So I am very new to the game and still figuring things out. I’ve played for about 5 days.

I was doing some exploring and suddenly found myself in a dogfight in space defending a freighter. Cool! I fight off a wave of pirate vessels and survive. Then I am welcomed aboard the freighter, neat! Maybe they’ll reward me! I go aboard the freighter and suddenly they GIFT ME THE FREIGHTER?

Now apparently I’m a freighter captain? With a frigate as well? I have NFI what I’m doing. I’m in over my head! Is this ship my new base? How do I fly it? And do I need to bring the frigate with me somehow?

Can anyone provide me some tips on what I should do? Or some resources I can read up on? Thank you!

I got my father to try NMS with me, but the thing is he’s a very picky player, and he’s new to open world survival style games. I’m just wondering if anyone has advice on how to present the ”quirks” of this game to him (bugs, glitches and necessary reloads) ? I know he’d like the space exploration aspect of the game but things like weird creature generation, Sentinels hunting you forever, extra oxygen bar you can’t refuel as soon as you start the game (you have to reload the game to maybe get rid of it, it’ll kill you if you don’t…) are things that could easily make him go ”Nah F this game” if I can’t prep him to it… Any advice ?

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.