No Man's Sky

Well..... I do not know if this issue started after the recent throttling issue fix done in the PC version recent or after the Desolation update, because the last time I played was before the throttling "fix", but the game is unplayable for me right now.

After a couple minutes the game drops to 12 fps, then gradually goes to a crawl until it eventually crashes. I did get an error code at least.

sigh.

Finally found the cause of my crashes, after much much pain.

Turns out it was "Ambient Awareness" in Razer Synapse RGB for my mouse. It doesn't work at all in NMS - first game I've come across this problem with. On top it not working, it completely destroys NMS performance, eventually leading to a crash.

Damnit Razer.... always their shit. Please don't buy their things, their software is beyond terrible in so many ways. It's been so much pain.


Anways, playing again, but sadly I don't have much urge to play much.... even though I've just been on 2 Exotic "glitch" planets in a row - one of which a planet in my home system has become - they kind of killed off dead planets and replaced them with more exotic ones.

But I mean, JC, look at this thing.....







This is what the previous one was:



(I... unfortunately didn't take many good pictures of that one.)

This would be frickin incredible to see in VR, the light beams one is quite nuts.

TOO BAD THESE PLANETS ARE ONLY VISUALLY PRETTY. Because their one type of landmark to visit, which is the same on all Exotic/Glitch planets, gives you some "oh there's something wrong with this planet" by the worried computer simulation. Besides that each of these types of Exotic planets has 1 type of trophy object you can grab, which resembles the stuff on the planet, which you can place in your base, and 1 creature that also resembles that planet.

On the Hexaplate Planet, it's a line of jumping hexaplates (designated as 1 creature) with little yellow jellyfish testicles below them.
On the light beams planet, the creature's a line of vertical light beams moving around in a trail, with no visible creature. This one's admittedly pretty cool.

There's more types of Exotic planets, but THAT'S IT. That's the full extent of what they have unique on them. (and they still have the basic resource collectables - and caves, though carbon can take a little harder to collect.) It makes sense because the creatures and trees are meant to represent that they're "incomplete" - stuck mid-formation. (or something like that). But god damn they made these planets even More boring than all the other planets already are? besides fantastic visuals?

sigh.....

Oh yeah, but I did try out my first wrecked space freighter "dungeon" run. I don't know if/when I'll look it up, but I don't know how much harder they do get, because this one was a cakewalk. Nothin to run from. Destroy the security lasers and turrets - watch out for a few extremely slow floating green jelly blobs. And open a FUCKTON of containers - make sure you clear a quite significant amount of space in your inventory, which is still always a pain for me.



It looks cool-ish at some angles, but again I don't know how much harder they possibly get. How much more they might throw at you (more enemies?). Also, it slows your movement to a crawl and you have to keep filling your shield resistance to whatever environment hazard type they give you to deal with - mine was extreme cold.

They actually released it..... (the surprise that is)



www.nomanssky.com/origins-update/


GEE, ANIMAL DISCOVERY HAS BEEN LEFT OUT! .....

Update spoilers:

New planets are being added, but current ones are staying the same? (maybe?)

Looks to me like, in the trailer, some of the objects (normally harvestable?) have just been increased in scale a ridiculous amount, but apparently mountains are getting bigger too, so neat. I would have still been really fine with wiping current planets though. I mean, come on... since they aren't wiping current planets, would they even be fixing issues / the lousy parts about planet generation? Doesn't sound like it to me. They've must made things massive. shrug

But we do get volcanoes, which I'm sure all look the same....

Binary stars for 2 suns in the sky. woo.... Wait.... What about nocturnal creatures? fuck. Are the binary stars always close together? They thought about this, right?
(still wish planets actually moved in relation to eachother.)

All planets, including current ones, can end up getting the new plants, though.

You saw the new beetle creature in the trailer.

omg, lololol

There's been an asshole on Twitter that's been posting "Fix Clouds" on every single one of Sean's Tweets since the volumetric clouds launched, but maybe he finally stopped or got banned as some point? Anyways, they've updated clouds, but.... the preview image still has its visual flaws that aren't nice.

"Marsh" zones on some lush planets.

Increased color variety again.

Other Teleporter UI now looks like the Anomaly Teleporter UI.

A massive new building type (some seen in the trailer) called Archive buildings. Looks like these are replacing the monuments where you place a relic to locate ruins. You can still do that in the Archive building, but these buildings are also populated with NPCs and lore.

You can now find abandoned buildings on the Exotic Glitch planets I was just talking about before this update, so... woo?...

Heat storms can light the ground on fire.

Storms now have different BENEFICIAL effects. That's weird.... Blizzards cool your mining laser, toxic lets you sprint farther, heat gives you a jetpack increase, radioactive lets you mine more. ok.....

Another crafting streamline. (are they actually getting rid of now obsolete items again?) Some things trimmed, some stacks increased. More underground caches.

"Ultra" planet quality setting has been made even more ultra - (grass flowers noticeably increased, farther LOD)

OK, they've added an "Exploration Guide" mission ("Local Information Register"?) It says it "assists" you. Bull fucking shit. All I see is that it now gives you a number of Plants and Rocks to discover, along with the animal count that's been there since launch. Great, I bet they have not made it less confusing by wiping the objects from the list that no longer exist due to planet regeneration. PLEASE DO THAT! FIX IT!!!! I also don't even know how to start this "Exploration Guide" mission, it doesn't say.
But with this mission maybe now we'll get more complaints about this stuff?

Portal interference is gone. I actually don't know what this means because I still haven't used one. lol

So they're even more meaningless now? sigh, so much for that.

Ooh, meteors! And I think they can actually hit you, but.... don't actually drop anything.

Lowgrav anomaly events on some planets? I mean, dead planets used to have lowgrav, but were replaced by glitch exotic planets. They don't want to see lowgrav go away, do that? That's ok by me.

Tornadoes
LIGHTNING TOO!!!! (lightning strikes might be telegraphed, idk)

NPC pilots can now (randomly?) land on the ground too. I'm sure they won't walk around though.

Creature info now says what time of day they're out at least. - diurnal means day, if you didn't actually know that.
OOOOOOH OK. So creature that no longer exist are now labeled "Extinct". Does this mean the game will actually let you get your completion reward now or no?
That might actually be the case! YAY!

Even your multitool can now get more basic capacity, like ships and freighters before it. But I'm still being stubborn and want to actually discover ones with more capacity (but my multitool is already a maxed out one anyways, lol).
What about suit tech expansion.... please?

omg wild robots.

oh good, Advanced Fish AI. Actually all flocking creatures have better flocking and can fly closer to the ground (lol gee, I've already seen ones before getting stuck on giant cliffs before).

And ah yes.... the fucking sandworm. It now exists. How is that going to go? You can't kill it, can you?

Again, I'm actually disappointed that current planets still exist and are not getting regenerated.

I am interested so see how the new weather and cloud systems actually behave. Do current planets even have the new weather events besides the new cloud tweaks?

Ooh, there's actually a chance of triple-star systems too.

I think only systems that are new/undiscovered might get robots?


Oh, entirely reset.

New cooking products, of course. Still no actual mention of why Sean was so excited about oranges.

Oh Wow thank fuck, too late....




Aw... is it finally gone?

Today's Experimental:

Halloween update this year is of course an extension of Desolation:

www.nomanssky.com/2020/10/halloween-update/

Derelict Freighters are tougher now (I was expecting this, but I've only done 1 lol).

www.nomanssky.com/companions-update/







How am I supposed to do any of this with no inventory slots?