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[wonko the sane?]

They're actually surprisingly survivable: You get the mine the eggs until the larval core pops out, grab it quick then either jetpack ONTO, or run INTO the abandoned building. And then you wait. Repeat until you've got a full stack (or two. I've found that two stacks tend to be the easy limit.) and two stacks is worth almost a million credits.

 

Edit: yeah. Mine the eggs one at a time. Trust me on this. I've bought starships this way.

Edited by wonko the sane?, 28 December 2018 - 09:17 PM.

[Coglestop]

Don't know if it still works, but you can also lay down a base computer and build walls around the nest and harvest several in one go while the bulk of the horrors are safely on the other side of the wall.

Trick is to digg up one egg and then jump out of the enclosure to hit the other nests.

Edited by Coglestop, 29 December 2018 - 05:09 PM.

[Rust]

 

Despite the visuals, the music on these planets is unnerving. Like wind blowing through corroded steel.

[tec]

Sometimes I miss this game

 

and sometimes I wish you could use the three main builds of the game

[Pocket]

Implying the visuals aren't also unnerving.

[Rust]

Implying the visuals aren't also unnerving.

 

It's actually one of the more normal looking Anomaly Worlds.

 

 

I mean, there's "Eldrich Horror Birthing" world.

[wonko the sane?]

Well, what's a world that experiencing a rip between realities supposed to look like? Because "unnerving" would be a good word to describe structures and beings that should not be.

[Rust]

In the end

Spoiler

they are the spasms of a dying AI. The creepiest part about them are what they ultimately represent.

 

So glad I finally went through and did the story missions of the game. Amazing how they worked their own troubled production into the narrative.

[Pocket]

 

Implying the visuals aren't also unnerving.

 

It's actually one of the more normal looking Anomaly Worlds.

 

 

I mean, there's "Eldrich Horror Birthing" world.

 

 

Reminds me of the structures that were proposed for marking the place where we bury nuclear waste, so future generations who can't read English instinctively know to avoid it.

[Coglestop]

New update dropped for NMS so I decided to fire it up again for the first time in months and quickly ran across my first ghostly world:

 

Just greys and reds, no other colors at all.

 

*edit* Haunted, not Ghostly

Edited by Coglestop, 15 August 2019 - 10:34 PM.

[wonko the sane?]

I saw the note that the next big update dropped. I've not read the notes yet, but I apparently need to.

[Coglestop]

Rather substantial list of changes.  Biggest things, outside of VR support is enhanced multiplayer with a new 32 player hub, a new tech-tree system for unlocking upgrade technology and new power systems for base building, oh and switching from OpenGL to Vulkan.

 

I think I may have found my new home system.  one Tropical world(with occasional super hot fog, unfortunately) one frozen tundra world and 3 boundary failure worlds.

[Rust]

I'm planning on hopping onto NMS tonight. The update dropped just as I picked up a game from my childhood of Steam, and I've finished that up now so I can look at No Man's Sky proper.

[wonko the sane?]

Yup, sounds like my game for the day. Although it's been an update a day at least since beyond dropped.

[Coglestop]

There are definitely some bugs, especially with the expanded space anomaly. Crashed twice while inside it and got stuck once while trying to dock with it last night.

You will have to go there to unlock the Nutrient Processor which is required for cooking and making the correct bait to take various creatures.

[Rust]

So my first impressions:

 

The Nexus I can take or leave

The UI improvements are amazing

The Ship UI Improvements are amazing

[Marduk]

Keep thinking of trying this again after my initial go-round set off all sorts of vertigo.  The new update might be the perfect place to relaunch a character.

 

The game is *so* pretty.

 

~Marduk

[tec]

did they add ship customization in?

[Coglestop]

Still no visual customization, but all the cockpits got a nice graphical overhaul.

[Rust]

 

I actually regret not setting down roots on this world. Closest thing to my Requiem that I've found. The world is colored a mustard yellow save for the area you are directly around. I named this area "The Faces" due to the rock formations. I contemplated putting a base down...but I was 1 jump away from completing The Purge quest. With Beyond live, it seemed appropriate to begin again...even if I wasn't, really.

 

I chose the Ancestral Galaxy option. I awake to find myself in the Budullangr Galaxy. Perhaps here I will find my Requiem.