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And I think my spaceship knows which way to go

Posted on by Shawshank

Hey hey space nerds! We’re back with more pretty pictures, and my stunted way of explaining what I’m doing in my 120ish hours playing No Man’s Sky.

Things have been progressing slowly. I swear that’s now this game works. You can get shit accomplished, but only after a “warm up” of at least an hour. It takes me about that long to really get into the swing of things.

One of the first things I do after logging in for a session is to check the expeditions. I have 3 control rooms that coordinate 15 ships that do my bidding. I started out with 5 originally. I stumbled upon them and recruited them. They were all class C ships, frigates, support ships, explorers, etc. I kept on with solo expeditions for a while, slowly watching the ships get better and better. The original 5 are all now class S ships.

So I recruited more. I’d say that 80% of them are class S now with the remainders being a mix of class C, B, and I think a couple of class A. I try to send them on the longest expeditions. The longer, the better in my mind. I try and stick to exploration, and trade missions as they seem to give the most money.

You can collect spaceships in the game. I have a few. A couple of repaired sentinel ships, that look cool, but are pretty basic. I usually don’t fly them too often, because they can take some pretty specific fuel for them that, while I have some fuel, I don’t have a lot.

I have one other S class ship (outside of my daily driver) that as I write this, I’m pondering just scrapping, as I never fly it. I have my tried and true Theseus, which is probably the 5th ship of its name. I’ve tried to at least take one bit of technology out of the old ones to put in the new Theseus.

I have a rare squid like white ship, which I’ve named Zampano’s Sight – which if you know, you know. Am I right? I’ve actually installed a launch thruster recharger on it, so it kind of acts more like Theseus and her solar sails.

One a random planet
House of Leaves – my capital ship
House of leaves again
Lil Peeper
Zampano’s Sight
Theseus
My multi tool/walking stick
Lil Peeper at speed
Lil Peeper at rest
Theseus, like a boss

There’s Lil Peeper, named by Crystal. She’s a tiny little ship, that’s also rare from what I’ve read. I’m slowly upgrading Peeper. She’s a fast ship, that’s very streamlined. Peeper also has a launch thruster recharger on it, but she’s a thirsty one, gulping down warp fuel like there’s no tomorrow. No extra scanners, or even an emergency warp in it. I don’t really run from battles anymore. When a battle comes at me, I have a squadron of 3 other ships come in to help. Help is really a strong word in this sense. They don’t seem to actually do anything until I do it. They mirror what I’m doing. They’ll shoot at bad guys, but I’ve never actually seen them actually destroy any ships.

So I’m still exploring a lot. I’ve found an abandoned space station that’s really fucking creepy. It’s dark, and I swear you can hear scratching and groaning. I’ve been there twice to explore. Over the last couple of plays, I’ve found the crafting recipes for the Atlaspasses. All three of them. So I’ve been letting myself into rooms that I’ve never been in before. I had built up these passes in my mind – so I was a little disappointed in actually using them to get into new places. Although I do get more antimatter, and the housing to make more warp cores. I have a lot of them now. I don’t think I’ll run out of fuel anytime soon.

Like I’ve said, I’m slowly pushing through the main quests of the game. I’m pretty sure I’ve hit a stand still though. I need to get puces to continue, but even looking them up online, it’s so convoluted to even begin searching for these pieces. Next time though, I’m going to try to get into the swing of things quicker, so I’m not screwing the pooch for 45 minutes before I actually play.

I’m sure I’m forgetting tonnes of stuff. But it’s a pretty good recap so far.

Continuing on with No Man’s Sky

Posted on by Shawshank

It’s been a while since I’ve posted about No Man’s Sky. I actually uploaded these pictures, probably about 3ish weeks ago, and them promptly forgot to post the next time we went over to Shandy Acres for Sunday dinner.

So yeah, this is my current ship. I bounced around with one or two others, but I found I was having to acquire more and more launch fuel. It was quite frankly, annoying. I knew I had to find a Class ‘S’ ship with solar sails. The solar sails recharge the starship launchers. Finally, I found another one.

It was kinda annoying switching ships, I had dumped a lot of credits into the old one, but I hated how it looked. This one is far more elegant.

So yeah, this is the newest Theseus. I’m slowly switching out all the substandard parts to fully a class parts.

In order to pay for all this, I’ve been doing a bit of pirating. But I’m a pirate with some morels. I don’t go after the freighters, just the cargo pods that float next them. After I’ve plundered all the cargo pods, I’ll warp back to my “home” system. Then I’ll hit up the space station, and sell all the pirated stuff. Then, I’ll buy what I can there, and sell it in my base in the pirate controlled area.

I’ve been making some bank.

Also to help with making some money, I have a fleet. I send 5 ships out on the longest expeditions I have access too, and they will bring me back around a million or so credits once a day.

Last week I think, I added 5 more ships to the fleet, bring the number of ships up to 10.

I like this game. More than I thought I would. I don’t have it on the easiest setting or the hardest. It’s perfect for when I don’t have a lot of brain power to expend on it. It relaxes me as well.

Just over 12 hours in – No Man’s Sky

Posted on by Shawshank

Hey hey video game nerds. I’ve found a game that took my mind away from TotK. You see, I’m 90% of the way to end game on it. I just have one temple to go, and then if I wanted, I could battle Ganon. But, I have no real want to beat the game. BotW totally lost its replay value when I defeated Ganon. You’re just transported back to your last save point, and it was like the big battle never happened.

That kind of annoyed me, and I pretty much never really picked up the game again. I don’t want that with TotK. So technically if I never beat it, I’ll never have that disappointment. Right? Anyways, that’s my logic.

So last Saturday, I took it upon myself to buy No Man’s Sky – henceforth known as NMS. Besides it was like 50% off or something like that. So while I waited for it to download, I turned on TotK. I futzed around until the download was complete. So probably only like 15 minutes or so.

So lemme tell you – I’m just over 12 hours in, and I have no clue what I’m doing. But I have realized that I’m a pretty good ship-to-ship fighter. I picked up the wrong thing on the wrong planet, and I had the robot police after me. The Sentinals. I fought them on the planet, and into space. It got to the point that I was like 5 star wanted, but they just kept coming. I think with the advice of Crystal, I ran to a near by space station. That did the trick.

A couple of nights ago, I finally pulled the trigger on a new ship. It’s a little faster and has more storage than my old one, aptly named star spooge. Just before I swindled an innocent alien out of their space ship, I’ll pull all the modifications out of it, and traded ships, with a few units tossed their way as well.

This ship without the modifications on it is better than my old ship. Sure it’s a class C, but a lot of the modifications already in it were class S (which is the best), and with the ones I installed, made it a really good sleeper. It’s deadly and fast.

I still have no idea what I’m doing.

Finally!

Posted on by Shawshank

So the middle of last week or so, after weeks of trying, I finally did it! I was finally in the right place at the right time to be able to climb up on to the light dragon. As I landed on it, I quickly passed by all the ??? On the back of him. I ran up to the head, dropped a weapon so I’d have an open slot for the Master Sword.

As soon as I grabbed the hilt, the dragon went crazy – shaking his head in order to try and shake me loose. It didn’t work. I had read that if you could get in the dragon, you’d need a minimum of 2 circles of stamina. I have three, so I knew I’d be ok.

After a wicked cool cut scene, I had the Master Sword. I didn’t even need to drop the other weapon, the Master Sword created its own weapon slot. Damn, I had dropped a pretty good weapon too!