I’m sympathetic to people with finely-maxxed setups that got borked by the update — it’s happened to me before — but so far I’m all thumbs up on 4.0.

The hugely expanded inventories are nice. Losing the double-stacked exosuit upgrades is too bad, but not many people are (yet) talking about the fact that you can now un-install tech upgrades (“repackage”) so they can be reinstalled later. That’s a HUGE improvement; it means you can transfer upgrades between ships or multi-tools, and you can revise your exosuit upgrade sets for different purposes. You could have one for combat, with shield/health/etc, and one for exploring, with hazards/etc… even specific sets for specific environments.

Monstrously expanded inventories are nice, and stack sizes on a lot of mid-sized elements doubled (like 5 to 10, or 10 to 20), meaning lots of small stacks could combined into fewer somewhat larger stacks, which was nice.

And yeah, renaming saves is something I’ve been begging for since day 1. I wish I could rename them straight from the menu instead of having to actually go into them to do it from the options screen, but hey, I’ll take it.

Still hoping we’ll get more exploring updates soon… the core remaining problem for me is there’s no reason to explore planets, since they’re the same everywhere you go, and not much to do in the endgame as a result… but hopefully HG has also done a lot of under-the-hood stuff here that will make more ambitious future updates and expansions possible.

I kind of like that they didn’t enumerate all of the small QoL updates they did… discovering them will also be fun in a way.

Thanks HG!

Below are a few popular questions that we’ve received from our past FAQ thread. As always we ask that everyone be respectful and we welcome everyone’s contribution so have fun!

Q- I’m keen to start a new passive money making pursuit. What are some good ideas or guides post-Waypoint?

A#1-Gold farm, then take that stack and sell it at a terminal (not traders) in systems that sell gold. Sell all your gold to the terminal and crash the economy. Then buy it all back at 80% off discount. You just got free money and keep all the gold. All this takes is an initial investment on a gold farm, then you carry all that gold with you and just sell/buy back when you get to another system that sells gold. With 50 stacks in my ship’s cargo hold, I can make somewhere around 150 million units in each system I do this in.

A#2-Start a Farm, Fusion Igniters or Statis Devices Farm which will increase your profits to 100- 200 mil fairly quickly and you can even send out multiple freighter missions which will help you get aronium, magno-gold, Enriched carbon and more which will increase the profits even more.

A#3-Quickest way I’ve found to make a TON of units: Harvesting Storm Crystals. Find a VERY hot planet that has frequent fire storms. DURING STORMS ONLY – you can see the bright white light from Storm Crystals if you fly around low enough. Fly to them, land, quickly harvest them, get back in your ship and fly to the next before you burn up.

Q-How do I get the Advanced Mining Laser? I don’t have the option to craft one, and the multi-tool upgrade vendor at the space station doesn’t have the blueprint for sale.

A-In order to get it, you have to look for the blueprints in crashed ships or abandoned facilities. You get it from the main story (awakenings) or you can buy it on the anomaly.

Q-What do I actually do in the game? I finished the tutorial, is there anything else beside gathering stuff, building a base and repeat?

A#1-It’s really whatever you want, there’s a base story, (assuming you haven’t completed it already), follow the quest log and you’ll figure it out, but things You’d want to do for end game? You can collect multiple multitools, ships, built a fleet for your freighter, etc.

Q-Is there a planet that is populated by many players, and they built their base close to each others like a city?

A- Yeah its the Galactic Hub Project, Its a place where many people have bases and each day the numbers grow. Please help yourself. There are many factions in NMS that do this, even NMS Pirates Hub.

Q-I’m still pretty early into the game, just making my way to the center of the galaxy, what should I be spending my credits on?

A-Go hang around a outlaw/pirate trading post. Cheapest S-class start at around 8-8.5 million without a trade-in. I recommend Vikeen pirate, as then you have two good and 1 remote chances at high-maneuverability S-class: fighter, solar, exotic.