ORBITALS PATCH 4.65

I just researched and it seems that No Man’s Sky offers no rewards for killing other players. I just read that you can’t loot other player’s graves or get loot from their ships.

I just bought the game cause I was really, really hyped. I went to a featured base cause hey, it’s featured and it looks amazing!

I spend all my credits that I got from scrapping a couple A-Class ships I found into 150 navigational data (in order to find more ships to scrap) and a bunch of resources to build a base and upgrade my gear. I had no weapons other than the mining beam, and no shields.

I enter the base.

I see a player. I look at them. I prepare to do the hand waving emote. He kills me before I can do it. Chat says I died due to multi-tool combat.

No biggie, I can just grab my items from my grave.

The player searches for me at spawn. Kills me again. Then skedaddles out of there with their ship.

I grab my second grave. No items. I look for my first grave, the one that’s supposed to have my items in it. Not there. There’s random terrain there now. Did they add terrain in to de-spawn my grave? My entire inventory, gone.

Now I don’t even have 50 ferrite dust to repair my now broken multi-tool.

And according to a Google search, this player gained nothing from this.

Why does No Man’s Sky have PvP against everyone enabled by default without telling the players, with the possibility to lose your entire inventory, even though no one gains anything from it?

It just seems like No Man’s Sky is encouraging spawn-sniping and griefing for annoying-new-player’s sake. This is such a bizarre design decision!

I also play WoW and engage in world PvP, sometimes winning, sometimes losing, and even this game which does reward you from PvP has the following features:

1. Rewards for PvP. PvP isn’t guaranteed to be just in order to anger you.

2. Reward the winner, don’t delete the entire inventory of the loser.

3. PvP is disabled by default, and it’s an opt-in feature because not everyone likes PvP and when you are in PvP your player yells “For the Horde!”/”For the Alliance!” so that you very clearly know when PvP is on. You also get an in-game icon when PvP is on so that you know that hey, you could get attacked at any moment.

4. Since the game was built with PvP in mind, there are certain rules for when and how you can or can’t enable and disable PvP so that you can’t just disable it if you feel like you’re losing.

No Man’s Sky has none of these things, in fact has the opposite, and it just seems like they added PvP just cause, without giving much thought about the actual gameplay aspect and experience of PvP.

Isn’t it bizarre? Opt-out, inventory wipe, non-notified, un-asked for PvP.

As a new player, I shouldn’t have to google how to disable PvP, or whether or not the game has PvP, or whether or not you lose your items, and even worse, I shouldn’t have to discover the answer to these questions without even googling it, because it makes the game less enjoyable.

It burns through its charge 5x faster, gets 1/5 of the materials during that charge, but costs the same amount of materials to recharge. It costs carbon instead of ferrite, though. It doesn’t clear terrain faster, doesn’t get more materials, doesn’t have a longer charge. What’s the point in it?

Whenever I post a new staff or Atlantid find on NMSCE there are inevitably a few people who reply that they can’t find the console or don’t know what to do.

Staffs and Atlantid multi-tools are new types of multi-tool added to the game with the Echoes update. The wiki refers to the new staff as a Voltaic Staff. To acquire these new tools you need to first complete the new quest line which will unlock new multi-tool upgrades that let you scan to reveal these new hidden Autophage NPCs and their camps. The reason you can’t see them is that they are literally invisible to you if you haven’t done the questline.

The new staff is acquired via either a terminal in one of these new camps, or the terminal in a Harmonic Camp. You first need to buy the components – head, core and pole – but the class of the staff is determined by the head section, of which there are currently 7 variations: Havoc, Runic, Radiant, Concentric [?], Salvaged Head, Salvaged Claw and Salvaged Aerator. Once you know which head is required for the S-Class version, you can pick and choose your own design using the other two parts, and the colours and installed modules may change as well.

The Atlantid multi-tool is acquired from Alien monolith POIs on planets in Korvax systems only – btw these are the same monoliths where you go to activate the “brains” of a newly acquired Interceptor ship. Once you have completed the Autophage questline, a new terminals will appear at these monolith sites that lets you choose a new multi-tool.

EDIT: Also, I should add that if you see a multi-tool or ship that you want to acquire in a post here on Reddit, you need to turn off multiplayer in your game’s Network Settings before you use a portal to get to the target system. I have seen many players enter a system I’m currently scouting after reading one of my posts. If you do this, the item in question may not be there as I have already taken it! (Not sure how staffs are affected as they are created from scratch by the player, but best to be on the safe side)

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