New #NoMansSky Adrift expedition begins today: "Just you the player as a tiny dot lost in the infinite - for the first time players can be truly alone in No Man’s Sky. We think it’s a special feeling."
I take some small credit for the naming of No Man's Sky's latest expedition, Adrift.
When I was still active in the No Man's Sky community I referred to the pre-Foundation version of the game as Adrift, because it preceded the shift to settler/colonist gameplay that Foundation introduced.
This is for fans of #NoMansSky and #statistics I decided to turn my gameplay into a potential inferential statistics lesson. Nanite farming specifically. This is what I discovered feeding Delicious Vegetable Stew to Cronus in the Nexus. Yes. I repeatedly fed him stew 325 times, and wrote down 168 of those attempts in sequence. Here is the result of that experiment. I should point out that twice in all my attempts I received 329 nanites but that occurred outside these 168 recorded trials.
Hi, I'm Diotima, a tiefling arcanist specializing in defensive magics.
I'm into #TTRPGS, light console gaming (I love #BaldursGate3, #DeadIsland2, and #NoMansSky), privacy advocacy, and being a bit of a salty bish. I've also been known to write stuff.
I'm probably chaotic good and was voted most likely to die doing stupid hero stuff by my class.
Had a pretty quiet weekend, as I tried to stay off my wicked sore knees. Saturday was particularly awful, but they do seem to be ever so slowly getting better. I stayed in bed, took ibuprofen, kept them both iced down and played #NoMansSky on my ROG Ally. It plays very well on the little Z1. Amazing how they have kept the game relevant and getting better, after all these years. It is getting a little grindy, but I should probably push off my start planet and get exploring.
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I assembled my first new starship - very cool! You can only assemble parts from the same type of ship. There's more than a dozen for each part, but you'll need to find the ships to salvage with that particular type you want. For example, the wing of an Explorer has 31 different varieties if you have disassembled the right ones. Also, the paint colors are very very nice.
I really like No Man's Sky, but I'm not sure the game is designed to be enjoyed the way I keep wanting to enjoy it. I keep wanting to find a nice planet to build up a big base and decorate it and all that neat crap.
I can't do that though, because every planet I find is either toxic AF or Sentinels keep showing up to ruin my day.
I just want a nice place to set up shop! Leave me alone!
I've mostly moved on from No Man's Sky as it was clear what I wanted from the game had drastically diverged from where the developers were taking it, but I still check in on it each update. Not since Atlas Rises or Next has that divergence been made more apparent than with the latest update called Orbital.
Zero problem with starship customization, while the change in station aesthetics and lie about their interiors is disappointing and frustrating.
Continuing the Artemis storyline on No Man's Sky. We're two thirds of the way to completing all the chapters. I'm hoping to get to the last chapter sometime tonight.
I'll be choosing an empty galaxy as the target once we complete the mission. After that, I'll set up a new home base and start exploring the Universe anew from there.
This is so weird. I'm on a dissonant planet searching for Dissonant Replicators so I can get Echo Locators. I find one of those towers that usually spawn the big Minotaur looking boss, and I'm able to access the mainframe and tell it to disable all Sentinels. Well, apparently it disables them planetwide because I'm now flying around looking for the Dissonant Resonators and there are NO SENTINELS anymore! And their ammo canisters are just laying on the ground. Very weird.
I completed Phase 5 of Expedition 12: Omega this morning, it only took me two hours! I claimed all my rewards, changed my look, and this freed me to create more bases on various worlds; I need some resource collection hubs for easy breezy stocking of my resources.
Sadly, the S-Tier Freighter which I found during this expedition didn't transfer over; I can always find a new one in my normal save! I have units to spare for purchasing a new one.
Today on No Man's Sky: Omaga Update, we got our freighter! It's a C-class but it flies!
We traded in our starter ship for a B class shuttle but I need to make some money to continue trading up. I'd prefer a fighter or maybe one of those exotic class ships I've seen hanging around the star bases.
This afternoon we'll continue the Artemis story line and see how far we get!
“It looks like a gigantic and magnetic storm cell with temperatures of 10,000 degrees Celsius, lightning everywhere and winds blowing so fast they would go around Earth in a second”
I've done a lot of this during the No Man's Sky Expedition which I've not done in the main game; Smuggling goods for example, I earned so many Units from that! I'll still choose to salvage Ships, Abandoned Freighters, and other sites of interest. Since its profitable and allows me to fully document planets for additional Nanites.
I completed Phase 3, getting lovely rewards on top of the Sentinel Staff Multi-Tool! I got a Sentinel Interceptor Transponder as well. 🤩
Today on No Man's Sky: We have the power to our base set up now so we don't have to literally keep feeding coal into the boilers, but we need a large refiner so that we can free ourselves from our coal habit once and for all.
I still need to buy a new ship to replace my jank starter ship so I can actually take on pirates. I need a few million more "units" first so today will be a lot of mission hunting.
I've made progress on the Milestones for Phase 3 today before work! This latest Expedition for No Man's Sky is engaging enough that I wasn't even aware of time passing. These milestones can be done in any order; I love being able to freely change my focus and get credit for things I unsuspectingly complete.
Today on No Man's Sky: Omega, we're going to try again but this time we will not redeem the bonus content until our ship is repaired. Yesterday we triggered a bug (shocking, I know) where if your ship's pulse engine was damaged but you didn't go through the tutorial mission to pick up the Hermetic Seal, you'd be SOL and have to start over or go into Creative Mode to fix the problem.
I ended up completing Phase 2 of the new No Man's Sky Expedition. That session went fast after a few minutes of getting used to my fresh character! This is the first Expedition I've ever done; the novelty is propelling me into rapid progress.
I'm putting the Living Starship Quest on hold because it's very tiresome. As in my Non-Expedition save, I'm in the part of the solar system I need to be. With luck, after the Expedition I'll be able to finally assemble the thing!