I’ve put in 15 hours or so into this latest patch and I have to tell you, it’s mildly annoying at best. Certainly not worth all the hate and nonsense. Two major things were noticeable to me in this patch. My jetpack fuel was definitely nerfed into the dirt and my ships were all jacked up.

I fixed my exosuit slots and aside from the jetpack fuel it doesn’t feel any different to me. I like the fall damage breaking stuff, its a neat little survival thing they added. I think I can live without being able to almost jet pack into space anymore.

Once I got my main ship reorganized the only bummer is my warp range was cut in half. My damage output went from killing stuff in 4 seconds….to killing stuff in 10 seconds. Hardly a difference. The warp distance nerf might actually make me work on my freighter finally and use it for travel. Not that bad. Since I’ve been living in the same neighborhood for 2 years I’m okay with losing 1500 light years off my max.

Multi tools are crazy buffed now since you can basically outfit one with everything and as far as damage output goes…they still shred everything. Not seeing an issue there. On foot combat being half of the reason you even min max mods anyway has remained unchanged in my opinion.

Basically we got easily the craziest buff to inventory space since launch and all it cost was a bit of jetpack fuel and warp distance….is that really worth all this anger? Also I’ve been here since launch and I see this as a new beginning. I think it’s easy to assume an overhaul on upgrades is probably in the works. Give it a minute. Geez.

I haven’t seen a guide for this that explains it good enough, so here we go.

1. Go to a space station and buy emergency cartographic charts.

2. Go into space and activate chart. If it reveals anything other than “Distress Beacon” don’t go to it. The charts will only find one building of each type at a time, so leaving an icon for each type will ensure you won’t find any more of those types.

3. If it reveals a distress beacon, go to it and get just close enough to see if there is an npc pilot. If there is, leave. If there isn’t, congrats you’ve found a claimable ship.

Leaving the distress beacon icon for the npc ship will guarantee the rest of the distress beacons will be claimable ships. So now that have all 4 icons you will only be able to find claimable ships with emergency cartographic data.

It seems that your current location within the system determines what the planetary chart will find(you’ll get a lot of “building of similar type already charted”), so pulse around repeatedly attempting to plot the data until it works.

Using this method you will find ship after ship, and can claim dozens within a short time. Return to the space station, salvage, rinse and repeat. Happy hunting!

I’m so surprised by No Man’s Sky on the Switch. It’s playable and not really all that limited. If, as Hello Games teased, multiplayer could get added, it would be an even more amazing feat.

Will I be sticking with Switch as the main driver for NMS? I’m not sure. It’s very serviceable though.

But, as I was looking into inspirations for No Man’s Sky today, I came across Elite. I had no idea, but Elite was ported to the NES. They had to do some work around in the cartridge. I know the OG Elite isn’t the same as games like Elite: Dangerous or No Man’s Sky…but man seeing 3D graphics on an NES (drawn wire frames) is interesting..and the game is still open ended and large in scope. It probably blew people’s minds!

I’m really happy Hello Games did port to the Switch. It’s a very nice way to dip my toes into this amazing, amazing game.