Ever since we got the ocean update it was great, but with some base ideas and opening my eyes the oceans suck. First of all there ridiculously shallow if your going to make a specific excoraft for being underwater give it purpose because everybody can just buy 1 or 2 S class oxygen upgrades and you completely defeat the reason for having the nautilon thats why hello games should make the oceans vastly deeper to give better places to build bases and to give the nautilon purpose.

Secondly improve the wildlife and plants underwater every time I for some reason go into the oceans of a random planet I always see the same godamn stone or prism underwater I know this happens on land and yes its annoying to see the same animal or rock all the time. For the wildlife I recommend hello games take a look at some animals from barotrauma or subnautica for the simple reason of how big and vast the creatures are but also because the creatures of both of these animals give a sense of genuine fear and to not go close to said creature but in nms jellyfish simply dont cut it.

I think another reason to add this is to think of the possibilities of having long forgotten sentinel archives or crashed freighters in a pitch black while a creature roars in the distance, mabey adding another exocraft for exploring the deep meanwhile the nautalon is designed for shallow operations.

Anyways that’s what I think could be tweaked or added in an update that I think lots of base builders and players would greatly enjoy what do you guys think?

When I play NMS my mindset is not the same as playing other games (playing it in VR also), let me explain:

– Flying on my ship: I tend to not use pulse drive, or deactivate it on purpose when 1-2 minutes close to a planet, I never get tired of the whole landing process, and then get a view of the planet biome.

– Taking it slow: I’ve finished the main quest line about 3 times already, my current save file has been the longest, the first 2 times I rushed for money and I think that kinda made things dull (worst mistake I think, is to rush for money, even more now that you can just change game modes and get anything you want if you wish to do so), this time I took things slow and I’ve been enjoying the game a lot more, A LOT more, even tho right now I have more units than ever before, I never got in a tiresome grind loop, and I never needed to, this game is grindy only if you make it grindy to be honest, you don’t even need to grind for power since most common multi tools will be enough to fight sentinels and kill them all, and if you need a powerful enough ship to kill pirates with ease, just get a living ship and get some good pilots on your squad (tho they are never that good, but hey any help is good!).

– Ignore gifts: not because I’m not grateful (I do think people ingame are very kind) but it feels kinda wrong and breaks the purpose of playing the game, again doesn’t bother me now, but had I taken those gift to sell and get easy money, I wouldn’t have enjoyed the whole process.

– Use my best-looking ship instead of the best one: I just love how my interceptor looks, and it’s black and red! it’s nowhere as good as my living ship, but dang isn’t it cool? and they hover!

– Not rushing to the center: I’ve been slowly traveling to the center, I’ve found some neat planets in the process, my favorite ones are the frozen ones, forever christmas.

– I rather warp using my freight: IDK exactly why I like it more than using a ship, but there’s something special about it, it’s like a home after all.

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Over all my experience with the game since my mindset has been like this, it’s been night and day in comparison, I think my 2 previous save games have been useful as a way to realize what kind of game I was playing, I think remembering my times with minecraft helped me to see why I always came back into the game but never got to know exactly why, and now I realize it, just sit back and enjoy the universe at your own pace, nothing is rushing you to any goal at all, don’t do annoying things because you think the goal will be good, do things to enjoy them so you don’t have to do them the annoying way.

And this is I think the problem many people have, not blaming it on them btw, a game can’t appeal everyone, it’s not a game about goals and many gamers want goals, it’s a game about what you would want to do given a universe to explore, same thing you do in minecraft, explore, craft, build, enhance, and maybe get to the ender dragon and then the exit portal (I’ve never done that just because I never got interested on it, even after playing the game for years).

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Just wanted to share my experience with the game with you all, and also ask you for your experience, maybe I’m not that odd of a player and someone else out there also do the same things, or some of them, or maybe you enjoy the game doing the opposite, it would be interesting to know!

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