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 get things to make building better.
First set of things I got with my quicksilver was the armoured suit. Still wear it to this day!
There are a few different eggs, maybe see if anyone in the community can gift you them to save you spending quicksilver on those.
I’m away from my pc for a couple of weeks so can’t help atm, but can get anything that’s transferrable when I’m back (I don’t like grinding so tweaked how much QS my save has)
Given that I’m on a Nintendo Switch I don’t think I can get any gifts from other players. I may be wrong about that, I didn’t even know Switch players could finally get Nexus missions until I started playing again a couple weeks ago. Still, I think it speaks well of the game, and the community of players it has attracted that a lot of the tips & tricks I see around include something like “hang around on the space anomaly to get generous gifts from other players”.
More eggs though, that’d be your recommendation on something worth saving up for and spending that quicksilver on?
Wow, didn’t realise you couldn’t swap between platforms, I have been seeing the occasional error message recently when trying to gift ‘teleport status incompatible’ so I wonder if that’s why?
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?
Swamp planet mud hut (it’s a single-piece storm shelter you can work into some interesting builds), armored set and whatever helmets looked cool, then all the other building stuff because there’s no such thing as too many options. Jetpack and ship trails are cool but each expedition introduced new ones that I’ve liked more.