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No Man's Sky Nov 27, 2019 18:40:59 GMT

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www.nomanssky.com/synthesis-update/

Yay! First person exocrafts for non-VR players, and creature riding for VR players.
Please god tell me exocrafts have a not crap control scheme in first person?..... i bet it's still the same.

ADD INVENTORY SLOTS TO YOUR SHIP!!! Ok, but doesn't this make the concept of ship types pointless?

Inventory management has been refined and a number of UI quality of life improvements have been added. Items can be dragged and dropped to swap positions, or directly dropped onto damaged technologies for automatic repair. Control over stack sizes has been improved in the shop, transfer and charging interfaces. Hazard protection upgrades that are not relevant to the current environment are now hidden from the Quick Menu.

Ok, but will it still stop you from changing inventories if your damned cursor is on top of an item?

Many new technology upgrades have been added, granting abilities such as: long distance inventory transfers to and from freighters; mid-air jetpack recharging; and instantaneous emergency warping.

The Discovery Page has been polished and improved, addressing a number of key bugs and usability issues. These include bulk uploading of discoveries; faster access to planetary data; and a better sense of position both on a planet and within the system.

Ok, but the screenshot doesn't seem to indicate which planet you're on on the planet visual instead of just the planet list... Heck, I don't even know what planet he's on in this screenshot.
nmswp.azureedge.net/app/uploads/2019/11/Discoveries_1.jpg

Yet they do this? Why though? Will the yellow icon below appear on the screenshot above?

nmswp.azureedge.net/app/uploads/2019/11/Discoveries_2.jpg

Besides the yellow icon, I'm not sure what's been updated on this screen.
No upload all button here, which is where I want it.
Oh wait, it indicates flying and ground now, instead of grouping those into base.
Still going to be extremely difficult (take literal months) to find a last creature that won't spawn, even when it's "common".

nmswp.azureedge.net/app/uploads/2019/11/Discoveries_3.jpg

The capacity of the Storage Containers has been significantly increased. The containers can now be given custom names.

Jesus fucking christ, Finally.... 5 slots in each one of these things was absolute insanity.

It's going to take up a "tech" slot (because of course it is), but now you can build a personal refinery in your suit instead of having to place one in the world. It also uses the circular light meter on your backpack, lol.

Own multiple multitools? I mean... k whatever.

The Galactic Trade Terminal interaction now opens directly to the shop interface.

praise the lord

Fixed an issue that caused shop items to reorder themselves unexpectedly while buying and selling.

Increased the speed at which dialog text prints out if players choose to skip the dialog.

Unified many of the background colours for product icons so that colours correspond to the broad function or purpose of the product.

Holy frickin' crap, collected items will now spill into the cargo inventory.... but only if there is already some of that item in there. facepalm

God damnit, just let stuff spill in there entirely.

When collecting items, they will now be added to any preexisting stacks if those stacks are in the Cargo inventory.

Fixed an issue that prevented some gathered resources from being stored in the cargo inventory, causing the inventory to be reported as full when it was not.

Performance and Visuals

Fixed an issue that caused the planetary cloud layer to intersect with asteroids and freighters.
A large number of stutters and hitches on the starfield and warp tunnel loads have been smoothed out.
In PSVR on base PS4s, removed incorrect water reflection effects.
Fixed an issue that could cause significant visual jitteriness on PS4.
Introduced a significant shadow rendering optimisation.
Fixed an issue that caused a significant performance problem when viewing shop pages.
Improved performance while building freighter bases.
Improved the display of textures when low on graphics memory.
Introduced a number of shader, terrain and water rendering optimisations.
Improved the appearance of asteroids.
Introduce a number of minor optimisations to terrain generation.
Fixed a number of LODing issues with trees and grass, improving the visuals on some specific lush planets.
Fixed an issue that caused particles to flicker when directly in front of the camera.

Grenade style weapons now require the Multi-Tool to be unholstered before firing, reducing the chance of accidental detonation while navigating the UI.

lol

Improved the combat performance of the starship Phase Beam.
Improved the combat performance of the starship Rockets.
Improved the performance of the Infra-Knife Accelerator.
Increased the base speed of the Pulse Drive for faster interplanetary travel.
Added new Pulse Drive upgrades that improve the fuel efficiency and speed of the Pulse Drive.
When on a frigate, the jetpack now recharges faster.
Added new technologies that improve the recharge rate and duration of sprint.
Added a jetpack upgrade that allows the jetpack to recharge while the player is falling.

Added an Emergency Warp upgrade that can be accessed from the Quick Menu. This technology allows for an instantaneous escape from space combat, at the cost of breaking the technology and warping you to an unknown destination.

Increased the size of the freighter technology inventory.
Added a new freighter technology, the Matter Beam. This allows items to be sent to and from the freighter from anywhere in the system.

Freighters no longer have unlimited access to all star classes and must have their hyperdrives upgraded in the same manner as a starship. New freighter hyperdrive technologies are available to research on the bridge.

So, I've always wondered how the warp route is mapped? Does the path it gives you never ever go to a "special" system?

The torch is now turned on automatically when entering a dark area.

Allowed players to permanently accumulate teleport destinations outside of their home (ie furthest progress) galaxy. Teleport destinations are no longer removed when leaving other galaxies.

Fixed an issue that caused NPC ships to land at landing pads where the player ship was being summoned.
NPC ships may no longer land at the last unoccupied landing pad at a player base.

Reduced the health of Metal ‘Fingers’.

In the Discovery Page system view, planets can be hovered over to quickly see their available resources.
Discoveries in the Discovery Page can now be rotated.
Added a marker to the system view on the Discovery Page that shows the player’s current planetary location.

A creature’s desired bait is now featured with its other information on the Discovery page.

Yeah, sure, after we discover it....

Fixed an issue that caused fish to be described as if they were land creatures when reading their full descriptions on the Discovery Page.

aww

Fixed a number of scaling issues when viewing creatures in the Discovery Page.

Fixed an issue that cause Vortex Cubes and oxygen plants to leave collision behind when they were collected.

Ok, how about the tiniest riverbed rocks?

Fixed a rare issue that could cause buildings to be missing when loading a game.

Never seen that one, but what about invisible exocraft?

Fixed an issue that caused already harvested planetary objects to reappear on load.

Ok, but that doesn't mean you turned off regeneration?

Added some mysterious text.

Jägerbomber Administrator Posts: 15,695	No Man's Sky Dec 16, 2019 19:18:27 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Jägerbomber on Dec 16, 2019 19:18:27 GMT wat wtf that Iron Giant www.nomanssky.com/2019/12/beyond-development-update-5-bytebeat/ Fixed an issue with GTAO that caused many planets to appear slightly too dark. Added a new ‘Ultra’ setting for GTAO on PC.
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Jägerbomber Administrator Posts: 15,695	No Man's Sky Feb 13, 2020 20:38:48 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Jägerbomber on Feb 13, 2020 20:38:48 GMT Sean keeps tweeting about eggs, and I'm gonna guess that it isn't about Easter.

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No Man's Sky Feb 19, 2020 19:24:15 GMT

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Post by Jägerbomber on Feb 19, 2020 19:24:15 GMT

www.nomanssky.com/living-ship-update/

Living Ships are a new class of rare, sentient starships to add to your fleet, growing in dozens of procedurally-generated variations.

These biological ships have their own set of unique organic technologies, all procedurally generated for a customised, evolved loadout.

A new series of missions, Starbirth, will take players through the ancient Korvax experiments that led to the birth of these sentient starships.

Players who wish to incubate, grow and ultimately fly their own living ship should visit the Space Anomaly and follow the call of the Void Egg…

Pilot your sentient ship from its strange, organic cockpit. Grasp vein-covered tendrils to suggest directions to the living craft, and examine the unsettling details in full 360° in VR.

Experience rare encounters with mysterious space objects and strange new lifeforms while pulsing through a star system.

Investigating these may often yield rewards – or more dangerous encounters!

NPCs now have the potential to hail your communicator in space.

These alien lifeforms often stock specialty items for sale – but some may need assistance, or approach with more questionable intentions…

Are space traders just going to be annoying?

Managing items in the inventory has become easier with a new shortcut to instantly divide a stack in half.

Multiplayer exploration has been streamlined with the ability to warp as a group. Team up with friends and strangers on the Space Anomaly, then choose your exit destination to continue your journey together.

Game performance is improved across the board, with a focus on runtime optimisations for terrain, cloud and water shaders for PSVR and PS4.

Adjust your playstyle to the restrictions and benefits of these organic techs, or hatch and evolve new procedural upgrades to grow your own custom ship.

Incubate your Void Egg and learn about the origin of the Living Ships with a new mission chain, Starbirth.
Completing these missions will hatch the Void Egg into your own procedurally generated Living Ship.
Additional ships may be hatched from subsequently incubated eggs.

While using the Pulse Engine to fly between planets, there is a chance of encountering strange objects in local space.
Drop out of pulse-flight to begin the encounter.
A large range of strange objects and exotic rewards await…
Different encounters have different chances of occurring based on the characteristics of the solar system.

As well as strange objects, players may also encounter passing trader ships.
These will hail the player while using the Pulse Engine and may need assistance, offer to trade, and more…

If players are in a group but do not have a Nexus mission active, then when taking off from the Space Anomaly they can now choose to exit directly to the system of any other player in their group.

Fixed a number of issues that caused planetary charts and others scans to pick from too narrow a range of buildings. Players should no longer be sent repeatedly to the same building when using multiple charts.

Fixed an issue that caused distress signals to occasionally lead to a crashed ship site with no crashed ship.

Added an instant split button to allow players to quickly divide stacks of items in half.

Players can now hold down buttons to increase or decrease stack sizes, rather than having to press repeatedly.

Improved the range of the Exocraft Summoning Station, so that it allows Exocraft to be summoned from anywhere in the system.

Planets that you have discovered no longer need to be repeatedly rescanned to see their resources from space.

Fixed an issue that caused the planetary resources popup to flicker while pulsing towards a planet.

Fixed an issue that made it difficult to enter Space Stations from tight angles.

Allowed starships to reverse during atmospheric flight if stuck in other geometry. (How about actually crashing instead?)

The automatic Launch System Recharger now functions while the player is sitting in the cockpit, if the ship is landed.

Improved VR swimming controls for VR devices that use thumbsticks.

Significantly increased the distance players are able to move the camera in Photo Mode.

Introduced a number of significant GPU optimisations to terrain rendering.
Introduced a number of significant optimisations to terrain generation.
Introduced a number of significant memory optimisations.
Introduced some minor load time optimisations.
Introduced some smaller optimisations and visual fixes to cloud rendering. rolleyes

Introduced a number of water rendering optimisations for PSVR.

Fixed an issue that caused the Analysis Visor UI to judder in VR.

Fixed an issue that caused Carbon Planters to be unavailable for purchase.

Fixed a number of issues that prevented items from being taken out of or put into Storage Containers.

Fixed an issue that could occasionally cause visual elements of the Personal Refiner to render in first person.
Fixed an issue that caused the Personal Refiner not to stop animating when refining was complete.

Fixed an issue that caused the names of unknown planets to be revealed by their moons.

Improved the position of HUD markers in the Analysis Visor UI.

Improved the positioning of the ship repair UI in VR.

Fixed an issue that could cause the ship crosshair to judder.

Fixed a rare issue that allowed players to equip weapons in the Space Anomaly.

Fixed an issue that could cause the torchlight to flicker while moving.

Fixed an issue that could cause recently used interactions to be reset shortly after loading.

Fixed an issue that caused an empty black dialogue box to appear when leaving a planetary Technology Merchant.

Fixed an issue that caused pirate probes to always fail when the Pulse Engine was active.

Fixed an issue that caused Black Holes not to warp players if they were somehow approached on foot. (lolwut?)

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No Man's Sky Feb 21, 2020 5:30:38 GMT

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Post by Jägerbomber on Feb 21, 2020 5:30:38 GMT

So, frustrated relief tonight.... kind of.

So after 6 months on this 1 planet, I've finally been able to scan the last creature on it. THE PROBLEM IS..... Apparently there's a (semi-unknown) category of creature spawns that either relate to shallow water and/or shoreline-ish ground/beach area, I'm not entirely sure. But anyways, in this case (I was surprised) I actually had it kind of hinted to me after searching several reddit posts (of no full confirmation).

At shorelines in the water, or perhaps shallow water (which seems to be a thing the game tries to generate, but very very poorly (and it's extremely problematically shallow in some cases)) crabs can spawn! (or maybe something else). No different than the crabs you can find anywhere else on land or in caves. The same walking crabs. (But I suspect fish as well.)

But there is a problem with shallow water creature spawning, which I am sure has always been a problem (with all the moons I've been on with water too shallow), but probably now even more-so since they tweaked spawning so that fully "Underwater" creatures only spawn when you go underwater and ground^ creatures only spawn when you are above water. You can practically go in and out back and forth and keep resetting the creature spawns.

But where does this leave shallow water creatures? (Which are also just labeled "Underwater", btw) I believe they can also include fish, rather than just these shoreline crabs. THEY ARE JUST FUCKED! Again, I think shallow water spawns have always been a thing in the game, but they also are hard to spawn and also disappear instantly.

So, I got this crab because it got stuck on an obstacle before it could scuttle away to disappear 3 feet away from me. (And no, they are not "burrowing into the sand.")

FIX THIS!!!!!

So much time wandering..... just to figure out it's this crap. /headdesk

my god.

Last Edit: Feb 21, 2020 5:45:15 GMT by Jägerbomber

Jägerbomber Administrator Posts: 15,695	No Man's Sky Feb 26, 2020 20:18:16 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Jägerbomber on Feb 26, 2020 20:18:16 GMT Added a chance to find cargo pods at derelict freighter space encounters. Wait... are those enterable?...

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No Man's Sky Apr 7, 2020 18:22:06 GMT

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Post by Jägerbomber on Apr 7, 2020 18:22:06 GMT

www.nomanssky.com/exo-mech-update/

Exocraft can now be upgraded with solar panels to recharge their engines during daylight.

All Exocraft equipped with the Signal Booster necessary to perform scans will now find that their scan reveals all nearby points of interest, pointing the way to objects usually found only through use of the Analysis Visor.

Players who own a freighter may now build an Orbital Exocraft Materialiser.

This powerful new technology allows you to summon your Exocraft whenever your freighter is present in the current star system.

While it might seem pro-exploration, this kind of goes against some of their features, does it not? Though personally I would be with my freighter at all times, even though you don't have to be.

A large number of visual improvements have been made to the lighting model, particularly outside on planets. Thin, moving objects such as grass, now appear lighter and more stable, and GTAO performance has been optimised.

Does this mean no more wavy light-up grass at night? That was cool....

The comparison shows daytime, but it feels like it just removes contrast and detail that we would previously have, imo.

Players may now construct an Electrical Cloaking Unit, a new base part that will hide power lines across the entire base. Power lines will still be visible while in construction mode.

Exocraft no-longer grant immunity to planetary hazards by default. External environmental conditions will now drain the player’s hazard protection, though at a reduced rate from on planet.

WHAAAT.....
And I'm not sure, but it sounds like Exocraft environmental upgrades will be on the Anomoly, not the system's Space Station? What?.... idk.
Man, what is the system's Space Station for anymore, really? Are they trying to get rid of it completely?

Increased the base speed of the Roamer, Nomad and Pilgrim exocraft.
Tweaked a number of Exocraft cameras to improve visibility.
Increased the speed and acceleration of the Nautilon submarine, and tweaked its camera positioning.
Fixed an issue that caused Exocraft to turn invisible when saving and charting at a waypoint.
Fixed an issue that caused the object health indicator to either appear in the wrong position or not appear at all when mining objects in an Exocraft.

Man, besides unless there's actually some performance improvements, this is a mixed bag of "Ok" but additional annoyances and restrictions (tech to build). And of course nothing about fixing shoreline shallow water creatures disappearing instantly.

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No Man's Sky May 26, 2020 17:51:29 GMT

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NMS is being added to XBOX/Windows PC Gamepass next month.

It's still extremely annoying to me that 1 $10 doesn't include everywhere if you want gamepass for both PC and XBOX (if I ever wanted to get an XBOX). Seriously, Fuck you.

(Oh but if you do that, Gold (them charging to access multiplayer on XBOX) is free! FUCK OFF!)

And if you look at their pricing models (which do both bundle prices and introductory prices) I don't understand why they seem to want to suck people away from their XBOX hardware, STILL. If you were to only get 1 pass, not only is XBOX already more expensive with PC's perpetual discount, you have the extra $10 price for multiplayer on XBOX, which you should not do and instead buy both because that's cheaper! fuckin what?

Actually, I might be incorrect and that NMS is not part of the PC Pass (maybe). facepalm

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No Man's Sky Jun 10, 2020 19:28:49 GMT

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There's also options for Voice-to-Text AND language translation? Wow.

Upgraded the OpenVR implementation to 1.10.30.
Cockpit exit handles can now be grabbed both ways up.
Added an option to show the player’s body when playing in VR.
Camera height now reflects the height of your character in VR.
Improved the accuracy of hand tracking in VR.

(god damnit, they're using unsharable video clips now as well)

Fixed an issue that caused full-strength camera shake and controller vibration to be applied whenever a ship landed in multiplayer, regardless of how near that ship was.
Fixed an issue that caused parts of the backpack to be visible in first-person mode.
Fixed an issue that caused some players to appear to bend their knees backwards when aiming at high angles.

Jägerbomber Administrator Posts: 15,695	No Man's Sky Jun 17, 2020 19:44:21 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Jägerbomber on Jun 17, 2020 19:44:21 GMT Does this fix performance issues after opening Steam's controller settings? probably not Fixed a throttling issue when changing window focus.

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Jägerbomber Administrator Posts: 15,695	No Man's Sky Jul 15, 2020 21:56:40 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Jägerbomber on Jul 15, 2020 21:56:40 GMT Sean is posting (ARG?) teasers again.
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