Obligatory notice: I play on Nintendo Switch. Now that I can do Nexus missions and earn quicksilver, are there recommendations on what I should work towards? I like that for most of the items I have to spend several days to get enough banked to buy stuff, but it makes me hyper-aware that I should be wise about it.
Like I already got the egg to get a living ship (love it!) and the -null- bobblehead because better shields seems like a nice thing to do for my ship, but what now? do I get more exhaust trails? Do I get more bobbleheads? What about the other backpack, I’m getting real tired looking at the default one.
I’d be very curious to hear about what order people picked things up in, or what made them make the choices they did. Anyone feel like sharing their preferred buys?
I think all the other platforms can cross-play. On Switch though I’m limited to seeing other players bases, beacons, and com stations. It’s still the same in-game world, just depopulated. So Like I can see traveler so and so left a com station at the galaxy core portal in whatever galaxy, or a beacon marking where a sentinel pillar is or something, which is kind of cool. I really enjoyed seeing how many people passed through this or that galaxy when I was on my way to Olonerovo. It was weird though 'cause all the early galaxies had dozens and dozens of com stations but farther on it might be only 10 here, and then the next galaxy would have like 30.
It’s all got a very 28 Days Later (the zombie movie) vibe where he’s walking through London and doesn’t see any people. There’s no (I think they’re called) settlements(?) either, and there’s base complexity limits (but you can turn those off) so I think that setting is more for stability reasons. Featured bases still show up and I can look at what other folks have built, but that just makes me mildly depressed about my lack of unique design when I do build something.
I know I’m missing out on a lot of stuff playing on Switch, I just like having it portable, and not being tied to my computer or console. I guess I could get a Steam Deck, though I hear the battery on life for the game is less than half what I get out of the Switch. Definite trade offs on the platform, but I never could get into MMO’s so I feel like I’ve got enough to have fun without all the competition that (I think?) comes along with robust multiplayer. Oh, and I do see like an XBox controller icon by some peoples bases and I think that means they’re on console as opposed to PC?
Wow, that’s really interesting. I’ve played on PS4 but for the last few years, exclusively on PC so had no idea how different the experience is for other consoles. “28 days later vibe” I totally get that! It’s been so many years playing this amazing game and I’m still not sure if I love or loathe that, it does often feel a bit spooky to stumble across a random player base on a random planet when it happens.
I wish they’d open up the building more. Like you, most of my efforts simply have four walls and a roof haha (though I did make a really cool base around some natural ring-shaped formations on an Expedition planet). Not sure if you’ve looked into glitch building (or if it’s even possible on switch), but there are ways to ‘hack’ the build menu and create weirder / more interesting things. I don’t have the patience for that though… it would be awesome if HG could find a way to create the ‘hacks’ as actual build tools, we’d get much more creative builds from more people I bet.