AvianAnxiety
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?
This may be a silly question, and maybe more so because of my casual playstyle 'cause I think I used glyphs someone else found like twice, but do people really enjoy picking up ships, multi-tools, companions, and all that stuff that other people have found? I kind of get it, like maybe you really want a gold exotic guppy or something. It’s just, the exotic I have now is the first one I found because it feels special that I found it. My living ship is the one that I happened to get on the planet I happened to be on at that stage of the quest. I feel attached to it. I just wouldn’t feel the same about a ship I got because I followed a set of instructions outside the game. That can’t be a rare position to take right? Maybe it is though. Maybe playing on Nintendo Switch where I don’t actually encounter other players makes things like trading glyphs feel like meta-gaming instead of running into someone who’s just saying “check out this cool thing I found!”
Tracking down the exact color ship with whatever specific components in an S class doesn’t do it for me. My view may evolve over time, and I can see how being able to search up exactly what I want is almost something that almost has to exist in an infinite procedurally generated environment. It’s just not something I feel like I need ya’ know?
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?
At least a couple times I’ve stood there and watched the counter run down and the door not open. When it’s happened I’ve just interacted with the terminal again, sometimes multiple times, and eventually whatever was delaying the door opening animation would catch up and it’d open.
This may or may not be good advice ‘cause although I’ve got 300 hours on my main save I am not a “good” or “optimum” player by any stretch. I think you should start with the Singularity expedition in expedition mode. There’s a lot of hand-holding as far as what to do next, where to go, and it keeps everything a bit more linear than a regular start does. Plus, theres the option to get one or more pretty good sentinel ships right away without too much difficulty. And at the end of the expedition it turns into just a “normal” save (or so I’m told). It’s what I’d do if I was just starting out today.
When I started myself I put in like 24 hours on a “relaxed” mode save just to sort of get the hang of things and the only noob guides I used was just searching up where to find particular resources, or early game farming methods once I felt like I had learned the ropes I started a “normal” mode save and haven’t really looked back.
Thinking about it more, I think it’s maybe even bleaker. Forget the galaxy hopping for a moment. We have two modes of travel, portaling and faster than light warping. Lets say portaling is some sort of instant quantum entanglement something, but faster than light travel is going to have relativistic time dilation effects. Because we can still find the same people after a warp, everyone must be functionally immortal. Otherwise we’d have never see the same NPC twice, if we traveled by starship.
Thinking about it more, I think it’s maybe even bleaker. Forget the galaxy hopping for a moment. We have two modes of travel, portaling and faster than light warping. Lets say portaling is some sort of instant quantum entanglement something, but faster than light travel is going to have relativistic time dilation effects. Because we can still find the same people after a warp, everyone must be functionally immortal. Otherwise we’d have never see the same NPC twice, if we traveled by starship.
A couple times now I’ve run into an issue in transiting freighters. It’s happened on my capital ship and derelicts. When the new construct appearance I’ll be running around and then for seemingly no reason I’m unable to walk from one room to the next. On my freighter I can tap the jet pack and get through. On derelicts, where the jet pack is disabled, I’m just stuck. I reloaded and went back to the derelict with a “normal” appearance and had no issues. Anyone else seen this issue?
First time I’ve ever bothered with an expedition, how often do new ones tend to come out? All in all I gotta say it was a weird experience starting a new save. I hadn’t realized how comfortable I got having all the money and materials I could want stored up. It was surprising how completely I had forgotten what inventory management was like with so few slots! Happy to see that I could get both heads too.