On PC you can also bookmark things on the quick action menus to numbers keys 1 to 0. Then they come up when you hit the number. I usually set photo to one key on everything, and atmo recharge to another in my permadeath runs.
CNTRL-# iirc is what sets it.
Nice tip, that will make my life easier!
Speaking of photo mode and third person cameras, there was a repeatable bug on the Xbox version a few months back (not sure if it’s been fixed or if it was a problem on other platforms) that concerned those two things. If you tamed and rode a creature, then switched to third-person view (easier to ride them that way) then went into photomode to take a picture, when you came out of photomode, you couldn’t switch back to first-person view without exiting the game and rebooting.
I found the Steam version wouldn’t work with my Xbox controller. I did the configuration but the game never responded to the controller.
That’s OK though because I played 50+ hours on Xbox. There my Xbox controller works as expected. Fortunately the Game Pass for PC version has cross save with Xbox, so now I can play that save on my PC!
But that’s a normal game. I think I’m going to start over on Survival (again).
Does every system have a space station? I just made my first jump to a red star and I can’t for the life of me find the space station. I have not explored a lot of the system but I thought if you just kind of rotated in circles you would eventually see the yellow marker for it. But I don’t see a thing.
No, not every system has a space station, although it’s pretty rare. As I recall, it seemed to happen more in the red systems. I’ve also come across stations that are dead, with no one on board. Creepy.
Is anyone else having an issue with the game dropping to the desktop on PC? It’s not crashing, so I just click on the NMS icon on the taskbar and it takes me right back to the game. Played for about 4 hours this evening and it happened 3-4 times. It’s just a minor inconvenience, but it’s never happened before.
I was having this after fiddling with the graphics options. Restarting the game resolved it.
rrmorton
5486
Finally an update to the thing I enjoy most about this game! I’m looking forward to exploring all new album covers.
barstein
5487
Yup, many red systems are abandoned or uninhabited. Sounds like @HideousRex was in one of the latter. Abandoned systems actually have stations and planetside buildings, but…spoiler.
Teiman
5488
I started a new character for the new patch.
So far I am finding new strange animals. Everything else pretty much the same (the menus are prettier, of course).
Sandworms are truly scary, even small ones… I fear finding big ones that are hostile.
My new game went… Crappy at first. Had a system full of toxic and radiated planets, some where the sodium plants where surrounded by three or more aggressive plants. Or where extremely mountainous so I could hardly land anywhere. What a chore that was to get going. But it made up by having a paradise planet on the first system I jumped to with super weird creatures and just beautiful landscape. Propably move my base here from the shelled dead planet it is on now.
Teiman
5490
I too started on a toxic planet. But being a veteran player I quickly repaired the ship and landed in a landing pad with vendor, multitool shop, universal galatic network vendor… and made the tutorial base there. Kind of cheesey, but.
A more gamey game would probably ban the creation of bases inside npc bases.
I had no idea that was possible, I never even tried. That’s great. Problem was really that the whole system was toxic and crap so getting even the most basic ressources was tough. My Paradise Planet is nice but it doesn’t seem to have any flora. At least in the surface. I know the scanner tells me there are over 20 species and I found 2 so far. In several hours of walking. So they must be underground or in some ocean. Weird but cool, can’t wait to figure out where they are.
barstein
5492
I try to do that at the start of every game. Makes early progression a lot easier.
Thanks for the heads up on this, Mellified! My playthrough today has been pretty much flawless, with no crashes or bugs.
Same. It’s like waking up from a coma and having to relearn how to walk and talk…or something.
Ironically, I was working on the main quest when I stopped playing months ago and now I just finished it which was basically fixing up a portal and stepping in and getting whisked away to a new system…which worked perfectly for this update since everything was newly generated and uncharted! Cool.
barstein
5495
One of the challenges I enjoyed before this update was trying to reach more distant galaxies. It felt like quite an achievement to finally start a settlement on the fourth or fifth Lush or Harsh galaxy, for example. A little sad that anyone can theoretically portal to any galaxy now, but on the other hand it was always clear that the methods I was using were a little gamey.
This game makes me do strange things. Because I played after something like eight big patches dropped, I went through the patch list and made a summary of what each patch added so I could make sure I was doing everything I could!
I also got an inordinate sense of satisfaction when yesterday I linked my homebase teleporter and storage module to solar panels and a battery, ensuring they would be powered 100% of the time. I built them when I first made my base months ago and used a generator but was supremely disappointed to find out I had to fuel the generator to get them to work. But now they are awesome!
Also a question: I have discovered a couple of derelict freighters in space. But I cannot for the life of me, figure out how to land on them. I have not paid the 5 million to the scrap dealer which I thought started you on the living ship questline… is that why, or am I just blind?
Lamalo
5498
The living ship quest starts from an egg you buy at the nexus, at that cosmetics merchant on the landing pad level. Costs some of that silver/gold currency. I don’t remember exactly, been a while since I last played.
