Those are areas HG really wants you to delve into fairly early on, and both the freighter and a settlement will come to you even if you don’t want them. (First warp-in freighter rescue call after the first few warps, first settlement distress call after 10 iirc.) You do have a degree of control over style, though, and if you follow certain steps can pick from a variety of freighter models/sizes or settlement biomes/systems, if you want to do that.
If you want tips about tailoring that stuff to your particular tastes, just ask and I can share more detail. Otherwise, don’t sweat it (it’s mostly cosmetic stuff anyway) and it will come to you in no time.
As to things to look out for as a new player in general, my main recommendation is to just make sure you unlock the Anomaly before veering far off the beaten path.
NI1
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Note that once you have built the exocraft and an Orbital Exocraft Materialiser room on your freighter, you can just summon the exocraft whenver you want as long as the freighter is in the same system as you.
NI1
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To get all the new freighter rooms researched, I had to farm 15 or so Salvaged Fleet Units. I decided to this by trying out piracy, which ended up working so well I almost feel a bit bad about it…
I put my freighter in a pirate controlled system to avoid sentinel involvement. Then I blasted freighter storage pods as soon as freighters warped in. Salvaged Fleet Units are pretty rare, but the freighters are plenty so it didn’t take that long.
Once I was done, I landed on my freighter and teleported to a non-pirate space station to sell all the illegal goods I had gotten at from pods not containing fleet units. That gave me more than 200 million credits. And that’s in addition to all the materials, frigate fuel etc I also had gotten.
I even managed to get quite a lot of faction rep by killing the bounty ships that spawn quite frequently in pirate systems.
Man… farming is sooo easy in NMS compared to most other games.
Style of the freighter is a big one. I had played with freighters in the past but I never found a good looking one I liked.
Settlement not as important. Shouldn’t be on a toxic hellhole. :-)
Thanks for the advice so far, appreciate it.
In fact, you kinda have to farm Salvaged Frigate Modules via piracy, which imo is unfortunate. You can try to limit yourself to the alternative sources to avoid piracy for roleplay purposes or whatever, but getting the modules via non-piracy sources can be extremely slow due to unbalanced drop tables.
If I’m understanding you correctly and one of the (cosmetically) big freighters is what you’re after, then just avoid accepting the very first freighter offered via distress call/battle, and the next warp-in scripted rescue will involve either a Venator or a Dreadnought (those are the two large models that everyone seems to want).
NI1
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If you want help finding a nice looking freighter, you can have a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/NMSCoordinateExchange/
JMR
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He exited his mech at 3:43 and it continued to fight on its own? When did they add that?
A couple updates back (the Sentinel update, I think?). Since then there’s a “quest line” that unlocks modules for the mech that allow for it to work autonomously and aid you in combat.
Petey
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If this plays decently on the Steam Deck, getting it.
Murph
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Didn’t they announce recently you could play even without a dedicated graphics chip? Or am I thinking of something else?
If so, it should run fine on the Deck, I would think.
Surely the easiest way to find out is look it up on Steam? It says it’s verified.
Don’t be silly! The easiest way to find out is to post a question here and have other people look it up for you!
Does anyone know if this is accurate?
I suggest you Google it and let us know.
I looked it up for you guys. Charlatan is right. Always ask Qt3 first. It’s often more accurate than Google!
Reportedly runs great on Steam Deck, for the most part. (As per multiple reports/discussions on the NMS discord.)
NI1
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Just 6 days left of expedition 8 “polestar” (the freighter expedition).
Heads-up in case more people than me postponed starting it since it had so much longer deadline than the earlier expeditions.
