6221

Notably, a better “large UI text” option under the Accessibility options.

6222

Well, that bites. I wonder why?

Fun fact, back near launch I originally got the GOG version but ended up getting a refund for store credit and got the Steam one instead.

6223

Thanks for posting this. I’ve picked up everything so far, one more day to go!

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At this point it’s been so long since I last played I’ve forgotten a lot of stuff. Just now I found a paradise planet, tried to land at some trading station on it but couldn’t remember how to make the ship land on a pad, and the game wasn’t reminding me. Ended up glitching into a tower and blowing up my ship.

Is it possible to start a new game and still retain my old save to go back to once I’ve learned a few ropes again?

n/m the question below. It requires one to have the controller turned on when the game starts, I guess.

Silly question perhaps, but how do I make the game on PC recognize my Xbox Series Controller? Doesn’t seem to see it.

6225

I’ve never gotten far in an expedition. I just got through phase 1 of the new Utopia expedition, and I was reading some tips that suggested building a teleporter before leaving your base on the first planet so you can easily come back for resources later.

I had the actual teleporter available to build, but not the solar panels or batteries to power it. Is that locked behind something specific in the expedition?

I can’t remember how to get the blueprints to build that stuff. I’ve tried digging up salvage data but I don’t know where to turn that in to buy blueprints. Probably a dumb rookie question I knew once and forgot.

6226

How do you pull up the galaxy map again? Is that only accessible when I’m trying to make a jump to another system?

Also, I figured out that you have to hit X on the Xbox controller to land, but I can’t seem to land in the designated “no launch fuel required” spot. Is the trick to point your nose directly toward the pad?

Oh, and what are those thin bars that stick up vertically out of the ground, not too tall, with a light beam that shoots up from them? Hadn’t seen those before, ever. Can’t seem to interact with them. There’s a little icon over them with a lower case i inside a couple of concentric circles.

I managed to claim/name the paradise planet mentioned upthread, but the system is at war. Does that ever change so I don’t keep getting buildings attacked by pirates?

6227

Only accessible in space. ‘M’ key by default. Not sure about Xbox-controller.

Your ship should use the designated landing spot if you are reasonably close to it when you try to land. But make sure it is the spot that has animated the landing circles. Many buildings have more than one landing spot, but only one is designated for your ship.

War (state) never changes.

6228

Blueprints are typically either rewards from quests or bought from vendors in the Anomaly or in planet-side buildings.

6229

You do get solar panels and batteries later in the expedition. However, you don’t need to build a portal to be able to teleport to a base. From any active portal, you can always teleport to a base you created, whether it has a portal or not, you just won’t be able to teleport away from that base until you setup a portal.

6230

That’s just the thing: on that paradise planet when I was landing near one of those signal towers, I saw the animated circle and pointed my ship at it but when I hit X
(the landing button) I didn’t land in the circle.

6231

That can happen when the terrain hasn’t (for whatever reason) loaded in yet. Even happens sometimes when you circle the area a bunch of times.

6232

You might be able to snag those Twitch drops with this save editor.

I’ve used it in the past to get the expired Expedition rewards.

6233

Yeah, Expedition and Twitch rewards are tied to the install profile, which the save editors can access (even from the GUI).

6234

Anyone else seen those vertical short bars shooting a light beam directly upward? Are they just there for visibility of the nearby landing spot?

Thanks, @barstein for the tip about the terrain not loading in.

And @NI1 , I guess even Paradise planets aren’t so great sometimes, heh. And nice Fallout shout-out.

6235

Maybe a screenshot would help? I"m pretty sure I’ll be able to identify it.

6236

I’ll try to take one (or use photo mode) next time I see one.

I know it must be a newer thing, because I have 90+ hours in this save (mostly played in 2017 or whenever it came to the PC), and I’ve never seen one before.

BTW, I wish I’d known this before, but I was watching Captain Richard (Twitch streamer) and he mentioned to some other person in the chat that when offered your free freighter, you shouldn’t take it unless it’s a A Class one or better. Apparently you get more than one shot at one?

6237

This is a bit involved. Let me see if I can explain how it works :-)

The first freighter you rescue from pirates is always of the “normal” (i.e. pretty small) variety.
Any freighters you rescue after that is of the captial class which is much larger.

Of the freighters you rescue, you can acquire the first for free.
So you should reject the first normal freighter, so you can get a free captial class freighter later.

Then there is the matter of the class of freighter. It’s semi-random which class that spawns.
Systems with better economies will have a higher likelyhood of spawning A and S class freighters.

And the class of spawned freighter resets after you reload. So if you find pirates attacking a freighter of a type you’d like, dock on the nearby space station and make a save. Then you can reload until the freighter is of a class you’d like.

That’s how I got a S-class enormous freighter that looks a bit like a Star Destroyer.

6238

It’s probably one of the existing terrain objects that now (since Fractal) has fancy new effects.

6239

Oh, and anyone who tells you that you should only accept S class freighters is misinforming you. Any class freighter is a huge quality of life improvement, and A class freighters are just about as good as S class freighters. (And much easier to find out in the wild.) People who spend hours and hours “farming” for S class freighters are doing it mostly for vanity reasons. (Nothing wrong with that, ofc.)

Edit: oops, just realized that no one was telling you that, sorry.

6240

Thanks for the explanation. Damn, now I want to start over with that knowledge. BTW, with these Twitch drops I’ve earned recently, do they count for only one playthrough or are they available in any playthrough to collect from the Anomaly?

Is there a detailed explanation/wiki somewhere that explains these “supercharged” inventory slots I’m seeing now? Used to be, you had to install your tech upgrades in a slot next to the tech. Is that still the case? I’m hearing the supercharged thing happened after the change to the inventory system with the tabs. “High capacity” storage vs. regular etc.

Yesterday I dug up a buried relic but couldn’t figure out once I’d gotten it what it actually was. Might have been one of those Korvax Cubes one used to find in the ruins I suppose.