I needed cadmium for my first hyperdrive upgrade. I looked online and saw that cadmium was found on planets that orbit red stars. I opened the galaxy map and swapped filters to get a nice black background instead of the hazy red nebula that I was in to help me spot red stars. Every time I flew to a red star, it wouldn’t be red. Time after time after time I would warp and sigh because it wasn’t what I was looking for. For 4 hours over 2 days I searched for a red star. I found every color imaginable and saw some very cool planets, but no cadmium. I thought that maybe the systems were color coded in a different way so I googled how to find red stars in No Man’s Sky. There were no helpful results. Because nobody else had been so stupid.

After 5 hours searching I realized that I had been flipping the filter to “lifeform” to get rid of the red haze which changed the colors of the stars. According to the Steam achievement I ended up warping to more systems than 84% of players ever had. When I left the filter off I found cadmium on my first try.

I don’t even know how to feel. I’m glad I got cadmium but I am reconsidering if I’m cut out for space exploration.

I’d like to begin by saying how much joy this game has brought me over the last 40 or so hours.

Perhaps one day I’ll get bored once I feel like I’ve seen everything, but I just continue to be blown away by this game. The variety in systems, planets, flora and fauna (not to mention ships) is just outstanding.

I keep stopping every 15-20 mins to take a picture of another incredible view, whether its a new planet from afar, or a sunset from the surface, or even a weird carbon structure. All the planets feel and look so, so different, if only slightly, and even individual planets look and feel completely different depending on the time of day and weather. I absolutely love this about the game. The cave systems are also amazing, and the transition from surface to space and space to surface is so, so seamless. And even though I realize the game is procedural, and that fact is fairly obvious, it feels as though it has been done in a way that captures the spontaneous and infinite nature of the universe.

I don’t mean to gush, but I am truly blown away. On top of all I’ve said, the music, the NPCs, even the story has me totally gripped. There is something this game that has had a truly profound effect on me.

Thank you Hello Games.

P.S. Please add ship lights we can switch on and off, and please make it so the weather outside doesn’t appear to be inside the cockpit of our ships!

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.