RichVR
2027
Have you tried turreting?
No, how do I do that? Is there a turret weapon I need to get somehow? Is it an upgrade to something?
RichVR
2029
No forward momentum. Just turn your ship like a turret. Don’t try to match the pirate maneuvers, just shoot them as they fly by.
Ah, I see. Just make your ship a stationary gun platform. I’ll try that. Doesn’t that make you really vulnerable to them taking your shields out within seconds, though?
RichVR
2031
Yeah, there are tradeoffs.
I’ve only had a shuttle and an explorer so far but turret seems to be the way to go. The space combat will hopefully get a big update in the future. The explosions and freighters are quite well done i think. Homing missiles would be nice. The starter ship had fire and forget rockets which were also quite fun.
Timex
2033
With a console controller at least, turretting is actually worse, because when a ship isn’t moving it seems to have even worse responsiveness. If you’re accelerating, it seems to be smoother controls.
Generally, there are a few things you can do.
One, just kind of “joust” with ships. Fly at them, shoot for a few seconds on their way in, turn to face them once they pass, repeat.
Another thing which can be helpful, is to fly down into low atmosphere. It slows everything down a lot, and potentially makes it easier.
Miramon
2034
Very early on with my starting weapons I can kill the kind of pirates that get greedy because I’m carrying some precious thaumium on board or whatever, though I do have to upgrade my shield because at first it’s very flimsy. The tougher pirates require upgrades. My only technique is following the arrow. They get a couple of passes before I can line up on them moving more or less away for a few seconds.
Weird. Because I’m having the same problem as coldsteel. I can fire at the pirate once as they go by, but that’s it. Then they’re on my 6 blasting my shields and I can’t turn fast enough to face them again.
Just finished an Artemis quest that had me hopping between nasty planets trying to find goodies unique to those types of planets. I have found myself in love with this game, but I was having sweaty flashbacks of trying to find McGuffins for Professor Palin.
I think Hello Games realizes this, because a mysterious communication right before this particularly quest chain straight-out tells you “there is plenty of time”. It’s definitely a good thing in NMS to just settle the hell down every once in a while and simply smell the roses. I am, for example, supremely pleased with the (new) grass meadows in NMS. Or massive cretinous creatures propelled by a little tiny pair of butterfly wings.
Yeah, I have to constantly keep telling myself to just relax and not worry about chasing the next upgrade to my exosuit or that fancy S class ship or multi-tool. More than anything else this game is about the journey and not the destination.
Clay
2038
I haven’t mastered PS4 screenshots, evidently. This is taken from a small planet (that has a moon) in the same system as the mongo planet you see in the pic. The mongo planet was my starting planet and is covered with all kinds of structures, bases, facilities, drop zones, etc. very interesting place to start a new game.
Miramon
2041
But nothing about making scans actually do something useful again? Sigh.
Reemul
2042
Yeah shame that, I shall load it up and see if it is the same/.
Yep must be a tough nut to crack! :(
Annoying but hasn’t slowed me down too much.
They must have done something because I’m seeing a ton of nearby question marks and before this release I didn’t.
Miramon
2045
For some reason my patch download connection is glacially slow today. But I certainly hope my ?s are back.
So, during the loading screen, zooming through the star field, there are occasionally stars with names that you zoom by. Are those stars that have been explored and uploaded by other players? If so, that’s a pretty cool little added touch.
