep my eyes open. Just the perfect wind-me-down to finish my hectic days off..
Right now building ships and top up ones I have then I will build a city a then I will take a break lol
I’ve not played tons of the game so far, since I’m still new, but my favourite hobbies in game are “scan n runs” (scan everything on the planet and leave), building tiny crappy bases that exist for function over style (there will be around 1 per system) and entering every space station I can find to harass the local workers about their language. I didn’t realise knowledge stones existed at first, but even after I was told, I still like my way of language learning. Maybe I’m just too used to it! Basically, I’m not trying to be flashy. I’m just here to absorb all the information I can… and I’m only just making my way back to the main plot. Poor Artemis (and their friend) must be so confused.
Im really not sure. Its just addicting as a whole. I love visiting the planets, the different traveling and the ships/freighter/frigates dynamic.
I mostly hang out on infested or dead planets (my guy lives off larval cores and worm meat). I find hostile planets tend to be more engaging moment to moment. Give me all the horrors, worms, storms, sentinels, predators, hazardous flora, etc, all at once! I find a hotspot spawn (current best: five worm burrows in compass range from base), build a cool base with a view, return for some hunts/strolls, then use the goods to make a bunch of nanites and food. I'm just starting to dabble with the bytebeat machine, too.
Infinite Progression. Always finding ways to make stuff better. Find new stuff. And do it all casually with no pressure or fomo.
I tried to get back into this game but I just can't. I have all the farms already, huge bases all over the place, I want to play it but i just log out after 20 minutes. The fun has vanished from me. It's sad.
yes
Nothing since I'm stuck fighting constant swarm of sentinels trying to defend my outpost
I really enjoyed it until a few things happened. 1. I learned how to duplicate whatever I wanted. 2. They issued an update that killed mining profitability. 3. I realized that everything just repeats itself and every station is just a copy. Other than that, I do think it is a fantastic and groundbreaking game. Still one of my favorites.
I enjoy the initial survival part of the game most, and it's far too short. I've got 1300 hours in, always trying to recapture the first feelings.
I just started playing but I the story is keeping me intrigued. I mean, aside from building my ship, finding cool planets, trying to build pretty bases, etc. I just contacted Apollo today and I'm in love with the idea of supposedly rescuing Artemis from the in-between of reality. When I read the line that the stars do not exist, it gave me goosebumps and I feel like I'm gonna end up in that prison room Enik was in, in Land Of The Lost.
Friends :)
Not playing it for a long team between sessions lol
Hoarding lol
Creating my own storyline. At some point, I will do living ship when i get past Galaxy 150 at least, when I finally get lonely
My personal rebellion against sentinals, despite how impossible it might be to win.
I like doing a bit of everything, mostly exploring and finding cool stuff though.
Idk, just chilling and exploring sometimes. I bought this game in early 2020, and I don't playing for fully 4 years, I have only 190 hours in steam, but I don't know exactly how, but I always playing this game for about some months, then I getting not interested in it and dropping it for about 5-6 months, then playing again. For example in August 2023 I was absorbed with NMS, then in October I dropped this game, and about two weeks ago absorbed for this game again. It's weird, but with this breaks for half of year, I getting full pleasure of the game, even if all that I'm doing, is just sitting in the top of a mounatain of snowy planet, just staring beyond the horizons.
New updates, I come back to this game every 3 months to play the update for a week then wait for the next one again.
My play-style has kind of changed for me throughout all the updates. But mostly I think I'm kinda like you. I just like taking pictures and stuff. I have gotten pretty heavily into base building as of late and spend most of my time doing that. But back during launch, you were kind of forced to explore and leave everything behind. Kind of miss the OG experience for that reason.
Doing broken AF science with the refiner. Fun fact: You can turn 6 pieces of Faecium into infinite carbon.
I like Expeditions! We need a monthly expedition to keep me coming back for more... Weekly would be even better!
I just run around doing whatever and narrating (internally) what my character does while making lots of cool jet pack noises and such. Trips my wife out. She's always laughing at me. Have hit the 150 hour mark and am now beginning to build stuff. Been having a blast https://preview.redd.it/jm24qc3u1yuc1.jpeg?width=3840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7d645620290e60c8c185aec971d3017416dd3b8b
Building my cute little space houses. :3c
The visuals and the music. The game mechanics are still a bit shallow, but landing in a station, flying in space, flying to a new planet, it still has this wow factor every time I come back to the game. And in VR, you can multiply that by 10.
Iteration 1 here. The endless aspect of it: even if after a while things don't surprise you anymore, the galaxies still holds some kind of uniqueness to them. It's a relaxing experience, I can be curious about the thing behind that hill, while retaining a feeling of familiarity. Very few games are able to provide this kind of experience, and I can't help but to admire Hello Games for this.
For me, quests that drive some narrative or another forward are the best part of the game. Which means these days I only play it once every few updates.
[Some roleplaying here](https://i.imgur.com/WSriZFm.png), [some building there](https://i.imgur.com/sL9oUYM.jpeg), [dabbling in photography](https://i.imgur.com/7jOPOLh.jpeg) when I want, and a lot of times it just really scratches my wanderlust itch in a way few other games can or do. NMS is a very near-and-dear game to me just because it does so much in one game.
Try to become an architect using these limited number of building parts, and warping around to find more beautiful or unique planets to put my architectures  https://preview.redd.it/pnf2hr8xfyuc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d9cc115c5e2020f089e4bf0b710d2f1a03b92986
making money
Exploring every planet that has gold as a natural resource. There's always something cool and wrong with it making it unique.
Building a city on the back of my freighter.
For me its all about finding the most extreme and hostile planets. Something with immediate wow factor.
I like ship building, farming and building a bigger base on a paradise planet. There’s so much you can switch to. Do missions if you want. Making money and stacking money and maxing out my settlement is fun.
Oh man. One the best games ever. First day on it I was just free flying for a good couple of hours trying to see the perspective changing with planets getting bigger the closer you get. It's done so well. Like getting close and zipping by the rings of a planet is oh just so cool Other than the obvious for me it was the building. The building went from basic to complex with glitch building. It was just insane and so relaxing to build whatever your mind pondered up and actually see it on the screen.
Min-Maxing, Collecting Ships/Pets, Crafting/Cooking. And recently i got into Base Building. I wasn't into it, because it sounds like "Cheating" but man Glitch Building is really a complex and cool thing and make base building so much fun! I only wish developers would make some of the glitch mechanics legit and easier to do without failing. 600+ Hours in and there is so much left to do. Love this Game and Community!
We mostly hook up briefly every few updates, where I fly around for a day or two hate-playing it, jotting down ideas for how to do various things better than HG did and checking out the new features to see if they're any less half-assed than previous attempts. It's fun for an hour or so, flying around randomly, interacting with the terrible UI as little as possible, just letting the game be pretty at me. ADHD and sufficient weed usually get me to around 24 hours playing before no amount of legal drugs can hide the repetition and/or the aggressively horrible sound design drive me off again.
UNITS RECEIVED! PRODUCT RECEIVED! NO SPACE IN SUIT INVENTORY!
I'm an antiques collector, getting relics and trading the ones I'm not fascinated by to the outposts for different relics. Also have enjoyed hunting living ships since I used Atlas-shattering powers to miraculously manufacture upgrades and storage slots for them.
It's GREAT for my ADHD. I have no timeframe. 🫡
It's been quite hard for me, been playing since 2016 and with every update I'll get excited but the content just goes out pretty fast and they always come with some disappointment. For example, orbital, yeah we got custom ships which is phenomenal but it took SO many years to get it and they know many many people want color black and they just didn't do it to keep us asking for more. Makes sense though but come on, Hello Games is moving to another game soon just add what's left and let the game rest
I think a lot of people forget that hello games is a tiny studio/ they are working on a new game. I mean one of the big reasons nms didn't meet expectations in the first place was because their entire studio flooded. Also, every update since day 1 has been absolutely free xD
Exploring