I’m probably doing this on unfathomable levels of wrong but space combat feels pretty much impossible

If I lock onto a target it’s basically impossible to reach it, it goes way faster than my ship can go so I can’t even look in its direction

For example your ship could go low/medium speed towards my ship and to me it’d feel like a car is heading full speed toward me

Am I missing a few upgrades or am I just stupid

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Haven’t player No Man’s Sky before, and I’m not into survival games. Subnautica is not my thing. I do love games like Skyrim, Cyberpunk and Witcher 3, but also space combat sims like Everspace 2, traditional X-Wing and Tie Fighter, Star Wars Squadrons, etc. I actually loved Starlink Battle For Atlas and I thought it looked like No Man’s Sky lite, although I never played NMS before.

I’m open to new experiences and love to let a game surprise me. I always was afraid of MMO’s but gave Elder Scrolls Online a chance and loved it, albeit only the single player story experience 🙂

It’s on Xbox Game Pass, which I have. So I wonder: will I enjoy this game? And if so, do you have any advice on how to get invested in any main campaign? Thanks!

To preface this, I absolutely adore the game. But like most games we play there’s always personal changes you’d make to it to make it your ideal game. This is what I’d love to see in NMS.

-1. I’d love to see a more realistic representation of the size and distance of space within a star system. When you look at planets in our real-life solar system they show up as nothing more than a speck of light given their distance away. A way you could do this in game is planets show up as little highlighted specks of light in space, you use the scanner in your ship which has an attached hyper-advanced telescope, you zoom in on the planet and then you’re able to see what it actually looks like and scan it’s resources. Then you use your pulse engine and that little speck of light quickly expands to the size of a planet considering you’re moving nearly the speed of light to get there. I feel like this would be very satisfying and immersive giving a real sense of scale.

-2. Asteroid landing and construction. There’s already a billion asteroids in each system, I wish that there were always a few large asteroids floating around that you had the ability to land, walk around and base-build on. It would just add a lot more variety to what people build and come up with.

-3. Space station building and space walks. Though you can build on your Freighter. I wish you could literally create a space station in the vacuum of space just like the ISS or wherever your imagination takes you. Then added with that I think the ability to just float in the endless expanse with nothing but your suit and thrusters to keep you from floating away… Frictionless for eternity.

-4. STARS!!! Seriously like we need the ability to pulse to the star in each system. Obviously you can’t land on it, but it would be a great opportunity to find rare items or do dangerous missions. Think, the star gravity could be a constant threat once you get close enough to it where you’ll need to use your engine boost just to get out of its gravity well, once you get close enough it starts destroying your ships technology and if you get sucked in, well game over.

-5. Gas planets. This kind of ties into the stars, obviously you can’t land on it without dying… By getting imploded by gravity…. This would just add another element of variety to each system and with that the gas planets could still have moons you can land on with a gas giant lighting up the sky. Also there could be another cool way to harvest resources from the gas planet… Maybe a starship gas vacuum-harvester 😂.

-6. Planets with multiple biomes and actual rivers.. This is pretty self explanatory. But yeah correct me if I’m wrong but I have yet to ever witness a planet with actual rivers. It’s always just bodies of water.

-7.(This is more of what Hello Games could just add to a simple update) More RNG assets for star ship parts and animals just to add more unique visual variety to the many ships and animals we see. Sometimes the stuff you see feels very “same-y”.

That’s about all! Forgive me for the novel. I’d love to hear what kind of ideas you guys come up with!

Safe travels.

Day 64

I’ve met another 6 feet tall blue hamster with a shell and wings today. Its fluffy fur contrast with the big horn on his nose but it’s friendly at least! I shouldn’t feed him with these protein bars though, he followed me to my base and destroyed quite a few planters and one battery unit. Nothing that needs more than a quick fix anyway.

The pink sky amazes me. I tripped because of it on the spiky shell and not only had to patch my space suit but I lost my favourite multi-tool in the bushes and had to search for it for half an hour. It would be easier if not for the 10 feet long beetles trying to land on it when I was crawling in there!

Enough wandering for today. Let’s fly a bit! Maybe today I will be lucky to find A Class S-Freighter finally? Fek knows what I am doing wrong. The YouTube clips are no help… 😞