… And crashes a lot, and overheats the console. I knew the Switch was never gonna be the best place to get NMS, but I was very excited to finally own a copy, and I have no alternatives (no other consoles, not enough performance on my PC).

I was aware of the lack of multiplayer mode, and I accepted the idea to explore the game alone and never meet another player… But the deal breaker for me, the thing I discovered recently – and not many reviews care to mention, that’s why I didn’t know – is the lack of settlements. For me it’s a big deal, because I love science fiction and city building games, I was thrilled at the opportunity to manage a futuristic village on a planet of my choice… I also watched a lot of tutorials on how to glitch your base buildings into the settlements in preparation for when I’d find one.

But that will never happen, now I know. Now, I’m no game designer and as far my knowledge of programming goes, you could tell me “it’s magic” and I would believe it. But I see the Switch running stunning, fast paced and complex games with complex mechanics (from Bayonetta to Tears of the Kingdom and The Witcher 3) without ever crashing and very rarely glitching… why is there the need to cut a seemingly “easy” feature like settlements, of all things? I would expect more “taxing” features to be downgraded, such as the number of sentinels attacking all at once, the scenery spectacle during dogfights and the number of ships attacking you, etc., but those are all there – and that’s what usually crashes the game and/or overheats the console. I don’t get it. What else is missing from this version? Also, is there any chance we will get settlements on Switch? They said they wouldn’t give us capes, and eventually they did. Maybe there’s hope… Sorry for the long rant, I had to vent my frustration with the game, which I admittedly love nonetheless.

After doing the most recent expedition i returned to my most favourite past time: looking through every little smitch of lore to find out more about the upcomming storybeats.

I went around looking for some words from the autophages and doing their bigging when i came across one of those severed heads you can fix up. zjey said something about…forgotten moons of Korvax Prime? i was confusedm, not remmebering moons ever being mentionend.
I kept going, read more texts, learned words, translated more. I learned the word “moon” eventually, bringing me back to the text i read before and eventually i found it: one head spoke of the “scrapyard moons” and it hit me like a truck. The autophages rebuild themselves from the scraps and trash of the Korvax. Maybe they lived on it, being a somewhat seperate faction…shunned by her kin.
It explained why they all looked like…well build from trash. It almost made me tear up, especially thinking of how sad Nada seemed when thinking of them or the voidmother.

They were left by their maker, shunned by their kin and probably can’t even leave the planets they are on now (as it seems they have zero space pressence)

I hope I’m not interpreting all of this wrong but for now this is my understanding of it.
Its simply a tragedy.