Even in space I’m still playing with my Tonka Trucks. – Freighter Scrapyard – Euclid
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2023-03-27
These are some of the things I’ve discovered while playing, as well as information I’ve gathered from browsing and lurking this sub, among other places. Hopefully they’ll be useful to others.
General
Mission stacking
Money money money
Making upgrades better
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2022-08-29
With Frontiers and the sale, there’s probably a lot of new players coming to the game so I wanted to put together a list of some lesser known tips and tricks. Some of these may already be well known but a lot of them are either things that took me a long time to find out about, or things I see people asking about a lot. Some of these are probably gonna be useful to experienced players too. I’ll add more things to this thread over time.
Reply with your own tips and I’ll add some good ones to this post too!
The mining laser is faster the more it heats up. When you use the mining laser, the heat bar in the corner goes up and eventually the laser changes colour. For maximum efficiency, try to keep the heat bar almost full without overheating it. It will mine twice as fast this way.
The melee jetpack boost. This one’s been around since the game first came out so it’s probably more known but it may be worth mentioning for newer players. When you’re on the ground, if you melee and then immediately hold jump/jetpack, you get a significant forwards boost. This is probably the fastest way to move around without vehicles and it doesn’t require any upgrades.
You can refine oxygen to get carbon. By around mid to late game, you reach a point where you have so much money that you can bulk buy almost any of the main resources from trade terminals instead of having to mine or farm them. The one exception is carbon, which as far as I can tell never appears in trade terminals. However, you can just bulk buy oxygen and refine it into carbon.
Use the smallest terrain manipulator size for maximum resources. The number of resources you get from mining things with a terrain manipulator seems to be more based on time spent mining rather than the actual volume you mined. So by changing the size to the smallest, you can get far more resources from each ore deposit. ( This thread about this inspired me to make this post )
Use medium / large refiners to make resources that you don’t have blueprints for. This one is somewhat relevant to expedition 3 specifically. One of the objectives requires you to make herox but you don’t immediately have the recipe for it. However, some resources like herox can be made in refiners which do not require you to own the blueprint. A lot of these recipes can be found on the wiki.
The main story will unlock a lot of blueprints quickly. I know personally I mostly ignored the story when I started and just kind of did my own thing for a while but I got annoyed with how long it took to unlock certain base parts or equipment. But if you just follow the main storyline first, it will unlock a lot of important things for you far quicker than if you were to do it manually.
The first freighter you rescue is free. In the early game, you might come across NPC freighters which are very expensive to buy directly. But after traveling to a couple new star systems, you will eventually warp in to a pirate fight. If you save the freighter from pirates, you can get it for free. If you want an S class, you can just reload a manual save from before you warped into that system and repeat that fight until you get lucky and spawn a free S class freighter.
Use the space anomaly to escape space fights with pirates or sentinels. If you get in some space trouble, you will be stuck fighting for a while without the ability to pulse away. One simple way to get around this is just summoning the anomaly and entering it.
You can turn off PVP or multiplayer altogether in the settings. Going into the settings > network > multiplayer will give you options to turn off certain parts of online play. I would recommend at least turning off PVP and others editing your bases to prevent griefing. If you’re having issues with glitches / crashes, turning multiplayer off entirely may help. Nothing in this game actually requires multiplayer, though some aspects are more fun with it on.
Use the space station teleporter to save the station to your teleporter list. If you ever want to warp back to a certain star system again, simply fly into its space station and find the teleporter there. Just opening the teleporter menu will register the teleporter to your list and you will then be able to warp back to it from any other teleporter.
Using your jetpack against a vertical wall does not use up jetpack fuel. If you need to get out of a hole, just walk into the wall and boost up.
To save launch fuel, land on marked landing spots. This is not just landing pads, if you land on any landing spot that has the green circles, it won’t cost any launch fuel to lift off again.
You can teleport to any of your base computers, even if the base doesn’t have teleporters. If you just want to mark a cool place you want to return to in the future, just putting down a base computer is enough for you to later warp there with a teleporter.
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2021-09-11
I guess you could say I’m an OG NMS player. I had preordered the game, as it was one of my most hyped games back in the day. Like most people who played on release, I was a bit confused and underwhelmed upon first booting up the game; it was nothing like the pre-release footage (I know, old news at this point). Even still, I clocked in around 50 hours, as I was able to find some enjoyment in its simplicity, and could see potential in it (and perhaps I hoped to discover more depth hidden somewhere).
After those initial 50 hours, I uninstalled and didn’t touch it again until the Pathfinder update. I messed around a little, liking the improvements, but ultimately moved on again after about 10 hours. It wasn’t until the Next update that I tried again, and this is where I really started to see some of that initial potential shining through.
All of this is to say, I am just now coming back to the game all these years later. It is absolutely astonishing how much this game has evolved. I started a new save, wanting to experience the game how we all wish it had launched, and I’m loving it. HG have added SO MUCH to this game, it’s honestly a bit overwhelming. Playing NMS today vs the launch version is one hell of a trip, let me tell you. The ability to make bases ANYWHERE you want, and the massive amount of base customization now compared to Foundation…the new planet types…the fact there are now actual deep oceans, and you can even build underwater…the improved cave systems…the look & feel of space, and the improved combat depth…the vehicles and mechs…the improved land combat and sentinels…the new fauna types…the expanded crafting…there is just SO. MUCH.
I honestly don’t even know the point of this post, other than to say this game always has had a special place in my heart, and playing it in its current form is one hell of a ride. This is one of those games I’ll probably never uninstall again. I can’t even put a finger on why I love this game so much…there’s just something…special about it. It gives me a inexplicable feeling when I play it. It’s like a warm mug of coffee on a Winter’s morning.
Thanks, Hello Games. You did right by us players. I can’t wait to see where you take NMS next.
Anyway, sorry for the long-winded post, and thanks for reading!
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2023-09-12
There’s recently been a surge of griefers getting their mech in the anomaly and killing people.
What makes it possible is the loading zone box at the very back corridor of Anomaly leading to the blueprint shops. It’s incorrectly scaled and doesn’t touch the ceiling, allowing people to jetpack over it and fly out of anomaly with their jetpack. This leaves the anomaly interior loaded in space. (Been like that since 2019 but only recently discovered by griefers)
They will then fly to their nearby parked freighter, place down minotaur geobay with base building limits disabled and fly it back to the still loaded Anomaly to cause havock.
This issue is fairly easily fixable by scaling up the loading zone trigger box so that people can’t clip out of anomaly.
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2024-05-04
Why are these made so inefficient? Harvesting 4 at a time is insane when you have a room over 50 double cultivation chambers. I feel like we should have a “Harvest Whole Room” option. It’s way more efficient to use biodomes, but freighters should be a little better, no? submitted by /u/Life_Accountant4310 |
2024-05-04
So I’m doing the dreams of the depths quest, I built the nautilon and added the scanner thingy, and now I’m supposed to use it to find a sunken freighter
The games tells me to use the quick menu to activate the scanner
But there is no quick menu? Or at least I can’t access it?
What am I supposed to do then? Swim across the whole planet untill the regular scanner finds something?
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2024-05-04
As beautiful as they are, they lack a feeling of a community hub for lack of a better term. It would be cool if they were larger and had places like bars, dining areas, places to relax etc. Yes it would be a lot of empty "useless" space, but …
2024-05-04
I have not noticed lightning storms threatening me (and making storm crystals), or tornadoes threatening to carry my tooshy off into the air, or seen meteorite storms is about a month. Anyone else had some? I wonder if they will come back? submi…
2024-05-04
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2024-05-03
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2024-05-03
I used to create tons of Chlorine with Oxygen in order to get rich in the game. Based on my research it’s been nerfed now. What are some other good ways to earn money now?
I read in another post that Sentinel Ship Scrapping is a good way, but I have no idea how to do that. I can’t even deal with sentinels when they attack me in space and I usually try to run to a space station when that happens (or usually die lol).
Any alternatives or an easy way to do that Sentinel Ship Scrapping?
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2024-05-03
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